“Shut up, Peasant.” he explained.
Open Thread – Tues 22 Aug 2023
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I wish they would add sub-titles .. A lot of us have hearing probs and can’t follow so many of…
Reality bites. Hun: Extending a deal that keeps Victoria’s dirtiest power station running to 2028 is likely to be considered…
Muslim group targeting Labor seats launches campaign in BroadmeadowsThe Muslim Votes Matter group is aiming to win over Victorian Labor…
Fair whack of publicity in the media over Brucie (of Knickerless fame) claiming “dole” whilst Channel 7 paid big bucks…
From ZK2A this morning:
A good suggestion from the comments:
Apparently at a recent event in Cleveland, there was the usual welcome to country, after which one man stood up and said “While we’re at it, I’d also like to acknowledge all the non-indigenous past and present Australians who have also contributed to Australia”, which received a resounding heartfelt clap from the whole auditorium. This is the silent majority. Maybe we can all do this.
Worth a try. One way or another we’ve gotta keep chipping away at the idiocy.
Had lunch with friends the other day and one told the story of a crazy cat lady. She had a restaurant in a semi-rural location, with stylish shrubs and trees in pots on the verandah.
Trouble was, the cats quickly learned that the nice fresh potting mix was just perfect for use as a toilet, with predictable results.
As the stench rose, and people began to complain, she just got angrier and angrier with those that dared to cast a shadow over her darling cats.
I don’t know how it will end. The thing I don’t get is how irrational people get over their pets. I have recounted here before the story of the four non-stop barking Jack Russells which were poisoned after many, many complaints. The deluded owner claimed that they were ‘quiet family pets.’
He couldn’t have known, as their ceaseless barking began the moment he reversed out of the driveway to go to work.
I like dogs and cats. But, thast doesn’t mean they get to do whatever they want.
As happened between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Parts of Anatolia that had been Greek and Christian for a couple of thousand years became Turkic and Muslim, parts of Greece that had been Turkic and Muslim for hundreds of years became Greek and Christian. Similarly between North and South Vietnam after 1954, though that did not stop the long-term communist plan to take the lot.
Unpleasant, but possibly the least painful option.
I know. It just needs political will, which Trump has in spades.
And negotiating skills, which he also has well honed. Backed by his US authority.
Imagine Biden trying to carry that off? No, nor can I.
Just back from a visit to Mitre 10 where the ‘blonde young thing’ behind the till spied my ‘Trump 24’ hat asked how I could possibly support a man who had done so many horrible things.
I said – OK, name one…
She said ‘he banned abortion’.
I said ‘why is that bad’?
She said because it ‘denies womens rights’
I said ‘you do know that 1/2 of all babies aborted are future women right?’
She said ‘its the womans right to chose?’
I said ‘what about the father, can he chose to kill the baby?’
She said ‘its not alive until its born’
I said ‘really – so home come it doesnt rot in the womb in the first 9 months’
She said ‘well well the womans life changes totally when a baby is born’
I said ‘ no, it changes when she gets pregnant…’
Sadly .. then another customer approached the till, ending ‘the lesson’.
…
Then why did you, Elbow, put him in the publics eye?
And reparations.
What would you suggest for an “Acknowledgement of Country” before an ANZAC Day dawn service?
Partitions are never easy and often bloody. The Greece/Anatolia swap was very bad for Greeks dwelling in Antolia. My Greek archaeologist friend recalls even now the ongoing enmity felt in the 60’s in her youth, memories lingering about some of the pogroms against Greeks there at that time, her grandparents being involved as refugees.
There is still German/Czech enmity about the Czechs herding out the Germans along the Elbe after WW2. We went through Dresden (bombing ruins still apparent on the railway station) on the way to Prague by train, and you can’t say the Germans had it easy there, then to be turned into refugees once more.
10,000 cats then.
Or, for context, 33 times the number of Spartans that fought at Thermopylae.
A (below-strength) full infantry division of cats.
Avelina Tarrago:
She bin in a good paddock.
You’re not wrong Dot, the medical industry is a big scam. Wife has to see an ophthalmologist twice a year. Receptionist tells her she’ll need to get another referral as the last one runs out 2 weeks before she’s due to go back. The Scottish blood runs in her deep pockets, “I’ll have an appointment two weeks earlier please”. Why does she need a referral whe she is going to see the specialist for years.
Always an interesting exercise – nearly a million North Vietnamese went South and the North Viets prevented another 300,000 from leaving, while about 50,000 Southerners moved North.
Just got our Yes/No voting information for the Voice in today’s mail.
I think the No case has a good position, right hand side on the turn is always worth more as it hits the eye first and it has strong bullet points; in contrast the Yes side is more waffle and a harder read. Well done, No case.
RS not many of those in a kg.
If the ‘Yes’ campaign gets up 3 questions: what role with Talk-Through-Muh-Hat Pearson have? Will it be for life? and at what salary? Same three questions in relation to Scare-a-Dog-Offa-Chain Langton.
Where are you calli? Miss you. Hope all is OK.
Lizzzie:
No lizzie. Pets – especially cats, make their own rules. Both Fatso and Buddy followed their own desires and would torment any pig dogs they could find. I warned them repeatedly that the dogs only needed to get lucky once, but would they listen? No way.
Which is why I’m now feline free.
Which area would Noel Pearson be representing?
He is referred to as a Cape York leader but there have been multiple references to him living in Noosa.
You can get ongoing referrals, but I suspect GPs do it rather quietly, not wanting to have their partners know about cruelled revenue.
I don’t mind paying a decent amount of money for a valuable medical service. There’s no need to nickel and dime people.
He shouldn’t be; but when he accepted a lavish gift from that nice Irishman, he suddenly became one.
That’s just the way it works with slings in high places.
A life lesson learned.
Bruce of Newcastle
It was designed by one of the Cats who I thank most kindly.
For those with little or no Word press fu, it is a mound of skulls with ‘The Greens’ across it.
Whatever happened to hovercards? Some of the Gravatars were quite good, and not just generic patterns.
That’s not even true.
Terry McCrann on business and government getting into bed:
Just get a retrial as part of a consult for something else.
Stew Peters Show:
It’s time for a history lesson on the origins of the radical Anti Defamation League.
Anna Perez, host of Wrongthink and Wake Up America, joins Stew to discuss the ADL and how X’s community notes set the record straight on the murderer and rapist Leo Frank.
Leo Frank was found guilty of raping and murdering 13 year-old Mary Phagan.
Frank and his attorneys tried to blame the murder on an illiterate black janitor.
The grand jury, some of which was composed of Jews, charged Leo Frank with the murder.
He was then convicted in a court of law.
Later, his death sentence was commuted to life in prison by the Governor of Georgia.
As a result, an outraged group of Georgia citizens broke into his jail cell, took him to a tree, and hanged him for his crimes.
What happened to Leo Frank is exactly what needs to happen to pedophiles today.
Pedophiles should be put to death and the ADL’s entire existence is based on covering up for a murderer.
Under the guise of “Pride” the left wants to normalize sex with children and pedophilia.
The ADL is on board with this agenda as evidenced by their defense of Leo Frank and their promotion of revisionist history.
ADL Defends Notorious Pedophile On Twitter: Leo Frank Guilty Of Raping & Murdering 13 Year-Old Girl
Like the Rainbow Serpent, this is a belief which she is quite welcome to hold, but not to inflict on others.
That’s a new logo for the Tshirts – “The Rainbow Serpent is Gay”
Thanks Lizzie.
The Czechs applied to the Germans the same regulations that the Germans had applied to the Jews. They had to wear a yellow insignia, carry a special pass, not allowed on the streets or in the shops until 5 p.m., and were liable to have their houses and property confiscated at a minutes notice.
More idiotic waffle from our beloved braindead lamestream meeja. They were at it yesterday, replaying Dim “Our agenda is full of planks” Chambers talking about tax reform, when he was really referring to more and higher taxes.
P.S. Dover – please check your email.
LOL. Someone here last week predicted that would end up being his line.
Imagine the line up of cretins aiming to replace her. Daily Telegraph:
Rabz doctrine please. FMD
Frank was hanged on the testimony of another other suspect (Conley) who was seen around the scene of the crime at the time the crime was committed and also seen washing bloodstains out of his clothing. He (Conley) made multiple statements and retracted prior statements. His handwriting also matched the faked notes written by the victim. He then retracted his final statement at trial where he said Frank had enticed him with money to be an accomplice.
We can’t let Stew Peters go on his dumb dumb Jew baiting crap.
Nothing to do with Leo Frank you halfwit.
Duk, cats are opportunistic carnivores. Although, they are not purely carnivores as they also eat bones and gristle and skin and mouse tails and so on.
Dogs are omnivores, and like humans they are pretty adaptable as far as diet goes.
No doubt many domestic pets are overfed and/or fed the wrong things by their doting owners. I bet that few of them eat real food – it all comes out of a can or a packet.
My Blackie (Lab/Kelpie cross) got one meal a day which consisted of rice, kangaroo meat, and our leftovers poured on top. He was sleek but not fat, never had a sick day, finished his dinner (which was delivered in the back yard) before we got inside the back door. His instinct was that you had to consume food quickly, lest someone else does.
Alas, my sister’s full blood Lab died because although he was well fed, he raided the garbage bin and swallowed a used tampon. I know, right?
By the time he got sick, it had swollen up … OK, enough.
Modern pets in the West fare better than children did 100 years ago in terms of expenditure.
I’m lurking, Tinta. Surgery last Thursday.
My new knee fits like a glove.
A very tight one. 😀
That’s a lie.
He was pardoned.
“written” by the “victim”….
When BFF’s fall out:
So, surprisingly enough, new and higher taxes:
Multinationals: discourage the capital inflow needed to fund the $7-$9 trillion needed to achieve Net Zero by 2050;
Super: divert savings to consumption;
Cigarettes: capitalise on Mr and Mrs Strugglestreet, whose nicotine addiction means something else will fall off the table to fund the two packs-per-day;
PRRT: increase tax on gas exploration at a time when Net Zero is haemorrhaging national wealth because tight gas supply.
The Productivity Commission should be impressed.
correct, but I had more fun with the ‘why is that bad’ discussion…. 🙂
“My son is not a public figure,”
Frances Abbott was not a public figure either however I recall Sleazy’s silence when she was targeted by the left.
…and:
No forensic evidence
The other two suspects were proven liars, one perjuring himself at least three times
The other suspects could not explain their whereabouts around the time of the crime being committed
Giant coal-fired power station should stay open, NSW review finds
Samantha Hutchinson
National reporter
The Eraring power station in NSW could stay open beyond an original plan to shut it down by 2025, after a Minns government review recommended extending the giant coal-fired generator’s operating life to shore up reliability during the energy transition.
Energy and Environment Minister Penny Sharpe is expected to make an announcement in the coming days regarding the fate of the state’s largest coal-fired power station, after reports a reliability review had recommended striking a deal with Origin Energy to keep it open for longer.
A confidential cabinet document obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald revealed that a long-awaited government review had recommended the power station stay open longer than a planned 2025 closure date.
According to the report, the review found the state might need to rely on traditional power sources, including coal and gas, to avoid energy shortfalls as the state transitions to more renewable sources of power.
On Tuesday, Ms Sharpe confirmed she had received the energy reliability check-up report and said the government was weighing up its next steps.
“The NSW government is considering the recommendations in the report and will make the report and the government’s response public by the end of the month,” Ms Sharpe said.
“The government has always said all options are on the table when it comes to Eraring.”
Origin said in a statement on Tuesday: “We continue to engage with the market operator, the NSW government, our people and the local community regarding plans for the plant’s closure.”
The review, known as the Electricity Supply and Reliability Check-Up, commissioned by the government, was completed by former Energy Retailers Association chief executive Cameron O’Reilly, who is also a former federal Labor staffer and senior energy department executive.
The Minns government has embarked on a process to build five renewable energy zones across the state, which is expected to carry an infrastructure bill of more than $10 billion to connect the new supply to the grid.
The plan has been praised as a cohesive strategy to shift the state’s reliance on coal-fired energy to renewables, but an increasing number of energy experts say the state needs to keep some form of baseload supply – such as gas or coal – during the transition period and beyond for firming.
During the March election campaign, Premier Chris Minns flagged a willingness to potentially buy Eraring to give the state greater control and security of its energy supply.
Origin Energy, which owns Eraring and had discussions with the former Perrottet government about a potential sale of the asset to the government, is yet to see the check-up report or its contents, but will continue to engage with the government on timelines for the plant’s closure.
More to come.
Dogs are compulsive carnivores. You can tell by the teeth and the gut. They can handle carbohydrates, which can be good in particular as they get older and their system starts to conk out of protein digestion, but they will not graze if they’ve got the choice of meat.
*a vegetarian mate had a vegetarian dog, who lived to 15 which was good for a staffy- but he leant pretty heavily on the vet.
In Poxdrop news:
I’m having a slight change of heart about Bowen. It’s pretty clear that, like a younger version of Joe Biden, he has absolutely no idea what’s going on around him.
The poor little bastard is obviously being held captive by his carers and used cynically as a mouthpiece by Big Vested Interests.
I’d suggest choosing the opportunity very c a r e f u l l y. eg nowhere near armed sentries or geezers carrying swords.
Dogs are omnivores, and like humans they are pretty adaptable as far as diet goes.
Daughter’s Japanese Spitz ( lovely natured little dog) is strictly given one of these expensive hard biscuit type dog foods – “veterinary approved” diet – of course!
Poor little blighter. She craves real meat if you are eating in front of her. It breaks my heart.
Unfortunately, because of a lifetime on this diet (she is about 8 years old) she gets diarrhoea now if fed “human” food. However, I have found a diarrhoea-free diet for her when she comes to the farm – with us! This consists of poached duck breasts with the gravy mixed in with the dreaded dog food. I know, I know ….it is extravagant, but for this poor little dog it is a spectacular treat.
And daughter is none the wiser – since no diarrhoea !!!!
At least we now know for sure that Donald Trump was not the worst President in US history.
Giant coal-fired power station should stay open, NSW review finds
Can no politician act on their own wits any more, in these days saturated by reviews, advisory panels and chief officers?
What the blazes are all the offices and staff doing day to day? Social media?
In line with discussions on this Thread
Opinion
The shrinking factor set to plague China’s economy
Like Japan and South Korea, the Asian giant has an ageing and declining population, but it has fewer ways to manage the change.
Gideon Rachman – Columnist
When I published a bullish book about Asia in 2016, I felt I had good answers to all the sceptical questions except one.
What about China’s demography? The cliche was that China will “grow old before it grows rich”.
Like many cliches, it turns out to have some truth to it.
For all the talk in Beijing of a unique “China model”, the country’s economic history bears a striking resemblance to the trajectories of Japan and South Korea.
The take-off phase is driven by rapid, export-led industrialisation and low-cost labour.
The slowdown is closely linked with the ageing and shrinking of the population.
There is a plethora of Western commentary about the risks of the “Japanification” of China’s economy – in particular, deflation, property market bubbles and a debt crisis.
But the social parallels with Japan and South Korea should also worry China.
All three suffer from very low fertility rates, leading to a shrinking and ageing population that adds to the strains on the economy.
China’s “one child policy” – adopted in 1980 and abandoned in 2016 – accelerated the onset of an ageing society.
But Japan and South Korea also hit the demographic wall without official intervention.
South Korea now has the lowest fertility rate in the world: the average woman has just 0.78 children.
The 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, which cast a shadow over the prospects of many young people, seems to have been a turning point, making them even more reluctant to have children.
Dropping out
Japan, South Korea and China all have hyper-competitive exam-driven education systems.
As opportunities narrow, an increasing number of young people are tempted to opt out of the rat race.
In Japan, a recent government study found that 1.5 million people, or more than 1 per cent of the adult population, have withdrawn from society and seldom leave their homes.
The problems of these often started with feelings of failure and unbearable social pressure in young adulthood.
Some of that will sound disturbingly familiar to the Beijing authorities.
As China wrestles with a slowing economy and youth unemployment of more than 20 per cent, a growing number of young people are giving up on the race for a diminishing number of rewarding jobs and instead opting to “lie flat”.
Japan’s population began to decline in 2011 and South Korea’s in 2020.
Last year it was China’s turn to record its first population decline in 60 years.
Worryingly for the Chinese authorities, their population slide has begun at a lower level of average wealth than in their East Asian neighbours.
The Chinese government is now desperately trying to boost the birth rate.
But the experiences of Japan and South Korea show how hard that will be.
In fact, China’s demographic situation could get worse, since young people who cannot find jobs or afford a flat are even less likely to start a family.
In an effort to ease the pressure on Chinese youngsters and to reduce the cost of raising children, President Xi Jinping severely restricted the private tutoring industry in 2021.
But this had the perverse effect of damaging one of the largest sources of employment for young graduates.
Last week, the Chinese government came up with a new response to the problem of rising youth unemployment.
It decided to stop publishing the figures.
That step underlines a crucial difference between China and its main East Asian neighbours.
Japan and South Korea are established democracies. But China’s slowdown will take place in a giant one-party state with sound historical reasons to worry about discontent among the young.
Student demonstrations rocked China in 1919 and 1989, when they were brutally suppressed. Students were at the heart of the Hong Kong protests of 2019-20, which were also crushed. It was street demonstrations by the young that persuaded Beijing to abandon its “zero-COVID” policies last year.
China’s surveillance state almost certainly has the means to contain student agitation and protest movements. But democracies, such as South Korea and Japan, have more safety valves for dealing with social discontents and more latitude for political experimentation.
In 2017, South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, was impeached and removed from office. She was later given a long prison sentence for corruption. In the 20 years after the bursting of its financial bubble in 1989, Japan cycled through 14 prime ministers.
China’s paranoid one-party system does not have that flexibility. Xi’s encouragement of a cult of personality – and his triumphalist rhetoric about the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese people” – will make open public debate about the country’s complex social and economic challenges all but impossible.
Xi’s own instincts are to elevate national security and political control above economic growth.
His efforts to speak to the rising generation also sound increasingly out of touch.
The suggestion that discouraged youngsters should “eat bitterness” is unhelpful.
His nostalgia for the character-strengthening glories of the Cultural Revolution are likely to seem irrelevant to those born into an entirely different China.
Despite their problems, Japan and South Korea have remained stable and prosperous countries.
China may find that its own transition to an ageing and slower-growing society is considerably more difficult and turbulent.
Good news friends! My lovely wife’s new titanium joint makes her hip as they come. Give thanks for morphine and modern medicine.
Re today’s news item that local Council’s have no legal right to ban gas installation in new buildings – as it is a state matter:
Try telling that to Councils in inner city and northern Sydney Councils (& there are probably more) which have banned gas in new apartment blocks.
I suppose developers figure it is cheaper and quicker (same thing!) to concur and install all-electric, rather than contest the new “regulation.” It is how the green filth operate.
Same as my mothers dog – fed only kibble, looks on longingly when I eat meat – till I growl at him for his insolence
Like humans, dogs would have their own food specific gut flora – if fed kibble, the appropriate bacteria will predominate, and if given meat, transitory gut upset will ensue – humans are the same, they tend to get diarrhoea for a week or so if they ‘go carny’ .- until they re-establish the appropriate flora.
Dot
Aug 22, 2023 1:59 PM
Jew baiting?
F-off.
Go work for the ADL.
Uptick.
Wally Dalí
Aug 22, 2023 2:12 PM
Giant coal-fired power station should stay open, NSW review finds
Can no politician act on their own wits any more, in these days saturated by reviews, advisory panels and chief officers?
What the blazes are all the offices and staff doing day to day? Social media?
Wally,
you have never obviously worked in or sold to Federal/State/Territory Gobernment Departments
The Golden Rule of Staff or Ministers is never make a decision, Always employ Consultants who will take the Blame
The West has spent the last 50+ years ‘domesticating’ their human livestock – and like pandas, humans don’t breed well in captivity 🙁
Why insult me? I have enlightened you as to the facts, Trickler.
Frank was innocent and Stew Peters tried to insinuate that pedophilia advocacy is intrinsically Jewish.
HE can copulate and leave off and do so by doing a failed backflip.
Hmm.
Why is the middle of that sentence relevant?
Dot
Aug 22, 2023 2:20 PM
Why insult me? I have enlightened you as to the facts, Trickler.
Frank was innocent and Stew Peters tried to insinuate that pedophilia advocacy is intrinsically Jewish.
HE can copulate and leave off and do so by doing a failed backflip.
Wank!
Stew Peters.
Apparently he’s very big on earthquake predictions and rocks that are really trees from the Bible.
And dog videos.
Let’s have some rebuttals then Trickler.
GO!!!
Knuckle Dragger:
How about a Reinforced Brigade of Cats?
Lol! We’re all getting spares!
On dergs…my two horrors got BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food). It was meat, bones and offal, just as a dog might eat in the wild. Girl lived until 11, boy to almost 17.
Not bad for Westies.
Hey calli!
Keep on truckin’!
I guess you missed my comment about how recycled green waste is spreading weed seeds, first noted at The Conservative Woman.
Thoughts?
Those people in Georgia that nabbed the prick from goal and hanged him are to be commended.
Reports coming in that Stew Peters will take up an offer to co-host drivetime 6PR with Basil Zemplas.
No. You are a lunatic.
Lee and Conley should have been tried and if found guilty, legally and humanely executed.
Throw More Money at the Problem
‘Keeps me up at night’: NAPLAN data to spark schools overhaul
Tom Burton – Government editor
Education Minister Jason Clare says new school performance data to be released on Wednesday will show students from regional areas and poor families dominate those below the minimum standard, underlining the need for a “serious” overhaul of primary and high schools.
An accord process inquiring into higher education begun under Mr Clare has shown the number of students at university will need to double to 1.8 million by 2050 to meet future economic needs. But the minister said his biggest worry, and a risk to meeting that need, was the diminishing pipeline of students finishing high school.
“The thing that keeps me up at night is that the percentage of young people finishing high school at the moment is going down,” he told The Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit in Melbourne.
“All of the evidence shows that nine out of 10 jobs being created in the economy over the next few years are going to require you to have some type of tertiary qualification to finish school.”
Mr Clare told the Summit the NAPLAN data to be released Wednesday would point to the need for major reform of how children were educated.
“There is a massive over representation in that group of children who are below the minimum standard, who are Indigenous, who live in regional Australia, whose mum and dads come from a poor background,” he said.
“If these kids who, identified early, can’t break out of that minimum standard, it tells us that our education system needs some serious reform to identify those children and then do something about it.
“So the reforms that we’re looking at in early education and school education are just as important here as what we’re talking about in the [universities] accord, if we’re going to make sure that we get more people to TAFE and to university.
“You can’t expect young people from right across the country to get into university on the numbers we’ve got.”
Mr Clare said this cohort was vital to filling the economy’s skills gap.
“The only way to significantly boost the percentage of the workforce with a university qualification is to significantly increase the number of students who are currently underrepresented in universities – students from the outer suburbs, students from the regions, students from poor backgrounds.”
Mr Clare said a bill in parliament would also require universities to urgently support students who were struggling to complete their degrees.
“The bill also requires universities and other higher education providers to put in place a dedicated plan, a support for students policy, under which they’ll be required to proactively identify students who are at risk of failing and set out what they’ll do to help them pass.
“It’s based on a pretty simple premise. We should be helping students to succeed, not forcing them to quit.”
‘Has to be stamped out’
Mr Clare said new migration rules to stamp out international students abusing work rules were going to be released very soon, suggesting an announcement could come in days.
“We’ve had the dodgy and unscrupulous operators who are trying to take advantage of who manipulate the system and undermine it, who encourage people to use it as a backdoor to work here. This is a serious threat to the integrity of one of our biggest exports, and it has got to be stamped out.
“The thing I would say today is, watch this space.”
Mr Clare said the recommendations from Professor Mary O’Kane’s interim accord report released last month would need to be staged.
“We can’t fund everything. So there are some questions for you to contemplate today. What’s the most important? What’s the best way to do it? What can wait and what can be staged out?”
Mr Clare repeated his observation that the current arrangements concerning student safety were inadequate.
“What we’ve done so far, particularly when it comes to the safety of students, hasn’t been good enough.
“We have to confront it. Universities aren’t just places where people work and study. They are also places where people live.
Mr Clare said the accord team identified this was one area that couldn’t wait for the final report, and that the Commonwealth should work with states and territories immediately.
He said a working group had been established to make recommendations to education ministers by the end of the year.
“The only way to significantly boost the percentage of the workforce with a university qualification is to significantly increase the number of students who are currently underrepresented in universities – students from the outer suburbs, students from the regions, students from poor backgrounds.”
How about setting them on a path to a trade
– bring back Technical High Schools like Balgowlah Boys High used to be when I was at school late 50s and where I did Welding, Lathe training at night on my own volition
Jewish people commit no evil? Ha! The jab rollout in Israel was disgusting.
Klaus was smiling.
Kenan Basic, Cardinal Dr Geo. Pell, Bruce Lehrmann…
Men need to drop the blue pills. Red mist for other innocent men, but white knighting for murderers or attempted murderers like Anu Singh, Lucy Letby and Lavinia Woodward.
Aaaaaand here we go.
Manifesto to follow, no doubt.
Dot
Aug 22, 2023 2:28 PM
Steve trickler
Aug 22, 2023 2:25 PM
Those people in Georgia that nabbed the prick from goal and hanged him are to be commended.
No. You are a lunatic.
Lee and Conley should have been tried and if found guilty, legally and humanely executed.
You soak up the accepted narratives like a dry sponge to water.
As compared to electricity which has never harmed anyone anywhere ehrn used indoors?
“As happened between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Parts of Anatolia that had been Greek and Christian for a couple of thousand years became Turkic and Muslim, parts of Greece that had been Turkic and Muslim for hundreds of years became Greek and Christian. Similarly between North and South Vietnam after 1954, though that did not stop the long-term communist plan to take the lot.”
Thessaloniki is a big city in northern Greece, not far from Turkey. It had once been part of the Ottoman Empire. It had long been primarily a Jewish majority city with large Muslim and Christian populations, the people generally lived together in some tolerance. In the 1920s, Salonika (as it was known then) was handed to Greece, with the result that thousands of Salonikan Muslims departed for Turkey, and thousands of Anatolian Greeks left Turkey and were settled in cities like Salonika.
Being neither Greek nor Turkish, the Jews of Salonika stayed. Salonika had long been a city rich in Jewish history and culture, the community dating back to the Roman Empire, the population was enriched after Spain expelled its Jews in 1492. The Jews of Salonika spoke, along with Greek and Turkish, a Jewish romance language called Ladino, which is similar to Spanish. However, after the 1920s the city of Salonika was governed by Greece, and of course this proved catastrophic in World War II when Germany invaded Greece. Salonika’s Jews were trapped. Of the the 43,000 Jews in Salonika when Germany invaded Greece, over 40,000 were murdered during the Holocaust, transported in trains to Auschwitz.
There is today a miniscule community of Jews living in Salonika. After the war, those few survivors returned from the death camps, dazed and bewildered. Almost all had lost whole families, they weren’t just orphans without parents, these few survivors had zero family left, ALL murdered. Of the three thousand survivors, most left and went to Israel, but a couple stayed and rebuilt some Jewish life in a city that had once been a Jewish city, a golden medinah of Jewish life, now vanished.
Stolen, rigged and illegitimate: Democrats’ long history of objecting to election results
Democrats such as Hillary Clinton, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and dozens of congressional lawmakers have long objected to state and federal election results and have attempted to block every Republican presidential winner since 2000.
No Democrat has been prosecuted for challenging election results. The party also rejects any attempt to draw an equivalence to the actions of Donald Trump, even though top House Democrats objected to the certification of his presidential victory in 2016.
Mr. Trump is now facing dozens of state and federal charges related to his effort to overturn Joseph R. Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. A 41-count indictment in Georgia also targets 18 of his former advisers, aides and allies.
The charges center on Mr. Trump’s attempt to prevent Congress from certifying Mr. Biden’s victory. The evidence included in the indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, cites the president’s numerous tweets contesting the election results and phone calls to aides, lawmakers and election officials seeking to challenge Mr. Biden’s narrow win in Georgia and other swing states.
As Mrs. Clinton, former secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, and others gloat over the prosecution of Mr. Trump, Republicans say the case is utter hypocrisy and politically motivated.
Mr. Trump is the runaway leader in the Republican presidential primary and is likely on track to face off against President Biden on the November 2024 ballot. The two remain neck and neck in general election polls.
“This indictment isn’t about President Trump claiming the election was stolen,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, said on the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. “If it was, Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton would be in jail.”
Mrs. Clinton said for years that Mr. Trump’s 2016 victory was unfair. She won the popular vote but lost in critical swing states, which gave Mr. Trump the electoral advantage and the presidency.
After her defeat, Mrs. Clinton claimed Mr. Trump won the election by colluding with Russian operatives and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The claim was the basis for a much-criticized Justice Department investigation that hobbled Mr. Trump’s presidency and showed no evidence of collusion.
“I believe he knows he’s an illegitimate president,” Mrs. Clinton told CBS News in September 2019.
Mrs. Clinton continued her argument until Mr. Trump’s defeat in 2020.
In 2019, Mrs. Clinton said she warned Democrats running for president, “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you.”
Mrs. Clinton advised Mr. Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, three months before the 2020 election that he “should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out.”
Mrs. Clinton laughed heartily on the set of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” last week over the news of the Fulton County charges against Mr. Trump.
“Yet another set of indictments!” she exclaimed.
Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Maddow did not discuss Mrs. Clinton’s past statement accusing Mr. Trump of stealing the 2016 election. Instead, they agreed that Mr. Trump is guilty of attempting to undermine democracy, in part by declaring the 2020 election stolen.
“Justice is being pursued,” Mrs. Clinton said.
She is among dozens of prominent Democrats who have objected to Republican election wins.
I guess it’s a radical notion, but if population growth is falling, perhaps we could go back to basics and remove the policies which are causing it?
How is Dot doing that? He correctly pointed out that many men have been tried and convicted for crimes that they didn’t do – both historically and recently.
By definition, that’s the exact opposite of the narrative.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 22, 2023 2:35 PM
Jewish people commit no evil? Ha!
Aaaaaand here we go.
Manifesto to follow, no doubt.
Retard. Don’t start that shit with me.
I assume you are going mention the “Protocols” ( All garbage )
[ Middle finger ]
Only when they have documented evidence.
Frank proved there was no forensic evidence against him, the other suspects repeatedly lied and could not explain their whereabouts and were even seen by witnesses concealing evidence or at or near the crime scene at the time when the crime was committed.
ASSUMING Frank was guilty and that pro pedophilia is intrinsically Jewish, is low IQ bigotry.
You like to tell people to think for themselves, but you can’t do it yourself.
No. They haven’t got any wits. They are pig ignorant and rather stupid. They choose their advisors to be even stupider. Some of the permanent bureaucrats are smarter, but just as ignorant. And being smarter than a politician is not a very high standard.
Weird when Figures defends me, Trickler, consider how you unite people against you and Stew Peters in visceral disgust and shock.
You’re the perfect recipient, so I don’t see why not.
Yes. The Protocols of Linking Endless Clips Of Dogs In Other Countries.
Most potting mixes are sterilised with steam. There was a scare some years ago about Legionnaires and commercial mixes. I doubt weed seeds could survive the steam treatment.
On councils composting green waste…the last time I saw one of these facilities was about fifteen years ago. Material is ground up and mounded in windrows, watered down and turned every couple of days. Composting time is entirely dependent upon the internal temperature of the row which will be affected by weather and season, and also the composition i.e. green to dry ratios.
Unlikely that vegetative material will survive, but stuff like onion weed and oxalis? These are hard to kill. I reckon they’d migrate to new destinations.
On weeds like paddys lucerne and other broadacre stuff – that’s likely to come from manures, especially horse. Cow manure is best because the ruminant stomach(s) destroy the seed.
There was also a trend a few years ago to use lucerne or pea straw as a mulch. The inevitable will happen there – you get lucerne or peas as part of the package. Great for N, but also weeds.
My own garden was pure white sand ten years ago. It is now a dark, loamy, friable mix with a slightly high pH, but still okay for most exotics. The secret – tonnes of mushroom compost spread thickly and rotary hoed in. Every plant, no matter how small, had several shovels full of cow manure mixed into the planting hole. The entire thing mulched with sugar cane. Rinse and repeat. Fertilised three times a year with copious Dinofert (Dynamic Lifter). You will note I avoided anything that could possibly introduce weeds.
A long answer, the shorter one would be “it depends”.
Dot : best physio’s online are “Brad and Bob”, decent practical down to earth Physical Therapists, cover basic stuff and give great ideas. Free however. You might not trust that.
No.
It is not amazing.
It’s like asking why so many scout masters happen to be pedos.
They are attracted to professions which offer opportunity.
Figures
Aug 22, 2023 2:40 PM
Dot’s facts carry no weight.
Leo Frank was innocent.
Like humans, dogs would have their own food specific gut flora – if fed kibble, the appropriate bacteria will predominate, and if given meat, transitory gut upset will ensue
Thanks, Duk. As usual – your explanation of the mechanics of the organism makes sense.
Just “put down” an old cow which ( for a couple of weeks) wasn’t digesting her food and was poorly. After vet bill of $500 (1 hour travel/anti inflammatory/antiobiotic) she was still unwell. Teeth practically worn down would not have helped. But suspect it was a tumour in oesphagus, though vet couldn’t detect as far as he could see.
Interesting to observe herd behaviour after they were allowed in paddock the next day (after she was buried with a backhoe). They gathered around the site and some sort of “moaned”, rather than mooed. All very sombre and fixated on the site. A couple pawed at the loose earth. It really was a damn wake!
Cow behaviour is far more intricate and interesting than most people realise. It is more observable, of course, when you have small specialised breeding herds. I am currently writing a book on their behaviour.
What’s weird about it? Your arguments are usually brave and thoughtful.
Ironically, the same can be said for Stew Peters actually.
“No weight”
No blood on Frank or defensive wounds, no blood on his clothes nor in his laundry
The victim stripped and bloody after the assault and murder
Conley changed his statement three times
He withdrew his accusation against Frank at trial (from the final statement) that Frank was going to pay him for concealing the crime
Seen near the crime scene at the right time
Sketchy about his whereabouts
Was seen washing blood from a shirt
Stew Peters Network:
The global elite are desperate to maintain their power so they are planning another plandemic.
Clay Clark is here to talk about his Reawaken America Tour happening this weekend in Las Vegas.
The media lies will not work this time.
The people are prepared to stand against the tyrants who want forced masking and closure of businesses.
The global elites like Klaus Schwab are going to attempt to solidify their control over humanity by implementing a fake climate crisis alongside another fake pandemic.
This will be the marriage of a health crisis and a climate crisis to force the world to lockdown once more.
Every American needs to pray for the preservation of this country but more important than that is the salvation of lost Americans.
More lockdowns are coming and it’s up to local communities to push back, file lawsuits, and prevent governments from terrorizing its citizens.
Media Ramping Up Fear, Readies NEXT PLANDEMIC: Stew Peters To Attend Reawaken Tour In Las Vegas
Yes, well.
They’re only facts.
“No blood on Frank or defensive wounds, no blood on his clothes nor in his laundry
The victim stripped and bloody after the assault and murder
Conley changed his statement three times
He withdrew his accusation against Frank at trial (from the final statement) that Frank was going to pay him for concealing the crime
Seen near the crime scene at the right time
Sketchy about his whereabouts
Was seen washing blood from a shirt”
All correct.
Last year a clearly unwell pelican chose its last resting spot near where we walk along a lagoon/billabong. It was surrounded for a week before its demise by a group of five to eight other pelicans, who remained with the carcase for another week to ten days before finally dispersing. The foxes cleaned up the remains. They were clearly a family type group.
Wake up sheeple!
Hosted by a quartet of Elvis impersonators.
Dot
Aug 22, 2023 2:55 PM
Link to info? We’ll start to do a dig.
This really is fish in a barrel stuff.
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 22, 2023 2:59 PM
This really is fish in a barrel stuff.
Says the bloke who reckons Direct Energy Weapons are a joke. Piss off.
Last year a clearly unwell pelican chose its last resting spot near where we walk along a lagoon/billabong. It was surrounded for a week before its demise by a group of five to eight other pelicans, who remained with the carcase for another week to ten days before finally dispersing. The foxes cleaned up the remains. They were clearly a family type group.
Fascinating. Because we are so urbanised, we rarely have the opportunity to observe animal behaviour in natural habitat and in situations of herd behaviour.
The Mandates Are Back
Consider a senior pubic serpent with a degree in economics or history. What chance does he have of deciding whether or not there really is a climate crisis? Zilch. He will follow the herd, and anyway, his social circle will be making money out of the scam.
So he interviews the head of an engineering company and asks if replacing horrid hydrocarbons with “renewables” is possible. The truth is that it’s an utterly lunatic idea and only a complete ignoramus would consider it. The engineer doesn’t tell him this, because he will then be replaced by some other, more compliant, engineer. So he says that it is possible, technically true, but would be expensive. An understatement. To the bureaucrat, this is puzzling, because after all sunlight and wind are free, but then, he realises, even engineers have to make a living.
So the fact that the whole plan is imbecilic gets ignored. It’s not in anyone’s interest to point it out. And it goes ahead, and we all have to pay the price, which is enormous.
This is what happens when pig ignorant bureaucrats take charge of things beyond their comprehension. If they were slightly less ignorant, they might have a faint idea of how ignorant they are. But they have avoided ever doing mathematics or science or engineering, because that isn’t the way to power, and besides they’re too hard.
Cassie of Sydney
Aug 22, 2023 2:57 PM
“No blood on Frank or defensive wounds, no blood on his clothes nor in his laundry
The victim stripped and bloody after the assault and murder
Conley changed his statement three times
He withdrew his accusation against Frank at trial (from the final statement) that Frank was going to pay him for concealing the crime
Seen near the crime scene at the right time
Sketchy about his whereabouts
Was seen washing blood from a shirt”
All correct.
Link please.
And he’s not wrong.
Vivek Ramaswamy blames woke Obama crony for horrific Maui death toll
Ah, no.
I just don’t think they were delivered to Klaus-controlled minions for a) placement into BOM weather stations, or b) put into satellites to start fires in other countries, resulting in:
1. People being forced off their land;
2. GummintKlaus taking over said land (possibly with the help of ‘army tanks’);
3. GummintKlaus using the land for nefarious purposes, forcing the population to eat bugs; and/or
4. GummintKlaus digging tunnels to hold millions of captive children in, and to make red leather shoes from their hides.
Pretty simple. Appreciate the heads up though.
Annie.
Scott Ritter: For NATO and Ukraine, Reality Bites
There’s an iconic scene in the 1990’s cult classic movie, Reality Bites, where Leilaina, played by Winona Ryder, delivers the valedictory address.
“What are we going to do now?” she asks, before following up with an even more pertinent question: “How can we repair all the damage we inherited?”
She then answers her questions with a plaintive, “I don’t know.”
In watching NATO and Ukrainian officials struggle to comprehend the reality of the situation they find themselves in, with the long-awaited and much-anticipated counteroffensive floundering against Russian defenses that have proved to be impenetrable, Leilaina’s words came immediately to mind.
Ukraine has dispatched the last of its strategic reserves, led by the elite 82nd Airlanding Brigade, into the battle for the Zaporozhye village of Rabotino. Here, in fields made fallow by conditions of war, Ukraine’s best fighting forces have been eviscerated by Russian defenders who have refused to yield. Based upon the experience of the lead elements of the 82nd Brigade, this fate awaits them as well.
With the Ukrainian strategic reserve committed and soon to be defeated, there are no more forces of significance available to Ukraine and their NATO overseers capable of influencing the conduct of the battles raging all along the 1,000-mile line of contact between the armies of Ukraine and Russia.
Russia, meanwhile, retains an uncommitted reserve of some 200,000-plus fresh, well-trained and equipped forces which are leaning into the bit to be committed to battle.
When they are eventually unleashed, Ukraine will lack the resources necessary to fend off their attack, signally the culminating moment in a Russian campaign designed to achieve just this result — the collapse of the Ukrainian ability to sustain large-scale ground combat.
Reality bites.
The situation had become so dire that Stian Jenssen, the chief of staff to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, opined in from a Norwegian audience that a solution for the end of the conflict with Russia “could be for Ukraine to give up territory, and get NATO membership in return.”
But even here, Jenssen was delusional.
While reality dictates that Ukraine will never get back its former territories of Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea, and that the wisest choice would be to concede the inevitability of a Russian victory while avoiding the potential for the loss of even more territories, Jenssen seemed to forget that one of the primary goals behind the Russian decision to initiate the special military operation was to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
Only someone totally separated from reality could articulate a scenario that has Russia conceding an issue that is linked to its existential survival (i.e., the expansion of NATO into Ukraine) in exchange for accepting an already accomplished fact — Russian control of the former Ukrainian territories.
Both the Ukrainian government and Jenssen’s boss, Stoltenberg, pushed back against the notion of a territory-for-membership swap. “NATO will support Ukraine until it wins the conflict,” Stoltenberg told a gathering of reporters in Oslo a day after Jenssen’s gaffe, implying that Ukraine’s contention that a key condition for conflict resolution remained evicting Russia from all of the former Ukrainian territories liberated by Russian troops and claimed by Russia as a result of referenda held in 2014 (for Crimea) and 2022 (for the other four territories.)
But it is becoming increasingly clear that reality is trumping desire. There is no chance for Ukraine to achieve its stated objectives, something Jennsen’s comments reflected, and Stoltenberg’s did not. NATO struggles to generate new sources of equipment for the rapidly depleting Ukrainian Army, which has lost much of the tanks, armored fighting vehicles, and artillery systems provided by NATO and other nations in preparation for the failed counteroffensive.
Equipment previously considered to be too provocative, such as the F-16 fighter, have now been greenlit for release to Ukraine.
But none of this matters — even if Ukraine were to receive everything it wanted, the fact is that Ukraine cannot generate the manpower, either in quantity or quality, necessary to competently operate such equipment on a modern battlefield against a Russian Army which, by any honest measure, has emerged from this conflict as the most lethal, capable fighting force in the world.
The US and NATO are both struggling with how to manage a situation where a strategic Russian victory is inevitable.
While Jenssen later expressed “regret” for his suggestion of a territory-for-membership swap, the fact is that Ukraine’s hardline position regarding the conditions it will accept regarding conflict termination is not realistic, and the longer Ukraine’s allies and partners continue to play along with such fantasy, the more difficult the path toward an eventual solution will become.
Indeed, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s recent rejection of negotiations with the West over an end to the conflict shows this to be the case. Lavrov cited as the main reason for the Russian stance the fact that any such negotiation would be little more than a “tactical trick” designed to give the Ukrainian Army a chance to rest and rebuild.
It appears more and more likely that the end of the conflict will take the form of capitulation, not negotiation, where Ukraine plays the role of Imperial Japan in a replay of the surrender ceremony in September 1945 in Tokyo Bay onboard the USS Missouri.
The terms under such a scenario would be unconditional, Ukraine’s defeat total and NATO’s route unmitigated.
Ukrainian and NATO officials would do well to reflect on this reality before deciding to continue the conflict to “the last Ukrainian.”
Stevie T is off the pace.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now.
An afternoon of golf beckons, with captains of industry et al in this part of our wide brown land.
32 degrees. Warm but not hot, despite the best efforts of local BOM death rays.
Vicki: since retiring and covid, we have walked 5k five times a week on a nature pathway and have enjoyed it so much. At the moment we are watching a black swan sitting on her nest. Last year four swan families bred, one had seven cygnets, which the very next day were only six. We have nesting grey heron and whistling kites at the moment. And the water-rats are active now too. And there are cattle egrets about. I have had to look up my bird book a lot, but I’m not especially good at identifying the smaller bush birds. Bruce of Newcastle has a lot to answer for !
Knuckle Dragger
Aug 22, 2023 3:10 PM
Idiot. Go watch footy.
Man that was quick!
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KD at 8:53.
The way the initial concerns were not only shut down, but the complainants forced to apologise tells you everything.
These “managers” (trumped up nurses with a Cert III in Hostibal Management) had done all the necessary training to identify “toxic masculinity” and “gender power imbalances” between male specialists and junior nurse/murderers.
Will anything happen to them?
Nup.
Because they were furthering the cause.
Digital IDs in China – THE GREAT RESET IS HAPPENING NOW
“The mainstream media does not want the West to know what is happening in China because the people would be frightened and begin to rebel. The media wants you to believe that China is “experimenting” with digital IDs that are linked to bank accounts and impacted by social credit scores, but they’re already there. TikTok is one of the last platforms where users throughout the world can share personal news without censorship. In the video above, a Chinese woman is explaining how she “once again cannot buy food.”
Her story is one example of how the digital ID program will work. She attempted to buy a new phone linked to a Chinese bank account to bypass the digital ID, but since her cousin purchased the phone, she was unable to log on because the phone was flagged. China has been testing this system since 2018 and had a soft launch in March, when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced that 100 million citizens would be issued digital identification cards. As always, they market this as a mere convenience. “One policy from the government this year is to make ID cards electronic, so that relevant information can be accessed by a simple scan of the code on the cellphone,” he said.
Simply look at the articles regarding digital IDs and the praise they receive such as “offering an omnichannel experience” or even calling the provinces that have instituted the measure “digital ID havens.” They tout how citizens can access public venues with facial recognition technology. What they fail to mention is that the government now owns its citizens. All of their data, from where to go to what to buy, is tracked and harvested. One misstep and a person can and will be financially excommunicated from society.
Welcome to the Great Reset. China already had a firm grip on its population that was already battered after what it did during COVID. Remember, Trudeau said China is his ideal form of government. All of the West will watch this play out in China to determine how they can implement it too. They will market this to the sheep as a technological achievement to be celebrated. Those who can think independently will not go down without a fight. We must wake up and realize that the global elite is implementing the Great Reset.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/digital-ids-in-china-the-great-reset-is-happening-now/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Yep. Except now the mob is after them. 40 million or so enraged & outraged poms.
They’ll be thrown to the wolves in a heartbeat if need be.
Vicki you might be interested in Les Murray’s sequence of sixteen poems, ‘Walking to the Cattle Place’.
Some of it has a few interesting things to say about cattle behaviour such as you describe above. Though much more about cow-culture as Peter A suggests.
Tight copyright restrictions make it difficult to link to though this is dealing with similar territory: The Cows on Killing Day
Whoops. Hope this one works.
The Cows on Killing Day
I see you have given up on Korea. Good, small steps, but on this new point, no, I don’t recall the Kremlin saying they would win in 3 days, that was Gen. Milley, and even the ‘respectable propaganda’ you linked to said no such thing. There there.
Vicki:
You’re right. It is interesting behaviour and I’ve watched cows come ‘home’ each night as if there’s a social reason for it.
Just a question about the backhoe she was buried with – was it a favorite of hers? I mean did she scratch on it each day or she just liked the colour and had an affinity for it?
(smiley face)
Sancho Panzer at3:20 -clearly some toxic masculinity and doctor God complex was required earlier. Too late now.
Ita calls time on the ALPBC too.
“My Department has advised …. (fill in whatever trash has been provided by the bureaucrats”.
Out by The Alberscreechi Door or “My agent can’t find anything”. See also: Mark Kenny.
The silly minister babbles on most of the time about universities, while failing to recognise that technical education is also tertiary (after secondary) level.
He wants MOAR useless yartz and Soshul science graduates, and fewer plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. Idiot, and more so are his “advisers” and consultants.
PS, modeling is NOT evidence.
“Daughter’s Japanese Spitz ”
Mine (the most gorgeous dog) has yet to finish a meal (mince and biscuits) in more than 10 seconds.
Oh?
Good to know there’s been a policy change.
🙂
My source at Radio Free Europe quoted Russian sources!
More idiotic waffle from our beloved braindead lamestream meeja. They were at it yesterday, replaying Dim “Our agenda is full of planks”
And all the ‘planks’ are in the Feral Guv’ment called ‘Pollies’.
Precisely Joe Aston’s response to “leave him out of it”.
We would if you hadn’t tipped him into it.
Radio Free Europe (RFE) CIA front. As usual.
Lol, independent federal funded govt agency. No such thing exists in the US. Or elsewhere for that matter.
Correct me, bit I think you suggested the US lost in Korea. Is that right?
No doubt. However, they quoted Russian sources.
Sure, they quote Russian sources but where do those sources say three days?
Ivan at the hot dog stand? Totally credible dotty. I’ll give myself an uppercut, there.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
– Ronald Reagan
You could actually just look at what I said.
Yes, but you can verify the links yourself if you speak Russian.
I’m not sure Russian Parliament is open to dissent like we have.
Just as planned?
Oh dear. Hedonism, not the sword and shield (heh) of Christendom.
Not exactly the Russian emigre Hot Dog stand guy near the Pentagon.
Radio Free Europe was CIA front, don’t know if it still is but I doubt they gave it away. My Russian mate lived in a closed city. He was into radio. European stations were jammed. Going to his grandparents home in the country no jamming. He listened to the BBC and RFE and couldn’t understand why they were jammed. He thought most of it rubbish except now he has a rather eclectic taste in music.
I could, but I thought it would be easier to ask as I don’t recall when you posted it and therefore take an extended time looking as the blog is slow-ish. Don’t worry about it.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
– Ronald Reagan
Good old Ron! Spoke a lot of good sense. Wish we had some like him today. And no – the Donald is NOT the Ronald!
Just a question about the backhoe she was buried with – was it a favorite of hers?
Robert! Mocking my deplorable grammar!!!
dotty,
I know this may come as a big shock to you, but the CIA are past masters of spinning news that will favour their ends. In this case Russia is getting flogged. They have access to and their people in all manner of media, news, radio, online influencers, political groupings etc. Quite extensive.
So when you see reporting from a US ” federal government agency that oversees all U.S. civilian international media”, you can be safely certain of one thing. You are reading CIA approved spin.
It’s only now when Ukr is suffering such staggering losses in the carnage they are mired in at the first line of Russian defences in depth that there is acknowledgement that the decisive Ukr counteroffensive is actually a disaster. And NATO are openly admitting a negotiated settlement of some kind is the end game to the bloodshed. Dislodging Russia by military means is costing Ukr too much blood.
The sooner the better for all concerned. Enough young men have been slaughtered.
I’m sure Tony Abbott’s daughter would agree.
Ummm, memo to Peter FitzSimons – the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Long Tan was in 2016…..
No one is disagreeing with this!
I note the the ADL was mentioned above. The ADL, just like the SPLC, just like the the ACLU, were all, once upon a time, very worthy organisations. The ADL was set up to fight anti-Semitism, in all its guises. And it did a great job, for decades.
The problem now with all three organisations is that over the last decade each one of these organisations has been captured by the far left, just like every other major organisation in the USA. We all know that wokeism destroys everything, even once worthy organisations. The ADL has been particularly rotten since ex-Obama aid Jonathan Greenblatt took over as National Director. He has completely imbued the organisation with progressive politics, he and his acolytes in the organisation largely refuse to point out far-left Jew hatred, they’re only interested in the low hanging fruit, which is far-right Jew hatred.
There are now many religious Jews in the USA who’ve stopped supporting the ADL, which is sad because the ADL has done stellar work for American Jews for well over over a century. The ADL was set up in the wake of Leo Frank’s dodgy conviction. Further to Leo Frank, who was later lynched by a frenzied mob for a crime he did not commit, whilst it took decades of lobbying by the ADL, the State of Georgia finally issued Leo Frank with a posthumous pardon.
dot, so nothing in there at all about three days.
Cassie of Sydney
Aug 22, 2023 4:29 PM
A link please. I’d like to suss out the people saying otherwise.
Who’s paying the piper, Dover?
There’s an amusing piece about the Pute being quite the fashion plate.
The only thing they have wrong about him is that he buys mere off the rack Brioni suits. This is a dude that would only go with bespoke according to older stories. I’m guessing, the only off the rack he wears appears to be Lora Piana. A pair of LP socks would set you back A$ 250
Vladimir Putin’s elaborate fashion choices have been revealed including a £10,000 ($A17,800) coat as well as a luxury watch collection.
The Russian president might be in the middle of leading the invasion of Ukraine but that doesn’t stop him from flaunting designer outfits.
When Putin, 69, addressed his countrymen at a pro-war rally last week he donned a £10,000 ($A17,800) Loro Piana jacket worth over thirty times Russia’s average monthly wage, The Sun reports.
The luxury coat wasn’t the only item with a hefty price tag with a £2,400 ($A4,200) roll-neck jumper from Italian designer Kiton worn along with other exorbitant designer clothes.
According to Russia Beyond, his suits have a starting price tag of £4,000 ($A7,100) and are produced by one skilled tailor, reports The Mirror.
Putin likes to dress in custom-tailored black suits and “dour” ties, earning him the nickname of the ‘Man in Black’.
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Sources say his favourite clothing brand is Brioni, the Italian tailor famous for dressing Bond, while his shoes come from Salvatore Ferragamo or John Lobb.
Stylists reportedly rip off any labels so no attention is drawn to the lavish brands that Putin wears.
The Kremlin leader’s luxury watch collection is not to be outdone by his fancy choice of clothing.
He allegedly possesses a watch collection worth nearly £450,000 ($A801,000).
The Russian president also boasts a luxurious watch collection. Picture: Thibault Camus / Pool / AFP.
The Russian president also boasts a luxurious watch collection. Picture: Thibault Camus / Pool / AFP.
The centrepiece of that ensemble is the fancy £300,000 ($A534,300) Tourbograph which boasts a handstitched crocodile leather strap and gold plated arms.
Russian opposition group Solidarity stated in 2012 that Putin’s pricey collection is valued at almost six times his official salary.
However, the Russian leader has also given away some of his expensive timepieces, gifting an £8,000 ($A14,250) watch to a Siberian boy he met on holiday in 2009.
Putin’s lavish taste also extends to his gym wear as he once posed for photos during a workout while sporting a £2,400 ($A4,200) Loro Piana tracksuit.
Not made from common athletic materials, his designer outfit is made from cashmere and silk which are not especially known for absorbing sweat.
Putin decided on lavish clothing during a workout in the past. Picture: Mikhail
Putin’s huge spending isn’t just limited to his style and he’s the proud owner of a $1 billion mansion known as ‘Putin’s Palace’ as well as 19 other properties, 58 planes and helicopters and a £73m ($A130 million) superyacht.
New documents recently revealed that a £532 million ($A947.9 million) luxury superyacht probed by Italian authorities does belong to Putin himself.
The Russian leader has even owned outlandish pets – including a tiger called Boris, who he released into the wild on live TV in 2015.
Tasteful and severely elegant.
Hi dear Calli was getting worried, I know you were due for some knife-work but had sounded a little doubtful as to weather it’d go ahead I don’t get to CATch up much as I’d like. Cheers and I hope rehab is going well.
I said that they were fought to a stalemate in Korea. And that they were outmaneuvered by the Chinese, NK in certain key battles.
JC, you are convincing me that Putin has reserved, good taste re his appearance.
Loro Piana actually used to source wool from Tumbarumba (Munderoo), NSW. I’ve met the owners, they had a nice pond full of trout.
Seems Peter Fitzsimons researchers must have been out of contact for him to not realise the 50th anniversary we just had was for the end of the war and not 50 since Long Tan.
Okay, I just glanced at it gained the wrong impression.
The Americans killed around 400,000 Chinese. The Americans had to fight this war by shipping men and equipment over, while the Chinese moved the military on land. Land transport is much easier. Considering the Commies would have overrun all of the peninsula, a stalemate that included half the country is a decent result.
A stick goes out from the human
and cracks, like the whip. Me shivers and falls down
with the terrible, the blood of me, coming out behind an ear.
Fortunately, this Les Murray poem does not accurately depict the demise of our old cow, Delta. A very experienced station hand, who has thermal sights on his high powered rifle, kindly did the job for me in the early evening after work. I took her out of the yards into an open paddock, on her own, and gave her a bucket of cattle nuts. He put one bullet into the exact spot on the hump between the ears, and she was dead before she hit the ground.
Stan Grant is out of the ABC.
Where would a man of his superior intellect and humanity find employment?
No prizes once again for a correct guess.
Dams straight I am. he also quite the little watch collector too. The chatter is he was long tons of Bitcoin at $1,000; sold it off at $60,000, then shorted it all the way down to 16,000 and squared up. An incredible series of trades.
Here’s more on the watch collection.
https://www.rbth.com/arts/2015/07/24/a_look_at_vladimir_putins_wardrobe_44415
Vicki you might be interested in Les Murray’s sequence of sixteen poems, ‘Walking to the Cattle Place’.
But thanks Jorge – I was able to access the poem regarding the despatch of the cow.
I think I read sometime ago the family owns sheep farms in Tassie. They’re supposed to produce the best wool cloth in the world. No wonder the Pute loves their stuff.
And voila — the NDIS
[Mr Albanese said Australians should be having conversations with their families and friends to build support for the Voice, joining Mr Farmer for a small portion of the run, surrounded by Yes campaigners.]
From the Daily Mail.
Any bets on how far Albo’s “small portion” was? I will start the betting with a suggestion of 120 metres.
So, after being so poorly used by the ABC he does not feel animosity toward them.
To the millions of Australians, however, who are not onboard with the indigenous grievance industry and never done anything to him personally but exist as an abstracted racist ‘type’, I get the impression he has animosity aplenty.
We will be able to see when the referendum fails.
As for staying in with his j’ism lecturing (which is all modern j’ism is) he will pumping out boring books of a fabled indigenous history (even now locked in a struggle with whitey) and will need to access the ABC to peddle them. Win-win!
I would think Alistair Clarkson and Chris Fagan have a view on the potential difficulties of employing indigenous identifying persons.
Yesterday’s Viva/Barnes was excellent on the Georgia indictment. Excellent reminder that the Georgia court’s slow walked the election contest passed the legally required time for the hearing, and then declared it moot post-J6. Discussion of the indictment starts here.
Est. is about 180K-400K. Sure, they had to ship troops and equipment but they had air and artillery superiority, as well as much better logistical and intelligence capability. Still, the Chinese surprised them with their troop discipline, ability to move large numbers of men without detection over large distances, and so on. The point was the US was at the height of its powers in the ’50s and they were still able to be fought to a stalemate by the Chinese/ NK.
I guess the question could be re-phrased.
Instead of splitting hairs about days or weeks, does anyone think Vlad went into this shit-show contemplating being still bogged in this stalemate after 18 months?
Style is about more than the price of the clothes.
You could dress Poot in a $50k Italian suit and he would still look like a chimp with a pointy stick up his arse.
He seems to have developed the Lebbo strut.
The difficulties faced by the modern ‘Miss.”
Well worth watching right through. There’s a beautiful clip at the end which, as Tucker says is pretty much perfect as an example of current insanity.
That’s gone very quiet.
After all the outrage when the AFL finally took the whole thing off life support it has gone nowhere.
They were going to the HRC, which would have listed it before lunchtime the next day if it had been lodged.
This can happen when the promise of +$500k turns into the real prospect of -$200k.
Just came across this:
That was Churchill.
Can you imagine a British politician saying that now? There was a time when the British did not think the solution to everything was more government, but even in the quote you can see that idea was falling out of favour.
Of course the idea would not occur in Australia either. At best some Labor politician would suggest a new government department – the Department of Private Enterprise – which would be in charge of private enterprise, managing a regime of regulations, telling them
– what they can produce,
– how much they can charge
– what products are needed
– which not
– outlining how businesses are managed
– how they are staffed
– ensuring they are compliant with AGW policy (a business that plunges us into climategeddon is illegitimate by definition!)
– and diversity compliant, so they represent modern Australia
> 50% indigenous
> 50% Aboriginal
> 50% African American (a lot of Australian stuff is copy/pasted from the US)
> 50% Moroccan (great food!)
> 50% women
> 50% gay (or, at least, of generally buoyant disposition)
> 50% trannies
> and 50% 2++ (or whatever it is – it changes a lot)
Straight white guys will presumably make up the balance until a way is found to counteract their inherent systemic privilege.
When the libs get in power they will insist that the Minister is a wet because they don’t want to seem dogmatic.
Here’s the truth…
“Transgender pervert Emma Rose reveals the embarrassing moment HE ‘popped out’ during a performance and had to flee the venue after lying about HIS biological sex.
Quite so!
Joe Biden sparks outrage by comparing Hawaiian blaze that killed at least 114 to a kitchen fire at his house after making tone-deaf ‘hot ground’ joke to rescuer
Former White House physician, Ronny Jackson is saying out loud what everybody already knows.
You’ve just perfectly described communism.
A 3 minute clarion call.
German EU Member of Parliament Christine Anderson issues a three-minute, 19-second warning to the world about what is coming.
Oh, I see.
It wasn’t his fake bosoms that popped out.
It was his genuine penis.
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China/ NK. And Russia.
Mig alley.
Soviet pilots.
Soviet advisors.
Soviet engineers.
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-https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/368/582
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The UN forces faced a combined effort from the Soviets and Chinese.
This was only fully revealed in the 1990s when we got access to the archives.
The current conflict in Ukraine is just the latest in 70 years of conflict between the two blocs. The actual details of involvements, casualties and behind the scenes machinations might one day be known if another period of time like the 90s comes again.
Meanwhile the CCP still rules, the Russians are still an opportunistic and predatory power led by a lunatic, and the West, as always, remains riven by internal strife and wrangles over social issues.
HE’S SHOT: A Confused Joe Biden, Mouth Agape, Has to Be Guided Away From Podium After Maui Speech
Received today my first communication advising of pronouns. I feel so proud.
A uni staffer (of course)
The message is about a week old. Thankfully I don’t have to respond or take any notice, as she sent a message via Facebook.
I do not have a business Facebook page. She’s sent it to a page auto-created years ago by FB, lord only knows who (if anybody) controls the page.
Her message is right there in public though – albeit somewhat folorn looking after a week of being not noticed by anybody. On a page that’s had about 5 messages written on it in 15 years.
Wow – Zali’s porked up.
https://twitter.com/zalisteggall/status/1693808886522798276
Well, I’d prefer not to need to address the 3 days claim but it’s often repeated. On the broader point, I’m sure he, the Kremlin, and the General Staff contemplated it. The best case scenario was a negotiated settlement following a show of force, or else a more or less protracted fight depending on the support Ukraine received from the US/ NATO.
That’s the Qld pub industry, until about halfway through the reign of Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. (It took him a while to steadily dismantle the extreme socialism of the preceding governments)
Every price, for everything, was stipulated by the government. Publicans were almost hired managers in their own establishment.
It is only in the past 20 yrs that the enduring legacy of this strict regime has been shaken off – as once an idea is in a culture it can take one helluva lot of removing.
This is one you might actually endorse.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
With the increase in Covid cases, it’s very important to get tested….often.
Dover
As you know, intel was quite limited then as there was no sat imaging etc. It shouldn’t be a huge surprise the Chinese surprised them as that sort of intel was still vastly limited in the early 50s. Also, even air superiority was relatively primitive. In those days grunt mass was much more important than it is now. Is it a win for the Americans? Depends how you look at it. I’d say fighting somewhere far away and holding half the country was a decent result for the time.
I’m a glass half film sort.
And yeah, I think the Americans would smash the Chinese to pieces if they decided to fight over Taiwan. I’m not saying the US wouldn’t lose ships etc but China could end up starving and running on the last litre of petrol.
I also wouldn’t be too keen relying on Russia to supply them with lots of food and energy substituting for the current imports. It’s not an easy assumption to make as the Russians would have to make some pretty hard choices. There would be no salvaging relations with the west after that. Even Trump would fly off the wall in anger.
If they were doing 1320, it would be over 340mph!
Mind Blowing Top Fuel Dragster Fastest Run ! First Experience ! Throttle Whack
UK Population Collapse “Good For The Planet”, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains
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No.
It was an attempted and failed regime decapitation.
They didn’t want to negotiate, they wanted a fait accompli.
The operation to take an airfield near Kiev demonstrates that.
Meme
Indolent
Aug 22, 2023 5:35 PM
HE’S SHOT: A Confused Joe Biden, Mouth Agape, Has to Be Guided Away From Podium After Maui Speech
There are worse examples of this old pervert’s dementia.
Obama is running the show, black skunk queer that he is. That makes it interesting because he hates RFK jr the only demorat remotely sensible, and that slick bastard from californication, newsom, who is the only demorat who has any chance electorally. Which means, since obuma will not allow either to run, that the election fraud this time with biden running will be ridiculous.
+1
(this is the 2nd, & 2nd only, comment I’ve ever made on war in the Ukraine)
Indolent,
+ 1,000 😀
Although, I will self test with Cider or Wine.
I’m also not convinced historical people swaps went well.
Greeks refer to that particular event as the Greek Genocide. Used to have a colleague who’s grandfather was a survivor.
Why I’m particularly sick of Aboriginal moaning.
As if many, many others have not suffered, and suffered longer and harder than they can imagine.
And all that with no talk of reparations or rent paying and never ending apologies.
She means the collapse of the Anglo-Celtic population is good for the planet. The replacement Third World sh1tholers will be just sooooo multiculturally woooonderrrrful.
Here’s Why Barack Obama Is The WORST Ex-President In Recent Memory
Spike Protein Scandal Should be Referred to Senate Select Inquiry
Haha, he’s going to be an actual Professor of Misinformation.
‘Incredibly exciting opportunity’: Stan Grant to spearhead Monash University’s Constructive Institute after quitting ABC (Sky News, 22 Aug)
After two decades regurgitating leftist propaganda for SBS, CNN and the ABC you have to say he knows the subject. As for fostering healthier democracies, that’s a laugh. Fascist dictatorships, more like.
Vicki
Aug 22, 2023 4:18 PM
Apologies, but when I read your post, I had this instantaneous vision of a cow cuddling up to a fluffy backhoe in a bed..
It won’t happen again.