Saturn Devouring his Son, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636
I’m not sure McSweeney is Test standard at the moment. He could be down the track, but not now. Throwing…
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I agree. The platforms themselves need to isolate Australians as a group. The screams of fury would be audible on…
I’ve been short sighted right and long sighted left since birth. Brain made neuroadjustments and I had no idea it…
In that case the board know what to do.
Since we are urged not to use our air conditioners for the next few days why haven’t we heard anything…
He’s like a bollard in a footpath.
Incapable of self reflection, learning, adaptation.
One of his poor kids could be Trans Butchered and he’d ride it all the way to the bitter end, and then interpret the disaster as being caused by societies lack of acceptance.
This is just extraordinary. How is this tolerable?
The Death of Dissent
If anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
By Julie Kelly
March 20, 2023
The lead prosecutor in charge of the January 6 investigation, the largest probe in Justice Department history, just confirmed what American Greatness has reported for months: the number of criminal cases related to the Capitol protest is expected to at least double before it’s all over.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, an advisor to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign who took over the powerful office in late 2021, sent a letter to the chief judge of the D.C. District court warning up to 1,200 more individuals could face charges.
“We expect the pace of bringing new cases will increase, in an orderly fashion, over the course of the next few months,” Graves told Beryl Howell, who ended her term as chief judge last week. Graves’ office just surpassed 1,000 total defendants in what he renamed the “Capitol Siege” investigation—which means the final caseload might well exceed 2,000.
Graves also indicated his team would ramp up the number of felony indictments; the overwhelming majority of charges so far are low-level offenses, including the laughable “parading in the Capitol” misdemeanor. The Biden regime clearly wants to juice the numbers before the 2024 election season.
And Graves isn’t wasting any time. Eight people have been charged since March 1, including a married couple from Indiana arrested on a civil disorder felony and four misdemeanors.
The D.C. federal courthouse is monopolized by January 6 hearings and trials on a daily basis; one judge announced he would retire rather than deal with January 6 cases for the next several years.
In addition to ruining the lives of thousands of Americans for mostly nonviolent participation in the events of January 6, the Justice Department is accomplishing a more sinister goal: criminalizing and silencing political dissent in America.
I warned two years ago, as Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutors bastardized a post-Enron law in an attempt to turn political protesters into lifelong felons, that January 6 would be used in this manner.
News of the imminent arrest of Donald Trump demonstrated the degree of the regime’s success
After NBC News reported that law enforcement agencies were preparing for unrest following the announcement of state charges against Trump in the Stormy Daniels saga, Trump responded on Truth Social. “[THE] FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK! PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” Trump wrote on March 18.
Trump followed up with a second post: “WE MUST SAVE AMERICA! PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”
Before January 6, 2021, an American political leader who called for mass protests would not be heard as calling for violence. Trump, in fact, did not encourage his followers to behave violently. He merely—and perhaps unwisely, given the current Gestapo-like conduct of the FBI and federal prosecutors—asked his supporters to protest the unprecedented act of arresting a former president and current candidate for president.
But his social media posts were enough to cause traumatizing flashbacks among the ruling class. The easily traumatized Washington Post columnist Philip Bump weighed in immediately. “The things that made Jan. 6 dangerous were a call to action and a time and place for that action to take place [sic],” Bump tweeted on Saturday morning, conveniently omitting that Trump urged peace during his speech on January 6. “It’s not just that Trump is again demanding a response, it’s that he’s telling people when.”
Iraq War booster David Frum, partially responsible for decades of deadly violence around the globe, insisted that Trump “and his supporters proved on January 6, 2021, their readiness to use violence to defy the law.” Vox claimed Trump’s posts were an “echo of the capitol riots of January 6, 2021.” Salon writer Areeba Shaw said Trump’s “extreme rhetoric” on Truth Social “echoed similar language he used at a Washington rally shortly before the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
“It’s almost like he’s attempting to organize his domestic terrorists to show up and to resist him being arrested,” Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) warned. Waters infamously encouraged Democrats in 2018 to “create a crowd” to publicly harass Trump Administration officials.
By Monday afternoon, in order to advance optics to support the January 6 comparison, the New York Police Department began installing steel barricades around the Manhattan criminal courthouse, the site of the expected announcement. Politico reported that Capitol Police this week planned to erect “bike-rack type fencing” around the Capitol building—because that worked so well on January 6.
Republicans, understandably, cautioned against plans to protest, not over manufactured fears that another “insurrection” would occur but legitimate fear of how any protest will be criminalized by the Biden regime.
“We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s [sic] planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted over the weekend.
She later warned of likely infiltration by undercover agents or informants. “How many Feds/Fed assets are in place to turn protest against the political arrest of Pres Trump into violence?”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) also downplayed Trump’s calls for protests and appeared to help Trump walk back his own statements. “I don’t think people should protest this, no. And I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe that, either,” McCarthy said during a Sunday press briefing. As if referring to January 6 himself, McCarthy urged “calmness” in response to Trump’s arrest.
Regardless of the disparate responses from both political sides, the clear winner here is the Biden regime, and the Justice Department in particular.
The ongoing manhunt for Trump supporters is yielding victories of all sizes, not the least of which is the elimination of once-cherished rights to petition the government and redress grievances without being considered a domestic terrorist.
And if anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
You are overthinking it and setting your sights too high. Train them, like dogs; it is the only way. Shock collars are probably useful.
He’s funny!
Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations, says researcher
by Richard Denniss, The Conversation
The Ponds Institute just keeps on going and going, like a brain dead whale.
Someone should send him a DVD of his epic faceplant in debating Monckton.
??Putin: “UK announced not only the supply of tanks to Ukraine, but also depleted uranium shells. But I would like to note that if all this happens, Russia will have to react accordingly.”
dover0beach says:
March 22, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Asian Crime Report
@activeasian
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Mar 20
ACR Exclusive: Mob of juveniles stomp and kick on an 18 yr old man at Stonestown Mall.
This is just extraordinary. How is this tolerable?
No Wonder American African Americans are called Gorillas & Monkey, they look like they have just swung out of the Jungle, and that probably is why their IQs are below that of a Simian
The Guys jumping in the air to land with 2 feet on the Guy on the Grounds Head. don’t even deserve to be called Animals – there must be something lower
That’s why Whites in America (Scott Adams eg) don’t want to live with African American Animals like that – Sons of Obama
I suppose not much different to Darwin Bottleshops
“Mob of juveniles stomp and kick on an 18 yr old man at Stonestown Mall.”
Despicable. The guy that stomps his head against the ground half way through.
It really is extraordinary how nasty and vindictive left-liberals have become towards, largely, women of the Left that are opposed to sex/ gender self-ID and its effects on women’s space, activities, etc., which is why the painting at the top of this thread is apposite.
Clubhouse leader
This is interesting
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10519-022-10130-x
Published: 15 December 2022
Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation Effects
Olakunle A. Oginni, Kai X. Lim, …Frühling V. Rijsdijk Show authors
Behavior Genetics volume 53, pages 118–131 (2023)Cite this article
Abstract
Only one study has examined bidirectional causality between sexual minority status (having same-sex attraction) and psychological distress. We combined twin and genomic data from 8700 to 9700 participants in the UK Twins Early Development Study cohort at ?21 years to replicate and extend these bidirectional causal effects using separate unidirectional Mendelian Randomization-Direction of Causation models. We further modified these models to separately investigate sex differences, moderation by childhood factors (retrospectively-assessed early-life adversity and prospectively-assessed childhood gender nonconformity), and mediation by victimization. All analyses were carried out in OpenMx in R. Same-sex attraction causally influenced psychological distress with significant reverse causation (beta?=?0.19 and 0.17; 95% CIs?=?0.09, 0.29 and 0.08, 0.25 respectively) and no significant sex differences. The same-sex attraction???psychological distress causal path was partly mediated by victimization (12.5%) while the reverse causal path was attenuated by higher childhood gender nonconformity (moderation coefficient?=??0.09, 95% CI: ?0.13, ?0.04).
Cutest milling machine of the week!
(A little Atlas, from the days when Americans could purchase quality made in USA products at affordable prices.)
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/lutana/miscellaneous-goods/milling-machine-/1310015127
Vicious internecine warfare has always been a mark of the Left.
Reckless endangerment for starters. Anyone doing this deserves time in jail whatever the result of the act.
That being said, we’ve seen with Nicola Sturgeon that when this issue goes mainstream it can bring down political leaders.
OldOzzie says:
March 22, 2023 at 12:14 pm
The Death of Dissent
If anyone thinks conditions will improve soon, just wait until this same Justice Department indicts Trump for “inciting” the events of January 6.
From the Comments
– The terrorists in the democrat party have attacked and stormed 5 state capitols since Jan 6th. They stormed the WH in 2020
Has there been a single charge? NOPE.
– Excellent points. The relentless, criminal, sadistic persecution of Donald Trump by the Democrat Party is the stuff of straight jackets and rubber rooms. And it is only escalating.
I fear that if Trump is arrested and booked, he may not survive. The Brandon regime is now firmly ensconced in power. It isn’t going to let the 2024 presidential election or Donald Trump get in its way.
– If they Epstein him, sh!t is gonna hit the fan.
And the media will screech with glee if they get to report Trump being dead.
And wow, it will be time to sue for the “National Divorce” then.
– If the s h i t hits the fan, it will be squashed. The federal government is organized, financed and armed to the teach. Gun toting dummies will be rounded up and disappeared.
The Brandon lunatic asylum is here to stay and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
It will be up to the states to denounce the renegade federal government and then go their own way.
– Who would be so stupid as to directly face off with the feds unless you were a BLM or ANTFA rioter?
– The two tiered “justice system” moves forward: the left riots, vandalizes, burns loots and destroys with impunity while the right has to “lay back and enjoy it”….wonder who’s winning?
Sliced so thin as to be next to transparent.
On Pesutto:
In calling on the party room to back his move to have Moira Deeming turfed from the parliamentary party, it reminds me very much of when Turnbull walked into the party room, called a spill and lost the vote.
Thanks DOT. Not sure, do these values lack sufficient power to draw conclusions?
but otherwise I haven’t seen any evidence for this claim.
Challenge 1: Find one bit of footage showing what Monty claims “he didnt see”
Challenge 2: Prompt Monty to view it
Challenge 3:????
Challenge 4: Monty decries the violence against the lady unequivocally
Sure, but I don’t see this as a political struggle for power of office. For one thing, Pesutto’s kneejerk reaction, Mitchell’s concern for the feelings of ‘trans-people’, and the like indicates that this is broader than the political Left, and that this is really about the protean character of liberalism asserting itself against its former self.
Donald Trump, Regime Foe
We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against the former president.
By Roger Kimball
The funniest thing I have read in, well, at least the last several hours, comes from Manhattan’s George Soros-funded affirmative-action district attorney, Alvin Bragg. Responding to the uproar that greeted Donald Trump’s all-caps Truth Social warning that he would be “arrested” on Tuesday, Bragg sent ’round a memo to his staff informing them, and the world, that “This office is full of the finest public servants in the country.”
The comedy didn’t end there, however.
“I am committed to maintaining a safe work environment where everyone is able to continue to serve the public with the same diligence and professionalism [!] that make this institution so renowned. In the meantime, as with all of our investigations, we will continue to apply the law evenly and fairly . . .”
What a card! And, yes, that’s my emphasis but his credulity-breaking bluster.
“Evenly and fairly,” forsooth. Everyone knows that Alvin Bragg does not apply the law at all evenly or fairly. Favoring and disfavoring certain groups is what he is famous for doing. It’s his standard operating procedure. When it comes to your common or garden variety violent thug, especially those of a swarthy disposition, Bragg is the Angel of Mercy.
Last year, Bragg reduced the majority of felony charges that were brought before him to misdemeanors while at the same time targeting people like the bodega employee who fought back to protect himself after being assaulted by one of those common or garden variety thugs.
Will Donald Trump be “arrested” this week? I wouldn’t be surprised. Minions of the state at every level have been working overtime to neutralize Trump for years.
Remember the Russia collusion delusion? The feds fabricated that long-running entertainment. Its result? To expose the senility of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who declared under oath that he was unfamiliar with the organization Fusion GPS. Then the Democratic-controlled House impeached Trump not once but twice, first because he spoke to the president of Ukraine on the phone, then when some of his supporters gave themselves an impromptu self-guided tour of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Various authorities were slavering over the prospect of inspecting Trump’s tax returns only to discover when they finally got their hands on six years worth—O sadness!—that there was nothing incriminating there.
If Bragg dials down felonies for certain groups and individuals, he is perfectly prepared, when his masters in the Democratic Party so desire it, to dial up misdemeanors into felonies for others. That is what seems to be happening with Trump.
If the former president is right that he is about to be arrested, what is the crime? It’s supposedly a “campaign finance violation,” the sort of thing that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—who I believe still holds the record for the biggest fine exacted for such naughtiness ($375,000)—are old hands at practicing.
Except Trump’s supposedly campaign finance violation wasn’t really a campaign finance violation but a clandestine payment of $130,000 made to “Stormy Daniels,” née Stephanie Clifford, via Trump’s former-lawyer-turned-snitch for services that may or may not have been rendered by said Stormy.
There was a lot of he-said-she-said swirling about that relationship, whatever it was, including a court order that Daniels reimburse Trump $300,000 for a failed defamation suit she brought against him.
It should be noted that just because Donald Trump says that he will be arrested this week doesn’t necessarily mean that he will be. The New York Times has cast doubt on the timing and exactly what is likely to happen. Almost everyone outside the most fetid fever swamps of anti-Trump mania thinks that the indictment, if it happens, is a patently political move and a gross violation of Trump’s due process rights. Even National Review, no friend of the former president, has been ringing alarm bells, calling Bragg’s planned indictment a “disgrace.”
Many writers also note that were Trump actually to be arrested, it would be a big boost for him in the polls. Elon Musk, also a Trump skeptic, spoke for many when he said, should Trump be arrested, he would win the 2024 election “in a landslide victory.” Musk might well be right. Certainly, it would both harden and extend Trump’s base of support.
Section nine of Article I of the Constitution says that “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.” Bills of attainder were used and abused by the English crown to target specific people or groups of which it disapproved. If a person was “attainted,” his civil rights were forfeit. He became a pariah. His property could be seized, and he could face imprisonment or execution.
We don’t acknowledge that we promulgate bills of attainder in this country, but that is essentially the judgment that has been pronounced against Donald Trump.
It was the aim of Robert Mueller’s darkly farcical investigation, the purpose of Trump’s two impeachments, and the aim of the kangaroo court known as the House’s January 6 Select Committee, Liz Cheney (D-Georgetown) presiding. Her work there, she said, was to make sure that Donald Trump never got near the Oval Office again. I think it was only a rumor that Cheney had special copies of the Constitution printed with an addition to Article II providing her with a veto over who was allowed to be president of the United States.
Donald Trump has been singled out, he has been attainted, by the ruling elites of this country.
As Michael Anton pointed out last summer, “The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again.” What will the deep state do to prevent Trump from winning? Anton sketches several possibilities from having Trump declared ineligible because he allegedly sparked an “insurrection” on January 6, 2021 to simple cheating at the ballot box.
Then there is Plan F.
What happens then? Well, in the words of the ‘Transition Integrity Project,’ a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become ‘a street fight, not a legal battle.’ Again, their words, not mine.
But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.
I think that is eminently possible. And while I would rue the day it happened, I also believe that groveling and capitulating because you are intimidated by the possibility would be even worse.
Lysandersays:
March 22, 2023 at 11:42 am
It should have 0% as a start.
There will be a few of those.
Follow the money.
House Judiciary Committee Issues Blistering Report Condemning DOJ, FBI for Targeting Concerned Parents
The Republican-led Committee on the Judiciary and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government issued an interim report Tuesday on the Department of Justice’s aggressive actions and investigations into parents who dared to voice concerns about local school boards.
The committee made no bones about its conclusions, headlining the document in hold and all caps:
A “‘MANUFACTURED” ISSUE AND “MISAPPLIED” PRIORITIES: SUBPOENAED DOCUMENTS SHOW NO LEGITIMATE BASIS FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ANTI-PARENT MEMO
The committee began its investigation in October 2021 after members learned of the issuance “of a memorandum from Attorney General Merrick Garland directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and all U.S. Attorney’s Offices—among other Department components—to examine and address threats posed by parents at school board meetings.”
The FBI went on to routinely investigate parents who criticized school boards, including a father for simply opposing mask mandates and a mom deemed a threat for “owning guns” and belonging to a conservative parent group called “Moms for Liberty.”
Throughout the report, the committee describes the stonewalling and lack of response from Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Administration.
Nevertheless, members were able to glean enough information from whistleblowers, subpoenaed documents, and a report commissioned by the National School Boards Association (NSBA) which labeled parents as “domestic terrorists” to write the interim account:
From the initial set of material produced in response to the subpoenas, it is apparent that the Biden Administration misused federal law-enforcement and counterterrorism resources for political purposes.
The Justice Department’s own documents demonstrate that there was no compelling nationwide law-enforcement justification for the Attorney General’s directive or the Department components’ execution thereof.
The document then describes how regional FBI offices and local law enforcement often were not pleased with the DOJ’s interference and thought the entire effort was “misapplied.” In one instance the Southern District of Alabama reported to DOJ headquarters about a shooting at a school board member’s house—although the shooting had nothing to do with the school board and was the result of random gun violence.
So if there were few real threats from parents to local school boards, why did the FBI respond in this ham-handed fashion? The committee concludes that it was all political:
It appears, from these documents and the information received previously, that the Administration’s actions were a political offensive meant to quell swelling discord over controversial education curricula and unpopular school board decisions. [Emphasis mine.]
They even imply—but don’t come right out and say it—that the DOJ’s overreach could have been an attempt to influence an important election:
The Attorney General’s directive came just weeks before a pivotal gubernatorial election in Virginia, in which education policies were hotly debated and a local school board’s actions were under intense scrutiny. The inference from the initial tranche of subpoenaed documents is that the Justice Department’s actions were a reaction to these political circumstances rather than a legitimate law-enforcement response to any serious, nationwide threat.
The report rips the Justice Department in its final paragraph:
The use of these resources chills protected First Amendment activity as parents rightfully fear that their passionate advocacy for their children could result in a visit from federal law enforcement.
Correlation study
Dr. John Campbell
That appears to be a common thread Dot: mental illness.
‘I Just Want to Feel Like Myself,’ Tearfully Admits America’s Most Famous ‘Trans Kid’ Jazz Jennings (21 Mar)
“There are a lot of deeply disturbing and unlikeable members of the trans cult. Jazz Jennings is not one of them. He was transitioned by his mother at the tender age of five. By the age of eleven, Jazz was on puberty blockers. At 17, even though a minor, Jazz underwent multiple genital surgeries to remove his penis and have it inverted. This process was botched and several attempts were made to remedy it, but the reduced size of Jazz’s penis due to years on puberty blockers made an already brutal surgery even worse.
Jazz has since suffered from mental illness, rapid weight gain, pain, constant reflux, a lack of sex drive, an inability to orgasm, and anxiety. And not unlike the Truman Show, it all happened in front of the cameras for a global audience. Were Jazz to want to escape from this reality, there is nowhere he could go where he could begin again in private, away from prying eyes.
Jazz has now broken down (on camera, of course) and spilled his heart to his mother that, despite it all, he doesn’t feel like himself. It is a moment many of us saw coming but hoped for the sake of this severely traumatized and abused child wouldn’t. God help everyone involved in this unspeakable crime that was done to this innocent person who is suffering in front of us all.”
Poor kid. Dante’s hell is going to need another circle for parents that do this to their sons. At age five! I have two trannies in my extended family, both of whom were fat and ugly…then got hooked by the idea of transitioning. I don’t know if it helped, but I suspect the result isn’t giving them the mental peace they were hoping for. At least they started out as girls originally, not boys.
Check out this interview. That idiot Ferguson starts of saying Australia is a free an open society…pigs arse it is. The last 3 years prove that. As for the press here?…cough.
Taken from the Cossack channel:
Russian Ambassador clashes with ABC host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGjLmk_oac
Now even INSECT farming is cruel
First, they didn’t want you to eat meat.
Then they decided that farming plants, too, causes global warming. Hence the farmer protests in Europe.
Now they even are questioning the ethics of farming insects.
Dirt. You must eat dirt. Except, perhaps, that too is unethical, because dirt has microbes.
Insects are strange, wondrous beings. Butterflies can see parts of the light spectrum that are invisible to human eyes and use these ultraviolet patterns to find their way to tasty plants. Moths use the Earth’s magnetic field to orient themselves on journeys of hundreds of miles. Bees waggle their butts to tell their hive-mates where to find a juicy stash of nectar. Insects live in our world—or humans live in theirs—yet we inhabit completely different sensory universes.
But just as we are starting to understand insect senses, something is shifting in the way we treat these creatures. Insect farming is booming in a major way. By one estimate, between 1 trillion and 1.2 trillion insects are raised on farms each year as companies race to find a high-protein, low-carbon way to feed animals and humans. In terms of sheer numbers of animals impacted, this is a transformation of a speed and scale that we’ve never seen before.
What has happened to scholarly standards in Hobart?
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history/2023/03/the-posthumous-lynching-of-william-crowther/
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Lizzie:
In the short term, yes.
I think it will find a floor around the $2800/oz mark as people move in and out of the market. I’m holding off for the next week or so to see what happens in the US, although I suspect some pressure up as the Biden crime cartel creates more mayhem to keep their name off the front page.
There will be a few of those.
Follow the money.
Alway amazing how malleable lefty views are when there’s a few $ floating around.
Principally I think because they’ve no hope of making decent money by normal means. They’re basically unemployable.
Diversity,. Inclusion, Equity. DIE mofos!!
Monty
AKA a strong woman.
Obviously you have a problem with that.
Almost guarantee not all will be of the left.
“[about to lock up their boy Trump for illegally paying off a porn star for a one night stand while his third wife was home suckling their baby]”
No M0nty – nothing illegal about it. You can argue the ethics of what is alleged to have happened if you like, but the legalities are quite clear. She was going to make it all public – true or not (and both now deny it happened!) Trump paid her “go away” money with a non-disclosure agreement attached. Perfectly normal and legal thing to do for a “public” person to avoid the negative publicity involved in a trial – and Trump could easily argue that, at the time, his business interests (including his “sale-ability” as a TV celebrity) needed such protection.
Payment was made as advised by his legal team – through their office, to obfuscate the source (again, for protection against adverse publicity, and “standard” for such payments). There is arguably a misdemeanor regarding business records of the payment Trump made to his legal team, which has a statute of limitations of 2 years (well past).
The ONLY way this can be illegal is IF (really, really big if!), the NY DA can show the payment was an “in kind” political donation – a position that the Federal Elections Commission believed they could not support at trial at the time. If, and only if, NY DA can “prove” this “in kind” donation, then he can upgrade the misdemeanor business records charge to a felony, which has a statute to limitations of seven (7) years – which is just about up, so it’s basically now or never for NY DA.
So, what do you think?
You think the NY DA has a better idea of what is applicable with respect to federal elections law than the Federal Elections Commission? I find that to be untenable on its face – rather like suggesting your average solicitor can win a tax case for you, when the tax specialist QC says it’s unlikely you can win. IMO, it would certainly be a rather devastating blow to the DA when it is revealed in court that the FEC investigated the event and didn’t even attempt to indict Trump for the exact same thing – even more so when you realise that the people running the FEC at that point were Obama appointees!
Like I said, they don’t WANT it to go to trial, they want an indictment and then they want it tossed out on procedural grounds – that way, they can say it was never heard and he got off on a technicality. Rather like what they did to Kyle Rittenhouse – they claimed he was NOT found innocent, just “not guilty” (ignoring that these are the only two options the court has – no-one is EVER found innocent, just “not guilty”!) This will be the exact opposite of what they claimed re: the election cases, the majority of which were thrown out for procedural reasons, not on the basis of the evidence. It’s all “optics”, you see – make him look bad, and take the view on the specifics of the legalities that most disadvantages Trump. Helped by their “elite” churnalist (sic) mates.
They still think that the MSM can shape the story to their advantage, apparently not concerned that public trust in the MSM is at an all-time low in the US – the average American trusts politicians more than the MSM!
Sorry, I think this will backfire bigly, if they are so foolish as to do it. And, bar a few, they are foolish enough to try, I reckon. We’ll see if those few can bring some sense to situation, but I rather doubt they can do so now – it’ll just have to play out.
He’s a joy.
Jeremy Clarkson: A Tory BBC? Everyone I met there in 25 years was flaming red (19 Mar, via Instapundit)
RTWT. If only…if only someone could write something like this about the ABC.
Cory Bernadi has a lot of common sense in his weekly newsletter:
There’s so much going on in the world it’s hard to know where to look.
Maybe that’s the point. By changing gaze to the latest shiny object we are distracted from the substantive issues we should be paying attention to.
Trump’s possible arrest, banking collapses, inflation, transgenderism, identity politics and so forth, are all symptoms of the real problem which the political and media elites hope we’ll miss.
The most significant problem we have is the parlous state of the Western world.
It is dysfunctional, chaotic and on the verge of collapse.
America is a deliberately divided and corrupt political swamp. The UK is a failing society. Canada is ruled by an tyrant. France is now operating by Presidential decree and New Zealand is a cot-case of wokeness.
Around the world, democratic freedoms and the rule of law are being replaced by authoritarianism and most people haven’t even noticed.
As for Australia, our politics is dominated by left-wing ideologues – even in the centre right political parties.
The latest example is the proposal by Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto to expel MP Moira Deeming from the Liberal Party room.
Her ‘crime’ was to speak at a ‘let women speak’ rally which was gatecrashed by a bunch of men with waxed legs and shaven armpits claiming to be representing National Socialism.
They gave the NAZI salute as they marched in front of Victoria’s parliament house.
Their attendance had absolutely nothing to do with Deeming but that doesn’t matter to John Pesutto.
Instead, he compiled a dossier of ‘offences’ by those linked to Deeming by virtue of her support for the ‘let women speak’ event.
This ‘dossier’ doesn’t include scandalous claims Pesutto made on national television about associations with David Duke of the Klu Klux Klan and others.
Those claims were taken directly from the Internet journal of no-repute, Wikipedia. They are completely false.
What sort of a political leader seeks to expel one of his own party on the basis of a Wikipedia entry without seeking to confirm it first?
You can make your own assessment but here’s mine.
In Pesutto’s eyes, anyone remotely connected with someone remotely connected to someone with terrible views is guilty of an offence and should be expelled from public life.
It’s worth pointing out that a lot of what Pesutto has presented as fact has been denied. Time will tell if what he says is true but I don’t think it matters.
Pesutto is finished. If the motion to expel fails he is finished. Even if it succeeds, he is finished.
A high school industrial arts teacher who has been charged with allegedly scuffling with a student in the classroom has copped ‘countless amounts of verbal and physical abuse’ over his career, supporters have claimed.
Michael Kable, 62, was arrested on Tuesday night following reports a pupil at Maitland Grossman High School, in the NSW Hunter region, had been assaulted in class about 2pm.
Daily Mail
He’s a joy. (Jeremy Clarkson.
Agree, BoN.
He’s a car aficionado, outspoken conservative. and a farmer.
What’s not to love?
A rational society would have arrested Soros and Gates, tried them for treason and malarkey, then hung them years ago.
Fully concur.
The last couple of weeks have seen the gold price fluctuate wildly on the back of US bank crises, .gov fibs about inflation levels and wholesale profit taking.
I also agree with Robert Sewell (above) that the spot price will steady around the $A2800 mark.
Ammunition is still reasonably priced if you have some spare cash lying around.
Latham doesn’t flinch. From The Oz….
Latham responds to ‘triggered’ protests and criticism
The riot squad were called after more than 500 people turned up to protest outside St Michael’s Church in Belfield where One Nation MP Mark Latham was invited to speak about religious freedoms.,
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has responded to independent MP Alex Greenwich’s comments about him following the clash that broke out between peaceful protestors and a large group of people.
“I would say to Alex Greenwich, who is one of the instigators of what happened last night with those protestors, tell your people not to blockade roads, tell your people not to try and deny entry to churchgoers to their sacred place of worship,” he said.
“Put them on the footpath, they can wave their placards, they can chant their anti-Latham chants till their blue in the face but don’t provoke and trigger the sort of violence that we saw there last night.”
NSW Police said the protest was meant to be violent but that it turned into a “very violent event”.
“There was no indication that this was going to be a violent event at all, we had sufficient resources for the information that had been gathered, we had worked with the event organisers, we had worked with the protestors,” Superintendent Sheridan Waldau told media today.
“It was only a very small group of protestors and the church has also spoken to their congregation and the people attending to ensure that no violence would occur.
“The police were standing directly in front of the protest group to protect them.”
When the situation escalated, Superintendent Waldau said police were able to gather the resources it needed to deal with the incident.
“At this stage we don’t believe there will be any further incidents in relation to this, this was an isolated incident in relation to that particular event,” she said.
“The protestors were removed from the scene for their own safety by the police and as far as know there will be no further incidents involving this group.”
I’ve just voted….for One Nation. I already have NO regrets.
Go One Nation.
Perhaps Mark Latham go become the new Victorian Opposition leader, because that’s how you respond to the left.
Botoxing your stomach may not be a great idea.
And botoxing your stomach in a Turkish hospital really really isn’t a good idea.
(via Instapundit)
Russian Ambassador clashes with ABC host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGjLmk_oac
Agree, Steve – that the last three years prove that Australia is far from a free society.
But I think that the Russian ambassador was poorly prepared for the interview. It may be that his English was not up to the requirements of the debate – but, heavens, he IS an ambassador! Ferguson had him on a platter & relished the meal. She is a red hot interviewer & you just have to be at the top of your game to deal with her.
A staggeringly stupid one who’s political career (if it could be dignified with such a term) now exists on borrowed time.
Victoriastanian Gliberals – the roadside wombats of Ozzie politics.
“whose political career”, FFS …
Drag Queen Empire.
This is heartbreaking. It is savagery like this that can lead to a race war, or at least to a racial separation.
Kneel, I think I will wait to see the charges before critiquing them. Don’t forget that the money to pay Stormy Daniels off was allegedly connected to a slush fund paid into by shadowy foreign figures. I wouldn’t dismiss the charge sheet before seeing it.
It was always the most obvious, outrageous and blatant crime that Trump pulled. It would be a failure of the US legal system if they couldn’t pin it on him.
FlyingDuk:
Something to watch out for is the registration rules especially for nurses. I was crook for a couple of years and because I hadn’t worked in the public system for 18 months, my registration was revoked. To regain registration in the Qld system, I had to do a degree course and NONE of my 32 years as an RN were counted in prior experience. As I was 61, I felt taking on a 30 – 40k fee was a frigging joke and told them to shove it.
So why the rule? Well a 12 year+ RN is paid about $103k while a 1st year RN is $80k. That’s a saving of $23k per year. (+ shift loadings etc) And that’s all that administration cares about. Patient safety is secondary and senior level staff burnout is a benefit.
“Have you ever seen a twenty dollar note all crumpled up?” asked the wife. “No” I said. She gave me a sexy little smile, reached into her cleavage and pulled out a crumpled twenty dollar note. “Have you ever seen a fifty dollar note all crumpled up?” she asked. “No” I said. She gave me another sexy little smile, reached into her knickers and pulled out a crumpled fifty dollar note. “Now” she said “have you ever seen $63,000 dollars all crumpled up?” “No” I said, intrigued. “Well, go and take a quick look in the garage”.
Kneel:
The clean out of the American stables is going to be a Herculean effort – if it can be done.
I like the allusion to Proteus – we are seeing it on all sides now, and not just on the Left. It has permeated every institution and organisation. It may be that the family unit is the last stronghold, so no wonder the pressure point is greatest there.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
– Neil Armstrong
Any Cats who are opposed to Covid vaccine mandates and continued spruiking of the vaccines, and who are voting on the weekend, might consider the following candidates:
Dr. Phillip Altman (Independant, Manly)
Dr. My Le Trinh (Liberal Democrat, Castle Hill)
Most of you will know about Phil’s background, but Dr. Trinh has apparently been suspended for her medical views & is standing as Liberal Democrat for Cattle Hill.
Ha! Dr. Trinh standing for CASTLE HILL.
Quite so. Being smacked in the chops by someone you thought would turn the other cheek will give them pause.
Try a softer target cowards.
It was always the most obvious, outrageous and blatant crime that Trump pulled. It would be a failure of the US legal system if they couldn’t pin it on him.
Hey MontyPox Virus. What crime? Please give us your best legal opinion. OR Shut The Fark Up.
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I’m utterly speechless. So I’ll let my typing fingers do the talking.
My parents just told me they’ve had their fifth dose of vaxx. When I asked why, they said they thought it would be a good idea. They hadn’t even been encouraged to do so by their doctor.
This after many…many conversations about vaxx efficacy and risks. And even after Dad’s hideous and ongoing autoimmune reaction which has involved endless visits to the doctor for treatment.
Shoulda gone to Specsavers. You missed the uptick by “that” much!
allisays:
March 22, 2023 at 2:26 pm
I’m utterly speechless. So I’ll let my typing fingers do the talking.
My parents just told me they’ve had their fifth dose of vaxx. When I asked why, they said they thought it would be a good idea. They hadn’t even been encouraged to do so by their doctor.
This after many…many conversations about vaxx efficacy and risks. And even after Dad’s hideous and ongoing autoimmune reaction which has involved endless visits to the doctor for treatment.
That is very sad to hear Calli. I am 70 years young and have never had the Jab and never will. I fee fine although I do get a hangover every now and then. Don’t know why though………..lol
The teenager who allegedly stabbed a bottle shop worker in Darwin on Sunday night after being refused service of alcohol had been released on bail for aggravated robbery and aggravated assault just over a month ago.
Why are Bottle Shop workers required by Law to refuse service to intoxicated people?
The purchasers aren’t consuming the Alcohol on the premises, and for all anybody knows, they could be doing early Christmas Shopping?
This man is now dead, how many similar tragedies have happened, and how many more will happen because Virtue Signaling Nanny Government requires them to act as unpaid Policemen?
Monty is very funny. A billionaire paying $130,000 to a lady to get her to sign a confidentiality agreement is small change, especially when he gave his whole salary to charity for four years. Biden isn’t. That’s a tell.
If having it off with a loose woman is a jailing offence then most of the Democrat Party would be in jail. And most of the Labor Party.
You all assume m0nty says things because he believes them to be true. He doesn’t. He works quite differently. He writes things because he thinks it will annoy you, and he enjoys getting a rise out of you. And it works, thus developing his addiction.
Most of you can’t see this; you are concerned with truth and want to pursue it, and you assume everyone else is the same. Language, for m0nty, isn’t about articulating truth, it’s about power and control. If he can piss you off, that’s demonstrating his control over you. He’s hooked on it.
You might find it hard to believe anyone can be that vaccuous, but he is.
And I enjoy biting chunks off of him.
Trolls taste like chicken.
Calli:
That’s not naïve, Calli – it’s good thinking.
Gold stored in banks can be taken by the government – it only takes a declaration of a state of emergency covering currency to allow them to do it. Even if you have it in pool allocation storage with a Bullion Company, the same thing applies. The State can take your gold etc and issue you with a fancy bit of paper that states it is now worth $x and when the ’emergency’ is over (and the dollar is now worth $sfa) you can buy it back.
“If You Allow Government to Break the Law in an Emergency, It will Create an Emergency in Order to Break the Law.”
Lisa Simpson.
(No one thought our rulers would lock us in our houses over a simple flu season, did they?)
Why are Bottle Shop workers required by Law to refuse service to intoxicated people?
The purchasers aren’t consuming the Alcohol on the premises, and for all anybody knows, they could be doing early Christmas Shopping?
Are you even on Planet Earth? FFS, you are a real Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment (if at all).
T.W.A.T
was allegedly connected to a slush fund paid into by shadowy foreign figures
“Wussia, Wussia, Wussia LIVES!!!!!!”
You fat brain injured spastic.
Oh Calli, I am so sorry to hear about your parents.
It must be heart breaking, not to mention terrifying for you.
The only reason I was glad Mum had dementia is because I could make every decision regarding her health.
Damn, Calli. 🙁
Daily Mail.
So Trump’s payment represents 0.00722% of the campaign fund (noting it didn’t come out of campaign funds).
Verily, a rounding error.
Indolent:
No relation.
Birds are racist.
Washington Post Frets Over the Racism of Birds Since We Have No Other Problems to Address (21 Mar)
I’m grief stricken. All this time my Cafe birds have been hiding this ghastly fact from me.
Farmer Gez what are the chances of Anne Webster weighing in?
You’re flattering him.
132andBush sputters:
at 10:16 am
There’s nothing that monty likes to see more than a woman shut down from speaking.
Yeah, except …
while Moira Deeming was giving a speech, Avi Yemeni was conducting a loud interview 5 metres away with Kelly-Jay Minshull on the topic of John Pesutto’s shortcomings in particular and the Liberal Party’s generally.
“They’re supposed to be conservatives, aren’t they?” snorts suspected Trot Minshull, as the hapless and terminally stupid [giving her the benefit of the doubt here] Moira Deeming rambles on about some non issue no one gives a shit about.
Other than, perhaps, to see her punched.
Yeah, just on that:
Who, exactly, was punched [and knocked out].
Kelly-Jay Minshull doesn’t say, but my guess is that it wasn’t one of her crew, it was a dopey Socialist Left drone who tried to unmask one of the Boxers and got knocked out for her trouble.
NewsCorp could follow this angle up, but don’t hold your breath waiting.
‘Proscuitto’ perfect name because he’s such a ham.
Tinta, the other half noted how tiny he is – all this huff and puff could be small man syndrome.
On Ch 92 GEM is a very good programme about the Jewish peoples who are now living in the UK and how they got there.
On another note.
Friend of the family died last week, very good mate of dads and an absolute legend.
A few vignettes, starting with the last.
While lying dying in hospice last week he had his son in attendance, finaly he said to his son “this is it, I can feel myself fading a bit, I dnt think Ill be with you in the morning”.
Son went home and returned early the next day, there was M lying a rest, eyes closed and peaceful.
His son went over to the bed just in time for M to pop his eyes open and crow “Im BAAAAACK”
….
Son of a wealthy Pom landholder (attended the same school as King Charlie) M was the “spare” and expected to follow the family tradition of the spares going into service. In the tradition of Forrest Gumps mate his grandfather and great grandfather had both ended up in wheelchairs in WW1 & 2 respectively – he thought bugger that so bailed on the family only to end up in a wheelchair (quad) after an accident involving a loader bucket striking the back of his neck.
…
Went over to visit the family manse once – his “nurse” was a pretty thing.. Im not saying there was bad blood between the brothers, but his brother seduced the nurse and left M in a bedsit until his son could fly to the UK to rescue him.
…
He was before his accident the inspiration for the chap in the “solo” ads, diving/hang-gliding/womanizing/piss drinking/emu shooting/legend.
…
Despite being a quad (he had partial use of both arms, one about 50% the other about 20% or so) he found a massive dope crop near where he lived, as he had a special quadbike (in both senses of the term) he went everywhere on. Quite a large drug bust for the cops.
…
And lastly he remained an attempted womaniser till the end – in one traumatic instance he had a lady (in the loosest possible sense of the term) from a shonky dating site that used and abused him (thanks viagra) then threw him onto the floor and used him as her toilet as he scrabbled like a crab trying to get away. His description of the event was one of the funniest things Ive every heard.
His sendoff was very well attended.
It probably tells you something about Pesutto and his inner circle that they did this, when they could have called Deeming and the organizers in for an explanation, then asked them what their claims involved, and then called a press conference in which they countered the mudslinging, and then outlined what Let Woman Speak were concerned about and declared what the position of the party in respect of these concerns was, defended those claims as reasonable and their right to make them without being intimidated at every turn.
Rogersays:
March 22, 2023 at 12:41 pm
It really is extraordinary how nasty and vindictive left-liberals have become towards, largely, women of the Left that are opposed to sex/ gender self-ID and its effects on women’s space, activities, etc., which is why the painting at the top of this thread is apposite.
Vicious internecine warfare has always been a mark of the Left.
See also Trotsky and many other once close associates of Lenin and Stalin, airbrushed out of history.
Black Ballsays:
March 22, 2023 at 2:53 pm
Not speaking for Gez but I would imagine SFA. Gez and others involved in this have to get their Council/s onside. The go would be to team up with other landowners who will be affected. The bigger the group, the better. Also, more prepared to donate to the cause may lead to legal representation.
BTW, here is an article on the guy that originated the trans flag:
It’s really just sex cosplay.
The signs were always there Bruce.
Farmer Gezsays:
March 22, 2023 at 8:01 am
Went to an info evening about the proposed renewable energy transmission line that will cut across western vic to connect to Snowy 2.0.
It’s immeasurably worse than we could have imagined.
FG,
just read up thread; sorry to read about your and your neighbours’ troubles.
Thanks, Pogria. I’m in a similar situation to Steve Trickler with parents who simply obey the government no matter what. They aren’t cowardly in any way shape or form but they are trusting.
Don’t forget that the money to pay Stormy Daniels off was allegedly connected to a slush fund paid into by shadowy foreign figures.
Like a dog to its vomit, m0nty=fa returns to “Wussia, Wussia, Wussia”.
Last year my stepfather spent three months in hospital, firstly at St Vincent’s and then at a posh eastern suburbs private hospital, a hospital my mother dubbed “Hotel California”…”you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”…..my mother did manage to get him out and home after much ado. Anyway, at the hospital they jabbed my stepfather for the fourth time, without telling her. My mother was furious. My mother has been jabbed three times (first two plus the booster), and she has said to her doctor that she will not be having any more.
For mUnty every day is Muellerween.
Phew. I’ve got as far coming back to the Cat this arvo as looking at the saddest of any sad case of little Jazz, and then looked at those US teens stomping on some other poor older teen almost to the point of murder and no adults coming in to roar STOP at them. That on top of poor Farmer Gez’s dark night over fighting greenies for his farm, let alone the man who is fighting some non-existent bunyip about to destroy his home and career. The world is fooked and today I feel I can only cope with it in small doses or I will feel what novelist De Lillo in one of his better early works called ‘the undertoad’ pulling me into some mire myself.
Tried to cheer myself up. Ordered the new bookshelves. Listened patiently to the lonely schizophrenic mother of my grandson when she rang and chatted for the usual twenty minutes she needs to keep her on an even keel, peeled some potatoes from our own garden to make contact with the earth, and watered all my potplants as a goodwill gesture. I miss my birdies. Only one occasional fledgie comes now. I guess Bruce manages to keep his flocks because he doesn’t depart on them for long periods.
Rousing the British spirit, I am now off to make a cup of tea. That always helps. 🙂
Lisa Simpson.
(No one thought our rulers would lock us in our houses over a simple flu season, did they?)
Luckily I never took any notice of the lockdowns and was out and about every day around the Sydney CBD. Whenever the Cops challenged me, I just said that I was homeless and then they had no answer. So, I just kept walking around…………………..lol. The fresh air was the best IMHO.
Try attending emergency to get a PEG tube reinserted on a Friday evening (a 15 minute job for a gastro Registrar) and finally getting out 4pm on a Sunday. That really was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest stuff. But it was very hot and I was in the air conditioning.
Whenever the Cops challenged me, I just said that I was homeless and then they had no answer
The greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes and pee stained trousers probably helped eh?
Mark Chenoweth on Suing Federal Agencies and Ensuring the Separation of Powers | TEASER
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
It probably tells you something about Pesutto and his inner circle that they did this, …
All correct, but:
In the meantime, Albanese is asking Peter Dutton in Question Time yesterday if he supports Nazis and John Pesutto’s lack of any real action on the issue.
Someone else in the Victorian Liberal Party takes the opportunity to slam Pesutto’s inaction, Moira Deeming calls a Presser to announce herself as the de facto Liberal Boss in Victoria, Andrews is running wild in the Liberal policy vacuum, ParrotHead fields 199 questions on where he stands on Nazis, Dutton can expect plenty of Socialist Left company next time he visits Aston, if he even bothers to waste his time …
or Pesutto can take a principled stand and put the issue to rest.
He was going to have to address it anyway, Moira Deeming is a fanatical pro Trans Feminist, she only parts ways with the rest of the loons on whether they can use the Ladies or [her preference] build dedicated Toilets and change rooms for Trans people.
Something upcheering. Hairy has just arrived back home from the shops and Attapuss is giving him a wonderful display in the hallway of his very nice big soft white cat tummy. There is great comfort in the presence of a man and a cat. Life can’t be all that bad, and good people and good things still exist.
Including that tea. It’s tea for two.
We will have it with some left-over orange syrup cake from Sunday. 🙂
Lizzie:
Your own bank deposit box will be accessible to the Tax man now, or any government ‘Agent’ after a State of Financial Emergency has been declared. (I assume the BDB will be in a bank)
Remember that threats of gaol will be made against you or someone they think will be vulnerable to apply pressure to you.
I’ve decided to keep mine at a secure location, and if the Revenooers turn up at the front door, the bullion was stolen by several dusky youths months ago. I didn’t report it because I know who they are and they know who I am. Threats were made etc.
Or you can build a nice little patio/rotunda etc, have a solid concrete base and let the neighbours know that if they hear a jackhammer going at an odd hour, to call the police.
🙂 Lot’s of fun ways to try and outsmart the Police/Revenooers etc.
Just remember they will have the Law on their side – and a mean and nasty disposition against “People who put themselves before the security of the Nation.”
Clouds and silver linings, Bear.
132and bush;
Gee. 900Km. That’s a long extension cord. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.
m0nty=fa
It was always the most obvious, outrageous and blatant crime that Trump pulled. It would be a failure of the US legal system if they couldn’t pin it on him.
If paying off a pron person is the worst thing Trump has ever done, he is pretty clean.
Tell us, how do you compare that with the credible rape allegations against Clinton?
“Sometimes I am a man and a woman at the same time or I can change in a nanosecond, then change back just as fast.”
This is the height of arrogance.
How dare this bloke presume to know what it is to be the sex that he is not. And to reduce that differentiation down to not even a second of time, to a frippery; to less than the passing of a mood. Faster even than Jeff Thomson or Malcolm Marshall at their best.
We are being had by this fraudulence.
“Follow the evidence” is often pointed to by the left, be it global warming, the efficacy of the covid vaxxs, or any other spurious claim , like “always was, always will be…”.
Well, there is no evidence for this tripe, just a puffing up of self-importance.
Where are the logical positivists when you need them?
Calli:
You gonna need a bigger bin. 🙂
Or get a still and turn it into wodka as a trade good.
All of the hidden Roman, Saxon and Viking hoards that turn up regularly via metal detectors in Britain are signal to just how much people buried their wealth for safekeeping and then never returned for it.
Richard Cranium
Who, exactly, was punched [and knocked out].
Kelly-Jay Minshull doesn’t say, but my guess is that it wasn’t one of her crew, it was a dopey Socialist Left drone who tried to unmask one of the Boxers and got knocked out for her trouble.
Really, and the police didn’t intervene to protect their drone?
Putting aside the minor point that at least two of the pseudo-Nazis were unmasked.
Buying home comforts and things you like to look at or use or both is always one thing to do with spare money. Home improvements, big or small, mean in times of trial you’ll always have a restful retreat. Get a bigger tele, buy some new saucepans, crochet a tea cosy, or have a bath with that French soap you just found clearing out your undies drawer.
In that spirit of creating order from bookshelf chaos, I have organised for a company specialising in assembling flat-paks to come and install my three tall bookshelves and their glass doors. Hairy breathes a sigh of relief. It is well known that constructing IKEA or similar furnishing things is a sure pathway to marital discord. He is glad that I have recognised our days of needing to do that are over now. Of course, some people may find the joint enterprise enjoyably challenging. Good luck to them.
Gee. 900Km. That’s a long extension cord. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.
Such as?
Just saw the news report of yesterday’s protest at Mark Latham’s speech. That was also the first time I saw Alex Greenwich, of course he would look like that, and threatening anyone who would go against him and his crowd. Greenwich is definitely of the opinion that “free speech for me but not for thee”.
Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party
The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia.
Over the past 60 years, the Party has embraced and promulgated cultural Marxism which espouses the transformation of traditional American culture and society. The Party has succeeded in undermining the family structure and religious freedom as well as mainstreaming abortions up to the point of birth and what was once considered deviancy.
The Democrat party’s two most exalted figureheads are the fervently racist Woodrow Wilson who set the Party on the path of undermining the Constitution in order to remold the United States into a “modern administrative state” (i.e., socialist) and Franklin Roosevelt who was enamored with and utilized Fascist principles in his “New Deal” thus permanently embedding them in the Party’s psyche.
An unemotional examination of the underlying philosophies and the tactics the Nazi Party used to gain and maintain power reveals not just the common impulse to weaponize the judiciary to eradicate one’s political opponents (e.g., Donald Trump) but numerous other similarities between the Nazis and the Democrat party that cannot be ignored.
Here are eight uncomfortable dimensions of that resemblance.
– First, racial and ethnic division was a central component of Nazi political strategy and philosophy.
– Second, In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazi Party relied on street riots, property damage and gratuitous violence utilizing their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to project power through intimidation while blaming others for the violence.
– Third, in January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Within four weeks a mysterious, and in all likelihood staged, fire broke out in the Reichstag (Congress) Building which the Nazis blamed on Communist agitators as their opening salvo in a violent coup. Using this pretext, the Nazis rushed to arrest and harshly prosecute selected elements of their political adversaries, thus intimidating the balance.
– Fourth, antisemitism was a foundational principle of Nazism. Antisemitism, through the Democrats’ nine-decade alliance with the Ku Klux Klan, has long been foundational in the Democrat party.
– Fifth, the Nazi Party was fixated on censorship and eliminating any cultural institution, publication or speech that did not fully support them. Further, per socialist dogma, they were determined to destroy the family structure, replacing it with the state.
– Sixth, the Nazis perfected the art of indoctrinating the citizenry through propaganda and “fake news.” Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, is credited with saying: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
– Seventh, the Nazis, true to socialist ideology, preyed on class envy to stoke tensions and resentment as they blamed the Jews and wealthy capitalists for their nation’s economic woes.
– Eighth, Hitler, after serving in World War I, was an avowed communist who eventually joined the National Socialist Party, later renamed the National Socialist Workers (NAZI) Party. He did so because it was larger and also espoused Marxism/socialism.
The greatest threat to the survival of United States as founded is not offshore but within its borders: the Democrat party
Really, and the police didn’t intervene to protect their drone?
Drones don’t matter, Cletus.
You should know that by now.
God bless the Lebos. 🙂
(not the Lesbos)
Ed Casesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:06 pm
Gee. 900Km. That’s a long extension cord. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.
Such as?
Poor quality Chinese steel in the towers, plus aa strong wind, as happened in South Australia once upon a time. Why do you ask, Blog Spook?
Cheap as chips too. They last and last. I am tossing out the one I have had now for over twenty years. Still quite good, but I only have one of them, and am going for uniformity.
And as you read this, twelve more of them will have been sold worldwide!
It slowly dawns on the West that Ukraine is not going to win
Writer David Goldman, who writes as the brilliant “Spengler” at Asia Times, foresees an ending of sorts to the Ukraine conflict, based on the West’s inability to supply the resources to keep an extended war coming.
In his latest Asia Times piece, he noted the private thinking going on of people who make up the foreign policy community:
A gloomy assessment of Ukraine’s prospects for victory against Russia emerged from a recent private gathering of former top US soldiers, intelligence officials and scholars with resumes reaching from the Reagan to the Trump administrations.
Short of trained personnel and ammunition, one speaker argued, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky might consider a Chinese peace plan, especially after Beijing’s successful mediation of the Iran-Saudi dispute.
The several dozen attendees, many of whom had held cabinet or sub-cabinet positions, met under Chatham House rules, which forbid identification of individual participants but allow the content itself to be presented.
Back in May on PJMedia, Goldman wrote that partition of Ukraine is inevitable:
I argued in 2008 and on many subsequent occasions, including the February 2014 note in PJ Media reposted below. The obvious course of action in Ukraine was to permit its people to vote for a divorce, as the Czechs and Slovaks did. Instead we elected to keep the NATO option open for Ukraine, knowing that this was a red line for Russia. Never mind that Putin is a wicked fellow; he is a predictably wicked fellow with a well-defined understanding of Russian national interest, and his response to Ukraine’s prospective NATO membership was entirely predictable.
After three months of nearly-unanimous media predictions of the collapse of Russia, it now appears that the Russian army is close to controlling the Donbas. Extricating it will be difficult if not impossible. The result, as Henry Kissinger suggested at Davos last week, will be (eventually) a peace in which Ukraine cedes territory to Russia. All the “don’t appease Putin-Hitler” rhetoric will simply make us feel shabbier when we make the deal. We should feel shabby. We screwed this up on the grand scale.
It was gloomy stuff, and the conclusion was even more disturbing — that the U.S. should cut its losses now, with yet another humiliating defeat, letting Russia win, and letting China play peacemaker, because the U.S. would need to regroup and rethink its strategy as it did in the aftermath of the Vietnam War for more critical potential conflicts.
The world’s great superpower we are no longer, and that’s Joe Biden’s doing.
These are all striking essays by Goldman, a tremendous prognosticator with a deep well of knowledge of geography, history, and human nature. That the deep state government officials he spoke with are now coming around to what he foresaw as happening attests to the power of Goldman’s capacity to read global writing on the wall.
All three essays are well worth reading here, here, and here.
thefrollickingmolesays:
March 22, 2023 at 3:36 pm
Whenever the Cops challenged me, I just said that I was homeless and then they had no answer
The greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes and pee stained trousers probably helped eh?
How outrageous. And I grew up with Jethro Tull…………………… I demand to see my Lawyer, wherever he may be………………………
OldOzziesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:08 pm
Eight Startling and Uncomfortable Ways the Democrat Party Emulates the Nazi Party
The Democrat party has been a stain on the nation since its founding in 1828 by a virulently racist president, Andrew Jackson. It was the party of slavery and the Confederacy, it initiated racial segregation by legislating and brutally enforcing Jim Crow laws. It unabashedly aligned with and supported the Ku Klux Klan for over nine decades, thus promoting antisemitism, religious persecution and xenophobia.
The DemonRats will not rest until they have re-instituted slavery and serfdom, but with white Republicans as the slaves/serfs.
Prove me wrong, m0nty=fa.
Blog-Spook. Oh, I do like that. Suits you, Ed.
I’ve just had a conversation with a work colleague whose husband joined up with some Lebanese men and they went to the church last night in Belfield, to protect the church and speakers. Leb Muslims also went to help.
People are seething. Well done to Latham for not flinching.
Here’s my prediction, Labor and Liberal are going to bleed votes this Saturday, to One Nation and the Lib Dems. It’s gonna be an electoral bloodbath.
The greatest threat to the survival of United States as founded is not offshore but within its borders: the Democrat party
I agree,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Aaargh. Went over the thread banner while scrolling up.
It may be salutary and all that, but I don’t feel up to it today.
Ed Casesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Really, and the police didn’t intervene to protect their drone?
Drones don’t matter, Cletus.
You should know that by now.
Thanks, should I cease to concern myself with you?
PS, the correct name is Illustrious, I would suggest you broaden your education beyond The Simpsons, but I recognise that drones are programmed, not educated.
All three essays are well worth reading here, here, and here.
From the Comments
– The money is actually going to defense contractors. Some of it is then kicked back to the Branden* gang — under the table, of course.
– Of course, but the total US tax dollars spent to date (and pocketed by the Biden Crime Family and Friends)… doesn’t yet include the “Rebuild the Rubble” Ukraine fund.
Stay tuned. That’s next.
– As Trump came into office there was the real possibility that Russia would invade the Ukraine. Trump came into office, sold the Ukrainians anti-tank missiles (with no quid pro quo) and met with Putin. Soon thereafter the region was still.
Uncle Joe is such a Donbas.
– Ukraine should be dissolved with everything east of the Dnieper river going to Russia and everything west of the Dnieper river going to Poland. Historically Russia and Poland have controlled what is now the Ukraine for most of the last 700 years.
By adding more territory and population Poland becomes a player in Europe.
– If the writing is on the wall, how will the Ukrainians pay the Biden crime family?
A “big” guess would be using some of the American funded foreign aid shipped over there by slimy Joey and his crime family.
Voices of Simpson’s characters.
Black Ball:
There’s only one scenario that takes all the facts and puts them logically:
.1 Removing gas and coal from the power supply. This means there will be a shortfall of supply that will supposedly be filled by renewables.
.2 The renewables will not be able to do the job.
.3 So there will be a system of blackouts to ration the supply of electricity.
.4 This has been the intention all along. 24 hour electricity is a luxury and you will have to cut down your use to ‘save the planet’.
Problem: There will be no power at night to turn on the TV. Without the state broadcasting continuous bullshit about “How strong the community spirit is in coping with this Emergency” people are going to get the shits very quickly with scrabble, monopoly and poker. Well, not poker, but you know what I mean.
Secondary problem: You’ll have to talk to those kids who have been emptying the fridge and you’ll find out half of them aren’t yours.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:16 pm
Blog-Spook. Oh, I do like that. Suits you, Ed.
Suggest to Hairy the alternative of Two Blogs Spooking, I think he will get the joke.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 22, 2023 at 3:51 pm
All of the hidden Roman, Saxon and Viking hoards that turn up regularly via metal detectors in Britain are signal to just how much people buried their wealth for safekeeping and then never returned for it.
Exactly. So, Dotty Dot of Dottiness, how did those hoards ever get there? Please explain………..No Saxons, No Angles, No one else?…………lol
Had a mate who was a perfesionnal assemblist for IKEA.
Said three quarters of his callouts were from people who had assembled and disassembled and reassembled their Knivpar bunk bed desk hutch three times, but still had three screws left over.
Poor quality Chinese steel in the towers, plus aa strong wind, as happened in South Australia once upon a time. Why do you ask, Blog Spook?
Back in your spidey-hole, Cletus.
I’m asking self proclaimed explosives expert Robert Sewell what he’s suggesting at
Robert Sewellsays:
March 22, 2023 at 3:45 pm
Sicktoria
Nazis, Trans and a Half-Cocked Liberal
In Victoria, where the burlesque of honest government continues apace, Opposition leader John Pesutto has today announced his intention to move for the expulsion from the Liberal Party of upper house member Moira Deeming, whom he accuses of cavorting with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, transphobic hatemongers and nasty “ethno-fascists”. This sort of thing is becoming a habit for the Garden State’s purported conservative party.
Last May the Liberals booted Bernie Finn, chiefly for the crime of stating that he prays for abortion to be banned. And in November, the Opposition’s then-leader, Matthew Guy, was adamant that a second conservative Liberal, Renee Heath, would not be allowed to take her seat in the party room.
Now it is Ms Deeming, another church-going conservative, who is facing the chop, this Pesutto initiative arising from ugly scenes on the weekend when three rival rallies produced a further example of Victoria Police’s legendary lack of nous and competence. It seems that if VicPol can’t find lockdown objectors to pelt with rubber bullets, old ladies in need of being thrown to the ground for a pepper-spray spritz or investigations of Premier Daniel Andrews’ allies and associates that require deep-sixing, they content themselves with setting up photo opportunities that frame the Premier’s political foes in the worst possible light.
That is exactly what happened on the steps of Parliament on Saturday, where a rally organised by women who don’t want biological men in their change rooms, prisons or sporting contests were opposed by a much larger counter demonstration of the usual Left suspects — Socialist Alternative and Antifa thugs prominent amongst them. To their credit, the police managed to place themselves between the ferals and the Let Women Speak rally, enduring a rain of spittle and obscenities that escalated to the point where three Left protesters were arrested for assault, one of them a 22-year-old man who allegedly wrestled a policewoman into a headlock.
Then things went very weird indeed.
Some dozen-or-so men in black T-shirts turned up and, instead of ordering them to leave, for some inexplicable reason VicPol ushered them into the open space between the rival camps, where they proceeded to perform the stiff-armed Nazi salute. The ones who weren’t masked sported broad smirks and smiles, Lebensraum for yellow teeth.
Click, click, click, whir, click! The cameras produced a white noise of clattering shutters.
The news, as reported by Melbourne’s reliably unreliable mainstream press, was that “anti-trans activists” were in league with the Austrian Corporal’s latter-day disciples and here were the photos to prove it. On the ABC’s 774 this morning (March 20), host Raf Epstein, whose own troubles with police haven’t crimped his career in the least, took to referring to the women’s rally as “people who want us to be cruel to trans”. The organisers, who held all the required permits to assemble and speak in public, included Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists and even the former senior Greens member and Left feminist Nina Vallins, who still dog-sits Adam Bandt’s pooch. None of that rated more than an incidental mention, if any at all, in news coverage.
But it was enough for Pesutto, who was on 3AW this morning and telling Neil Mitchell that the rally organisers were friends of the Third Reich and how he didn’t want to lead a party that tolerated the likes of Ms Deeming in its ranks. Andrews & Co have been making hay.
So what is Ms Deeming all about and what does Pesutto find so objectionable?
Below is a lightly edited extract from her maiden speech to parliament in February. The full address, including her gratitude to the gay high school students she taught and her thoughts on the media, can be read here (do a CNTL+F on ‘Deeming’ to find her words).
It would be nice if Pesutto were to tell the Liberal faithful just what it is that makes the young woman pictured below so reprehensible. — roger franklin
UPDATE: Some lines from Pesutto’s own maiden speech:
“Personal initiative and responsibility, free enterprise, the rule of law and the family — in all its appearances — are the touchstones of a philosophy that is vital. They are as important to our future as they have been to our past. Liberalism possesses all the power to unite rather than divide, to include rather than exclude.”
Moira Deeming’s maiden speech can be watched in full via this link
We have to recognise that some Lesbos have been doing sterling work standing up for real women.
They of all people are the ones who know with great certainty what parts make a real woman.
The other way to know is to get a mirror and have a good look and feel for yourself. A female nurse and I when I was in hospital and she was inserting a catheter in me had an interesting discussion about how many women have never done this mirror enquiry. We had both done so as teens. An inverted penis will never be the genuine bill of goods. No wonder Lesbos don’t want to date it.
Let’s have some Martin Armstrong and some crap from Dotty Dot of Dottinnes, Stencho Pantyhose and J Erk Off C Retin
strong>South Africa’s Power Grid is Failing
“South Africa is desperate for allies, economic allies. The country is failing and the people are suffering. There is international outrage right now misdirected at South Africa for its desire to host the Bric summit with Russia, China, Brazil, and India. The International Criminal Court (ICC) wants to arrest Putin for his war crimes, and President Cyril Ramaphosa is defending his position to invite Putin before the invitations for the event have even gone out. I warned that countries who were previously banned from discussions at the big table would turn to China and Russia for support since the West has abandoned them. “What about Ukraine!” the media cries. Well, what about South Africa? No one comments that the conditions in South Africa are WORSE than in Ukraine during an active war.
South Africa was in a bad spot economically long before COVID. GDP grew by a mere 1% between 2012 and 2021, according to the World Bank. The nation’s entire infrastructure is crumbling, and the power grid is on the verge of complete failure. Blackouts are common, and many blame state-owned power plant Eskom which routinely cuts off the power grid to produce “rolling blackouts” to conserve power. These “rolling blackouts” can last over 12 hours. This affects fuel availability, phone and internet coverage, traffic lights, power to hospitals, etc. It also limits the availability of food and water. Crime is more prevalent during blackouts as there are no cameras or security systems. Rape and crimes against women are disgustingly common. Civil unrest is so prevalent that the president issued a “state of disaster” warning on February 9, long after the situation became irreparable.
Statistics vary but there are about 82 murders per day in South Africa. The South African Police Service reported 7,555 murders from October to December 2022. As you can see from the chart above, crime is rapidly escalating. People are murdering farmers and anyone with a surplus of food. “Most murders take place in a public place, such as a street or an open field or a parking area – or at the residence of the victim (including places known to the victim or perpetrator),” Business Tech reported. “The Purge” is essentially taking place in South Africa right now.
So what is the world police doing about this situation since they care so much about helpless nations? Nothing. The US government issued a warning that Eskom’s power grid will collapse. They are warning that there will be no water, sewage pumps, or fuel, and the nation will effectively come to a standstill. Eskom said that in the “best case scenario,” it would take 6 to 14 days to restart the power grid. Experts believe it will take longer if they can manage to restore the power at all. “What’s left after a blackout would be what was left after a civil war,” an anonymous source said.
Poverty and the ongoing conflict have destroyed South Africa. The media would like people to believe that the nation is an enemy of the West because it is remaining neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. How exactly is it supposed to offer any aid when its own people are starving? The West even had the audacity to ask South Africa to support the climate change agenda, as if they have access to stable energy. One can only hope that the Bric summit is permitted this year and Xi and Putin can offer aid to South Africa’s people.”
A guy convinced Democrats they could vote by text, and the government is mad
Once upon a time, the goal in elections in a democracy was to get more votes than the other guy.
No longer. Under the Biden administration, if a conservative tries to help his side win an election, he is liable, at least in the Eastern District of New York, to being hit with an indictment for conspiring with others “to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate one or more persons in the safe exercise and enjoyment of a fight and privilege secured to them by the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit: the right to vote.”
The quoted language comes from the indictment in United States of America v. Douglass Mackey, case no. 1:21-cr-ooo80-ngg. The initials refer to the jurist presiding over the Mackey trial, Hon. Nicholas G. Garaufis, appointed to the court in May 2000 by President Bill Clinton. The case has proceeded to trial because, according to Times propagandists Colin Moynihan and Alan Feuer, the judge “ruled that the case should continue, saying it was ‘about conspiracy and injury, not speech’ and adding that Mr. Mackey’s contention that his speech was protected as satire was ‘a question of fact reserved for the jury.’”
A matter of conspiring to commit conservative satire?
According to the account in The New York Times, March 20, on the start of the trial, Mackey tried to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton from Democrat voters, “sometimes singling out Black people,” by falsely persuading them that “they could cast presidential ballots by text.”
The indictment of Mr. Mackey is dated February 9, 2021. As Golda Meir told President Sadat when he landed in Israel in 1977, what has taken the case so long?
He went nuts? 😛
lol, Editor Franklin, you do have an admirable way with words.
A good and very timely piece.
132andbush:
I’d have said a thistle in a date roll, but whatever.
Sometimes I am a man and a woman at the same time or I can change in a nanosecond, then change back just as fast
This is the equivalent of claiming the Village people really can construct a house/steer a ship/lead a war party of indians/ride a harley/rustle cattle and arrest you.
To test this theory i will get paralytically, speechlessly drunk and sit in a wheelchair and see if i can hammer out a follow up to “a brief history of time”
There won’t be fridges.
DB, there’s lots o’ confusing things going on there…
As I said last week, I find it odd that the Polish Government (who truly are the JPII types) are so anti Russia but, having thought about this some more, I guess there could some historical residual distain (and maybe understandably so with recent “revelations” about JPII coming out from the former Secret Police of the USSR).
Secondly, I get why Putin is going for trade deal with China but even that is a bit inconsistent with he defence of faith in signing up with a great anti-theist State?
(I stand by all my earlier comments that it is baddies V baddies in this war and I’m on nobody’s side)
Cassie, I hope you are right. The worst thing that could happen is that Dominic forms government with Greenwich’s help which would really be a Greens government, much like the one at federal level. On the other hand, how different would it be to what we have now?
Insights from Quadrant
The Yamashita wrinkle
The charges recently laid against former SAS trooper Oliver Schulz for allegedly murdering an Afghan man in 2012 will be decided by the courts, meaning the merit of otherwise of the prosecution’s case must for now be left to judge and jury. But there is still room for speculation about the other 18 ex-soldiers reports say may soon face similar and related accusations, one key question being how high alleged culpability extends in the chain on command.
This is a topic former military man Alistair Pope addressed two years ago at Quadrant Online in a piece it seems timely to reprise.
Pope wrote
…politicians and the current and recent crop of deskbound senior ADF brass (almost none of whom have been in combat) are opening a war crimes Pandora’s Box with their investigations of potential crimes committed in Afghanistan, the outcome of which they cannot determine. These corridor guerrillas and members of the Cardigan Corps apparently fail to realise that if any ‘crimes’ are indeed found to have been committed, and their soldiers are convicted, this will necessarily implicate and involve them too.
This is because our political elites signed international conventions and laws of war that could well lead — should lead — to the prosecution of the witch-hunters themselves.
It is known as the ‘Yamashita Standard‘, which holds that a commander is both responsible and liable for the war crimes of his truth.
Alistair’s piece can be read in full here.
From the Russian side, oil&gas and countless hookers. Russia will run a trade surplus on the services component on the trade account.
OldOzziesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:27 pm
Sicktoria
Well said OldOzzie and Sicktoria indeed………………
I am with you.
JR
Oh, please! Let it be so.
Keep in mind, this is what shitlibs have been arguing since Saturday is perfectly reasonable, that normies were OK with it, and so on; and Pesutto thought he could make a name of himself by falling in lockstep. What a time to be alive.
Here he is, the low rent limey peddling crap from the Leavenworth veteran.
We needed Socrates to inform us that the Sth African power grid is in a bad way and the country is basically failing. Thank God for the Leavenworth vet, and thank God for Socrates.
Is that Barry O on the right?
You mean Dominion?
IKEA Billy and Kallax are their best sellers. I love my Billy bookshelves which replaced the ones the Beloved made me in the first years of our marriage. Before that, all my library was balanced on planks and house bricks.
I waved goodbye to them seven years ago – a young lady was replacing her plank and house brick shelves. The circle of Life. 😀
Kallax is terrific for hacks. I have a pair back to back with a top made by the local kitchen guys – storage and a cutting table at just the right height. Good stuff. You can make them mobile with casters.
Of course, there is a dark side to IKEA. For example forestry in other lands displacing native species. And it’s odd that the Greenies have never demonstrated about the chemicals in the particleboard or coatings. Another one of those mysteries, like Greta now being a Doctor of Theology.
JC, the hookers joke is stale, and applies just as much to most Eastern European countries, if not more, than it does to Russia. Russia is going to probably give weapons tech that China doesn’t have, as well as assistance elsewhere. The Russians looked pretty happy with the deal so far.
OldOzziesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:27 pm
Sicktoria
Thank you, OldOzzie for posting this excellent article.
OldOzziesays:
March 22, 2023 at 4:43 pm
The standard you walk past is…. nothing to do with me??
Either they were in control and liable, or they were bull teats and must return all their campaign medals for being in command.
And as much as he was on the wrong side, Yamashita got a bit of a bum rap in that trail…
Apparently most of the atrocities were carried out by Marine troops, not under his command.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_responsibility
In the practice of international law, Command responsibility (also the Yamashita standard, the Medina standard, and Superior responsibility) is the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes, whereby a commanding officer (military) and a superior officer (civil) is legally responsible for the war crimes and the crimes against humanity committed by his subordinates; thus, a commanding officer always is accountable for the acts of commission and the acts of omission of his soldiers
I am just catching up with last night’s thread and found this comment. I remember Zoe Brain who was very knowledgeable about Canberra and military subjects. From what Tim Blair let slip from time to time I thought that might have been Cate MacGregor though I may be wrong.
So, what you’re really saying is you hate cows.
(*Jordan Peterson rolls his eyes*)
To the extent that China is only a ‘anti-theist’ state within its own borders, why not foster friendly relations?
The joke is stale, how so? I’ve never read it anywhere other than if I’ve posted it a few times, and the closest I’ve ever seen to the hookers line is that the only thing that comes out of Cleveland are footballers and hookers. Perhaps you’re confusing that joke.
Don’t make me laugh about Russia’s modern weapons prowess. If that idiot Putin is importing equipment from those despicable mullahs in Iran, the idea that China is desperate for Russian weapon technology is laughable.
The most shocking thing about this war is just how totally useless the Russian military is and most likely has always been. Russia is indeed a country that needs nukes seeing how useless they really are.
“callisays:
March 22, 2023 at 3:12 pm
Thanks, Pogria. I’m in a similar situation to Steve Trickler with parents who simply obey the government no matter what. They aren’t cowardly in any way shape or form but they are trusting.”
Calli, what you wrote reminds of a scene in the movie Blue Sky. There was some skulduggery about poisoning the water or soil somewhere in Montana? The main characters went to warn the locals, cowboys and farmers, of said bad things being committed by the Government. The locals would not believe their Government would do something like that, to them. Always remember that scene. Good movie, Tommy Lee Jones was hot!
Ha, ha. Very good.
Kids.
Being cruel little turds since… forever…
There you go.
The entire Rally was a Stunt to embarrass the Liberal Party in Victoria and Federally.
At least Pesutto acted promptly to stem the bleeding, but Albanese and Burke are going for the throat now.
Crossie – its “funny” when you go on the wayback machine…
I spent about four hours recently one night going through old tweets and I came across a howling argument I had with an LBG “rights group” in 2016. They called me all sorts of ridiculous names, and got their followers to pile on, for me saying that “gender fluidity” was coming next…
H B Bear says:
March 22, 2023 at 4:49 pm
Village People
Is that Barry O on the right?
Really does looks like him – Definitely not the Moocher
Do you understand Dover? Have you finally realized that, say, even if Russia wins this war against a relatively tiny neighbor, it’s finished being considered a global military power in the medium term, and possibly forever Has that sunk in, or are you still in the Baghdad Bob stage of rejecting reality.
I think Perrotet just signed his political death warrant by admitting he got the health minister to call an ambulance for a family member because waiting in a queue as the public has to do is life-threatening.
One rule for them and another for us — elitism at its worst.
Here he is, the low rent limey peddling crap from the Leavenworth veteran.
Lol and at least you and Dottie Dot of Dottieness and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose along with that Master Bate of the Universe J erk Off Cretin have such wonderful economic Gnus to tell us…………..LOL
LOL. Another prominent Russian suicide
At least this week the suicide wasn’t out of a hotel window. FMD.
mole
And as much as he was on the wrong side, Yamashita got a bit of a bum rap in that trail…
Apparently most of the atrocities were carried out by Marine troops, not under his command.
The practical result would have been the same. The British wanted him for the murders of thousands of Chinese after the fall of Singapore, the Sood Ching.
JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:11 pm
Do you understand Dover? Have you finally realized that, say, even if Russia wins this war against a relatively tiny neighbor, it’s finished being considered a global military power in the medium term, and possibly forever Has that sunk in, or are you still in the Baghdad Bob stage of rejecting reality.
I’m with Dover on this and the rest of the real World. The UKR have no chance of winning. Full stop. None.
Why do you need us, you lowrent scumbag, when you have Martie and his Socrates?
Dreyfus makes Gargooglery KC look pretty good.
Dutton playing them like a Strad.
… the Medina standard
Captain Medina was found Not Guilty of 102[?] Murders at My Lai,
Subordinate 2nd Lt. William Calley [who wasn’t present that day], was found Guilty of Murder.
Some standard.
He needs your support like a hole in the head, you dimwitted dickhead. Being a cretin, you obviously missed that I didn’t say Russia would lose. Now piss off and stop trying to garner attention, Wodney Woddenhead.
JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:20 pm
Lol and at least you and Dottie Dot of Dottieness and Mrs Stencho Pantyhose along with that Master Bate of the Universe J erk Off Cretin have such wonderful economic Gnus to tell us
Why do you need us, you lowrent scumbag, when you have Martie and his Socrates?
LOL and all you have is…………………………Short arse trousers and a short arse. An IQ below 100 like Ed Case and SFA …………………..
Paul Fletcher is a pretty hopeless Manager of Opposition Business.
He’s a Pom, which wasn’t always a Black Mark, but is now.
Is he a Spook?
The Jury is out, but unless one of them has been nobbled, it’s not looking good …
this was obvious on day one
and ……….., lots of ………..
You dimwitted lowrent douchebag, Wodney. Go check on the ladyboy.
Stooopid effing Liberals.
Flouncing, and a day late at that.
They gotta learn that they have to drive the Twittersphere, like Andrews’ hundreds-strong office, not go home and check it before acting on their convictions.
If I were leader of a parliamentary rump, this far out from an election, I’d act like I had nothing to lose. The only direction that Dutton is heading in is into the laughing stocks.
The Jury is out,
In your Head Case the Jury has come back in and said that you are Guilty for being a Knob Head………….
Take him down said the Judge and send him to Uranus…….Or somewhere like that……………………..
JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:28 pm
and ……….., lots of ………..
Wow, and what an intellect you do not have…………….
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
T.W.A.T……………….
Correct. Not shocking for the military analysts though, they had long known that Russia’s military was corrupt and crumbling. Even their so-called stealth fighter, the SU-57, of which they have only built 10 operational aircraft because they are so broke, is afraid of Ukraine’s old s300 surface to air missiles. The point of stealth is to penetrate hostile air space. The Russian air force is largely MIA, rushing in for a quick hit because it is incapable of taking out Sam sites. Pathetic.
Russia now has to rely on China for microprocessors. Good luck with that. China’s fab plants are about 20 years behind everyone else. Huge military hardware implications chips are central to so much hardware. Russia is now taking old T62 tanks(first made in 1961!) out of storage, refitting them for the Ukraine conflict. Laughable, remember what happened to the old Iraqi tanks? Where’s their wonder weapon the Armata tank? A modern naval vessel taken out by a couple of mediocre missiles is ridiculous. Not as ridiculous as the Kuznetsov aircraft carrier requiring a sea going tug on patrol with it because it breaks down so often.
That so called modern stealth fighter for export Russia is bragging about is nonsense. Have a look at the engine intakes. Far too small for a modern fighter with a powerful engine. They are that hopeless they couldn’t even make a convincing mock-up to promote sales.
The Trump Indictment Circus Continues! ft. Rand Paul, Blueanon, and More
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JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:28 pm
and ……….., lots of ………..
You dimwitted lowrent douchebag, Wodney. Go check on the ladyboy.
Go back to that silly bar and keep drinking that potion. You T.W.A.T.
……….. LOL , Wodney Wodenhead.
Because you always bring it up.
It isn’t laughable in the least. Countries have different expertise in different technical areas. The Chinese would love to have Russian missile tech. particularly their hypersonic missile tech., their submarine tech, their AD tech, and the like. The fact that Russians may or may not be using drone tech. developed or exploited by the Iranians is neither here nor there.
The Russian military has hardly been used just yet which is why you continually see questions about when and where it is going to be used.
It wasn’t a global power before that, they never had the Navy to be a maritime power. It is enough for the Russians to be a continental power. This idea that Ukraine was a ‘relatively tiny neighbor’ even though it had an armed service larger than the French, Germans, Italians and British combined is laughable, especially when this is supplemented by continued military assistance, either in terms of arms and armour, intelligence, personnel, and the like. And the thing is, militarily, they are only going to be stronger given the experience they will have gained.
Zipstersays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:28 pm
I’m with Dover on this and the rest of the real World. The UKR have no chance of winning. Full stop. None.
this was obvious on day one
Well, tell Jerk Off C (JC) as he/she/whatever has no farking idea,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Dover, you’re starting to sound like Pravda in the old Sov days.
WA Liebor have really scored an own goal with the appointment of Ben Dawkins as Upper House MP.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/state-politics/brittany-higgins-condemns-new-wa-parliamentarian-ben-dawkins-labelling-appointment-as-mind-boggling-c-10119509
Forget Britnah’s criticism, Dawkins has about 46 VROs against his name, I’m pretty sure he’s related to the former Dawkins Treasurer but the guy is as thick as too bricks (in intellect and stature).
Not only did it take him about half an hour to open his mouth and answer each question posed to him by the meeja, when asked “are you of good character” he does “next question.” Who TF would answer that way???
JC, I appreciate you like being a contrarian, but that is very unfair.
Like the rest of us, Dover struggles daily to separate fact from fiction in Putin’s outrageous and bloody territorial aggression against Russia’s neighbor.
You sound like someone who reads the NYT.
JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:43 pm
Dover, you’re starting to sound like Pravda in the old Sov days.
J Erk Off Cretin you are sounding like someone who is on the losing side. T.W.A.T.
My apologies Cats, Dawkins has 40+ AVO breaches (which I think are different to VRO breaches?).
Good summary by Jesse Watters of why the demorats are going to indict Trump (8 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ZSFBO95Y0
JCsays:
March 22, 2023 at 5:22 pm
I’m with Dover on this and the rest of the real World. The UKR have no chance of winning. Full stop. None.
He needs your support like a hole in the head, you dimwitted dickhead. Being a cretin, you obviously missed that I didn’t say Russia would lose. Now piss off and stop trying to garner attention, Wodney Woddenhead.
What an annoying Windbag you are are. In fact, what a Farking Annoying Windbag you are……..LOL
I do when I have time. I also read the Guardian and the WaPo. You should too in order to figure out what the left is saying and doing and why. Not reading the other side is what the left does.
Then again you could rely on Martie’s analysis. Wodney does cartwheels over Martie the Leavenworth graduate.