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Yes.
There is no way Ms Harris should be in any position of Authority on this Planet. She is not competent…
Just watched Trump in discussion with the Bloomberg. Well worth the watch. No way Harris could match it.
Am I first?
“It’s well worth not coming in here.
Sorry, Dover.. I’m cancelling my sub.”
Lizzie, please don’t let her upset you. Just ignore her nastiness and bitterness. She’s not worth getting upset over.
Reading Louise Milligan’s book on failures of the Australian legal system…hope she’s packed clean knickers.
This is from six months ago but I don’t recall seeing it before. You’ll note it’s on Rumble, not YouTube.
Bilderberg: The Movie
Her legs are quite … sturdy
Cancer-causing agent SV40 found in Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine alongside DNA Contamination
Even more cataclysmic! Lizzie has done yet another flounce!
Bruce, who is ‘we’ in your comment?
Don’t worry, she’ll be back, after checking every day to see how many implore her to do so.
Less each time, I notice. The returns for playing the victim are diminishing.
Oh, well.
FDA confirms Graphene Oxide is in the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines after being forced to publish Confidential Pfizer Documents by order of the US Federal Court
Up graded for carrier landings.
Oh, and does ‘cancelling my sub’ mean withdrawing financial support?
Interesting.
Robin Monotti
@robinmonotti
CAT OUT OF BAG
US VP Harris admits to depopulation agenda:
“When we..reduce population”
And the idiots cheered her.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
RFK Jr:
“People in authority lie….People in authority will abuse every power we relinquish to them…Right now, we are giving them the power to micro-manager every bit of our lives 24 hours a day”
There are many of us here who value Lizzie, and her contributions. She has many friends.
Must be hard living alone in a motel room in Queanbeyan, I suspect it would make someone quite lonely and bitter.
On the writer’s and actor’s strike, they, like all those inner city “superior types” who’ve previously preached to the coal mining sector and others about the loss of their jobs: “learn to code”.
I have no sympathy for any of them, as they’ve had none for anyone else.
Unlike mining, for years now the fillum sector has produced nothing of value.
Wolfie’s weekly movie reviews show the parlous state of current movie making. Most (if not all?) of his reviews are of movies decades old. Why? Because today it’s all about “educating/bullying” the audience. As Sam Goldwyn said: “if you want to send a message try Western Union.”
There Is Only Male and Female. Women Pay the Price When We Pretend Otherwise
LOL – an allegedly male j’ismist gifted with a house sized backside attempting to move slightly more quickly than not moving at all. Except for his big fat mouth, which presumably has already called it for labore.
The braindead lamestream meeja, Cats.
They maketh me very not happy, I tells ya. 😡
Greg Price
@greg_price11
WATCH: 16-year-old Abbigail Wheeler tells the story of getting kicked off her swim team and banned from the Springfield, IL YMCA for opposing being forced to change with biological men:
“I saw something that was obviously wrong and told my coach, someone who I am supposed to trust… I was uncomfortable with biological men being allowed to undress as the same space as me and my underage teammates. Not only were my feelings discredited but I was removed from my swim team.”
One of the big differences between Fadden and Aston is that the Liberals chose a candidate for Fadden who’s a well known and respected local, not some fly in who lives somewhere else, not come female picked to kowtow to the bullshit mantra that the “Liberals have a women problem”. No, a local man, well known and well respected to many in the area. That’s how you win seats.
Have a look at the size of Murray Watt’s head.
Massive bonce, it’s like a Goitre wearing Glasses.
“If you see something, say something” is no longer applicable if the concern happens to be a bloke in a dress. That we’re talking about young girls and women who no longer have any rights to their safe spaces is so shocking that it was inconceivable until about five minutes ago.
And where did take hold from? “Thank you”, big business, “thank you”, public sector, you all have blood on your hands.
She’s been in a good paddock, all right, courtesy of Australian taxpayers.
No chance of fitting into the famous white dress, or even Senator Reynolds’ jacket. BTW, has she returned it now that she can afford to buy one of her own in her size?
I always enjoy reading Lizzie’s posts – they add something a little different to the blog, I can’t quite find the right adjective but they’re always make for interesting reading.
Must be hard living alone in a motel room in Queanbeyan, I suspect it would make someone quite lonely and bitter.
Johanna’s got a few fans here too.
Including myself. I am honoured to know her, just as I knew Johanna, as blunt and direct as she is. Of the latter, you’ll never meet a more plain speaking womanage. To her credit, she can dish it out and has some history annoying many people on a grand scale.
Having said that, I’m so sick of all the abuse, Cats. It may seem easy to lay into someone on the interwebs that you’ll never know or encounter, but that is not the point in this instance.
Our lives, our very way of life, is under threat and considered illegitimate.
At my door, armed with a Louisville Slugger*, telling the state’s lackeys, that no, they are not “resuming” my house and land and that’s all there is to it.
*Reserve back up in an ideal world …
“I always enjoy reading Lizzie’s posts – they add something a little different to the blog, I can’t quite find the right adjective but they’re always make for interesting reading.”
Yes. I enjoy Lizzie’s travel logs, and I know others who do too.
Mother & it Aint Half Hot Mum might only shoot one series- but more importantly, it’ll forevermore come up first in the search results, and the old one, wryly looking at the millenia-old universal angst of motherhood and marriage in the western world and bought to life by hardworking stage actors, will go down the memory hole.
This is the Lizard People agenda.
FMD, Angry Kez is poisonous piece of shit. Just poisonous.
From The Oz…
Cameron Caldwell has won the Fadden by-election, meaning the LNP have retained the Queensland seat.
A key win for the federal Liberal party, Peter Dutton and the Queensland LNP before the Sunshine State heads to the polls for a state election in October 2025.
Mr Caldwell – a long-serving Gold Coast councillor – has managed to claw back the 3.6 per cent swing Labor attained at the federal election last year.”
can’t we all just get along …
Exactly.
Spoken like an upper middle class snob who cannot conceive of people having different values and life preferences.
You are a lot closer to the Teals than you pretend to be.
John Kerry Throws A HISSY FIT When Questioned About His Private Jet
5% swing to the LNP so far.
Lizzie pay no attention. It matters not.
Well said. Constant vitriol and abuse doesn’t really encourage productive discussion.
“Spoken like an upper middle class snob who cannot conceive of people having different values and life preferences.
You are a lot closer to the Teals than you pretend to be.”
LOL….oh dear, is that the best you can do, you miserable and very nasty old woman?
Try harder.
JC
Jul 15, 2023 8:00 PM
Good evening, Stalker.
Nice call earlier, Eddleston.
Johanna give it a rest. You are bitter and twisted.
Is Germany’s legendary industrial base looking for the exits?
Spot on BBS.
Of today’s crop of films I have soon had my fill. Most of them are obscurely told, they tell me things I don’t care about, in language I find offensive; and they concern characters whom I would willingly cross the road to avoid. Dark and shaky cinematography makes them unattractive to look at, and all the old studio crafts, so laboriously learned during the Golden Age, appear have been jettisoned in favour of obscenely large budgets which allow the film-maker to wander restlessly around the globe giving distorted views of real locations or the film is laced with incessant CGI instead of setting their own and the audience’s imaginations to work.
I note there was some discussion earlier today re Christopher Nolan and his latest film Oppenheimer.
He’s actually one of the very few, if only, film-maker today I’d make an effort to see his films, although I found his last film Tenet an unmitigated failure, but Inception, Dunkirk and Interstellar represent some of the best thought-provoking films of the 21st century.
But the film industry needs more than just having Christopher Nolan and Tom Cruise to survive. With revenue takings now almost half what they were pre-COVID, I can only see a spiral towards irrelevance.
Newsmax Host Nearly Loses It in Coverage of Biden Nibbling Frightened Young Girl
Onya Spud!
Neil Oliver: All the neo-Liberal stooges are running scared now and for good reason.
Tory Legacy: Mass Migration & Woke Takeover of Institutions – Britain’s 2 Worst Disasters of 21c
Huw Edwards is a liar, a coward, a cheat and a deceiver
Well said. And it may be that AI is the next stage of what began with special effects.
Punters will always flock to genuine and human based stories. But, it may be that traditional Hollywood and TV is undergoing a cataclysmic change like print media did. Who knows where we will end up?
Dr. John Campbell
European excess deaths
Just look at this thing calling itself a commenter. Stalks Liz, gets a clip over the head for doing so and then calls the person with the yellow highlighter pen, a stalker.
🙂
Well, don’t just sit there, tell us the name of the first cleaning group, so we can hire them if needed in the future.
Whoop’s picked up the wrong copy&paste
As you get older jet lag is a real bitch to deal with.
She’s bringing it in again … 🙂
Billy Joel
Noice
Sounds like Labor ran on Robodebt and voters didn’t give a shit.
Legalise Cannabis drew 9.2%, Greens vote collapsed.
As you get older everythang is a real bitch to deal with, except you are better informed to deal with it.
Life throws up lots of challenges. Getting old is a pain in the yaartz, especially if you’re not prepared.
So keep pursuing that Glittering Prize … 🙂
Rabz
Did you know the lead in Pulp died about 10 years ago?
Obviously, I didn’t until now.
Like a friend is a great song.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oP84AsBX2yA
err, no squire, I did not.
According to the interwebs, all four of Pulp are still alive.
When Jarvis departs this planet, there will be much mourning.
Apart from Jarvis’s run ins with Jacko, Pulp had so many great songs.
Party Hard …
This is Hardcore …
🙂
Watch this on the biggest screen you have. This bloke travels thousands of miles chasing the storm cells to ultimately end up with following film; results of the 2023 storm season should be a cracker. There have been some doozy storms over there this year.
Spectacular clip from 2021.
—-
Mike Olbinski:
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since I made my first Vorticity film. The one goal I had that year was to get a tornado on time-lapse for the first time ever. That happened and it’s been a wild, incredible ride since. The storms I’ve witnessed have been moving, stunning and a few of them, legendary (at least to us chasers!).
The 2021 season was no different. The number of supercells we saw and the level of structure was absolutely amazing. From Sudan, Texas to Malta, Montana…the chases were a blast and the time-lapses I caught were just fantastic fun. So many supercells, so many chases…I think I counted about 27 days we chased from late April to late June. Definitely one of the more active springs in recent years. It was good enough that I felt I could put out another worthy entry in the Vorticity series, so hopefully you agree!
I worked once again with Péter Nánási on the music, it’s 100% custom for this film and it’s so dang good! Appreciate his artistry and vision, not to mention always busting these out quickly for me! Hit him up if you need a score for your film!
Vorticity 4 (4K)
Yawn.
I am not the least bit bitter – on the contrary, I was lucky enough to grow up in one of the best places in the world (the Shire) during an explosion of music which I loved passionately. Unlike Lizzie, I won’t go through the rest of my life like a soap opera, but it’s been pretty good, and by world standards, exceptionally good.
That my current circumstances mean that I couldn’t possibly be content (which I am) says a lot about the purse-lipped arbiters of ‘happiness’ here.
Well, f you.
Why is calling out our resident narcissist a sign of bitterness?
Not much currency targeting the unemployed vote. I bet most people that work would not have heard about robodebt.
Vote No.
Either SA is hiring a lotta Africans, or that shooting at Campbelltown was an African affair and the black cops on the ABC were negotiators.
Howe about that, though?
SAPOL don’t ring up the African Community when a siege happens, they’employed the negotiators.
Link
Hey Miss Personage, I want a Love Type – Me, thinking of you thinking of me thinking of you thinking of me thinking of you thinking of me …
Oh, it was the dude playing base and wasn’t a decade ago.
Curious thing about ‘jet lag’.
I was never in synch with 9-5 jobs, I was wanting to sleep when I had to be awake and vice versa. Constant struggle for decades.
But jet lag? Nup. Never. Not a trace.
I think that individuals have body rhythms independent of clocks.
Miss Planet – magnifique … 🙂
Of course they are clean.
Never been taken out of the plastic wrapper they were sold in.
Funny – the way Cats can move makes me jealous.
My bloody stray, who wandered in about 3 months ago & stayed, disappeared 2 dayz ago .. here’s me been telling him twice a day since he dropped in how much I hate him and to B off … was getting worried that he’d had an accident or been lifted ..
came home from swimming this afternoon and he’s sat at the door beside his empty food bowl with that .. Don’t you know what time it is? look on his face .. LOL!
I think jet lag gets worse as you get older, at least for me. When I was younger, I’d be over it by next day. Now, it takes about a week. I’m literally a zombie for about three days before I begin to feel marginally better.
That US east coast trip to here is a killer.
We flew to Europe from the US and back, which is about 7 plus hours and not much of a problem.
NY to LA is was 5.5 hours, then the killer leg back here, which was 15.5. I’m just wrecked other than a couple of hours in the morning. Morning meaning, awake at 4 to about 10 am.
I think the secret is to drink lots and lots of water throughout the flight and then when you’re back on land. The problem is that if you drink a lot, I’m in the can an awful lot. 🙂
I really don’t know how pilots do that sort of life if they suffer jet lag. I don’t know how the hell they land a plane in oz without crashing.
Of today’s crop of films I have soon had my fill.
Have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed .. COCAINE BEAR
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14209916/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I watched Cocaine Bear on the plane. It’s pretty funny, There’s also a tiny kernel of truth behind the story.
Where else, but in America can you get a story like that?
Polish MEP Beautifully Destroys EU Parliament
The Assault on Our Rights is Not Sustainable
David Sacks
@DavidSacks
·
Ukraine has become a litmus test issue for Republicans not just because of its own importance but also because it demonstrates whether a candidate will go along with or stand up to the MSM’s false narratives about The Current Thing. Pence and Scott showed that they were either too braindead or too brainwashed to resist.
@DavidSacks
Most memorable moment of the campaign so far:
CNN: “Who do you want to win this war? Ukraine or Russia?”
Trump: “I want people to stop dying!”
In rejecting the premise of the question, Trump showed that he would not accept the MSM framing on the issue.
Peta Credlin:
FMD Wallabies get beaten by that noted rugby powerhouse in Argentina, on home soil. 31-34
Anyway, “Sliante” to all you hairy mob. I’m punishing the single malt, and watching Edward Woodward as “Callan.” Night, all.
Cats, Sylvesters will always find themselves a place … 🙂
Black Ball
Jul 15, 2023 10:00 PM
WTF and why would anyone blackball ie. give a zero to BB’s post?
It was very interesting and not everyone has access to the article.
Thank you BB
I fixed it
Everythang’s gone greenfilth … 😕
The NT News:
Early mail is that the ‘blunt weapon’ was a sledgehammer.
The Voice will fix this.
Indolent
Jul 15, 2023 9:35 PM
As did Nigel Farage before him many times, to no effect, may I say.
Just look at the facial expression of the top layer of officials whom he is criticizing.
They might as well say “what a fool of a man”.
Nothing will change until a few countries decide to leave the EU.
Rent a riffers, Talk o’ the Town, Kenny Everritt video show 1980 …
Miss Eva Vlaardingerbroek 😕
KD “the voice will fix this”.
Indeed, very flash “vote yes” inVoice signs have started to go up in trendy suburbs. I saw some today, all on houses in the $1.5M to $3M range. Doing their virtue signalling to the neighbours. I am sure that’s a great comfort to women susceptible to sledgehammer attacks.
The Yes signs are positively proliferating here in Yarrastan, spiritual home of the virtue signal (or, as SWMBO refers to it the “virtual signal”, because that is about as hollow as possible).
I am now taking my handy dandy black marker pen on the morning walk. If a sign is outside the boundary or on public property, the designers have provided plenty of space where one can write a neat “No”.
Heaven or Las Vegas
I’d like to watch some of the supporters of the Voice, in the leafy suburbs, taken to the town camps, and hospital wards of regional Australia, to explain to the bashed and abused women and children, just how the Voice will improve their lives.
Pitch the Baybee …
Fotzepolitic …
Selleth the sanctuary
I like your optimism. Practically however….
Yes. I am cynical.
Kiss me out of desire baby not consolation…
Jeff Buckley’s only studio album before he left this mortal coil. One of the first CDs I purchased. Just magnificent.
This is Tim Schmucklee …
Mark from Melbourne.
An alternative to writing “No” on virtue signalling inVoice signs would be to write “Blak Power Now”. Gives the undecided a better idea of what’s it really all about.
Mr Brightside … 🙂
A Janey, singing about a Janey …
Janey says when she was five years old,
There was nothin’ happenin’ at all …
There was nothing goin’ down at all, Cats!
Then her life was changed by rock ‘n’ roll …
She started shaking to that fine fine muzak…
You know her life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll …
🙂
Encapsulating the sound of the 80’s.
Paul Hertzog – Steal the night (HQ Audio)
Well, wandered a few streets of central Madrid, down to the supermarket for supplies.
“Hola” and “gracias” are about all I can manage right now.
Good on you T E. I am a big Madrid fan. Enjoy.
I am going to break the rule about never giving travel advice to travellers.
If you can get yourself off to the Hapsburg family burial vaults and the adjacent Pantheon of the Princes at El Escorial, it would be worth it.
Nothing better defines the very dark place that Hapsburg religious insanity drove that benighted family to occupy. A horror story in marble.
I was shaken.
See if you can find Manuels family.
Sybil said he was from Barcelona.
Week In Pictures.
I’ve started subscribing to a Substack called The Memory Hole.
The bait was the fascinating story of Vincent Bugliosi who was the deputy DA in the Manson family trials, failed political candidate, author of Helter Skelter…and total pyscho creep who struggled to keep his dick in his pants.
I’ve got some holidays coming up & will probably read more of the Memory Hole archive than the books I’ve lined up in the Kindle.
I read more substacks (some paid, some free) daily than I read news from corporate websites.
I watch more youtube daily than I watch tv.
It demonstrates that if you have a engaging, educational & sometimes entertaining story to tell, you can provide it to a global audience directly.
Another one of those stories.
Archaeologists search soil outside former Nebraska boarding school for remains of missing Native American children
apparently this is news to someone.
Amongst all the horseshit with the writers & now actors strike, there is one legitimate gripe.
The streaming services aren’t allowing genuine external audits of the views content is receiving.
Which means that everyone has to trust the data provided and the royalties received.
People might remember when Peter Jackson had to sue the studio to allow his accountants to be able go through the studios accountants work.
So that needs to get sorted.
The moaning about writers only getting paid for 6-8 episode series when in the past they got paid for a 20+ episode season…please, they need to adapt.
And AI & CGI moaning…again, they need to adapt.
This is the work of a nutjob. It has nothing to do with plain-speaking, Rabz.
I do not harm anyone by coming here and sharing whatever it is I share, just as others do, and commenting on what is going on in this world of ours. I have certainly had plenty of different experiences of it. That should matter here.
This nutjob is trying to harm me. I think I am better off away from here. I’m taking a break and as with the Oz, if rejections are upsetting (all you uptickers) then why should I pay my money to support your upticking pleasures? I haven’t donated much to the Cat, a few hundred dollars, but I won’t be giving any more. We on the centre right approve of withdrawing support from something we find harmful, don’t we? If the upticking of this woman’s nutjobbery stops, I will donate again when Dover puts the call out. Otherwise I will not, and I won’t be around to experience that.
Her post wasn’t about Huguenot ancestry, which is a pretty innocuous thing and has arisen for me because I have been trying to save a C15th church to keep it as a Christian church, which is no bad thing. It has nothing to do with the way aborigines claim and use ancestry, for instance. I am proud of all of my ancestry, which includes Welsh, Scottish, Irish and French. And much else no doubt if you know anything at all about genealogical reckoning, or genetics.
Her post was a deliberate piece of nastiness to stir up trouble. Her nastiness in response just above to Cassie was typical. I think it is a shame that more people here don’t recognise that and put her right. Whatever sort deficit this damaged woman has that she has to behave in this way is her problem, not mine.
But I don’t have to stand by and just let it happen. I prefer to absent myself for a while, or whenever. She can make her usual fuss about why I do that and so can others. Too bad.
It’s my 81st birthday on Thursday and on Saturday we go to Malaysia.
I need a total break from it all. I value my mental health.
Oh, and talking about nutjobs. Did you get a load of Biden nibbling that child?
That Voice heard outside Alice Springs was a call for justice of women being beaten by a stoneage culture while being extinguished with a sledgehammer. Colonialism caused this. He should have used a nulla-nulla. I for one am upset my culture is being appropriated for oppression. I guess the left will okay with this coz the POS was only continuing his patriarchal cultural practice. Move on nothing to see here. This poor woman’s death means nothing as it won’t suit the narrative. Now had it been a copper being attacked in the process of effecting an arrest warrant?
GreyRanga, I see back thread, which I read but won’t continue to do so, that you upticked Johanna’s comment. Thank you for being honest, for clearly many are not.
Now, could you please tell me why you found it enlightening?
For instance, is it verboten to speak of one’s children and their autism problems, as I did recently? Is it verboten to exchange views with other parents re this? Is it verboten, and obviously narcissistic, to be concerned about a misinformation and disinformation bill, and report on Peter Dutton’s views of that? Is if verboten to mention an exchange I had with a man begging on the streets on the way there? Is it verboten to simply be me? Is it verboten to respond to the concerns of others that they mention re their lives? Is it verboten to put up links to songs or articles?
What is so verboten, Ranga, that an outrageously outraged rage against me must be upticked?
It’s easy to get rid of an 0, you just uptick it. Someone is trying very hard here though.
Irony alert.
One of the actors that joined the writers strike weeks ago was Sean Gunn.
He’s been moaning about limiting the use of CGI to generate the extra’s in movies so that humans are used.
Sean Gunn biggest claim to fame is being part of the Marvel cinematic universe…which is full on green screens & CGI.
Adapt or die.
Very nice piece of satire at 7.32 btw, Ranga. You are not wrong there.
I hope you are now recovered from whatever was keeping you in hospital.
Your very funny accounts of it were appreciated by me. My autistic son shattered both of his heel bones and was in a four person public ward for more than three months.
He was unable to walk, and was driven to despair by the snores of the three old men in the ward with him. I visited him every second day, and he’d vent mightily at me re that.
Hollywood Reacts to Sound of Freedom
Liz
Why on earth are you going to Malaysia? Asia is flyover country. Jeez, have you run out of places to go now?
I have no desire at all to stop people upticking any other comments of Johanna except those she may make that specifically relate and in a denigratory manner to me as a person. If she wants to comment on any substantive issue I raise, no problems for me at all with that and uptickers, you go for it, her good comments deserve applause. If you haters of me still want to uptick her denigrations of me, then go ahead there too. But don’t expect me to fund you, I’ll take the free ride that others take in that case. If all uptickers of these comments chipped in twenty bucks Dover would be doing well. They can do that.
Liz
Will you stop or with the upticking thing. Ignore upticks are they’re bullshit. Sanchez or someone proved it so a while back that it’s all manipulated when his leadership received a record century of upticks.
I’ve always suspected the turtlehead and several others like the defective upspoke and the ever reliable mad Karen as uptick manipulators.
On the trip back and about three seats behind. I have never on my life heard such loud snoring in my life. It was so loud it muffled the plane’s engines, and the fcuckr was lying down too. Unreal.
If a spouse had that problem it would be a case for Cronkite representing me in a divorce settlement.
No kidding, I’ve never heard such snoring in my life.
Now, I’m going off to finish the bibliography in an article for Quadrant. The article is better for some pruning of the final version, which I did yesterday, inbetween 20-year-old grandson’s second wisdom tooth coming out (thanks Grandma), business proposition for second son going haywire (no surprises there, but major depression looming for him) and schizo mum of other autistic grandson ringing for support, in her usual state. I sometimes wish I had time for a little narcissism.
Wondering about footnotes this time. They only go in the online version.
Thanks JC. You may be right. But they do hurt, as anyone who’s had a huge number in a deleterious way knows. Johanna got 40 negatives at one time (not one of them from me) and disappeared for a month to lick her wounds. Sometimes too I think they are real, and look at the blog and think who are these people who smile with one side of their face and uptick hurtfully with the other? Overall, I think the upticks are a good feature, often taking the place of a communicative nod, such as is made IRL to keep the conversation flowing. But they do have their problems.
Anyway, I need a break, that much is obvious to me and probably to others.
That old ‘I’ve awarded you a nought’ is hitting at me this morning.
I could uptick it myself to remove it, but I won’t descend to that.
I’m not convinced that is just a simple tech issue, or someone retracting a mistake tick.
It does seem to be a deliberate up yours. Calli felt that to when it happened to her.
No worries.
Liz
Sure, upticks are fine when the comments don’t involve stoushing. However, I never pay attention to them because they’re manipulated.
Those zeroes are very likely from unspoke or mad Karen who’s always lurking around here like a fart in economy.
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is not mucking about. Thumbs up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12302509/Italy-erases-names-gay-mothers-childrens-birth-certificates-crackdown.html
How can you tell who upticks what?
Black Ball,
Made a tidy $58 profit on a $20 bet that Argentina would beat the Wallabies. I watched both teams last weekend and the $3.90 odds on offer were too good to pass up.
The Wallabies will lift for the World Cup later this year. They always do.
Lizzie,
your posts are enjoyed – from Autism, to Travel, History and Life – I tend to stay out of clashes as I think they are counterproductive to ethos of
New Catallaxy is a discussion forum concerned with issues of culture and politics from a Right perspective.
It has grown out of two previous blogs, which both in their own ways, reflected the general tenor of the Right in the first two decades of the 21st century; one part libertarian, another part, conventionally conservative. In many ways, the second iteration of Catallaxy Files, under the stewardship of Sinclair Davidson, affectionately known as Doomlord, witnessed the fracture of the old Right consensus of the late 20th century. In the aftermath of this, New Catallaxy finds itself in the ruins of the now dead consensus, charting a new road.
I enjoy the inofrmation that I find here, and hope you keep contibuting.
I enjoy the inofrmation that I find here, and hope you keep contributing.
Going firstly to the Cameron Highlands to an old hotel of the Raj to drink high tea and visit tea plantations (redux of Sri Lanka for me and this is in place of the 2020 Sri Lanka trip we had booked and part-paid). Top Ender has been there and says it was very pleasant. After a few days there we’re going to throw ourselves into the Hilton in Penang by a pool and relax till it’s time to go home.
Haven’t run out of travel spots yet. In September we’re doing a car trip in northern Italy (tips from Gilas re this), Austria, and then an Adriatic and Aegean cruise. I’ve never been to the old Roman ports on the Adriatic, nor to Corfu. Hairy has of course from his yoof, and he’s also very at home in the Greek Islands due to his Greek friends at Cambridge. We end up in Rome, then home.
There are heaps of travellers these days on the Cat. Retirement times.
My rule: when in Rome never enter a lift. Use the stairs.
Sorry Lizzie I didn’t uptick Johanna’s comment. I thought you were talking about the number of commenters, as there weren’t many that morning. I don’t look at the upticks in particular. I find Johanna’s comments about you rather pathetic. I’ve worked with a lot of cloggies and found the less successful to be similar. Envy comes to the fore. Since its the school holidays she might be able to find a schoolboy to relieve the tension.
It’s just a tick in the software with zero human intervention. That upticking has become a controversy at the Cat is a commentary on the frailty of the human condition. LOL.
Carry on.
Why the US Government Is the World’s Worst
JC, I am recommending South Korea as an excellent stopover to all of my travelling friends. It is off most people’s radar, but with the DMZ visit, the beautiful hillside setting of Seoul, the Grand Temple where there is a weekly parade in medieval costumes, other temples, the new city and the crazy K-pop culture, it’s all good for a day or two stopover. Asian airlines are getting very good too.
Young Ukrainians Scared To Leave Their Homes As More And More Videos Emerge Of Forced Conscription
As Ukraine’s manpower on its frontlines starts to dwindle, military leaders are becoming increasingly desperate to locate new recruits to propel its counteroffensive against Russia forward; however, the number of young people volunteering for such a challenge has plummeted.
Recent videos of young Ukrainian men being conscripted across the country have circulated in popular encrypted messaging apps in Ukraine, and those fearful of being sent to the front are actively engaging in evasive and, in some instances, illegal tactics to avoid such a fate.
The brutal mobilization by Ukrainian military recruitment officers of young men has been occurring for a year and a half now, Hungarian newspaper Magyar Nemzet reports.
“Many conscripted men are taken straight off the street by uniformed men,” it states. “Most recently in Subcarpathia, a surveillance camera recorded the overreach of the authorities as a man trying to go to a store was kidnapped from his bicycle in broad daylight.”
The man was abducted right on a street during the day by police and conscription officers in a small village in the Municipal District of Munkács, with his bicycle left in the road.
Similar videos have been posted from other major cities across Ukraine, including Kyiv and Odessa.
Videos of such instances are going viral on messaging apps such as Telegram and Viber, which can to an extent bypass the freedom of information restrictions that are now very evident across both Ukraine and Russia.
Some of the accounts posting this content have an increasingly large number of followers — upwards of 100,000 — with some accounts geotracking recruitment patrols in real time to help others evade what is known colloquially as the “love letter.”
Other young people are simply refusing to leave their homes due to an increasing number of unannounced mobile checkpoints in regions across Ukraine where military recruiters seek to catch Ukrainian men of military age off guard and conscript them into the forces.
However, excesses are not limited to Transcarpathia. In Vinnytsia, which is located between Kyiv and Odessa, for example, a video is also circulating of employees of the local military auxiliary command forcefully stuffing their victims into a luxury vehicle.
“Many young people no longer leave their homes. There’s always a risk. You have to be really careful and look around in case there’s any danger. It’s really stressful,” said one young Ukrainian man in an interview with broadcaster France 24.
“Why don’t young people want to be drafted into the army? Because they know the price of holding the frontlines. It costs thousands of lives,” he added.
Andrii Novak, a Ukrainian lawyer and specialist in military affairs, said that corruption among military recruiters remains rife, and some conscripting officers are playing the system to get rich quick.
“Because of corruption, there are illegal methods (to avoid the war), such as paying off the people from the armed forces commissary, or paying for a false certificate of disability,” he told the French broadcaster.
It is well known that military recruitment offices have become a hotbed of corruption over the last year and a half. In Ukraine, it is no secret that mobilization can be avoided for an average of €7,000. Officers can make incredible fortunes and some do not hide their newfound wealth, arriving at work in new luxury cars.
Most recently, one Odessa military commander, Yevgeny Borisov, was found to have spent nearly €4 million over the past year on a luxury mansion on the Spanish coast, as well as nearly €200,000 on a luxury car.
He also bought his wife a chain of shops on the Costa del Sol. If all this was not enough, Borisov was able to holiday in his Spanish palace despite the fact that the borders have been closed to conscripts for a year and a half.
Borisov’s case caused such a public outcry that, after nearly two months of complaints, President Volodymyr Zelensky had to declare that such figures had no place in the army. He even promised that all military offices would be reviewed.
Ironically, it is precisely in Odessa that Ukrainian conscripting soldiers are the most aggressive and underhanded; the region also features the highest number of conscriptions.
Biden Admin’s Supply Chain Issues Weaken Navy: Nearly 40% of US Nuclear Subs Out of Commission for Repairs
My human condition is very frail, Tom. Not physically, but I am feeling emotionally fraught. Wondering where to go next with any writing I do. Crossroads.
Need time out to think.
What Tucker Carlson doesn’t know about Andrew Tate
If the pilot wasn’t an English speaker at least through school and doesn’t use a knife and fork, flying is far too risky for my liking.
I find that to be bullshit. The US would never disclose that sort of information.
Dr. Naomi Wolf with a bit of self-reflection
Energies, Cont.
What Good and Evil Flow Around Us?
Seoul sits in a basin and crawls up the hillsides surrounded in a circular manner by a tall sharp-peaked mountain range. Apparently you can take an hour’s flight to an island resort area which is supposed to be very up to standard. Very few European tourists. The people have genetic similarities to the Japanese but were under the Japanese boot in the twentieth century. No love lost still. An interesting mix of Asia, with Chinese, Japanese and traditional Korean artistic and cultural influences. They’ve had a phonemic not ideographic alphabet since the times of a medieval king who was farsighted in such things.
Lizzie it shows that we don’t always read things properly before commenting. Don’t let Johanna get you down.
I’m a little on the serious side. Asian drivers to a man or a woman are shocking on the road. They are slow and exceedingly cautious because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Hand/eye or whatever it is simply doesn’t compute with them. Has there ever been say an Asian formula 1 driver in the top five in any year? I don’t think so.
If they can’t drive properly they can’t fly planes.
Disney Is in a Death Spiral and I Don’t See Bob Iger Reversing It
This is the only hope
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Kerry busted lying – lol.
Nobel Winner in Science Dr. John Clauser: There Is No Climate Crisis Threatening the Planet
From Indolent’s 8.37am link: Must watch — the trans empire explained (video, 12 minutes).
Indolent, I can’t. I thought Ranga said he did uptick it, but it was a communication failure on my part, he was he says now referring to something else. Sorry, Ranga.
If I could tell I might give a few here an little interrogatory session with verbal menace, bringing the blog into disrepute with our betters. But of course, I am assured it is all manipulated tech, so everyone’s in the clear now. 🙂
His book “Reclaiming History” on the subject of the assassination of JFK, lays all the conspiracy theories to rest, once and for all. Interesting reading.
‘Drop Out’: Pence Under Fire After 4 Words He Said to Tucker Become Center of Campaign
Former Vice President Mike Pence could not have ushered himself off the 2024 presidential stage much quicker than he did on Friday.
Sure, he’ll remain in the race. He’s actually third in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of GOP primary polls — although well behind second-place Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and well, well behind first place, his former boss. He’ll plod along through the early debates and may continue to draw high-ish single-digit numbers in the polls.
However, I think we’ll look back in 12 months and agree that his candidacy effectively died with four words uttered on an Iowa stage on Friday: “That’s not my concern.”
Just a little session I thought, only a little one, so I insert little and wreck my grammar.
lol. It takes so ‘little’ to fall off a high horse.
And to lose some high dudgeon.
affectionately known as Doomlord, witnessed the fracture of the old Right consensus of the late 20th century. In the aftermath of this, New Catallaxy finds itself in the ruins of the now dead consensus, charting a new road.
The parallels between the Cat (new & old) & Warhammer 40k are growing.
Yes. The quick demise of a purist.
Good link to the Disney story, Indolent. I don’t think Iger can turn it around. It reminds me of a combination of Anhauser and GE all rolled into one. It’s not going to go bust, but in the end it will become a much smaller company with little upside.
Enjoy your birthday and travels, Lizzie. If you absent yourself from these parts, count me as one who’ll miss you.
Why Elites Are Panicking Over This
CDC Used Journal to Promote Masks Despite ‘Unreliable’ and ‘Unsupported Data’: New Analysis
The chick sitting in for Rita Panahi on Sky Outsiders (a familiar face named Liz — I don’t know her surname) is excellent.
Biden Admin’s Supply Chain Issues Weaken Navy: Nearly 40% of US Nuclear Subs Out of Commission for Repairs
I find that to be bullshit. The US would never disclose that sort of information.
Maybe it’s just a simple case of folk putting statistics together from, reported, sightings in repair docks ..
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Jul 16, 2023 8:39 AM
JC, I am recommending South Korea as an excellent stopover to all of my travelling friends. It is off most people’s radar, but with the DMZ visit, the beautiful hillside setting of Seoul, the Grand Temple where there is a weekly parade in medieval costumes,
Lizzie,
as I said having done business in Korea over 35 trips in 80s/90s, I have been enjoying Korean Ron Coms (well over 20 Netflix Korean Series – amazing topics and genres) and am aiming to go back to Seoul & Korea in Spring next year
Re the Grand Temple where there is a weekly parade in medieval costumes,
In one of the current shows I am watching that is being gradually released in June/July this year KIng the Land, in Episode 7 they have a Traditional Fake Wedding (Supposedly with the Arab Prince) in the Grand Temple and the Costumes are amazing
Mapped: Meat Consumption By Country and Type
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-meat-consumption-by-country-and-type/?utm_source=Visual+Capitalist+Infographics+%28All%29&utm_campaign=a9dcb14bf1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_13_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31b4d09e8a-a9dcb14bf1-46795357
PNG leads the way in “Other meat”.
Wondering if that’s because Long Pork wasn’t allowed.
Liz Storer
I thought I’d drag myself away from the screen to inform you Tom.
Other male Cats are in deep concentration.
You cannot get near these repair docks and there are well guarded parameters around them.
If you want to hear what’s happening in US military supply chains, google Chris Power & Hadrian.
The “Primes” are all relying on extremely brittle supply chains who are in a lot of cases come down to a handful of machinists in their 60’s & 70’s who are eyeing off retirement with no one to replace them.
Liz Storer on Outsiders replacing Rita Panahi.
Came across her when researching “Advance Australia” which seems to be doing some “Voice” ads.
https://twitter.com/SpriterTeam/status/1680345169277730817
In what should be a major boost for any political career I may pursue I can confirm I have never attended any Gold Coast swingers clubs.
I refuse to confirm or deny.
Adelaide Hills?
https://archive.li/nOB4y
Further to yesterdays posts on the increasing number of ‘now hiring’ signs, a story from Britain:
Lockdowns didnt help, but they dont account for people out of the labour force now – if only there was some other identifiable cause – its baffling…
Piers Akerman:
An opportune moment for the inner city elites to embrace some cultural learnings. Or have judges sentence those who disrupt traffic with their protests against human comfort to clean up the forests which they apparently hold close to their hearts.
I’m a little on the serious side. Asian drivers to a man or a woman are shocking on the road. They are slow and exceedingly cautious because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. Hand/eye or whatever it is simply doesn’t compute with them. Has there ever been say an Asian formula 1 driver in the top five in any year? I don’t think so…. If they can’t drive properly they can’t fly planes.
Whilst we all have anecdotes along the above lines, ask yourself which race consistently excells at table tennis, a sport that very much requires hand eye co-ordination?
Ronald Regan Patriotic Speech
Lizzie just think, if you’d been in “high dungeon”, you could have been PM. It was me that read you wrong not the other way round.
Old Ozzie, have been reading a little about Korean pottery. Apparently revered in some circles. The Wedgewood designer, Norman Wilson thought it the pinnacle. Do you know of any sacred sites/ museums/ historical remnants ? Would be interested.
The one activity which demands excellence in hand-eye co-ordination and spatial awareness is dry cleaning.
Friday I was at an IPA event with some retired and present MPs . They discussed the problem of millennials vote and that language had to be changed . So now they will talk about Energy security, food security defence security Basically it will be emphasised no coal , no gas only renewables which all come from China and we are done for. And it won’t be climate change with us all frying that will do us in ‘
Parks and Wildlife are known amongst the Bush Firies as “Sparks and Wildfire”.
I think we should do away with upticks.
Doesn’t add much real value and is traumatising for some.
Headline at the Hun:
Ex teacher disqualified for ‘tomfoolery’ and knife play
Significant COVID-19 Vaccine Study Censored by Medical Journal Within 24 Hours
A systematic review of 325 autopsies showing COVID-19 vaccination caused or significantly contributed to 74 percent of deaths was removed from The Lancet’s preprint SSRN server within 24 hours, adding to an increasing number of censored studies on the potential harms of COVID-19 vaccines.
The study, published July 5, examined all autopsies published in peer-reviewed literature to determine whether COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed to the person’s death.
Researchers searched all published autopsy and necropsy reports related to COVID-19 vaccination through May 18, 2023, resulting in 678 studies. After implementing inclusion criteria, they chose 44 papers containing 325 autopsy cases and one necropsy case. A panel of three expert physicians independently reviewed each case to determine whether COVID-19 vaccination was a direct cause or significant factor in each death.
Of 325 autopsies reviewed, 240 deaths, or 74 percent, were independently adjudicated as “directly due to or significantly contributed to by COVID-19 vaccination.”
Findings showed the most affected organ system in COVID-19 vaccine-associated death was the cardiovascular system at 53 percent, followed by the hematological system at 17 percent, the respiratory system at 8 percent, and multiple organ systems at 7 percent. Three or more organ systems were affected in 21 cases. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days—with most deaths occurring within a week of the last vaccine dose.
The study results suggest a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and deaths in most cases. Yet, the government’s narrative is still that people do not die after COVID-19 vaccination, lead author Dr. Peter McCullough, a practicing internist, cardiologist, and epidemiologist, said in an interview on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders: Now.” “The striking cases were people who were perfectly healthy and had no other medical problems. The only new thing in their life was the vaccine, and they died with an obvious syndrome like a blood clot or heart damage—myocarditis.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/significant-covid-19-vaccine-study-censored-by-a-medical-journal-within-24-hours_5388409.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2023-07-15&src_cmp=mb-2023-07-15&utm_medium=email&est=sflxw38ZW57aYz1gh%2FEStqoNja2FkqpIiDU1O4wNWPguEbJJC2GzNMRCfYMGPIuu8GrZ3Q%3D%3D
Black Ball
Jul 16, 2023 9:58 AM
Piers Akerman:
This summer’s bushfire season has the potential to be a bad one; not as bad as 2019-20, but a bad one.
At best, bush will be lost, homes will go and, at worst, people will perish. The sheer bulk of debris in the NSW bush is terrifying; bark, branches, fallen trees, dried grass and leaf litter. It’s explosive fuel.
There is a plan to introduce ignition-management zones and burn with greater frequency, but the parks department’s “land managers” are digging in.
Black Ball,
Piers lives with a National Park immediately behind his house, and hence has first class knowlege of the current condition of the bush surrounding him, and has been through a number of Bush Fires, and is a long time member of NSW Rural Fire Service Local Brigade.
Behind every successful man is a woman. Behind her is his wife.
– Groucho Marx
Liz Storer – absolutely gorgeous.
Steam cleaning.
When the Canberra fires, which started in the Brindabella’s, access could not be gained coz the bright sparks dumped piles of dirt on the trails to stop us plebs getting in to enjoy the National Parks. We have National parks the size of small countries. What is the purpose if we can’t access them.
BB preservationists now have control of the management authorities. Until that is rectified the present lock up & throw away the key will prevail.
One of my majors was Environmental Science, I think the preservationist view is handy for governments as it is cheaper and think the whole lock the gate strategy is flawed. Woody weeds like Lantana have added to that. There wouldn’t be much of the Australian continent that hasn’t been affected by human activity over the last 40-60,000 years.
The reason Asians excel at table-tennis is that no-one else can be bothered playing it.
Italy may be terminal but at least they’re going out with a bang, not a whimper.
Search for ‘rewilding.’
*cough* Forrest Gump *cough*
Birth Certificates should name the birth mother (one name only), the genetic father (if known) and maybe in special circumstances the name of any other genetic participant. These facts are information for the child concerned in the future. The names of the people who want to “own” the child are irrelevant.
So far the pain reducing procedure has worked. Only 1 twinge in 48 hrs. The worst part was having my wife drive me home.
All In Podcast discuss Lina Khan, the FTC, and big tech.
Lined up from the 36min mark.
https://youtu.be/3TV3dNJGqGI?t=2157
Asians excel at table-tennis
It’s all in the wrist.
Albo can vouch for that.
Righto.
Asians and Forrest Gump.