The Seven Arches Adel Woods, John Atkinson Grimshaw, mid-late 1800s
There were a few familiar faces on that site, indeed..
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Strange, the Townsville City Council mayor’s page doesn’t mention his time in the Army: https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/about-council/mayor-and-councillors/councillor-profiles/cr-troy-thompson
My view is that this is why gold has been so strong. Sure central bank buying has been strong. but…
If you want a good laugh try this one from him today. Blinken: Saudi-Israel normalization before Gaza ceasefire is possible…
Sky News education commentator Clare Rowe needs to bone up on Islam and its history with the West.
The meedja were thrilled when she came into Parliament wearing Doc Martens. For older or younger readers, they were brand name boots.
The level of political analysis has not improved.
A broad church.
Diluted in substance to the point of irrelevance.
Wasn’t she among the ranks of those demanding to bring their children into the House?
The only alternative to being Labor-lite, as they are now, is Trumpist realism. Lathamist realism in local parlance perhaps. They are terrified to go down that route, and they are cravenly trying to be members of the Davos elites. The cool big boys, the in crowd. They believe in climate rubbish. Consequently they can’t tap into the 50% of voters who think it’s a load of cobblers.
All they can do is die politically and be replaced by something with brains that actually work. I’m not hopeful.
Zipster 5.22pm
Thanks for the link to Peter Hitchens debate
I don’t think the Libs know what they want to be.
The Liberal Party is the natural Party of Government.
It’s not beholden to the big end of town like the Labor Party and it’s not always trying to put a fraud over the people, like the Labor Party.
A while ago I wrote about cockies and currawongs squabbling over a conifer replete with nuts the cockies wanted to feast on.
Tonight they are having aerial warfare which presumably is about territory.
So much for the ecological harmony that we are constantly being preached about.
The Hitler Youth phoned… They want their idea back:
https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1629432875136307201
Albanese is planning to let the Unions keep your Super and pay you an Annuity once you turn 65.
If you die before that, stiff cheddar, and if you die afterward, they’re still holding on to the Principal.
Yet people still whine about Morrison.
It’s almost as if they’re all Labor shills?
Kennilworth bakery in the Mary River Valley .
Is David Limbrick the stupidest person on the Planet?
“C.L.says:
February 26, 2023 at 8:17 pm
The Hitler Youth phoned… They want their idea back:
https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1629432875136307201“
Depressing, distressing and disturbing.
Michael Smith News.
They’re little girls. They think the banner is pretty. It means something but they won’t know what.
Leak Senior was right. He illustrated clearly and succinctly what the genderbaiters want and how they would do it. His insight came early, probably because he was in the “arty” crowd and had his ears and eyes open.
69 if you’re born after 1960.
So, yeah, so many people have died that the Unions are in trouble paying the beneficiaries out.
Basically, the Labor Party is the Party of compulsory vaccination.
With wall to wall Labor Governments in Australia, if you don’t want the vax, bad luck, you’re getting it anyway.
Kennilworth bakery in the Mary River Valley.
Their burgers would set up a bear for hibernation!
???
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/rita-panahi/victoria-police-settlement-payouts-revealed/video/69099557fe31396cebfecedf71d097fe
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/stamp-duty-inquiry-to-weigh-up-victoria-s-worst-tax-20230222-p5cmor.html
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/australia/australia-to-stop-use-of-chinese-manufactured-cameras-by-2024-amid-security-concerns-articleshow.html
Seems okay.
Rosie:
Guardian, but it’s not ‘climate crisis’ which is a figment of your loony imaginations.
It’s just self inflicted nonsense.
When the farmers are finding it too expensive to grow cucumbers, how long before they find it too expensive to grow wheat?
Rosie, it’s not self inflicted – it’s been inflicted on us.
No love lost between them here, much tail pulling. The cockies though have been getting ‘way too stroppy at the Cafe, so I’ve put the foot down. Or more accurately gotten out the garden hose. They’re horrified and mystified. Don’t you like us? No, says I, go away. Which they do for an hour or two then they come back thinking maybe he’ll like us again. Repeat equation all this week…
The currawongs are building up, with a few pairs and their new kids arriving. I have a couple of the kids taking food from the hand, and a couple more in the terror-drooling phase. They do actually salivate in great gooey streams on sight of Coles mince, it’s quite amazing.
Just another day in Donetsk City. These stories never make it to the evening news.
youse just have to recognise that
if it is on 3AW
then it is a paid-for opinion
full stop
My non profane comment at 6.13 about the politics of gays and transgenders is still blocked. I have requested unblockage. So far, nothing.
The OSINT community can do amazing stuff especially with Google maps for geolocation, I was looking at some of it today for the first time in months. Total geekdom. Also I have to say Mr Prigozhin is not a happy chappy.
Certainty isn’t given to mortals, except in exchange for their sanity.
Not quite non profane, and seems to repeat itself.
I’ve actually had it expressed to me that it’s somehow immoral that farmers should make a profit out of growing food……
I finally got a response to a 2015 submission to the federal fu.kers about halal. And when I say response it was returned.
Submission to the Third party certification of food Enquiry
Halal means what is permissible under Sharia which is Islamic law. It does not just apply to foods and beverages but every aspect of life. If something is halal it is part of Islam. Making things, foods, actions etc halal means they become part of Islam.
Halal is the process by which Islam replaces the social, economic, political and legal structure of a host society.
Other ways Islam subsumes the host society are through the building of Mosques and visible symbols such as the burqa.
There are over 370 mosques in Australia which, per capita, is more than six times the number of Buddhist and Hindu temples. It is much more than the conventional (sic) religions such as Catholicism and Anglicanism. The Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an stated:
“A mosque is our barracks, the domes our helmets, minarets our bayonets and the faithful are our soldiers.”
In 2010 France banned the burqa based on a Parliamentary Commission to Study the Wearing of the Full Veil in France. This Commission had found the burqa was an infringement of the principle of freedom, a symbol of subservience and a negation of the principle of equality.
In 2014 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld France’s banning of the burqa. In addition to the principles found by France the ECHR also found the burqa was an an affront to the country’s tenets of secularism and a security risk, preventing the accurate identification of individuals.
Other European nations have followed or plan to follow France’s lead in banning the burqa but a limited ban in Queensland has failed.
The building of Mosques and the wearing of the burqa as well as food certification are part of the halal process.
Section 116 of the Australian Constitution says:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
Section 116 has four limbs. The first three limbs prohibit the Commonwealth from making certain laws: laws “for establishing any religion”; laws “for imposing any religious observance”; and laws “for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion”. The fourth limb proscribes the imposition of religious tests to qualify for any Commonwealth office or public trust.
The first limb is of relevance to halal. In Attorney-General (Vic); Ex Rel Black v Commonwealth (“DOGS case”) [1981] HCA 2; (1981) 146 CLR 559 (2 February 1981) the High Court found that Section 116 did not encompass laws that benefit religions generally; it only proscribed laws that established a particular religion.
Islam is a particular religion. Halal certification is the process by which Islam establishes itself. In Quick and Garran (1995) [1901]. The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth. Sydney: Legal Books. ISBN 1-86316-071-X establishment means “the erection and recognition of a State Church, or the concession of special favours, titles, and advantages to one church which are denied to others.”
Allowing halal to continue could be construed as conceding special favours, titles and advantages to Islam.
It would seem that there are 2 possible legal principles affronted by halal. The first is described by the French banning of the burqa. The second is described by S.116.
I’ve done dozens of these on all the leftie issues. It’s pointless.
You mean this idea?
https://youtu.be/g7u5Knj5Uj4
Mr Integrity is a demonrat until something the demons do adversely impacts Berkshire.
BET-BACK
may it’s bullshite- I can’t find anything about it beyond Latho’s twitter
Say what you want about Avi Yemeni, but you won’t find the ABC talking to the kids on the streets of Alice Springs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzeLvWa7U0
Sounded like satire to me, but I couldn’t see a story he was satirizing.
Lidia is awesome.
A real do-er.
Bernardi pointed out tonight that Albo wore a mask to mix with blacks in Alice Springs but went open-gobbed to the Mardi Gras.
Saw that and thought the same thing. Radical idea – he actually went looking for the troublemakers and spoke to them.
Bernardi pointed out tonight that Albo wore a mask to mix with blacks in Alice Springs but went open-gobbed to the Mardi Gras.
Monkeypox is transmitted by physical contact. Let’s hope rub and tug was tongue kissed by a few of the fur boys.
Any church containing Lord Waffleworth and Chrissy Pyne has nothing to offer me.
johannasays:
February 26, 2023 at 8:41 pm
My non profane comment at 6.13 about the politics of gays and transgenders is still blocked. I have requested unblockage. So far, nothing.
It is visible now.
In Cordoba I’ve been attending mass in the the beautiful royal church of St Paul, home of the Claretines? I’ve only seen three elderly priests, one of whom, bless him, comes out every morning on his two walking sticks to sit in a confessional in case anyone desires that sacrament.
Not many at mass even on Sunday (could be the parish 300 metres up the road is more popular) but but this morning a young woman spoke briefly after the Eucharist, she was from a group called Apóstoles de la Palabra, a fight back, if you like against encroaching JW, Mormon and evangelical falsehoods against the Catholic church, that has its roots in Mexico.
I bought their book ‘en la Biblia esta la Verdad’ which I plan to struggle through.
Fr Flaviano Amatulli, the founder.
I’m with Speedbox
Nothing beats home made sausage rolls.
So easy even I can made a decent one.
Cassie 8:27pm on 26 Feb
Depressing distressing and disturbing .
These words are also close to eachother in the dictionary.
Last couple of nights there’s been drumming and cheering in the big square near my place, couldn’t be bothered investigating.
Just as well, there’s a weird giant cake with a female figure on top in the square.
40th birthday, rainbow decorations.
Let me guess.
“Trust, but verify…. except for the trust bit….’
My observation is while numbers are higher, other than the February peak when covid was unleashed the 2022 graph shape is roughly the same as every other year, with winter the worst.
I also noticed that from 16% excess deaths as reported by the ABS last report (two months ago) it is now 15% excess as of end of November iirc.
I can’t see how people can definitively pin down a cause, not yet.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/project-veritas-staffers-release-new-statement-as-whistleblowers-say-they-stand-with-james-okeefe_5082911.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2023-02-26&src_cmp=mb-2023-02-26&utm_medium=email&est=aCJKh96%2B1zADfwLxQVGUkB76LPiT%2BaFWVRMY3NAYCVTYhkRZKX1T41J68yA9tDbp
Here’s this wonderful, vibrant 60,000 year old culture, and the kids want to copy the culture of the ghetto gangs of the United States..
Zulu
some respect please
… they’re emerging elders
Pita Panahi!
Well, at least she’s making a crust. Hope she’s earning a lot of bread.
Housing, in Alice Springs.
Dough!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/house-republicans-launching-investigation-into-buttigiegs-response-to-the-east-palestine-disaster/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2023-02-25
the null hypothesis was the first casualty
Well, at least she’s making a crust. Hope she’s earning a lot of bread.
You’re as funny as arse warts dickless.
“Pita Panahi!
I suppose you think you’re funny. You’re not but once again you reveal your racism, bigotry and misogyny.
Well, at least she’s making a crust. Hope she’s earning a lot of bread.”
I suspect she’s making a good crust because unlike you, she’s intelligent, talented and has something worthwhile to say.
areff earlier.
It wasn’t just the rivers of gold. The meeja were given the exalted status of ‘ssential wukkas. So the likes of Nanny Neil Mitchell became even bigger tin gods than before. We even had reporters and photographers lauding the “beautiful peaceful city” … whilst mere mortals sat at home quietly and peacefully going mad or going broke, or both.
Okay…?
Liberals = homeopathic conservatives.
Old Ozzie 26/2 @ 10:42
The opening sentence regarding the stupidity of our leaders.
They are democratically elected by us. The international labor parties foist candidates to electorates who loathe the people they represent.
Since Marx was adopted by atheists who cling to it as a good values system they have always caused trouble, envy and violence.
The two world wars masked the social destruction occurring across Europe.
Socialist were causing social anarchy, were killing eachother for petty reasons, much like pop groups splitting up over the most trivial hinge, then killing innocents.
They laughed at people having families and owning their homes, having a holiday by the sea side etc.
Nothing has changed.
It’s ironic the countries which were the bulwark against communism are now pushing it through the loss of constructive employment, women power, heterosexual sex banned, homosexuality championed, sex change being normal.
Sex obsessed, unable to tell which way is north , how to shoot or work with your hands.
Putin will will.we deserve our fete. Thanks Clinton, Blair, Merkel, o Bama, treadeau, macron, zhonsky etc – they are stupid.
BTW good on you Tommy Emanuell in this week ends Oz on telling it straight about drugs.
Music is now a great career ruined by pop musicians who riddicule classical musicians and female pop artists.
Thank you Slomo, for your lockdowns & restrictions.
If ever I publish the experience of being a quarantine centre, there’s a helluva lot of material on the two-tier caste system, of people divided into “Essentials” & “Expendables”.
The ruling elite knew bluddee well the whole thing was a hoax, or they would not have granted exemptions to carry on as you please to certain groups.
… whilst mere mortals sat at home quietly and peacefully going mad or going broke, or both.
Less of the “quietly going mad or broke, or both” next time, they need to be out and about stringing up their oppressors.
Is David Limbrick the stupidest person on the Planet?
I believe so, he’s deduced that “confusing laws” is the reason that Vikpol are a pack of bastards.
100%.
The Labor/FBI case against Daniel Duggan – pilot, Australian citizen and father of six little ones – stinks.
Finally opened my litre box of Cumbres De Gredos vino tinto.
Es muy bien.
Not to Con Inc.
They have a nifty new idea. Yield on what Greg Sheridan waved away as the “crazy cultural stuff” and preserve what really matters: patriotic Endless War and lower taxes.
Uh-oh.
Midnight to dawn stoush shift has clocked on!
🙁
C.L. says:
February 27, 2023 at 12:18 am
Reading about the ‘adventures’ of flyingduk, and the treatment of Julian Assange by the Americans, I’m not the least surprised.
US gov.? Not a nice bunch.
Woody Harrelsons monologue on SNL made top of Daily Mail and going nuts on Twitter. Hint, he jokes about the pharma cartel selling drugs.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Morten Morland.
Andy Davey.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Hopefully the social media platforms will now ban the WSJ after publishing this crazy, racist lab leak conspiracy theory.
Mmmm what’s Knight on about with the Harry Styles? If he’s suggesting that the dollybirds are mentally melting down with the cognitive dissonance of getting the hots on for the current plastic Adonis?
Dilbert
Ben Shapiro is a COMMUNIST at home??
Might be paywalled; I got through once, but not twice.
Otherwise just an amazing coincidence.
Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says,
WD, snowflakes melting maybe.
The fantastic Walter Kirn nails it (with reference to my WSJ post).
Walter Kirn
??@walterkirn??
The authorities and the incurious corporate press are belatedly acknowledging the truth about COVID so they can repair their reputations sufficiently to lie to us about new things.
The gnu’s poll is our.
Preferred Premier: Perrottet takes lead in NSW election poll (Sky News, 27 Feb)
The Libs can’t possibly win with a primary vote same as Labor’s. PHON voters will likely exhaust but Greens will lockstep flow to the Liars.
Too early. Newspoll is out, not our.
Only just started first coffee.
Laura Tingle should immediately withdraw from the ABC director process & endorse Indira Naidoo.
How dare a white woman of privilege try take a role from a woman of colour.
Rank hypocrisy.
In everything is racism news.
James Bond classics to feature new trigger warnings after being edited to remove ‘racism’ (26 Feb)
“James Bond books such as “Live and Let Die” and “Octopussy” have been rewritten to suit a “modern” audience ahead of 007’s 70th anniversary this year. All of Ian Fleming’s masterpieces containing the charming spy are going to be reissued in April to mark 70 years since the release of the first Bond book – “Casino Royale”.
Dilbert cancelled after creator’s racist warning to get ‘f*** away’ from black people (26 Feb)
“America’s largest newspaper publisher Gannett revealed it would stop publishing the comic just days after Scott Adams’ comments. The comic strip, known as Dilbert, was axed by 77 newspapers in September amid growing concerns about a number of controversial storylines.”
Their loss. Fortunately he doesn’t need the newspapers these days, so he can join J K Rowling in leading a cancelled life in glorious freedom.
“Hopefully the social media platforms will now ban the WSJ after publishing this crazy, racist lab leak conspiracy theory.”
For almost three years, various brave people across the West were censored, banned, pilloried, smeared, defamed and ridiculed by the MSM, by social media platforms, by politicians, by government bureaucrats and so on. Why? Because these brave people dared to propose the lab leak theory, because these brave people dared say that the wearing of masks was useless, because these brave people dared to speak up against lockdowns, because these brave people dared to speak out against vaccine mandates and so on.
There were thousands of people who bravely stuck their necks out to question the “official” Covid narrative and for their sins they have paid a heavy punishment. Here are some local names…
1. Sharri Markson, for doing what any good journalist should do, which is to investigate stories. Markson was one of the first journalists to go public with the lab leak theory and for her sins she was ridiculed and smeared on Media Watch and in the Malcolm Guardian and in Nine Newspapers.
2. Alan Jones, always the bugbear for the left, for questioning lockdowns and mask wearing, and for bravely speaking up for ordinary Australians who’d lost their livelihoods during lockdowns, he then lost his gig on Sky because the organisation panicked and capitulated after it was put in Youtube purgatory for a week, after Youtube had been solicited to do so by two creepy ex-PMs of this country.
3. The Outsiders crew, Rita and Rowan, summoned to Canberra to appear before a senate hearing because they refused to kowtow to the “official” Covid narrative.
4. Craig Kelly, daily lampooned, ridiculed, and targeted by the left for his Covid insolence, set up by Labor and the Greens in a gotcha hit job. Called a “nong” in front of the cameras by a real nong by the name of Plibbersh*t. What did Scumbag do? He sided with Labor and the Greens against one of this own.
Of course, there were hundreds of other ordinary Australians who bravely stuck their heads above the parapet, particularly those in the one party state of Victoria, only to be bashed, beaten, and bludgeoned by the Victorian ALP/Greens paramilitary unit, once known as the Victorian police.
Will any of these people ever receive an apology? I won’t hold my breath. It’s very easy to censor, ban, pillory, smear, defame and ridicule, it’s not so easy to apologise. Apologising takes guts and that’s in short supply in this country now.
I get a “not available” message on Will’s Dilbert link.
Cassia, excellent summary.
Apologies at that level will mean compensation for loss Cassie. Won’t happen. The sums in play would be immense.
But you’re right. Most apologies these days are of the sorry, but you made me do it type. Which aren’t really apologies at all, just a rehash of the original “offence”.
Great comment Cassie.
I’m still quietly seething over the whole COVID debacle but I won’t let it distract from me going about my daily life now.
However, whenever I’m in the company of any fwit who verbalises their love and support for the COVID tyranny we went through I am very vocal in my condemnation and contempt for them – I will not suffer these cretins sprouting their evil garbage.
As for Channel Seven…Sunrise has been switched off in this house since early 2021. I will never forgive them for their “Red filter of panic” and their foul, biased reporting of the presidential elections.
Ben Lee’s song will go down in infamy as the most infantile propaganda ditty ever, as well as the idiotic height/mask “rules”. I will never forget or forgive being barred from church only to return to sitting apart and muzzled, unable to sing or even speak, while celebrities lived it up elsewhere.
And who can forget the way the unions sided with the government against their members?
From the Daily Mail article. 1800 comments so far.
Actor Woody Harrelson took a jab at COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccines during his opening monologue on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, only to have Elon Musk jump in Twitter and suggest he was correct.
In his monologue, Harrelson, 61, likened pharmaceutical companies to drug cartels, and quipped that they hatched a plot wherein they bought up media and politicians then forced the world to stay at home unless everybody took their drugs.
The monologue was met with mixed reactions, with some saying it fell flat, others finding it humorous, while some decried Harrelson’s words as anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Agree with Calli about the Unions. If they had stood up and said enough to the jabs the politicians would have come to their senses. I can understand support for first two but after that no.
try again:
I get a “not available” message on Will’s Dilbert link.
Are you black?
(Just kidding.)
All good, Will. Facebook doesn’t like me. I have never joined. 😀
Cassia,
One point about Sharri Markson. She was good on Lab leak but not so good on vaccine mandates. Saw a clip of her talking about Vax and it was up there with Kochie.
But…if I go to dilbert.com, I get today’s piece of arguing magnificence.
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Paul Ryan Will Skip Republican National Convention if Trump Wins Primary (25 Feb)
A flouncing match between he and Harry Spare would be a neck and neck contest.
Correct on every aspect Calli. I know the competition is intense but I nominate Koch as the most repulsive thing on tv.
“Bourne1879says:
February 27, 2023 at 8:03 am
Cassia,
One point about Sharri Markson. She was good on Lab leak but not so good on vaccine mandates. Saw a clip of her talking about Vax and it was up there with Kochie.”
I’m not saying they were all in lockstep about everything. They don’t have to agree about everything. But I’ll say this about Sharri Markson, she is what is now a rare bird (pardon the pun) in the journalism profession, she’s a true journalist who actually…shock and horror… investigates stories. And for her efforts she was smeared, ridiculed and defamed by the usual suspects.
Hard to dispute.
Donald Trump Jr.
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Just so we understand this is the leader of the left’s new religion, Ukraine. He replaced Lord Fauci who replaced goddess Greta as the leader of the leftist lunacy movement. Give him all of your money forever it doesn’t matter how much or for what… the Gods have spoken!
Scott Adams is John Galt
“However, whenever I’m in the company of any fwit who verbalises their love and support for the COVID tyranny we went through I am very vocal in my condemnation and contempt for them – I will not suffer these cretins sprouting their evil garbage.”
That’s exactly how I am.
Yes, indeed.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
There it is – the dumbest damn comment of the week.
There are several types of apology:-
.1 The NRL apology. Read from a sheet of paper in monotone, it screams “Not sorry. Just doing this because of sponsors”.
.2 The political proxy apology. The solemn apology for something someone else (usually associated with your opponents) allegedly did decades ago.
.3 The conditional apology. Always commences with “If anyone has been offended …”, implying that there may not even be an injured party and, if there is, they are hyper-sensitive.
.4 The “you made me do it” apology.
….
K Rudd was a master of .2 and .3.
DOJ: Google Destroyed Chats It Was Required to Save During Antitrust Investigation
But I expect nothing will actually happen.
George
@BehizyTweets
Here’s why #ArrestKatieHobbs is trending worldwide
Spot on.
Avi Yemini
@OzraeliAvi
Woody Harrelson sums up the Covid scam perfectly
And the media’s reaction to Harrelson’s “joke”.
Yes, because Russia’s going to attack the U.S.!
Condoleezza Rice warns GOP candidates against pulling back from Ukraine: ‘These conflicts always come home’
No equality under equity
Hanni
@HanniPunished
The Tunisian government’s declaration of its intent to deport all black immigrants has prompted controversy. News outlets have rushed to asked average citizens their view on the matter.
Here is what this senior tunisian gentleman had to say.
I wouldn’t get on the Woody Harrelson band wagon. He’s a stoner with some very nutty ideas, mind you, he is a very good actor.
Meme
Certainly sheds light on Kari Lake’s lawsuit, since Hobbs both controlled the election apparatus and was the “successful” candidate.
Exercise more effective than medicines to manage mental health, says study
Saw a clip on Twitter of West Coast Eagles merrily getting their first jab and encouraging everybody else to get it.
Wonder how many had since.
From memory, his father was a hitman and killed several people.
Harrelson’s monologue was fascinating, but it’s the reaction that tells the true story.
Even when they think they’re being smart, they reveal the truth. One of the comments under Avi’s clip: Why would they let him on Tv to do it ?
It’s acknowledgement of suppression of alternative ideas that aren’t in lockstep with government and the MSM. The big mistake in their eyes – it went to air uncensored. This is where the thinking of many people is at present. Lies hate to be challenged, while the truth can take on all-comers.
Dystopia Down Under: Facial Mood-Tracking CCTV Cameras Deployed at Mardi Gras Pride Parade
Gez, I suspect Harellson was considered “safe”. Until he wasn’t.
Even Balaam’s donkey saw the avenging angel. The ass that whipped it didn’t.
Farmer Gez,
The Woody thing is significant for the media it is attracting. He does mention his liking of weed a lot in the monologue but it all leads up to the drug cartel comments at the end.
Reminded me of the great segment of Jon Stewart on Steve Colbert show talking about Wuhan lab which was hilarious.
Farmer Gezsays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:31 am
I wouldn’t get on the Woody Harrelson band wagon. He’s a stoner with some very nutty ideas, mind you, he is a very good actor.
As long as he isn’t a cooker.
I should give you a reference for that. It’s Numbers 22:21-39.
A curious story, and instructive when we’re tempted to blame the messenger rather than look closely at the message.
The plan to wreck America
Mike Whitney
In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000.
The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media, the political establishment and all of our important institutions.
In recent years we have seen these oligarchs expand their influence from markets, finance and trade to politics, social issues and even public health. The impact this group has had on these other areas of interest, has been nothing short of breathtaking.
Establishment elites and their media not only stood foursquare behind Russiagate, the Trump impeachment, the BLM riots and the January 6 fiasco, they also had a hand in the Covid hysteria and the host of repressive measures that were imposed in the name of public health. What we’d like to know is to what extent this group is actively involved in the shaping of other events that are aimed at transforming the American Republic into a more authoritarian system?
In other words, are the mandated injections, the forced lockdowns, the aggressive government-implemented censorship, the dubious presidential elections, the burning of food processing plants, the derailing of trains, the attacks on the power grid, the BLM-Antifa riots, the drag queen shows for schoolchildren, the maniacal focus on gender issues, and glitzy public show-trials merely random incidents occurring spontaneously during a period of great social change or are they, in fact, evidence of a stealthily orchestrated operation conducted by agents of the state acting on behalf of their elite benefactors?
We already know that the FBI, the DOJ and the intel agencies were directly involved in Russiagate -which was a covert attack on the sitting president of the United States.
So, the question is not “whether” these agencies are actively involved in other acts of treachery but, rather, to what extent these acts impact the lives or ordinary Americans, our politics and the country?
But before we answer that question, take a look at this quote from from a recent interview by Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
“I was reading a document that was authored by George Soros over 10 years ago in which he talks specifically about this all-out war that would ultimately come against Russia because, he said, this ‘was the last nationalist state that rests on a foundation of orthodox christian culture with Russian identity at its core. That has to be removed.
So I think that the people who are in charge in the west and the people in charge in Washington think they have successfully destroyed the identities of the European and American peoples, that we have no sense of ourselves, our borders are undefended, we present no resistance to the incoming migrants from the developing world who essentially roll over us as though we owe them a living and that our laws do not count.
Thus, far I would say that is an accurate evaluation of what we’ve been doing. And I think that’s a great victory for George Soros and the globalists, the anti-nationalists; those who want open borders what they call it an “Open Society” because you end up with nothing, an amorphous mass of people struggling to survive who are reduced to the lowest levels of subsistence … (Soros) even goes so far as to talk about how useful it would be if it was east Europeans whose lives were expended in this process and not west Europeans who simply won’t take the casualties.
This is not a minor matter. This is the kind of thinking that is so destructive and so evil, in my judgement, that that’s what we’re really dealing with in our own countries and I think Putin recognizes that.” (Douglas Macgregor – A Huge Offensive”, You Tube; 11:20 minute)
The reason I transcribed this comment from MacGregor was because it sums up the perceptions of a great many people who see things the same way.
It expresses the hatred that globalist billionaires have toward Christians and patriots, both of which they see as obstacles to their goal of a borderless one-world government.
MacGregor discusses this phenom in relation to Russia which Soros sees as “the last nationalist state that rests on a foundation of orthodox Christian culture with Russian identity at its core.”
But the same rule could be applied to the January 6 protestors, could it not? Isn’t that the real reason the protestors were rounded up and thrown into the Washington gulag. After all, everyone knows there was no “insurrection” nor were there any “white supremacists”. The protestors were locked up because they’re nationalists (patriots) which are the natural enemy of the globalists. The MacGregor quote lays it out in black and white. Elites don’t believe that nationalists can be persuaded by propaganda. They must be eradicated through incarceration or worse. Isn’t that the underlying message of January 6?
And that brings us back to our original question: How many of these oddball events (in recent years) were conjured up and implemented by agents of the deep state to advance the elitist agenda?
This seem like an impossible question since it’s hard to find a link between these dramatically diverse events. For example, what is the link between a Drag Queen Children’s Hour and, let’s say, firebombing a food processing plant in Oklahoma? Or the relentless political exploitation of gender issues and the January 6 public show trials? If there was a connection, we’d see it, right?
Not necessarily, because the link might not have anything to do with the incident itself, but instead, with its impact on the people who experience it. In other words, all of these events could be aimed at generating fear, uncertainty, anxiety, alienation and even terror. Have the intelligence agencies launched such destabilizing operations before?
Indeed, they have, many times. Here’s an excerpt from an article that will help you to see where I’m going with this. It’s from a piece at The Saker titled “Operation Gladio: NATO’s Secret War for International Fascism.” See if you notice any similarities with the way things have been unfolding in America for the last few years:
Repeat: the first phase of political activity ought to be to create the conditions favoring the installation of chaos in all of the regime’s structures… This destruction of the state must be carried out under the cover of (communist) activities…. Popular opinion must be polarized in such a way, that we are being presented as the only instrument capable of saving the nation.
In other words, the objective of the operation is to completely disrupt all social relations and interaction, cultivate feelings of uncertainty, polarization and terror, find a group that can be scapegoated for the wide societal collapse, and, then, present yourself (elites) as the best choice for restoring order.
Is this what’s going on?
It’s very possible. It could all be part of a Grand Strategy aimed at “wiping the slate clean” in order to “transition away from intergovernmental decision-making” to a system of “multi-stakeholder governance.”
That could explain why there has been such a vicious and sustained attack on our history, culture, traditions, religious beliefs, monuments, heroes, and founders. They want to replace our idealism with feelings of shame, humiliation and guilt. They want to erase our past, our collective values, our heritage, our commitment to personal freedom, and the very idea of America itself. They want to raze everything to the ground and start over. That is their basic Gameplan writ large.
The destruction of the state is being carried out behind the cover of seemingly random events that are spreading chaos, exacerbating political divisions, increasing the incidents of public mayhem, and clearing the way for a violent restructuring of the government.
They can’t build a new world order until the old one is destroyed.
Combine facial recognition with digital ID and they will know your every move.
About time. From Indolent’s link:
They should have just said Trotskyist. Make people look it up.
Indolentsays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:35 am
Dystopia Down Under: Facial Mood-Tracking CCTV Cameras Deployed at Mardi Gras Pride Parade
According to the story, the crowd was estimated at 12,000.
Remember when we were told of the huge masses attending Mardi Gras years ago? I seem to recall figures around 100,000 plus. Yet with all the babble about “Pride Month” and overseas visitors, only 12,000 at the parade this year? Shirley they weren’t exaggerating in previous years? Say it ain’t so.
This includes a chart of the U.K. deaths per 100,000 per month during 2022 with vaccination status. It occurs to me that the decrease in the number of deaths for the triple vaxed later in the year might be because people stopped taking the third dose at some point.
When you were distracted by the Nicola Bulley Tragedy the UK Gov. sneakily published a report proving COVID Vaccination Kills & increases risk of Death by up to 276%
They can find (create?) a study for absolutely anything, can’t they.
A lack of problem-solving skills and rigid thinking linked to vaccine refusal, study finds
Indolentsays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:27 am
Hanni
@HanniPunished
The Tunisian government’s declaration of its intent to deport all black immigrants has prompted controversy. News outlets have rushed to asked average citizens their view on the matter.
Here is what this senior tunisian gentleman had to say.
Interviewer – Have you met any of them>
STG – Excuse Me?
Interviewer – Have you met them?
STG – Have you met them?
STH – My Grandpa used to buy and sell them and you ask me if I have met them?
Of course he is, all parents are communists *at home*, but particularly women, who are the traditional home managers. This is one major reason why women, on average, vote to the left of men – their historical role is to *redistribute* food brought home by their man, ensuring that the smaller children also get fed, not just the bigger ones.
The difference is, *outside* the home (the mans traditional domain), *is* a meritocracy because the mans genes benefit by him competing for resources to bring home to his children.
‘Laboratory Leak’: Department of Energy Updates Its Conclusion on COVID’s Origin
Better late than never: the slackers at the Paywallian online have finally posted today’s John Spooner.
OldOzziesays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:40 am
The plan to wreck America
Mike Whitney
In America, we have an oligarch problem, and it’s much bigger than the oligarch problem that Putin faced when he became president in 2000.
The entire West is now in the grips of billionaire elites who have a stranglehold on the media, the political establishment and all of our important institutions.
Fascism is the politics of oligarchs. Useful idiots like m0nty=fa support them because they expect socialism, but they will get fascism.
Media drop Dilbert after creator’s Black ‘hate group’ remark
Robert W Malone, MD
@RWMaloneMD
Rhetorical question with obvious answer.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
A rally for peace was organized in Paris to demand France’s withdrawal from NATO and the cessation of arms supplies to Ukraine.
Indolentsays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:52 am
‘Laboratory Leak’: Department of Energy Updates Its Conclusion on COVID’s Origin
Even makes Main Web Page of The Australian
Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19: US agency
The Energy Department, previously undecided on how the virus emerged, joins the FBI in saying Covid-19 likely spread via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory.
*Every*Single*Institution* that should have protected the people from the COVID tyranny failed to do so – most not only went along with it, but actively participated in it
The Police
The Courts
The Media
The Unions
Our elected ‘representatives’
Private Businesses, especially large ones
The professional bodies, medical and teaching in particular
‘Experts’ of every ilk
The great bulk of our neighbours, work colleagues, family members
etc etc etc
Super Tony.
Faster than a depreciating retirement fund,
able to leap gas prices in a single bound,
Look up in the sky, is it a turd? has it a brain? It’s Super Tony!
ht Spooner
Of course not, the terms are mutually exclusive.
Equity = same outcome regardless of input
Equality = same access, hence more productive people get more
Or, as per the education analogy,
Equality = every student gets the same exam
Equity = every student gets the same mark.
“Energy Dept” ?
Can someone explain to me how this fits in their remit?
And in the end it’s only Endless War.
Ok – try here for unpaywalled: Energy Dept was reporting on a National Intelligence upadte, and is responsible for advanced biology labs in the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/26/covid-virus-likely-laboratory-leak-us-energy-department
Golly, I wonder which side they support? Really hard to tell.
A ray of light ?
flyingduksays:
February 27, 2023 at 9:09 am
No equality under equity
Of course not, the terms are mutually exclusive.
Equity = same outcome regardless of input
Equality = same access, hence more productive people get more
SAmong the political, academic, and media supporters of “equity” over “equality of opportunity”, I don’t notice a great deal of enthusiasm for their remuneration and retirement benefits being set at the national average for each.
It was always a lie.
All you had to do was measure the route, multiply by two (for both sides of the road) and….bingo! There was no way even shoulder to shoulder crowds could manage that number.
Simples: the ‘war on covid’ was simply a target of opportunity, an exercise if you will, in preparation for the real war, the war on the people, and as history has shown, the real targets in war are:
The food supply
The fuel supply
The transport system
The electricity system.
*ALL* 4 above are being attacked by the green movement.
I draw the line at individuals. Most were frightened out of their wits by the list above.
Sure they were sheep, but the wolves had them herded.
Musk, Russian Journo: U.S. HAS Declared World War III
BY ROBERT SPENCER
How close are we to World War III? Newsweek reported last Sunday that Igor Korotchenko, a Russian journalist (which essentially means a spokesman for the Russian government), “has claimed on state TV that the U.S. has declared war on the country following reports of the White House’s approval of targeted strikes on Crimea.”
What? The United States declared war on Russia? Korotchenko was basing his statement on “a previous statement made by the U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.” Then on Wednesday, Elon Musk tweeted: “Nobody is pushing this war more than Nuland.”
The UK’s far-Left Independent ridiculed Musk for this on Thursday with an article entitled, “Elon Musk mocked for claiming ‘no one’ pushing Ukraine war more than US diplomat: ‘Putin for example?’”
Yet there is good reason to believe that Musk is right.
Newsweek quoted Nuland saying that “Washington supports Ukrainian attacks on military targets on the peninsula and has called for it to be demilitarized. Crimea was illegally annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.”
Crimea’s population is largely Russian, and the Kremlin believes it to be rightly theirs. Consequently, attacks on Crimea could be the flashpoint that make the Russia-Ukraine war into World War III.
That was why Korotchenko declared, “After the U.S. crossed every imaginable and unimaginable red line, today the U.S. State Department actually announced that it was going to war with Russia. I assume that this is how we should interpret Nuland’s statement. There is no need for halftones. The U.S. is an enemy of Russia, a military adversary.”
He added: “If it expects massive missile strikes on Russian territory to be carried out with their help, but as if by someone else’s hands, then perhaps we can regard this as a casus belli (cause for war) and react accordingly.”
However, numerous Western analysts think this is all just bluster. One of them, Michael Clarke, a professor in the War Studies department at King’s College London, dismissed Korotchenko’s statements: “This is just more bluster and repeats things being said on the channel at regular intervals.”
Maybe so. But is it just more bluster from the Biden regime?
Victoria Nuland is a longtime Washington insider who oversaw the 2014 revolution in Ukraine that led to the installation of the current regime, which has so many questionable ties to the Leftist establishment in the U.S., including suspicions of money-laundering.
Would Nuland, therefore, have an interest in preserving and protecting that Ukrainian regime, even to the point of sparking a war between Russia and the United States?
Would an American official advocate for going to war on such a flimsy pretext?
Well, there are precedents. On Friday, the investigative journalist who goes by the name “Kanekoa” tweeted: “Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, wrote an open letter to George W. Bush nine days after the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001, urging him to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein ‘even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack.’”
The letter to Bush, of which the chief signer was the infamous Trump-hating neo-Democrat William Kristol, states: “We agree with Secretary of State Powell’s recent statement that Saddam Hussein ‘is one of the leading terrorists on the face of the Earth….’ It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States. But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism.”
The Iraqi government hadn’t aided in the 9/11 attacks, and Saddam wasn’t among the chief sponsors of international terrorism.
But the invasion went ahead anyway, with disastrous results both for Iraq and for the U.S. Now, Kagan and Nuland might be the George and Kellyanne Conway of the foreign policy establishment; they might not see eye-to-eye on Iraq, or Ukraine, or anything else. But there is certainly good reason to believe that Nuland, at the very least, is part of a coterie of foreign policy “experts” who are happy to see war come, for the benefits they perceive it would bring.
These people have learned no lessons from the debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, and have been casting around now for a new source of income for the military-industrial complex, now that the catastrophe in Afghanistan has ended what was once a profitable cash cow.
Are they hoping to get us into World War III? The possibility cannot be ruled out.
The most disillusioning phenomenon of my life.
Even thinking back on the worst of it, being the schlockdown and clot shot hysteria of the second half of 2021, it’s a struggle to believe that it actually happened and that I somehow managed to emerge with my sanity intact (although many would no doubt dispute this).
My greatest fear is that it will (inevitably) happen again. It had better not. After having the last three years of my life effectively obliterated I’m in no mood to tolerate such hitlerist idiocy again.
Never forget, never forgive.
Reading from the Wiki page, it looks as if their “remit” slops over into a heap of R&D labs and other non-energy areas.
Most likely – this department has been used to “break” the story officially so it can be walked back.
This, from the Guardian:
See what they’ve done here?
Indeed, yet if you denounce the greenfilth as evil hitlerist misanthropes (BIRM) the subsequent screeching is audible in space.
Biden’s Ukraine Serenade
This President’s Day, our president was overseas promising money to the Ukrainian president, while Donald Trump offered aid and comfort to American victims in East Palestine.
By Roger Kimball
Once again, Elon Musk nailed the zeitgeist, or a least a hefty portion of it, in a meme he tweeted. The image shows a soda dispenser. Two spigots are visible, blue on the left, red on the right. The index and middle fingers of someone’s right hand are pushing buttons to dispense blue and red fluid, respectively, into a single cup.
A label on the left dispenser reads, “Laughing at WWIII memes.” On the right, the label reads, “Kinda being worried about WWIII.”
Is there any sane person who, contemplating what is happening in Ukraine, does not share that ambivalence?
Until recently, worries about nuclear Armageddon seemed so 1950s and ’60s. Ancient history. The era of “duck and cover.” That “public service” film started life in earnest but in time became a joke. A comment on an internet posting of the clip summed up the attitude: “When I watched this film in grade school in the ’50s, I believed I’d soon be dead, crispy-fried. I just watched again here and laughed so hard I couldn’t finish.”
Why the laughter? Partly because everyone realizes that crouching under a desk with your hands over your head will not afford much protection against a nuclear blast. (Hence the frequent, somewhat rude addendum to the precautionary instructions: “Crouch down under your desk; put your head between your legs; kiss your ass goodbye.”)
Decades went by. There was no nuclear attack. Therefore there would never be a nuclear attack. That was the unspoken if faulty logic.
There are several different currents of thought and sentiment that make up the dominant consensus. One flowed from the doctrine of deterrence and “mutually assured destruction.” That seems to have worked for decades, bolstering both faith in the doctrine and the widespread forgetfulness about the stakes behind the policy.
At the same time, critics have pointed out that “MAD” was an appropriate acronym for a doctrine that seriously contemplated incinerating tens or hundreds of millions of people. Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove” (with its biting subtitle “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”) gave a darkly humorous voice to that recognition. Most people, I suspect, are divided in their minds, recognizing the potential enormity of the doctrine while appreciating the wisdom of Benjamin Jowett’s comment that “Precautions are always blamed. When successful, they are said to be unnecessary.”
The drama unfolding in Ukraine has palpably affected public sensitivity about a possible nuclear exchange. Lots of websites are advertising, or warning about, “the return of ‘Duck and Cover.’” Many politicians, mostly but not exclusively on the right, are warning about the prospect of “World War III.” And entities like the World Health Organization are advising people to stock up on medicines that can help protect against “radiological catastrophe.”
Such anxieties have been in circulation to some extent ever since the United States began its ostentatious support of Ukraine shortly after Vladimir Putin attacked that country a year ago. At first, the wise men who teach us “what is what” said Russia would easily crush that former Soviet state. But the Russian army showed itself to be a bumbling mess while the Ukrainians fought stalwartly for their country. Almost overnight, the regime narrative turned itself inside out. Now Russia was sure to lose, and soon.
That hasn’t happened. Indeed, although the United States has sent more than $100 billion in aid to Ukraine, the war on the ground grinds on in its bloody way, chewing up men and matériel. According to some estimates, 150,000 Ukrainians are dead. The Russians are poised to mount a huge new offensive. One estimate says there are 700,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s Eastern border. As the West wrings its hands and tightens sanctions against Russia, the Chinese are reported to be about to supply lethal weapons to Putin even as they, along with India and other states, are availing themselves of discounted Russian oil and natural gas.
For his part, Putin has deployed ships armed with tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years. He has also pulled Russia out of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a decision that, according to Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General, dismantles “the whole arms control architecture.”
The fact that Putin controls more than 6,000 nuclear weapons is a sobering fact that has been mentioned regularly ever since his latest round of aggression against Ukraine began a year ago.
At first, it seemed little more than a data point, as people who might be aghast at Putin’s aggression nevertheless wondered what America’s national interest in Ukraine might be and whether the United States—deeply, irresponsibly in debt—should really be funneling so much money to Ukraine, a besieged but also a deeply corrupt country.
This past week, Joe Biden paid a surprise visit to Ukraine.
Rumors that his son Hunter asked him to pick up his missing paychecks are, of course, just vicious conservative taunts.
Questioned about public support for U.S. spending on Ukraine, Joe Biden suggested that most people are behind it, except for “right-wing Republicans” and “the MAGA crowd.”
At the same time that Joe Biden was serenading Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kiev, Donald Trump was visiting the people of East Palestine, Ohio, which was reeling from the effects of a terrible toxic catastrophe after a freight train derailed and caught fire. Some observers noted the irony that on President’s Day, the U.S. president was visiting and promising money to the Ukrainian president while Donald Trump went to a local disaster in the United States and offered aid and comfort to American victims.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) spoke for many when he observed that “you can either be the party of Ukraine & the globalists or you can be the party of East Palestine & the working people of America.”
For many, that is the choice we are facing. The introduction of nuclear weapons into the calculus only sharpens the dichotomy.
Wall Street has its eyes set on Ukraine
By Charles Gasparino
Wall Street really wants to invest in Ukraine, and some of the top players are doing more than sniffing around at the prospects.
The world’s largest money-management firm BlackRock continues to hold high-level meetings with the government, including President Volodymyr Zelensky. JPMorgan recently had bankers on the ground scoping the situation as they dodged Russian missiles, I am told.
The country is ripe for massive private US investment to rebuild infrastructure destroyed in its conflict with Vladimir Putin. Zelensky is a rock star in the American media; the country is valiantly fighting off a foreign invader. The people are educated and resilient, which means returns could be as good there as any place on the planet. Banker talk has a private investment fund at between $20 billion and $100 billion at some point in the future.
So what’s stopping the private money from coming in now? A war that shows no signs of ending anytime soon. Plus, for all of Zelensky’s obvious talents as a leader, he still hasn’t demonstrated an understanding — or possibly a willingness — to fight corruption on the scale necessary to make investors comfortable, bankers tell me.
The meetings between some of Wall Street’s top executives (think Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan and Larry Fink of BlackRock) and Ukraine officials over the past month didn’t garner the same attention as President Biden’s surprise visit last week. The discussions have been going down mostly in private and without much fanfare when they conclude.
But they are revealing. The perilous nature of our continued engagement with this country doesn’t just involve a possible nuclear war with Russia but also an economic sinkhole if we’re not careful.
Wary of oligarchies
For starters, in these meetings, Zelensky seemed unabashed in his request for billions of dollars in private capital to begin rebuilding his economy immediately. Yet he doesn’t seem to fully grasp what will prevent such an investment.
First, money won’t flow to Ukraine (or any country) if it seeds the pockets of a Russian-style oligarchy.
In Ukraine, that brand of crony capitalism goes by the names “systema” or “oligarkhiya.” It’s an alliance of government and big business that undermines the free-market forces of competition. Payoffs and graft are part of the systema, and that’s always a dead end for significant private capital.
Zelensky said he understood the economic stakes of ending corruption. But deeds go further than words, which is why one banker involved in the process told me: “There are no guarantees here.”
Then there’s the war, and Zelensky’s so-far unyielding determination to keep fighting in order to retake all territory occupied by Putin’s forces.
It’s a noble effort, to be sure, but it comes at a steep price. Bankers say private investment money won’t really flow until the war is over.
They would love Zelensky to compromise on land to make that happen; maybe give up on retaking Crimea or allow Putin to save face and keep a few parts of the Donbas region in the east, which are nominally controlled by Russian separatists anyway.
There was some talk on Wall Street about a Ukrainian spring offensive and, if it’s successful in reclaiming some Russian-held territory, then Zelensky offering a possible deal with Putin so the reconstruction can begin. For now at least, that was described as a likely no-go by Ukrainian officials; Zelensky’s approval rating is at 90%, the bankers were told. It sinks to 40% with a land compromise.
Here’s where things get particularly fraught. Bankers got the impression from these conversations that Zelensky believes there is an endless supply of American money, despite the United States’ economic reality of massive and mounting debt (123% of GDP) and a looming recession that makes paying all our bills that much more difficult.
Last week, Sleepy Joe Biden told Zelensky that “freedom is priceless.” That may sound good, but common sense tells you that such blank checks often come at the expense of needs here at home.
JCsays:
February 27, 2023 at 8:35 am
Farmer Gez says:
February 27, 2023 at 8:31 am
I wouldn’t get on the Woody Harrelson band wagon. He’s a stoner with some very nutty ideas, mind you, he is a very good actor.
From memory, his father was a hitman and killed several people.
That was Ryan Reynolds head prefect. Get your movies right.
Oops! Polish Media Accidentally Publishes Video of Zelensky with His Doppleganger Body Guard
The body double looks exactly like Zelensky in the video except that his pockets are not weighted down with billions of US dollars like Volodymyr’s.
The body double is reportedly Zelensky’s bodyguard.
Joe Biden flew to Kiev last week for a photo op with Zelensky on the first anniversary of the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine.
Joe Biden and Zelensky never flinched, neither did the crowds around them, when sirens went off during Biden’s visit.
Former Secret Service Agents: Secret Service Would Have Evacuated Joe Biden if the Kiev Air Raid Sirens Were Real (VIDEO)
I am not so charitable – their craven compliance ruined my children’s future….
Racism laid bare. Imagine saying this about black people. Generalisations are gross.
Imagine this being said about literally any other race. Every person in this video would lose their job. They’d rightfully be called racists. They’d be shunned. If they say it about white people they get praised by the left. We can’t continue this madness.
The Amish 13% IQ summed up in this 55 Sec Video
‘Wheel of Fortune’ contestant stuns audience with answer fail: ‘What!’ | New York Post
Oh its going to happen again (it still is – the real war is the green war). Only serious violence ends this, millions in the streets, heads on pikes etc. We in the West have not suffered anywhere near enough for that to happen yet.
Totalitarianism is a cancer that just keeps growing until it kills the host. History is very clear on this.
I am sure ABC TV said the 2023 Mardi Gras crowd was in the “hundreds of thousands”. But the footage never showed anything other than a tight street view.
Add this to the endless list of fake news items.
Thanks for posting this article.
Far – FAR – too many Pacific Islanders in the competition. The league is smart enough not to F around and find out with those boys.
Now, if the players were mostly gormless, post-Christian skips…
Bill Maher tells “welcome to country” wankers to STFU:
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1629849595194003456
Drag queen story hour is for everyone!
Okey dokey.
Oh its going to happen again (it still is – the real war is the green war). Only serious violence ends this, millions in the streets, heads on pikes etc. We in the West have not suffered anywhere near enough for that to happen yet.
Totalitarianism is a cancer that just keeps growing until it kills the host. History is very clear on this.
Correct. The green war has absorbed the race war and the other woke garbage. Alarmism works so well as a justification: saving the planet is the ultimate justification and accusation against those who disagree.
And its true the sheeple are still too comfortable, although blackouts will change that very quickly. But the other crucial variable today which is different is the population. Basically WW11 was run by a small number of Nazis as a % of the total kraut population; same with communism. Today the population is so much bigger so the population threshold for opposition may come sooner. But most folk who knowingly oppose the green commies still believe the system can do it; even Trump.
The Albanese communist government moves to shut down the No case on Twitter:
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 26, 2023 at 9:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMMVJOrgd0
Housing, in Alice Springs.
Zulu,
Heartbreaking living conditions FORCING Alice kids onto the streets
A local housing projects builder (and former cop) has described the living conditions of indigenous families in Alice Springs as “absolutely horrendous” and said that there’s a reason kids don’t want to be home and prefer life on the streets
As he says at 39 secs – “Sexual Offenses against Children, Women, I’ve been to jobs where 4 months old & 7 month old babies have been r@ped by grown men in their 30’s & 40s in environments like that”
As one of the Comments says
– This is no different to certain parts of Sydney.
Redfern, Maroubra and Mt Druitt all have houses that look like this. I’ve, unfortunately, had to go inside them for work.
People choosing to live like this is more prevalent than you think.
I’ve spoken with Elders in the aboriginal communities that have pointed out each and every pedo that lives among them. It was terrifying how many there were.
They are provided with free health care where nurses and doctors will come to their homes and conduct health checks. The female nurses/doctors mustn’t travel or visit the houses alone as they are in danger of sexual or physical assault from the males.
Teenagers have babies because their dole increases and they never report that they are in a relationship because you get more money if you’re single.
There are holes punched into walls and fires lit in their lounge rooms, then they complain that Housing takes too long to fix it.
Money gets thrown at them and all costs of living are covered by Government and things just keep getting worse as each new generation comes along and grows up in a society where this is the norm.
There is no incentive to better yourself, no reason to work. Why would they?
And you wonder where your Australian Taxpayer Monies are dissipated – Reality of Alice Springs or any Aboriginal Community Environment – 9 Mins 28 Secs – Heartbreaking
While Elbowsleezy attends Madi Gras Pride Parades and pushes the Voice
If you had told 10yo me I would be prevented from having a coffee in a cafe or a beer at the pub or going to work because I did not get a vaccine nobody would have believed you. And no one will be held to account for it – ever.
Therapeutic Albanese – there for the gays NOT for Olivia.
The Prime Minister was praised from one end of the ABC to the other for walking the Mardi Gras route last night.
But a day later, appears he couldn’t be f-ed turning up to the State Memorial for Olivia Newton John.
“The Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles is in attendance, representing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who was unable to attend due to commitments in Sydney” – News Ltd reports.
I know which duty mattered the most – but he could easily have done both.
Olivia Newton John is only one of the most prominent Australians to have died in the last year, a Dame, a high achieving entertainer, and an extraordinarily generous lady to charitable causes.
Well done Therapeutic Albo – once again proving, he’s a low class opportunist and not a statesman.
By the way, if you’re curious about where he was …he was carrying out the crucial duty of appearing on The Project.
And human fertility.
This seems to be an overt strategy, with five prongs, in order of first appearance:
1. Feminism and women’s lib
2. Attack on marriage
3. Climate scares, causing fearful lefties not to have kids
4. Covid and the mRNA vaccines
5. Radical transgenderism and “gender affirmation”, since tranny fertility is extremely low
The Malthusian view of the Left never went away, and is especially strong in the green-progressive movement.
I awoke and found myself in the 60’s.
“Education union demands defunding of non-government schools”.
Don’t sneer – arseless chaps will try anything if he believes there is a vote in it.
He is fascinating. Minority Government, but he believes that pissing on the majority will ensure his political future.
The laws permitting this are still on the books.
SITREP 2/26 – Urgent Update
Simplicius The Thinker
5 hr ago
I had been slowing working on a much longer piece which was set to release today. But I must interrupt it briefly for an urgent, quicker update.
Today it has been confirmed by reputable sources that the AFU has attacked Belarusian soil—specifically a drone attack on a Russian early warning A-50U Beriev plane parked in Machulishchi airbase, just outside of Minsk. The UA side claims the A-50U was damaged, while there is no confirmation from the Russian side.
Another Detailed Assessment from Simplicius The Thinker
Well, his wife IS a doctor.
Who does he think will miss him?
OldOzziesays:
February 27, 2023 at 10:39 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 26, 2023 at 9:55 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agMMVJOrgd0
Housing, in Alice Springs.
Zulu,
Heartbreaking living conditions FORCING Alice kids onto the streets
FMD! Every liar/filth pollie and every 3rd nation activist and their media sycophants should be…well I don’t know what should happen to them, but nothing good. This is an entirely man/woman/lbqwoke problem. They have caused this. Rub and tug should be stripped naked and tied to one of these hovels. Disgusting!
The enormity of characterising a procedure following a miscarriage as an abortion. Disgusting and disgraceful.
I want to say the same almost every time I hear that inanity. I want to tell them to give back what they own if they feel so strongly about it.
The indigenes have not thought this through either. If the Europeans and other newcomers are gone who will feed, clean, clothe, house and nurse them?
As should several activists -Lidia Thorpe and Noel Pearson are two names that spring to mind.
I’m not holding that against him.
She was a singer.
Not sure why her husband was dressed in a Star Trek poncho, by the way.
But a day later, appears he couldn’t be f-ed turning up to the State Memorial for Olivia Newton John.
Albo is a vile and snivelling POS.
After seeing that horrific attack on a white girl in an Alice Springs school I think we will see an exodus from NT.