Open Thread – Weekend 29 April 2023
1,509 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 29 April 2023”
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He knows.
He knows this is approaching the end.
He knows all these men’s lives will be thrown away for nothing.
He knows he better have his escape plan ready.
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“Will offer a counter-view to the localised orthodoxy on trump/biden. I think Biden is a good, but not great, prez because he is a stupid old timeserver who waited decades to get the job. This makes him incapable of doing much, hence he will serve out his time achieving little and breaking less. Trump is a demagogue who could bring down the republic this time and spurred an insurrection last time.”
I think the only appropriate response to this is to laugh and laugh and laugh.
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Will offer a counter-view to the localised orthodoxy on trump/biden. I think Biden is a good, but not great, prez because he is a stupid old timeserver who waited decades to get the job. This makes him incapable of doing much, hence he will serve out his time achieving little and breaking less. Trump is a demagogue who could bring down the republic this time and spurred an insurrection last time.
This is insane. Biden is senile and can order the start of a thermonuclear WWIII.
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Just emailed Dover the Lindsay transcript.
One of the statements made:
(Marxism) just evolved into different species, to attack the West at its weakest points, through our tolerance, through our acceptance, through our openness, through our generosity through our best traits…
He forgot to mention the massive oversupply of complacency, apathy and stupidity in the West.
In this talks, as well as in New Discourses podcasts, Lindsay also advocates against the use of violence to woketards’ provocations…
How a pacifist, Christian, turn-the-other-cheek strategy could possibly succeed against the overt violence of the activists, Antifas and other assorted scum still escapes me.But a brilliant synthesist of a complex, inter-connected and overtly evil set of philosophies.
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Your excellent post:
It’s my own work. I spent three and a half years researching and writing a book printed over 40yrs ago and a lot of that time was spent on those very early years at the State Library and the Mitchell Library.
I just wondered who was your main source of information to assist in writing this book.
Many years ago I wrote a novel set in early Australia and drawing from events of the time, particularly the lead up to Federation. Although he is pooh-poohed by many here, I found Manning Clark informative and very readable.
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Back from the big smoke.
Road in is officially a goat track.
30kph or less on some sections and more people are driving out past the white posts than inside on the road.
Sneakers actually reduced the shire roadworks grant last year just so he could add a porcelain filigree around the hogs on the rotating golden codpiece. -
Lizzie:
I hadn’t thought much about that as it’s not in my will, but his advice to photograph it all and put valuation notices handy was heeded.
I had need to get valuations on some stuff I brought back from Saudi Arabia years ago because the Exwife said they were worth thousands.
I’d had them tested before and they were ‘Desert Diamonds” – just crystalline silica or something. The value was in the cutting. Some were quite nicely done, but essentially worthless. So I took them to a Jewellers and got a valuation certificate. Worth – $500. Cost of valuation – $500
I keep them in an ostentatious jewellery box that thieves would just love to grab and run with. -
Cassie of Sydney:
none have fought the good fight against woke tyranny, all they’ve done is to cower spinelessly, to appease, to hide away or to capitulate.
Just like they did with Hitler, with Stalin, and with Mao.
They have not since the Second World War stood against the Marxist tide lapping on our beaches, flowing into our universities and schools, or the Courts and the Judiciary, made a meaningful stand to defend the Conservative ideals they claim to have a monopoly of.
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After watching the Lindsay speech and sharing it with my daughter I’m left pondering what can be done.
One thing is to call it out just as Lindsay does.
Expect to be met with guffaws and ridicule but push on. I like the words ‘communist’ and ‘Commo’ and use them when talking of the Greens. You can use ‘Marxist’ if of more delicate sensibility. The thing is that university types like to mock this kind of language but it is accurate and it provokes them and as Lindsay shows it’s not just empty rhetoric. Its meaty and substantial and cuts through the soft, wordy, virtue signaling that the left deploy and hide behind.
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Many years ago I wrote a novel set in early Australia and drawing from events of the time, particularly the lead up to Federation
It seems the build up to Federation was the time of a great deal of wheeling, dealing, and deal making. At one stage, New Zealand was going to become a State, and John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia drove a very hard bargain, indeed, before he consented to a referendum as to whether or not Western Australia would join Federation.
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My memory isn’t faulty!
Diamond Head, located in Crowdy Bay National Park, is one of the most colourful and beautiful areas on NSW’s coast and is well worth a visit. The headland gained its name from the quartz rich rocks, plentiful in the area, which contain an abundance of small, perfectly formed, clear quartz crystals whose appearance resembles diamonds.
How about that.
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Muddy!
Not just cultural appropriation, but you were thinking about misgendering me too, weren’t you?
Pffft. You young people!Young? I’m an old fart somewhat like your good self, sport.
In fact my 71th birthday is coming up and you will all be reminded to serve obeisance on that day or I will post multiple old fart music – The Beatles will do for a start. -
Dot, I don’t know about the Flinders Island topaz, but when I was a kid we found lots of topaz at Mitchell River near Guyra in NSW. And some nice sapphires, which was why we were there. I liked the topaz especially, it almost glows. Luminescent. That place also had lots of smoky quartz, which is pretty yummy too. All were very worn and rounded, which means eons of erosion. Topaz especially, it’s not far off diamond on the Moh’s scale.
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Vagabond:
Here in Melbourne the govt is building about 1000 public housing apartments in a prime part of Hawthorn (at the park end of Robinson Road near Scotch Hill for those who know the area). This is in Monique Ryan and Pesutto’s electorates which once were respectively prime federal and state liberal territories. What do you think the effect will be on local demographics and voting outcomes once those apartments are populated with Dan’s clients enrolled to vote?
What do I think the effect will be?
Easy, the intended one. Crashed property prices, increased crime, the usual.
You won’t see these apartments in solid Labor seats – until they switch to Liberal seats.
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The German missionary who witnessed one of the shooting parties, and was later shot by Handcock.
The German missionary, Daniel Heese, was actually a British subject at the time of his murder, having being born in the Cape Colony. When it was suggested to his father that the matter of his murder could be raised in the Reichstag, Heese senior refused, saying his son should rest in peace.
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Australia’s AUKUS partner red-faced after sub files found in pub’s toilet
Rob Harris
By Rob Harris
April 29, 2023 — 7.36pmLondon: Australia’s partner in the $368 billion AUKUS defence deal has been left red-faced after official documents about one of its Astute-class submarines were found in the toilets of a local pub.
Files carrying details about HMS Anson were left in the Furness Railway in Cumbria, alongside a Royal Navy lanyard, and showed the inner workings of the nuclear-powered submarine and were used by submariners learning how to isolate and depressurise elements of its system.
The pub is a short distance from a BAE systems shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, where Australian submariners will undergo training as part of the agreement with Britain and the United States over the cutting-edge nuclear submarines.
The Royal Navy has played down part of the report carried in Britain’s The Sun newspaper, which said the files, marked “official sensitive”, were discovered on the floor of a cubicle.
Government guidance says that information marked “Sensitive” must only be shared on “genuine need to know” and could have damaging consequences if lost, stolen or published.
The Royal Navy said it would investigate the breach, but said the papers were generic resources and did not contain any classified information.
“These are generic training documents that carry no classified information,” a Royal Navy spokesman said. “However, we take all security matters extremely seriously and will investigate the circumstances of their discovery.”
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The Furedi’s speech is inspirational as well.
“If we can adopt a more robust fighting attitude, then we can get the people on our side, the people will support us against the elites, against the corporations, against those people on top who are promoting this idiotology – and we will win I’m sure, but I would rather it was sooner rather than later”
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How do we best deal with the woke progressive left and their incessant lies, deceptions, dissimulations, fictions, propaganda, disinformation, misinformation, myths, half-truths and exaggeration? Well, our first response should be verbal. A few days before he was sacked by Fox, Tucker Carlson gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation. In his speech Tucker said something we should all do when we deal with the progressive left and woke ideology. Tucker said….
“the more you tell the truth, the stronger you become”
Indeed. Instead of silence, instead of running for cover, instead of cowering in the corner, we need to stand up and tell the truth.
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Never mind Albo and the Sandilands wedding. Another day, another educational report on the Hunchback’s Victoria:
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A deceased “heavily medicated” dinobore among some English Roses – the brunette chick in the puce (?) slip from 1:49 on is about as magnifique as it gets … 🙂
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Winston> I want to evaluate the counter proposition to what appears to be a common view here about Biden & Trump. What if Trump is a crazy lunatic who could draw us into nuclear war whereas Biden is too senile to achieve anything major?
I don’t really have a dog in USA politics i.e. don’t care either way. Still, its good to check why Biden is the devil and why Trump is a saviour for the USA when it could be the other way around.
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The whacky world of islam: Jihad Watch
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Well, our first response should be verbal
the power of “no”
just say no
and to twist an old sales idea … just have one more ‘no’ that they have yesnext time somebody proto-Mao tells you why they think you should ‘xyz’
… just tell em that you don’t give a shit the about the crap in their headand if they get their threat generator going?
do what I did once when getting lectured by a multi-national supplier
ignoring his gibber, I stood up and looked over his shoulder while he was talking.
looked behind him
made a show of looking under the desk tooI shit him to the point where he gushed, “wtf are you doing?” and I calmly replied, “I’m looking for the stick, mate”
and when he said, ‘what stick, you idiot?”
I looked him in the eye and said “don’t threaten me you clown, either hit me or F-off”have I mentioned before, that you should never negotiate with terrorists?
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Apropos of nothing – Miss planet disporting herself in her leopard print bikini – guaranteed to put a smile on the most jaded face 🙂
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Hey, Miss Personage – we’re all just baybees in my view …
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But just a little is enough …
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Biden touching girls compilation (RAW CSPAN FOOTAGE)
Compilation of Vice President Joe Biden touching girls inappropriately live on CSPAN (RAW VIDEO & AUDIO) on January 6, 2015. Imagine what he does off camera.
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White elephant $220million 1000-bed quarantine centre is given away for FREE after housing just 730 travellers – at a cost of $300,000 a person
The Wellcamp facility near Toowoomba, 127kms west of Brisbane, was gifted to the Wagner Corporation on Saturday after acting as a quarantine camp for unvaccinated tourists last year.
The facility went largely unused during the pandemic after completing construction in February 2022 just as covid restrictions were easing nationwide. -
Winston Smith says:
April 30, 2023 at 5:24 amWhite elephant $220million 1000-bed quarantine centre is given away for FREE after housing just 730 travellers – at a cost of $300,000 a person
The Wellcamp facility near Toowoomba, 127kms west of Brisbane, was gifted to the Wagner Corporation
That group must have the Midas touch.
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Dot:
Were they Herkimer diamonds?
No, those look quite different. These are just clear crystalline rock that have been cut to resemble diamonds. But they ain’t.
Any geologist will be able to say what they are, I’m just having a mental block on the name which is quite common. (The rock – not the mental block.) -
Alamak*^!11:
What if Trump is a crazy lunatic who could draw us into nuclear war whereas Biden is too senile to achieve anything major?
Well you could go by past achievements – Trump is the only President in the last thirty odd years who didn’t start a new conflict, and brokered multiple peace deals that held until the Obama/Biden/Harris regime got back in.
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Even CNN is roasting Randi Weingarten of the US Teachers Union for her role in keeping schools closed “because covid”.
But we had school closures as well. Where is the roasting?
It looks like there’s no backlash at all here. Neither the pollies or the “health authorities” have copped it. In fact our Labor federal government is running ads encouraging booster shots of the very vaccines that Naomi Wolf, the former lefty feminist, says have caused a lot of damage to women’s reproductive capacity. -
Some rag called the Daily Digest is telling readers who never heard of Tucker Carlson that he’s a controversial right wing conspiracy theorist fan boy of Trump. While we might lament how far gone the US media is, pause for a moment to reflect just how bad our own media crew is.
Ninety percent of them are supportive of Labor, Greens, and Teals.
This is why we have wall to wall Labor governments now, and why things will go from bad to worse here. -
Bruce of Newcastle
A nice bit of Slovenian electro-industrial rock.
I should watch the movie again! The band is Laibach, who did the soundtrack.
Not Laibach’s best work, but not bad.
They have been doing some excellent work lately, for example, Medea Material is absolutely top shelf.
Shame they are filthy commies though.
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In this talks, as well as in New Discourses podcasts, Lindsay also advocates against the use of violence to woketards’ provocations…
How a pacifist, Christian, turn-the-other-cheek strategy could possibly succeed against the overt violence of the activists, Antifas and other assorted scum still escapes me.When the law makers and law enforcers are all on the side of the Marxists/Maoists, you have a problem with this strategy. You are back to 30’s Germany or, for Christians, Nero’s Rome. There aren’t a lot of options left.
“Medium level violence” works when the law is behind it (see BLM and Antifa in 2020). Low level cultural violence against inanimate objects like artworks and statues is permissible and has been for a long time, provided there’s an acceptable reason for it and the target is a class enemy.
I would also count the environmental vandalism of the so-called Green and renewable movement a form of violence. It makes no sense, either scientifically or aesthetically, yet it’s not only permissible, it’s stridently defended through all levels of the community and polity.
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Anchor What:
In fact our Labor federal government is running ads encouraging booster shots of the very vaccines that Naomi Wolf, the former lefty feminist, says have caused a lot of damage to women’s reproductive capacity.
The government immigration policy, the refusal to increase the power, road and water infrastructure policy, and the immunisation policy that damages womens reproductive capacity – all these policies only make sense in a replacement of the population policy.
Sounds crazy?
Sounds very 2030 -2050 Net Zero to me. Australia being populated with Indian and Chinese immigrants who will replace us.
It’s about time we started thinking the unthinkable – that our elites want us gone and replaced by a more malleable voteherd and that they are working toward this. -
The Bee also, Anchor.
Cassie reminded us last night that telling the truth makes you stronger and Matrix has a story about dealing with bullies.
You just have to speak up while you can, whenever the rubbish is spruiked. It’s the only way. Like Puddleglum, speaking the truth isn’t enough – you also have to put your foot into the fire and mash it out. And that takes courage and involves risk. Many here are much braver than me – I realised that during the Covid restrictions.
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Some good news:
Brave Search Engine Ditches Bing, Achieves Self Reliance (29 Apr)
Tried it just now on Tony Heller’s site. MUCH better! Hitherto no search engine would give unforced results from his site, he was anathemized by both Bing and Goolag for climate wrongthink. Now I’m seeing relevant results, although not perfect since it didn’t return a recent blog post he put up – but it did put up a similar one from some days earlier.
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Alamak!says:
April 29, 2023 at 11:23 pm
Winston> I want to evaluate the counter proposition to what appears to be a common view here about Biden & Trump. What if Trump is a crazy lunatic who could draw us into nuclear war whereas Biden is too senile to achieve anything major?Then compare their actual performance while in office.
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Hospital food isn’t great, but can lead to excellent entertainment.
XR Founder Moans About His Carrots (29 Apr)
“Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam has taken to Twitter to share his frustration in an 11-point thread after he was served carrots and a handful of potatoes for dinner as the ‘vegan option’ in hospital.
Mr Hallam posted a photo of an almost empty plate from his bed which had just a portion of carrots on it, writing 391 words on the environmental benefits of going vegan – but did admit he had already eaten the ‘six’ potatoes that were served on the side.
The controversial environmentalist, 56, who also helped form eco mobs Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, has been in hospital after ‘crushing’ his leg during an accident while riding his bike.”
Maybe a nice nurse will help him glue himself to the bed to protest more effectively.
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calli says:
April 30, 2023 at 7:25 amspeaking the truth isn’t enough – you also have to put your foot into the fire and mash it out.
Yes.
How has passive “resistance” worked out for the Tibetans, or the European Jews, among others, in the past?
As Mao famously said in 1927: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”In this climate, anything that doesn’t include an element of organised, tangible, kinetic-energy-laden “push back” that leads the evil woke to think twice about “trying it on” is a waste of time.
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Put it down great grandpa.
SEXCLUSIVE: Experts warn of STI epidemic in RETIREMENT HOMES: Infection rates among seniors have quadrupled in some states over last decade — as doctors blame elderly DATING APPS, care-free attitudes and ease of access to Viagra
These seniors are getting buck wild on the PBS. These little whores are partying on my dime. I demand a right to slap them around and take a 25% vig of their medical bills.
Clown world is the real pimp playa:
Dr Shannon Dowler has made rap videos to raise awareness of the rising STI rates in seniors
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Yes that’s true Gilas and the left use both (illegal) violence and intimidation as well as gaining control of the apparatus of government aka the rule of law. Voting your way out of the technocratic globalist hell hasn’t worked yet either- the Trumble putsch in 2015, the neutering of Brexit and the theft of the 2020 election are recent examples. The truth is the only language some people understand is a knuckle sandwich.
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These people truly, truly hate us.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
CDC renews Covid vaccine requirement for travelers entering the US.0% science. 100% cult.
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