The Pilbara is covered with seismic line “roads” that might extend for kilometres. They are easily identified from aerial maps as they are mostly straight lines and often radiate from a central point
Inexperienced travellers often mistake these seismic lines for vehicle traffic routes and go wandering along marvelling at how little traffic they encountered until the line ends abruptly in a wall of red dirt and spinifex. Whoops, out of fuel, food and water and no idea where they are and not enough nous to stay with their vehicle.
Added to the “perished in the desert” file.
The rescued “yoofs” in the stolen Landcruiser were obviously deeply in tune with Country, headed in the opposite direction to their desired destination, the idyllic town of Port Hedland.
Anyone else’s Google homepage contain a link to “watch the Sydney gay & lesbian mardi gras parade, click here” ?
Yo, dickhead Google executives: If I have a hankering to watch a parade of nancys in Sydney, I’ll google for it.
There is nothing in my search history, you silicon valley turkeys, nothing, that would suggest I’d be remotely interested in watching a parade of arseless chaps moving along a street down south in the big smoke.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2023 10:34 pm
Goeie gesondheid aan almal op die Kat.
With Mme Zulu on the mend, we are returning to an old tradition of a bottle of Moet on Saturday night. It used to commemorate making it through another week at work.
With Mme Zulu on the mend, we are returning to an old tradition of a bottle of Moet on Saturday night. It used to commemorate making it through another week at work.
NO…NO….NO, I am not having it! The Sound of Music is NOT gay.
rickw
February 25, 2023 10:58 pm
Albo’s chances tonight of getting:
Drunk?
Groped?
Pashed?
Buggered?
All of the above?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2023 10:59 pm
Long may it continue!
Thanks to you, and yours, Bruce.
rickw
February 25, 2023 11:01 pm
The rescued “yoofs” in the stolen Landcruiser were obviously deeply in tune with Country, headed in the opposite direction to their desired destination, the idyllic town of Port Hedland.
That would be their deep, innate, inter generational connection to the land at work….
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2023 11:09 pm
Albo’s chances tonight of getting:
Drunk?
Groped?
Pashed?
Buggered?
All of the above?
Could you imagine being the public relations guru, having to deal with the exercise of the Prime Minister of this country, being discovered face down in a Kings Cross gutter, rotten drunk, wearing only a pair of arzless chaps…
Dr Faustus
February 25, 2023 11:21 pm
Albo’s chances tonight of getting:
Drunk?
Groped?
Pashed?
Buggered?
All of the above?
Sitting on the beach and Team Afghanistan just wandered past. Tall buggers.
rickw
February 25, 2023 11:24 pm
International Dodge Ball comp underway here.
I swear I saw Patches O’Houlihan yesterday….
rickw
February 25, 2023 11:28 pm
Thanks BG, really didn’t ever need to know that…. ever….. ever. Naturally celebrated by the gAyBC.
rickw
February 25, 2023 11:29 pm
Wrong Dr, Faustus, warnings please!!
ArthurB
February 25, 2023 11:31 pm
Re the yoof who stole a vehicle in the Pilbara: I am amazed that they managed to get themselves bushed, after all, we are told ad nauseam that the yoof are part of the planet’s oldest continuous civilisation, at least 60,000 years, besides, they were “on country” and with the intimate knowledge passed down to them by their elders, how could they lose themselves?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 25, 2023 11:36 pm
after all, we are told ad nauseam that the yoof are part of the planet’s oldest continuous civilisation, at least 60,000 year
The oldest continuous culture is that of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa – over 100,000 years, and don’t certain parties get aggro when that’s pointed out. Oh, and the San Bushmen discovered how to boil water….
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 25, 2023 11:42 pm
Cassie, my brother as I’ve mentioned here lived a very full Aussie life in The Shire, and one of his three kids still live there, the other two have moved further down south to Nowra. Christmas in Nowra is always full of people who grew up in The Shire and older family members of an earlier generation who still live there. My brother’s kids all went to Gymea High and they are still very trad old Australians. I moved to seek a different life in Sydney in my teens, my Big Sis stayed in Sydney’s outer west till much later.
A little nostalgia for times past is no bad thing. You can also do it vicariously, via Netflix.
Tonight with nothing much else to watch, we turned again the episodes 11 and 12 of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. A grand family generational saga during very troubled times; it started in 1914 and by this stage it’s 1939, WW2 has just begun. The mother-in-law is amazingly well played, a dominant force holding it all together, with some raw jaw-cracking wisdom about men. Some delightful minor characters appear: the greasy jolly fellow running the dance classes for the young adults on the brink of life, the gentle male professional letter writer who knows all the village secrets (that actor took the part of Gabi in Fauda), Victoria the jilted widowed neighbour, whose son David is an on again off again love interest of Luna – the ‘Beauty Queen’ daughter of the family, who works in a dress shop – and how redolent is the setting of the one ‘good’ dress shop in a town where young girls’ dreams (mine!) played out as they blew a week’s wages on the ‘special’ dress, for one’s looks were often one’s future in those days, and a new dress inspired such confidence. New shoes too.
The Jerusalem settings of those older times and the political struggles are so very well captured. Two young girls in this show remind me of myself and my sister in times not much changed fifteen to twenty years later, the mid to late 1950’s: the tensions, the sharing of confidences and the hopes held for the future, the spats and the love, the curlers for prettying up and the joy of a new dress.
No time for regret, but a few minutes nostalgia can be one of the pleasures of age.
Especially when you can’t have a drink. I am on antibiotics for a sudden infection.
One of the perils of age.
rickw
February 25, 2023 11:58 pm
It must be a very sad time for The Clinton’s. Another close associate of theirs is ended:
We are still driving around in a hired Toyota hybrid electric car, and won’t get the Sporty Beamer (full ICE) back for another ten days. The Audi Q5 used to achieve 100km in about 5.5 litres of fuel; the current hybrid does it in 3.8 litres of fuel. Hairy is quite impressed with the cost saving, but I say what about the fire risk. He says that is not an issue with hybrids and he enjoyed the hybrid Jag we drove in Norway.
Is he correct? I know that they work without plugging in, because the big battery is charged by the fuel action of the vehicle, which seems a neat sort of thing to do, but don’t they still have a battery that could be a problem for fire, at least in a crash? Not that we intend to get one anytime anyway, but as hybrids become popular (the taxi driver in the cab we took back home from the airport waxed lyrical about his savings) will this be a problem and will the cost of any replacement batteries still be prohibitive?
This car we’re driving, a new Corolla, seems to have plenty of grunt, but it still feels to me a bit like you are in some sort of dodgem; noiseless with smooth handling but with control less than ideal.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 26, 2023 12:04 am
Especially when you can’t have a drink. I am on antibiotics for a sudden infection.
Sliante!
rickw
February 26, 2023 12:05 am
No vax, no heart transplant.
Victoria, a boot stomping on a human face forever.
Victoria, a boot stomping on a human face forever.
I’m getting old, peevish, cranky and irritable, I know, but it bothers me that there are younger generations growing up, who have no idea of that image.
Put it on your sound system – best version since Billy Connolly!
Bourne1879
February 26, 2023 1:21 am
Saw Katie Hobbs Gov Arizona was trending on Twitter and went to look. Ended up watching a lawyer giving evidence about corruption including Hobbs which show long time planning ahead. Very detailed evidence by very brave lawyers which names Gov, politicians, judges and cops.
A bit from Gateway Pundit.
The Arizona Senate and House Elections Committees yesterday heard testimony and presentations from multiple individuals regarding election anomalies and potential fraud in Arizona’s elections over many years.
During the meeting, legislators considered a presentation by Jacqueline Breger, which, if true, exposed absolutely bombshell information regarding massive corruption and collusion between American politicians, appointed government officials, and the Sinaloa Cartels. The money laundering and racketeering scheme allegedly uses fraudulent mortgages, real estate transactions, and insurance claims in Maricopa County to hide money made through cartel human trafficking, drug trafficking, and bribery of elected officials, and to rig elections, intimidate, or murder those who threaten the operation.
The scheme allegedly creates identities, credentials, and professional licenses for “non-existent individuals,” which if true, could be used for fake voter registrations. The Maricopa County computer database is also used for the alleged “removal of genuine documents from the county system.”
Breger identifies herself as a longtime Arizona resident and a forensic investigator with the Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, investigating multi-state racketeering and corruption. She states that she holds a masters degree in marketing and honors degrees in Finance, Financial Accounting, Business, statistics, economics, and business strategy.
“The female protestor appeared about mid-way through the 48th annual Césars ceremony at Olympia Hall in Paris, shortly after presenters including actor Ahmed Sylla had taken the stage. While the protestor didn’t say anything, she wore a t-shirt that read, in English, “We have 761 days left.”
…
The radical French climate change group Dernière Rénovation later took credit for the disruption, identifying the protestor only as “Nina.” The activist group believes that unless society takes significant action against climate change within the next three to four years, civilization is doomed.”
Probably skipped mathematics at school since 3 years is 1,095 days not 761. But make sure you have your asbestos suit ready for 28th March 2025.
calli
February 26, 2023 7:19 am
If only every morning news broadcast started this way.
It’s so cute when they have imaginary friends
I enjoyed the meme makers 10 years on too. How time flies.
Calli, I can no longer see what amuses you about Week In Pictures because my browser (Brave) is telling me powerlineblog.com doesn’t allow hotlinking to WIP pages/screen grabs.
Bruce of Newcastle
February 26, 2023 7:44 am
Tom – It affects only some browsers, unfortunately Brave is one of them (I use it and like it). WIP was awesome this week and Prof. Hayward’s editorial was a perfectly formed gem!
calli
February 26, 2023 7:53 am
Oh. Okay. I thought if I just put the address in it would pop up.
No 1 – the announcement before the evening broadcast (had a bit of fun with that…even when they tell the truth they’re lying)
No 2 – Fauci interview
I’m just on Google via Safari. My life is complicated enough without fancy computer stuff. I’ll leave all that for the technobots. 😀
Bruce, I’m getting the same error flag when I try to view Calli’s links in Microsoft Edge, which I use to load daily cartoons.
calli
February 26, 2023 8:04 am
Speaking of fancy computer stuff – photos and archiving and just…viewing.
How many here have massive files of electronic photos that they never look at, never enjoy? I know I’ve have a mass of thumb drives full of them, particularly holiday ones. On the other hand, I have spent a blissful and productive weekend album stuffing from a box full of envelopes – remember those things called “photos”? And clear corners and dry mount albums?
Order from chaos – I like it.
flyingduk
February 26, 2023 8:07 am
Not that we intend to get one anytime anyway, but as hybrids become popular (the taxi driver in the cab we took back home from the airport waxed lyrical about his savings)
Hybrids operate on the principle of ‘regenerative braking’ – they harvest energy from the brakes/drivetrain as you decellerate, and store it in a relatively small battery, for later return to the wheels.
As such, they can only make sense if your driving style includes a significant component of braking to justify the extra weight and complexity ( hence perfect for taxis and inner city) . Otherwise, they use MORE fuel than a conventional car.
My Landcruiser does mainly country running – its still on its original brake pads (and 2nd set of tyres) after 125,000 km, so would definitely not be more efficient as a hybrid.
Pogria
February 26, 2023 8:08 am
HT,
that was an excellent rant. I enjoyed and empathised with it. Brought back memories of grocery shopping during the sixties. For some reason, my mother thought it was okay to catch the bus to the shops but make us walk back carrying the brown paper bags full of groceries. It was a two mile trek. Didn’t matter how much we begged and explained that it made more sense to walk there and catch the bus back with the shopping. I believe she thought it was character building. Although she did enjoy torturing us, so there is that also.
calli
February 26, 2023 8:10 am
sfw, I got a surprise when I viewed that scene. I expected it to be some sort of environmental disaster like a quarry or an urban nightmare of a concrete drain.
No so! It’s overgrown with what looks to be volunteer species. The waterway looks completely impeded by green junk. Re-wilding isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Bruce of Newcastle
February 26, 2023 8:14 am
Tom – I can’t remember which work and which don’t. I just know other Cats haven’t had that issue. By the time someone links to a WIP meme I’ve already read the main Powerline post, so I’m not personally inconvenienced much. The only ones I find I do want to link directly are some of the graphs on their Chart of the Day posts, but you can generally find the graphs elsewhere.
calli
February 26, 2023 8:15 am
Thanks for that, Doc.
I’ve sent it on to the Beloved. He has just ordered a hybrid Rav4 to replace his Prado (too big for just the two of us these days). Would you believe the lead time is 18 months?
He may need to re-think his choice.
Farmer Gez
February 26, 2023 8:16 am
Toast an Vegemite for breakfast.
I’ll put up with a lot but when the straighteners come for my Vegemite -it’s war.
Pogria
February 26, 2023 8:18 am
If you can’t own a machine gun, I wouldn’t mind having one of these to scare the neighbours. Scroll through the comments also, quite a few gems there.
Boambee John
February 26, 2023 8:19 am
Robert Sewellsays:
February 25, 2023 at 10:53 pm
rickw:
He forgot to mention that Australia is only one week of inventory away from an LPG/Petrol/Diesel/Jet supply crisis.
He doesn’t care – Guvvie cars are essential services priority.
All privately plated cars issued to politicians, senior public servants, and other government funded employees should be EVs. Let them lead by example.
Reckon photo albums take up space .. My stamp collection is currently at 46 albums .. there was a time when I thought it would be an inheritance for the grandees but nowadays most of the albums (empty) would fetch more than the stamps inside …….! .. Several individuals and a few sets are worth more than all the other 1 000s together ……!
Another of those enjoyable, hands-on, hobbies obsoleted by technology …. like so many other things .. kids these dayz never get to enjoy .. being a kid in the late 50s/early 60s having to make your own adventures, being turfed out at 9 in the morning and not to come back before dinner, ect ….. the list goes on …… LOL!
calli
February 26, 2023 8:23 am
Sydney will have to wallow in its own filth for another week.
March 5 – Clean Up Australia Day
If only it could be so.
Black Ball
February 26, 2023 8:24 am
Piers Akerman:
On the morning of February 15, 1989, General Boris Gromov, commander of the occupying Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan, walked alone across the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya river to the Soviet satellite Uzbekistan.
His entire army had preceded him. The tribesmen, assisted by Western allies, had defeated the USSR after a brutal 10-year war. Met by the media, Gromov let forth a torrent of abuse that he later claimed was directed at the Soviet leadership which had sent him to clean up its mess.
An estimated 15,000 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict.
A year ago, on February 24, the Russian army was ordered into Ukraine by President Vladimir Putin. A year on, an estimated 60,000 Russian troops have been killed, mostly young ill-equipped conscripts.
Putin told the Russians his “special military operation” would be a three-day walkover aimed at the “de-nazification” of Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president.
His soldiers were told the people would rise and present the invading soldiers with bouquets of flowers. They were greeted with sniper fire and blue and yellow flags. Overnight, civilians turned their skills to military use. Drones used to record weddings were militarised and re-engineered to locate Russian forces and then drop grenades on tanks and troop carriers.
Australia was among the first non-NATO nations to help, the Morrison Liberal government donating the first tranche of Bushmaster troop carriers. A further $33m in drones were promised this week, taking our contribution to Ukraine’s defence to more than half a billion dollars. Our troops are also training Ukrainian recruits in the UK and elsewhere to handle their weapons before they join their countrymen and women on the front lines.
Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, said of the Bushmasters: “Every day, they are being used to evacuate wounded personnel from the frontlines; to rush soldiers to where they are needed to block renewed Russian incursions in eastern Ukraine, and to tow away captured Russian tanks.
“I think of them as the Anzac spirit on four wheels and they make a big difference.”
A year ago, I predicted Western support would waver, with the Germans being the most likely to urge Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sue for peace. Under former leader Angela Merkel, they had worked to build a ridiculously close relationship with Putin and had become dependent upon Russia for their critical gas supply. They are now reopening old coal mines and driving new shafts to meet their energy needs. France’s President Emmanuel Macron thought he had a special relationship with Putin but that went nowhere.
China is the latest country to offer a peace plan of sorts but the reality is Putin is a proven untrustworthy liar. He is in the same category as China’s President-for-life Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, and every other totalitarian leader.
There is a lot of muddled thinking on the Russian invasion, not least that of the flaccid Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is wringing his hands over the form of any as-yet to be realised peace.
Welby, writing in a London newspaper, said last week that Russia “cannot end up like Germany after 1919”, when Berlin was humiliated by being forced to disarm and pay reparations, adding Ukraine “must not be pressured into an unjust peace”.
That’s all well and good but first the war must be won because, as Myroshnychenko reminded us on Friday, “it’s about opposing aggression and authoritarianism while striving for peace, prosperity and a strong rules-based system”.
Russia is a bully, as is China and the rest of the outlaw states attempting to intimidate freedom-loving nations. There will always be those who preach peace when they what really are doing is seeking to appease the international thugs to further their own interests.
We have these would-be Quislings right here, urging us to ignore China’s subjugation, murder and torture of the Uighur people so more iron ore, coal and gas can go to enrich the Beijing elites.
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale. That blood is the price which must be paid if the last Russian commander is to walk out of Ukraine and future generations are to be born free.
It affects only some browsers, unfortunately Brave is one of them (I use it and like it).
I use BRAVE never had a problem ……!
Farmer Gez
February 26, 2023 8:31 am
Piers Akerman.
For a pudgy soft bean bag of a man, he sure talks tough.
calli
February 26, 2023 8:36 am
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale.
Silly stuff. Everything’s for sale when it comes to war. And the cheapest thing on the shelf is human life.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 8:37 am
Zulu drones on: My late uncle “went droving” out of Alice Springs, in the late 1940’s. He told the story of the Aboriginal camps where the men got first pick of what was being cooked on the fire, the dogs came next, and the women and children “made do” with the scraps.
In other words,
everybody got fed.
Right?
Diogenes
February 26, 2023 8:38 am
Revenge is sweet. ?
Mrs D gets her licks in…
6 year old grandson…
“Oma why do you have a photo of me naked in your photo album?”
“Darling, that’s not you, that’s Opa when he was a baby”
Thinks hard, puzzled look “Oma, does that mean I will look like Opa when I am really really old like him?”
Sigh…
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 8:42 am
H B Bear says:
February 25, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Pretty easy to get lost in the Pilbara. Any bozo with a grader can make a road. Often a while before you hit something to tell you you’ve missed a turnoff.
Always Travel with GPS Mapping
Originally OziExplorer with Australian Topo’s & Hema Desert Maps in Netbook with USB external GPS
Aerial – Now with Hema Maps including Topo’s on Ipad and Samsung Note 8 both with GPS built in
In 2008, on 17,000km 4WD Drive trip across Australia Sydney to Perth with my mate UK Irish Ex-Chairman, running Netbook with 3 Suction Holder on Screen and running Hema Desert Maps with OziExplorer, coming out of camp at one of the wells on Canning Stock Route, started off on what seemed to me main track, after a couple of kms became obvious from position on Map that we were not on Canning Stock Route – backtracked & found correct track
Would never travel without Outback GPS Mapping when 4WD Driving
Miltonf
February 26, 2023 8:42 am
I thought Ackerman would have a bit more sense. Oh well no one’s perfect. Quite pathetic though – just regurgitating the Washington war machine talking points.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 8:43 am
Even if Putin was literally Hitler and the Banderaites were bird watching stamp collectors, it still wouldn’t be any of Australia’s business.
Best overall line-up on Powerline for awhile .. only one I couldn’t understand was the RICK ASTLEY .. guessin’ it is some sort of in-USA one .. but the rest .. EXCELLENT!
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 8:45 am
Farmer Gez says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:31 am
Piers Akerman.
For a pudgy soft bean bag of a man, he sure talks tough.
He is a Fine Raconteur and great company when drinking fine reds!
Miltonf
February 26, 2023 8:46 am
We should keep the fuk out of the old thief’s war with Russia.
Word Pride?
What’s to be proud of? Just another lefty massage of language.
The pattern of given an inch, so to speak, applies to the gay and lesbian movement in a similar fashion to the aboriginal industry, whose demands know no limits.
I’m not a militant hetero (a tiny percentage of blokes are attractive) but I reckon decriminalising, with an honest top dressing of live and let live, was as far as the corrective action should have gone.
Everything after that has been political activism. The Mardi Gras and Gay Marriage were not pushed in order to right a wrong. The whole charade now is beyond the pale.
duncanm
February 26, 2023 8:51 am
flyingduksays:
February 25, 2023 at 8:39 pm
I’ve lived and worked in Newcastle and could be talked into moving back there. Sydney never. Great beaches and the wonderful Hunter Valley.
yep – the City of Newcastle council is the greenest, dumbest bunch of mongs imaginable.
Typical grifters living off the resources wealth while trying to destroy it.
Black Ball
February 26, 2023 8:56 am
As has been linked here, I think Akerman has overlooked the fact that many of the top men in Ukraine are pocketing millions of the dollars being sent there by governments around the world.
Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has turned up for Formula One testing with a new ‘mullet and moustache’ helmet celebrating the look acquired in Australia during his winter break.
The helmet design was temporary, said the Finn, but the look was likely to be longer lasting.
“I’m so proud of my new look so I thought it would need to be painted on a helmet,” Bottas told his followers on Instagram, explaining it was designed by his partner and Australian professional cyclist Tiffany Cromwell.
Bottas told reporters as testing got under way on Thursday ahead of the March 5 season-opener that getting the mullet haircut was a personal highlight.
“That was a big highlight of my life actually,” he said. “For now it’s staying. It feels very much part of me.”
The Finn has spent time in Australia and New Zealand since the end of last season.
In a video clip posted on Twitter from Australia in December, Bottas was seen telling Cromwell he felt he did not quite fit in and needed to change his style – before visiting a barber.
He then emerged in shorts and a sleeveless Victoria Bitter (VB) top, holding a bottle of beer.
“You beauty, now I feel like home. I fit in,” he said.
Crossie
February 26, 2023 8:58 am
Head of German intelligence unit
was a Russian double agent
The above headline is from The Week In Pictures. That’s nothing, their Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was also a Russian double agent. As soon as he was out of office he joined Gazprom.
By the way, great stuff in WIP, lots of memes to steal.
Project Veritas has released a video saying they want James O’Keefe back after losing hundreds of thousands of followers and begging donors not to abandon them. The video came on the same day that a dozen Project Veritas whistleblowers published a video and penned a letter to the organization’s board of directors saying they stand with the ousted founder.
The ousting of Mr O’Keefe days after PV caught Pfizer in flagrente delicto was curious to say the least. Widespread suggestions that the very rich and very powerful Pfizer was behind it, which isn’t to say they were or weren’t. But the total collapse of PV after the board’s action shows there’s something subterranean going on.
I suspect the only way the board will get O’Keefe to come back is if they all resign.
Eyrie
February 26, 2023 9:05 am
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale. That blood is the price which must be paid if the last Russian commander is to walk out of Ukraine and future generations are to be born free.
What utter bilge. I wonder what he was paid? Ukraine has banned political opposition and taken over the media. Hardly “free and democratic” and killed how many Russian speaking civilians in Lukansk and Donbass since 2014?
We should stay out of another inter slav sibling fight. Was there ever a war Australia didn’t want to get involved in even when nothing to do with us?
The price we now pay for our United States “insurance” policy. Wonder if the policy will pay out or the US will have the ability to pay out?
Anyone recall the Gay bashing hysteria the last 35 years in the newspapers?
An American mathematician fell over a cliff in Sydney and it’s everyone
else’s fault.
Anyway, there was a Trial, a bloke pled Not Guilty, then he changed to
Guilty, then he was sentenced, then he appealed on the grounds that the
Judge shouldn’t have accepted the Guilty plea, then the Appeal was
upheld, then at the Retrial, he switched his plea to Guilty again.
Here’s what really happened:
Both of them were naked, at the top of a cliff, there was some minor
disagreement, the bloke gave the mathematician a shove in the chest
and he went over the cliff.
The guy who shoved him fled because he didn’t want his family to know
he was Gay.
That’s it.
Sancho Panzer
February 26, 2023 9:07 am
Hybrids operate on the principle of ‘regenerative braking’ – they harvest energy from the brakes/drivetrain as you decellerate, and store it in a relatively small battery, for later return to the wheels.
Not totally.
They also rely on the efficiency of running the small petrol engine at constant optimum revs and charging the battery at a consistent rate. The battery deals with the fluctuating demand for power.
Plasmamortar
February 26, 2023 9:07 am
All privately plated cars issued to politicians, senior public servants, and other government funded employees should be EVs. Let them lead by example.
Exactly.
I’m a big advocate of EV highway patrol cars.
We all know it makes sense
Also how are those EV transport ship and oil tankers coming along?
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 9:12 am
Cassie of Sydney says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:47 am
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale.”
I suppose that’s why Zelensky has banned opposition parties, and shut down opposition media, so much for “freedom and liberty
Trying to figure out exactly what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is a bit like trying to interpret quantum physics as explained by Joe Biden. There are so many claims from so many sides, that one would be forgiven for being completely confused.
Is Ukraine winning? Is Russia winning? What exactly are the battlelines and how have they changed? The answers are murky at best, though it’s at least clear that Russia’s initial gambit hasn’t gone to plan. The word “stalemate” comes to mind given the stagnation on the eastern front of the war, where most of the fighting has occurred. That could change in the spring, as both sides have promised coming offensives.
Regardless, what’s not in question is that Americans have been incredibly generous in the amount of money and war materials that have been given to Ukraine to help them hold off the Russian threat.
With that context, perhaps lecturing them on the supposed dangers of merely having questions isn’t the best posture to take.
Ukrainian President Volydymr Zelensky did just that, and it’s probably not going to be popular.
Greg Price
@greg_price11
Zelensky says it is “dangerous” for Americans to question the amount of aid being given to Ukraine because “if Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO member states and the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters to war and they will be dying.”
Moving back to Zelensky’s comments, Americans are a world away from Ukraine. Many rightfully hold skepticism about the history of corruption there, and they wonder what the end game is compared to the massive investment being made
This attempt by Zelensky to constantly paint what is factually a local conflict as a world war for democracy rubs many people the wrong way.
Black Ball
February 26, 2023 9:18 am
The Hun tells me that Lidia Thorpe was removed from the Mardi Gras last night. The report doesn’t specify why, she was dressed in ‘First Nations’ garb, and started something when the AFP walked by.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 9:25 am
Mardi Gras board director and Pride in Protest member Skip Blofield welcomed Senator Thorpe’s participation in the float.
‘I am proud to march alongside Lidia this Saturday to say that queer rights and Blak rights are one and the same,’ Mr Blofield said.
Blowfield, eh?
You couldn’t make this shit up.
GreyRanga
February 26, 2023 9:26 am
Rick Astley is known for “Never going to give you up”. Don’t ask me! One of those songs you hate but know all the words. Sad.
Black Ball
February 26, 2023 9:29 am
Daily Telegraph:
Scott Morrison has a simple message for his critics: “If people are thinking I’m sitting here rocking myself to sleep at night in the foetal position, no, I’m not.”
Nine months after defeat the ex-PM is comfortable, relaxed and “chilled”, in the words of one of his former staff.
In his first interview with The Sunday Telegraph since then, Mr Morrison makes it clear he is at peace with the fact that his time at the top is over.
“You have seasons in life, and you’re thankful for them,” he says.
“But they’re not who you are, who we are doesn’t change and I’ve been blessed with an amazing family and friends, and we’ve always sort of kept our feet on the ground.”
His chance to be prime minister was something he and wife Jenny, “greatly appreciated” and, “I felt, we gave it everything we had and never wasted a day. But when that season ends, well that season ends”.
It’s a fulfilment of a pledge before last year’s election that having done his best he could see no reason to “leave bitter.”
“The Shire has thrown its arms around us and it’s been quite a pleasant time to sort of re-engage,” he says.
“Being back in connection with our local community, our local church, our friends, our kids’ school and local neighbourhood, all of this is as we hoped would be and it’s been a very warm reception.”
The controversy over the revelation he had secretly sworn himself in to multiple ministries hasn’t affected the homecoming.
“Well, all I have received here was enormous support.
“And wherever I went, I received enormous support, which I’m grateful for, and I just sought to rise above it,” he said.
“And the only comment I made, and will remain the only comment made, was what I did in the parliamentary chamber.”
He had no intention, he said, of re-entering political debate.
“I do have a strong view that the things that I should comment on now as a former prime minister, is just to speak to what we did,” he says.
“I don’t do that, I don’t believe, in a partisan way at all. I have not been critical of the government. I’ve given them the courtesy and the respect of having been elected to get on with the job.
“It’s just nice being back part of normal suburban life again.
“People come up to me every day and kindly say thank you, not just for Covid, but particularly around international issues, AUKUS, China, all of these things.”
His life now, he says, is similar to how it was when he was first a backbencher — driving the kids to school, taking meetings in his electorate office.
“I’ve done a lot of reading,” he said.
“I’ve been reading a lot of Christian books and I’ve been going back into Rabbi Sacks’ work, he wrote a great book on science and religion.
“I’ve been consuming Jonathan Haidt And I’d never read Jordan Peterson’s book, I found that really interesting.”
He has also relished the chance to spend more time in church.
“I’m sort of connected back in my local church, again, a lot more getting involved there more than I’ve had the opportunity to do in a very long time and enjoying that (including some lay preaching), and just being able to go back to being a local member in a community that was enormously loyal to me over a long period of time.”
He shies away from the suggestion he might be happier now.
“Well, I think I always largely am. But that’s a function of more of a spiritual conversation.
“That’s always been the secret, for me and Jenny and our family life is it’s firmly rooted in our faith,” he said.
Only Sir Robert Menzies has ever left the PM’s office at a time of his own choosing.
“When I think of the really difficult periods over 70 years ago — you’ve got to remember Curtin and Lyon died in office, those guys who dealt with the Second World War and the Depression … so I’m pleased that as a relatively young man in my mid-50s, that I’m just taking the time as the Member for Cook and not feeling any great rush or under any pressure to make any imminent decisions.”
One continuity with his time as PM is the national interest in his cooking on social media.
“It’s sort of funny wherever I go … people say, oh, please keep posting your curry and I do,” he says.
“I love doing it. And people remember. I was up in Cairns once and I put my stuff through security. And the guy looks up to me and said, ‘that curry you made the other night looked really good’.
“I get it a lot. And that’s probably the main thing people keep following me on my social media (for) because they just ask and it’s no skin off my nose. I’m cooking it anyway so I may as well pop it up.”
He has also found time to watch TV.
“I’m a big streamer,” he said.
“I just finished watching Hunters on Prime, which is a drama about Nazi hunters with Al Pacino. I really enjoyed it.
“I haven’t sent the link to (former treasurer) Josh (Frydenberg) yet. Be right, right up his alley.”
Pogria
February 26, 2023 9:30 am
Old Ozzie,
thanks for the link to Bottas. That was funny. A shame there were no pics of his mullet. I will have to look for some.
A few interesting aspects to this soundbite before the hubris is displayed. Notice how Ukraine President Zelenskyy immediately affirms his knowledge that an increasing number of Americans no longer support the endless proxy war in Ukraine. Apparently, the CIA and State Dept are focused very heavily on managing U.S. war fatigue and communicating that issue with the Ukrainian government they control. {Direct Rumble Link}
Zelenskyy is asked about the increasing number of Americans who no longer support the war. His response is to demand support and tell the stoopid Amerikaan voters, their opinion means nothing. The direct and implied message is, if America doesn’t continue funding the war in Ukraine, our global credibility will collapse and people around the world will start laughing at us.
The propaganda is pretty thick, yet there are millions of Americans asking if the war is really such a dire situation, why does it always seem like there is an endless amount of time to promote the theater of it?
An auditorium filled with mindless captures, stares at a stage containing a leader who has unlimited time to play the role in the script…. yet somewhere, in some place… there is apparently a war happening.
What I mean is, the “theater” of the Ukraine war narrative is consuming far more resources than the actual fighting of the ‘war.’ WATCH:
From the Comments
– I think Victoria Nuland should be held responsible for the thousands of deaths she helped to manifest in the Ukraine. She is one of the most inept sociopathic politicians who helped to install Zekensky and who has consistently kept the US engaged with the most corrupt country in Europe, guilty of bio weapon labs, child/arms/drug trafficking money laundering since 2013.
We can’t help our vets, but we can send money to a piano/penis playing comedian who, half the time is high on coke and is portrayed in a CGI environment to resemble war torn cities in the Ukraine? No wonder we’re the laughing stock of the world. But by all means keep stoking the We must support the Ukraine” mantra.
– I never, for one second, thought of supporting Ukraine.
First, they played a big role in trashing Trump and protecting Biden, and for that I damn them to hell. Second, half the country supports Nazi ideology. Third, corruption. And don’t say it’s just the leaders that are corrupt. No, in this case everyone is corrupt. Fourth, we can’t have countries taking on nuclear powers and expecting us to incinerate ourselves in a nuke war.
BTW, calling me a Putin puppet or lying that I think the war is fake – means nothing to me. The left name calls and lies 24/7 – it’s boring AF – but that’s what they do. Reading comprehension just isn’t their thing –
We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has control of what land, etc.
All we get is Biden fake air raid sirens and one famous actor or politician a day happily prancing around Kiev with Zelenskyy with no helmets or body protection offering him 100s of billion of dollars.
Or, Zelenskyy jet setting around the world to walk red carpets, get praised by the global elite, and pose for national magazine covers.
If you question this – you’re called a Putin puppet.
We taxpaying citizens are sick and damn tired of these blatant lies from these evil, globalist worms.
Call us whatever names you want – we know bullshit when we see it
Indolent
February 26, 2023 9:42 am
This is a blog post from someone who kept a record of all the “accidents” we kept hearing about.
SloMo has always been a place holder. Alas,he was so bad he couldn’t even manage that. Political beige. A waste of an electorate.
H B Bear
February 26, 2023 9:46 am
The GayBC hit a new low last night. NYE with buggery.
Dr Faustus
February 26, 2023 9:47 am
‘I am proud to march alongside Lidia this Saturday to say that queer rights and Blak rights are one and the same,’ Mr Blofield said.
Deep in a profound sort of way.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 9:48 am
The list of American food processing plants that have been destroyed from 1/11/21 to the present.
Should say: Animal based Food processing plants.
Flour Mills actually have significant fire risk, but I bet none of those have burnt down.
Pogria
February 26, 2023 9:50 am
“‘I am proud to march alongside Lidia this Saturday to say that queer rights and Blak rights are one and the same,’ Mr Blofield said.
Deep in a profound sort of way.”
Was he stroking a white Persian cat while he said that?
lotocoti
February 26, 2023 9:52 am
the “de-nazification” of Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president.
If Ukraine can’t have a nazi problem because Zelenskyy is Jewish,
why didn’t Zelenskyy have enough political clout to rein in
the likes of Azov and Right Sector?
Pogria
February 26, 2023 9:52 am
Texans aren’t keen on Californians moving to their state.
Indolent
February 26, 2023 9:53 am
The monopolists at work again, getting rid of the competition? Where was Gates?
Oh boy, FOR ME there isn’t enough tinfoil folks. Then again, FOR US, we have previously been outlining the “watch Mexico in 2023” oil production and energy issue for several months now.
Three oil refinery fires at three different facilities on the same day… isn’t good. Because it just seems to be too coincidental to be coincidental.
Making tinfoil matters worse, I previously emphasized, “The U.S. and Canada are going to push every possible political pressure point in order to force Mexico to change energy policy. The stakes are high. It is going to be remarkable to watch what happens as this battle takes place. Watch Mexico in 2023.” {LINK} A few weeks later, with more data assembled, I added, “I’m not talking about little threats, or ordinary economic pressure points; watch closely how the U.S threats are established.
The ideologues around Joe Biden will seek to destroy AMLO if he does not go along with the energy change effort. {LINK}
The origin of the issue traces back to July of 2022, when Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador visited the White House {Go Deep}. During a jaw dropping statement delivered publicly from the Oval Office, AMLO told Joe Biden he was not going to join the U.S. and Canada in shutting down oil use and refining capacity for low cost gasoline:
The nub of it is… Mexico was not going to permit gasoline prices to skyrocket as they have done in the U.S. due to the policies of Joe Biden. This creates a problem.
The climate change and energy ideologues within the Biden administration are doing everything within their power to raise energy prices, specifically oil and gasoline. This is part of the strategy to make the green new deal energy programs hold financial viability as an alternative.
Part of the policy is to drain the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve, then limit -by regulation- current oil exploration (deny leases), and further block expansion of oil refineries in the U.S (cancel permits).
Mexican President AMLO was not playing that game. He could see what the Biden administration was doing. AMLO read his prepared statement in the oval office to put a hard no on his participation. He was going to continue oil production and increased oil refinery development in order to keep gasoline prices low. Again, this put AMLO on the wrong side of Team Windmill.
We warned that the stakes in this energy showdown were so severe nothing would be off the table of potential.
July 2022 – AMLO takes a stand.
Nov 2022 – An epic battle is looming.
Dec 2022 – Mexico unveils North American Leadership Summit Agenda
Dec 2022 – Team Windmill calls AMLO an “energy nationalist,” then threatens peso.
Continuing to apply the pressure, during the North American Leadership Summit, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted:
There has been a full court press toward Mexico to change their energy policy specifically around oil development and gasoline manufacturing.
Suddenly, against this backdrop, and with our warnings as a guidepost… THIS HAPPENS:
MEXICO CITY, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Three fires broke out on Thursday at different facilities in Mexico and the United States operated by state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex, leaving five missing and eight others injured as of Thursday evening.
Now, who or what would hold the motive to see oil production and gasoline refining in Mexico targeted?
Fetterman is on his own in D.C. His family did not move to Washington with him, opting to remain in their hometown Braddock.
This meant that Fetterman, still recuperating from a debilitating stroke while starting a new high pressure job, had no one to look after him. His staff obviously wasn’t. They knew he was suffering from depression and that between the stroke and depression he was difficult to deal with.
Fetterman’s wife Gisele tweeted Friday that when her husband went in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on February 15 for depression, she grabbed the kids and their passports and got out of the country.
CNN reported in a little noticed report earlier this week that Fetterman was hospitalized because he was unable to take care of himself (excerpt):
Another friend, @davidkurten, also laying it down with the lying media.
Never give an inch in calling out their lies.
Farmer Gez
February 26, 2023 10:07 am
Nice weekend segments on Lotus Eaters.
The UK Tavistock Clinic is discussed.
Girls outnumber boys 5/1 the gender affirming care.
Anorexia has been superseded by gender dysphoria amongst teen girls. The elephant is in the room but the medical profession declares it’s a unicorn.
Pogriasays:
February 26, 2023 at 8:18 am
If you can’t own a machine gun, I wouldn’t mind having one of these to scare the neighbours. Scroll through the comments also, quite a few gems there.
What an outstanding beast. I’d say 40 calibre.
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 10:15 am
Indolent says:
February 26, 2023 at 9:59 am
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West
Shallow, shameless, self-aggrandising – and obsessed with moral posturing – the Canadian PM should serve as a warning
What in the world, you might be asking, is up with Canada? How did a country famed for its sensible, moderate attitudes and customs transform itself into the front rank of the woke phalanx?
We are an immense country – one infinitely rich, blessed by nature (with the possible exception of winter) and mostly pristine. Yet on almost every front, we are becoming an embarrassment – to ourselves and, increasingly, to the world.
We have fallen, for instance, one-quarter behind our American counterparts in terms of incomes – the wealth that offers security, opportunity and educational resources to our children. We’ve done so while creating an economy that will lag behind most of our peers in the developing world for the next four decades.
And, for what? Ostensibly, so that our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the political elite – including the opposition – can claim to be saving the planet.
Trudeau, and his deputy Chrystia Freeland, make it express policy to continually forgo stellar opportunities for national economic development. Our allies Germany and Japan recently came cap-in-hand to Ottawa in some desperation to offer us multi-decade deals amounting to tens of billions of dollars, with no strings attached. Our PM’s response? Let us paraphrase:
“You are free nations, and admirable and reliable friends, and your people clearly need energy and resources, but we here in Canada feel that such endeavours are now immoral. So we can’t make a ‘business case’ for that. Alas, therefore, I must send you packing, ignoring entirely our history of mutual cooperation throughout the post-WWII period, and ensuring that you spend all that money supporting dictatorships (Qatar, in the specific case of Germany) or maintaining your dependence on Russia (even though that country is at war with our ally, Ukraine). And now let me laud my moral virtue over you.”
All such deals since then have fallen like the ripest of plums into the comparatively deserving hands of our American allies.
An ideology of no ideology
It is a singularly appalling feature of an age burdened with deep nonsense and flat-out idiocies – the intellectual dust bowl of transgender ideology, the unnecessarily punitive burden of carbon taxes, the incessant narcissistic laments of Meghan Markle – that declarations on the part of political leaders that would have produced a tsunami in the not so distant days when reason still had a purchase on public discourse now cause scarcely a ripple.
One cardinal stage-act in this carnival of jester-thought? Let us return to 2015, when the soon-to-be prime minister of a once balanced and confident country emitted the following apercu, his distilled ‘insight’ into the true nature of the Canada he was about to rule: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada…” This is what makes us, Trudeau continued, the world’s “first postnational state.”
The epithet, “post-national,” is one with profound implications. It nonetheless barely pricked up the ears of those operating in once-vigilant newsrooms. The few who did hear, in those infant days of the Trudeau Enlightenment, fell all over themselves, in a veritable rhapsody of appreciative commentary. Seldom had we heard a slogan so creative, so progressive, so humane, so compassionate.
Where were the thoughtful, asking questions about just exactly what a “post-national” state might be; the doubt that such an entity was possible, even by definition? Can states, as states, exist without a national identity? Can mere aggregations of convenience, with fealty, no central purpose or point, no shared, deep history, really be called states at all?
What then serves to unify, to guide, and to inspire hope, on both the psychological and collective fronts? Because, in the absence of such unity, we are in conflict, lost and hopeless.
This statement of core belief (and, most truly, belief in nothing) indicated more than indifference to the country itself: it provided proof positive of Trudeau’s utterly juvenile understanding of the deep and wide history of the country he was offering so graciously to rule. Trudeau glossed over the deep and centuries-old rootedness of Newfoundlanders and other East Coast denizens – to whom place, connection and belonging are part of their DNA, as well as denying the clearly defined allegiance of the Francophones inhabiting his own native province of Quebec, who have fought desperately and successfully to maintain their truly unique culture.
Every Canadian province, and the northern territories, are characterised by this same deep sense of ‘home,’ and, as oil-rich Alberta’s stalwart former leader Peter Lougheed insisted: connection to the province – the local place of being – is a precondition for, a spur to, an accelerant of, the love for and broader sense of belonging, to the greater generality of Canada itself.
Trudeau conflated the endless void expanse of his own ignorance with the hypothetical identitylessness of the land he now and so ineptly and catastrophically leads.
All of this was passed over – and by those who should have known better.
It has been made increasingly clear to Canadians, desperate though they may be to believe otherwise, that our vast and mostly empty country – with its backward ways, its quaint and provincial (in the sense of isolated and parochial) parliament, and its tiny population – doesn’t merit any real consideration on the part of the oh-so-impressive global citizens who now masquerade as its leaders. Too many important decisions are made elsewhere, on an international scale – on the faux-aristocratic stages where the truly important players strut and posture.
What do those who parade in such forums often believe? Here’s a start: the planet is a hapless, virginal princess; society, a malevolent and cruel patriarch, motivated by power, raping and pillaging; the individual, another mouth of many devouring mouths to feed, hell-bent on riding the giant of patriarchy to the brink of impending apocalypse.
What other ideas congregate with these devilishly one-sided notions? How about the appalling claim that “the planet has too many people on it.” It would, after all, take five planets to sustain the world population at the current standard of living the West enjoys – or so the story goes.
And what should become of those obviously excess people? They should cease clamouring to enjoy the material benefits and opportunities for our children enjoyed by those in the West for the last eighty years.
The new maxim: it’s impossible to make everyone rich, so the moral thing is to reduce their cost to the planet, and whether by accident or design, make them poor.
Nature abhors a vacuum
Canada, according to Trudeau, is a vacancy, bereft of civil history; a nothing place, waiting to be filled in. But nature abhors a vacuum, and that emptiness cries out to be filled. And who shall guide the “infilling?” Well obviously, Trudeau himself, along with his mentors and minions.
Green fingers
Trudeau is a carbon tax advocate. He has announced plans to scuttle the oil and gas industry in Alberta, impose mandatory and severe fertiliser restrictions on Canadian farmers, and effectively handicap the forest industry.
In case it needs to be said: we, in this country, are not suffering from a shortage of forests. Canada has, by some accounts, over 400 million trees. It has been argued there a more trees in the Northern Hemisphere than there were a century ago. Yet none of that seems to matter: not while our erstwhile leader continually parades his environmental concerns.
And to let all that slip all away under the shallow, pathetic, shameless, self-aggrandising the leadership of the moment – that is farce, with tragedy as its aim.
Oh, Canada indeed.
lotocoti
February 26, 2023 10:19 am
Fetterman is on his own in D.C. His family did not move to Washington with him, opting to remain in their hometown Braddock.
There were three separate fires in three different oil refineries owned by the same company, Pemex. All in one day.
What is going on???
One small fire at a gasoline distillation unit in Texas, now extinguished. Two larger fires in Veracruz, Mexico – one still burning, apparently an uncontrolled wellhead fire.
Pemex is the Mexican state-owned oil company and notorious for shoddy operations, explosions, and fires.
So I’d say Bill Gates is trying to destroy the Mexican economy on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel, as a way of driving more irregular migrants across into the US to boost the Democrat voteherd.
Escalation scenario near-inevitable if Washington does not soon come to its senses and clearly assess its strategic interests
Donald Trump, in a presidential campaign TV spot warned on Tuesday (February 21) that “World War III has never been closer than it is right now,” and blamed “all the warmongers and ‘America Last’ globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department and the national security industrial complex.”
Special mention – rightly – was made of Victoria Nuland, the US deputy secretary of state for political affairs, who, said Trump, has been “obsessed with pushing Ukraine towards NATO.”
Trump accurately portrayed the current conjuncture. Pronouncements by US and NATO officials before and at the recent annual Munich Security Conference (Feb 17-19) can leave very little doubt that the US war aim in Ukraine is regime change in Russia and the decisive defeat of Russia to the point of de facto unconditional surrender.
Remembering the Munich “peace conference” of September 1938 and its consequences, one wonders if there’s something bad in the water in the Bavarian capital, but that’s another topic.
The fact is that at the famed Hotel Bayrischer Hof on February 18, US Vice President Kamala Harris was trotted out to declare that “The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity.”
How and by whom exactly that determination was made, she didn’t say.
But crimes against humanity cannot be dealt with in a negotiation. This calls for total war “for as long as it takes.” Roosevelt made such a determination and declared the demand for unconditional surrender in WW2.
Russia, of course, duly noted.
President Putin declared among other things in his annual address to the nation on February 21 that Russia would pull back from New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the United States, saying inspection of Russian nuclear facilities as NATO is in effect going to war with Russia was an absurd proposition. He also reiterated the threat of the use of nuclear weapons if the integrity of the Russian state was under immediate threat.
So, there we now stand. How over the recent months did we get there? Let’s cut a long story short.
On February 13, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that Russia had started a new major offensive in Ukraine. Prior to that, Ukrainian President Zelensky and his officials (some no longer in office, having been expelled for corruption) had made similar declarations.
On February 14, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he expected Ukraine to launch its own offensive in the spring. In the same press conference with Austin, quite to the astonishment of reporters, US joint chiefs of staff head General Mark Milley said “In short, Russia has lost. They’ve lost strategically, operationally and tactically. And they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield.”
He later in the same press conference second-guessed himself, saying, “on the issue of the Russian offensive, this — this offensive that you see ongoing right now generally in the Bakhmut area, you know, from Kharkiv all the way down to Kherson the front line is quite stable, even though very violent and a lot of fighting. It’s relatively stable.
“Most of the dynamic movement back and forth is in — generally in the vicinity of Bakhmut. The Ukrainians are holding….. I would describe it as a very significant grinding battle of attrition with very high casualties, especially on the Russian side. There;s no fancy arts of maneuver going on here. This is frontal attacks, wave attacks, lots of artillery with extremely high levels of casualties in that particular area.”
That made a bit more sense than the initial assessment.
Then, on February 16, the State Department’s Nuland said that “Russia has declared that it is launching a new offensive. Well, if this is it, it is very pathetic.” She noted that the war is “grinding” in the east, at locations like the city of Bakhmut, where Russia is either inching forward or not gaining any territory at all.
That’s a worrying bit of confused or deliberately confusing statements from the highest US and NATO officials.
Not to question their intelligence and basic levels of competence, let’s assume it’s deliberate. But any way you read it, the bottom line is the same: Most of NATO and the US see themselves now in a total war conflict and Russian President Putin has said loud and clear that he gets it.
The real situation on the ground in Ukraine, as Jim Davis writes, is a stalemate with neither Ukraine nor Russia at this point having the forces in place to launch a decisive offensive. But a war of attrition favors the demographically and industrially superior side – Russia.
General Milley knows that full well and has called for settlement negotiations. But he, of course, is abiding by the political prescriptions of President Biden and his dominant ideological warriors.
Milley and all realist observers know that without massive NATO aid and intervention on the ground, if need be, Russia will win. Russia will also now make every effort to cut supply lines from Poland and western Ukraine across the Dnepr River and to Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region.
hzhousewife
February 26, 2023 10:32 am
Excellent Outsiders segment with Senator Alex Antic on right now. Wish he was Prime Minister.
Historians will look back with confusion as to how idiotic the leaders of this time were
This past week will be remembered by most historians – if anyone is lucky enough to live through this Age of Self-Destruction – as the point of no return for the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The world was treated (more like tormented) by dueling presidential speeches, one from the sclerotic US President Joe Biden, who journeyed to Kiev to reassert his undying support for Ukraine, the other by the surly Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Neither speech was particularly reassuring. Biden promised his Ukrainian wards an additional US$500 million in US taxpayer support for the besieged Ukrainians.
Shortly after his speech, the Pentagon hinted that it might stop slow-walking its promised (but as yet to be delivered) M1A2 Abrams main battle tank to the waiting arms of the desperate Ukrainian defenders and simply hand over the MBTs that are already in America’s warehouses (something that the Pentagon had resisted doing when the Biden administration made its initial announcement that it would, in fact, be sending the vaunted MBTs).
Understanding Putin’s speech
The other speech came from Putin, who spoke for a whopping two hours on Tuesday evening, in which he reiterated his commitment to total victory over Ukraine and how the United States was ruled by “satanists” and “pedophiles.”
Unsurprisingly, most Western media outlets simply refused to cover the speech. Those few that did were openly derisive.
The speech certainly was Castro-esque in its loquaciousness and was tinged with quasi-religious accusations against the West that would make most Iranian mullahs blush, but there was substance in Putin’s words.
He not only signaled that his commitment to the conflict was as strong as ever, but that he was escalating it, in response to what he viewed as an American escalation.
In fact, Putin issued his first significant threat toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): He told his American rivals that they were to remove their offensive long-range weapons systems in Ukraine, otherwise Russian forces would begin directly targeting those systems.
Here is a red line that NATO and the Americans should think twice about crossing.
You see, these systems will be used by Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia. And while Ukraine certainly has a right to defend itself, the fact that it is doing so with capabilities that it only has thanks to the Americans means that the United States and NATO are now – in the eyes of Putin – direct combatants.
He said as much in his speech when he said the Americans will bear the responsibility for these actions should Russia be attacked by such systems.
What’s more, should these weapons systems be targeted by the Russians, one can anticipate that Americans will die. After all, just as with Russian S-400 emplacements in Syria, the American long-range systems are undoubtedly staffed or maintained at least partly by Americans.
Plus, there are likely American forces operating covertly in and around these long-range weapons systems, so we can expect that the Russian targeting of these systems and their surrounding environs will result in multiple American casualties.
The key takeaway from these two speeches that were delivered hours apart from each other is that there is now no hope for a peace deal.
Speeding toward nuclear war
Putin made the shocking announcement that Russia was withdrawing from the Obama-era New START Treaty, which limited the number of tactical nuclear weapons that both the United States and Russia could have.
Still, Russia has a long history of supporting a coterie of arms-control agreements with the Americans going back to the heady Cold War days.
For Putin to pull Russia out of an agreement of which he was a vociferous defender should raise hairs on the backs of the necks of Washington policymakers.
Yet all these statements have done is to harden Washington’s zeal in blindly supporting its Ukrainian proxy.
Putin’s decision to withdraw from the treaty speaks to the depths that he is willing to go to ensure that he wins this war. Thus compromise is not possible at this rate. The only thing that would make a peace deal tenable for Russia would be if its military were decisively defeated.
While the Russians have certainly taken heavy losses, Ukraine has also taken significant losses lately. Unlike the Ukrainians, the Russians can afford to keep sending hundreds of thousands of their people into the meat grinder until they simply attrit the Ukrainians; until Russia’s larger forces bleed Ukraine’s forces dry in the field – and then surge over their corpses. This, at least, appears to be the general Russian plan.
If necessary, Putin will deploy tactical nuclear weapons to ensure that his forces can accomplish this herculean task.
No turning back
That too is a red line that if crossed will likely trigger Moscow into risking nuclear war. Russia cannot lose its naval base in Sevastopol. If it does, it ceases being a major power, as it is isolated away from the vital Black Sea region.
The West is living in a pure fantasy if its so-called leadership thinks that Putin will simply sit back and watch this unfold.
That was the point of Putin’s long-winded speech. The war isn’t ending. There will be no negotiated settlement (at least not one any time soon, or one that favors the Western side).
For his part, Biden made clear that he was not only going to continue his support for President Volodymyr Zelensky’sgovernment of Kiev. Biden further tweeted upon his departure from Kiev that he had “left a part of his heart” there.
How nice.
Biden is so committed to the Ukrainian cause that he has thus far refused to respond adequately to the major chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, which has been dubbed by many critics of Biden as “America’s Chernobyl.”
Biden has instead lavishly doled US tax dollars out to a foreign country, Ukraine, instead of fellow Americans suffering in that disaster zone – in what is likely the run-up to his re-election campaign for president.
If that doesn’t show you how far Biden is willing to go for Ukraine, I don’t know what will.
No peace in our time
Beijing is now getting involved more directly on the side of Moscow, meaning that Russia will have greater maneuvering room at a time when the West desperately needs the Russians to be isolated.
Why would Russia seek peace if the war is turning in its favor, as it is?
Rather than a deal being hatched, another world war is at hand, made possible by the combined arrogance and ignorance of both Western and Russian leaders, who’ve miscalculated from the very beginning to the ultimate end of this conflict.
Just as with the First World War, of course, there will be no victors here.
If it plays its strategic cards right, though, the Communist Party of China will benefit greatly from seeing its two greatest strategic competitors, Russia and America, devour each other over a senseless border dispute in southern Europe (which is why Beijing is likely supporting Russia in its fight in Ukraine).
Face it, there will be no peace in our time. The recent speeches made by Biden and Putin, as well as the increasing involvement of China in the Ukraine conflict, mean that war is our lot – and this war is not one that the West can easily win.
flyingduk
February 26, 2023 10:46 am
Overnight, civilians turned their skills to military use…..
So, civilians with personal firearms *can* provide useful resistance to oppression then?…. the Duk takes notes….
Add to it a previous chart he put up on young women’s politics. Note the significant year in both: 2013.
It’s clear as crystal that acute peer consciousness coupled with mobile phones and social media has had very toxic effect on girls and young women. Yet from the second link it’s clear that hasn’t happened to young men – who by and large don’t have the hypersocial outlook that young women have.
And the tranny activists are preying on these poor girls.
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 10:48 am
Ratings flop: ABC’s “as big as the Olympics” #WorldPride2023 event tanks.
It won’t shock you to know, it’s far from reality.
Turns out the big budget ABC opening night broadcast of Pride on TV was less popular than the weekly gardening show, a repeat programme on dogs, and the nightly game shows.
The Opening Ceremony and Concert on the ABC came in 15th for the evening with a staggering low audience of 214,000 viewers across Australia.
“A flop” is the phrase they use in the business.
The amount of taxpayer dollars being blown on this would make your eyes water. Many many millions.
Why do these people bullshit so much about the gravity of these events when they are, and always have been, fringe events at best?
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 10:48 am
Face it, there will be no peace in our time. The recent speeches made by Biden and Putin, as well as the increasing involvement of China in the Ukraine conflict, mean that war is our lot – and this war is not one that the West can easily win.
Who wrote this, old ozzie?
flyingduk
February 26, 2023 10:51 am
The ousting of Mr O’Keefe days after PV caught Pfizer in flagrente delicto was curious to say the least
‘curious’ eh …. that’s the same term the beak in Canberra applied to the discrepancy between the 3 tightly correlated stories of the AFP ‘witnesses’ to my ‘crimes’, and my video showing they were lying.
Face it, there will be no peace in our time. The recent speeches made by Biden and Putin, as well as the increasing involvement of China in the Ukraine conflict, mean that war is our lot – and this war is not one that the West can easily win.
Who wrote this, old ozzie?
President XI wrote that.
Bourne1879
February 26, 2023 10:53 am
With reference to posts last night by Indolent and myself about AZ Gov Katie Hobbs and Sinaloa cartel corruption just did a quick Google on her.
Nothing came up about the incredible evidence given about her and others. Looked at a couple of AZ news outlets and not front page.
Only seen on Gateway Pundit. Normally such evidence would be resulting in calls to step aside pending investigation.
Anybody seen the story get coverage anywhere else.
H B Bear
February 26, 2023 10:53 am
Curious that the media is reporting that, “Dr Jill has said …”. This is utterly bizarre. Pumpkin masher and enabler-in-chief.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 10:53 am
Why do these people bullshit so much about the gravity of these events when they are, and always have been, fringe events at best?
It’s part of the Narrative, same as Entertainment and Sports.
The purpose of the ABC is to promote the Narrative until it’s replaced or superseded by another Narrative.
Viewing figures for the ABC give a fair indication of how many Australians are buying the Narrative.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 10:57 am
Viewer numbers for the ABC aren’t broken down by sex and gender.
If they were, it’s my guess that programming is directed at women, and that they’re central to the survival of the Narrative.
So I’d say Bill Gates is trying to destroy the Mexican economy on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel, as a way of driving more irregular migrants across into the US to boost the Democrat voteherd.
So, so obvious.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 11:00 am
President XI wrote that.
He did?
When are you packing your kitbag and flying to Ukraine, Dot?
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 11:02 am
And what side will you be on?
flyingduk
February 26, 2023 11:02 am
Not totally. They also rely on the efficiency of running the small petrol engine at constant optimum revs and charging the battery at a consistent rate. The battery deals with the fluctuating demand for power.
I doubt it, the energy losses incurred in converting from liquid fuel to electricity to motive torque would swamp any so called efficiency gain from optimising the petrol engine.
Absent regenerative harvesting, its better to stick to ICE alone and optimise said ICE…. this is why automatic transmissions have grown from 3 speeds to 10.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:04 am
A friend gave me a book to read, Dead in the Water.
You come away believing that the international shipping and insurance industries are basically criminal enterprises.
Synopsis.
In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of Somali pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working for Lloyd’s of London, inspected the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. How had the pirates gotten aboard so easily? And if they wanted to steal the ship and bargain for its return, then why did they destroy it? The questions didn’t add up—and Mockett would never answer them. Soon after his inspection, David Mockett was murdered.
Dead in the Water is a shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international shipping, told through the lens of the Brillante hijacking and its aftermath. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived it—from members of the ship’screw and witnesses to the attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators seeking to solve Mockett’s murder and bring justice to his family—award-winning Bloomberg reporters Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.
I also read the Shipping man years ago and was left with the view that the international shipping industry is run by a bunch of crooks all the way from Norway to Greece.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:07 am
Rooster, you have to be careful with Gateway Pundit. A great deal of the stuff reported there is just bullshit.
When are you packing your kitbag and flying to Ukraine, Dot?
Never, we should have nothing to do with this conflict.
It would be nice if people could assert this without posting Russian and Chinese propaganda at the same time.
“The West cannot possibly win this war they started to carve up Russia which just wants to protect its own people and China has absolutely no territorial ambition whatsoever…, also, America is finished!”
you have to be careful with Gateway Pundit. A great deal of the stuff reported there is just bullshit
I used to put up stuff from Salty Cracker who I like but knew was bit of a crank but was on the ball a lot, calling stuff early and always playing off the front foot, a lot of people thought he was to offensive, now he’s just shrill and grifting.
What are you going to do though?
Spend four hours a day reading different news sites?
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 11:14 am
China has no territorial ambition.
Even the Kuomintang now has an official Policy of peaceful reunification with China.
The sabre rattling about Uighurs is to soften us up for a mass migration of Uighurs.
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 11:15 am
To Ed & Dot, I usually don’t reply to stupid questions, but to help you out just once!
Brandon J Weichert is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (both Republic Book Publishers), and Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books).
When did Churchill ban opposition parties? There was a wartime coalition but Churchill never banned the UK Labour party.
Churchill promoted plenty of Labour hacks into key positions, Harold Wilson notably.
Basically, Churchill was a drunk who did what he was told to.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:19 am
Spend four hours a day reading different news sites?
Sure:
I go to CP Press, Whatfinger, Revolver, Bongino. or Instapundit. I think the best are CP and Instapundit. I used to go to Drudge, but he turned out to be a treasonous prick during the Trump era and never touch the little prick’s site.
Sancho Panzer
February 26, 2023 11:19 am
I used to put up stuff from Salty Cracker who I like but knew was bit of a crank but was on the ball a lot, calling stuff early and always playing off the front foot, a lot of people thought he was to offensive, now he’s just shrill and grifting.
What are you going to do though?
Perhaps just do as Dr F has done (albeit with a bit of industry knowledge).
Start from the premise that f*ck ups outnumber conspiracies 99 to 1.
In the case of the Mexican flare ups, ask yourself – “could this be incompetence, neglect or, at worst, low level local extortion?”
Whether Russia can or will attempt to expand its footprint beyond Ukraine into the former Soviet Union states in Europe, when Putin says he wants to complete a restoration of Russia’s Empire in Europe, getting Belarus and Ukraine (at least partly) will accomplish this. Game over.
SHILL ALERT!
Bourne1879
February 26, 2023 11:22 am
Did find an article from Arizona Mirror. Attacks the credibility of lawyers .Mentions a Senator Bennet and during evidence he was clearly running interference. The evidence too detailed to cast aside like the article does.
AZ Mirror
Arizona GOP legislators continue to give oxygen to disproven election conspiracies
At a full-day airing of election conspiracies, one woman accused the lawmakers themselves of taking bribes
BY: CAITLIN SIEVERS – FEBRUARY
At a full-day airing of election conspiracies, one woman accused the lawmakers themselves of taking bribes
Did they ask Hillary Clinton about 2016?
Bourne1879
February 26, 2023 11:25 am
JC,
I watched the lawyer give evidence for 45 minutes then found summary at GP.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 11:26 am
Sancho thunders: Start from the premise that f*ck ups outnumber conspiracies 99 to 1.
Yeah, nah.
This is complex technology, it’s not blowing up randomly 99 times as often as it’s being sabotaged for political objectives.
See: Blowing up Nordstream 2, starring Joe Biden, the US Navy, and some Norwegians.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:26 am
Sanchez
There’s a little bit of concern, though. There’s a lot of infrastructure stuff in the US, and now assets in Mexico used to supply the US are going kaboom. The avian flu hitting the American chook industry is a little concerning too. All accidents of some sort? Likely, but you also need to worry about state-based sabotage. I’m not suggesting it’s likely, but it’s worth keeping an eye on it.
The red pilling of Scott Adams continues…. last week, Covid, this week, the US race war…
Miltonf
February 26, 2023 11:28 am
America installed the current regime in 2013 to give them the war they wanted. It’s extraordinary that they are simultaneously wrecking their economy and still thinking they can be the world policeman/ bully.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:28 am
JC,
I watched the lawyer give evidence for 45 minutes then found summary at GP.
That’s fine, but one side of a court case doesn’t mean it’s correct. In something like this you need irrefutable evidence and listen to the other side.
Ed Case
February 26, 2023 11:30 am
OldOzzie rouses:
To Ed & Dot, I usually don’t reply to stupid questions, but to help you out just once!
Rather than ask us to click your links, why not either make your links transparent or include the name of the Author you are excerpting from?
Makka
February 26, 2023 11:30 am
Face it, there will be no peace in our time. The recent speeches made by Biden and Putin, as well as the increasing involvement of China in the Ukraine conflict, mean that war is our lot – and this war is not one that the West can easily win.
The undercurrents are showing a real weakening or Euro resolve to keep going all in for Ukraine. They want an end and are positioning for negotiations. They don’t have a stomache for further significant escalation. Putin will grind it out ensuring more blood and infrastructure loss in Ukraine, keeping the pressure fully on. The US neo-cons are the ones out of control, but the world can see that perverted old doddering fart in the WH won’t last much longer. If China’s positioning is convincing enough that it shows support for Russia materially, then it becomes a no brainer to all Europe that Ukraine will not be able to eject Russia. At that point game over – the US will not go alone in this proxy war.
I can’t recall the exact number, but there were around two of three major attacks on the US power grid in recent months that are being counted as sabotage. There’s some really unusual crap going on there. It could all be a quirk of life and very likely too.
Unity ValkyrieFreeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite, known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism, fascism and antisemitism, and belonged to Hitler’s inner circle of friends. After the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich by shooting herself in the head. She survived but was badly injured. She was allowed safe passage back to England but never recovered from the extensive brain damage. She died from meningitis related to the bullet in her brain.
Unity Mitford was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario
Shy Ted
February 26, 2023 11:39 am
Lidia Blak was lying in the middle of the road at the Mardi Gras blocking traffic, Kid glove treatment from the cops. Vid at Michael Smith. If the van driver had… oh, never mind.
JC
February 26, 2023 11:42 am
Unity Mitford was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario
I’m just taking a bling bet the town’s name was changed after ww2.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations, warned on Saturday that President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is bringing the United States closer to an “all-out war” with Russia and China.
Jackson’s statement comes after Biden has continually grappled with memory failure in recent days, raising concerns that his cognitive decline will draw the U.S. into a war with China and Russia, two powers reportedly united against the United States in a proxy war for control of Ukraine’s eastern border.
“It’s TERRIFYING for our country that Biden is our commander-in-chief. He doesn’t know where he’s at half the time, and every day he brings us closer to an all-out war with Russia & China,” Jackson stated.
“His cognitive decline is going to get people KILLED!!” he added.
Notably, Biden has failed to disclose a cognitive test after last week’s yearly physical examination, which found the president suffers from a stiff gait and neuropathy in the feet. According to the Cleveland Clinic, “Neuropathy refers to any condition that affects the nerves outside your brain or spinal cord.”
Biden’s failure to disclose his mental acuity has worried lawmakers for some time. But since Biden’s previous physical in 2022, the U.S. appears to be closer to a kinetic war with China and Russia.
In the past year, the Biden administration has ratcheted up rhetoric, sanctions, and the transfer of U.S. military equipment to Ukraine for its border defense. The administration has imposed approximately 1,500 new and 750 amended sanctions and export controls against Russia, the State Department estimates. And lawmakers have earmarked more than $110 billion in taxpayer dollars to defend Ukraine’s border.
Critics claim the measures, along with the inflaming rhetoric, have caused the Russian conflict to escalate and prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from an off-ramp to end the struggle without impacting his domestic political standing.
Biden’s decision to underwrite the defense of Ukrainian’s border contrasts with his decision not to send the U.S. border patrol similar defensive measures to prevent the invasion of the southern border.
Approximately 300,000 illegal migrants have slipped past border patrol and into the interior since the beginning of fiscal 2023. In fiscal year 2022, about two million migrants were encountered by the border patrol.
It is unclear why Biden has given more attention to the invasion of Ukraine than the invasion on the U.S. southern border. But Biden recently suggested during his remarks in Poland about the “invasion of Ukraine” that its border defense is critical to the safety of America.
“As we gather tonight, the world, in my view, is at an — at an inflection point. The decisions we make over the next five years or so are going to determine and shape our lives for decades to come,” Biden said.
“That’s true for Americans,” he noted “It’s true for the people of the world.”
Bruce of Newcastle
February 26, 2023 11:50 am
Guys can be so mean!
Guys check the magazine, note the ammunition in it, then proceed.
Except Alec Baldwin.
“JCsays:
February 26, 2023 at 11:13 am
Churchill never banned the UK Labour party.
Huge mistake! ?”
Indeed! Perhaps he regretted not doing so! Just two months after VE Day, even before Japanese surrender in the Pacific, a general election was called and Churchill and the Conservatives were smashed by Attlee’s Labour.
Everything that runs counter to the stunning and brave Ukraine narrative is ‘Russian propaganda’ even when it is uttered by Westerners over the last three decades.
Black Ball
February 26, 2023 12:00 pm
Ellen Ransley on Chris Bowen in Daily Telegraph:
Chris Bowen has completely ruled out banning new coal mines, saying fossil fuels will play a part of Australia’s overall climate transition.
The government’s proposed safeguards mechanism – which it says will be integral in reducing emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050 – needs the support of the Greens after the Coalition refused to back it.
In order to get the Greens on side, however, the government has been told to close the provision that allows new coal and gas mines to be opened.
Last week, Greens leader Adam Bandt watered down his request, saying that instead of an outright ban, the minor party would consider a pause on approvals.
The Climate Change and Energy Minister, in terse exchange with Insiders host David Speers on Sunday, said banning new coal and gas was “not on the agenda” – nor is a climate trigger.
In light of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek giving Santos a green light to construct and operate an expansion of 116 gas wells at an existing facility in the Surat Basin until 2077, Mr Bowen also ruled out a climate trigger.
“We are taking our NEM to 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – a huge lift from where we are, roughly 30 per cent in 83 months. But it still means 18 per cent will come from non-renewables, inevitably,” he said.
“Now eventually we will build from the 82 per cent, but in the medium term, we will still have 18 per cent of the energy grid coming from non-renewables. Increasingly that will be gas, as coal-fired power stations leave the system.
“Our goal is to ensure we have the capacity to ensure lights stay on as we make the biggest economic transformation since the industrial revolution.”
Mr Bowen acknowledged all new developments have “emissions implications” but said the government was focusing on targeting the nation’s biggest polluters in order to drive down emissions.
Probed further as to why he couldn’t promise to ban new coal to the Greens, Mr Bowen reiterated his point.
When asked by Mr Speers: “so there won’t be any ban, or time frame as to when we can stop opening new coal and gas”, Mr Bowen replied: “that’s not part of the agenda, and won’t be part of the negotiations”.
“I understand the focus on gas and coal and oil in this discussion. That’s very important,” the Climate Change and Energy Minister said.
“So is, finally, finally, getting a regime in place which reduces emissions from all our big emitters.”
In terms of a “climate trigger” similar to what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese first introduced to parliament as a private members bill in 2005, Mr Bowen said “That‘s not what we’re proposing”.
He warned that should neither the Liberals nor the Greens support the safeguards mechanism, it would be disastrous for the environment and economy.
“Inevitably, any new development has emissions implications … that’s why I’m so determined to get a framework in place to see emissions come down,” he said.
“If safeguards reforms don’t pass there’s no constraint on parliament on biggest emitters, emission also continue to go up.”
So banning coal is all good except when they don’t want to. Anyone else keeping up with these charlatans?
Sancho Panzer
February 26, 2023 12:02 pm
JCsays:
February 26, 2023 at 11:26 am
Sanchez
There’s a little bit of concern, though. There’s a lot of infrastructure stuff in the US
Yes, I think some of the things happening in the food industry and to the power grid run beyond coincidence.
Is it all part of a Klaus Konspiracy though?
Plasmamortar
February 26, 2023 12:03 pm
Everything that runs counter to the stunning and brave Ukraine narrative is ‘Russian propaganda’ even when it is uttered by Westerners over the last three decades.
The U.S. supplied tactical nuclear weapons that Ukraine receives in the dying stages of the war will be “Russian propaganda”
Years ago I read a biography on the Mitford siblings. Fascinating, a real insight into the eccentric English upper class. When she was growing up, Unity shared a bedroom with her sister Jessica (Decca). They had once been close. In 1933 their political ideological allegiances became entrenched and Decca and Unity divided their bedroom with posters and banner, Decca decorated her half with a poster of the hammer and the sickle and Unity was a poster of the swastika. They stopped speaking. Whilst Unity became mad, went to Germany and fell in love with Hitler, Decca became a full blown communist, ran off to Spain to fight the Nationalists with her beau, later husband, Esmond Romilly, who was Churchill’s nephew. Unity and Decca’s elder sister was Mosley wife, the infamous Diana, who was also enamoured of Hitler.
Esmond Romilly enlisted when war began, was later attached to a Squadron RAF as a navigator and in 1941, after a raid on Hamburg, his aircraft was shot down over the North Sea.
Fascinating family….all mad as cut snakes.
Makka
February 26, 2023 12:05 pm
Is it all part of a Klaus Konspiracy though?
Nah. It’s China – war in the Grey Zone.
lotocoti
February 26, 2023 12:06 pm
I’m guessing Elbow’s historic mardi gras photo-op didn’t include the trough surfing.
Oh come on
February 26, 2023 12:08 pm
we should have nothing to do with this conflict.
This has been my position since day 1. And I said it on day 1, as well.
OldOzzie
February 26, 2023 12:11 pm
dover0beach says:
February 26, 2023 at 11:55 am
Everything that runs counter to the stunning and brave Ukraine narrative is ‘Russian propaganda’ even when it is uttered by Westerners over the last three decades.
The billionaire described Viktor Yanukovych’s election as ‘dodgy’ but said the coup was beyond question
Twitter CEO Elon Musk polarized his followers with a tweet declaring there was “no question” that the 2014 change of government in Ukraine was a “coup.” On Saturday, the billionaire tweeted that while “the election” – presumably referring to the 2010 vote that elected Viktor Yanukovych president – was “arguably dodgy,” what followed “was indeed a coup.”
Mearsheimer states that “for Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected and pro-Russian president – which he rightly labeled a ‘coup’ – was the final straw,” an explanation Musk appeared to agree with, at least in part.
While the 2010 election that installed Yanukovych as president was deemed an “impressive display” of democracy by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the West soured on the Party of Regions politician when he abandoned a 2013 economic cooperation agreement with the EU.
Massive violent protests followed, forcing Yanukovych to flee. The US’ hand in the unrest was confirmed in a leaked phone call between then-assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in which they appeared to be plotting to overthrow Yanukovych and install Arseniy Yatsenyuk – who indeed briefly became Prime Minister following Yanukovych’s ouster.
Musk also replied approvingly to a previous post by Kanekoa that featured a video clip of All In podcast host David Sacks claiming that the US “courted” the Ukraine conflict. The video likened Nuland to former Biden administration medical adviser Anthony Fauci, a frequent target of Musk’s ire.
“The same way that Fauci was supposed to be protecting us from viruses and then funded gain of function research, Victoria Nuland was supposed to be our chief diplomat with respect to Russia and Eastern Europe and what did she do instead? She ginned up this conflict. How? We backed an insurrection in Ukraine in 2014,”
Sacks said in the video, which Musk described as an “accurate assessment.”
Makka
February 26, 2023 12:15 pm
Kramer’s weekly take on inflation in the US, rates, the Fed and the economy. The news isn’t good;
He forgot to mention that Australia is only one week of inventory away from an LPG/Petrol/Diesel/Jet supply crisis.
Seeing that the fuel supply is in such a parlous state, as someone who is well versed in the industry, why are the fuel suppliers not better prepared for such a scenario?
It would seem to me that they would be just as much at fault if the tankers stopped as the government. After all, if they have no product to sell, they’ll go broke.
m0nty
February 26, 2023 12:19 pm
The undercurrents are showing a real weakening or Euro resolve to keep going all in for Ukraine.
Mmyes, that must be why all of Europe is sending Ukraine its tanks, planes, missiles, ammo and whatever else is lying around their military warehouses.
Oh come on
February 26, 2023 12:21 pm
when Putin says he wants to complete a restoration of Russia’s Empire in Europe,
Still waiting for a link to the speech where he said this. Must have been in the same speech when he said he wanted to restore the USSR. That speech is lost for some reason. No one who attributes these statements to Putin seem to be able to find it.
Yes, I think some of the things happening in the food industry and to the power grid run beyond coincidence.
Maybe, but maybe not. Think about what our own infrastructure looks like. Most of the important stuff was built through the 50’s to 70’s. Even if it was expanded or upgraded, there’s still plenty of 50’s to 70’s era equipment there as a weak link. I had very little to do with some substations a while ago, surprised at how old and decrepit it was. Critical industries haven’t made good money for a long time, consequently they haven’t been investing.
I was reminded of the flap over Jill Biden’s doctorate while watching NFL football some weeks ago as a commentator pointed out that “Dr. Jill Biden”—not Mrs. Biden, note, or even the First Lady—was in attendance. It must be at her own insistence that she is given the public designation, and anyone who fails to applaud risks angry censure by the bien pensants.
The subject of “Dr. Jill” originally erupted even before her husband took office, when an opinion piece by the essayist Joseph Epstein called on her in December, 2020 to “drop the doc.” Epstein’s “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if you Need an M.D,” appearing in the Wall Street Journal, was not particularly critical of Jill Biden personally; he merely pointed out that it seemed “fraudulent,” perhaps even “a touch comic,” to call oneself “Dr.” when one’s doctorate was not in any medical field (Biden’s is in Education) and at a time when the PhD “has been diminished by the erosion of seriousness and the relaxation of standards in university education generally.” As it happens, there are few living writers more erudite than Epstein, a man who could run intellectual circles around Dr. Biden with one foot tied behind his back.
And what about that degree?
Given that the centerpiece of a doctorate is the doctoral dissertation or thesis, it is fair to look at Biden’s dissertation/executive position paper, submitted to the University of Delaware when she was 55 years old, as evidence of her oft-touted “hard work” and “expertise.” Epstein had not commented on the thesis except to say that its title, “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’ Needs,” was “unpromising.” In fact, the whole more than lives down to the title.
Warning: what follows is probably far more than most readers will want to know about Biden’s thesis.
Perhaps mercifully, Biden’s discussion of student “retention” at Delaware Technical and Community College, where she taught for many years, is short: 79 pages of double-spaced text, not including the bibliography, the surveys (of students, general faculty, counsellors, and English faculty) and sets of interviews. These bring the whole to a mere 130 pages.
Such a brief offering would not have been considered anywhere near sufficient for the awarding of a doctorate in any of the academic departments I have worked with and for. (My PhD, though, is in English, not Education).
Not all dissertations are truly original (most aren’t), but Biden’s isn’t even adequate. Her literature review notably fails to identify any disagreements or debates in educational theories of retention. In explaining her methodology, Biden shows no critical awareness of the biases or limitations of her approach. At the center of her dissertation is discussion of a survey she gave to evaluate how well students’ needs were currently being met at Delaware Tech. The major assumption of the survey—that first-year students know what their needs are—is never interrogated or even defended.
There are more, but I trust the point is clear. It is disconcerting to think that Jill Biden failed to catch these errors in proofreading—even more so to realize that the dissertation’s multiple examiners at the University of Delaware, who certified its quality, also failed to flag them.
Is this the worst doctoral dissertation I have read? Yes. It offers nothing that can be considered in-depth analysis or intellectual argument.
The bombastic defenses of Dr. Jill Biden demonstrate that unlike in the popular folktale, any man who dares say “The Empress Has No Clothes” is promptly beaten into the dust for his temerity.
Bourne1879
February 26, 2023 12:26 pm
JC,
Thanks for your thoughts on evidence.
Please note the evidence I am referring to was not given in a court case but in a AZ hearing into 2 recent elections. The lawyer spoke for 45 minutes and had very specific references to fake documents, fake notaries, fake Uni records, forgeries, particular property transactions, and how the election was manipulated. She went into details about Gov Hobbs and husband. She had already submitted a large amount of backup documents to the committee but that did not include a further bundle of 500 pages. In relation to the Gov the property transactions go back to early 2000’s. She names two people, frontmen, involved in the corruption on behalf of Sinaloa.
Claimed her boss did not attend to give evidence himself as not in AZ and claimed he had had 6 attempts on life. Gave details for one. She also mentioned threats to Karri Lake daughter.
Remember Katie Hobbs prior to winning election was Secretary of State AZ which includes responsibility for running the election. You may recall there were problems with the election voting system on election Day but only in Republican voting areas.
Just what she said alone, never mind her documentation, was enough to make you think she might be due for a traffic accident. I presume she gave the evidence under oath so would be up for perjury if said anything false. The committee hurried her along as she was giving to much detail.
One of the others she specifically named was the boss who installed the election system which lawyer claimed was designed to allow interference.
Note how the AZ Mirror labelled her a conspiracy theorist. She appears to have the goods but remains to be seen what happens with her evidence. Based on recent events I would not be counting on FBI to be interested. If they are it will be to go for the lawyers !
For the record my go to USA sites are GP, Powerline, American Thinker, American Greatness (especially Julie Kelly on Jan 6) and Revolver. Obviously only click on articles of interest.If I see something of real interest will dig further as has been the case with the lawyer giving evidence.
Income Tax back to the states, to encourage a bit of J B-P style competition, as occurred with Death Duties.
…and that’s why it will never happen, John. The States in competition? They’d have to cut their government!
Which reminds me of the story about the Federal US grant each year to the Californian government in the ’80’s – a team of financial Top Men were set to work cutting expenses, and came back to the Governor.
“That grant of $500 million dollars each is costing us $2 Billion dollars to administer, Governor. Will we cancel it?”
“No way” says the Governor “We really need that $500 Million!” *
*It may or may not be true but encapsulates the political/bureaucratic mindset quite well.
The Pilbara is covered with seismic line “roads” that might extend for kilometres. They are easily identified from aerial maps as they are mostly straight lines and often radiate from a central point
Inexperienced travellers often mistake these seismic lines for vehicle traffic routes and go wandering along marvelling at how little traffic they encountered until the line ends abruptly in a wall of red dirt and spinifex. Whoops, out of fuel, food and water and no idea where they are and not enough nous to stay with their vehicle.
Added to the “perished in the desert” file.
The rescued “yoofs” in the stolen Landcruiser were obviously deeply in tune with Country, headed in the opposite direction to their desired destination, the idyllic town of Port Hedland.
ah huh … that is a pretty ghey thing to do
That was the teaching on all the survival training I ever did.
Sound of Music?
So, so very gay.
Anyone else’s Google homepage contain a link to “watch the Sydney gay & lesbian mardi gras parade, click here” ?
Yo, dickhead Google executives: If I have a hankering to watch a parade of nancys in Sydney, I’ll google for it.
There is nothing in my search history, you silicon valley turkeys, nothing, that would suggest I’d be remotely interested in watching a parade of arseless chaps moving along a street down south in the big smoke.
Goeie gesondheid aan almal op die Kat.
With Mme Zulu on the mend, we are returning to an old tradition of a bottle of Moet on Saturday night. It used to commemorate making it through another week at work.
Long may it continue!
Nolte: Another Day, Another Electric Vehicle Battery Fire
rickw:
He doesn’t care – Guvvie cars are essential services priority.
Megan Sparkles will turn Hazza into a lonely, embittered old man..
I bet you she isn’t even rooting him properly anymore, stress n sadness n all!
Sound of Music?
So, so very gay.
If one’s Mardi Gras live stream is down, one must make do!
NO…NO….NO, I am not having it! The Sound of Music is NOT gay.
Albo’s chances tonight of getting:
Drunk?
Groped?
Pashed?
Buggered?
All of the above?
Thanks to you, and yours, Bruce.
The rescued “yoofs” in the stolen Landcruiser were obviously deeply in tune with Country, headed in the opposite direction to their desired destination, the idyllic town of Port Hedland.
That would be their deep, innate, inter generational connection to the land at work….
Could you imagine being the public relations guru, having to deal with the exercise of the Prime Minister of this country, being discovered face down in a Kings Cross gutter, rotten drunk, wearing only a pair of arzless chaps…
A fine candidate to replace the ‘legendary’ Troughman – apparently once a plumbing feature at the Mardi Gras urinals.
Sitting on the beach and Team Afghanistan just wandered past. Tall buggers.
International Dodge Ball comp underway here.
I swear I saw Patches O’Houlihan yesterday….
Thanks BG, really didn’t ever need to know that…. ever….. ever. Naturally celebrated by the gAyBC.
Wrong Dr, Faustus, warnings please!!
Re the yoof who stole a vehicle in the Pilbara: I am amazed that they managed to get themselves bushed, after all, we are told ad nauseam that the yoof are part of the planet’s oldest continuous civilisation, at least 60,000 years, besides, they were “on country” and with the intimate knowledge passed down to them by their elders, how could they lose themselves?
The oldest continuous culture is that of the San Bushmen of Southern Africa – over 100,000 years, and don’t certain parties get aggro when that’s pointed out. Oh, and the San Bushmen discovered how to boil water….
Cassie, my brother as I’ve mentioned here lived a very full Aussie life in The Shire, and one of his three kids still live there, the other two have moved further down south to Nowra. Christmas in Nowra is always full of people who grew up in The Shire and older family members of an earlier generation who still live there. My brother’s kids all went to Gymea High and they are still very trad old Australians. I moved to seek a different life in Sydney in my teens, my Big Sis stayed in Sydney’s outer west till much later.
A little nostalgia for times past is no bad thing. You can also do it vicariously, via Netflix.
Tonight with nothing much else to watch, we turned again the episodes 11 and 12 of The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. A grand family generational saga during very troubled times; it started in 1914 and by this stage it’s 1939, WW2 has just begun. The mother-in-law is amazingly well played, a dominant force holding it all together, with some raw jaw-cracking wisdom about men. Some delightful minor characters appear: the greasy jolly fellow running the dance classes for the young adults on the brink of life, the gentle male professional letter writer who knows all the village secrets (that actor took the part of Gabi in Fauda), Victoria the jilted widowed neighbour, whose son David is an on again off again love interest of Luna – the ‘Beauty Queen’ daughter of the family, who works in a dress shop – and how redolent is the setting of the one ‘good’ dress shop in a town where young girls’ dreams (mine!) played out as they blew a week’s wages on the ‘special’ dress, for one’s looks were often one’s future in those days, and a new dress inspired such confidence. New shoes too.
The Jerusalem settings of those older times and the political struggles are so very well captured. Two young girls in this show remind me of myself and my sister in times not much changed fifteen to twenty years later, the mid to late 1950’s: the tensions, the sharing of confidences and the hopes held for the future, the spats and the love, the curlers for prettying up and the joy of a new dress.
No time for regret, but a few minutes nostalgia can be one of the pleasures of age.
Especially when you can’t have a drink. I am on antibiotics for a sudden infection.
One of the perils of age.
It must be a very sad time for The Clinton’s. Another close associate of theirs is ended:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64753081.amp
We are still driving around in a hired Toyota hybrid electric car, and won’t get the Sporty Beamer (full ICE) back for another ten days. The Audi Q5 used to achieve 100km in about 5.5 litres of fuel; the current hybrid does it in 3.8 litres of fuel. Hairy is quite impressed with the cost saving, but I say what about the fire risk. He says that is not an issue with hybrids and he enjoyed the hybrid Jag we drove in Norway.
Is he correct? I know that they work without plugging in, because the big battery is charged by the fuel action of the vehicle, which seems a neat sort of thing to do, but don’t they still have a battery that could be a problem for fire, at least in a crash? Not that we intend to get one anytime anyway, but as hybrids become popular (the taxi driver in the cab we took back home from the airport waxed lyrical about his savings) will this be a problem and will the cost of any replacement batteries still be prohibitive?
This car we’re driving, a new Corolla, seems to have plenty of grunt, but it still feels to me a bit like you are in some sort of dodgem; noiseless with smooth handling but with control less than ideal.
Sliante!
No vax, no heart transplant.
Victoria, a boot stomping on a human face forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRX-m1ytRxs
I’m getting old, peevish, cranky and irritable, I know, but it bothers me that there are younger generations growing up, who have no idea of that image.
Put it on your sound system – best version since Billy Connolly!
Saw Katie Hobbs Gov Arizona was trending on Twitter and went to look. Ended up watching a lawyer giving evidence about corruption including Hobbs which show long time planning ahead. Very detailed evidence by very brave lawyers which names Gov, politicians, judges and cops.
A bit from Gateway Pundit.
The Arizona Senate and House Elections Committees yesterday heard testimony and presentations from multiple individuals regarding election anomalies and potential fraud in Arizona’s elections over many years.
During the meeting, legislators considered a presentation by Jacqueline Breger, which, if true, exposed absolutely bombshell information regarding massive corruption and collusion between American politicians, appointed government officials, and the Sinaloa Cartels. The money laundering and racketeering scheme allegedly uses fraudulent mortgages, real estate transactions, and insurance claims in Maricopa County to hide money made through cartel human trafficking, drug trafficking, and bribery of elected officials, and to rig elections, intimidate, or murder those who threaten the operation.
The scheme allegedly creates identities, credentials, and professional licenses for “non-existent individuals,” which if true, could be used for fake voter registrations. The Maricopa County computer database is also used for the alleged “removal of genuine documents from the county system.”
Breger identifies herself as a longtime Arizona resident and a forensic investigator with the Harris/Thaler Law Corporation, investigating multi-state racketeering and corruption. She states that she holds a masters degree in marketing and honors degrees in Finance, Financial Accounting, Business, statistics, economics, and business strategy.
A unique Australian pistol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEk3ZPUKBI4
should I have said fooken?
Week In Pictures.
If you haven’t seen it ZeroZeroZero is dropping off the SBS on demand platform at the end of the month.
A great watch.
Old Australia still hard at work in Kurri Kurri. 😀
Here’s a pic of Dovers choice of artwork as it is today.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jogoff/8707520291
ArthurB the Yoof, being aspiring rappers were listening to Enimem’s Lose Yourself for inspiration and did.
Thermageddon in 761 days. Start counting!
France’s Cesar Awards Disrupted by Climate Change Protester: ‘We Have 761 Days Left’ (25 Feb)
“The female protestor appeared about mid-way through the 48th annual Césars ceremony at Olympia Hall in Paris, shortly after presenters including actor Ahmed Sylla had taken the stage. While the protestor didn’t say anything, she wore a t-shirt that read, in English, “We have 761 days left.”
…
The radical French climate change group Dernière Rénovation later took credit for the disruption, identifying the protestor only as “Nina.” The activist group believes that unless society takes significant action against climate change within the next three to four years, civilization is doomed.”
Probably skipped mathematics at school since 3 years is 1,095 days not 761. But make sure you have your asbestos suit ready for 28th March 2025.
If only every morning news broadcast started this way.
It’s so cute when they have imaginary friends
I enjoyed the meme makers 10 years on too. How time flies.
Calli, I can no longer see what amuses you about Week In Pictures because my browser (Brave) is telling me powerlineblog.com doesn’t allow hotlinking to WIP pages/screen grabs.
Tom – It affects only some browsers, unfortunately Brave is one of them (I use it and like it). WIP was awesome this week and Prof. Hayward’s editorial was a perfectly formed gem!
Oh. Okay. I thought if I just put the address in it would pop up.
No 1 – the announcement before the evening broadcast (had a bit of fun with that…even when they tell the truth they’re lying)
No 2 – Fauci interview
I’m just on Google via Safari. My life is complicated enough without fancy computer stuff. I’ll leave all that for the technobots. 😀
Bruce, I’m getting the same error flag when I try to view Calli’s links in Microsoft Edge, which I use to load daily cartoons.
Speaking of fancy computer stuff – photos and archiving and just…viewing.
How many here have massive files of electronic photos that they never look at, never enjoy? I know I’ve have a mass of thumb drives full of them, particularly holiday ones. On the other hand, I have spent a blissful and productive weekend album stuffing from a box full of envelopes – remember those things called “photos”? And clear corners and dry mount albums?
Order from chaos – I like it.
Hybrids operate on the principle of ‘regenerative braking’ – they harvest energy from the brakes/drivetrain as you decellerate, and store it in a relatively small battery, for later return to the wheels.
As such, they can only make sense if your driving style includes a significant component of braking to justify the extra weight and complexity ( hence perfect for taxis and inner city) . Otherwise, they use MORE fuel than a conventional car.
My Landcruiser does mainly country running – its still on its original brake pads (and 2nd set of tyres) after 125,000 km, so would definitely not be more efficient as a hybrid.
HT,
that was an excellent rant. I enjoyed and empathised with it. Brought back memories of grocery shopping during the sixties. For some reason, my mother thought it was okay to catch the bus to the shops but make us walk back carrying the brown paper bags full of groceries. It was a two mile trek. Didn’t matter how much we begged and explained that it made more sense to walk there and catch the bus back with the shopping. I believe she thought it was character building. Although she did enjoy torturing us, so there is that also.
sfw, I got a surprise when I viewed that scene. I expected it to be some sort of environmental disaster like a quarry or an urban nightmare of a concrete drain.
No so! It’s overgrown with what looks to be volunteer species. The waterway looks completely impeded by green junk. Re-wilding isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Tom – I can’t remember which work and which don’t. I just know other Cats haven’t had that issue. By the time someone links to a WIP meme I’ve already read the main Powerline post, so I’m not personally inconvenienced much. The only ones I find I do want to link directly are some of the graphs on their Chart of the Day posts, but you can generally find the graphs elsewhere.
Thanks for that, Doc.
I’ve sent it on to the Beloved. He has just ordered a hybrid Rav4 to replace his Prado (too big for just the two of us these days). Would you believe the lead time is 18 months?
He may need to re-think his choice.
Toast an Vegemite for breakfast.
I’ll put up with a lot but when the straighteners come for my Vegemite -it’s war.
If you can’t own a machine gun, I wouldn’t mind having one of these to scare the neighbours. Scroll through the comments also, quite a few gems there.
Robert Sewellsays:
February 25, 2023 at 10:53 pm
rickw:
He forgot to mention that Australia is only one week of inventory away from an LPG/Petrol/Diesel/Jet supply crisis.
He doesn’t care – Guvvie cars are essential services priority.
All privately plated cars issued to politicians, senior public servants, and other government funded employees should be EVs. Let them lead by example.
Order from chaos – I like it.
Reckon photo albums take up space .. My stamp collection is currently at 46 albums .. there was a time when I thought it would be an inheritance for the grandees but nowadays most of the albums (empty) would fetch more than the stamps inside …….! .. Several individuals and a few sets are worth more than all the other 1 000s together ……!
Another of those enjoyable, hands-on, hobbies obsoleted by technology …. like so many other things .. kids these dayz never get to enjoy .. being a kid in the late 50s/early 60s having to make your own adventures, being turfed out at 9 in the morning and not to come back before dinner, ect ….. the list goes on …… LOL!
Sydney will have to wallow in its own filth for another week.
March 5 – Clean Up Australia Day
If only it could be so.
Piers Akerman:
On the morning of February 15, 1989, General Boris Gromov, commander of the occupying Soviet 40th Army in Afghanistan, walked alone across the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya river to the Soviet satellite Uzbekistan.
His entire army had preceded him. The tribesmen, assisted by Western allies, had defeated the USSR after a brutal 10-year war. Met by the media, Gromov let forth a torrent of abuse that he later claimed was directed at the Soviet leadership which had sent him to clean up its mess.
An estimated 15,000 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict.
A year ago, on February 24, the Russian army was ordered into Ukraine by President Vladimir Putin. A year on, an estimated 60,000 Russian troops have been killed, mostly young ill-equipped conscripts.
Putin told the Russians his “special military operation” would be a three-day walkover aimed at the “de-nazification” of Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president.
His soldiers were told the people would rise and present the invading soldiers with bouquets of flowers. They were greeted with sniper fire and blue and yellow flags. Overnight, civilians turned their skills to military use. Drones used to record weddings were militarised and re-engineered to locate Russian forces and then drop grenades on tanks and troop carriers.
Australia was among the first non-NATO nations to help, the Morrison Liberal government donating the first tranche of Bushmaster troop carriers. A further $33m in drones were promised this week, taking our contribution to Ukraine’s defence to more than half a billion dollars. Our troops are also training Ukrainian recruits in the UK and elsewhere to handle their weapons before they join their countrymen and women on the front lines.
Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, said of the Bushmasters: “Every day, they are being used to evacuate wounded personnel from the frontlines; to rush soldiers to where they are needed to block renewed Russian incursions in eastern Ukraine, and to tow away captured Russian tanks.
“I think of them as the Anzac spirit on four wheels and they make a big difference.”
A year ago, I predicted Western support would waver, with the Germans being the most likely to urge Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to sue for peace. Under former leader Angela Merkel, they had worked to build a ridiculously close relationship with Putin and had become dependent upon Russia for their critical gas supply. They are now reopening old coal mines and driving new shafts to meet their energy needs. France’s President Emmanuel Macron thought he had a special relationship with Putin but that went nowhere.
China is the latest country to offer a peace plan of sorts but the reality is Putin is a proven untrustworthy liar. He is in the same category as China’s President-for-life Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, and every other totalitarian leader.
There is a lot of muddled thinking on the Russian invasion, not least that of the flaccid Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is wringing his hands over the form of any as-yet to be realised peace.
Welby, writing in a London newspaper, said last week that Russia “cannot end up like Germany after 1919”, when Berlin was humiliated by being forced to disarm and pay reparations, adding Ukraine “must not be pressured into an unjust peace”.
That’s all well and good but first the war must be won because, as Myroshnychenko reminded us on Friday, “it’s about opposing aggression and authoritarianism while striving for peace, prosperity and a strong rules-based system”.
Russia is a bully, as is China and the rest of the outlaw states attempting to intimidate freedom-loving nations. There will always be those who preach peace when they what really are doing is seeking to appease the international thugs to further their own interests.
We have these would-be Quislings right here, urging us to ignore China’s subjugation, murder and torture of the Uighur people so more iron ore, coal and gas can go to enrich the Beijing elites.
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale. That blood is the price which must be paid if the last Russian commander is to walk out of Ukraine and future generations are to be born free.
My grandchildren love going through photo albums.
Oh look! Mummy is a Goth!
Revenge is sweet. 😀
It affects only some browsers, unfortunately Brave is one of them (I use it and like it).
I use BRAVE never had a problem ……!
Piers Akerman.
For a pudgy soft bean bag of a man, he sure talks tough.
Silly stuff. Everything’s for sale when it comes to war. And the cheapest thing on the shelf is human life.
Zulu drones on:
My late uncle “went droving” out of Alice Springs, in the late 1940’s. He told the story of the Aboriginal camps where the men got first pick of what was being cooked on the fire, the dogs came next, and the women and children “made do” with the scraps.
In other words,
everybody got fed.
Right?
Mrs D gets her licks in…
6 year old grandson…
“Oma why do you have a photo of me naked in your photo album?”
“Darling, that’s not you, that’s Opa when he was a baby”
Thinks hard, puzzled look “Oma, does that mean I will look like Opa when I am really really old like him?”
Sigh…
H B Bear says:
February 25, 2023 at 8:22 pm
Pretty easy to get lost in the Pilbara. Any bozo with a grader can make a road. Often a while before you hit something to tell you you’ve missed a turnoff.
Always Travel with GPS Mapping
Originally OziExplorer with Australian Topo’s & Hema Desert Maps in Netbook with USB external GPS
Aerial – Now with Hema Maps including Topo’s on Ipad and Samsung Note 8 both with GPS built in
In 2008, on 17,000km 4WD Drive trip across Australia Sydney to Perth with my mate UK Irish Ex-Chairman, running Netbook with 3 Suction Holder on Screen and running Hema Desert Maps with OziExplorer, coming out of camp at one of the wells on Canning Stock Route, started off on what seemed to me main track, after a couple of kms became obvious from position on Map that we were not on Canning Stock Route – backtracked & found correct track
Would never travel without Outback GPS Mapping when 4WD Driving
I thought Ackerman would have a bit more sense. Oh well no one’s perfect. Quite pathetic though – just regurgitating the Washington war machine talking points.
Even if Putin was literally Hitler and the Banderaites were bird watching stamp collectors, it still wouldn’t be any of Australia’s business.
Best overall line-up on Powerline for awhile .. only one I couldn’t understand was the RICK ASTLEY .. guessin’ it is some sort of in-USA one .. but the rest .. EXCELLENT!
Farmer Gez says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:31 am
Piers Akerman.
For a pudgy soft bean bag of a man, he sure talks tough.
He is a Fine Raconteur and great company when drinking fine reds!
We should keep the fuk out of the old thief’s war with Russia.
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale.”
I suppose that’s why Zelensky has banned opposition parties, and shut down opposition media, so much for “freedom and liberty”.
Rick Astley and Lent.
Of course he’s going to have problems with voluntary deprivation.
Although “desert” should be replaced with “dessert”.
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale.
Wonder if those Ukrainians have any idea how much Zelli is making out of their “bravery” ..
I do not like the look of the new Ford Ranger.
Check out a review of a ute by mummy.
https://www.carsguide.com.au/family/ford-ranger-sport-bi-turbo-87669
Word Pride?
What’s to be proud of? Just another lefty massage of language.
The pattern of given an inch, so to speak, applies to the gay and lesbian movement in a similar fashion to the aboriginal industry, whose demands know no limits.
I’m not a militant hetero (a tiny percentage of blokes are attractive) but I reckon decriminalising, with an honest top dressing of live and let live, was as far as the corrective action should have gone.
Everything after that has been political activism. The Mardi Gras and Gay Marriage were not pushed in order to right a wrong. The whole charade now is beyond the pale.
yep – the City of Newcastle council is the greenest, dumbest bunch of mongs imaginable.
Typical grifters living off the resources wealth while trying to destroy it.
As has been linked here, I think Akerman has overlooked the fact that many of the top men in Ukraine are pocketing millions of the dollars being sent there by governments around the world.
I always suspected cats (the feline kind) were a bit smarter than we assumed.
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1629556603669168128
Pogria says:
February 26, 2023 at 7:01 am
Old Australia still hard at work in Kurri Kurri.
Bottas says his mullet is a highlight and here to stay
Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has turned up for Formula One testing with a new ‘mullet and moustache’ helmet celebrating the look acquired in Australia during his winter break.
The helmet design was temporary, said the Finn, but the look was likely to be longer lasting.
“I’m so proud of my new look so I thought it would need to be painted on a helmet,” Bottas told his followers on Instagram, explaining it was designed by his partner and Australian professional cyclist Tiffany Cromwell.
Bottas told reporters as testing got under way on Thursday ahead of the March 5 season-opener that getting the mullet haircut was a personal highlight.
“That was a big highlight of my life actually,” he said. “For now it’s staying. It feels very much part of me.”
The Finn has spent time in Australia and New Zealand since the end of last season.
In a video clip posted on Twitter from Australia in December, Bottas was seen telling Cromwell he felt he did not quite fit in and needed to change his style – before visiting a barber.
He then emerged in shorts and a sleeveless Victoria Bitter (VB) top, holding a bottle of beer.
“You beauty, now I feel like home. I fit in,” he said.
The above headline is from The Week In Pictures. That’s nothing, their Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was also a Russian double agent. As soon as he was out of office he joined Gazprom.
By the way, great stuff in WIP, lots of memes to steal.
GWGB.
Project Veritas Releases Video Saying That They Want James O’Keefe Back, After Desperate Plea For Donors Not to Jump Ship (25 Feb)
The ousting of Mr O’Keefe days after PV caught Pfizer in flagrente delicto was curious to say the least. Widespread suggestions that the very rich and very powerful Pfizer was behind it, which isn’t to say they were or weren’t. But the total collapse of PV after the board’s action shows there’s something subterranean going on.
I suspect the only way the board will get O’Keefe to come back is if they all resign.
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale. That blood is the price which must be paid if the last Russian commander is to walk out of Ukraine and future generations are to be born free.
What utter bilge. I wonder what he was paid? Ukraine has banned political opposition and taken over the media. Hardly “free and democratic” and killed how many Russian speaking civilians in Lukansk and Donbass since 2014?
We should stay out of another inter slav sibling fight. Was there ever a war Australia didn’t want to get involved in even when nothing to do with us?
The price we now pay for our United States “insurance” policy. Wonder if the policy will pay out or the US will have the ability to pay out?
Black Ball says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:56 am
As has been linked here, I think Akerman has overlooked the fact that many of the top men in Ukraine are pocketing millions of the dollars being sent there by governments around the world.
Anyone recall the Gay bashing hysteria the last 35 years in the newspapers?
An American mathematician fell over a cliff in Sydney and it’s everyone
else’s fault.
Anyway, there was a Trial, a bloke pled Not Guilty, then he changed to
Guilty, then he was sentenced, then he appealed on the grounds that the
Judge shouldn’t have accepted the Guilty plea, then the Appeal was
upheld, then at the Retrial, he switched his plea to Guilty again.
Here’s what really happened:
Both of them were naked, at the top of a cliff, there was some minor
disagreement, the bloke gave the mathematician a shove in the chest
and he went over the cliff.
The guy who shoved him fled because he didn’t want his family to know
he was Gay.
That’s it.
Not totally.
They also rely on the efficiency of running the small petrol engine at constant optimum revs and charging the battery at a consistent rate. The battery deals with the fluctuating demand for power.
Exactly.
I’m a big advocate of EV highway patrol cars.
We all know it makes sense
Also how are those EV transport ship and oil tankers coming along?
Cassie of Sydney says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:47 am
But the brave Ukrainians remind us freedom and liberty are not for sale.”
I suppose that’s why Zelensky has banned opposition parties, and shut down opposition media, so much for “freedom and liberty
Zelensky Lectures Americans, and You Probably Won’t Like It
Trying to figure out exactly what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is a bit like trying to interpret quantum physics as explained by Joe Biden. There are so many claims from so many sides, that one would be forgiven for being completely confused.
Is Ukraine winning? Is Russia winning? What exactly are the battlelines and how have they changed? The answers are murky at best, though it’s at least clear that Russia’s initial gambit hasn’t gone to plan. The word “stalemate” comes to mind given the stagnation on the eastern front of the war, where most of the fighting has occurred. That could change in the spring, as both sides have promised coming offensives.
Regardless, what’s not in question is that Americans have been incredibly generous in the amount of money and war materials that have been given to Ukraine to help them hold off the Russian threat.
With that context, perhaps lecturing them on the supposed dangers of merely having questions isn’t the best posture to take.
Ukrainian President Volydymr Zelensky did just that, and it’s probably not going to be popular.
Greg Price
@greg_price11
Zelensky says it is “dangerous” for Americans to question the amount of aid being given to Ukraine because “if Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO member states and the U.S. will have to send their sons and daughters to war and they will be dying.”
Moving back to Zelensky’s comments, Americans are a world away from Ukraine. Many rightfully hold skepticism about the history of corruption there, and they wonder what the end game is compared to the massive investment being made
This attempt by Zelensky to constantly paint what is factually a local conflict as a world war for democracy rubs many people the wrong way.
The Hun tells me that Lidia Thorpe was removed from the Mardi Gras last night. The report doesn’t specify why, she was dressed in ‘First Nations’ garb, and started something when the AFP walked by.
Blowfield, eh?
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Rick Astley is known for “Never going to give you up”. Don’t ask me! One of those songs you hate but know all the words. Sad.
Daily Telegraph:
Scott Morrison has a simple message for his critics: “If people are thinking I’m sitting here rocking myself to sleep at night in the foetal position, no, I’m not.”
Nine months after defeat the ex-PM is comfortable, relaxed and “chilled”, in the words of one of his former staff.
In his first interview with The Sunday Telegraph since then, Mr Morrison makes it clear he is at peace with the fact that his time at the top is over.
“You have seasons in life, and you’re thankful for them,” he says.
“But they’re not who you are, who we are doesn’t change and I’ve been blessed with an amazing family and friends, and we’ve always sort of kept our feet on the ground.”
His chance to be prime minister was something he and wife Jenny, “greatly appreciated” and, “I felt, we gave it everything we had and never wasted a day. But when that season ends, well that season ends”.
It’s a fulfilment of a pledge before last year’s election that having done his best he could see no reason to “leave bitter.”
“The Shire has thrown its arms around us and it’s been quite a pleasant time to sort of re-engage,” he says.
“Being back in connection with our local community, our local church, our friends, our kids’ school and local neighbourhood, all of this is as we hoped would be and it’s been a very warm reception.”
The controversy over the revelation he had secretly sworn himself in to multiple ministries hasn’t affected the homecoming.
“Well, all I have received here was enormous support.
“And wherever I went, I received enormous support, which I’m grateful for, and I just sought to rise above it,” he said.
“And the only comment I made, and will remain the only comment made, was what I did in the parliamentary chamber.”
He had no intention, he said, of re-entering political debate.
“I do have a strong view that the things that I should comment on now as a former prime minister, is just to speak to what we did,” he says.
“I don’t do that, I don’t believe, in a partisan way at all. I have not been critical of the government. I’ve given them the courtesy and the respect of having been elected to get on with the job.
“It’s just nice being back part of normal suburban life again.
“People come up to me every day and kindly say thank you, not just for Covid, but particularly around international issues, AUKUS, China, all of these things.”
His life now, he says, is similar to how it was when he was first a backbencher — driving the kids to school, taking meetings in his electorate office.
“I’ve done a lot of reading,” he said.
“I’ve been reading a lot of Christian books and I’ve been going back into Rabbi Sacks’ work, he wrote a great book on science and religion.
“I’ve been consuming Jonathan Haidt And I’d never read Jordan Peterson’s book, I found that really interesting.”
He has also relished the chance to spend more time in church.
“I’m sort of connected back in my local church, again, a lot more getting involved there more than I’ve had the opportunity to do in a very long time and enjoying that (including some lay preaching), and just being able to go back to being a local member in a community that was enormously loyal to me over a long period of time.”
He shies away from the suggestion he might be happier now.
“Well, I think I always largely am. But that’s a function of more of a spiritual conversation.
“That’s always been the secret, for me and Jenny and our family life is it’s firmly rooted in our faith,” he said.
Only Sir Robert Menzies has ever left the PM’s office at a time of his own choosing.
“When I think of the really difficult periods over 70 years ago — you’ve got to remember Curtin and Lyon died in office, those guys who dealt with the Second World War and the Depression … so I’m pleased that as a relatively young man in my mid-50s, that I’m just taking the time as the Member for Cook and not feeling any great rush or under any pressure to make any imminent decisions.”
One continuity with his time as PM is the national interest in his cooking on social media.
“It’s sort of funny wherever I go … people say, oh, please keep posting your curry and I do,” he says.
“I love doing it. And people remember. I was up in Cairns once and I put my stuff through security. And the guy looks up to me and said, ‘that curry you made the other night looked really good’.
“I get it a lot. And that’s probably the main thing people keep following me on my social media (for) because they just ask and it’s no skin off my nose. I’m cooking it anyway so I may as well pop it up.”
He has also found time to watch TV.
“I’m a big streamer,” he said.
“I just finished watching Hunters on Prime, which is a drama about Nazi hunters with Al Pacino. I really enjoyed it.
“I haven’t sent the link to (former treasurer) Josh (Frydenberg) yet. Be right, right up his alley.”
Old Ozzie,
thanks for the link to Bottas. That was funny. A shame there were no pics of his mullet. I will have to look for some.
Today in Liberalism:
And here’s LGBT rights activist Peter Thatchell on pederasty.
Zelenskyy Tells Americans – If We Do Not Support Ukraine, We Will Lose Credibility in World
February 25, 2023 – Sundance
A few interesting aspects to this soundbite before the hubris is displayed. Notice how Ukraine President Zelenskyy immediately affirms his knowledge that an increasing number of Americans no longer support the endless proxy war in Ukraine. Apparently, the CIA and State Dept are focused very heavily on managing U.S. war fatigue and communicating that issue with the Ukrainian government they control. {Direct Rumble Link}
Zelenskyy is asked about the increasing number of Americans who no longer support the war. His response is to demand support and tell the stoopid Amerikaan voters, their opinion means nothing. The direct and implied message is, if America doesn’t continue funding the war in Ukraine, our global credibility will collapse and people around the world will start laughing at us.
The propaganda is pretty thick, yet there are millions of Americans asking if the war is really such a dire situation, why does it always seem like there is an endless amount of time to promote the theater of it?
An auditorium filled with mindless captures, stares at a stage containing a leader who has unlimited time to play the role in the script…. yet somewhere, in some place… there is apparently a war happening.
What I mean is, the “theater” of the Ukraine war narrative is consuming far more resources than the actual fighting of the ‘war.’ WATCH:
From the Comments
– I think Victoria Nuland should be held responsible for the thousands of deaths she helped to manifest in the Ukraine. She is one of the most inept sociopathic politicians who helped to install Zekensky and who has consistently kept the US engaged with the most corrupt country in Europe, guilty of bio weapon labs, child/arms/drug trafficking money laundering since 2013.
We can’t help our vets, but we can send money to a piano/penis playing comedian who, half the time is high on coke and is portrayed in a CGI environment to resemble war torn cities in the Ukraine? No wonder we’re the laughing stock of the world. But by all means keep stoking the We must support the Ukraine” mantra.
– I never, for one second, thought of supporting Ukraine.
First, they played a big role in trashing Trump and protecting Biden, and for that I damn them to hell. Second, half the country supports Nazi ideology. Third, corruption. And don’t say it’s just the leaders that are corrupt. No, in this case everyone is corrupt. Fourth, we can’t have countries taking on nuclear powers and expecting us to incinerate ourselves in a nuke war.
““I’m a big streamer,” he said.”
I’m a big steamer, he said.
Fixed it.
He really hit a nerve with this one.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
4.6 million views and triggering the left because they know every word is true. You can tell when they act like emotional rage-filled children throwing a baby fit over a mere tweet, you’ve hit a truth bomb nerve.
BTW, calling me a Putin puppet or lying that I think the war is fake – means nothing to me. The left name calls and lies 24/7 – it’s boring AF – but that’s what they do. Reading comprehension just isn’t their thing –
and then there’s this
Meme
Found the Helmet.
The Mullet.
He still has quite a way to go to meet Australian Standards. 😉
science + politics = political science
Peter Tatchell, Aussie pederast and Labour Party candidate.
Here we go, another excuse. Have they never heard of catalytic convertors?
Experts Warn Vehicle Pollution is Causing Heart Attacks
Indolent says:
February 26, 2023 at 9:33 am
He really hit a nerve with this one.
Indolent,
it is an interesting point Catturd raises – I haven’t seen any real Ukraine War Footage on MSM
Catturd ™
@catturd2
With every war going all the way back to Vietnam, the press has been heavily integrated with the troops and there’s thousands of hours of live video footage.
In Ukraine, nothing.
We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has control of what land, etc.
All we get is Biden fake air raid sirens and one famous actor or politician a day happily prancing around Kiev with Zelenskyy with no helmets or body protection offering him 100s of billion of dollars.
Or, Zelenskyy jet setting around the world to walk red carpets, get praised by the global elite, and pose for national magazine covers.
If you question this – you’re called a Putin puppet.
We taxpaying citizens are sick and damn tired of these blatant lies from these evil, globalist worms.
Call us whatever names you want – we know bullshit when we see it
This is a blog post from someone who kept a record of all the “accidents” we kept hearing about.
The list of American food processing plants that have been destroyed from 1/11/21 to the present.
SloMo has always been a place holder. Alas,he was so bad he couldn’t even manage that. Political beige. A waste of an electorate.
The GayBC hit a new low last night. NYE with buggery.
Deep in a profound sort of way.
Should say:
Animal based Food processing plants.
Flour Mills actually have significant fire risk, but I bet none of those have burnt down.
“‘I am proud to march alongside Lidia this Saturday to say that queer rights and Blak rights are one and the same,’ Mr Blofield said.
Deep in a profound sort of way.”
Was he stroking a white Persian cat while he said that?
If Ukraine can’t have a nazi problem because Zelenskyy is Jewish,
why didn’t Zelenskyy have enough political clout to rein in
the likes of Azov and Right Sector?
Texans aren’t keen on Californians moving to their state.
The monopolists at work again, getting rid of the competition? Where was Gates?
Sara Gonzales
@SaraGonzalesTX
There were three separate fires in three different oil refineries owned by the same company, Pemex. All in one day.
What is going on???
Three Random Fires Happen at Three Separate Oil Refineries in Mexico on Same Day
February 24, 2023 – Sundance
Oh boy, FOR ME there isn’t enough tinfoil folks. Then again, FOR US, we have previously been outlining the “watch Mexico in 2023” oil production and energy issue for several months now.
Three oil refinery fires at three different facilities on the same day… isn’t good. Because it just seems to be too coincidental to be coincidental.
Making tinfoil matters worse, I previously emphasized, “The U.S. and Canada are going to push every possible political pressure point in order to force Mexico to change energy policy. The stakes are high. It is going to be remarkable to watch what happens as this battle takes place. Watch Mexico in 2023.” {LINK} A few weeks later, with more data assembled, I added, “I’m not talking about little threats, or ordinary economic pressure points; watch closely how the U.S threats are established.
The ideologues around Joe Biden will seek to destroy AMLO if he does not go along with the energy change effort. {LINK}
The origin of the issue traces back to July of 2022, when Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador visited the White House {Go Deep}. During a jaw dropping statement delivered publicly from the Oval Office, AMLO told Joe Biden he was not going to join the U.S. and Canada in shutting down oil use and refining capacity for low cost gasoline:
The nub of it is… Mexico was not going to permit gasoline prices to skyrocket as they have done in the U.S. due to the policies of Joe Biden. This creates a problem.
The climate change and energy ideologues within the Biden administration are doing everything within their power to raise energy prices, specifically oil and gasoline. This is part of the strategy to make the green new deal energy programs hold financial viability as an alternative.
Part of the policy is to drain the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve, then limit -by regulation- current oil exploration (deny leases), and further block expansion of oil refineries in the U.S (cancel permits).
Mexican President AMLO was not playing that game. He could see what the Biden administration was doing. AMLO read his prepared statement in the oval office to put a hard no on his participation. He was going to continue oil production and increased oil refinery development in order to keep gasoline prices low. Again, this put AMLO on the wrong side of Team Windmill.
We warned that the stakes in this energy showdown were so severe nothing would be off the table of potential.
July 2022 – AMLO takes a stand.
Nov 2022 – An epic battle is looming.
Dec 2022 – Mexico unveils North American Leadership Summit Agenda
Dec 2022 – Team Windmill calls AMLO an “energy nationalist,” then threatens peso.
Continuing to apply the pressure, during the North American Leadership Summit, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted:
There has been a full court press toward Mexico to change their energy policy specifically around oil development and gasoline manufacturing.
Suddenly, against this backdrop, and with our warnings as a guidepost… THIS HAPPENS:
MEXICO CITY, Feb 23 (Reuters) – Three fires broke out on Thursday at different facilities in Mexico and the United States operated by state-owned Mexican oil company Pemex, leaving five missing and eight others injured as of Thursday evening.
Now, who or what would hold the motive to see oil production and gasoline refining in Mexico targeted?
NordStream 2 Anyone?
The Pilbara was mentioned on the previous page.
Looks like a fun place.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/02/24/three-random-fires-happen-at-three-separate-oil-refineries-in-mexico-on-same-day/#more-243693
Ok beaten by the Comments in above article – I said NordStream 2 Anyone?
NORD STREAM TRES!
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The media before and after 2022
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
At the OSCE meeting, Western diplomats left the moment the Russian delegation arrived.
This is the level of Western diplomacy — childish, arrogant, and unwilling to even listen to an opposing viewpoint.
This isn’t diplomacy, this is theater.
Meme
America is Broken when they elect a Doddering Driibling, Hair Sniffing Biden & a Vegetable like Fetterman – The Country is Screwed
Shock Report: Sen. Fetterman Was Hospitalized Because He Was Unable to Take Care of Himself
Fetterman is on his own in D.C. His family did not move to Washington with him, opting to remain in their hometown Braddock.
This meant that Fetterman, still recuperating from a debilitating stroke while starting a new high pressure job, had no one to look after him. His staff obviously wasn’t. They knew he was suffering from depression and that between the stroke and depression he was difficult to deal with.
Fetterman’s wife Gisele tweeted Friday that when her husband went in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on February 15 for depression, she grabbed the kids and their passports and got out of the country.
CNN reported in a little noticed report earlier this week that Fetterman was hospitalized because he was unable to take care of himself (excerpt):
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Another friend, @davidkurten, also laying it down with the lying media.
Never give an inch in calling out their lies.
Nice weekend segments on Lotus Eaters.
The UK Tavistock Clinic is discussed.
Girls outnumber boys 5/1 the gender affirming care.
Anorexia has been superseded by gender dysphoria amongst teen girls. The elephant is in the room but the medical profession declares it’s a unicorn.
Now in WEFland Switzerland, Swiss residents are thrown out of their apartments and replaced by Ukrainian refugees
Pogriasays:
February 26, 2023 at 8:18 am
If you can’t own a machine gun, I wouldn’t mind having one of these to scare the neighbours. Scroll through the comments also, quite a few gems there.
What an outstanding beast. I’d say 40 calibre.
Indolent says:
February 26, 2023 at 9:59 am
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West
And this is the UK Telegraph
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s clown prince, is the future of the woke West
Shallow, shameless, self-aggrandising – and obsessed with moral posturing – the Canadian PM should serve as a warning
What in the world, you might be asking, is up with Canada? How did a country famed for its sensible, moderate attitudes and customs transform itself into the front rank of the woke phalanx?
We are an immense country – one infinitely rich, blessed by nature (with the possible exception of winter) and mostly pristine. Yet on almost every front, we are becoming an embarrassment – to ourselves and, increasingly, to the world.
We have fallen, for instance, one-quarter behind our American counterparts in terms of incomes – the wealth that offers security, opportunity and educational resources to our children. We’ve done so while creating an economy that will lag behind most of our peers in the developing world for the next four decades.
And, for what? Ostensibly, so that our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the political elite – including the opposition – can claim to be saving the planet.
Trudeau, and his deputy Chrystia Freeland, make it express policy to continually forgo stellar opportunities for national economic development. Our allies Germany and Japan recently came cap-in-hand to Ottawa in some desperation to offer us multi-decade deals amounting to tens of billions of dollars, with no strings attached. Our PM’s response? Let us paraphrase:
“You are free nations, and admirable and reliable friends, and your people clearly need energy and resources, but we here in Canada feel that such endeavours are now immoral. So we can’t make a ‘business case’ for that. Alas, therefore, I must send you packing, ignoring entirely our history of mutual cooperation throughout the post-WWII period, and ensuring that you spend all that money supporting dictatorships (Qatar, in the specific case of Germany) or maintaining your dependence on Russia (even though that country is at war with our ally, Ukraine). And now let me laud my moral virtue over you.”
All such deals since then have fallen like the ripest of plums into the comparatively deserving hands of our American allies.
An ideology of no ideology
It is a singularly appalling feature of an age burdened with deep nonsense and flat-out idiocies – the intellectual dust bowl of transgender ideology, the unnecessarily punitive burden of carbon taxes, the incessant narcissistic laments of Meghan Markle – that declarations on the part of political leaders that would have produced a tsunami in the not so distant days when reason still had a purchase on public discourse now cause scarcely a ripple.
One cardinal stage-act in this carnival of jester-thought? Let us return to 2015, when the soon-to-be prime minister of a once balanced and confident country emitted the following apercu, his distilled ‘insight’ into the true nature of the Canada he was about to rule: “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada…” This is what makes us, Trudeau continued, the world’s “first postnational state.”
The epithet, “post-national,” is one with profound implications. It nonetheless barely pricked up the ears of those operating in once-vigilant newsrooms. The few who did hear, in those infant days of the Trudeau Enlightenment, fell all over themselves, in a veritable rhapsody of appreciative commentary. Seldom had we heard a slogan so creative, so progressive, so humane, so compassionate.
Where were the thoughtful, asking questions about just exactly what a “post-national” state might be; the doubt that such an entity was possible, even by definition? Can states, as states, exist without a national identity? Can mere aggregations of convenience, with fealty, no central purpose or point, no shared, deep history, really be called states at all?
What then serves to unify, to guide, and to inspire hope, on both the psychological and collective fronts? Because, in the absence of such unity, we are in conflict, lost and hopeless.
This statement of core belief (and, most truly, belief in nothing) indicated more than indifference to the country itself: it provided proof positive of Trudeau’s utterly juvenile understanding of the deep and wide history of the country he was offering so graciously to rule. Trudeau glossed over the deep and centuries-old rootedness of Newfoundlanders and other East Coast denizens – to whom place, connection and belonging are part of their DNA, as well as denying the clearly defined allegiance of the Francophones inhabiting his own native province of Quebec, who have fought desperately and successfully to maintain their truly unique culture.
Every Canadian province, and the northern territories, are characterised by this same deep sense of ‘home,’ and, as oil-rich Alberta’s stalwart former leader Peter Lougheed insisted: connection to the province – the local place of being – is a precondition for, a spur to, an accelerant of, the love for and broader sense of belonging, to the greater generality of Canada itself.
Trudeau conflated the endless void expanse of his own ignorance with the hypothetical identitylessness of the land he now and so ineptly and catastrophically leads.
All of this was passed over – and by those who should have known better.
It has been made increasingly clear to Canadians, desperate though they may be to believe otherwise, that our vast and mostly empty country – with its backward ways, its quaint and provincial (in the sense of isolated and parochial) parliament, and its tiny population – doesn’t merit any real consideration on the part of the oh-so-impressive global citizens who now masquerade as its leaders. Too many important decisions are made elsewhere, on an international scale – on the faux-aristocratic stages where the truly important players strut and posture.
What do those who parade in such forums often believe? Here’s a start: the planet is a hapless, virginal princess; society, a malevolent and cruel patriarch, motivated by power, raping and pillaging; the individual, another mouth of many devouring mouths to feed, hell-bent on riding the giant of patriarchy to the brink of impending apocalypse.
What other ideas congregate with these devilishly one-sided notions? How about the appalling claim that “the planet has too many people on it.” It would, after all, take five planets to sustain the world population at the current standard of living the West enjoys – or so the story goes.
And what should become of those obviously excess people? They should cease clamouring to enjoy the material benefits and opportunities for our children enjoyed by those in the West for the last eighty years.
The new maxim: it’s impossible to make everyone rich, so the moral thing is to reduce their cost to the planet, and whether by accident or design, make them poor.
Nature abhors a vacuum
Canada, according to Trudeau, is a vacancy, bereft of civil history; a nothing place, waiting to be filled in. But nature abhors a vacuum, and that emptiness cries out to be filled. And who shall guide the “infilling?” Well obviously, Trudeau himself, along with his mentors and minions.
Green fingers
Trudeau is a carbon tax advocate. He has announced plans to scuttle the oil and gas industry in Alberta, impose mandatory and severe fertiliser restrictions on Canadian farmers, and effectively handicap the forest industry.
In case it needs to be said: we, in this country, are not suffering from a shortage of forests. Canada has, by some accounts, over 400 million trees. It has been argued there a more trees in the Northern Hemisphere than there were a century ago. Yet none of that seems to matter: not while our erstwhile leader continually parades his environmental concerns.
And to let all that slip all away under the shallow, pathetic, shameless, self-aggrandising the leadership of the moment – that is farce, with tragedy as its aim.
Oh, Canada indeed.
Being a powerful wahman, his missus got out of Dodge.*
*Replies contain nauseous go gurl sycophancy.
One small fire at a gasoline distillation unit in Texas, now extinguished. Two larger fires in Veracruz, Mexico – one still burning, apparently an uncontrolled wellhead fire.
Pemex is the Mexican state-owned oil company and notorious for shoddy operations, explosions, and fires.
So I’d say Bill Gates is trying to destroy the Mexican economy on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel, as a way of driving more irregular migrants across into the US to boost the Democrat voteherd.
UKRAINE WAR
Munich conference as prelude to a wider war
Escalation scenario near-inevitable if Washington does not soon come to its senses and clearly assess its strategic interests
Donald Trump, in a presidential campaign TV spot warned on Tuesday (February 21) that “World War III has never been closer than it is right now,” and blamed “all the warmongers and ‘America Last’ globalists in the Deep State, the Pentagon, the State Department and the national security industrial complex.”
Special mention – rightly – was made of Victoria Nuland, the US deputy secretary of state for political affairs, who, said Trump, has been “obsessed with pushing Ukraine towards NATO.”
Trump accurately portrayed the current conjuncture. Pronouncements by US and NATO officials before and at the recent annual Munich Security Conference (Feb 17-19) can leave very little doubt that the US war aim in Ukraine is regime change in Russia and the decisive defeat of Russia to the point of de facto unconditional surrender.
Remembering the Munich “peace conference” of September 1938 and its consequences, one wonders if there’s something bad in the water in the Bavarian capital, but that’s another topic.
The fact is that at the famed Hotel Bayrischer Hof on February 18, US Vice President Kamala Harris was trotted out to declare that “The United States has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity.”
How and by whom exactly that determination was made, she didn’t say.
But crimes against humanity cannot be dealt with in a negotiation. This calls for total war “for as long as it takes.” Roosevelt made such a determination and declared the demand for unconditional surrender in WW2.
Russia, of course, duly noted.
President Putin declared among other things in his annual address to the nation on February 21 that Russia would pull back from New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the United States, saying inspection of Russian nuclear facilities as NATO is in effect going to war with Russia was an absurd proposition. He also reiterated the threat of the use of nuclear weapons if the integrity of the Russian state was under immediate threat.
So, there we now stand. How over the recent months did we get there? Let’s cut a long story short.
On February 13, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that Russia had started a new major offensive in Ukraine. Prior to that, Ukrainian President Zelensky and his officials (some no longer in office, having been expelled for corruption) had made similar declarations.
On February 14, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he expected Ukraine to launch its own offensive in the spring. In the same press conference with Austin, quite to the astonishment of reporters, US joint chiefs of staff head General Mark Milley said “In short, Russia has lost. They’ve lost strategically, operationally and tactically. And they are paying an enormous price on the battlefield.”
He later in the same press conference second-guessed himself, saying, “on the issue of the Russian offensive, this — this offensive that you see ongoing right now generally in the Bakhmut area, you know, from Kharkiv all the way down to Kherson the front line is quite stable, even though very violent and a lot of fighting. It’s relatively stable.
“Most of the dynamic movement back and forth is in — generally in the vicinity of Bakhmut. The Ukrainians are holding….. I would describe it as a very significant grinding battle of attrition with very high casualties, especially on the Russian side. There;s no fancy arts of maneuver going on here. This is frontal attacks, wave attacks, lots of artillery with extremely high levels of casualties in that particular area.”
That made a bit more sense than the initial assessment.
Then, on February 16, the State Department’s Nuland said that “Russia has declared that it is launching a new offensive. Well, if this is it, it is very pathetic.” She noted that the war is “grinding” in the east, at locations like the city of Bakhmut, where Russia is either inching forward or not gaining any territory at all.
That’s a worrying bit of confused or deliberately confusing statements from the highest US and NATO officials.
Not to question their intelligence and basic levels of competence, let’s assume it’s deliberate. But any way you read it, the bottom line is the same: Most of NATO and the US see themselves now in a total war conflict and Russian President Putin has said loud and clear that he gets it.
The real situation on the ground in Ukraine, as Jim Davis writes, is a stalemate with neither Ukraine nor Russia at this point having the forces in place to launch a decisive offensive. But a war of attrition favors the demographically and industrially superior side – Russia.
General Milley knows that full well and has called for settlement negotiations. But he, of course, is abiding by the political prescriptions of President Biden and his dominant ideological warriors.
Milley and all realist observers know that without massive NATO aid and intervention on the ground, if need be, Russia will win. Russia will also now make every effort to cut supply lines from Poland and western Ukraine across the Dnepr River and to Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region.
Excellent Outsiders segment with Senator Alex Antic on right now. Wish he was Prime Minister.
World War III is already here
Historians will look back with confusion as to how idiotic the leaders of this time were
This past week will be remembered by most historians – if anyone is lucky enough to live through this Age of Self-Destruction – as the point of no return for the Russo-Ukrainian war.
The world was treated (more like tormented) by dueling presidential speeches, one from the sclerotic US President Joe Biden, who journeyed to Kiev to reassert his undying support for Ukraine, the other by the surly Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Neither speech was particularly reassuring. Biden promised his Ukrainian wards an additional US$500 million in US taxpayer support for the besieged Ukrainians.
Shortly after his speech, the Pentagon hinted that it might stop slow-walking its promised (but as yet to be delivered) M1A2 Abrams main battle tank to the waiting arms of the desperate Ukrainian defenders and simply hand over the MBTs that are already in America’s warehouses (something that the Pentagon had resisted doing when the Biden administration made its initial announcement that it would, in fact, be sending the vaunted MBTs).
Understanding Putin’s speech
The other speech came from Putin, who spoke for a whopping two hours on Tuesday evening, in which he reiterated his commitment to total victory over Ukraine and how the United States was ruled by “satanists” and “pedophiles.”
Unsurprisingly, most Western media outlets simply refused to cover the speech. Those few that did were openly derisive.
The speech certainly was Castro-esque in its loquaciousness and was tinged with quasi-religious accusations against the West that would make most Iranian mullahs blush, but there was substance in Putin’s words.
He not only signaled that his commitment to the conflict was as strong as ever, but that he was escalating it, in response to what he viewed as an American escalation.
In fact, Putin issued his first significant threat toward the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): He told his American rivals that they were to remove their offensive long-range weapons systems in Ukraine, otherwise Russian forces would begin directly targeting those systems.
Here is a red line that NATO and the Americans should think twice about crossing.
You see, these systems will be used by Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia. And while Ukraine certainly has a right to defend itself, the fact that it is doing so with capabilities that it only has thanks to the Americans means that the United States and NATO are now – in the eyes of Putin – direct combatants.
He said as much in his speech when he said the Americans will bear the responsibility for these actions should Russia be attacked by such systems.
What’s more, should these weapons systems be targeted by the Russians, one can anticipate that Americans will die. After all, just as with Russian S-400 emplacements in Syria, the American long-range systems are undoubtedly staffed or maintained at least partly by Americans.
Plus, there are likely American forces operating covertly in and around these long-range weapons systems, so we can expect that the Russian targeting of these systems and their surrounding environs will result in multiple American casualties.
The key takeaway from these two speeches that were delivered hours apart from each other is that there is now no hope for a peace deal.
Speeding toward nuclear war
Putin made the shocking announcement that Russia was withdrawing from the Obama-era New START Treaty, which limited the number of tactical nuclear weapons that both the United States and Russia could have.
Still, Russia has a long history of supporting a coterie of arms-control agreements with the Americans going back to the heady Cold War days.
For Putin to pull Russia out of an agreement of which he was a vociferous defender should raise hairs on the backs of the necks of Washington policymakers.
Yet all these statements have done is to harden Washington’s zeal in blindly supporting its Ukrainian proxy.
Putin’s decision to withdraw from the treaty speaks to the depths that he is willing to go to ensure that he wins this war. Thus compromise is not possible at this rate. The only thing that would make a peace deal tenable for Russia would be if its military were decisively defeated.
While the Russians have certainly taken heavy losses, Ukraine has also taken significant losses lately. Unlike the Ukrainians, the Russians can afford to keep sending hundreds of thousands of their people into the meat grinder until they simply attrit the Ukrainians; until Russia’s larger forces bleed Ukraine’s forces dry in the field – and then surge over their corpses. This, at least, appears to be the general Russian plan.
If necessary, Putin will deploy tactical nuclear weapons to ensure that his forces can accomplish this herculean task.
No turning back
That too is a red line that if crossed will likely trigger Moscow into risking nuclear war. Russia cannot lose its naval base in Sevastopol. If it does, it ceases being a major power, as it is isolated away from the vital Black Sea region.
The West is living in a pure fantasy if its so-called leadership thinks that Putin will simply sit back and watch this unfold.
That was the point of Putin’s long-winded speech. The war isn’t ending. There will be no negotiated settlement (at least not one any time soon, or one that favors the Western side).
For his part, Biden made clear that he was not only going to continue his support for President Volodymyr Zelensky’sgovernment of Kiev. Biden further tweeted upon his departure from Kiev that he had “left a part of his heart” there.
How nice.
Biden is so committed to the Ukrainian cause that he has thus far refused to respond adequately to the major chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, which has been dubbed by many critics of Biden as “America’s Chernobyl.”
Biden has instead lavishly doled US tax dollars out to a foreign country, Ukraine, instead of fellow Americans suffering in that disaster zone – in what is likely the run-up to his re-election campaign for president.
If that doesn’t show you how far Biden is willing to go for Ukraine, I don’t know what will.
No peace in our time
Beijing is now getting involved more directly on the side of Moscow, meaning that Russia will have greater maneuvering room at a time when the West desperately needs the Russians to be isolated.
Why would Russia seek peace if the war is turning in its favor, as it is?
Rather than a deal being hatched, another world war is at hand, made possible by the combined arrogance and ignorance of both Western and Russian leaders, who’ve miscalculated from the very beginning to the ultimate end of this conflict.
Just as with the First World War, of course, there will be no victors here.
If it plays its strategic cards right, though, the Communist Party of China will benefit greatly from seeing its two greatest strategic competitors, Russia and America, devour each other over a senseless border dispute in southern Europe (which is why Beijing is likely supporting Russia in its fight in Ukraine).
Face it, there will be no peace in our time. The recent speeches made by Biden and Putin, as well as the increasing involvement of China in the Ukraine conflict, mean that war is our lot – and this war is not one that the West can easily win.
So, civilians with personal firearms *can* provide useful resistance to oppression then?…. the Duk takes notes….
Pretty much like Churchill. Never forget who started this war, and why Donbass was being shelled (Putinist infiltration).
Yeah, Steven Hayward picked up on this phenomenon this week:
The Daily Chart: The Transgender Social Contagion? | Power Line (23 Feb)
Add to it a previous chart he put up on young women’s politics. Note the significant year in both: 2013.
It’s clear as crystal that acute peer consciousness coupled with mobile phones and social media has had very toxic effect on girls and young women. Yet from the second link it’s clear that hasn’t happened to young men – who by and large don’t have the hypersocial outlook that young women have.
And the tranny activists are preying on these poor girls.
Ratings flop: ABC’s “as big as the Olympics” #WorldPride2023 event tanks.
Saturday, 25 February 2023
The Herald and The ABC have been kidding themselves for the last year, claiming the LGBTetc World Pride event would be “one of the city’s biggest events since the 2000 Olympics”.
It won’t shock you to know, it’s far from reality.
Turns out the big budget ABC opening night broadcast of Pride on TV was less popular than the weekly gardening show, a repeat programme on dogs, and the nightly game shows.
The Opening Ceremony and Concert on the ABC came in 15th for the evening with a staggering low audience of 214,000 viewers across Australia.
“A flop” is the phrase they use in the business.
The amount of taxpayer dollars being blown on this would make your eyes water. Many many millions.
Why do these people bullshit so much about the gravity of these events when they are, and always have been, fringe events at best?
Who wrote this, old ozzie?
‘curious’ eh …. that’s the same term the beak in Canberra applied to the discrepancy between the 3 tightly correlated stories of the AFP ‘witnesses’ to my ‘crimes’, and my video showing they were lying.
President XI wrote that.
With reference to posts last night by Indolent and myself about AZ Gov Katie Hobbs and Sinaloa cartel corruption just did a quick Google on her.
Nothing came up about the incredible evidence given about her and others. Looked at a couple of AZ news outlets and not front page.
Only seen on Gateway Pundit. Normally such evidence would be resulting in calls to step aside pending investigation.
Anybody seen the story get coverage anywhere else.
Curious that the media is reporting that, “Dr Jill has said …”. This is utterly bizarre. Pumpkin masher and enabler-in-chief.
Why do these people bullshit so much about the gravity of these events when they are, and always have been, fringe events at best?
It’s part of the Narrative, same as Entertainment and Sports.
The purpose of the ABC is to promote the Narrative until it’s replaced or superseded by another Narrative.
Viewing figures for the ABC give a fair indication of how many Australians are buying the Narrative.
Viewer numbers for the ABC aren’t broken down by sex and gender.
If they were, it’s my guess that programming is directed at women, and that they’re central to the survival of the Narrative.
Damn those Putinist infiltrators.
So, so obvious.
President XI wrote that.
He did?
When are you packing your kitbag and flying to Ukraine, Dot?
And what side will you be on?
I doubt it, the energy losses incurred in converting from liquid fuel to electricity to motive torque would swamp any so called efficiency gain from optimising the petrol engine.
Absent regenerative harvesting, its better to stick to ICE alone and optimise said ICE…. this is why automatic transmissions have grown from 3 speeds to 10.
A friend gave me a book to read, Dead in the Water.
You come away believing that the international shipping and insurance industries are basically criminal enterprises.
Synopsis.
I also read the Shipping man years ago and was left with the view that the international shipping industry is run by a bunch of crooks all the way from Norway to Greece.
Rooster, you have to be careful with Gateway Pundit. A great deal of the stuff reported there is just bullshit.
The dude in the blue and white dress impersonating a woman, we know their identity, but who is the woman on Albanese’s left with the bandaid on her forearm?
Anyone know?
Never, we should have nothing to do with this conflict.
It would be nice if people could assert this without posting Russian and Chinese propaganda at the same time.
“The West cannot possibly win this war they started to carve up Russia which just wants to protect its own people and China has absolutely no territorial ambition whatsoever…, also, America is finished!”
When did Churchill ban opposition parties? There was a wartime coalition but Churchill never banned the UK Labour party.
Huge mistake! 🙂
I used to put up stuff from Salty Cracker who I like but knew was bit of a crank but was on the ball a lot, calling stuff early and always playing off the front foot, a lot of people thought he was to offensive, now he’s just shrill and grifting.
What are you going to do though?
Spend four hours a day reading different news sites?
China has no territorial ambition.
Even the Kuomintang now has an official Policy of peaceful reunification with China.
The sabre rattling about Uighurs is to soften us up for a mass migration of Uighurs.
To Ed & Dot, I usually don’t reply to stupid questions, but to help you out just once!
Who wrote this, old ozzie?
https://asiatimes.com/2023/02/world-war-iii-is-already-here/
By BRANDON J WEICHERT
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
BRANDON J WEICHERT
Brandon J Weichert is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (both Republic Book Publishers), and Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books).
A wartime coalition and the BUF banned.
“Pretty much like”
Spare me pedantry.
When did Churchill ban opposition parties? There was a wartime coalition but Churchill never banned the UK Labour party.
Churchill promoted plenty of Labour hacks into key positions, Harold Wilson notably.
Basically, Churchill was a drunk who did what he was told to.
Sure:
I go to CP Press, Whatfinger, Revolver, Bongino. or Instapundit. I think the best are CP and Instapundit. I used to go to Drudge, but he turned out to be a treasonous prick during the Trump era and never touch the little prick’s site.
Perhaps just do as Dr F has done (albeit with a bit of industry knowledge).
Start from the premise that f*ck ups outnumber conspiracies 99 to 1.
In the case of the Mexican flare ups, ask yourself – “could this be incompetence, neglect or, at worst, low level local extortion?”
SHILL ALERT!
Did find an article from Arizona Mirror. Attacks the credibility of lawyers .Mentions a Senator Bennet and during evidence he was clearly running interference. The evidence too detailed to cast aside like the article does.
AZ Mirror
Arizona GOP legislators continue to give oxygen to disproven election conspiracies
At a full-day airing of election conspiracies, one woman accused the lawmakers themselves of taking bribes
BY: CAITLIN SIEVERS – FEBRUARY
Did they ask Hillary Clinton about 2016?
JC,
I watched the lawyer give evidence for 45 minutes then found summary at GP.
Sancho thunders:
Start from the premise that f*ck ups outnumber conspiracies 99 to 1.
Yeah, nah.
This is complex technology, it’s not blowing up randomly 99 times as often as it’s being sabotaged for political objectives.
See: Blowing up Nordstream 2, starring Joe Biden, the US Navy, and some Norwegians.
Sanchez
There’s a little bit of concern, though. There’s a lot of infrastructure stuff in the US, and now assets in Mexico used to supply the US are going kaboom. The avian flu hitting the American chook industry is a little concerning too. All accidents of some sort? Likely, but you also need to worry about state-based sabotage. I’m not suggesting it’s likely, but it’s worth keeping an eye on it.
You WILL be the product.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/usa-today-drops-dilbert-over-creator-scott-adams-online-commentary-about-race-relations/
The red pilling of Scott Adams continues…. last week, Covid, this week, the US race war…
America installed the current regime in 2013 to give them the war they wanted. It’s extraordinary that they are simultaneously wrecking their economy and still thinking they can be the world policeman/ bully.
That’s fine, but one side of a court case doesn’t mean it’s correct. In something like this you need irrefutable evidence and listen to the other side.
OldOzzie rouses:
To Ed & Dot, I usually don’t reply to stupid questions, but to help you out just once!
Rather than ask us to click your links, why not either make your links transparent or include the name of the Author you are excerpting from?
The undercurrents are showing a real weakening or Euro resolve to keep going all in for Ukraine. They want an end and are positioning for negotiations. They don’t have a stomache for further significant escalation. Putin will grind it out ensuring more blood and infrastructure loss in Ukraine, keeping the pressure fully on. The US neo-cons are the ones out of control, but the world can see that perverted old doddering fart in the WH won’t last much longer. If China’s positioning is convincing enough that it shows support for Russia materially, then it becomes a no brainer to all Europe that Ukraine will not be able to eject Russia. At that point game over – the US will not go alone in this proxy war.
???
I can’t recall the exact number, but there were around two of three major attacks on the US power grid in recent months that are being counted as sabotage. There’s some really unusual crap going on there. It could all be a quirk of life and very likely too.
The simulation strikes again.
Unity Mitford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite, known for her relationship with Adolf Hitler. Both in Great Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism, fascism and antisemitism, and belonged to Hitler’s inner circle of friends. After the declaration of World War II, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich by shooting herself in the head. She survived but was badly injured. She was allowed safe passage back to England but never recovered from the extensive brain damage. She died from meningitis related to the bullet in her brain.
Unity Mitford was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario
Lidia Blak was lying in the middle of the road at the Mardi Gras blocking traffic, Kid glove treatment from the cops. Vid at Michael Smith. If the van driver had… oh, never mind.
I’m just taking a bling bet the town’s name was changed after ww2.
Guys can be so mean! 😀
… conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario
In 1913?
Methinks Wikipedia is playing fast and loose wif da troof here.
It wouldna be the first time.
Very interesting watchamacallits.
Obama’s Former WH Physician: Biden’s Cognitive Decline ‘Brings Us Closer to an All-Out War’ with Russia, China
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), the former White House physician during the Obama and Trump administrations, warned on Saturday that President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is bringing the United States closer to an “all-out war” with Russia and China.
Jackson’s statement comes after Biden has continually grappled with memory failure in recent days, raising concerns that his cognitive decline will draw the U.S. into a war with China and Russia, two powers reportedly united against the United States in a proxy war for control of Ukraine’s eastern border.
“It’s TERRIFYING for our country that Biden is our commander-in-chief. He doesn’t know where he’s at half the time, and every day he brings us closer to an all-out war with Russia & China,” Jackson stated.
“His cognitive decline is going to get people KILLED!!” he added.
Notably, Biden has failed to disclose a cognitive test after last week’s yearly physical examination, which found the president suffers from a stiff gait and neuropathy in the feet. According to the Cleveland Clinic, “Neuropathy refers to any condition that affects the nerves outside your brain or spinal cord.”
Biden’s failure to disclose his mental acuity has worried lawmakers for some time. But since Biden’s previous physical in 2022, the U.S. appears to be closer to a kinetic war with China and Russia.
In the past year, the Biden administration has ratcheted up rhetoric, sanctions, and the transfer of U.S. military equipment to Ukraine for its border defense. The administration has imposed approximately 1,500 new and 750 amended sanctions and export controls against Russia, the State Department estimates. And lawmakers have earmarked more than $110 billion in taxpayer dollars to defend Ukraine’s border.
Critics claim the measures, along with the inflaming rhetoric, have caused the Russian conflict to escalate and prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from an off-ramp to end the struggle without impacting his domestic political standing.
Biden’s decision to underwrite the defense of Ukrainian’s border contrasts with his decision not to send the U.S. border patrol similar defensive measures to prevent the invasion of the southern border.
Approximately 300,000 illegal migrants have slipped past border patrol and into the interior since the beginning of fiscal 2023. In fiscal year 2022, about two million migrants were encountered by the border patrol.
It is unclear why Biden has given more attention to the invasion of Ukraine than the invasion on the U.S. southern border. But Biden recently suggested during his remarks in Poland about the “invasion of Ukraine” that its border defense is critical to the safety of America.
“As we gather tonight, the world, in my view, is at an — at an inflection point. The decisions we make over the next five years or so are going to determine and shape our lives for decades to come,” Biden said.
“That’s true for Americans,” he noted “It’s true for the people of the world.”
Guys check the magazine, note the ammunition in it, then proceed.
Except Alec Baldwin.
Pogria says:
February 26, 2023 at 11:46 am
Very interesting watchamacallits.
Porgria,
they are all quite impressive!
“JCsays:
February 26, 2023 at 11:13 am
Churchill never banned the UK Labour party.
Huge mistake! ?”
Indeed! Perhaps he regretted not doing so! Just two months after VE Day, even before Japanese surrender in the Pacific, a general election was called and Churchill and the Conservatives were smashed by Attlee’s Labour.
Can anyone see Zelensky doing the same? I don’t.
Everything that runs counter to the stunning and brave Ukraine narrative is ‘Russian propaganda’ even when it is uttered by Westerners over the last three decades.
Ellen Ransley on Chris Bowen in Daily Telegraph:
Chris Bowen has completely ruled out banning new coal mines, saying fossil fuels will play a part of Australia’s overall climate transition.
The government’s proposed safeguards mechanism – which it says will be integral in reducing emissions by 43 per cent by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050 – needs the support of the Greens after the Coalition refused to back it.
In order to get the Greens on side, however, the government has been told to close the provision that allows new coal and gas mines to be opened.
Last week, Greens leader Adam Bandt watered down his request, saying that instead of an outright ban, the minor party would consider a pause on approvals.
The Climate Change and Energy Minister, in terse exchange with Insiders host David Speers on Sunday, said banning new coal and gas was “not on the agenda” – nor is a climate trigger.
In light of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek giving Santos a green light to construct and operate an expansion of 116 gas wells at an existing facility in the Surat Basin until 2077, Mr Bowen also ruled out a climate trigger.
“We are taking our NEM to 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – a huge lift from where we are, roughly 30 per cent in 83 months. But it still means 18 per cent will come from non-renewables, inevitably,” he said.
“Now eventually we will build from the 82 per cent, but in the medium term, we will still have 18 per cent of the energy grid coming from non-renewables. Increasingly that will be gas, as coal-fired power stations leave the system.
“Our goal is to ensure we have the capacity to ensure lights stay on as we make the biggest economic transformation since the industrial revolution.”
Mr Bowen acknowledged all new developments have “emissions implications” but said the government was focusing on targeting the nation’s biggest polluters in order to drive down emissions.
Probed further as to why he couldn’t promise to ban new coal to the Greens, Mr Bowen reiterated his point.
When asked by Mr Speers: “so there won’t be any ban, or time frame as to when we can stop opening new coal and gas”, Mr Bowen replied: “that’s not part of the agenda, and won’t be part of the negotiations”.
“I understand the focus on gas and coal and oil in this discussion. That’s very important,” the Climate Change and Energy Minister said.
“So is, finally, finally, getting a regime in place which reduces emissions from all our big emitters.”
In terms of a “climate trigger” similar to what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese first introduced to parliament as a private members bill in 2005, Mr Bowen said “That‘s not what we’re proposing”.
He warned that should neither the Liberals nor the Greens support the safeguards mechanism, it would be disastrous for the environment and economy.
“Inevitably, any new development has emissions implications … that’s why I’m so determined to get a framework in place to see emissions come down,” he said.
“If safeguards reforms don’t pass there’s no constraint on parliament on biggest emitters, emission also continue to go up.”
So banning coal is all good except when they don’t want to. Anyone else keeping up with these charlatans?
Yes, I think some of the things happening in the food industry and to the power grid run beyond coincidence.
Is it all part of a Klaus Konspiracy though?
The U.S. supplied tactical nuclear weapons that Ukraine receives in the dying stages of the war will be “Russian propaganda”
Years ago I read a biography on the Mitford siblings. Fascinating, a real insight into the eccentric English upper class. When she was growing up, Unity shared a bedroom with her sister Jessica (Decca). They had once been close. In 1933 their political ideological allegiances became entrenched and Decca and Unity divided their bedroom with posters and banner, Decca decorated her half with a poster of the hammer and the sickle and Unity was a poster of the swastika. They stopped speaking. Whilst Unity became mad, went to Germany and fell in love with Hitler, Decca became a full blown communist, ran off to Spain to fight the Nationalists with her beau, later husband, Esmond Romilly, who was Churchill’s nephew. Unity and Decca’s elder sister was Mosley wife, the infamous Diana, who was also enamoured of Hitler.
Esmond Romilly enlisted when war began, was later attached to a Squadron RAF as a navigator and in 1941, after a raid on Hamburg, his aircraft was shot down over the North Sea.
Fascinating family….all mad as cut snakes.
Nah. It’s China – war in the Grey Zone.
I’m guessing Elbow’s historic mardi gras photo-op didn’t include the trough surfing.
This has been my position since day 1. And I said it on day 1, as well.
dover0beach says:
February 26, 2023 at 11:55 am
Everything that runs counter to the stunning and brave Ukraine narrative is ‘Russian propaganda’ even when it is uttered by Westerners over the last three decades.
Elon Musk calls 2014 Ukraine regime change a ‘coup’
The billionaire described Viktor Yanukovych’s election as ‘dodgy’ but said the coup was beyond question
Twitter CEO Elon Musk polarized his followers with a tweet declaring there was “no question” that the 2014 change of government in Ukraine was a “coup.” On Saturday, the billionaire tweeted that while “the election” – presumably referring to the 2010 vote that elected Viktor Yanukovych president – was “arguably dodgy,” what followed “was indeed a coup.”
The tweet was a response to a post from user @KanekoaTheGreat that featured the front page of an article by University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer titled “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is The West’s Fault.” Dating from 2014, the piece – subtitled “The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin” – argues that “NATO enlargement” and Western meddling in Ukrainian politics, and not “Russian aggression,” are to blame for Crimea’s accession to Russia.
Mearsheimer states that “for Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected and pro-Russian president – which he rightly labeled a ‘coup’ – was the final straw,” an explanation Musk appeared to agree with, at least in part.
While the 2010 election that installed Yanukovych as president was deemed an “impressive display” of democracy by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the West soured on the Party of Regions politician when he abandoned a 2013 economic cooperation agreement with the EU.
Massive violent protests followed, forcing Yanukovych to flee. The US’ hand in the unrest was confirmed in a leaked phone call between then-assistant US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in which they appeared to be plotting to overthrow Yanukovych and install Arseniy Yatsenyuk – who indeed briefly became Prime Minister following Yanukovych’s ouster.
Musk also replied approvingly to a previous post by Kanekoa that featured a video clip of All In podcast host David Sacks claiming that the US “courted” the Ukraine conflict. The video likened Nuland to former Biden administration medical adviser Anthony Fauci, a frequent target of Musk’s ire.
“The same way that Fauci was supposed to be protecting us from viruses and then funded gain of function research, Victoria Nuland was supposed to be our chief diplomat with respect to Russia and Eastern Europe and what did she do instead? She ginned up this conflict. How? We backed an insurrection in Ukraine in 2014,”
Sacks said in the video, which Musk described as an “accurate assessment.”
Kramer’s weekly take on inflation in the US, rates, the Fed and the economy. The news isn’t good;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URHeR4R0rMI&ab_channel=MottCapitalManagement%2CLLC
This is such a common occurrence that I’m surprised it made the news.
rickw:
Seeing that the fuel supply is in such a parlous state, as someone who is well versed in the industry, why are the fuel suppliers not better prepared for such a scenario?
It would seem to me that they would be just as much at fault if the tankers stopped as the government. After all, if they have no product to sell, they’ll go broke.
Mmyes, that must be why all of Europe is sending Ukraine its tanks, planes, missiles, ammo and whatever else is lying around their military warehouses.
Still waiting for a link to the speech where he said this. Must have been in the same speech when he said he wanted to restore the USSR. That speech is lost for some reason. No one who attributes these statements to Putin seem to be able to find it.
It would be nice if people could assert this without posting Russian and Chinese propaganda at the same time.”
This from someone who compares Zelensky to Churchill and who asserted a few weeks ago that Putin was worse than Hitler.
First Sunday of Lent: The Temptation in the Desert
Yes, I think some of the things happening in the food industry and to the power grid run beyond coincidence.
Maybe, but maybe not. Think about what our own infrastructure looks like. Most of the important stuff was built through the 50’s to 70’s. Even if it was expanded or upgraded, there’s still plenty of 50’s to 70’s era equipment there as a weak link. I had very little to do with some substations a while ago, surprised at how old and decrepit it was. Critical industries haven’t made good money for a long time, consequently they haven’t been investing.
To Learn Who Rules Over You
Simply Criticize Jill Biden’s Doctorate
Janice Fiamengo
I was reminded of the flap over Jill Biden’s doctorate while watching NFL football some weeks ago as a commentator pointed out that “Dr. Jill Biden”—not Mrs. Biden, note, or even the First Lady—was in attendance. It must be at her own insistence that she is given the public designation, and anyone who fails to applaud risks angry censure by the bien pensants.
The subject of “Dr. Jill” originally erupted even before her husband took office, when an opinion piece by the essayist Joseph Epstein called on her in December, 2020 to “drop the doc.” Epstein’s “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if you Need an M.D,” appearing in the Wall Street Journal, was not particularly critical of Jill Biden personally; he merely pointed out that it seemed “fraudulent,” perhaps even “a touch comic,” to call oneself “Dr.” when one’s doctorate was not in any medical field (Biden’s is in Education) and at a time when the PhD “has been diminished by the erosion of seriousness and the relaxation of standards in university education generally.” As it happens, there are few living writers more erudite than Epstein, a man who could run intellectual circles around Dr. Biden with one foot tied behind his back.
And what about that degree?
Given that the centerpiece of a doctorate is the doctoral dissertation or thesis, it is fair to look at Biden’s dissertation/executive position paper, submitted to the University of Delaware when she was 55 years old, as evidence of her oft-touted “hard work” and “expertise.” Epstein had not commented on the thesis except to say that its title, “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’ Needs,” was “unpromising.” In fact, the whole more than lives down to the title.
Warning: what follows is probably far more than most readers will want to know about Biden’s thesis.
Perhaps mercifully, Biden’s discussion of student “retention” at Delaware Technical and Community College, where she taught for many years, is short: 79 pages of double-spaced text, not including the bibliography, the surveys (of students, general faculty, counsellors, and English faculty) and sets of interviews. These bring the whole to a mere 130 pages.
Such a brief offering would not have been considered anywhere near sufficient for the awarding of a doctorate in any of the academic departments I have worked with and for. (My PhD, though, is in English, not Education).
Not all dissertations are truly original (most aren’t), but Biden’s isn’t even adequate. Her literature review notably fails to identify any disagreements or debates in educational theories of retention. In explaining her methodology, Biden shows no critical awareness of the biases or limitations of her approach. At the center of her dissertation is discussion of a survey she gave to evaluate how well students’ needs were currently being met at Delaware Tech. The major assumption of the survey—that first-year students know what their needs are—is never interrogated or even defended.
There are more, but I trust the point is clear. It is disconcerting to think that Jill Biden failed to catch these errors in proofreading—even more so to realize that the dissertation’s multiple examiners at the University of Delaware, who certified its quality, also failed to flag them.
Is this the worst doctoral dissertation I have read? Yes. It offers nothing that can be considered in-depth analysis or intellectual argument.
The bombastic defenses of Dr. Jill Biden demonstrate that unlike in the popular folktale, any man who dares say “The Empress Has No Clothes” is promptly beaten into the dust for his temerity.
JC,
Thanks for your thoughts on evidence.
Please note the evidence I am referring to was not given in a court case but in a AZ hearing into 2 recent elections. The lawyer spoke for 45 minutes and had very specific references to fake documents, fake notaries, fake Uni records, forgeries, particular property transactions, and how the election was manipulated. She went into details about Gov Hobbs and husband. She had already submitted a large amount of backup documents to the committee but that did not include a further bundle of 500 pages. In relation to the Gov the property transactions go back to early 2000’s. She names two people, frontmen, involved in the corruption on behalf of Sinaloa.
Claimed her boss did not attend to give evidence himself as not in AZ and claimed he had had 6 attempts on life. Gave details for one. She also mentioned threats to Karri Lake daughter.
Remember Katie Hobbs prior to winning election was Secretary of State AZ which includes responsibility for running the election. You may recall there were problems with the election voting system on election Day but only in Republican voting areas.
Just what she said alone, never mind her documentation, was enough to make you think she might be due for a traffic accident. I presume she gave the evidence under oath so would be up for perjury if said anything false. The committee hurried her along as she was giving to much detail.
One of the others she specifically named was the boss who installed the election system which lawyer claimed was designed to allow interference.
Note how the AZ Mirror labelled her a conspiracy theorist. She appears to have the goods but remains to be seen what happens with her evidence. Based on recent events I would not be counting on FBI to be interested. If they are it will be to go for the lawyers !
For the record my go to USA sites are GP, Powerline, American Thinker, American Greatness (especially Julie Kelly on Jan 6) and Revolver. Obviously only click on articles of interest.If I see something of real interest will dig further as has been the case with the lawyer giving evidence.
Boambee John:
…and that’s why it will never happen, John. The States in competition? They’d have to cut their government!
Which reminds me of the story about the Federal US grant each year to the Californian government in the ’80’s – a team of financial Top Men were set to work cutting expenses, and came back to the Governor.
“That grant of $500 million dollars each is costing us $2 Billion dollars to administer, Governor. Will we cancel it?”
“No way” says the Governor “We really need that $500 Million!” *
*It may or may not be true but encapsulates the political/bureaucratic mindset quite well.