An Australia scientist worked with Fauci to cover up the origins of Covid. Why? – Senate 14.2.24 Senator Gerard Rennick
Open Thread – Tues 4 April 2023
- Bumtree #17
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- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
Albo won’t let anyone reply to his taxcuttweets. Lol. https://twitter.com/ausgov/status/1790265675296235811?t=C52k_3D_ThC8zqnKpWqMeA&s=19
feelthebern May 21, 2024 4:09 pm When will the white man stop persecuting Tarryn Thomas?When he stops punching the living…
Looks like you missed the best bit of Chartres Harlequin Decline https://twitter.com/CatholicArena/status/1792197825981190625?t=HdmuNZUAPUoL3exmdpw6Ag&s=19
Best one yet. 😀
Oh yeah, pick the trannie.
Rather, pick the odd man out.
Comment on Churchill from Unz Review:
YetAnotherAnon says:
April 3, 2023 at 5:47 pm GMT • 14.2 hours ago • 100 Words ?
@Legba
A LOT of people thought Churchill was a chancer, a Boris Johnson or Trump type. A glory-hunter who jumped parties for office, and financially profligate. Post WW2 he had Roosevelt stature, the grand old man, architect of victory. But before, the Conservatives were very wary of the former Liberal Home Secretary.
When he left office he took a mass of secret material with him, quite improperly, to use in writing his history of WW2.
But already in 1923, he’d written The World Crisis, which told the Germans, up to that point completely unaware, that Admiralty Room 40 had been reading their codes for the whole war. They moved to rectify this and Enigma was the answer.
a bloke sporting a bob-cut hair style, polka dot dress and high heals with a 5 o’clock shadow
For me the line in the sand is a ribbon in the hair which doesn’t colour coordinate with the eye mascara. Unforgiveable.
Probably preferable to a bloke in lycra fog horning about his triathlon times.
a while back i was talking about a pot-plant I had that flowers about now that I couldn’t identify.
25 years it’s be with me from a bulb somebody gifted, and it flowers every time the days start getting shorter
It’s about to pop again but, i reckon I found it.
eucharis grandiflora
JC
It can always get worse… much worse.
I told the tale quite a long time ago of a 60+ year old first generation trannie who came into dads caryard with its suitably seedy boyfriend.
The bald patch and Rubiks titjob were a bit of a giveaway.
Have a nice evening Catters. Hopefully there’s some here who are more committed to me and will rise at 215am AWST to follow the travails of Trump.
I do expect a full report in the morn!
Behave (unless fat bastard turns up coated in shite/bacteria)!
The Eucharis lily is one of my favourites, Matrix, along with the Sacred Lily of the Incas (Ismene festalis). I have both in the front garden.
It prefers a climate where the night temperatures don’t get below 10 degrees – I had them lining the driveway in Goroka all those years ago. They do reasonably well here north of Newcastle.
All this talk of bob hair cuts and lycra means its time for a cute owl.
I told the tale quite a long time ago of a 60+ year old first generation trannie who came into dads caryard with its suitably seedy boyfriend.
There was a Gen I trannie machinery dealer in Fairfield. They were selling up / retiring so I went to have a look, without knowing about the trannie.
Met by a regular old bloke, looked through the machinery. What about the Schaublin? Nah, that’s my partners, I don’t think she wants to sell, but I’ll check. Bloody hell, long grey hair, grey tracksuit and some sort of boob job quite possibly out of two old oil cans.
Behave (unless fat bastard turns up coated in shite/bacteria)!
I reckon his missus read his posts, has seized all his electronic devices and is now chasing him around the back yard with a karcher.
Cronkite
Is he the recently recruited full back for the AZ Cardinals?
It means “beautiful stamens”
Ah! Callistemon. Bottlebrush. My distant memory botany classes at TAFE come back to me. A lovely name.
When you say to these perverts, sickos and autogynephiles that society can cater for them by constructing separate intersex toilets, changerooms, and having separate sporting competitions, these same perverts, sickos and autogynephiles shout, scream and screech that THEY’RE WOMEN, that they are no different to biological women, and that they have every right to use female only facilities.
So ask yourself, why are these perverts, sickos and autogynephiles so desperate to want access to female only changerooms, toilets and prisons, where women and children are to be found? The clue lies in the words “women” and “children“. It isn’t rocket science.
A quick brag in the dinnertime lull, if you’ll allow:
I have just fininshed 9 litres of homemade tomato concentrate to wait in the freezer for a tomato soupy sort of day. Yesterday, I bottled 8 litres of my granny’s recipe tomato sauce . Her not so secret ingredient, mace, gives a zing above cayenne or tabasco.
Saturday was pastry day: 40 spinach and feta rolls, 24 pies and 8 giant-sized pasties. That might sound excessive on all counts, but in a family of 10, with six perpetually starving teens and young adults, it was all gone by Monday.
Happy to start again tomorrow.
“I don’t find the current insanity disturbing”
I do.
“Read my lips…transwomen are not women.
Sorry about the rant.”
Cassie, never apologise for a rant. Remember, we have to fight back twice as hard.
Now, for a rant of my own. I was organising my dinner a little while ago and had Peta on the box. I nearly threw my wine glass at her face on the screen. She had said “unarguably”. WTF?!?
She has had a Catholic education over thirty years ago, has done Law at a time when there were still a few standards. How the hell does that slip through?
Rant not over. I will never apologise for picking on mispronounced words by, what we are led to believe, are educated people. Typos I understand, incorrect spelling, ditto. I know several good people with Dyslexia. They may not be able to spell the word, but they know how to say it.
very nice … trippy … but nice
It’s not altogether a bad thing for children to find out that there are perverted loonies in the world. Pointing out the perverts and loonies is pretty easy these days.
It’s the assumption that everybody is kind, friendly and well-intentioned that is dangerous to children. Most ppl are, but the whackos do exist. The fact that some of them are in the schools trying to spread their perversions is something many children are now aware of. I know a ten year old girl who laughs at them and declares her pronouns are Kiss my Arse, something she got off the internet.
the missus is dyslexic AF.
cracks me up sometimes when she re-literates something that I clearly heard wrong
Jacinta Price funding campaign:
You’ll get me in front of more and more Australians, telling them about the dangers of the divisive Voice and delivering your important message:
Vote NO to dividing this great nation by race!’
https://www.jacintaprice.com/donate_2303_back_me?recruiter_id=50275
Wouldn’t bother me. I’ve met other kinds of loony. And that sort as well. One more is nothing special.
Delta A,
cooking for a crowd, especially teenage boys and hardworking men is one of the things I miss most in my still.getting.used.to.being.single.again state.
I have also preserved sauces etc for years. I love it. Never happier than when I’m stirring a wooden spoon in a giant pot of goodness. Second only to pottering in my vege garden and orchard. Both of which I have to start again from scratch. sigh….. I miss my previous garden and orchard. All the fruit trees are now dead.
Still, nothing like planning a new garden and hopefully not making the same mistakes as when establishing the earlier one. 😀
DrB – The problem is explaining that at least half of their friends and the people they see in the street arguably are perverted loonies. It’s that sort of age.
We Christians and our Jewish colleagues have an advantage since we know we’re always a remnant, as the Bible puts it. Knowing you are a small minority both prepares you and clarifies for you how the world really works.
Look, all I said was “things some may perceive as undesirable traits”.
This may not necessarily be objective fact.
Who am I kidding?
Of course it is.
Thanks, Top Ender. Done.
It’s necessary to point out to everyone, not just children, that being caught up by a contemporary fad is not a reliable guide to truth.
Nor is being caught up by the fads of previous generations.
“It’s not altogether a bad thing for children to find out that there are perverted loonies in the world.”
Well yes, that’s why when I was growing up we were warned about stranger danger, and particularly creepy males and females. I was told never to talk to strangers, never to accept sweets from strangers. Now women and children are being told that we must ignore our gut instincts, we are being told we must ignore our feelings if we see some freak in a changeroom behaving oddly and we are being told we must ignore strange weird behaviour, and if you come across a swinging dick in a female only space, you mustn’t stare at it as you’re engaging in genital obsession. Apparently dicks now don’t matter in a female change room, except a dick can become erect by looking at females and it can then be used to sexually assault a woman or a child. Last year, in Oregon, where they have self ID, an elderly woman went to her local swimming pool to swim, something she’d done for over thirty years. In the supposedly “female” only changeroom, she came across a young man, naked, staring at a young girl who was showering (the showers didn’t have doors). The elderly woman told the pervert in no uncertain terms to leave however, since we now live in a clown world, the elderly woman was then barred for life from the swimming pool, as the proprietors took the side of the male pervert.
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
And there it is – he said the quiet part out loud
Biden all but confirmed that his team is coordinating these Trump indictments to “stop Trump from taking power again”
Dr Tess Lawrie
@lawrie_dr
If you haven’t heard about the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations that would hand the WHO unprecedented powers and threaten state sovereignty, please pay attention.
The Suffering of the Innocent
I was talking about a mobile phone and a school friend. Not strangers.
And no, what was displayed wasn’t racy stuff from Pix magazine.
Just watching a doco about the early years under the Nastis.
One of the atrocities they cite regarding the attitudes toward those they deemed inferior was that children would be taken from their schools and surgically sterilised without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
What is the goal these when a kid is confused about their body and says they feel like they are the opposite gender? All encouraged and cultivated (but that call it ‘affirmed’) away from parents. And a kid who ‘wants’ the surgery (howsoever the understand it)? Isn’t there a movement to enable them to go on puberty blockers already (to deny them is near criminal!) and what would seem to be the trend where a kid wants surgery even if the parents are opposed? How far in the future can that be?
The people on the doco condemned the medical professional who participated in the sterilisation in no uncertain terms.
How do our medical institutions measure up?
One of the atrocities they cite regarding the attitudes toward those they deemed inferior was that children would be taken from their schools and surgically sterilised without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Yeah, Shock, Horror!
The same happened in America, and is probably still happening since
Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled:
3 generations of Imbeciles is enough.
Remember, an Imbecile has an IQ of 31 to 50, not enough to care for themself, but they can still birth children.
Tsk, tsk.
Don’t ye be dissing the team which is going to be the first to win the Flag and quinella the Brownlow.
Just ask ’em… if they’re like my FiL, they’ll certainly tell you!
Hence the West’s current political class.
Any group that man boobs Billy gives money to should make you take notice. ( Hello, MSM ) I am surprised that the but ugly mole who divorced him still allows her name to be used with the man boobs foundation. Waking up to that thing might explain all the visits to pedo island…you know the island.
You’d chew your arm off waking up to her or it.. She was in it for the money….probably a bloke when you look at it?. Now out of the public spotlight and thinking she is in the clear.
Anyway, check this out. Another F-wit from the NY Times; another skank, mole and bitch that can pull levers. It took C-19 and Gates help pull the switch when push comes to shove with Cochrane…I reckon? No immediate proof provided.
Over $1.1 million given to the group from the so called “genius” in 2016.
That status is only allowed to exist in in the public domain because MSM whores and gigolos do not challenge. He’d be rooted in the public domain pertaining to climate change, farming, coding, vaccines…you name it. He’s not a genius…he’s a c-bomb that never allows himself to stand up to scrutiny. Hugh Jackman is under his spell when it came to promoting man boobs Billy’s “Climate Change” book.
Middle finger to the pricks.
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Big day tomorrow. Tramp assassinated and the gutless libs will declare support for the screech. The West is cooked.
Hence the West’s current political class.
The left are not stupid but their ability to reason is always subordinated to their ego and vanity. Their cognitive dissonance is also at peak levels. They never think the consequences of their support for insane policies and ideologies will affect them.
JC says:
April 4, 2023 at 5:59 pm
Walking past one ensconced at an outdoor dining spot near Messina’s in South Yarra was enough. Put me right off my ice-cream, it did.
Cassie of Sydneysays:
April 4, 2023 at 5:24 pm
Never apologise for your rants.
H/T Gibbs.
Amidst a lot of stress and anxiety at the moment, it is nice to be sitting in the State Theatre with wifey about to finally see the Doobie Brothers including the wonderful Michael McDonald.
Shut up and listen, Deal! 😀
Screech?
The Doobies!
Echoes of Love.
One of the atrocities they cite regarding the attitudes toward those they deemed inferior was that children would be taken from their schools and surgically sterilised without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Definitely a bit of history rhyming going on.
Shut up and listen, Deal!
Listen to what, Nelson?
Woah, ho ho, Listen to the music of course!
Yep.
1981 David Bowie – Heroes (Christiane F. – Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo) [Videoclip]”
Here’s the GayBC line of politically correct ‘thinking’: there are not two sides to the trans issue, but anyone who disagrees with the Stalinist pervertocracy is ipso facto guilty of hate speech:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-04/georgie-stone-transgender-rights-hate-speech-protection/102185240
Ten years in the slammer if you have the misfortune to live in Yarragrad!
Is anyone tired of Sky hosts delivering 20-minute lectures on Today In Woke every night?
GPT is very similar, I shared the Propublica article on the failure of the German transition from Coal to renewables and GPT really didnt want to accept that it was indeed a failed project.
After some repeated questioning it provided a “balanced” view which accepted that mistakes had been made. I guess hacking LLM’s such as Bard, Bing(GPT, dumbed down) and GPT might be an essential skill .
Heroes done by postmodern jukebox on the event of Bowie’s death. Smells like scotch for some reason.
My compliments, and thank you.
JC @ 4:02pm
Ed Case says:
April 4, 2023 at 3:51 pm
I agree with the last part of Eddles comment. It’s actually a white person problem.
Can I just make a point here. Whites are really shitty people. We really are.
Whites used to discriminate and treat people of color like shit in the old days. Whites now discriminate against whites. Whites, particularly American whites are just freaking awful.
I read Ed’s comment to see what your point was, JC. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
Ok, white, middle class females, especially in the US (but growing in interest elsewhere), like medical interventions – breast augmentation, as an example. Add to that their discretionary spending power and a cultural interest in maintaining youth by medically changing their appearance. Plus younger subjects within that culture being interested in body piercings and/or all-over tattooing.
From the provider side of the ledger, it’s the medical example of “build it and they will come”. Which leads to Ed’s point of a culture already committed to medical transformation. And I think it’s a good point.
But what has that to do with white people discriminating against black people and other whites, and of being “awful” white people?
Are you saying that those white people – and their doctors – are not prepared to countenance black people getting/having medical interventions of that kind? Or, that certain white people are “hogging” all the surgical time and denying others these “benefits”?
Because all I can see are some sweeping statements that sound too much like racism and have the potential to feed a false narrative, not only in the US, but here in other ways.
In honour of NASA’s four new astronauts I have to go with another of Bowie’s. The general thrust I get in the comments on various sites is they are speculating which one is the qwerty.
NASA unveils Artemis II crew including first woman, person of color to orbit moon (3 Apr)
Bowie – Space Oddity (1972)
Just watching Fred Pawle on ADHTV – he’s talking about the TGA withdrawing AstraZeneca totally from Australia in March. He’s now interviewing Craig Kelly about it.
Ed Casesays:
April 4, 2023 at 7:26 pm
One of the atrocities they cite regarding the attitudes toward those they deemed inferior was that children would be taken from their schools and surgically sterilised without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Yeah, Shock, Horror!
The same happened in America, and is probably still happening since
Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled:
Richard Cranium
That it happened (and still happens) in America doesn’t make it any better.
drinking a Murchison 2005 Semillon that we found under the kitchen bench during renovations.
last bottle
the whites went the distance … still got honey and blossom and not too dry
the reds … not so much
Matrix
Semillon, such a noble grape.
1) IQ is *not* referenced to the rest of the population – it is referenced to a historical white anglo saxon western European population.
\2) Given that the US population is becoming more ‘diverse'( ie less white caucasians of European origin), and that aid diversity comes from populations with lower IQ on average (black, hispanic). it is inevitable that US IQ is dropping.
It is the same in Australia.
PS, Fun fact, there are *no* sustainable democracies with average population IQs under about 95.
Semillon, such a noble grape.
I’ve always liked the McWilliams Mount Pleasant Elizabeth Semillon.
A good ride. The audio good….trust me.
Ultravox – Vienna (Moreno J Remix)”
“Ok, white, middle class females, especially in the US (but growing in interest elsewhere), like medical interventions – breast augmentation, as an example. Add to that their discretionary spending power and a cultural interest in maintaining youth by medically changing their appearance. Plus younger subjects within that culture being interested in body piercings and/or all-over tattooing.”
I’ve seen young women who’ve had fillers inserted in their lips, which makes their look cartoonish. It’s all porn influenced. Ghastly.
BBS Mount Pleasant used to be good. Now it is made too forward and doesn’t have the characteristics only age can deliver. It used to be a great standby for me but I don’t buy it anymore.
Wide Awake Media
@wideawake_media
Dr. Mike Yeadon: “When people tell you what they’re going to do, don’t ignore them.
So when the UN, and Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab tell you that you won’t be travelling, you won’t have a private car, there won’t be any flights, you won’t own anything and you’ll be happy, you probably won’t live in your own house…
When they tell you that, you should assume that they’re serious about it.”
Alan Jones interview with Senator Rennick
Kat A
@SaiKate108
The Australian Uniparty moves as one when it comes to the protection of Big Pharma.
Granted indemnity through contracts which no one can access. Promoted by the TGA for whom they generated 96% of income.
Shielded from a Royal Commission/Senate Inquiry
into anything covid or vaccine related.
Mr Albanese is all tears and no action and has reneged on his promise to shine a light on it all and be accountable.
Senator Rennick keeping them honest!!
It’s always a good way to disguise alcoholism by glamorising the brand or type of booze being consumed. Hides the underlying problem.
GreyRangasays:
April 4, 2023 at 9:12 pm
GR, I don’t see it as often on the shelves anymore. Thinking I originally bought it because it commemorated the Queen.
A lot more WA wines here on the shelves now – even though we’re just down the road from the glorious Hunter Valley – and which I refuse to buy, given that we were locked out of and considered diseased by that state (and others) for many months. Now, I no longer want to support regional offerings from elsewhere – sorry WD.
semillon is my go-to when a recipe calls for wine in the sauce
Ask it:
1. Do homosexual men get shit on their penis? Yes or no.
2. Is it hygienic? Yes or no.
2023.04.03 The US HATES the Peace Breaking Out In The Middle East
this was interesting … and funny
Our National Identity Disorder
Was Kissinger trolling with his book ( World Order ) with the Tartarian map, front and centre on the cover?
Enjoy the travels.
Semillon isnt exactly an un-sweet wine
when a recipe calls for a “dry” white, I reckon they really mean not- cloyingly -sweet
and certainly not some woody chardy that’s closer to retsina than reisling
Semillon’s off-dry sweetness adds another layer to a dish
how we know what isn’t so
I don’t know who needs to know this, but the logo in the top left corner of Twitter has changed from the blue bird to the iconic dog from the dogecoin / doge meme.
Billionaire trolls. What a time to be alive.
the missus just got a missive from HR.
ladies can’t be calling ladies, ladies anymore
Get Funky
McWilliams Royal Reserve Medium Dry, or you’re not trying.
hmm, gonna try yr spag bog suggestion one of these days
Do it.
Just watching Fred Pawle on ADHTV – he’s talking about the TGA withdrawing AstraZeneca totally from Australia in March. He’s now interviewing Craig Kelly about it.
Safe and effective then?!
These f’cking c’nts need to hang!
Daily Mail.
Bombshell as the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is no longer available to Australians
Did I ever tell you people about the time lived in a ‘menage a trois’ relationship?
In an amazing coincidence dogecoin is up 28%. I guess twitter payroll is due soon, or some other cash flaw due by Mr Musk
I love this dog. Massive unit.
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woof bark growl.
<a href = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6Z4hVPpgc"
Oops, try again.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Westfield outdoor mall 11″
A lot of memory triggers…before woke.
Jan Hammer – Crockett’s Theme (Moreno J Remix)”
Can someone tell me why I, or anyone, should take this guy in a lace dress, eye shadow, and a jumper seriously?
David Bowie:
David Bowie My way
Perfect notes to hit the pillow.
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence / Ryuichi Sakamoto – From Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano 2022″
David Bowie – excellent rendition of My Way.
Thanks Steve.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Peter Broelman.
Bob Moran.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
Morten Morland.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks again Tom. Trump and handcuffs was a no brainer.
Morten Morland
I can think of a couple of explanations, but both would be wrong.
So, (sorry) what is it about?
Gabor, it took me a little while and then I worked it out. A Russian blogger was murdered in Saint Petersburg when he was given a statue of himself that contained an IED, so Morland is opining that there’s a line-up of Russian people who’d like to do the same to Putin.
rugbyskier says:
April 5, 2023 at 4:54 am
Thanks for that, I knew I was on the wrong track, bc. I didn’t know that the statue in question was actually of the murdered bloke. I thought it was some sort of a reward or something.
This is the naive ignorance you get from ‘progressivess’ that have never worked with more then two or three people from other cultures.
what would we do without SBS Punjabi
Dilbert
Trump won’t go down without a fight. Also, Bragg seems to have erm…decreed that NDAs are illegal in New York, but black mailing isn’t.
Pro tip: If you prosecute process “crimes”, don’t commit similar offences yourself.
From Trump’s Truth Social page.
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Wow! District Attorney Bragg just illegally LEAKED the various points, and complete information, on the pathetic Indictment against me. I know the reporter and so, unfortunately, does he. This means that he MUST BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED. Now, if he wants to really clean up his reputation, he will do the honorable thing and, as District Attorney, INDICT HIMSELF. He will go down in Judicial history, and his Trump Hating wife will be, I am sure, very proud of him!
World War One was a fight between white people where three of the six/seven major powers heads of State were cousins.
We should stop killing each other. European history is fratricidal in the extreme.
Mr Singh
I’ve read the blurb, but not any wiser where the “skilled migrant” bit comes in.
He has done all the wrong things at the wrong time and now tries to gain skills here instead of bringing it with him as I understand “skilled migration” was meant to do.
IMO, he was lucky he lasted this long, maybe he should’ve done the same as the
Queensland couple from Sri Lanka, visit India often and cry discrimination when found out.
The reluctant soldier of Toowoomba might help him!?
You are right Bespoke, my wife is not political in the slightest. The insidious language that pervades everywhere especially in the APS, has crept into her speech without her knowing the woke meanings.
Garrison today reminded me of the great movie line:
‘Look man. I ain’t gonna fall for no banana in my tailpipe.’
And Knight #1 was exactly what was spoken of yesterday.
Starry-eyed idealists who reckon they’ve got it nailed down because they watched a Yothu Yindi clip and saw Ten Canoes once.
Constable Zachary Rolfe will appeal a decision to terminate his position with the NT Police.
Sky News revealed on Saturday that Constable Rolfe had been sent a letter signalling police’s intention to sack him.
They have now confirmed he has been dismissed.
“A 31-year-old male police officer has been dismissed from the Northern Territory Police Force effective 4th April 2023,” NT Police said in a statement
“The officer was dismissed under section 78 of the Police Administration Act 1978 due to serious breaches of discipline during their policing career.”
It’s understood the dismissal relates to an open letter attributed to Constable Rolfe that was published on Facebook in February.
NT News
I reckon Rolfe has no intention of going back into NTPol or returning to the NT – ever. But his lawyers would have advised him this is a good way of getting them to pay him go-away money – and also a measure of revenge.
It was the white race that ended black slavery.
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his fifth fiancée Ann Lesley Smith abruptly call OFF their engagement only two weeks after it was first announced
Honeymoon scared him off?
Trump was the victim of a shakedown, not Blackmail.
He coulda told her to publish and be damned, but instead he bribed her with campaign funds.
It didn’t work.
It was the white race that ended black slavery.
There’s still Black Slavery in Africa and the Middle East, dickhead.
News website takes the prize again with this headline:
“Star’s see-through looks after nipple backlash”.
The latest Bud Light Commercial is actually pretty cool. 😉
Maybe the pre-nup said “no cash for you unless love me long time”.
Seven Sunrise has been covering the Trump show since 3am. When I finally rolled out of bed this morning, took one look at the smugging, yammering panel of “experts” and switched it off.
The Beloved can watch the show trial on his device if he can be bothered.
Noted in Top Ender’s report of a NT News story (truncating it a bit): “a male police officer has been dismissed due to breaches of discipline during their career”. Debasing our language makes it harder to communicate.
More insidiously, wokeist language manifests political tests. Academics have to watch constantly for shifts. Even conservatives now refer to First Nations peoples rather than Aborigines.
Yet when Stormy broke the NDA Trump sued her and won in court.
The conservatives who use the First Nations terminology are not conservatives, by these little slip ups they identify themselves as progressives.
Proving further that New York has become lawless. It’s a pity they will never get another Rudy Giuliani to clean up the mess.
mØnty adjacent.
Meme
I expect the Liberal Party will today kick their remaining voters in the guts by declaring that they are in favour of the Snarl.
Yes the telescreen was spewing establishment propaganda at the Roadhouse this morning. Uncle Joe would be proud.
As much as I dislike Michael Bloomberg, I was in NY when he was in charge and it was very bright and clean.
Glen Cove EMT Dies Suddenly At Age 19
Northampton County deputy dies suddenly
The truth comes out about Beijing’s balloon
REVEALED: Terrifying rap sheets of the ten worst NYC criminals who were REPEATEDLY released by Manhattan DA Bragg as he focused on Trump indictment
Sony Pictures Promotes Child Mutilation In Latest Trailer For ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’ With “Protect Trans Kids” Flag
It comes to 34 charges by itemise each document relating to the payment. So it is hard to see the theory of the prosecution on some of those charges – the cheque, for example – are they really saying that Trump never paid Cohen? How could the cheque be false?
Daughter of Judge Overseeing Trump’s Case Worked For ‘Kamala Harris Campaign’, Now Serves As President of Company that Has Biden-Harris Campaign As Client
I visited NY in 2003, 2014 and 2018. 2003 was the most hopeful and positive even though it was only a couple of years after September 11. In 2014 you could see the signs of decay but in 2018 the city just looked miserable and in a sunset mood.
‘A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.’
– Ronald Reagan
The colonies were the first nations on this continent, if you will.
And they each had a navy to defend themselves.
Leopards, Challengers and Abrams Tanks Are Likely to Perform Poorly in Ukraine
Stephen Bryen Apr 1
German, British and American main battle tanks either already have arrived in Ukraine or will soon be on their way. But these tanks have some well known weaknesses and the Russians are likely ready for them. Worse still, none of them have active defense systems, a critically important way of protecting tanks and tank crews from modern antitank weapons.
The German-made tanks are known as Leopards. Two different series of Leopard tanks are being sent to Ukraine, older Leopard-1 A-5s and Leopard 2 A-4 and A-6 tanks. The Leopard 2 series is regarded as one of the best designed main battle tanks, comparing favorably to the US M1 Abrams, the Russian T-90 and the Israeli Merkava.
The US is refurbishing Abrams M-1 tanks for Ukraine. They should be arriving in the next two months, perhaps even sooner.
The British have sent the first Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. This behemoth weighs 69 tons, too heavy for many bridges in Ukraine and not suited to function on heavily mudded secondary roads.
None of the tanks being supplied are equipped with reactive armor. Instead they rely on the built-in tank armor known as NERA (non-energetic reactive armor). The earliest form of NERA was known as Chobham armor because it was developed at the British Tank Research Center in Chobham, Surrey. This type of armor combines steel plates with a non-steel material between two armor steel plates, sometimes with multiple levels and materials. The composite armor is designed to thwart shaped charge ammunition (like that found in HEAT tank ammunition) and against ammunition that uses a penetrator rod to essentially burn through armor. These penetrator rods can be made out of hardened steel, tungsten (wolfram) or depleted uranium.
Known as Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS) rounds, British and US ammunition (M829A4) use depleted uranium for penetrator rods. The penetrators, sometimes called Darts, are 99% depleted uranium combined with other metals, together known as Stabilloy. By contrast, German APFSDS ammunition uses tungsten penetrators because depleted uranium ammunition is banned in the EU. All the main guns for these European and American tanks are sized at 120mm with smooth bore barrels, originally designed by Rheinmetall in Germany. Russian tanks typically have a 125mm smooth bore main gun, entirely of Russian design.
Russia has both depleted uranium and tungsten dart ammunition in its inventory for its main battle tanks. These rounds have been produced for decades in different versions, such as differences in the length of APFSDS penetrators. Seemingly the Russians are not using depleted uranium ammunition in the Ukraine war.
In 1977 the Russians managed to steal the plans for Chobham armor and adapted it for Russian tanks. However, no Russian tank depends on this type of NERA armor for protection. Instead the Russians put appliques of reactive (explosive, energetic) armor on the outside body of the tanks, typically on the front, on the turret and sides of the tank. Russian reactive armor has evolved from a type known as Kontakt 1 to Kontakt 5. The Russians are now introducing a brand new type of reactive armor called Reklit which is designed to deal almost exclusively with APFSDS threats.
The basic idea of reactive, explosive armor is to explode when an incoming round strikes the tank. The explosion either redirects the actual incoming round, or damages it, making it ineffective. The better forms of explosive reactive armor can either break or bend a penetrator, protecting the tank. Reactive armor has to be designed so that when it explodes it does not cause injury or death to nearby infantry or to other vehicles. (A similar consideration applies to hard kill active defense systems –see below.)
The British, Germans and, especially the US long thought that their main battle tanks, designed in the 1970s and 1980s were good against most threats and did not require reactive (explosive) armor. However, Iraq and Syria changed all that, as many Abrams tanks and Leopard tanks (especially those belonging to the Turkish army) were destroyed by Russian anti-tank weapons fired by ISIS irregulars.
If US and German armor could be knocked out with older ammunition using explosively formed penetrators (in the US best known as shaped charge weapons) and not DART ammunition, it was easy to see that Western tanks were at risk. The Russians immediately recognized the vulnerability of Leopard tanks to Russian antitank weapons.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
One in six people infertile worldwide, WHO warns.
Nothing to see here.
Just a plan coming together.
Time to prep the Handmaids.
On that same trip in 2018 we also visited Las Vegas which still seemed to show the old US spirit.
Also on that trip and every airport we set down or took off from looked very rundown. US is showing the world its worst face as they arrive but then again so is Sydney.
I’ll have a signed copy of Bruce Lehrmann’s book…
I’ve seen young women who’ve had fillers inserted in their lips, which makes their look cartoonish. It’s all porn influenced.
Theres a jewelry ad on TV with duck faces so alarming Im expecting Elmer Fudd to pop out and start blasting.
I think its actually because porn producers latched onto the same thing Louis B. Mayer latched onto with the Hollyweirdoes.
Call them a star, give them pretty titles and awards and they will take any shit you can imagine to stay a “star”.
The title “Porn Star” was a deliberate way of sanitizing being a whore. And its worked brilliantly.
Read the 16 Page New York Indictment of President Trump
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
-against DONALD J. TRUMP,
Defendant.
THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, by this indictment, accuses
the defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST
DEGREE, in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows:
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017,
with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission
thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice
from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump
Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
SECOND COUNT:
AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE,
in violation of Penal Law §175.10, committed as follows:
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017,
with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission
thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in
the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number
842457, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
In most places that would be sufficient for the judge to recuse himself.
If he doesn’t it will say quite a lot.
2014 was my first and only visit to NY Crossie. Can’t see myself ever going back there after everything that has happened and what is happening right now.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
It doesn’t matter if Tatarsky was a “journalist”, a “blogger”, or a “propagandist”: It was a targeted killing of an individual, to send a political message and/or bring about a political outcome.
The definition of terrorism.
@BobRae48—you are supporting and defending terrorism.
Maybe the new Badgerys Creek airport in Western Sydney will restore our prestige though I fear it will end up being just a freight airport as passenger airlines will still land at Mascot.
There is nobody else to choose from, they are all interrelated and work for the Dem party.
132andBushsays:
April 5, 2023 at 6:48 am
Can I just make a point here. Whites are really shitty people. We really are.
It was the white race that ended black slavery.
Black slavery still exists in parts of Africa and the Middle East. The oh-so-precious campaigners against statues in the west would never, ever, take their campaign there.
You know what annoys me, Trump had no financial incentive to steal, or falsely claim a deduction or anything else.
This is a zealot pouring over his financial records to find something, anything to persecute a political opponent.
Bruce, the notion of “conflict of interest” is absent everywhere these days. People just don’t seem to understand it, and when explained to them get all huffy and protest that of course they can be trusted.
They miss the point entirely.
I think they’re way over the line already.
Conrad Black: Trump indictment puts America on threshold of losing its democracy
Hands up who’d like their daughter to work in “the sex industry.”
I visited NY in 2003, 2014 and 2018. 2003 was the most hopeful and positive even though it was only a couple of years after September 11.
My only visit was in 2013 and I luvved the place .. felt very safe .. the people were friendly and cheerful & their seemed to be a smiling plod on every corner …….!
America lost its democracy in 2020. Stalinist purges now. We probably lost ours in 2015.
Ed Casesays:
April 5, 2023 at 6:53 am
Trump was the victim of a shakedown, not Blackmail.
He coulda told her to publish and be damned, but instead he bribed her with campaign funds.
Grandpa Simpson
Your evidence for the bolded statement is?
The MSM isn’t interested in the dodgy nature of these charges against Trump, or the dodgy nature of the Dems, particularly in NY. Daytime Sky doing the “follow that plane” live thing, and repeating the “first time ever” call again and again.
It will come as a big surprise to many when the USA finally crumbles, which might not be far down the track given so many bad actors in so many places.
Indolent, that meme with leaders who have had their opponents arrested. You could add Tony Abbott and Howard to it, they did the same to Hanson.
This will maximise the egg-on-their-faces when the population rejects the screech.
‘Underwhelming’: Reactions to Trump’s Arraignment Shows It’s a Nothingburger
“There’s a curious omission in the Donald Trump indictment and statement of facts – The specific federal law Trump violated.”
Former President Donald Trump was arraigned on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Except…
You lost people, Alvin Bragg. Everyone knows this is a nothingburger.
– This is the sloppiest statement of fact I’ve ever seen in a major case. These are meant for reporters and non lawyers to lay out the case. This thing is clear as mud.
– BREAKING: CNN calls Trump indictment “underwhelming.”
You know you’ve lost when you lose CNN.
– After reading DA Bragg’s indictment of Trump and accompanying statement of facts, I’m stunned any prosecutor would move forward with this. It’s even flimsier than we were led to believe. Thirty-four stacked counts, bootstrapped to an unstated crime, to manufacture felony charges.
– Underwhelming is almost generous. Amateur hour from Bragg, who is only doing this to get a gold star from his base for at least trying. Amazing how many legal analysts — including those not fans of Trump — who say this case is beyond weak.
– Bragg indicted a former president for the first time ever.
The former president is running for office again.
Bragg refused to include the legal basis for the felony in the unprecedented indictment.
He bragged at his press conference he didn’t have to.
Are you kidding us???
– Bragg’s spent his entire tenure on this indictment & it’s total amateur hour. Pick a paralegal at random & they could assemble something more professional
– These charges are literally just disagreements over bookkeeping. Complete farce. Was this really worth destroying the judicial system over?
– Alvin Bragg has shut down the entire city, called up 38,000 NYPD police officers, closed down the FDR Drive and is spending an estimated $200 million of city funds, all for a $130,000 NDA. I never thought I would see this level of corruption in the United States.
– Per @NBCNews: Next Trump court date: December 4th. Proposed trial start date: January 2024.
At the very beginning of the GOP presidential primary calendar
– NY law stipulates one can only be guilty of a falsifying business records felony “when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”
Who did Trump allegedly defraud? No answer from Bragg!
But the whole thing is a farce. An absolute farce.
Outflux of NZ nurses to Australia seeking higher wages and a lower cost of living.
NZ’s future doesn’t look bright.
Duk will know how this feels.
Political Prisoner? Corona Protest Movement Founder Michael Ballweg Released After 9 Months Detainment (4 Apr)
“One high profile example in Germany is Michael Ballweg, the founder of the Corona restrictions protest movement dubbed “Querdenken” (unorthodox thinking). Today we know that the “querdenkers” were right about a lot of things, and huge amounts of damage could have been avoided had their warnings been taken seriously.
But instead, the government and media got paranoid and scared of the Ballweg’s protest movement. The media characterized the movement as fringe right wingers who threatened “our democracy”. Last June, Ballweg was arrested and dragged to jail on dubious charges.
Today, after more than 9 months detention, he was finally allowed to leave Stuttgart-Stammheim prison.The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court on Tuesday lifted the arrest warrant in exchange for a condition.
Ballweg had been in pre-trial detention since June 2022 on suspicion of money laundering and fraud. Suspicion is all that’s needed nowadays to arrest unwanted voices.”
Just a tad ironic that Germany is again arresting dissidents and holding them without trial 90 years after the last time they did that.
Michael Ware on Sky has it in for Trump as well.
No interest at all in the massive electoral fraud 0f 2020 and the emerging truths about that.
But Trump “influenced” the 2016 election.
I was in NYC in 2010 and again in 2019. There was something a bit “off” the second time, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps it was encapsulated by the bucket of abuse a woman poured over the Beloved when he tried to help her on a bus.
She was black, but we didn’t put it down to her ethnicity, just her attitude. Once alerted, it was apparent everywhere. We were very wary about behaving normally after that. Eyes not making contact, avoiding interactions, scoping every situation a little more thoroughly than usual, much the same as we do in third world locations.
I might go back, but not intentionally. I far prefer the “rustic” and old fashioned middle of the country. The coastal strips are not for me.
That depends on Sydney West’s pricing.
The current unregulated Sydney airport monopoly is one of the most expensive airports in the world and price-gouges airlines on landing fees and aircraft parking.
If Sydney West decides to be competitive, plenty of passenger airlines will use it as an opportunity to access the Sydney basin at reduced cost, even if it means splitting operations between SYD and SWZ.
But a major disincentive will be the time it takes to get there by road and rail. I don’t expect the new NSW Labor government’s Sydney West airport access infrastructure to be fit for purpose.
If US and German armor could be knocked out with older ammunition using explosively formed penetrators (in the US best known as shaped charge weapons) and not DART ammunition, it was easy to see that Western tanks were at risk. The Russians immediately recognized the vulnerability of Leopard tanks to Russian antitank weapons.
MASSIVE blockquote fail.
Are you suggesting the Great War wouldn’t have happened if the Huns
couldn’t assume monarchial solidarity would prevent a wider escalation
of any Habsburg campaign in the Balkans?
Albrechtsen‘s column shows why the ACT DPP won’t have been sleeping too well lately. Expect Gallagher won’t survive as a Minister either. kd wrong might.
Australia, the money bottomless pit.
Probably pick up airfares and accommodation costs too.
Nearly 5000 NZ nurses have registered to work in Oz since August
Oh dear. Thought that was one of Special Eds.
Sky talking heads saying “everyone should be equal before the law” while ignoring the corruption written large in the US legal and political systems at the moment.
This blog is off the pace.
Looks like there been massive under-counting of COVID and vaccine deaths.
A new poll by Rasmussen has some data that validates what many of us already believe, namely that the vaccines are dangerous, unsafe and need to be pulled from the market immediately.
The survey of 1,078 American adults was conducted on March 27-29, 2023 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
A big finding is that nearly as many Americans believe someone close to them died from side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine as died from the disease/infection itself.
This latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 11% of American adults say a member of their household died from COVID-19, while 86% answer no. That percentage equates to roughly 25 million adults. Both the 11% and 25 million figures are incredibly high. They also equate to a very high number of households, many millions. Are all these figures consistent with what CDC says is the total number of COVID deaths of just over 1 million? NO! The survey result indicates a massive under-counting of COVID deaths by the government. And that many more millions of Americans died from COVID! How can this be explained? One possible answer is that many deaths occurred at homes rather than hospitals. Another is that ordinary people viewed some deaths in their household were incorrectly attributed to various ordinary health problems (such as cardiac deaths) were actually caused by COVID infection.
Ten percent (10%) say a member of their household has died whose death they think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, while 85% say there were no such deaths in their household. This figure is shockingly inconsistent with the approved narrative, actually propaganda, of “safe and effective” which has been so actively spread by corporate (“main stream”) media and the US Government and the entire public health and health care establishments. Here too this survey result indicates a massive under-counting of vaccine deaths if some 25 million Americans have this view. Various studies indicate a total of some 500,000 vaccine deaths.
These findings come at a time when overall concern about COVID-19 is clearly on the decline. Forty-eight percent (48)% of Americans are less concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago, compared to 20% who say they’re more concerned. Thirty-one percent (31%) say their concern about COVID-19 has not changed much in the past year.
More Democrats (16%) than Republicans (12%) or those not affiliated with either major party (6%) say a member of their household died from COVID-19. More Republicans (15%) than Democrats (13%) or the unaffiliated (5%) say a member of their household has died whose death they think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
The section above is key, because the difference between Democrats and Republicans is almost the same concerning either deaths from COVID or COVID vaccines. If there had been statistical significance between these two groups, Rasmussen would have indicated that.
Please keep in mind that it is now widely accepted by those who follow the data that the COVID vaccines available in the United States do not prevent infection, replication, or spread of SARS-CoV-2, and do not prevent either hospitalized disease or death from COVID-19 disease. Given these facts, references to these biologic medical products as “vaccines” is merely propaganda. They clearly do not “vaccinate” in the classic sense. But they make billions of dollars for vaccine makers.
Other details about the poll:
Fifty-five percent (55%) of Republicans, 43% of Democrats and 45% of the unaffiliated are less concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago. Thirty-one percent (31%) of Democrats, 17% of Republicans and 13% of the unaffiliated are more concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago.
The only significant male-female divide on these questions is that more men (24%) than women (17%) say they’re more concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago. This is particularly true for men under 40.
Adults under 40 are significantly more likely than their elders to say they’re more concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago. A solid majority of Americans over 40 have become less concerned about COVID-19 in the past year, but just 35% of those under 40 feel the same. Women under 40 are most likely to answer yes when asked whether a household member has died either due to COVID-19 or to side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fifty percent (50%) of whites, 39% of blacks and 46% of other minorities are less concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago. Nineteen percent (19%) of whites, 24% of blacks and 22% of other minorities are more concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago. Whites and blacks are less likely than other minorities to say a household member has died either due to COVID-19 or to side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Married adults and those with children at home are more likely than their single or childless peers to say a household member has died either due to COVID-19 or to side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Americans with annual incomes over $100,000 are more likely to say they’re more concerned about COVID-19 than they were a year ago, compared to those with lower incomes. Higher income Americans are also more likely to say a member of their household died from COVID-19.
Remarkably, among those who say a member of their household died from COVID-19, 54% also say a member of their household has died whose death they think may have been caused by side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.
More than three years after “15 days to slow the spread” of COVID-19, most voters have less trust in government health experts – and in the news media, too.
What a horror story.
“There’s a hard core of Republican voters that will say this is a witch hunt”.
Thanks for revealing your ignorance and/or partisan nature Clennell.
Pogria @ 1:25pm yesterday
That woman was one of the ones in MT’s linked video Adult Human Female.
MAYBE TRUMP CAN WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION
New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump on trumped up charges last Thursday sent shockwaves throughout America. Already the frontrunner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, speculation ahead of the indictment had driven Trump’s poll numbers into the stratosphere. A Fox News poll released last week showed him up 30 points over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his nearest competitor.
If – and this is a big if considering the first votes in the Republican primary are still ten months away – Trump clinches the GOP nomination, nearly every conservative pundit is quick to tell us he would ultimately lose the general election to President Joe Biden.
But what if the pundits are wrong?
Trump’s shocking victory in 2016 confounded even the most seasoned political thinkers among us. Hillary Clinton’s coronation was thought to be inevitable until election night, when strangely, one critical battleground state after another fell to the brash, uncouth real estate developer and reality TV star from Manhattan, the ultimate Washington outsider.
Biden is the single worst U.S. commander-in-chief in modern memory, eclipsing even former President Jimmy Carter for this unwanted distinction.
Carter is a good man, but he was a terrible president whose missteps caused great harm to the country.
Let me preface my comments about Biden’s presidency by saying that he’s not in charge. His cognitive issues, apparent from the moment he launched his campaign in April 2019, have deteriorated significantly over the past four years to the point where virtually every public appearance is choreographed and still manages to end with a gaffe.
That said, he is happy to go along with the radical agenda set by those who are actually calling the shots.
His administration has declared war on the Constitution and has advanced the “fundamental transformation of the U.S.” begun during the Obama administration. The cumulative effect of two years of deliberately destructive, anti-American decisions has brought us to a perilous moment in history.
On all fronts, both domestic and foreign, Democrats are pushing this country into a downward spiral. If this continues, we won’t need to worry about Russia or China taking us down — we’ll have done that all by ourselves.
Donald Trump, in contrast, was a great president. Despite the relentless pursuit by members of a deep state determined to remove him from office, he accomplished a great deal in four years. To name just a few of those achievements: His tax cuts and focus on deregulation triggered an economic boom. He reshaped the judiciary, made America energy independent, strengthened our military, secured our border, and stood up to China. There’s no question America is worse off as a result of his loss.
If not for the pandemic which enabled universal mail-in voting and Democrats’ collusion with Big Tech and the legacy media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, Trump likely would have prevailed in 2020.
And yes, Trump is facing multiple legal battles, but they are all based on politically contrived charges.
On the other hand, Biden and members of his family are facing far more substantive allegations that cut right to the heart of America’s national security which House Republicans are just starting to bring to light.
Sad.
I expect plenty of airlines will be champing at the bit to leave Sydney airport. Flying into Australia isn’t like a 2 hour hop around Europe. Travel time to the city isn’t top of mind v ticket cost. Security and customs already make the ground component of air travel close to unbearable and IMO are responsible for much of the rise in the popularity of cruising.
Maybe the new Badgerys Creek airport in Western Sydney will ….
We had two of the fuel systems designers visit Melbourne. One of them had never seen a real live working airport fuel system before….
Andrew Clennell represents the conservative wing of the lunatic fringe that populates the Australian news media. He’s old Labor like The Australian‘s Paul Kelly. He’s not very good at hiding his political allegiance.
I’m doing my best. I’m no Nostradamus. Perhaps I will put everything in quatrains.
Beyond me why people actually PAY to be lectured and insulted by sky tv. They can stick it up their bum.
I like Janet. She seems to have keen legal discernment.
But I do wonder at such things as there being too few prosecutions and too few succeeding. But surely the ones that succeed must be taken as where there really was a case, and instances where prosecution failed taken as where the evidence did not support it. Is there a superior way of determining that someone is guilty than the trial, such that you can confidently say that a case or cases should have succeeded but in the trial failed? Sure there will be cases where someone is found not guilty when they actually were, but there would be cases of the opposite as well. Is it certain that there is a preponderance one way or the other?
I suppose with regards to the number of prosecutions it is possible to see the evidence available and decide if a prosecution ought to be sought although that would be a lot of work to properly do – second guessing crown prosecutors. But they seem a pretty iffy mob – we have seen them persecute people in high profile cases that were manifestly baseless.
Main point though is to make these judgements of inadequate convictions and prosecutions by comparing to ‘statistics’ would seem to be dubious on the basis of statistics. Where do they come from? Can’t be based on prosecutions and convictions because then the numbers would necessarily align. So from where? Victim’s groups? Activists and their studies and reports? Academics (see previous)?
This is an honest question and not a starter’s pistol for unrestrained outrage.
Don’t know Bear.
Flying into Rome was a piece of cake, no queue at security and was through in less than a minute, just a short wait for my suitcase.
Melbourne coming home was painless too, smart gate then a customs officer had a 20 second look at my declaration as I walked towards the exit with my bag and I was out the door.
Maybe it’s crap in some locations.
Lots of countries have airports a fair distance from the centre, eg Rome, CdG, Madrid, does depend on the quality of the connections.
The Cancelling of Christianity
Crisis Magazine – April 4, 2023
Now that the trans activists have told us what an awful provocation our beliefs have become to their way of life, maybe the time has come for us to just go ahead and cancel Christianity altogether. Mightn’t that be the right thing to do in the interest of keeping our children safe? How else are we to ensure the goodwill of our LGBTQI+ neighbors if we’re not willing to dismantle the very structures that are so oppressive to them? We certainly don’t wish to continue driving them to the extremity of trying to kill us, do we?
Alvin Bragg’s pathetic ‘bank shot’ bid to ‘get Trump’
By Post Editorial Board
So Alvin Bragg didn’t have an ace in the hole: The Manhattan DA’s long-awaited case against Donald Trump really does depend on a highly dubious legal bank shot.
All 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, that is, depend on linking them to campaign-law violations.
Otherwise, the fraud is just a misdemeanor crime that’s long past the statute of limitations.
Oh, and the 34 counts center on just three separate payouts; Bragg ran the number up by counting every document Trump signed.
That reach for quantity is basically an admission that the quality of the case is weak.
One slight surprise is that Bragg is alleging violations of not just federal campaign laws, but a New York one involving conspiracy to impact an election.
That’s because no one’s found any precedent for bootstrapping a state misdemeanor into a felony over purely federal-law violations.
Trump’s team is surely now researching past prosecutions (if any) under that New York law.
They may well have a “selective enforcement” excuse: No Republican county DA, notably, tried anything like this over the Hillary Clinton campaign’s falsification of records to fund the Steele Dossier in an effort to turn the 2016 election.
In any case, the campaign-law violation still depends on Trump’s intent: Was he covering up the alleged sexual misbehavior with an eye on the 2016 election, or simply to protect his marriage?
That is why the feds never tried to prosecute.
And, presumably, why then-DA Cy Vance declined to bring charges in the past (though Bragg claims he has new evidence).
In short, there’s really nothing here that didn’t leak weeks ago: All the media cautions about “wait until we actually see the indictments” proved to be ridiculous posturing.
In fact, the indictments don’t even actually specify the felony crimes central to Bragg’s bank shot: That info is only in the accompanying statement of fact.
That weird omission, some experts warn, could get the case tossed even at this early point.
Bottom line: Alvin Bragg wanted to make good on his promise to “get Trump,” and it looks like nothing else mattered.