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There was cannibalism in remote tribes in PNG well into the 20th century. It was ritualistic. Same for New Hebrides…
Evidence is provided that adding 100 % of N1-methyl-pseudouridine (m1?) to the mRNA vaccine in a melanoma model stimulated cancer…
Meme
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What…and bring the wrath of Michael Mansell down upon them?
Bruce Pascoe was unavailable for comment.
Thanks Anastacia – you really don’t want Labor to be reelected do you?
Fortunately for the ALP this free kick won’t by taken up by Christwhatafool & the LNP.
Spotted in the discount bin at a booshop last week: Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’.
Australia is the world capital of the money-making scam, led by the renewable energy subsidy miners, and fake Aboriginality has become just another one of them.
Last seen walking down the Path to Treaty hand in hand with Palaszczuk.
Everything I’ve seen suggests Labor are digging in. Deny, deny, deny.
‘No, I wasn’t aware of all the details’ is stage one. Fallback position, I don’t recall and I’m worried about the mental health of a young woman.
There are no real head kickers among the Libs capable of countering this garbage.
his nemesis will be
not zatoichi … who protects the innocent
not the derivative old mate Caine from John Wick IV for whom duty is the highest calling
nah … old blind Lady Justice with a sword
careful what you wish for mUnty, after you’ve had her eyes out
read some history
for you have eyes but do not use them
Would have ruined that smooth silhouette, Calli.
Do we need Mark Latham to detail the meanings of ‘mofo’ and ‘pussy hat’?
It may be instructive for some.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
June 10, 2023 at 4:02 pm
Some Karen noticed the country number plates, and the “Don’t Welcome Me to my Own Country” bumper sticker, and I got a rather sanctimonious lecture about how this was our chance to right the wrongs that had been done…I called her several rather rude names in reply, but she didn’t speak Afrikaans..
Yes, but the temerity of these people. The audacity to lecture anybody in sanctimonious terms is tantamount to ‘bullying’. I have no doubt you can stand up for yourself but these people act like thugs who swarm in to intimidate anybody outside their ‘gang’.
Mark Latham’s gone very quiet lately…
It will be left to Peter Dutton to deliver the Libs a Newspoll primary vote nudging 40% — just enough to beat Mr 33%, who won government only because the SFLs under Morrison stank more than the ACT Labor-Greens circus does now.
It’s doable — starting with the apartheid referendum.
For my own part, I could never afford such an item of clothing these days. Apparently it is worth quite a bit.
When your on, a base rate, $210K plus freebies a year (and at least double that for a minister) I reckon a $1 000 Zampatti jacket is the equivalent of an op shopping purchase by an OAP …. probably, the 1st she noticed it was missing was from the news article .. after all, it’s only “workwear’ that’ll be why it was in the office cupboard ……!
lol
before and after
never during
Cats – whenever I’m depressed, whenever I’m happy, whenever the need is there to unburden the self, whenever it’s time to read of the latest collectivist stupidity and whenever I might feel like ranting, this is the place. I appreciate you’re all thrilled about this (again).
Yes, the tunes and the images of aesthetically pleasing young womanages may seem (somewhat) self indulgent…
We are born, we live, we die. Just get amongst it.
Every time I see this title I think of “Oh, Promised Land” by James Street
I read in my teens in the late 50s.
Many of these problems stem from stupid, ignorant people who have never been allowed to find out that they are stupid and ignorant. It’s straightforward to point it out to them, and indeed a moral obligation. As well as a pleasure.
We are not only being governed by donkeys, but also on the sidelines, a load of asses…………………FFS
And, bloody, expensive ASSES , at that .. $100K straight out of school just cos Mummy & Daddy or someone they know putz a word in the right ear .. and we getz all excited over silly things like ‘sportz” rorts & “whiteboards” ..
as if money matters .. LOL!
So who’s your latest babe fantasy, Rabz? Sorry, I don’t watch much TV if it doesn’t involve sport.
An optimistic scenario, to be sure Tommy. Don’t hold your breath.
Trump has one great opponent for his campaign to right the purported wrongs of his political career – Donald Trump. Since he has admitted on tape to having classified documents there is no party political or freedom of speech angle for his defence and he will end up being convicted due to his big mouth.
Trump has and always will follow the path of greatest publicity as thats how he ran his business, his personal relations and his political career. With obvious outcomes.
Personally I want him to run and lose, as I don’t accept the USA cannot produce someone better from 300M people. But Trump makes it very hard for Trump to even be available for the election when he can’t shut his mouth once in a while.
In analytic philosophy, yes.
Tomsays:
June 10, 2023 at 5:39 pm
It’s doable — starting with the apartheid referendum.
Its more than doable.
1. No way that an Energy Transition will ever work within the stated time frame (or ever).
2. Australia in Recession by 2024 with Home Owners being blasted by mortgage high interest rates.
3. The Voice failing
4. Corruption and the Unions out of Control
5. The Electorate finally waking up to the Madness
QED
Spotted in the discount bin at a booshop last week: Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’.
Michael’s book .. “Becoming” .. is a common op- shop find these dayz .. between $2 & $4 ……
Thanks, Rabz. Laughed out loud.
An exaggeration, but you can say the same about the relativist; namely, a relativist before and after, never during.
Fatty Trump will never be president of the US ever again.
However, who replaces that foul ol’ syphilitic geriatric as the dumbocrat candidate once the inevitable happens? e.g. he drops dead (publicly), finally.
The dumbocrats (as much as they would no doubt like to) can’t run him for 2024.
Spewsome?
A nice segue to this:
The case for bullying hippies: Green ideas are not just wrong but dangerous
Yesteday I was denied, for the first time on the newcatallaxy, posting a comment here.
Today, just now the same again.
Neither comments were of any worth.
Hard to understand why I couldn’t post them esp as this last one had no link attached.
Top Endersays:
June 10, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Mark Latham’s gone very quiet lately…
So has that Greenwich Tosser.
It’s OK my last comment has appeared. Sorry for the complaint.
Do we need Mark Latham to detail the meanings of ‘mofo’ and ‘pussy hat’?
Yes perhaps. Daily Telegraph with an Angela Mollard:
As Knuckle Dragger pointed out not long ago, no woman ever speaks like that about men. No siree.
Unless the uprising is sudden, and overwhelming in terms of both strength and momentum, this is an extremely unlikely scenario.
Part of the answer, though, is a better understanding and utilisation of human psychology, including the most powerful motivator: Fear.
I don’t mean instilling a fear of being the victim of physical violence; our opponents can get away with that, but we can’t. We can’t, because we have allowed our opponents to position us as ‘the enemy’ (of ‘progress’/progressives) for so long, that the narrative is ingrained.
The fear needs to be one of consequences for non-performance in a political sense. At the moment, the Liberals know that anyone who dislikes Labor or the Year Zeros, is practically forced to vote for the Blue Socks. They take our vote for granted, but we continue giving away something of value to a distant entity that dry wretches at the thought of us. We do so largely due to the drug that is nostalgia. It’s like pining for that high school crush, and how your life now would be so much better if she/he had acknowledged your existence back then. Nostalgia is such an intoxicant, but when it wears off, you’re still left with, well … your life. And the Liberal Party.
You’ll forgive the melodrama, but hopefully understand the intent.
The Liberal Party has no intention of meeting or exceeding our expectations, because there have been no consequences in the past when it has repeatedly let us down. No fear of negative consequences means no change in behaviour.
If those who routinely disappoint us don’t change their behaviour (why should they? If it’s working for them, why not keep on doing it?) … WE need to change ours.
burytheliberalparty
sixfeetisnotdeepenough
I’d wager that O’biden was told he wasn’t running in 2024, but he went off-script & announced his campaign, no doubt with encouragement from Dr. Jill & Hunter.
Susan Rice left his employ almost immediately thereafter. Very significant.
P, email Dover. I’m sure it’s not deliberate. More likely a techo-glitch.
Mysogyny!
Sorry, P. Perhaps your comments had certain magic words in them? When mine are sinbinned I find I wrote impiously.
P – If you get that problem click the thread title on the RHS sidebar below Dover’s book covers. Then if it still doesn’t appear do a ctl-R refresh. Works for me almost always.
The Libs will probably never reach 40% primary again. Mind you, neither will Labor. We are entering a period where the two-party system is breaking down.
Leave out the f word, P.
All good, P. Cheers.
Just kiddin’
😀
“Everything I’ve seen suggests Labor are digging in. Deny, deny, deny.
‘No, I wasn’t aware of all the details’ is stage one. Fallback position, I don’t recall and I’m worried about the mental health of a young woman.
There are no real head kickers among the Libs capable of countering this garbage.”
I wrote yesterday how I think federal Labor will try and follow Dan Andrews’ template and dig in. But, here’s the thing, it’s not gonna work federally.
As for Liberal head kickers, I remember the likes of Wilson Tuckey and Bill Heffernan, and more recently we had Craig Kelly and George Christensen, they’re all gonski, thanks to Turdbull and Scummo, who deliberatly moulded the Liberals into a motley vanilla, Labor lite party. Once upon a time the Liberals had backbenchers who’d speak their mind and, even if they were sometimes embarrassing, they’d do some filthy work. Gone now, the party is a shell.
Tommy, it’s all about symmetry.
Beautiful womanages have (almost) perfectly symmetrical faces.
Otherwise, it’s the ol’ “I may not know much about the history of the Ozzie labore pardee, but I know female beauty when I see it”.
Thank bloody goodness. 🙂
Was having coffee and a read at Dome a few weeks back and heard some lady pushing the ‘Voice’ onto a guy at next table. She was all about the “righting wrongs’, ‘giving a voice to the voiceless’, ‘a new way of government’ blah blah blah. The guy responded with ‘I’ll take a look at your docs’. My guess from their age etc she was trying to get some kind of ‘YES’ public support from the guys team/org/unit etc.
I gave the lady some comments as I could not handle the pure BS being pushed. Told her Voice was the worst policy ever proposed in Oz history and the death of our democracy. Pointed to NZ as an example of where race-based politics leads.
She blustered and talked about how I didnt understand the Voice and Australia needed a new kind of politics …. As mentioned above, the pushers of this c.r.a.p don’t know what to say when someone pushes back.
Linda Burney sees herself as walking in the footsteps of the giants who committed their lives to Indigenous recognition – words fail me, they honestly do,
“There are thousands of people falsely claiming Aboriginality in this country,”
Looking on the bright side .. we has no shortage of “house cleaners” ….. LOL!
MatrixTransformsays:
June 10, 2023 at 5:27 pm
Only Monty could take this farrago seriously
his nemesis will be
not zatoichi … who protects the innocent
not the derivative old mate Caine from John Wick IV for whom duty is the highest calling
nah … old blind Lady Justice with a sword
careful what you wish for mUnty, after you’ve had her eyes out
read some history
for you have eyes but do not use them
Given his comment about discussion here being “boring”, I am wondering why he comes here. Could it be that there are at least regular new posts here, and extensive, even if “boring”, discussion, unlike at Feral Catallaxy, where the tumbleweeds roll in the gentle breeze?
The poor boy is lonely.
burytheliberalparty
sixfeetisnotdeepenough
ALP shill detected.
In “clear air” news.
“We didn’t know full details”.
Hmmm, “full details” might require some careful definition.
Speaking of hair-splitting definitions, I expect their ABC to run hard with academic definitions of the precise meaning of “weaponise”.
Who knows, they might even call on a lower case philosopher to muddy things up a bit more.
Paul Keating admitted, one year, he had neglected to file his income tax return. Next year, Wilson Tuckey took out a full page ad, from memory in the Oz, reminding Paul Keating to file his return….
If the Liberals preference the Greens (who would line up to take selfies beside our desiccated carcass), is that better or worse than our spouse cheating on us?
Do we have so little self-esteem we think the former is fine?
“Rabz never thought he’d ditch his home contents insurance policy, until he did*”
They’ve seen you coming, Cats. Time to start opting out, en masse.
*Given the absurd amount they were asking – in the event of being gifted with a conceivably unforeseeable disaster, he could replace the entire “Imelda Collection” for less than the wasted insurance premium.
Is there any mention in the MSM of the UKR offensive
and how it’s going?
still floating above the Chesterfield couch sancho?
instead of repeating the same gibber ad nauseam,
you should try an aphorism
Cronkite, we know there’s now the legal precedent of unequal justice for all, so there’s no sense is carping about it. We need solutions not whining.
Correct head prefect, which is why I have offered my hand in marriage to Melania so when the big guy goes to jail she won’t get lonely.
As for Trump admitting on tape he’s got secret docs. FFS, he’s not an expert so Smith, the commie prosecutor, is basing his case on Trump’s expertise in secret docs.
There is a restaurant/ cafe around here that council seems to want to shut down. It is less than a year old, yet gets a weekly health inspection, and they have been refused a zoning change so they can open at night for dinner. Why? Because of one complaint that the banjos are too loud on a Sunday afternoon! This has mystified the owner as they have never had a banjo player as an entertainer.
Wilson Tuckey wasn’t very effective, neither was Heff.
The Liberal Party’s future will become clearer after the Fadden Byelection.
If Dutton loses it, then he’s retiring that day and Ley will get a turn.
There’ll be more byelections and if Ley can’t lift the Womens vote into winnable territory, she’ll go too.
Yes, Rabz. Yes, they do. Unlike Australian politicians and their grasping henchwymmynses like Britnah, goils (h/t Rabz) are beautifully designed.
Good on you.
Prior Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor performance.
Speaking of aesthetically pleasing young womanages …
Imagine what Picasso may have made of her, cats. 🙂
Yes, she’s a “ranga”
dover0beachsays:
June 10, 2023 at 6:14 pm
Is there any mention in the MSM of the UKR offensive
and how it’s going?
Apparently, according to the BBCDeeb (Peter Sellars pronunciation) it is underway. They have got no chance IMHO.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65860294
My home shire got a new health inspector six months ago.
She has gone from place to place shutting people down, threating them with shutdown, or refusing to allow them to open their home businesses without spending 25K on plumbers and stainless steel.
She uses phrases to the customers like “You country people think that you are exempt from the rules”.*
My informant is now not opening his historic shop as a cafe; he cannot afford it.
*all stories second hand, may contain minor variance from the Womyn’s lived experience
The “woke” in this district are urging the great unwashed, not to allow the new Aboriginal Heritage Legislation, to influence their vote for the voice at the forthcoming referendum……
LOL. The ‘electorate’ hasn’t even woken up to the plandemic and the clot shots. No, they will never wake up.
Bit in the Express this morning. A: slow.
Defender always has the advantage, and with artillery the Russians have an advantage.
But as I’ve said before this “offensive” is probably more designed to feed the West’s demands for one.
The whole thing is looking like two boxers in the 15th round trying to throw punches at each other.
mUnty has ideas
they’re all crammed in there
like four fat chicks in a ford fiesta
Tell me about it Tommy, I was briefly dating a “grasping henchwomanage” late last year before she unceremoniously dumped me for an Ozzie politician – who shall remain nameless.
The shame … 🙁
Good on you.
Prior Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor performance.
I always understood it to be the 7 P Factor.
Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
One more P and you have it Moriarty………………So said Mr Secombe……………………….Eccles said, Ho Hum………………..And Little Jim said……………He’s fallen in the water…………………..lol
Munty is great sage, equal of heaven.
Just ask him.
The Róisín …
Prior Preparation and Planning Prevents P1ss Poor Performance.
Linda Burney sees herself as walking in the footsteps of the giants who committed their lives to Indigenous recognition – words fail me, they honestly do,
3 per cent of the Australian population is duly recognised.
The other 97 per cent say NEXT.
touche
god in a fox hole etc
I just bought two four litre cans of Moro Extra Virgin olive oil from my IGA. They cost $131:22. It seems a lot. I don’t recall what it used to be the last time, but I sense a certain amount of inflation has occurred. Am I right?
Cassie at 6:01
I think “skinsuit” is the most appropriate appellation.
Special price for you.
It’s $43 for 4l at Colesworth
DrBeauGansays:
June 10, 2023 at 6:45 pm
I just bought two four litre cans of Moro Extra Virgin olive oil from my IGA. They cost $131:22. It seems a lot. I don’t recall what it used to be the last time, but I sense a certain amount of inflation has occurred. Am I right?
Of course you are absolutely right. But Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen and the Apprentice Treasurer will never see this inflation. They are protected by the Political Bubble and have no experience of struggling to make ends meet. Tossers.
Tommy – speaking of 100% Sicilian Mafia Hitmen – here’s the origin of the noun “Goils“. 🙂
Just finalised the works on an insurance claim for damage done to the country estate by persons unknown driving a conveyance which they did not have title to.
Six month bunfight with insurance company, including them being unable to find an assessor.
They finally got a guy to do the assessment from Brisbane via video.
Advantage Sancho, as director of that little “need to know” TeeVee production.
I eventually got a hold of their costed assessment report (not sure if they intended to send it), and it just needed adjusting for some “cash settlement” exclusions using their unit rates.
After hours of to and fro on the phone I finally found someone who got it and agreed with my calcs and paid out a cash settlement for the full job.
Here’s the thing.
We have spent just on 53% of the payout and for a higher quality finish than their spec.
Their estimate was double actual cost.
When you ask where your premiums go, they go on grossly inflated building estimates.
She has weird eyes, and it’s a ranga.
Are you having a bath?
Moro isn’t really top notch so $16 a litre does seem high.
Oils ain’t oils Rabz.
Primus – Tommy The Cat (1989)
Did they charge for three cans?
I have experienced a change of IGA ownership where I suspected the checkouts were regularly double-scanning ‘by accident’.
Doc – you’ll live.
Posted a comment here some months ago attempting to point out the massive increases in my power and gas bills from 2021 to 2022*, only to discover that my electrickery bill had increased by 2.1% and my gas bill by 4.4%.
Outraged, I unfortunately was not. 😕
*the 2022 to 2023 increases may be remotely instructive as to the idiocy of Blackout Bowen.
It was in the country.
If you were in the city an approved supplier would have had to accept 60% of the estimate to keep a place on the approved list.
The current batch of liberal Politicians are the sort who make cuck porn and think it’s hot getting a blowie from a cock in a frock, whilst having a butt plug crammed up their jaksie.
No objective evidence.
However testimony, such as from the plaintiff / alleged victim, is a form of legal evidence (and is the most frequently accepted form of evidence in court cases).
In terms of anything that rises above he said / she said, the coverage has made that seem quite thin on the ground. Still amazing is how an unauthorised access of the defence ministers office can occur at all. It’s quite normal in the private sector for prox cards to have office hour time limits set on them, and that’s for jobs that aren’t defence classified. Did the guards just manually wave them through or what?
It’s just easier to talk about contributing factors of the case that are definite and objective rather than the more important central mystery of casting-couch versus passing-out.
So, who keeps the 40%?
Or, more to the point, why do they over-estimate if they know they are going to beat the contractors down?
The Mareeba borrow pit nonsense is most encouraging.
I am sure that it sounds wonderful to the South Brisbane wokerartie, but in the real world, Beryl and Jim bouncing their way into town to buy the monthly groceries ain’t gonna cop it.
I dont know; its a mystery. I have however participated when after major storm damage to a fence I lodged a claim, then had to be my own contractor.
Maybe I have it all wrong; in today’s climate I would likely not be able to get a tradie to do anything at a discount even for a steady stream of jobs.
Alternatively, maybe its a management KPI.
Moro is good but seriously, a couple of years old pick and all the way from Spain?
I tend to go local … bought 8 litre recently from Robinvale Estate
4 litres $54
Is that Moro, Rosie? I don’t expect the best, and I use it for cooking, but I assume that Spanish beats most alternatives.
MSM getting a bit toey about the Mar-A-Lago indictment of Trump and are trying to head off the application of the infamous slick willy sock drawer case where slick kept HIGHLY confidential recordings of his talks with foreign leaders in his sock drawer. Public dissemination of those tapes was tested in 2012 when Judicial Watch sought the release of the tapes but the Judge said no no, these were slick’s PERSONAL records and were exempt from any demands or allegations. It seems this case establishes a former POTUS may not be able to reclassify secret to non secret but he has an unassailable right to claim anything as personal and be exempt to challenge.
I don’t think my IGA does that, MT, but I’ll give them a go.
The Abbey Road pedestrian crossing may be around the corner from Lords rather than The Oval, but either way, it looks glorious for cricket!
I squibbed putting the apostrophe in Lord’s, above, as I wasn’t sure if there were one or many Lords. There was one, apparentely.
Truth Justice ™
@SpartaJustice
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Attorney’s and U.S. Sheriffs working together to criminally charge Anthony Fauci, Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak and many others for racketeering, collusion in creating the Wuhan virus and premeditated murder of thousands by Remdesivir and Covid Vaccines.
That Breaking News re Fauci was from January. Crickets since.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy · 12h
It is all very simple. If the Aborigines really want their land back, well give it back to them as it was in 1788.
Take away everything that has ever been developed on this Continent ever since.
Then, over to your Mob now.
Let’s see how this pans out. The First Inventors………………Yeah, right…………..SBS
Make a great reality T.V. show!
It sure is a mystery.
And this wasn’t a tiny claim which might be doubled for the “dick around factor”.
It was the thick end of $100k on their estimate (yes, the dickheads managed to hit a lot of stuff with their conveyance).
Example.
Cement rendering.
I used the best in the business from Shelbyville (does National Trust type restoration work) and the cost came in at $4.5k.
Insurance company estimate $21k.
Go figure.
Biden received $5mn in bribery scheme from Ukrainian gas firm executive: Report
Sacré bleu!
This planet is going to hell in a handcart and we’re discussing Beaugy’s Olive Oil bills?
😕
Didn’t Sir Garfield Barwick say that it was a crime to avoid paying your tax, it was not a crime to minimise that tax?
The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America
‘Pizzagate Is Real’: WSJ Uncovers Massive Pedophile Ring on Instagram Using ‘Pizza Code Words’
I think we must be wary of playing a simplified game. Sure the Nasti party branded itself ‘socialist’, but then how many Communist nation themselves as Democratic?
DPRK, anyone?
But some actual comparisons of policy – government control of prices and wages, of media, intolerance of dissent as ‘threatening the body politic’, active exclusion of alternative political parties as a threat to established orthodoxy and socio-political teleology, intolerance of free speech, secret police, show trials, increased use of military for domestic purposes (because enemies are without and within), deification of leaders (I mean superhuman traits), and so on.
Then you can have a look at how things have been changing here over the last few years – how have things been tending? Toward the socialist/Nasti? Or against?
Anti-cop ice cream chain sues Seattle over ‘significant losses’ from BLM autonomous zone they promoted
order online direct with the producer, old fella
I’m remembering a couple of almost theological arguments with “Numbers Bob” on this subject. I seem to remember someone posted the Nasti’s platform, which revealed several “socialist” policies.
Britnee refused to go to doctor because she’d probably taken something that put her in a deep sleep . No it wasn’t chocolate
Could be worse. Could be goils. Or, even worse, pop music. Or, worst of all, cute owls.
A first time for the cochlea … I think? Anyway, great clip.
Bowie:
Absolute Beginners was released in 1986 and featured as the theme song to the film of the same name.
David Bowie – Absolute Beginners (Official Video)
We got rid of a 20-minute neighbourhood!
The shipping cost makes my IGA cheaper, old fella.
ah huh, yep
speak yr truth
brine yr olives
paint yr toy soldiers
make a pizza
ring yr brother
It seems trivial but it’s indicative of bigger problems, that’s what prices do, they contain information in a very efficient manner.
That would be me, I think.
I have Goebbels’s defence of Nazi socialist policies (c. 1933) on file.
Remind me tomorrow to dig it up & post it, if anyone is interested.
I was just reading yesterday how Hitler wanted to nationalise big business but was dissuaded. To save themselves and their property the magnates signed up to the nationalist aspect of the national socialist agenda. Much like big business’s current support for Woke, in fact.
Dr. John Campbell
Government guess work
Ahahaha! On board games…I was triumphant at my first game of Azul with well-experienced opponents! By a country mile.
And…as my foes marvelled at my pattern-making skills…I drew their attention to the game’s name said backwards.
Life is good. 😀
6:14 pm
Yes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/jun/10/russia-ukraine-war-livehumanitarian-crisis-hugely-worse-after-kakhovka-dam-collapse-says-un-aid-chief?page=with:block-648423c88f0862658b7a2c81#block-648423c88f0862658b7a2c81
2h ago
17.33 AEST
Ukraine has penetrated Russian lines in some areas, says UK
The latest intelligence update from the UK’s Ministry of Defence said over the past 48 hours “significant” Ukrainian operations have taken place in several sectors of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have “likely made good progress” and “penetrated the first line of Russian defences”, the MoD added. However, in other areas “Ukrainian progress has been slower”.
Meanwhile, Russian performance has been “mixed”, with some units “likely conducting credible manoeuvre defence operations while others have pulled back in some disorder, amid increased reports of Russian casualties as they withdraw through their own minefields”.
The update added: “The Russian Airforce has been unusually active over southern Ukraine, where the airspace is more permissive for Russia than in other parts of the country. However, it remains unclear whether tactical airstrikes have been effective.”
Exactly!
The Nastis reveal them as socialist in their policies. Their name (like the Liberal party, or Labor party) is a brand.
People who adore what they see as socialism and despise the Nastis are often unaware that they are essentially the same, and they are unconsciously promoting Nasti policies because they think they are fighting against them by promoting socialist policies…which are actually Nasti policies
They will condemn concentration camps while justifying gulags.
Oh. Just scrolled up. Hell in a handcart.
Yes, yes it is and has been doing so for a long, long time. The unimportant, un-influential people must do what they do best and that’s build their families, their communities, their personal resilience to counter it.
A nation of shopkeepers did it. So can we.
spent the afternoon with an old Czech today
he said the Russkies simply rolled in overnight and replaced one communist regime with another
they shot the bloke beside him in the face when he escaped
this thing has now haunted him to his grave
he hasn’t given up
he just paints his toy soldiers and watches old videos
A novel essaying the experiences of young peoples of the Modernist persuasion in late 1950s Britain.
A Jam song from 1983
A 1986 film starring a seriously squeezable young English Rose, Miss Patsy Kensit*
*The eventual woife of Jim Kerr and Liam Galaga
Payne Haas punched out another 70mins tonight.
Just incredible.
We are watching the most impactful & consistent forward in the last decade at the moment.
free shipping over $120
try their olives
Try the fish!
Heh. Cruel, grandma.
Speaking of which.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
Weezer
Kyle Rittenhouse
Kenosha seems like a pretty rad place.
That’s going to stick.
Hopefully with a pike or poleaxe, but a pineapple will do.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised (shocked yes, but not surprised) if somewhere, one of these days, a mistreated cafe or bistro operator does a Croppa Creek* on a council health inspector.
(*Nine years ago at Croppa Creek in NSW, a landowner shot dead a member of Bob Carr’s Green Gestapo.)
They say drug dealers use Instagram.
Have a squiz.
Sade Killer Blow (Absolute Beginners 1986)
From what I hear they haven’t even reached the first line of defense. Here’s a map.
Depending how bad that section of road is, it could cause quite some inconveneince.
There’s a couple of large cattle stations have that road as their only way to shift cattle out.
Hear What the People Think: WHO Seeks to Expand Authority Over Global Health
The rulers want to tell us what to do on the assumption that we desperately need to be told what to do. The idea that we want the truth, when the truth is the government doesn’t know, is alien to their way of thought. And the big problem is that once they’ve tossed a coin and told us what is the right thing to do, then it becomes impossible for them to admit they got it wrong. Because then we’d never trust them again.
Right…
They were just awesome.
I’ve got a New (English) Rose …
She’s blundering around in Ultimo?
I just published that information about Insta on its Wikipedia entry, referencing the WSJ.
Wonder how long it stays there.
Have a look at this.
A Horse With No Name – America (music video)
Payne Hass just upped the asking price for his rumoured switch to Rugby Union.
Poor gal has already become a meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-dream-bf
https://twitter.com/enlightenedcoop/status/1664089929339617285
My dream bf
– 6ft
– $300-500K total comp
– very ambitious & driven
– 27-33yo
– brown eyes
– loves nyc
– rlly funny but a bit weird
– rlly kind & has a moral system
– not trust fund baby (self made)
– good taste
– good listener & planner
– loves running & reading
– loves me a LOT
not married
any race
at least 6′ tall
any weight
earning at least $300,000 per year
According to statistical data, the probability a guy of the U.S. male population ages 27 to 33 meets your standards is 0.032%
[Actually less with brown eyes, like NYC and no significant parental wealth, let alone the rest].
There’s a good chance these guys are at Dorsia, returning some VHS tapes or feeding an ATM a cat. Really, they’re finance dudebros or coding geeks on the left coast.
Take a look. It’ll chime with emotions in the brain.
Skeeter Davis – The End of the World
Ed Casesays:
June 10, 2023 at 6:06 pm
burytheliberalparty
sixfeetisnotdeepenough
ALP shill detected.
Thus speaks Grandpa Cletus, who spends his (wasted) time here repeating Labor talking points like” The Liberals have a woman problem”. Give it up Grandpa, you are not convincing anyone except m0nty the fascist, who will believe anything.
Hahahahahahaha It hasn’t changed much since I lived there as there always was an imbalance of man-hungry young women. The young guys on the desk were having a ball. Literally. They call NYC, the graveyard for ovaries. Around 10% of the male population there at that specified attractive age group are flamers. That skews the dating market like crazy.
Muddysays:
June 10, 2023 at 6:10 pm
If the Liberals preference the Greens (who would line up to take selfies beside our desiccated carcass), is that better or worse than our spouse cheating on us?
Step 1 in the counter-offensive.
Remind everyone that Party preference lists are NOT compulsory. Every voter has the right to select their own preferences.
The ideal bf spec didn’t mention hetero.
Yeah, be a braindead hick mulling over 120 names on a Senate Ballot Paper [none of whom mean anything to you] while 80 people are standing outside in the sun waiting to vote.
One of the ouens has a wedding to attend, and would be grateful for any tips on etiquette.
Can any Cats give advise on the etiquette of attending lesbian weddings? Does one kiss the bride?
You putting in an application, Sancho?
James Campbell has more on Canberra Khuntery:
Do you think Ed has posters of Wilkinson up on his wall which he jacks off to with gay abandon? Along with his thoughts of an underwear free Britney?
Boycott. Gay perverts should not be allowed to ‘marry’.
Boambee Johnsays:
June 10, 2023 at 1:46 pm
Ed Casesays:
June 10, 2023 at 11:40 am
Que?
What was the “Security Breach”?
The wasn’t one.
Link to the relevant section of the Parliament House Security Manual. This is the third time I have asked for this. If you are unable to provide it this time, it is reasonable to assume that you are again, as you commonly do, lying.
Readers might note that more than nine hours later, Grandpa Ed Cletus-Case has NOT linked to the Parliament House Security Manual.
Lying confirmed.
ZK2A how do you know which one is the bride?
Can any Cats give advise on the etiquette of attending lesbian weddings? Does one kiss the bride?
Yes but no tongue.
Here’s 1:35 of NATO Zero Discrimination Day on Twitter
What the ALP think of people who think for themselves:
“Braindead hicks”
Chair of Philosophy Dept. at well known university was asked by a guest at a dinner party (a former shearer), “When you get up in the morning what exactly do you do? His reply, “I think.”
The Ukraine offensive is playing into Russia’s hands. They will simply be slaughtered by overwhelming armillary. Ukraine cannot win. They will accept Russia’s terms or be annihilated. Choose.
Bleh, artillery.
My dream Goil Friend:
– 5′ 5″ – 5′ 11″
– has a jerb
– isn’t very ambitious & driven
– 27-49yo
– has eyes you could drown in
– loves Sydney’s inner west
– is not prone to engaging in crimes against humanity
– appreciates my immaculate taste
– has the same shoe and body size
– good listener & planner
– loves running & reading
– loves me a LOT
Not much to ask, Cats. Now to sit back and watch the offers come flooding in 🙂
MoLo contrasted:
The problem is not so much the simplification inherent in the label, because labels are essential to putting across arguments concisely, but rather a matter of term definitions being held in common in the dialogue. As long as we understand what is essential to democracy, we also understand that the self-titled DPRK is not merely a subtly different definition of Democratic but an outright falsehood. It would be fine to simplify their name to DPRK if NorK really was democratic.
Another subtlety is between socialist and Socialists. The Britannica has an emphatic conclusion that by the end of 1934 “Any remaining traces of socialist thought in the Nazi Party had been extinguished.” Yet its main supporting argument is that the SS had bumped off the Party’s last main Socialist idealogue, Gregor Strasser. His brother Otto had already split from the Nazis to form his own Socialist party and probably would have been next on the chopping block if he hadn’t fled to munch mapleleafs. IMHO, there is not enough support given there that the rivalry was mainly ideological, rather than purely a risk of split loyalties from Gregor for his bro and the possibility of splitting public support for Hitler’s party down the line. Murdering a potential Socialist rival faction by itself doesn’t absolve the Nazis of also being socialist themselves.
What is very clear and basically not contested by any side in that debate is that the Nazis originated in socialism and they later gave up some of these policies to gain financial support of the industry bosses.
From that point onwards it is all grey area. Firstly socialists have never been too precise about whether Socialism is defined by goals or by means – a problem Hayek pointed out.
Then there’s the grey area of how many socialist policies a totally Socialist party has to ditch before they are no longer socialist with a lowercase ‘s’.
The presence of nominal private property (and companies) in 1930s Germany and its insignificance (or non-existence) in the USSR is usually taken by normies as the deciding factor in excluding the NSDP regime from socialism. I favour the functional equivalence test. If in practice it quacks like socialism, it’s probably socialist. So what exactly is the significance of owning private property when you have to check with the nearest Party official about what you’re allowed to do with your own property? The Nazis had a party official sitting next to every managing director in the major companies checking what was being done. It does not sound distinct from socialism in the practical sense.
On top of that, they nationalised many sectors of the economy.
In 1949 Mises did not see any grey area and had clear cut definitions. He also sweptboth countries into the socialist category, his explanation mainly invoking the absence of an effective domestic pricing system in both. There’s not much detail in that paragraph. I have to read between the lines here and infer that the totalitarian methods of the Nazis had commanded the economy to the extent that few major purchasing decisions were being done as a free choice amongst potential projects. Thus subjective value was not being represented in prices. Or quacking like socialism in my analogy.
Mises goes into more detail in Chapter 27 of Human Action. I think the essence can be said more compactly.
It does not matter precisely why freedom of choice has been eliminated, either the elimination of the property options or elimination of the freedom, this will also eliminate proper (subjective) pricing mechanisms. In the absence of the real deal, the socialist price-by-committee system takes over, and quacking intensifies.
Ed Casesays:
June 10, 2023 at 9:01 pm
Yeah, be a braindead hick mulling over 120 names on a Senate Ballot Paper [none of whom mean anything to you] while 80 people are standing outside in the sun waiting to vote.
Grandpa Cletus the Labor shill expresses his party’s fear that voters might start to take their responsibilities seriously, look at (theoretical) platforms and (actual) performance and vote accordingly.
You can smell the fear, even through the pixels.
Gallagher the lead on the 6pm and 7pm News – she’s finished, won’t last the week. kd wrong sounding very mealy mouthed and careful with the language she is using now. Not a good time to be a Mean Girl. Let’s hope Kitching is enjoying it.
They will accept Russia’s terms or be annihilated. Choose.
Newsflash!
Russia withdrew Terms about 12 months ago.
Zelenslkyy is using Blocking Units, so there’s no surrender and there’s no retreat for the stupid Hohols.
Hitler never ran out of planes, he ran out of pilots. In a similar way, Ukraine will be bled dry. 1/2 the population has cowardly fled to the West and will never ever go back. Ukraine will cease to exist.
That will be the one that doesn’t look like a cohenite Q-towel link.
Bear – this sounds much like gloating before the event. Which of course, we never do.
Get back to us next Friday evening (AEST).
*Trigger warning – hideously uglee labore slag
I would not call women and children (or the elderly) fleeing a warzone, cowards. The men could not leave. In the long term, unless they can constantly have tactical victories, they cannot win. If they are to agree to terms, what are Russia’s terms, that won’t make Ukraine a rump state ready to be carved up? Why would Ukraine agree to that?
They have lost an awful lot but the idea that they are finished because they’ve suffered huge losses is up to them. Choose the right policies and people will come back and want to have large families. Mimicking the West for the most part here will not help.
There’s no reason why third parties cannot act as security in disputed regions, we see fair and free referendums and the chips fall as they may. The war could end with one phone call.
Ah ha. That explains the explosion of “Ukrainian Brides” on my YouTube feeds.
The opinions of Doc Coleman:
Passing Observations 174
Yeah, Elbow has gone to the media strategy whiteboard and scrubbed the Slapper’s go-to line … “Just right wing nut-jobs on the web” along with “Sky after dark”.
I fully support Katy.
But, by all means, keep going her first.
KKK might actually mean it this week when she says she is glad to be out of it.
Morality, Pol – it is an abstract concept.
Dover.
I’ve just emailed you another post submission.
Please check your spam folder in case it heads there.
Cheers.
Big pay in US aviation land.
JC – you remember Mikey Moore’s schlockumentary that commenced with horror stories about pilots’ pay?
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you horrible mob.
I’m reading “Fortnight of Infamy – The Collapse of Allied Airpower West Of Pearl Harbor” by John Burton – nothing to do with lesbian weddings, I know.
After the devastating Japanese raids raids on Clark Field, in the Philippines, virtually destroying the United States Army Air Force contingent there, on the ground, senior “brass” spent a week arguing over who was responsible for collecting corpses, and handling death records and burial services.
“a grotesque reminder that the United States was as mentally unprepared for war as it was militarily ill equipped.” (“Page 151.” )
Saying the quiet part out loud.
Yeah nah, he’s not getting away that easy.
Wonder if the Labor ministers involved in the whole Hoggins debacle know who is leaking the txt messages.
As H B Bear stated upthread, the ministers involved are being very particular with the wording of their statements.
Can a random, no-name, DA from Lower Butte Fuch, MT, indict Maddow for inciting corruption?
Trigger warning – hideously uglee labore slag
Rabz, I clicked on that link to view that pic. It reminded me of a quote of Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe:-
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
In Katy’s case, I would stretch the 30 feet to 130 feet. Chew your arm off material, that one.
hmmm… try the bugs
You suspect someone inside the AFP. I imagine they would welcome the opportunity to make things uncomfortable for a few pollies.
You get a sense that Ms Albrechtsen is directly over the target – to the horror of those who have grown up without journalistic scrutiny.
Wong Ying Yen explains the particulars:
Commenting on the case is literally murdering Bambi. Be like strong Labor women; do a welfare check on the poor child and keep stumm.
No.
Where’s Hallward Hughes? Big-time aeronautical engineer and astronaut as he ought to take a dive in for money like this.
On a serious note, this would create shortages pressure in the US airforce.
Oh Lordy Lord, this is first class work!
Thanks Dr. Faustus.
Dot, I am currently writing up some of my material on ‘the Gildas version of history’, hopefully for publication shortly. You can find the basics of my position already outlined in my Arthurian article in Quadrant (Set. 2018). Gildas was never writing about any Saxon invasion, although he was noting a Saxon presence increasing in settlement in the east. He was writing about the loss of Roman Christian belief due to heresies and the devolution into simony of its Romanised clerisy. I am severely re-dating Gildas. For very good reasons, I think he was born in 385, was writing in most likely in 442, possibly 444, no later than that, and has been grossly misdated. I have come to this conclusion after intensive study of his text and applying my interest in the visit of Germanus to the issue of Gildas’ birth date. My claim is that nothing at all in Gildas relates to the sixth century and he does what was common at the time: he personified ideas, turned them into historical people. Ambrosius Aurelianus is a classic case of this. Gildas was a Roman-educated Briton, just about the last of them. I have plenty of in-text evidence from De Excidio to support my case, and some additional material to shoot down the dating interpretation of ‘the letter to Aetius’, which I think was not to Aetius at all. I have collected a lot of data on what I call Gildas’ ‘Ambrosian mindset’.
There is plenty of evidence of a ‘Saxon’, for which read generic Germanic, presence in Roman Britain prior to 410. Some of those people would have spoken a north-west European Iron Age Scando-Germanic-Celtic mixture. It was a polyglot muddle. Some of lower south-eastern Britain was under ‘Celtic’ Belgae influence, as you note, in pre-Roman times. Most of the Roman army was Germanic in origin from the mid-300’s in Britain, for a start (see David Mattingly, An Imperial Possesion, Britain in the Roman Empire). Plenty of trading with Germanic peoples, probably a lot of genealogical heritage across the Channel already, and some raiding, including from Denmark and Norway as well as lower down in the Flanders and Seine River regions.
Ms Wong, two other people, Bruce Lehrmann and Fiona Brown, have already publicly said that they have been driven to very seriously contemplate suicide over how this matter concerning Britany Higgins has played out. Brittany must face some of the consequences of her choice of actions actions and misled behaviour in spite of any sympathy that some (not me) may have for her and her state of mind at present.
On a serious note, this would create shortages pressure in the US airforce.
I heard from a Safa pilot that the US needs 14,000 pilots over the next 3 years? Apparently hoovering pilots out of Oz and in turn Safa pilots are getting expedited entry to Oz?
They can’t help themselves.
Week In Pictures.