Poms regard a 100km trip as a major undertaking.
Open Thread – Weekend 7 Oct 2023
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I almost more offended by the sloppy language.Given that we are carbon based life forms and everything around us is…
He didn’t smile for the camera.
Obviously the Arabs have shot all their dentists.
mizaris October 18, 2024 9:41 am mizaris was complaining about furious activity achieving nothing in the hospital she was staying.There…
Chaps, this Miss Maggie Dodgers appears to be very sassy … 🙂
Nobody here eh?
Then there’s time to squeeze in a snack.
Friend was left speechless after leaving early polling place this afternoon. Approached by exceedingly young reporterette and asked how she voted and why?
Son accompanying mum was not so stunned.
‘I have two words for you and I suggest you familiarise yourself with their meaning before asking anyone else such a blindingly inappropriate question.”
Reporterette: Shocked face.
Son: Secret Ballot.
Mum and son immediately exit stage right.
It was a missed opportunity though. If she’d asked me I’d have asked who she worked for and made sure she and they completely understood the utter stupidity, rudeness and sheer bs of asking such a question.
Rerporterette: a product of Journalism School run by ABC types.
My 2 words – one starting with G, the second with F.
But, Secret Ballot is probably smarter.
“Why did you not Heil Hitler, you soon to be executed reactionary cultural criminal?”
“Why did you stop clapping Comrade Stalin first, you soon to be executed reactionary cultural criminal?”
This is what awaits, people.
You may think it is way off – until it is not.
Next stop on the out of control bus heading off the nearest cliff – “Minor Attracted Personages”
Which. Is. Already. Happening.
Yes, Toad. My two words would probably been the same once I had stopped sucking in all the air in the immediate vicinity. I only pretend to be a harmless old lady.
With an ex- RN Chief Petty Officer grandad who was Yorkshire bred and could swear for 20 minutes without repeating himself plus my own 7 years in the Reserves, there is not much that I haven’t heard or uttered multiple times in the distant past. A question like that would bring out the worst in me.
What unmitigated gall.
Dunno why you’re upset. Reporterette is entitled to ask. And you’re entitled to tell her to mind her own business and keep her stickybeak out of your affairs.
I’d have said: “We both voted NO because we’re sick of horrible people like you with no manners and no sense trying to coerce us into something evil.”
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Pope.
David Rowe disgraces himself (h/t Calli).
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Tom
Oct 7, 2023 4:08 AM
He really is a vile creature.
How does he manage to stay in business?
Thanks Tom. Even for the Rowe. I like to see what the bad guys think. If ‘think’ is the word. These poor buggers are programmed.
I’ve just finished the Jerry Boyd book that BoN recommended.
Twee to the point of nausea. I’m tough to be able to finish it; there sre another thirty or so in the series, and they are going to stay there.
DrBeauGan
Oct 7, 2023 4:49 AM
Anyone who churns out over 45 books in a relatively few years, is not my kind of author.
And I like sci fi.
Tom,
some excellent toons this morning.
Matt Margolis’ depiction of Hunter Biden is my pick of the day.
Vikki Campion:
Thanks Black Ball.
I don’t read her column usually.
When you look at the maths, you can see what frauds most of corporate Australia are.
No metrics, no accountability.
This is the biggest issue when taxpayer money is being reallocated.
It doesn’t matter who the next speaker is.
What matters are the conditions that they have to agree to get the role.
Those conditions will come from multiple factions, not just the 8 GOP that voted to vacate.
Some of the conditions will be public, some will be private.
The funding of the Ukraine war needs to be agreed upon.
It needs to be spilt out from other bills, not tacked onto others like it has been for the last few months.
There needs to be the audit provision that Rand Paul got knocked back on & that needs to be retrospective.
It also needs to be linked to a diplomatic solution which is going to be a shit sandwich that now the Ukrainians will be forced to eat which sucks for them because they were invaded.
The fact is the Ukrainians will run out of meat for the grinder long before the Russians will.
The Ukrainian people will join a long list of peoples that have been screwed over & forgotten by the rest of the world.
Just like Poland post WWII.
Do yourself a favour and go to CL’s blog to read about the John Mearsheimer interview with Adam Creighton.
What’s wrong with twee?
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It’s a clever hat tip to the Coppertone Ad.
Fun fact – Jodie Foster was a Coppertone baby when she was three.
Calli,
Margolis is showing the debauched version of an American, indeed, a world wide icon of wholesomeness. I don’t know if there will ever be a way back for the US from the almost total destruction of their laws and values.
I loved the Coppertone ads.
And I did say it was dumb light humour. I like silly.
I nearly fainted with shock when I saw this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-07/gillian-whistleblower-still-searching-for-answers-paedophile/102900860
The ABC reporting sympathetically on a whistleblower against Milton Orkopoulos, a Left-faction politician! Don’t only nasty conservatives get up to such crimes?
Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 7, 2023 6:44 AM
Nothing at all if you like them.
I was fond of a couple of authors earlier on, when younger, but they started to write books on the same story line with different names, gender, situation for the protagonists’.
Got bored quickly with them.
Matt Taibbi asks a question.
Have They Gone Mad? (7 Oct, via Powerline)
David Rowe might like to read the article too.
Build the wall!
I see the matter was also picked up by today’s cartoonists. Can the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers now name a policy of Trump’s they object to?
Good morning. We’ve just had our evening dinner in Berchestgaden in Germany (pig, roast potatoes and more pig, in kitsch that would make you scream if you thought about it). Berchestgaden is only less than an hour’s drive from Salzberg, so we arrived in time for a decision to be made by 1pm. We had been booked for a while to go up at 1pm to the Kehlsteinhaus, otherwise known as Hitler’s ‘Eagle’s Nest’, at the peak of a 1.834 metre mountain, but waited for my self-assessment today as to whether Hairy should go alone or I should go too, thinking myself well enoughfor more high altitudes. You can only go on a special bus tour. What the hell, it’s not eight thousand feet only in the sixes, so I decided not to miss out. Glad I didn’t because it was a fascinating and revealing experience.
The German mountain area of Obersalzburg exists as the township of Berchestgaden in the river valley and the Obsersalzburg mountain above it. Since 1923 Hitler’s National Socialists had been locating themselves here in a concerted effort to propagandize Hitler as thoroughly German (that little Austrian), a land-owning leader-hosen wearing man of the Volk with his home in this Alpine heartland area, a man taking his strength from the very soil and vistas of the place. When they came to full power they took over the mountain completely, removing the original owners, ringing it with not just one but three fences to keep out intruders, and starting a massive building project with over ninety new buildings adding to some older ones – a virtual township there of German building workers (no forced laborers till 1943) and Party hierarchy. It was built as a place to impress VIP international visitors and also contained miles of underground bunkers, as a refuge for the elite if needed. The acme of this overall project was the building of the Eagle’s Nest in an impossiby high situation.
The whole lot was subjected to serious levels of Allied bombing in April 1945 just before the War’s end. Especially targetted was Hitlers home of Berghof, to obliterate from the earth the place where this War was plotted, for Hitler spent almost one third of his time overall in this location ‘gathering his thoughts’. We visited the site of that home today, now a forested area but with the scope of the views still apparent, looking down over Salzburg and Austria with the full panoply of peaked magnificence on display for more than 180 degrees. Only one back retaining wall now left, so this part of the Third Reich is gone forever as is much of the Reich building program. Hitler modelled his Reich as an Empire, with the first and second Reich’s being Charlemagne’s and then King Frederick Barbarossa’s. Barbarossa was said, like King Arthur before him, to have men magically stored inside the mountain fastnesses ready to ride out to save and advance Germania, so when Hitler went for Russia, Barbarossa was the word. The Allies however chose not to bomb the Eagle’s Nest, which became a prize for the US Airborne 101’s who became The Band of Brothers.
Up and up and up and up we went in that new all-electric mountain-geared bus until we arrived at the peak, where you go into a 50 metre long dark tunnel (freaky) with a crowd to await in a huge domed dark cathedra ante-room for a special elevator to take you 50 metres to the building itself, 25 people at a time. That large elevator is gold and mirror lined and in it have stood all the Nazis you’ve ever heard of and many others. I hated it. Crowding people into dark ante-rooms to enter a special chamber reminded me too forcefully of some very dark acts of Nazism, and my heart lurched for what Jewish people had gone through, all organised by these vile people. This was staged to impress, but the same sort of manipulation was at work.
Our tour guide was excellent, had lots of historic pictures to illustrate his talk, and pointed out many ways in which the Nazis used symbols of cultural power for their Reich: an Arthurian round table, a grail light over a Hitler portrait, ravens circling the peak, the octagonal construction of the Eagle’s Nest building itself inflecting Charlemagne’s crowning in Aachen.
A bit woozy now from the added stress of this extra altitude trip, but it’s easing off now back here in our rather grand hotel with its aura of faded fin-de-circle elegance. I’m glad we decided early on not to stay in the modern hotel that is now close by to Hitler’s destroyed home, his Berghof, as the altitude would have done me no good at all for any longer period of time.
Heading back into Italy tomorrow. And the flat lands.
2dogs
Oct 7, 2023 7:27 AM
I’m an two minds about the wall, it would be probably better to intern all illegals for an indeterminate time until a genuine reason to flee can be proved.
And why to the US?
Some had to pass through a lot of other countries on the way, some even speaking the same language.
I may sound cold and callous but there are many billions of people in this world who are poor and destitute. Are the wealthier nations obliged to accept them all?
The outcome would be, almost like socialism, a few fat cats on top and the rest stuck at the bottom of the picking order, same poverty as they tried to escape from, except now they have pulled down the original population with them as well.
Change the system in those impoverished countries and help the people in situ.
Giving aid as is at present only increases the Swiss or Cayman island bank accounts of the rulers.
A couple of days ago, the C.O.O. (Chief Operations Officer, whatever that is), of ANTIFA was knifed to death by a , ……….., black man.
Whilst waiting for a bus with his girlfriend, a fellow walked past and shouted,
“What the f*#k are you looking at?”
Instead of saying nothing, the ANTIFA chap thought he would steer the passer-by, onto the right path in life and as a result, was left to bleed out, before medical assistance could arrive.
Hairy now tells me, reading the above, that he wasn’t game to tell me at the time in case I refused to get in, but that lift went up 124 metres, not 50.
I had my eyes closed for most of the way regardless. 🙂
Also, he corrects my ‘circle’ to ‘siecle’, well, he’s not woolly headed, is he?
Also, that tunnel was about 300 metres, he says, and Hitler insisted on being driven along it to the elevator. The chauffeur had to reverse out of it as there is no turning area. Not easy. I was puffing along there because the crowd were all hurrying from our bus to get in the lift together.
The views were wonderful and dramatic and who could argue with going there for that? The circling ravens were a sight to see also. It was said of Barbarossa that if the ravens failed to cirle he would lose his power; the same is said for the ravens at the Tower of London. I see it as old Odin’s fallen kingdom finally gone if those ravens ever leave there. Others do too, for there is a special raven keeper in London’s Tower, who ensures the birds remain. Old myths die hard.
Hey Rufus how are black people treated in Russia?
Fun fact – Jodie Foster was a Coppertone baby when she was three.
My eldest grandaughter (12 now) was an AVON cosmetics baby at 8 months .. still got my copy of the magazine ….
“Hey Rufus how are black people treated in Russia?”
Dot, what’s your point? How are black people treated in Ukraine?
This gerbil werming is gonna kill me! .. ended up back in jumper & trackies yesterday when the icy blast came thru Fairfield, NSW mid afternoon, yesterday, .. hot water bottle & blanket back for the bed last night and this morning sunny but the chilly wind is just starting to blow again ……
But without agreeing to the conditions of the group of 8 there will be no speaker. They better face it, the world has changed, good people have had enough of lies and false promises. Any speaker that gets elected without their votes but with Democrats’ help will be illegitimate to Republican voters.
Dr Beuagan – I agree to a point. Reporterette is free to ask whatever she wants just as we are free to answer or not.
However, she is most certainly not entitled to do any such thing.
I’m shocked, not so much at the question, but because she thought it was acceptable to ask it. I’m a dinosaur who believes Secret Ballot means what ot says on the box.
The Beloved is going to perform the ultimate sacrifice (missing a bit of the Bathurst races) and attend the anti-windfarm demmo down at the bay today.
Unfortunately my knee says “no”. Weakling.
Barnabub is supposedly going to be there. Odd, after his support of Net Zero. Perhaps he fell over on the Damascus road.
This used to be the policy in the 60s and 70s but changing the system is now seen as colonialism but colonising the western democracies with the importation of the third world is just fine.
No metrics, no accountability.
This is the biggest issue when taxpayer money is being reallocated.
Well, yes entirely correct Bern. With this in mind, recall that Jason Clare sez it isn’t political! Daily Telegraph:
Other people’s money. It’s kavorka to the parasite class who contribute exactly what Paddy shot to society.
Yes it’s grotesque- $100, 000 here another $100,000 there just to distribute bum fodder. We need serious full on tax cutting.
And Afghanistan. I’d wager Biden’s disgraceful retreat from there gave Vlad the confidence that the USA would eventually give up on Ukraine if he invaded.
And I was an extra in an episode of skippy in 1969 😉
flyingduk
Oct 7, 2023 8:48 AM
Fun fact – Jodie Foster was a Coppertone baby when she was three.
And I was an extra in an episode of skippy in 1969
flyingduk,
Did you live out near Duffys Forest?
Humph. Misophonia is a ‘condition’? I though most people hated the sound of other people chewing. Especially at the cinema.
Hey Rufus can you fill in the blanks champ? This isn’t 4Chan.
I’ve seen your photo duk and you look nothing like skippy unless it was a distance shot.
Remind them that those urban aboriginal äctivists” who are most adamant that they should not “los[e] their culture” have themselves thoroughly assimilated into the broader culture.
worse, giving aid destroys incentives to produce and destroys local producers if free stuff is available, so everyone stays poor.
that is why billions in aid to Africa has only impoverished the place
Duk, don’t tell me you did Skip’s “voice”!
https://nypost.com/2023/10/02/nyc-man-stabbed-by-unhinged-suspect-was-do-gooder-activist-and-poet/
Fancy that, MPs who know their electorate and promote their interests. Whatever will they think of next? Representative activities like it says in their job description.
Please forgive the sarcasm, sometimes it’s just too easy.
more:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1709316120660812049
“that is why billions in aid to Africa has only impoverished the place”
Yep, just like the billions in welfare given to our own indigenous groups and organisations has only impoverished them further. The dosh has been wasted, misspent, misused, dissipated and squandered. In fact, I would argue that the worst drug on the planet isn’t a drug at all, it’s “aid/welfare”. Totally addictive, it wrecks individuals, communities and whole countries.
Inside Today’s Jobs Report: 885,000 Full-Time Jobs Lost, 1.127 Million Part-Time Jobs Added, Record Multiple Jobholders
BY TYLER DURDEN
After last month’s stunning payrolls report, when in our post-mortem we revealed not only a year full of monthly downward data revisions, but also collapse in tull-time jobs and surge in part-time jobs, as well asalso the worst unadjusted August payrolls since the great recession, we thought that nothing could shock us any more. And then we got the September jobs report.
We won’t spend too much time dissecting the report since regular readers are all too aware of the same old “upward goalseeking” tactics used by the BLS, so here are the highlights.
First, the 336K jump in headline payrolls – the biggest since January – was stunning when considering that it was not only above the highest Wall Street estimate but was a 6-sigma beat to expectations.
How is it possible to get such an outlier print to not only trends but expectations? Let’s try to answer that question.
If, as the BLS claims, in September the jobs market suddenly reversed a year of declines, surely there will be some qualitative validations to this quantitative outlier, right? Unfortunately, looking through the supporting evidence we don’t find any justification to the BLS exuberance.
Let’s start with the Household survey: here instead of a number anywhere close to the 336K jobs gained (as the far less accurate Establishment survey reports), the number of newly employed workers was just 86K, the lowest since May, and the second lowest of 2023!
And since the number of unemployed workers also rose to 6.360 million, the highest number since January 2022, the unemployment rate was sticky at 3.8%, and refused to drop to 3.7% as consensus had expected.
How about the Establishment survey? Well, here too, things stink. Yes, the headline surge was great, but the question here is how much of that was purely seasonals.
Consider what Vanda Research FX trader Viraj Patel noted earlier: the official adjusted data showed this Leisure and Hospitality added a whopping +96k jobs. But unadjusted data showed that the sector lost 466k jobs in Sep. This means that the unadjusted private sector payrolls was -399!
Wait, if unadjusted total payrolls rose by 585K and yet private payrolls dropped by 399K, that means that… you got it:
in September, all of the unadjusted jobs came from – drumroll – the government, which added a whopping 984K jobs (mostly teachers).
Translation:
for yet another month all the strength in the Establishment was thanks to seasonals and various plugs that made the total number much stronger.
Yet another humanitarian disaster in Ukraine.
In the town of Hroza, near Kharkov, a store was hit by missiles and more than 50 people werekilled.
Of course, immediately, the lapdog press, (the Daily Mail), came up with the headline:
“Putin’s massacre of the innocents …..” No investigation required, because Putin is evil, …….., right?
Just like when ‘elensky tried to invoke Article 5 of NATO, when 2 Polish farmers were killed by a missile last year.
“You must stop this aggression” the puppet clown opined.
Turns out, that missile, was a Ukrainian S300 missile.
Two months ago, a market place was hit by missiles in Konstantinovka, with 40 odd dead. Again, because Putin is evil, the lapdog press immediately blamed him, for such an unholy act. “How dare he!”
Regrettably, this Ukraine held town was hit by, ……, (wait for it), Ukrainian missiles!
Even the US lapdog press, (New York Times no less), admitted this.
Of course, most of the vile shills, that we call reporters, simply moved on, rather than reporting this fact.
Interestingly, at the time this attack occurred, ‘elensky was meeting with the buffoon Blinken.
Yesterday, when the Hroza attack occurred, St Volodymyr the Pure, was meeting with Rishi baby.
It seems that whenever the puppet clown meets foreign dignitaries, in Kiev, things happen.
I have no idea who initiated this attack, it is possible, that it was the Russians.
It may also have been an accident, though this is unlikely.
What I do know, is that the Daily Mail also have no idea.
We will find out who did this. Anyone want to bet on ‘elensky?
Which confirms that saying about the US being a treacherous friend and a harmless enemy.
Duk, don’t tell me you did Skip’s “voice”!
Or perhaps John Laws or Frank Thring’s personal valet. They both featured on Skippy.
As Arrest Made, Murdered NYC Activist’s Pals Run GoFundMe To “Take Time Off Work”
Friends of murdered New York City liberal activist Ryan Thoresen Carson have created a GoFundMe page in which the “collective” solicits donations so they can take “time off of work” — and have already raked in $69,000.
However, some donors are chipping in just for the privilege of leaving scathing comments.
Carson was stabbed to death at 3:50 am on Monday in New York’s Bedfort-Stuyvesant neighborhood, as he and his girlfriend were returning from a Long Island wedding. They encountered an enraged young man who was kicking over parked mopeds and scooters before turning his rage on Carson, asking, “What the f*** are you looking at? I’ll kill you!”
In video that captured the crime, Carson be heard repeatedly telling his assailant to “chill.” Carson was stabbed multiple times, including a fatal strike to his heart. (Note: Issuing orders to an enraged man is seldom a sound de-escalation strategy.)
On Thursday, NY cops arrested 18-year-old Brian Dowling — who lives near the crime scene on Lafayette Avenue near Malcom X Boulevard — and charged him with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. A search of Dowling’s apartment produced a sweatshirt matching the one that appears in security-camera video of the murder, along with a knife. He’d previously received summonses for disorderly conduct, and allegedly smashed items in his girlfriend’s apartment. In a 911 call, his aunt described him as mentally disturbed.
Meanwhile, a self-identified “collective of Ryan’s close friends” is managing a GoFundMe account on behalf of themselves and Carson’s girlfriend Claudia Morales.
However, rather than seeking funds for funeral and other final expenses, the group says they need the money “to eas[e] the burden and stress of this horrifying situation so that we can have space and time to grieve.” More pointedly, they say “immediate needs are to offset the costs of working class people taking time off of work to properly mourn.”
This week, Carson’s friends told Gothamist that the slain activist would have empathized with his murderer. “I’m absolutely positive that he would immediately see that this was a person who was suffering from a lack of resources in our community,” said state assemblywoman Emily Gallagher.
And the children of those urban aboriginals will lord it over their culturally pure but unemployed and economically dependent children. No culture can be pure in a globalist world.
Should have added to my last comment, that a culture that relies for sustenance on another one is no longer pure.
kitten corner: marketing science
Rogue banks are not waiting for the UK Energy Bill to be enacted to use it to deny us being able to buy or sell property
Fun Fact – My brother’s pet disabled crow starred in Mad Max!
The Great Taking: Have the global elite devised an elaborate plan to take everything we own?
I loved the clip of Candice Owen’s repartee when confronting perverts and their apologists.
My favoutite was her response to a creature utilising the favourite fake victim cry: “I feel unsafe”.
“If you feel unsafe, get a helmet”.
Miltonf, tax cuts are nothing really without severe spending cuts. These fools seem to believe spending your way to prosperity is a proven method, when in fact its only to get re-elected. The proles are too stupid to realise this.
The Bee
Elderly Woman Escapes Nursing Home, Rants About Deprogramming The Populace
NYC struggling to contain ‘dramatic’ increase in tuberculosis cases amid COVID, migrant concerns
Another effect of forcing nurses to go through a wholly academic route rather than on the job training.
Nursing schools are turning away thousands of applicants during a major nursing shortage. Here’s why
Fun Fact – My brother’s pet disabled crow starred in Mad Max!
My Dad had his wooden leg starring in Treasure Island. Not too sure about the parrot on the shoulder though. Might have been the next door neighbour’s.
I’m amused at the lily white politicians (and others) on TV announcing that they are ‘proud’ aboriginals. Of what are they proud?
Google rejects Trudeau’s olive branch, threatens news link block over new law
The Voice
Justice Kirby Could Have Told Them…
The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG is a former judge of the High Court of Australia. On almost all social issues he holds what one would fairly describe as Progressive Left values, including on Aboriginal affairs, where he wrote the lone dissenting judgement in the infamous Hindmarsh Island Bridge Case (see Quadrant, Vol.43, no.12).
But on one particular issue he found himself at odds with the Progressive Left – he was a constitutional monarchist.
After the 1999 Referendum, Kirby posed the question: “What did the republicans get wrong in their campaign?” and he identified ten reasons why the Yes vote failed.
It is my argument that the current Yes campaign has replicated (in substance or in fashion) every single one of these errors.
1 – The partisan error
2 – The haste error
3 – The elitist error
4 – The patriotism error
5 – The Convention error
6 – The model error
7 – The pundit error
8 – The small state error
9 – The media error
10 – The republican problem
The same could be said of the proposal to legislate the Voice if the referendum fails. The activists had one shot in the locker and they blew it. They could have legislated beforehand but chose not to do so. Any subsequently legislated non-constitutional Voice will either be a policy failure, in which case electors have every reason to feel vindicated, or it will be sufficiently anodyne such that voters will say, ‘The government had to fix it because we said “no” them to their proposal’. Either way, it is not pretty for those who seek to increase public trust in government.
Looking ahead from 1999, Kirby concludes:
These are the reasons why republicans in Australia are, and for a time must remain, in a kind of electoral gridlock. The reasons illustrate the fundamental dilemma which the republican cause faces in Australia at this time. Addressing these issues, the perils of divisiveness, not to say the costs and distractions of repeated proposals, as well as the constitutional difficulties of achieving change, will probably persuade all but the most intrepid that it is best to leave things alone for the time being. However, the future may bring a new momentum with different players and different urgency.
Kirby’s analysis was correct at the time, and its resonance today is obvious.
Every one of the ten mistakes of the Yes campaign he identified in 1999 have been replicated, to a greater or lesser degree by the Yes campaign in 2023.
It came as a surprise for a political junkie like me that this has occurred. In politics you learn from the mistakes of past campaign mistakes if you want to win future ones.
It is also unsurprising, at least to me, that the Progressive Left in Australia never feels the need to learn from their mistakes.
They live in safe-spaces and echo-chambers where “everybody I know is voting Yes” and every piece of media that they self-select pushes an identical policy agenda. Their capacity for debate (and hence the ability to win over middle-ground and unaligned voters) has been lost because there is never any deviation in their private or public lives from the ‘official line’.
They are then forced to rationalise any dissent as the result of ignorance (‘Stupid’) or malice (‘Racism’).
They lost in 1999 for the reasons Michael Kirby identified, and they will lose in 2023 because they have ignored those same ten campaigning errors. But they will not change their ways.
They cannot change their ways. Their self-righteousness is ingrained in childhood and never challenged. Like the Bourbons of the French restoration, the Progressive Left have “learnt nothing and forgotten nothing”.
Miltonf, tax cuts are nothing really without severe spending cuts.
you haven’t heard of the Laffer curve? then not many people in canbra would have.
Biden rambles about TV news being dominated by dogs being ‘pushed’ in lakes as he blames ‘unhappy’ reporters for Americans thinking the economy is dire
The proles are too stupid to realise this.
cheap shot
Chaya Raichik
@ChayaRaichik10
If you need a reminder on who the real fascists are… the left wants me to go to prison for reposting their own tiktoks
Re the murder of the NY lefty, Billy Joel warned 43 years ago that Bedford-Stuyvesant was a dangerous place.
OldOzzie @ 9.19, the person that wrote that rubbish is living in a parallel universe. I hesitate to say no one deserves to die but reap what you sow comes to mind. Schadenfraude is a bitch.
Well, I’ve waved my anti-Establishment husband off to his demmo.
Who would have thought 50 years ago that the Man would now be wearing Che t-shirts and tatts, financed by Big Business, and the radicals in neatly pressed jeans and Tommy jumpers (because possible inclement weather)?
I warned him not to get into any fights or breathe in tear gas on account of his asthma. 🙂
Lizzie
The raid was on Anzac Day 1945. One of my former bosses took part in it. It was his only daylight raid. He had a photo of his aircraft there, taken by another aircraft’s bomb release camera.
I find it odd that every aboriginal on TV who states their pride in being a member of a particular tribe yet say nothing about any of their own accomplishments of which they could be proud. Our birth or membership of a tribe or race has nothing to do with us, it is pure chance, what we do afterwards is what makes us what we are.
I am hard pressed to think any government follows any economic theory. Getting elected and re-elected are all that counts to get or keep your snout in the trough. Once in it doesn’t really matter whether you do anything or not. As I said, the proles are stupid, not a cheap shot at all. Every state and territory in Australia are basket cases. Why do people keep voting for them?
It’s a habit copied from the Indians of North America – one is a “proud Apache”, or a “proud Cheyenne.”
Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary
On October 7, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the yearly feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Known for several centuries by the alternate title of “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against Turkish invasion. Pope St. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was invoked on the day of the battle through a campaign to pray the Rosary throughout Europe.
“Turkish victory at Lepanto would have been a catastrophe of the first magnitude for Christendom,” wrote military historian John F. Guilmartin, Jr., “and Europe would have followed a historical trajectory strikingly different from that which obtained.”
CNA
Life and Death in Pre-Contact Aboriginal Australia
When Europeans first settled in Australia in 1788, they encountered an Aboriginal society of almost incredible barbarism and violence. This was the reality of what they found.
The reasons for the violence and barbarism of Aboriginal society derive entirely, or almost entirely, from one factor alone.
All of the Aborigines of Australia were hunter-gatherers who had not domesticated livestock nor grown crops for food.
As a result, the lives of the hundreds of small tribes that constituted Aboriginal society were engaged in a never-ending struggle to find what food they could from what little existed on this continent.
Directly because of this central fact, it was absolutely necessary to keep the size of each tribe small enough for its members to be kept alive by what food and other sustenance they could find. It was therefore absolutely necessary for them to avoid adding any excess mouths to feed to the limited numbers who could be kept alive by the methods of hunter-gatherers in the Dry Continent. They did this by systematically eliminating the excess mouths.
Probably the most important method of eliminating these excess mouths was infanticide, as Ludwik Krzywicki detailed in his 1934 anthropological study Primitive Society and Its Vital Statistics.1 Deliberate infanticide existed throughout Aboriginal society, and it was practised by nearly all of the Aboriginal tribes in Australia. “Horrible tales were told about it. R. Oberlander was shown a woman who had murdered ten children.” Elderly women from the Dieri (Diyari) tribe admitted to South Australian mounted policeman Samuel Gason “of having disposed in this manner of two to four of their offspring: in this way, about 30% of new-born infants perished at the hands of their mothers in the Lake Eyre district”. Among the Narrinyeri (Ngarrindjeri) of the lower Murray district, “more than one half of the children fell victim to this atrocious custom”; the Congregationalist missionary George Taplin “knew several women who had murdered two or three of their new-born children”. Mounted policeman William Henry Willshire:
says of the parts of Central Australia known to him, that at least 60% of the women committed infanticide. He tells of one woman that she had five children, three of whom she murdered immediately after birth, and she explained in her broken English: “me bin keepem one boy and one girl, no good keepem mob, him to[o] much wantem tuckout!” Therefore the women of the bush daily murder their children and do not wish to raise more than two.2
The ostensible reasons for widespread infanticide varied. Victorian government surveyor Philip Chauncy saw a young woman, shortly after her child’s birth, scratch “a hole in the sand behind her hut and having given it a ‘little’ knock on the head, laid it in the hole and kept on crying, the child crying too, till she could bear it no longer, and she went out and gave it another little knock which killed it”. Asked by Chauncy how she could do such a thing, she “replied pointing to the bag on her back that there was room only for one child, and she could not possibly carry another”. When Albert Alexander Le Souef, son of the protector of Aborigines in the Goulburn district, asked a young woman “why she had dashed her infant’s brains out against a tree” she “replied coolly: ‘Oh! too much cry that fellow’”.3
Frail and malformed children were murdered, among other reasons, just because they were frail. A twin was killed (and sometimes both) because the mother could not suckle it … When a mother died while suckling a child, the infant was buried with her, and death often awaited the babe when its father, who as a hunter maintained the family, departed this life.4
Moreover, “sometimes an infant was murdered and cooked for its elder brother or sister to eat, in order to make him or her strong by feeding on the muscle of the baby”. Superstitions regarding twins often resulted in the murder of one or both. There were occasional cases of infants being killed to enable their mothers to suckle orphaned dingo pups instead.5
At base, the reasons for widespread infanticide were the product of the Aborigines’ ubiquitous hunter-gatherer lifestyle. “The natives are generally much attached to their children … and yet there is no doubt that infanticide prevailed to a fearful extent.”6 Krzywicki cites the reasons for this as
connected with the difficulty of bringing up a child in the conditions of native life in Australia, and namely: the long sucking of the child at its mother’s breast, and the necessity of carrying the child on her back for several years during the wanderings inseparable from a roving way of life.7
Having abandoned their “culture” in order to assimilate into a superior one?
Calm down Uncle Ho.
Let’s ask Saddam Hussein for his opinion.
The US didn’t mind sadam during the Iran Iraq war
G.K. Chesterton’s poem “Lepanto” is one of the classics…
Murder is wrong but in this case I’m willing to listen to arguments.
Russell Brand Scandal Detail That No One Noticed | Carl Benjamin
78 Canberra Avenue is really up to the gills with Putinista fake news this morning.
Ukraine intentionally bombed Poland in 2022. Apparently!
Is this like the “bombing of the secret NATO command bunker” that would see NATO bend the knee out of embarrassment?
Maybe Putin thinks Zelensky also shot down MH-17, did the false flag bombings* in 1999 – 2002 that cemented his rise to power and invaded the Ukraine.
* https://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Up-Russia-Secret-Terror/dp/1594032017?dplnkId=a3194b75-f3e3-4b02-977d-c027e94749e2&nodl=1
Alexander Litvinenko and 1 more
Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror
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You’ll be off Bruce Pascoe’s Christmas card list…..
Well, what a fizzog that was. The skipper flogged the engines and we outran the storm and sailed up and down the east coast until this morning. We have missed two ports but have now docked in Hakodate. One sea day tomorrow, Yokohama the day after, and home that night. Won’t be sorry to get home; six weeks away is long enough.
One in three big home builders are losing money: RBA
Michael Read and Michael Bleby
Almost one in three large home builders are haemorrhaging cash as the construction sector battles rapidly rising wages and material costs, leading to a surge in insolvencies.
The Reserve Bank of Australia revealed on Friday that 30 per cent of large residential builders were experiencing negative cash flow, meaning their expenses outstrip their revenue. The analysis includes incorporated builders with more than $10 million in revenue.
That figure has increased sharply since hitting a low of 12 per cent in March 2021, as the sector grapples with rapidly rising input costs and shortages of labour and materials.
The constraints have slowed the production of new homes and are prolonging a boom that for many builders is profitless, as they find themselves crunched by rising costs and fixed-price contracts they have little scope to vary.
“A sharp rise in construction input costs, compounded by costly delays arising from labour and materials shortages, as well as bad weather, has eroded profit margins on existing fixed-price contracts for many residential builders,” the RBA said in its latest Financial Stability Review.
“Some builders are still working through these contracts, which are now loss-making for many.”
The chairman of Queensland’s biggest construction contractor, Hutchinson Builders, said even his company – about to report a $3 billion yearly revenue – found itself with a negative cash flow during some months, and the RBA’s estimate of 30 per cent underestimated the problem.
“That’s an understatement,” Scott Hutchinson told AFR Weekend.
Negative cash flow for the family-owned company “wouldn’t be every month, but some months, yes. It’s terrible for morale. It just destroys people,” he said.
In south-east Queensland – the country’s strongest commercial property market – more builders would go broke in a market that was now “completely overheated”, Mr Hutchinson said.
Construction sector insolvencies have increased steadily since 2021 as a result of the mounting financial pressure, with the industry accounting for one in three corporate bankruptcies over the past year, the RBA said.
Melbourne-based home builder Chatham Homes went into voluntary liquidation this week, owing about 200 unsecured creditors a collective $2 million.
“Builders do badly when there’s a boom on because you can’t get trades,” Mr Hutchinson said.
“A lot of subcontractors have gone broke. What really happens is a good form worker will have four good crews and, all of a sudden, he’s got eight jobs.
“You’ve got to spread your good guys across those jobs and employ four marginal people, so your productivity goes right down. When turnover goes up, profit goes down.”
While material price pressures have normalised, Australian Constructors Association chief executive Jon Davies said rapidly rising wages had become the primary concern for builders.
He said builders were being asked to take on an increasing amount of price risk, meaning the sector had borne the brunt of material cost increases associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Largely speaking, contractors were required to take that on the chin,” Mr Davies said.
“If we’re talking about the building sector that operates on profit margins as low as 1 or 2 per cent … there’s no wriggle room there.”
Higher interest rates have also taken their toll on builders, with the share of overdue trade credit builders owe to suppliers increasing over the past year to almost 3 per cent, the RBA said.
Mr Davies said the cost of unforseeable events like weather, which cannot be quantified when a contract is signed, should be split between builders and clients. “We shouldn’t be treating the construction industry as a bank.”
It’s all good, Senator Pat Dodson is tugging at the heartstrings..
The toxic parasites at the RBA yet another example of malicious incompetence that places Australia.
Zulu and Bo Jo overnight-
How do you deal with parents who won’t send their children to school, for fear of “losing their culture?”
Remind them that those aboriginal äctivists” who are most adamant that they should not “los[e] their culture” have themselves thoroughly assimilated into the broader culture.
I’m convinced that the irreplaceable steps in growing up Australian are
-early childhood health
-early childhood education
-the unity of the nuclear family.
They are all interlinked, stumbling on any of the three will imperil the others. As the infamous ‘toon from the late Leak sr echoed, too much of what is championed as Aboriginal Culture involves surrendering very young children to the brutality of vague communal happenstance.
plagues
Rufus T Firefly
Oct 7, 2023 9:15 AM
Yet another humanitarian disaster in Ukraine.
In the town of Hroza, near Kharkov, a store was hit by missiles and more than 50 people werekilled.
Of course, immediately, the lapdog press, (the Daily Mail), came up with the headline:
“Putin’s massacre of the innocents …..” No investigation required, because Putin is evil, …….., right?
Just like when ‘elensky tried to invoke Article 5 of NATO, when 2 Polish farmers were killed by a missile last year.
“You must stop this aggression” the puppet clown opined.
Turns out, that missile, was a Ukrainian S300 missile.
Two months ago, a market place was hit by missiles in Konstantinovka, with 40 odd dead. Again, because Putin is evil, the lapdog press immediately blamed him, for such an unholy act. “How dare he!”
Regrettably, this Ukraine held town was hit by, ……, (wait for it), Ukrainian missiles!
Even the US lapdog press, (New York Times no less), admitted this.
Of course, most of the vile shills, that we call reporters, simply moved on, rather than reporting this fact.
Interestingly, at the time this attack occurred, ‘elensky was meeting with the buffoon Blinken.
Yesterday, when the Hroza attack occurred, St Volodymyr the Pure, was meeting with Rishi baby.
It seems that whenever the puppet clown meets foreign dignitaries, in Kiev, things happen.
I have no idea who initiated this attack, it is possible, that it was the Russians.
It may also have been an accident, though this is unlikely.
What I do know, is that the Daily Mail also have no idea.
We will find out who did this. Anyone want to bet on ‘elensky?
Rufus T Firefly
Yep Others are suspicious
Today at about 1:15 p.m., a cafe and a store in the village of Groza, Kupyansky district, where there were many civilians, were shelled.
Already over 50 dead
This is already the 3rd shelling with mass casualties, timed to coincide with Zelensky’s meetings. In the previous 2, Kyiv’s guilt was proven.
Zelensky has already managed to blame the aggressor and ask for military assistance and money for resistance. The tragedy occurred around 15:15 in the village of Groza, Kharkov region.
Photos immediately appear from the scene of the tragedy. Journalists appear out of nowhere.
Drug dealer Zelensky writes a post at 15:45.
Immediately at a meeting in Spain, he begins to demand weapons for Ukraine, since Germany refused, the United States stopped sponsoring…
There was a direct provocation!
We will remember everything, we will not forgive anything!
Writes Kharkov direction. 18+
https://t.me/LNR_DNR_Novosti/85703
Watch out for polonium tea, Dot. Vlad is in a particularly bad mood right now.
Putin threatens the West with total nuclear destruction leaving ‘no chance of survival’ in the event of a strike on Russia as he warns his ‘Satan-2’ and ‘Flying Chernobyl’ missiles are ready for use in ranting anti-US speech (5 Oct)
True. Turnover never equals profit as the New Broom has found to his horror.
I don’t believe for one minute the Ukraine war has anything to do with price increases – it’s the West’s insane response that has done the damage. We could have ridden it out here if it wasn’t for our destructive energy pricing – all driven by government. Green tape is the other death knell, particularly for timber products.
The tsunami of cash that flowed during the pandemic (again government) and the always present shortage of trades (guess who again, but in more subtle ways) drove the bubble and caused the crash in profitability.
Add to that the endless rain on the east coast for much of 2121, and you have the nightmare fully fledged.
“Turkish victory at Lepanto would have been a catastrophe of the first magnitude for Christendom,”
G.K. Chesterton’s poem “Lepanto” is one of the classics…
Thank you, Zulu. Poem can be read here.
He’s losing.
The Quadrant piece is well worth a read.
Unlike the Republican Referendum which followed a Constitutional Convention model, the path to the ballot box has almost entirely set by the Government (with input from the Greens). We would not be where we are today simply with the momentum of the various indigenous meetings, or the activist class.
Consequently, the unavoidable conclusion is that Albanese, and whatever clique advised him, picked out a strategy to turn the Uluru Statement into a mighty Torrie-fighting weapon – and in the process stamped on each of the landmines Kirby identified in 1999.
In the wash up of next weekend, whatever the score, bulk Australia will be blamed for responding to a cynical racist dog whistle.
The reality will be the confusion, irritation and dissent caused by Albanese’s cynical, ham fisted ‘Canbra beltway’ politics – a Pied Piper of all-care-no-responsibility fashionable thought.
Zelensky is running out of soldiers and starts bombing his own cities? Sure.
Threatening the west with total nuclear destruction is reasonable? Sure.
Follow me in my exclusive LARPing Russian peasant Telegram channel for more.
Wally Dalí
Oct 7, 2023 10:24 AM
Zulu and Bo Jo overnight-
How do you deal with parents who won’t send their children to school, for fear of “losing their culture?”
Remind them that those aboriginal äctivists” who are most adamant that they should not “los[e] their culture” have themselves thoroughly assimilated into the broader culture.
I’m convinced that the irreplaceable steps in growing up Australian are
-early childhood health
-early childhood education
-the unity of the nuclear family.
They are all interlinked, stumbling on any of the three will imperil the others. As the infamous ‘toon from the late Leak sr echoed, too much of what is championed as Aboriginal Culture involves surrendering very young children to the brutality of vague communal happenstance.
Wally Dalí,
From – Glimpses of Life in a Remote Aboriginal Community
Paul Prociv 9th May 2023
We were met by the community doctor, an enthusiastic, idealistic young whitefella only a few years out of medical school, who most kindly invited us to stay in his house, as he was about to head home for recreational leave
(I never saw him again; shortly after returning from leave, he’d been violently assaulted in the clinic and decided to terminate his contract).
Of the few kids who attended school, many didn’t have breakfast at home beforehand. It was not uncommon for a child’s daily rations to consist of a bag of potato crisps or Twisties, with a can of Coke.
I gained the impression, previously noted in some remote north Queensland communities, that many children seemed to free range, moving erratically from house to house and sleeping with different relatives (lots of “aunties”, “uncles”, “brothers” and “sisters”), so that parents often had no idea where their child might be. Of course, when the child awoke in the morning, it had to fend for itself; the adults were either asleep, or showed little interest in preparing breakfast (this might be attributed to “traditional culture”).
Our idea of a nuclear family certainly didn’t seem to fit the pattern here.
As I had learnt, this movement of children was often associated with a name change, which makes it almost impossible to keep track of them in health records without detailed local knowledge.
During the mission era, apparently the community was almost self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables, produced in its own thriving gardens and orchards, but once the missionaries were sent packing, this all fell apart.
I saw very little in the way of meaningful work by any Yolngu people, with most adults, while outside, either idly sitting around and chatting, or driving around in vehicles. The power station was run by a white engineer, with several local offsiders. The store had a white manager, with local girls at the checkout (which caused problems when their relatives would demand payment-free goods). The health clinic was run by white staff, with local assistants (including our interpreter). The schoolteachers were white, with local aides (the same applied to the local cop). On my last visit, I encountered a team of contract builders finishing six new houses in town (costing about $0.5 million each).
My query about the absence of local apprentices was met with awkward silence.
It later transpired that they had tried to employ local assistants, but the few youngsters who turned up didn’t show much sustained interest, were slow to learn useful skills, and were unreliable in attendance – it was far quicker, and less stressful, to do the work without such local “help”.
There didn’t seem to be any skilled tradesmen in the community (above). Blocked sewers, a regular occurrence with disposable nappies and drink cans being thrown into toilets, sometimes required calling out a plumber from Darwin or Nhulunbuy.
Early one morning, on a walk along the island’s western beaches, I stopped to marvel at the swarm of white, plastic outers of disposable nappies that had blown ashore and caught up in mangrove roots and branches (the soft inner parts had long gone, seeing they comprise an essential part of the local canine diet).
An approaching middle-aged man could see my discomfort, and pronounced, “Disgusting, isn’t it? When’s the government coming out to clean this up?”
It was clear he was not joking, that the locals take the meaning of “public servants“ literally.
Just a couple of hours of light work by a few energetic adults (or even kids) could have cleared it all up, but that would require a degree of organisation and initiative.
Whoops. That’s 2021. No need to get ahead of myself.
The Aboriginal camps are exactly how the WEF want us to live. Own nothing and 100% dependent on handouts. You’ll own nothing and be happy (except the happy part).
you haven’t heard of the Laffer curve?
Nor has Tennis Elbow. It wasn’t on TV when he lived in a “houso”.
I received some disturbing news about the house I used to own in Melbourne.
No it didn’t burn down or flood …
It has Collingwood banner flying from it
Boambee John, glad you mentioned this.
Please, do you know what aircraft type it was?
Visited there years ago & the tour guide reported the bombing as being done by British “Harrier” aircraft.
When hit by the obvious flaw, by myself & an elderly NZ tourist, he said that was what the tourism board (or whatever) told him to say.
Ever since I’ve wondered which bomber it was. Apparently the Eagles Nest was pretty much saved as much by the direction the bombers came from & issues with clearing the mountain top, as much as anything else.
Just for Dot & BON
Same time @polk105 (https://t.me/polk105/11613) writes:
In the village of Groza in the Kharkov Region, 51 people were tragically killed in a missile strike, as reported by Ihor Klymenko, the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
A funeral for a member of the Aidar battalion was held there, attended by approximately 100 of his comrades. It’s worth noting that
IPSO channels and Ukrainian media have contributed to the misinformation suggesting that more than half of the ones present were civilians, which, according to our data, is entirely untrue. The missile strike was executed using the Iskander missile defense system.
Note: with such an amount of contradictory information is extremely hard to verify the nature of this event.
Memories Of Restaurant Where Foreign Mercenaries were eating, next door to the building housing them
War Monitor
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Putin: “We have never spoken negatively about Ukraine’s accession to the EU, but we are categorically against its accession to NATO”
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
– Adam Smith
Now Zelensky is bombing intentionally bombing his own foreign fighters.
This is ripe.
Only intentionally bombing
Damn iPad
The other day I was musing with mine wife of what became of one of my closest uni friends, a part Aboriginal girl from Geraldton. We’d last seen her on the TV in First Inventors guff, she’s been a basically a fully feather-bedded career academic, winning life’s lottery of growing up dark, bright and pretty.
We’d fallen out a while back, as i’d probably just become less enamoured of her glamour and more based in my own convictions. Why had she not settled down, become a somewhere person, settled on a feller, bought property, had kids?
Worked out that it was probably because of the non-existence of her own father, and the promiscuity and cynicism which that foments, along with the bog standard anti-Patriarchy leftism of university culture. Nudging fifty now, she’s spent twice as long at UWA as she ever did in Gerro, but that extended and unbounded childhood is her “identity”, even now overshadowing the milk and honey of her “reality”.
I was going for Collingwood. I still hold a grudge against interstate teams after the VFL went national.
Does Osaka have an AFL team? Do they wear DayGlo?
WATCH AND READ IN FULL: Putin’s Valdai Discussion Club speech
The Russian president addressed a number of key issues including Ukraine, sanctions, Western hegemony, and Russia’s role on the international stage
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
Participants in the plenary session, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi at the anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The moderator has already mentioned that this is the 20th annual meeting.
In keeping with its traditions, our, or should I say your forum, has brought together political leaders and researchers, experts and civil society activists from many countries around the world, once again reaffirming its high status as a relevant intellectual platform.
The Valdai discussions invariably reflect the most important global political processes in the 21st century in their entirety and complexity. I am certain that this will also be the case today, as it probably was in the preceding days when you debated with each other. It will also stay this way moving forward because our objective is basically to build a new world. And it is at these decisive stages that you, my colleagues, have an extremely important role to play and bear special responsibility as intellectuals.
Over the years of the club’s work, both Russia and the world have seen drastic, and even dramatic, colossal changes.
Twenty years is not a long period by historical standards, but during eras when the entire world order is crumbling, time seems to shrink.
I think you will agree that more events have taken place in the past 20 years than over decades in some historical periods before, and it was major changes that dictated the fundamental transformation of the very principles of international relations.
In the early 21st century, everybody hoped that states and peoples had learned the lessons of the expensive and destructive military and ideological confrontations of the previous century, saw their harmfulness and the fragility and interconnectedness of our planet, and understood that the global problems of humanity call for joint action and the search for collective solutions, while egotism, arrogance and disregard for real challenges would inevitably lead to a dead-end, just like the attempts by more powerful countries to force their opinions and interests onto everyone else.
This should have become obvious to everyone. It should have, but it has not. It has not.
When we met for the first time at the club’s meeting nearly 20 years ago, our country was entering a new stage in its development.
Russia was emerging from an extremely difficult period of convalescence after the Soviet Union’s dissolution. We launched the process of building a new and what we saw as a more just world order energetically and with good will. It is a boon that our country can make a huge contribution because we have things to offer to our friends, partners and the world as a whole.
Regrettably, our interest in constructive interaction was misunderstood, was seen as obedience, as an agreement that the new world order would be created by those who declared themselves the winners in the Cold War. It was seen as an admission that Russia was ready to follow in others’ wake and not to be guided by our own national interests but by somebody else’s interests.
Over these years, we warned more than once that this approach would not only lead to a dead-end but that it was fraught with the increasing threat of a military conflict.
But nobody listened to us or wanted to listen to us. The arrogance of our so-called partners in the West went through the roof. This is the only way I can put it.
The United States and its satellites have taken a steady course towards hegemony in military affairs, politics, the economy, culture and even morals and values.
Since the very beginning, it has been clear to us that attempts to establish a monopoly were doomed to fail.
The world is too complicated and diverse to be subjected to one system, even if it is backed by the enormous power of the West accumulated over centuries of its colonial policy.
Your colleagues as well – many of them are absent today, but they do not deny that to a significant degree, the prosperity of the West has been achieved by robbing colonies for several centuries. This is a fact. Essentially, this level of development has been achieved by robbing the entire planet.
The history of the West is essentially the chronicle of endless expansion.
Western influence in the world is an immense military and financial pyramid scheme that constantly needs more “fuel” to support itself, with natural, technological and human resources that belong to others.
This is why the West simply cannot and is not going to stop. Our arguments, reasoning, calls for common sense or proposals have simply been ignored.
I have said this publicly to both our allies and partners.
There was a moment when I simply suggested: perhaps we should also join NATO? But no, NATO does not need a country like ours. No. I want to know, what else do they need? We thought we became part of the crowd, got a foot in the door.
What else were we supposed to do? There was no more ideological confrontation. What was the problem? I guess the problem was their geopolitical interests and arrogance towards others. Their self-aggrandisement was and is the problem.
Read the Rest of the Speech at the Link
Sign of things to come?
Our local harbourside cafe reported an indigenous girl became agitated and aggressive during the week, apparently over a confected “slight”.
Thirst will kill us all before then. Gaia is unhappy with humans.
Water! The World Economic Forum says Water is the next big crisis (6 Oct)
It’s amusing on a planet which has water covering 75% of its surface that the WEF now wants to scare the pants off us by invoking a water crisis.
What? You really are ignorant, aren’t you? Do some research next time dummy.
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Black Ball
Oct 7, 2023 5:46 AM
Vikki Campion:
Across Australia, we have copped a charade of corporate virtue, flexing financial muscle on marketing for the Yes camp.
Vikki has brains but I don’t think that’s what attracted BJ.
Now Zelensky is bombing intentionally bombing his own foreign fighters.
“Z” is the biggest Tosser going who will run away with the loot and leaving behind the cannon fodder.
Words fail me as to how the USA Guv’ment and the UK Guv’ment could support such a Cretin. Being English born, I am really ashamed and very sad.
Reading snoozer Kelly’s column on the 1967 referendum in Teh Weekend Paywallian when the Voice fails the retribution for Albo, the Liars and all their fellow travellers needs to be swift, thorough and complete. The level of damage done is immense.
WATCH AND READ IN FULL: Putin’s Valdai Discussion Club speech
The Ukraine crisis is not a territorial conflict, and I want to make that clear. Russia is the world’s largest country in terms of land area, and we have no interest in conquering additional territory.
We still have much to do to properly develop Siberia, Eastern Siberia, and the Russian Far East.
This is not a territorial conflict and not an attempt to establish regional geopolitical balance. The issue is much broader and more fundamental and is about the principles underlying the new international order.
Lasting peace will only be possible when everyone feels safe and secure, understands that their opinions are respected, and that there is a balance in the world where no one can unilaterally force or compel others to live or behave as a hegemon pleases even when it contradicts the sovereignty, genuine interests, traditions, or customs of peoples and countries.
In such an arrangement, the very concept of sovereignty is simply denied and, sorry, is thrown in the garbage.
Clearly, commitment to bloc-based approaches and the push to drive the world into a situation of ongoing “us versus them” confrontation is a bad legacy of the 20th century.
It is a product of Western political culture, at least of its most aggressive manifestations.
To reiterate, the West – at least a certain part of the West, the elite – always need an enemy.
They need an enemy to justify the need for military action and expansion.
But they also need an enemy to maintain internal control within a certain system of this very hegemon and within blocs like NATO or other military-political blocs. There must be an enemy so everyone can rally around the “leader.”
The way other states run their lives is none of our business.
However, we see how the ruling elite in many of them are forcing societies to accept norms and rules that the people – or at least a significant number of people and even the majority in some countries – are unwilling to embrace.
But they are still urged to do so, with the authorities continually inventing justifications for their actions, attributing growing internal problems to external causes, and fabricating or exaggerating non-existent threats.
From the Comments
– I would love to see Joe Biden give such a factual and coherent speech that makes any sense such as this speech by Vladimir Putin. Does anyone on this forum reckon Joe Biden would be capable of doing such a thing – from a podium, and on live TV: without the aid of his cheat sheets and teleprompters and without falling over his own feet, as he walks away from the podium?
– Wow. Just wow. Every time he opens his mouth I’m awestruck at how brilliant this man is. It’s unfortunate that most westerners are brainwashed to believe Mr. Putin is some kind of Nazi-Stalin-Dictator/tyrant. We have no one who thinks or acts with the diplomacy and respect for others that Mr. Putin shows. That’s what really pisses off Western Elite like Hillary Clinton. It’s called professional jealousy. Deep down inside they know they are crap compared to Putin, and it makes them cry at night
– Truly a statemen of the proportion of Catherine the Great who has and is propelling Russia forwards. Compared to the western leaders there is no comparison. God speed Russia.
– Where is Hillary Clintons response?
– Plurality is better than homogenization, is one idea. Though ethnic enclaves from mass immigration who do not identify with national culture, is a kind of diversity but not a plurality with toleration for others within the same country. Or so i think. A very good speech for men, women, and youth with intellect; the faces of the audience portray the same.
I was going for Collingwood. I still hold a grudge against interstate teams after the VFL went national.
LOL. What will you do when it goes International. King Island, Tasmania, NZ and tomorrow, the World. FFS.
OldOzzie – I can’t recall you mentioning the own goal that Putin’s guys scored last week.
War is crappy. I am agnostic about the market incident and have not addressed it until this comment. Please don’t verbal me therefore over something I haven’t written.
Getting stabbed up by some pill-head:
It’s what he would’ve wanted.
I’m glad to see you’re enjoying life in Japan.
Oz, he’s a lying douchebag. AI picked him up on it.
Katharine Murphy running interference for Albanese in The Guardian:
Peter Dutton is the exploding fire hydrant of politics, pushing his party to the angry fringes and electoral oblivion
You can read it free of charge, because if they put a paywall up nobody would bother.
Say, Katharine, what about a piece on the anger and aggression of Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton, Thomas Mayo, et. al.?
Chuckle.
I received some disturbing news about the house I used to own in Melbourne.
No it didn’t burn down or flood …
It has Collingwood banner flying from it
It’ll skyrocket in value now – you’ve missed out.
At auction last night the Nick Daicos premiership-worn jumper went for $70,000.
In the village of Groza in the Kharkov Region, 51 people were tragically killed in a missile strike, as reported by Ihor Klymenko, the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
A funeral for a member of the Aidar battalion was held there, attended by approximately 100 of his comrades. It’s worth noting that
Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing funeral
A purported missile strike has killed 51 people, officials have said
Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of killing 51 people who were reportedly attending a soldier’s funeral in Kharkov Region on Thursday.
Local officials described the victims as residents of Groza, a village with a reported population of 330. They had apparently come to a small establishment that was hosting a private ceremony for a local man who had been killed early in the conflict with Russia. His remains were recently exhumed and brought to Groza for reburial, according to local media.
Groza is located some 30km west of Kupyansk, a major flashpoint between Ukrainian and Russian forces on the northern part of the frontline. Ukraine’s Interior Ministry claimed the strike involved a Russian ground-launched Iskander missile.
The Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on the accusations. However, when asked about the Groza incident on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated Moscow’s stated military policy of not targeting civilian sites.
Russian attacks “are only delivered at military infrastructure and locations where troops and military leadership congregate,” he said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky branded the tragedy a “demonstratively brutal crime” and an “intentional terrorist attack” by Russia, offering no evidence of the claim.
The Ukrainian president was attending a conference in Granada, Spain when the alleged incident is said to have taken place. Zelensky’s stated goal at the event was to secure continued military and civilian assistance for Kiev from EU countries. His mission is more pressing due to uncertainty in the US over continued Congressional funding for Ukraine’s war effort. In his remarks at the conference, which centered on condemning Russia’s military operation, he stressed the importance of his mission to rally European support.
The Ukrainian leader has previously blamed Russia for several deadly incidents, without providing evidence to support his accusations.
Last month, he accused Moscow of deliberately striking a marketplace in the Donbass city of Konstantinovka. The attack happened on the day US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Kiev and showcased “the audacity of evil,” according to Zelensky.
The New York Times later reported that evidence discovered by its investigators indicated that the missile was Ukrainian.
The newspaper said the footage of the strike, forensic evidence at the scene, and eyewitness reports of a Ukrainian launch from a nearby location all pointed toward a mishap by Kiev’s forces.
Last week, Polish authorities confirmed that a Ukrainian missile was responsible for the deaths of two Polish farmers in a border village last November.
Zelensky claimed from the start that the incident was a Russian attack on “collective security” and insisted that Moscow was guilty despite an announcement from Warsaw early into the probe that Ukrainian troops likely fired the projectile.
I’m tempted to take credit for that, Vikki.
😀
Sleaze Bag Matt Kean stabbing Liberals in the Back Again!
Kean to Young Libs: Ignore your mum and dad on the Voice
In a move set to anger federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Liberal MP and Yes supporter Matt Kean is calling on the party’s younger members to ignore how their parents are voting on the Voice and represent their own generation.
I see Vikki has highlighted the role of Red Fred’s brother,Saint Michael, and Bunnings in the Voice. The Son will struggle to still have a job after the AFL and QANTAS. The last member of the holy Trinity will also have her work cut out in Curtin. Good riddance to them all.
Chuckle.
You’re far too generous. Every leftie on the planet should experience the fruits of their self indulgent BS. Just like this guy:
UPDATE: 18-Year-Old Suspect in Fatal Stabbing of Leftist Activist Ryan Carson Cries as He Faces Murder Charges (VIDEO)
Noel from Noosa speaks up for the YES side.
Everyone born here is indigenous and of the human race.
I hope badly, and he needs to be audited.
Like the Kremenchuck Shopping Mall.
OldOzzie
Oct 7, 2023 11:35 AM
Sleaze Bag Matt Kean stabbing Liberals in the Back Again!
Kean to Young Libs: Ignore your mum and dad on the Voice
Dutton is a dud because he will not expel turdball, kean or photios.
I was wondering what Mark Regev was up to these days.
Addressing the Nazi skeleton in Ireland’s closet – opinion (JPost, 6 Oct)
By MARK REGEV
Irish politics is pretty lefty, like Canada’s, so our own Mr Regev reminding them of their own history is welcome.
How is this slimeball still in the Liberal party?
Snap Cronkite.
It’ll take a few weeks after the Faceless Men, who’re not very bright, get the polling showing that Luigi’s leadership in flogging a dead horse is causing the Liars primary vote to crater further than it already did in the 2022 federal election.
At which point they’ll wheel out the sacrificial female to wear the blame for the party’s newfound unelectability. Slovenian Hag, come on down!
Note: Putin, Pol Pot or Charles Manson could have beaten Scott Morrison in 2022.
The funniest thing after the Freo GF was a fake Gumtree ad for Hayden Ballanytne’s boots describing them as “unmarked”.
This morning spoken to a guy working part time for AEC referendum. Says when putting ballot in the box supposed to be folded. Many don’t do this so the staff have to do it later. That way they get to see whether a yes or no.
He is in a long held Labour electorate. Says the ballots he is seeing are over 75% No.
Have met him once before and he himself is a No voter. No reason to doubt him.
A Brisbane electorate.
How is this slimeball still in the Liberal party?
The Liberal party is no longer a liberal party. It’s a sick joke.
Move along please. Nothing to see here.
LOL.
Tom, there’s a decent chance this could actually end up being a one termer.
Do you think this is biased to NO as early voters though? I suspect most early and postal votes are NOers.
Does he have the number for JC’s suicide hotline?
Word is Dutton may be about to intervene in the NSW Liberals.
Falinski’s pick for state director was kyboshed from above, for starters.
There is no way that Tennis Elbow, Blackout Bowen, Dim Chalmers, Weenny Pong or Ugly Face Gallagher will last 3 years. They will be booted out in May 2005 with the lights turned off. Courtesy of Blackout Bowen, scientist of the century.
Quite possibly. I think it depends on whether they want to burn a new leader at the next election. By comparison, when the Lieborals were given the choice of Bishop after knifing Lord Waffleworth most said “No thanks” and SloMo hit the accelerator for the cliff.
It’s a habit copied from the Indians of North America – one is a “proud Apache”, or a “proud Cheyenne.”
At least (based on my luv of western movies) the Apache, Cheyenne and numerous other “red injun” tribes had something to be “proud” of ..!
they defended their homeland(s) to the best of their abilities ……….
Is that still connected?
I know Mark Regev, very well.
Until it is captured by enthusiasm and superstition.
Says when putting ballot in the box supposed to be folded. Many don’t do this so the staff have to do it later.
Considering the size of the slot I had to get mine into, I don’t know how you could do it unfolded.
Maybe there are different sizes in different electorates.
Now THAT is a cool story.
Good lord
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/queenslanders-divided-over-the-voice-in-first-week-of-prepolling/news-story/f7e8ff6eeac31defe65334448424c203
Um okay. Maybe we need a civics test or an IQ test and non compulsory voting.
Most of our “First Nations” activist’s agenda and rhetoric has been co-opted from North America, with the truth telling coming from South Africa.
Also, note there hasn’t been a single poll that says the voice will get majority support overall since the 23rd of July this year – almost three months by the time the ordinary voting opens and it has trended down at an accelerated rate, and the outlying YES majority polls vanished into the aether at that point.
First person singular thrice in one short sentence.
Says it all.
A summary of the major concerns of the Yessirs:-
“I will be upset”.
“MC Hammer will be upset”.
“No more plum jobs for retired pollies”.
“The eyes of the world are upon us”.
Forgive my ignorance, who is Mr Regev (and what does he do) and why would anyone downvote this comment?!
The Beloved just got back from the Anti-windfarm rally.
Over two thousand people there to his practised eye. This is just the beginning. All the parties represented except Labor. This is a Labor seat, so the cowards who rule over us (represent us, they would say) were no-shows. Thank you Kate, thank you Meryl.
Each turbine has to be anchored with 4×80 tonne anchors, plus all the other disturbance including dedicated lines of stanchions through untouched bushland…and get this…the companies doing the Environmental Study are the very companies vying for the contracts.
Nothing to see there.
The thing reeks of graft and corruption. And environmental damage beyond any vandal’s wildest dreams.
When our “environmentalists” cry their crocodile tears over flattened koalas, I do hope they, and their political allies rush out to the coast for a photo opportunity beside the rotting carcasses of whales.
The lot will be going to Canberra too. The Beloved is in, he tells me. Last demmo he went to in Cantberra was the Juliar Carbon Tax one. He still has his badge. 🙂
They lied about that on the news too – it was completely peaceful, he saw nothing untoward the entire day.
There are 42 clans on Palm Island.
Which one is her people?
Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 7, 2023 11:24 AM
OldOzzie – I can’t recall you mentioning the own goal that Putin’s guys scored last week.
War is crappy. I am agnostic about the market incident and have not addressed it until this comment. Please don’t verbal me therefore over something I haven’t written.
BON,
apologies, was not verballing you over this incident, just in my mind reinforcing what I have previously said that there are always 2 sides to story
Totally Agree that War is crappy
as I said in comment on Jo Nova Blog – I have been stunned by the rapidity of development of Drone wafare
When you look at the videos on https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-10-06 and other sites, it is disturbing seeing destruction and bodies everywhere, at the same time fascinating to see a drone hovering around a trench being supervised by a master drone above – do a couple of loops around the dugout entrance doing Reconnaissance then flying in and exploding with the result shown of the monitoring drone
The Ukraine Russina Current War reminds me of visiting a WW 1 Battlefeld in France where they fought over 300 Metres for 3 years – Depressing
Old Goat
October 6, 2023 at 11:07 am · Reply
Ozzie,
Like all new technology its counter measures are also improving . This is what is the reason they are going through so many . We are in the age of digital and electronic warfare and the truth was the first casualty .
OldOzzie
October 6, 2023 at 11:43 am
Old Goat,
I have been stunned by the rapidity of deveopment of Drone wafare – ranging from Micro Drones up to Iranian Reaper Drones based on downed US Reaper Drone
Covering now Land/Sea & Air
As you quite righly say electronic counters measures are improving
Search – https://substack.com/search/drone%20jammers?focusedPublicationId=1351274
and
Mystery Russian Systems Are Taking Out Ukrainian Drones
A broad overview of Russia’s current and up-and-coming anti-drone and EW systems.
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
plus
How Russia’s Space Forces Disable Starlink Satellites Without Breaking International Law
They really slurped up that Kool Aid didn’t they?
Almost one in three large home builders are haemorrhaging cash as the construction sector battles rapidly rising wages and material costs, leading to a surge in insolvencies.
I have really no idea how house builders approach each job but on my regular bike ride(s) I pass 2 house (2 streets apart) under construction, identical size tho different design (obviously) and both have commercial company signage outside ..
House 1 is into it’s 3rd year and still no front door or much interior work .. over the time frame various tradies have turned up 2 sometimes 3 dayz every 6 weeks or so .. the outside painting was dun over a year ago and will need re-doing when they get towards occupancy …..
House 2 was started 6 weeks ago, original property demolished, land cleared and work commenced within 3 dayz .. tradies on-site 6 dayz a week since start and looks further advanced than house 1 already, doors. windows in and inside work started .. at this rate it will be completed within a month .. about 10 weeks from start ……..
Must all come down to how lucky you are at pickin’ a builder ….. !
She was the dancing cuisine, only seventeen!
Dancing delicacies: Combining food and tech for interactive dining (via Phys.org, 6 Oct)
Animated food invented by a guy at Monash Uni? A must win for next year’s igNobel Prizes.
The polite response is “I’m totally stoked to be an X myself” where X is whatever you are identifying as for trolling purposes.
Do you think this is biased to NO as early voters though? I suspect most early and postal votes are NOers.
Vote early and vote hard.
You know it makes sense. Just like eating lamb on Australia Day/
More stories my Aunty told me.
There’s another thing.
The lower band of YES voting polls have a non-linear trend line which can be traced into a smooth continuous function.
The higher YES and indeed highest YES opinion polls appear to be highly stochastic but intermittently start a couple of nested trendlines showing tepid increases in the YES vote, but they are part of the disappearing YES votes once it headed south or otherwise very recent possible push polling around the actual polling date.
It’s my suspicion that the lowest YES voting polls are the true polls and the YES vote in other polls is being manipulated. If you did a linear transform on the entire dataset or both subsets of data (however it is sliced but one group is always the lower bound of YES votes), regardless of what the correlation coefficient is for the trend line, the regression coefficient of determination (R^2), goodness of fit would be MUCH higher for the lowest YES vote data.
What would that prove? The higher YES polls are random numbers generated by independent events – essentially being manipulated upwards by unrelated entities.
The lower bound YES vote polls are less random because they are path-dependent – based on real data, collected by other independent entities.
Noel from Noosa should be fact checked every time mentions his Cape York leadership.
He has been living in Noosa since 2012.
And in 20 years it’ll all have to be replaced.
Or whether or not you are making your progress claims.