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Executive privilege for me, but not for thee.
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In other news, Thomas Jefferson University uses someone who is functionally illiterate to announce graduating students Calli, part of me…
China rolling out the red carpet in this Russia visit and the latter have really brought in their A-team. The…
I know, right, its not as if we have a terrible track record over the last two decades of liberating polities from dictators. It’s just one success story after another.
After 2016, sure. But not from the fall of the wall to that point. Also, when you talk about the “West”, you really need to be specific. And by specific, you need to say that it’s been the American Demonrat party that poisoned the well against Russia with all the hoax accusations. I’d argue the Brits also had something to do with this by partnering with the Demons.
Russia has never given itself a decent break. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and now this pretend tsar.
Just like you see some people with potential, they always manage to screw things up for themselves. Russia appears to have a self-destructive gene.
It came from Putin’s office, as far as has been reported. Last I saw Putin isn’t one of the Western elites.
Lukashenko certainly has been very wary, and has played the game with great success. He’s even managed to navigate the Wagner fiasco fallout very well.
It is certainly foolish in general but Lukashenko is protecting his own interests, not his people’s.
Correct.
Stupid Frigging Liberals aren’t playing for keeps like the left. As a result, the left will eat the SFLs for dinner. Burp.
You’re going back to China when it was still comparatively weak. There is just no way in hell that the US would not act to contain any power in Europe or Asia that can rival its own. To repeat, there is just no situation wherein the US and its NATO partners would not act to contain Russia if it was reinvigorated and prosperous and wanted to pursue an independent foreign policy. The whole reason of maintaining NATO was to maintain the Western Europeans within its control, and in order to influence matters in the East.
I certainly do. If the US, and it really is the US that dictates foreign policy to the Europeans, allowed China to prosper without much hindrance for 25 years I can’t see the obstacles that you see with regards to Russia being impeded. But tell us what they were.
“Russia has never given itself a decent break. Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and now this pretend tsar.”
I would agree with that assessment, JC. As Peter Hitchens has argued (along with others, including the late Russian scholar and historian Stephen Cohen), in the 1990s, directly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West could have and should have implemented a Marshall type plan, like it did with Germany and Japan after World War II. Instead, the West allowed Russia to collapse economically and socially. It devastated Russia and Russians. Putin has not forgotten nor forgiven the misery and humiliation that befell Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Yes, the leak about the Union State proposal, which is a joint proposal between both Belarus and Russia, was from Putin’s office. But the Union State proposal itself isn’t a ‘plan of annexation’, that was how the Western elites interpreted it.
Cassie, you could perhaps have checked out the very first link in the Conversation article. But no, you obviously didn’t.
Also a very quick search will find multiple articles on the Belarus nukes story. It was widely reported at the time.
As a political coup it was almost genius: Lukashenko offered to host nukes as a threat to NATO, and to put pressure on Poland. Putin took up the offer, thereby making it almost impossible for Russia to later absorb Belarus. I doubt he would’ve invaded Ukraine if they hadn’t given their nukes up under the Budapest Memorandum. Oh hey that’s amazing, Russia was a party to that agreement giving security assurances to Ukraine. Golly it looks awfully like Russia reneged on the formal agreement, isn’t that funny?
Yeah, but, Gen Buck Keane (Retd) of the Henry Kissinger Peace Academy regularly appears on Blot assuring the audience that the collapse of the Wussians is imminently imminent.
So there, armchair strategists.
Dover, you can repeat it as much as you want, but it doesn’t make it true. Yeltsin was even advised by Columbia economists on the ways to liberate the economy. Being leftwing idiots they completely screwed it up, but to suggest the US didn’t want the best for Russia is delusional.
At the extreme, Russia could’ve given up all it nukes and joined the EU. There wouldn’t have been an issue in the early part of last century. As for closing down NATO, the problem is that institutions become ossified and often go past their use-by date. Good thing it’s still around too, seeing how Russia is behaving toward it’s neighbors.
“Cassie, you could perhaps have checked out the very first link in the Conversation article. But no, you obviously didn’t.”
Linky Boy, I don’t spend my days trawling the internet looking at links. I know you do, it’s sad.
But it’s interesting you post links to sites like The Conversation and The Guardian. Perhaps it says something about yourself that you haven’t ever revealed to us here. One thing for sure, just like the progressives at The Guardian and at The Conversation, you’re loathe to ever admit you’re wrong.
Get some sunshine.
Dover – I wouldn’t say China under Deng was comparatively weak. And under his policies China was the biggest asian tiger of them all. American companies invested hand over fist in China. That then changed when China started expropriating overseas investors’ assets and arresting their employees on various pretexts.
On the other hand I mentioned the GG and the TT, both of which are examples of natural geopolitical distrust and suspicion. Humans are humans, even in Armani suits. So you are right about eventual isolation. It didn’t work out so well for Athens and Sparta, I doubt it will for the US and China. For that matter the US is looking increasingly like China.
Cassie.
Clinton was the US president at the time. His only concern was being re-elected. He was the most useless and corrupt president after this carcass currently residing in the White House since WW11.
Having said that, there was an attempt to help them out. They sent those Columbia University morons over there, proposing shock therapy to the economy. It was an unmitigated disaster.
Fauci Worried People Won’t Obey Mask Mandates
“Masks were ineffective. They forced us to cover half our face to appear in public for years. It had nothing to do with health and everything to do with being a mass social experiment to see how blindly the people would obey their laws. Anthony Fauci realizes that a second round of COVID restrictions will be much more difficult to manage as many have woken up to the fearmongering.
“I am concerned that people will not abide by [masking] recommendations,” Fauci said. “We’re not talking about mandates or forcing anybody, but when you have a situation where the volume of cases in society gets to a reasonably high level, the vulnerable, the elderly, those with underlying conditions, are going to be more susceptible, if they do get infected, of getting severe disease leading to hospitalization. We know that. That’s a fact,” Fauci told reporters at CNN.
Let us recall that Fauci was spotted at a super-spreader event, a baseball game, without a mask. All of those pushing for mandates were spotted breaking those very laws. He knows this is all a show. CNN was not even willing to comply as the reporter read Fauci a study published by the New York Times that discusses how useless masks and mask mandates have been. They even asked Fauci about the inconsistent studies regarding masks and how they should have never been mandated in the first place.
Typical Fauci babbled on about the science. He said that although masks may not protect individuals, they can still protect the public at large. Nothing he says makes sense. They are attempting to prepare us for another mass COVID outbreak. Interestingly, COVID seems to become a problem when we near elections, and some are calling it an “election virus.” Jill Biden has now come down with COVID after receiving every vaccination under the sun. They want the people to begin talking about how it must be spreading. The cat is already out of the bag, and we know the truth — masks do not work. We will not comply.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/fauci-worried-people-wont-obey-mask-mandates/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Bibi doesn’t fcuk around.
and
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Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 6, 2023 12:53 PM
Kevin – I can’t help it if you are indoctrinated and wrong.
Commendable, depends on who was the author, but better than not reading any.
Forms your view of things but doesn’t make you right or wrong for that matter.
Glaring example, our Australian history, whom do you believe?
Never even mention the Japanese version of events in WWII.
I see Cassie you still haven’t looked at that first link I mentioned. Fine by me, it’s your choice to be stubbornly dogmatic or to engage in a fair and equal debate.
“I see Cassie you still haven’t looked at that first link I mentioned. Fine by me, it’s your choice to be stubbornly dogmatic or to engage in a fair and equal debate.”
LOL, so passive aggressive.
By the way, earlier you accused another poster here of being ” indoctrinated and wrong” all because that person disputed you. Is that what you call “fair and equal debate”?
I almost pity you.
Recently discovered pic of Harry and Ethal. Good looking couple.
Referendum for a peace deal to happen ?
Zero chance.
It’s for the oligarchs & donor class in DC to agree on.
Then the Ukrainians will be force fed it.
Referendum. FFS.
If Langton won’t support a referendum that states it is recognition only, what the hell is in this one on the table now?
Because a re-invigorated and prosperous Russia could turn Europe away from the US or at least in a more independent direction, would have greater influence in the ME, and so on. US allowed China to prosper because it was in the interests of the US to do so, firstly, as a bulwark against Russia in the Far East, and (2) as a source of cheap manufacturing and then market for American goods, but as soon as China became a peer-revival to the US in East Asia, and then globally, things changed.
The way the US wrote about their folk heroes & villains is fantastic.
Kevin – I haven’t read anything from the Japanese side. Tactically the Japanese were superb, for example Savo Island. Strategically at a theatre level also, like the Malaya Campaign. Went through us like a rock through paper. The 8th Div did pretty well considering but we were outclassed. Overall strategy-wise, not so good: as Yamamoto said they only had 18 months at most to run riot.
The Japanese have their story or versions, we have our own. Even digging down to after action reports you’ll get six different accounts of what really occurred. We only see out of one pair of eyes and even then what we see may not be what we think we see. On the other hand I don’t mind debating which account is the more accurate, that’s fun.
I was reading the other day that Indian & Chinese enrolments at US colleges have hit an all time high.
So even while the US & China have a cold war over chips, the students keep on coming.
Cassie – I can’t recall you providing any evidence of your assertions. Maybe you have from time to time but it is pretty seldom. Perhaps look in a mirror before you criticise my attempts to provide backing for assertions I make.
Something else.
Always was. Always will be.
Dover, Russia’s economy at the time of the breakup was about the size of the Netherlands. It posed zero threat to US influence in the 90s.
Is there any evidence this was American policy, especially in the 90s. I vividly recall reading in the WSJ how the US had basically ignored Russia, and was very critical of the Clinton Administration for doing so.
Things changed with China because Xi is a fcuking arsehole.
Facts are stubborn things.
– Ronald Reagan
Poor little Linky Boy, who spends his life in a cellar trawling through the internet feverishly posting links (which probably slow the site). A sad sack of mediocrity. When he gets called out for his crap, he gets all mean and nasty, except the reality is that he’s just pathetic.
Cassie, have you been to the dentist? Was he kind?
We have cables from this period admitting that the US was already planning to renege on their commitments before the ink had even dried. What’s delusional is refusing to admit this is even the case.
There was no ‘ossification’ of NATO. It was used several times by the US in the ’90s/’00s/ and ’10s to project US power into Europe, Middle East and North Africa. If NATO remained where it was in the early 90s, even the late 90s, this situation wouldn’t be where it is right now.
Herald Sun:
Has Pesutto finally grown a set? This debate I would like to see.
And Andrews saying Pessuto couldn’t run a bath. Will Premier Phuckface is running one thing, this once fine state into the ground.
Had a good tech experience today.
Working from home & my shitty printer ink alert went off.
Then a prompt on my computer said “would you like to buy more cartridges”.
Click click, PayPal, click & the cartridges will be delivered tomorrow.
If only more things could be that easy.
“Cassie, have you been to the dentist? Was he kind?”
Yes he was kind, except the prognosis isn’t. Root canal and thousands of dollars.
Back tomorrow for the first treatment. I’m dosed up with painkillers, which isn’t helping my mood.
Russia has energy & a few minerals.
Even though their economy is small & going no where, those few things make it a strategic pile of dirt.
My doctor wouldn’t prescribe any more painkillers after the last script. I’m cold turkey-ing on Panadol and Nurofen. What a meanie.
And guess what…he was right! I’m ashamed that I’ve become such a wuss.
Root canal and thousands of dollars.
About 20 years ago I had my first & only root canal.
It was botched.
On the second visit they extracted the tooth.
What a shit show.
You know, the pain over the last day and a bit has reduced me to tears. I swear, there’s nothing worse than tooth pain.
Erk…I had that two years ago. Grim. It worked though.
Don’t tell Roger *sotto voce*. He has had unpleasant experiences.
Don’t tell feelthebern either.
The Hunchback is correct. For once. Why debate a man who obtains his “facts” from Wikipedia?
Constitutional recognition, a non-ATSICable body and the High Court dealt in to determine what it all means and requires. A modest proposal in the Swiftian sense.
How about the most recent biggest load of cods I’ve seen here for a while. The inference: A US firm hired your brother in the field of metallurgy because it has zero graduates in the metallurgy field. Zero possibility entertained there has been a sudden demand surge because of say, oh battery technology R&D going gang busters there.
Four of the top five material science universities in the world are in the US.
Cassie, the only pain I felt worse than that root canal was when I was playing basketball at school and copped a finger in the eye.
Recovering from a decent eye injury was part insanely painful & part mental having to wait a month to see if the old peeper was fine (which it was).
JC, who said it was in the 90s? We were addressing a hypothetical.
Yes, there is copious primary evidence to this effect. Re the latter, the US ignored Russia in the sense in that it didn’t care what it thought about what it was doing in East Europe, the Middle East, etc.
It’s always the fault of this or that personality on the international stage, never because competing state interests are at loggerheads.
I’m dosed up with painkillers, which isn’t helping my mood.
Ah, that explains bashing BoN 🙂
What is the evidence for these ‘cables”? Were these cables official US policy or the opinion of someone in the Administration or the state department. How were these cables woven into US policy. Be specific and show the evidence. You realize that many opinions are sort in forming policy, right?
Not, it’s not.
Russia has been grievance central since the Klep took over.
This from a grotesque deformed jug eared fascist imbecile who couldn’t (allegedly) negotiate two small wooden steps without ending up in intensive care for weeks.
“Ah, that explains bashing BoN ?”
Me, bashing someone? Nah, and what about his bashing of me and others here who “dispute him”.
BoN has a glass jaw, whereas I just have a sore jaw, thanks to the tooth that requires root canal.
Happy to serve in that capacity! Toothaches and root canals suck. Cassie may not think so but I wish her the best.
You mentioned something about cables. How did these cables, which if they even exist sound like an opinion, weave into US foreign policy and its treatment of Russia?
Well yes, in the case of China, it is this prick’s fault we are where we are. You’re even doubting this now?
Start here.
There was no ‘ossification’ of NATO. It was used several times by the US in the ’90s/’00s/ and ’10s to project US power into Europe, Middle East and North Africa. If NATO remained where it was in the early 90s, even the late 90s, this situation wouldn’t be where it is right now.
Exactly. Russia does not want the UKR as a member of NATO on its doorstep. Not going to happen. It is NATO that mover eastwards and not Russia that has marched westwards.
This from a thoroughly incompetent POS who has managed to rack up a debt all on his lonesome of well over a hundred billion.
That includes paying a billion and a half for reneging on a new city road link contract (because his union mates were left out of the deal), and for reneging on the Commonwealth Games (which had he used as carrot to buy votes before at the last election).
Not to mention 800 people dying because he hired a bungling “security” firm for hotel quarantine.
The proposed s 129 is a blank cheque for the government to play God with OPM.
That’s all it is. There’s no requirement for indigeneity, for starters. The details are up to Parliament.
I skimmed it. There’s no evidence of your claim, which was this:
There was an opinion expressed within the US foreign policy establishment, but none for your claim that the US lied.
The story I read is that hospital staff said his injuries were commensurate with a severe bashing.
Then was the obvious photoshopped image of him in hospital.
Wouldn’t it depend on how high up the chatter came from?
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“a hitherto lover’s grandfather’s old County branded cricket bat from 1974”
Root canal??
Tell me about it, the incompetent basket of a dentist drilled sideways through the tooth, 6 months later it had to come out.
Just told Hairy about your tooth issues and thousands of bucks needed, He sends commiserations, as he’d had one done himself fairly recently, very successfully too.
You should take heart that at least it wasn’t for a cat with toothache, he says, still smarting from $2500 worth of cat dentistry last week.
Cassie
Was you dentist…. Safe
https://youtu.be/kzw1_2b-I7A?si=Q1K5xpmOKUUusF-m
That’s for Cassie, in case anyone is in doubt.
Dover
US policy went through contortions and spasms after 911. The world changed after the attack. Yet you offer zero acknowledgement of this very major event. Shit changes especially when buildings in your major major city are taken down by a bunch of goat herding riff raff.
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STFU Wodney. As the person who believes Marty had a sentient AI running from 1985, then through the time he he spent in Leavenworth for major fraud to the present, you have no right to interfere in any discussion. You moron, go away. Shoo.
Re. Andrews and a bashing:
From somebody with Union connections, that’s what I was told. Not a fall – a well deserved flogging.
Dentistry. P J O’Rourke’s response to anyone who hankered after a return to ‘good old days’. It may be awful but at least it is fairly painless these days.
Even for the twice yearly clean and scale I go in and immediately say please use some local anaesthetic around any tooth you intend to touch with a metal implement. That always means all of them, so they know now to swab around enough anaesthetic to make me feel like I have a mouthful of horse teeth before they start. Huge unknowable things in my jaw. And ‘twilight sleep’ for root canal stuff.
JC
Sep 6, 2023 5:29 PM
Fark off yer’self you Sicktorian short arse pompous windbag. Your abuse is so obtuse.
I have every right to comment on this blog you T.W.A.T especially when it annoys you.
More Armstrong on the way soon just for you and your cronies. Get used to it or just piss off to the US and stay there.
What has the airline have to do with this? A kid was found in a bin at the airport and the local cops investigated the matter, so why is the airline being sued when it’s out of their hands.
Well shit, what else were the authorities meant to do?
Arrogance yeah? This coming from the gullible moron posting diatribe from a fraudster claiming he’d invented sentient AI in the mid 80s. Both of you should be sharing a room in a loon asylum. Remain silent.
– “What is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?”
– “Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.”
–Cohen the Barbarian (quote)
I know, right, but it’s the airline’s fault.
MAN, I would LOVE to have the chat logs between these people and anyone in Cabinet.
Marque Lawyers is 80% younger females (not all with a ponytail)
When forced to choose between the interests of Australia or the Australian Army, and his personal interests, Blamey invariable chose his personal interests.
I don’t doubt it.
The thing is, Andrews never pressed charges (assuming he knew his attackers), or even filed a police report.
That suggests he is scared shitless.
Recognition plus InVoice plus Treaty plus Makarrata (vengeance) plus “Truth” plus Reparations ad infinitum.
Completely innocuous, really.
Bruce of N
On the general subject of nuclear weapons security, the kind of people the west uses to design the security systems tend to be paranoids with a persecution complex. Given their national psyche, their Russian equivalents probably regard them as incurable optimists.
why is the airline being sued when it’s out of their hands.
Marque Lawyers, card-carrying ALP shills.
Qatar v Qantas, the enemy of my friend etc
Just some random thoughts re the InVoice.
I am amused that Langton’s Scottish father and Dodson’s Irish father have been put down the memory hole.
Also, the press mis-quoting Gary Johns. What he actually said was to the effect, I wouldn’t ever discriminate on the basis of race, but if you have to, then Fairness says you must make sure the assistance only goes to those who qualify. IE a blood test.
Johns prefers to use need to determine who gets government assistance – rightly so in my view.
😀 If you ever hear an earth shattering kaboom from Belarus you’ll know why.
I wonder if the US ever got their nukes back from Incirlik?
I said ‘start here’, not end there. Read this paper.
Bruce of N
I had a number of arguments with IIRC, Memory Vault, about those.
The probability of the Turks being able to bypass the dual key system is minute, and if the USAF chose not to maintain them properly (if they could not be removed), their reliability would be very suspect.
Says it all really.
The “Leader” of the “Opposition” finds it strange that the Leader of the Government is focussing on him?
John, the first, last and only job of the Leader of the Opposition is to hold the premier to account. If an Opposition Leader is doing his job exceptionally well, the Premier will be forced to focus on him often. If passably well, sometimes.
You find it “really strange” that he does so at all?
In company with Burney’s Scots mother.
I laugh at all your dentistry woes (well, not really!)
Simple solution… which I had 18 or so months ago… rip ’em all out and have a new lot installed. No more pain!! My annual trip to the dentist is to unscrew the teeth, give them a clean, and screw them back in. Takes 45 minutes.
Mind you, you could buy a decent new car instead…
Cassie, having had mucho tooth pain as my teeth basically surrendered before I had the yellow-livered lot removed entirely, you have my sympathies.
From somebody with Union connections, that’s what I was told. Not a fall – a well deserved flogging.
Relative is in trades in Victoria, has worked on CMFEU sites. Heard similar.
Mark from Melbourne…part human, part cyborg.
Why, oh why can’t I get “Jaws” out of my mind? 😀
And Dodson’s Malaysian/Japanese/Aboriginal mother.
I say that as someone with Terminator knees.
There’s your problem right there.
The job-for-life of da voice is to stymie any future Coalition agenda, and tick off the five year plans of Luigi’s, past, present and emerging.
Criminologist and demographic researcher Bob Birrell, on Rita Panahi’s show on Sky tonight, points out the reason the voice is losing in the opinion polls is that it is supported only by the young and the radical university-educated minority who, for example, don’t believe in national borders and that the Third World’s poor should be allowed to settle in Australia and remake its politics.
The Voice is their voice and represents the radicalisation of Australian politics. The Australian middle class – facing a cost-of-living crisis – wants the problems facing families addressed, whereas Elbow’s trade union government is increasingly hijacked by reckless green radicals.
How The Voice Erodes Citizenship | Nicholas Aroney
BJ – It’s the same argument. What is there to stop a B61 being dismantled? If there’s a detonation fallback then the result would be a political crisis not seen since WW2. So I doubt they’d be set for a detonation as a tamper-proof mechanism. And anything less than that means the good stuff is available with fairly basic mechanical and electrical aptitude.
Once you have the beast in bits you rebuild it with your own trigger mechanism. It might not be as good as the original weapon system but it would work in many applications. Especially in things like a container or a truck.
Dr. John Campbell
Are drug regulators for hire?
Dover, you gave me the first link. I read most of it. I searched for cable and came up with four hits. None of those suggested what you implied.
Your second link appears quite copious with numerous links to papers. Where exactly is the evidence the US lied from the very beginning? I have a bit of trading stuff going on and no time for lengthy reading.
Shout It Loud And Clear!
This isn’t accidental. Elbow, the old Trot, is right in the middle of it.
Endless revolution.
“thefrollickingmole
Sep 6, 2023 5:23 PM”
That scene still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Olivier was simply sensational. I remember reading a story about how Olivier and Hoffman prepared for the roles and that scene. It reflected the difference between Olivier and Hoffman’s acting styles, between a young American “method” actor, and an old established British actor. Olivier was an old-fashioned actor who learnt his lines and “acted”, whereas Hoffman learnt his trade at the actor’s studio, using method acting where you were supposed to “live” the character in order to act the character. Ridiculous! The story is that whilst working on Marathon Man, Hoffman stayed awake for three days so that he could play a sleep-deprived character. On hearing this, Olivier’s response to Hoffman was…..
“My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”
I notice Noel Pearson has culturally appropriated a pork pie hat.
Rita Panahi giving the dyed hair fossil Sheridan an exorcism.
I keep thinking Sheridan would hate Teddy Roosevelt if he was in power today. He was a showman on many levels but regarded as a great president. Sheridan is a pucker arsed squib who can’t stand the machismo of a real man .
Chuckle. I’ve heard this one before.
All the difference between appearing before the cameras for a few takes and treading the boards night after night.
The Malcolm Roberts Show
“There’s a conveyor belt of trans radical activists in who have infiltrated the state (QLD) of departments of health, schooling, education and social services.”
I doubt it only happens in Queensland.
Would that be a Porky Pie hat, Tinta? 😀
” Sheridan is a pucker arsed squib”
Generous.
Yes, and unlike Credlin, Rita did not accept his bullying.
Best TV journo in Oz.
That Rita/Sheridini contretemps is one for the ages, “So tell us about the Martians, Greg”.
Bloody hilarious.
Good on her.
Many naval ships are operational for decades. It was the most powerful ship in the Black Sea and for Russia is a first class naval vessel; which isn’t saying much giving the Kuznetsov will probably never sail again, it has submarines rusting away in port, and China can build more ships in a year than Russia in a decade. Your comment supports my contention that the Russian military is woefully under resourced. A careless smoker could send it to the bottom because the firefighting equipment has probably been pilfered.
The Persian Princess takes no prisoners.
I have an inkling she reads the Cat.
Bombshell COVID Study ELIMINATES Justification for Mask Mandates, Lockdowns: David Zweig
Earlier in week Peter Gleeson on 4BC mentioned something not seen mentioned anywhere else.
Said at end of Brisbane Festival Riverfire show there was a drone display. Final thing showed was words Always was, Always Will be Meenjin.
Anybody watch it or have video of it. Comes after Premier months ago had denied any move to change the name of Brisbane.
Wow – Langton really is one stupid angry unpleasant and strident ol’ bat.
I also think Rita is probably mightily sick of the Dribbler’s incoherent rambling anti-Trump diatribes in the Oz.
She commented from time to time on Sinc Cat. Straight after I said she had naughty eyes and a wicked laugh, much to my horror!
I stand by my assertion. 😀
Plenty more where that came from. Sixty million years of grievance, apparently.
Wow – Langton really is one stupid angry unpleasant and strident ol’ bat.
wouldn’t want to ask her for an extension
But a guy who walked into the Capitol Building? Major firms want nothing to do with those scumbags.
More evidence that the USA is a one party Stalinist dictatorship
Yes calli with the emphasis on PORKY
Watching Dutton on Bolt talking about Qatar and Voice. Everything that he says was thoughtful, balanced, very well researched, allowing for dissenting opinion. Zero mongrel.
Repeat after me Mr Dutton:
F*uk you labor and ABC, I am coming for you!
Was he a real ‘catch crims’ copper or a bureaucrat?
Panahi gave Greg Sheridan the disrespect he so richly deserves as a small-L liberal clown who pretends to be a conservative.
Panahi spat him out like a fish bone.
Calli (she of the fake knee… something I am being forced to reluctantly consider!), are you related to SWMBO? Or are all birthing people just drawn, somehow, to James Bond references?
(I didn’t mention the ear trumpets… well, perhaps once, but I’m sure she missed it)
Something that’s been missed or at least not commented enough over the last decade is the boom in Russian & Chinese cinema.
All ultra patriotic, the US/west are evil or decadent.
Some of them make Michael Bay/DoD productions look pedestrian.
And it seems in Melbourne there are a few anti-woke lawyers:
The Women Barristers Association has lashed out at a mock notice posted in the lift of a prestigious law chambers, claiming the flyer was intended to ridicule female lawyers and saying the fight for women’s rights has “not ended”.
The notice, pinned to a lift in Melbourne’s Owen Dixon Chambers, advertised the fake “Men in Law Awards” which included categories for “most woke counsel” and “best virtue-signalling counsel”.
Other categories included:
least offensive counsel;
best beard worn by counsel under 5 years call;
best beard worn by counsel over 15 years call;
counsel with the best virtue signalling ‘signature’ statement (he, him, it, they dilligaf, acknowledgment of prior claims to land, etc.)
“The Men in Law Awards, in conjunction with various stakeholders and a panel of leading pseudo professionals, have developed a robust awards methodology to form the backbone for assessing, analysing and benchmarking Victoria’s leading legal professionals,” the notice read.
“Sadly this expertise will not be called upon in judging such nominations.”
The notice concluded by saying “Men: Bring a plate. Women: BYO”.
Not everyone saw humour in the notice, with the WBA swiftly issuing a statement condemning the “discriminatory” flyer, and saying it was an attack on the Women in Law Awards.
Oz
JC, the first link established that US made a commitment to not expand NATO eastward when negotiating German reunification between ’89-’91, etc., and the next link establishes that the same administration was already considering eastward expansion of NATO as a means of heading off any independent European foreign policy emerging and that a consensus was achieved by ’92. It’s right there in the first page and then the second section.
The only thing I know about the Hunchback’s bashing is it wasn’t hard enough.
RIP Beverly Hills: Startling video shows how once-thriving shopping mecca is now a desolate wasteland as high-end shops, banks, and restaurants shutter their doors amid economic woes and crime
Not to mention 800 people dying because he hired a bungling “security” firm for hotel quarantine.
Something that had a stench of protected people in high places IMO and never fully investigated by journalists who had a sniff of deeper things early on.
The Company had delisted subsidiaries with recommendations of charges from the Feds or NSW plod from my memories. The links also from what I could see at that time, now disappeared off the net had one of the directors on one of the state’s security licencing boards.
Both Credlin and Murray were doing one of those “big things” talks lead ups to breaking open potential corruption that went dead very quickly. Was widely discussed on the Cat at the time and I still can’t help feeling both sides of the isle had their hands in the cookie jar here.
I’m watching this big budget Chinese movie in Netflix called Hidden Strike.
Jackie Chan & John Cena star in a movie where China (& John Cena) save the middle east from western interests.
It’s quite terrible.
Phyllis Schlafly Month #1 The Anti Feminist
Sound familiar? It’s the same playbook for every group. Divide and conquer.
“The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can’t succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that’s a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.”
If you have Netflix, the Shane Gillis special has just dropped.
Pretty funny, but not exactly new if you follow his youtube or patreon.
Okay, I read nearly all of the second link. It’s most obviously true that NATO has become much bigger, but I’ve yet to read anything about how the US was acting deviously with cables, verifying your claim that this occurred even during the negotiations with the Sovs. Your second link talks about the US concern that Europe would go its own way, and this was seen as problematic for the Americans. I can also suggest the other concern the US has about Europe: the two world wars in which it was forced to intervene. This latter point was raised numerous times in the 90s.
Meme
You know, the pain over the last day and a bit has reduced me to tears. I swear, there’s nothing worse than tooth pain.
Cassie, I’ve had two separate root canals this year on two separate teeth. Front tooth expensive but straightforward. Back molar complicated, painful and still not finished.
You expect when you pay lots of money for something it will be a pleasurable experience. With root canal you pay thousands two have someone pound your teeth and jaw for an hour at a time. I can think of lots of other ways to blow a few thousand bucks.
They are right. At least about our leaders, and a fair fraction of the general population.
Yeah. Aforementioned Marque Lawyers – 80% female/ladies, most all of them look <35yo.
It'd be an absolute hell workplace for anybody who had a sense of humour.
(or perhaps one big long endorphin fuelled trolling session – at least right up until the HR tribunal hearing & the summary termination)
Good rant. If you don’t like the channel, f*ck off!*
* Most are bots.
Rumble is now getting flooded by them, too. Pricks to those hitting the enter button.
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Reverend Simon Sideways:
just a little rant
Just watched Rita’s smackdown of Dribbler Sheridan, the man who brings up Martians in debate.
He really is a disgrace.
Name something original that Sheridan has brought to the debate in the last decade.
I don’t watch him, but I do skim his columns in the Oz.
REAL Reason Birmingham DECLARED Bankruptcy
The identity and ethnicity of the vandals will, I assume, remain a mystery:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-06/barkly-bushfire-volunteers-vehicles-stolen-damaged/102822148
Stories today which just might be connected in some inscrutable way. 😀
Labour Party-Run Birmingham Council Declares Effective Bankruptcy (6 Sep)
Birmingham Mosque Has £2 Million Govt Grant Suspended over Shocking Islamist Sermons (5 Sep)
I admit personal prejudice since it was in Birmingham that I had the worst takeaway hamburger I’ve ever encountered. Food in Britain is a great reason for emigrating to the colonies. It seems an enduring talent.
Aspiring rappers?
Good on her!
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Senator Claire Chandler:
Former Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard was recently asked, ‘What is a woman?’
Ms Gillard’s response was that the question was a ‘gotcha parlour game’.
But it is no game. The reason people ask leaders this question is that women’s single-sex spaces and sports depend on it.
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
What is a woman?
Panahi v Sheridan. That was a hoot. Sheridan threw his toys out and had a near meltdown. Panahi made some soothing noises for him and wrapped it up. I was only half listening but S was banging on about 2020 Biden winning fairly. Panahi responded with oh please. As in give me a break. …and off they went. Great to watch.
That bitch@ 0:29 looks like a ghoul out of a horror movie.
Recall. Paranoids with persecution complexes. Think of all the complex things you could do to protect sensitive processes, then raise those to the hundredth power.
PS, if a foreign nation steals and fiddles with a nuke, which detonates, then the political crisis is theirs, though there would be kickback at the nation that allowed one to be stolen.
Dover, you mentioned cables going to and from the US foreign policy establishment suggesting the US was acting deviously with the Soviets. It doesn’t appear to be the case.
What your links suggest is that there was a great deal of debate within the various administrations from the breakup up to the very early 00s. You may call it a change of heart, but it doesn’t appear that there were cables directly suggesting the US were lying to the Russians.
There’s this:
The overriding concern for the US was that if Europe was left to its own, there would be a third reason for the US having to go in and fight a third war over there because those morons would be at it again.
You could say the US wasn’t steadfast in its Russian undertakings, but there were no cables to show US intentions were dishonest.
Blot had on tonight Senator Jacinta Price’s father. Like his daughter and his wife, Dave Price is impressive, very impressive. Jacinta had a good upbringing.
Those are her good points.
There’s this:
There’s nothing here to suggest they were openly lying even if they were thinking about enlargement. There’s a lot of discourse that occurs within administrations over very important events.
There’s also another thing that I vividly recall about the era. At the time of German unification older Bush received a great deal of criticism from West Germany because the Administration appeared to be very lukewarm to the idea of unification. There was a great deal of criticism leveled against Bush over this issue in the US press. My recollection is very clear on this. It doesn’t show the US acting deviously. They basically didn’t know how to handle the events at the time.
Also, The US did assist Russia and opened the way for them to behave like a nromal country.
It was the klepto who began 20 odd years of grievance mongering culminating in the invasion of Ukraine.
Classics. Music takes you places.
Halo // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Eimear Noone (LIVE)
From The Oz, January 26th 2023. What fvcking difference will the “Voice” make here?
No, here is what I said:
A charitable reading of that is simply that while they were saying that NATO would not expand eastwards in negotiations re German unification, etc. in these cables, they were also as a matter of policy non-commital amongst themselves during this same period, ’90-’91, and that a consensus emerged for enlargement by ’92.
None of this depends on them ‘openly lying’ whatever that could mean here. What it depends on is that they never really meant to keep their commitments once they achieved German reunification, etc. That is what is demonstrated by those two links.
An impressive family certainly but they put the effort and time into bringing up their daughter, the effort that is missing from most of the parents in remote communities. But it’s our fault for the dysfunction in those communities.
calli
Sep 6, 2023 7:12 PM
Wait, Rita’s a bone fide Çat alumnus? How did I miss that?
Also, so it wasn’t just sparring with Munty on a footy show on community radio…
40,000 aboriginal land claims across NSW according to this interview with Ben Fordham this morning. Sounds like every bit of crown land in NSW has had a claim made and the backlog is only now coming to light. The page has a 54-second video clip with the money quote and the full audio interview of 12:38.
Whoo! Link:
https://www.2gb.com/exclusive-40-thousand-aboriginal-land-claims-in-nsw/
Jacinta Price’s father reveals extent of abuse levelled against his daughter by Voice supporters
Yes, which describes what you said. If it’s misleading explain how.
Events were moving at lightening speed. US policy wasn’t moving as fast as the events were changing the status quo.
It wasn’t just that US was concerned with the Europeans screwing things up again. There was also the possibility Russia would have a change of heart and meddle in these countries again. You appear to be skimming over the Soviet intervention in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. There’s a lot of things to consider.
I don’t see how you can say this when foreign policy was being dictated by a world that was changing before our very eyes. A change of heart isn’t lying.
https://thecountersignal.com/national-australia-bank-adds-mean-speech-to-debanking-criteria/
Might be time to get out of NAB and heavily into crypto.
All of this ‘lightening speed’, ‘US policy wasn’t fast enough’, ‘US was concerned with the Europeans srewing things up’ , ‘change of heart’ is just hand-waving. The US committed to no eastward expansion of NATO as part of the deal. In the background they were considering eastward expansion of NATO and had already achieved a consensus a year later despite those commits.
Dave Price was a breath of fresh air. Sensible, grounded and impressive. What he had to say about ‘reconcilliation’ was spot on. You can’t get more reconciled than marrying.
Please explain why Russia invading Ukraine is justified because of NATO expansion when Zelensky has repeatedly said they will not join NATO – but because of a promise made years before Putin became President that saw other European countries join?
It’s almost here, fellas.
There will be some spelling changes in the merger.
https://waylandindustries.com/
https://yutani.co.jp/en/
Russia invading Ukraine is like USA in Vietnam … Bad policy, whatever the desired outcome, and terrible tactics.
Both USA And China happy to see the Russian military wasted and its weakness revealed in a useless conflict over nothing strategic.
TE at 7:34
Mmmyes.
Don’t prick that balloon (so to speak).
I think most large corporates have a “Women of XYZ Co” group.
The one at the last ASX200 company I was at operated a bit like a New York mafia family … a couple of ageing Karens at the top doling out favours to the capos and soldiers who paid their dues.
The really capable women there were too busy doing their jobs to be bothered.
Dover
The Soviet Union lost the Cold War. The victor then decides how things will stack up in the future. If the US subsequently decided expansion was the way to go, so be it.
It’s amusing how sometimes people talk about the US losing this war or that one back then when it won the only war that mattered. The Soviet Union became extinct.
One more thing, it’s a testament to US leadership and the benign nature of the West that former Warsaw pact nations weren’t just running away from the Russians, they were bolting at light speed into the arms of US dominated NATO. No one demanded these fcukers join. They’re frightened stiff of the marauding orcs.
Zelensky has repeatedly said they will not join NATO –
Errrrrrr. The UKR Clown Z was trying to get NATO membership this year only to be told – Not yet. He then had a ‘hissy fit’.
“VILNIUS, July 11 (Reuters) – NATO leaders said on Tuesday that Ukraine should be able to join the military alliance at some point in the future but they stopped short of offering Kyiv an immediate invitation, angering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/nato-summit-seeks-agreement-ukraine-bid-after-turkey-deal-sweden-2023-07-10/
You must have missed the news.
A great leap forward in technology for the Panzers!
I have discovered Google translate using the phone camera to read text and translate.
Went into a restaurant in Kyoto, pointed my phone at a hand written Japanese menu and up comes the English translation.
The thing is, it kept trying to translate into Spanish, which I had to over-ride.
I finally figured out that a good number of the dishes used terms common to Spanish cuisine, so the app joined the dots.
But we got exactly what the translation said.
Impressed that it could interpret hand-written notes.
Wodney
“He” didn’t miss the news. You missed the point that Ukriane has asked for entry after it was attacked by Russia. After is not before. Go ask Marty’s sentient AI to help you. You were told to remain silent. Let it be so.
The beauty of it was multi-faceted.
Firstly, and most importantly, possibly the only shots fired were in the libraries of Soviet generals in Moscow.
Secondly, it was precipitated by Reagan, Pope John Paul II and, to a lesser extent, Thatcher. The left thought John Paul II was a harmless dreamer, hated Maggie Thatcher with a passion, and thought Ronnie Reagan was a buffoon.
Thirdly, the popular Western left view during the ’80’s was that the USSR was impregnable, and any attempts to undermine it were futile.
Satan’s representative on earth isn’t attending G20.
Xi must have a few domestic problems to contend with.
Orange Man speaking now in New Hampshire, live on WION and other channels.
He’s recapping all the dirt about the FISA warrants Russia Collusion Hoax, Laptop From Hell, the Election Rigging, and the subsequent witch hunts and legal attempts to prevent him speaking about all of the above.
You’ve heard it all before.
He says all the election evidence will be aired again during the upcoming trial about Jan 6.
Black Lives Matter … sometimes.
Lose 7-nil again has posted on her social media a photo of the “Men in Law Awards” fake flyer.
The indignation, the seething, the downright total & complete lack of any funny bone is something to behold.
The comments go on & on & on, all in the same vein. They don’t realise how funny their humourlessness is.
She must have been one helluva dob artist at school.
New OT up.
Trump has just promised to prevent World War III.
Perhaps he can promise to stop dragon attacks too.
High chance of success for the same reason.