mOnster, I actually have. Strangely enough, it’s something that your side of politics has wet dreams about. It works on…
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Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
(silver medal post) Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com 2h : How many of these protesters would be willing to perform the same…
It’s my melancholy duty to be first again. Happy Eastern Monday to you.
Lyons is definitely in play and should go to the Libs. Franklin, maybe, but too many Hobart trendies have their…
Nothing Idle about this Geezer –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKfGmbaOYLw
And noo a Greet Scootish band – Hoots mon –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A
Shirley, the BEST Ever…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxgcGvJwEw
Thanks Delta re travel tales.
The big new metro station up the road here which was being put in for the Olympics still isn’t finished. Line 5 is also closed til mid April.
They better get cracking.
I made the mistake of getting a bus back last night. Buses in peak hour traffic are rubbish in any big city.
Should have walked back to the metro station.
From La Kremlin-Bicêtre it is very easy to get to the 4th via the quiet yet extremely convenient Sully Morland station.
I popped into the Shoah memorial in the 4th. Quite busy with school groups, like the one in Rome.
It took the French a long time to acknowledge their role in the rounding up and deportation of the Jews. The Shoah museum also has some information about the history of Jews in France, they were all expelled in 1192 and moved to places like Provence.
I also visited a German photo exhibition in Sens, there were photos of the little gold coloured markers they have in Germany, outside the homes of deported and murdered Jews, the same as the ones in Rome, someone in Germany in 1992 initiated that project.
Interesting that it took fifty years, a generation, before the French started acknowledging their active involvement in the Jewish genocide.
In the 1930s French students were protesting against the immigration of persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe on racist grounds.
It wasn’t just those nasty nazis.
The only item of interest will be how long it takes for those clowns Albozo and Dim Chambers to jack up up the GST rate. If labore win in Taxmania, expect it and soon.
They better be quick. Their days are numbered. Minns is the best of them and he’s on the nose already.
And here is Blondie –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE03a07lWjQ
And now a Heart of Glass –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcjfweuYtI
That will be a courageous move. Even for a teenage Trot.
Saw the population figures for Tasmania. Just shut the place completely and administer 4 LGAs from Melbournibad. The most overgoverned place on the face of the planet? No wonder it’s stuffed.
And no surprise that every hangnail Senator hails from Tasmania.
Placed under administration, and managed the same way as any other bankrupt enterprise.
And now for some culture – And it isn’t yoghurt –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFOzgNlg0dg
I am slowly coming around to face the awful truth that the part time bovver boy is in fact the egg_roomba.
Up all night. Spam, spam, spam, and undeserved self-promotion.
All the pieces starting to fit. Must be a Sydney thing.
Ask him what he thinks of UNE.
Bear, has either party ever held government in all six states and ferally since the GST was introduced (let alone the two territories as well)?
I vaguely remember a time when the braindead lamestream meeja would crap on about Campbell Newman being the senior gliberal leader in the country when he was Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
Nevertheless, for that pair of incompetent thieving clowns it would represent a once in a generation opportunity, so to speak.
I don’t believe so. I would put increasing the GST alongside taxing the family home – instant political death plus a decade in Opposition. Workchoices on steroids.
Saw the population figures for Tasmania. Just shut the place completely and administer 4 LGAs from Melbournibad. The most overgoverned place on the face of the planet? No wonder it’s stuffed.
There were premiers like Robin Gray who were trying to establish and nurture real industries but kooks like the old brown turd puncher came across on mass from the mainland and sabotaged so many attempts to build a productive economy. A bit of a trial run for the whole country imo. I remember the snide remarks about the people of Queenstown by Doogue on Nationwide. The ABC has been rotten for many decades.
Hawke and Richo certainly did Tasmania no favours.
Nor the people of Ravenshoe- they shut down the timber industry there.
Taxmania could have had many thriving industries – mining, forestry, farming, fisheries (with the jerbs to go with them), but all have been pretty much shut down. In the meantime labore are busily trying to shut down the ones that haven’t been.
An economy entirely dependent on tourism is no economy at all.
That’s the thing about the GST- it’s in your face unlike sneakier taxes such as PAYG and Payroll Tax. What kind twisted pubic serpent mind could dream up something like payroll tax?
Tasmania, the ACT and Northern Territory duke it out for most deranged and unworthy political system in Australia. Both ACT and TAS big note themselves about electricity. ACT self-pleasures about the percentage of renewables they use, while TAS preens on supplying power to other states.
In both cases the source of that magic energy is Hydro, which the same people will not allow construction of anywhere. A legless lizard might be inconvenienced, while tired an emotional (aka legless) pollies carry on regardless.
TAS Labor have the prettier frontperson, but when you elect Labor the less attractive ideological trolls who have been hiding under the bridge come out to play.
Exactly Rabz. It’s become a plaything for wealthy marxists.
There were premiers like Robin Gray who were trying to establish and nurture real industries but kooks like the old brown turd puncher came across on mass from the mainland and sabotaged so many attempts to build a productive economy. A bit of a trial run for the whole country imo. I remember the snide remarks about the people of Queenstown by Doogue on Nationwide. The ABC has been rotten for many decades.
How many people live in Tasmania? How many ‘Pollies’ per person? Or, how may persons per ‘Pollie’? How can any society afford all this CRAP? It’s a Clown Show. FFS.
Interesting. I wonder if there is any relationship between the attacks in the Belgorod area and this attack. Using the chaos over the last two weeks as a means of infiltrating this terror group?
RWA are propagandists. The overwhelming reporting so far is they are ISIS-Khorasan. Plenty of supporting evidence of that.
I can see where Russia might want to blame the Ukies for propaganda reasons though. And I can see how emotions would be high right now.
The Ukies would be absolute fools to try something like this because of the obvious blowback. There’s absolutely no upside for them with a despicable Hamas-like attack on concert goers. They aren’t dumb enough to faceplant that way.
RWA is just reporting a statement by the FSB. As for the overwhelming reporting, who cares? Did you base your opinions on 2020 election on the ‘overwhelming reporting’? Two things contradict the ISIS-K claim, pay for slay, and leaving the scene when they still have loads of ammo and people to slaughter. Atypical for ISIS.
The destruction of TAS Forest Industries was instructive. The unholy alliance of the left and the MSM did it, just as they railroaded Campbell Newman and (for much of his time) Tony Abbott.
Bwahahahahahaha! According to Sky, the gliberals will likely be reliant on that mad drug addicted slag lambie to form government in Taxmania.
Bungonia Bee – the Canberra Clown Council and Taxmania are the only two jurisdictions in the country that have the Hare-Clark voting system (as does NZ), which is notorious for the utterly perverse and anti-democratic outcomes it produces.
I want to rule the World as well. And kick the shite out of Tennis Elbow and Blackout Bowen,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w
statistical genius
Quite a bit of competition from the federal system…
Compulsory voting
Preferential voting
Party control of the senate which is meant to represent state interests
Robin Gray used to a meja hate figure I seem to remember. Like Gina is now. Remember when green filth turned the fire hoses on in the Tas hydro offices? The meja had a good giggle over that. The legacy meja is evil and deserves to die.
Yes, there was a time when the senior Liberal pollie in Australia was Campbell Newman as Lord Mayor of Brisbane (the Brisbane LGA has, I suspect, a larger population than Tasmania).
Very true. Brisbane LGA has over double the entire Tasmanian population…
Ruby Tuesday on a Saturday…………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvp6gseKJS8
Tasmania could easily become a conservative enclave given the small size of the population. You would only need 30-50K voting age conservatives to move there to turn a state and federal election. You could engineer this partly via sensible policy at the state level that promoted agriculture, niche crafts and manufacturing, and the like that would attract young families, retirees, etc.
You’re relying on the Liberal Party to effect this?
We can complain or we can try and eachieve it ourselves. I’d prefer you to stay in Queensland though; that needs to become a conservative bastion as well.
Greens vote in Clark and Franklin is only just behind the ALP and the Libs. And overall much higher than Federal.
The place is done for, there’s no hope for it.
You are always conceding, Bruce.
You first.
When am I conceding?
Paraguay and Walden Two.
..
Not if it follows the lead of this site and allows the libertarians to tag along and f*ck everything up.
So in other words, never …
And here is another version –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9alAuYr2g_8
@TuckerCarlson
In a civilized country, you’d be punished mercilessly for getting creepy with someone else’s kids. In our country, it qualifies you for a job at the White House. How and why did this happen? Robby Starbuck explains.
In WWII, engineers and saboteurs could use a ‘time pencil’ to delay the detonation of bombs they were planting to wreck infrastructure. This ‘trans’ phenomenon is a means of not just inflicting destruction on the present, but planting a time-delayed ‘bomb’ that will cause social and medical mayhem in the future also. In this sense, it’s probably one of the more unique tactics we’ve seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqbNNxgcQo0
Different version of “Highway Star” by Deep Purple.
So sad. No more Melanie.
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 83 The Biden administration is trying to send an 82-year veteran to prison for life for the crime of repeating ‘Russian misinformation.’ The scariest, most important criminal case you’ve probably never heard of.
Now here is more of the lovely Melanie –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCTMTflcuug
I didn’t make any claims to geniusity, just quoted the numbers from reputable cancer research institutions.
There is no reputable evidence that QE11 had cancer, all there is disreputable nongs pushing the vaccine causes cancer narrative.
Then you have three unrelated by blood persons with different types of cancer for your ooh aah 100 percent positive the vaccine causes cancer, a man, a daughter in law and an ex sister in law in a circle that must then draw in at least 20 people if you include parents, siblings, sibling spouses and all their children and their spouses.
I’m convinced.
There’s a fairly good chance she had cancer.
You get more and more cellular damage as you age.
Live long enough, you will very likely get cancer.
I’m not even sure why this is up for debate?
The mRNA vaccines were unjustifiably pushed on us stemming from crazy forecasts from joke epidemiologists.
If the most ardent critics of mRNA vaccines were right, the annualised death rate would be through the roof.
There are at least, anecdotally, a lot more fit and young people dying now.
We need to see a breakdown of all deaths by age and comorbidities for the last few decades, by month. We need a lot of data to get a large enough sample size to run time series appropriate techniques to dig deep enough to come to meaningful conclusions.
rosie,
opinions will not matter in determining what is and isn’t real
science and opinion are not entangled
you should doubt too
Now this is a bit different –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULK-zbc_KMI
MatrixTransform
March 23, 2024 8:17 pm
statistical genius
It is actually a load of bollocks, You heard it here first.
We need to see a breakdown of all deaths by age and comorbidities for the last few decades, by month. We need a lot of data to get a large enough sample size to run time series appropriate techniques to dig deep enough to come to meaningful conclusions.
There was a report of 30% overuse of alcohol in the US, which I don’t know came after the covid lockdown.
Add in the slowdown in diagnosis during COVID, along with mental health issues and you probably end up close to the excess deaths data.
Considering the decline in mental health, increased obesity, lowered vitamin D, increased alcoholism…I’m not surprised
DOT those are big factors. During and several years after a recession excess deaths rise in developing economies. That is probably due to poor nutrition and poor access to health care. The relevance for advanced economies is that health services were severely impacted and people probably did reduce exercise frequency, and people spent much more time indoors. Sunlight isn’t just about vitamin D, it also relevant to maintaining stable sleep cycles which are very important to health, and possibly even improves nitric oxide and serotonin production. I’m not particularly interested in the excess deaths arguments because the data is too fuzzy and there are too many barrow pushers. Because so many contracted the virus and so many vaccinations were delivered how can we determine the causations? The people who want to blame all the excess deaths on vaccines are the same people who criticize the epidemiology nonsense that happened before the pandemic.
FFS if anecdotes prove anything then everything is true.
MatrixTransform
March 23, 2024 8:17 pm
How does this rate on the genius scale?
Suggesting there is something sinister about a 96 year old woman getting cancer (diagnosed via TV from 12,000 kms away).
Or a woman in her 60’s developing breast cancer … a 1 in 30 chance (hardly a long shot).
Or what about a 74 year old getting prostate cancer? Unheard of!
Never go the full Indolent with your cooker theories.
ask rosie
God oracle, and chess master at 9 months of age has spoken. Dispute anything he says and you end up shitting your dacks.
JC
March 23, 2024 9:04 pm
JerCough, you are well out of bounds. So 1 in 2 people have cancer. BS
You and that Rosie nutter are nutters. There is NO WAY that 1 in 2 people have cancer. A right load of Alarmist BS.
No one has said 1 in 2 people HAVE cancer.
1 in 3 people WILL contract some form of neoplasm (“cancer”).
You irredeemable dunce. No one is saying 1 in 2 people have cancer – walking around with cancer. It’s 1 in 2 , or 3 eventually contract a cancer over their lifetimes, and may not even die from it. It’s not the same thing.
Woddenhead, you should not be here as you’re too staggeringly moronic. You’re too stupid to be taken seriously on any matter. Go watch a movie.
Dot, the Woddenhead is too thick to have even be scooping ice-cream in a full time job. He would have fcked it up.
And now for something completely different –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kib7ZDsTgz0
No, because the stupid will never leave you. You’re too thick to be discussing anything remotely above 70 IQ.
In fact, your low intellect downgrades the blog. Go watch a movie, you thicko.
Time for some Billy C –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qkqUmA40I
Saw Billy Connolly live, in Perth way back when. Some fool tried heckling him, and had his arze served to him on a silver platter.
And for all you R sole supporters, get this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o6AC7cXcIs
Rabz
March 23, 2024 7:38 pm
Err, quite so.
Can you point to the sciency bits of Duk’s unhinged assertion that four loosely connected people might have developed vax related cancers (in one case diagnosed by him on TV)?
err, stfu wanker
And now for a bit of luvverlee jubleeee –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCaPTNhwK-4
Can you spot the sciency flaw in this phrase?
That’s right, boys and girls.
It is the word “anecdotally”, which has no place in our science class.
After faffing around in WordPress, unable to post or up/downtick, I’ve finally registered. Decided on a new name to reflect my love of failed Antarctic explorers, fussy bible experts and porridge.
Real Deal no longer.
By the way, Wodney. Don’t mistake quantity for quality. And please buy a new edition of the 1979 Phillip Adams Joke book. Good day and good night.
Now for a nice chat –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBsHSbVRNJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgZmnyJzC0
The immortal Doc Neeson and the Angels.
The Angels did a concert for the troops in East Timor. Somebody did some research and found that Doc Neeson had served in the Australian Army, was entitled to a medal for having done so, and never applied for the medal.
He was decorated on stage by one Peter Cosgrove, while several hundred Diggers cheered him to the echo…
And for Junior Cretin as he/she/it loves Gold –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntG50eXbBtc
yep … it’s the format
got nothing to do with the vapid toss-pots that haunt the joint at all
nice try though dover
Dover.
Can I reserve the screen name “Vapid Tosspot” please?
#badgeofhonour
Quite a bit of info coming in now about the attack. Weapons left in the theatre. Money paid to the assailants, who were recruited via Telegram. At least one of whom is a Tajik. Captured a mere 70km from the Ukrainian border. Will be interesting to see how this bears out by the morning.
Formation flying this afternoon over the Royal Easter Show at Sydney Olympic Park
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wU-P_As_Ujc
can anyone identify the type of aircraft?
Davey.
Possibly the Roulettes who fly Pilatus PC21s.
(Which I saw referred to on a TV promo today as “fighter jets”. They are neither a fighter nor a jet.)
Concur with that.
@disclosetv
NEW – Britain faces worst sickness crisis since the 1990s as illness-related inactivity climbs to 2.7 million — Telegraph
From the Oz…
Libs bank on blue-blood to take down teal MP Ryan
The fact that the chair of Transgender Victoria even made it to the starting gates tells you all you need to know about the Victorian Liberals.
@mchooyah
If you’re cheering for asset seizure right now because you hate Trump, you’re the useful idiot the KGB was talking about decades ago. Wanna know how this ends?
@MarioNawfal
I haven’t mastered posting pictures yet.
Meme
They have an almost woman problem?
Labor stuffs it up in Tassie:
Labor Senator Helen Polley has conceded the result of the Tasmanian election is a disaster for opposition leader Rebecca White and the ALP.
Senator Polley told Sky News the results so far show there is more work to be done as Labor is on track to record its lowest ever primary vote.
“We need to re-engage with the community and rebuild trust. We have to go back and listen to the community, there are real issues here. This bad for both major parties,” she said.
?Senator Polley said the ALP cannot form a “credible and legitimate government with just 10 members so far.”
Baseball bats out for the next Federal election.
Seems the Jacqui Lambie Network may have won up to three seats in Tassie.
Bloody elephant trackers.
Increasing numbers will now vote for any alternative to the major parties. It is a protest vote, the type of people that but for compulsory voting wouldn’t bother.
Lambie is Tasmania personified.
Couldbt help noticing all the police vans and gendarmes arriving around place de la bastille, what would a visit to Paris be without a big demonstration.
A couple of police are carrying guns but no shields and batons in view.
Doesn’t kick off for another hour.
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/marche-des-solidarites/blog/220324/manifestation-du-23-mars-une-premiere-victoire#:~:text=Ce%20jeudi%20soir%2C%20les%20Collectifs,autoris%C3%A9e%2C%20au%20d%C3%A9part%20de%20Bastille.
For this incident https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/police/mort-de-wanys-a-aubervilliers-quelles-sont-les-versions-qui-s-opposent-apres-la-collision-du-scooter-avec-une-voiture-de-police_6434074.html
“. It’s 1 in 2 , or 3 eventually contract a cancer over their lifetimes, and may not even die from it. It’s not the same thing.”
Exactly.
None of the royals with professionally diagnosed cancer are dead.
Oh I forgot, both my mother’s siblings died of cancer, his was throat, smoking related.
The big loser in Tasmania is the AFL. A freeloader even Tasmanians couldn’t stomach.
AFL really needed someone like Emperor Barney around. $1bn Optus stadium delivers around 50,000 people on the doorstep of Crown Burswood every weekend for around half the year. Crown capital contribution $0.00.
Hare Clarke is the Duckworth Lewis of voting systems. You go to bed, check the paper in the morning and just go, “How did that happen?”
Some ordinary Eagles and Dire Straits covers wafting out of the local pub. Not good.
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, worse than a shit cover band.
It is certainly possible.
Is it the mass lockdowns, is it the mandated death shots, or is it a mix of both? The fascinating institutional lack of interest in finding out why the excess deaths are occurring is especially fascinating, given the institutions were all in with overwhelming force on both the mass lockdowns and the mandated death shots. So I’m fine with an ‘and/or’ explanation. I’d say it’s a cast iron proposition, even.
There aren’t nearly enough lamp posts.
Ssshhhh.
Don’t startle the dunces with anything that might make them question their dumb compliance during the entire fiasco.
Having a bit of a look at Oppenheimer on Focks.
More cutaways than Family Guy.
Perhaps three hundred at the demonstration. Every person gets a flag and perhaps a drum. Looks like not many French are convinced that the escapees were deliberately hit by the police. And sadly it’s starting to rain on their parade.
There is much interest. Studies are being published.
“There is much interest. Studies are being published.”
Undermining the narrative?
Tsk tsk.
Week In Pictures.
Let me in please
Haha.
Some good ones of sniffy dementia Jo in WIP.
Thanks Tom.
flight
well they’re not 737s – no doors came off – ha!
excellent precision flying though – one slip and there’s a lot of a mess
I notice there was a spirited discussion yesterday on excess deaths due to Covid. Have had family at the farm & been busy.
I don’t think there is valid denial of excess deaths in the last few years in those countries with access to statistics. Of course, one can attribute these to denial of medical treatment or investigative medicine due to Covid lockdowns etc etc.
Time will tell. Those wedded to their decision to vaccinate will refuse to look at evidence. And, of course, there is complicating data in respect to more recent evidence of poor and rushed production of vaccines ( let alone storage) in the early days of the pandemic, resulting in contaminated or ineffective batches.
incidentally, anyone who claims that normal requirements ( of 5-10 years minimum testing & development) of vaccines are not required really does not understand the process. Sadly, the only worthwhile commentators in this matter were retired and/or Independant medical or scientific professionals in the industry – like Prof Emeritus Bob Clancy or Dr. Phillip Altman. Most qualified commentators were compromised by their professional reliance on the medical industry.
I watched ‘Climate the Movie’ last night, and the parallel with how the ‘science’ was captured and dissenters silenced in that sphere is striking. They have been scamming us along multiple lines for ages.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/20/climate-the-movie-watch-here/
Climate Change/Global Warming/Boiling – Follow The Money –
https://seed122.bitchute.com/LrafRVYaZYlT/ONMGnSiOLhjG.mp4
ZK2A on Doc Neeson
Mate of mine was at Balibo when The Angels, Kylie Minogue & Missy Higgins did their concert. They had just rotated in from patrolling the border for a few weeks. Quickly got round that Neeson had to be cannulated and 2 bags put into him at Maliana because of heat. Doctors recommended he sit out the rest of the shows he refused. His status among INTERFET veterans is legendary.
Incidentally mate saw them again at the TK camp in Afghanistan again when they were just in from operations.
I served in both places and all we got was Red Bandana Boy …. no, I didnt bother going.
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Biden Regime Launches Federal Gun-Grab Operation to “Keep Firearms Out of the Hands” of People Who “Pose a Threat to Others”
Emerald Robinson on What Mike Gallagher and the Uniparty Are Plotting to Deny Trump His Presidency
Vicki …
You don’t think those wedded to their decision not to vaccinate aren’t subject to the same confirmation bias to validate their decision?
No, unlike the vaxxed, unvaxxed can change their minds and cross over (virtually none do btw) – the vaxxed have to rationalise the fact that they made irreversible changes to their immune systems, and the evidence is growing daily that was a bad choice.
Former Trump Defense Sec Says Liz Cheney, J6 Committee Threatened to ‘Make My Life Hell’ If He Contradicted Their Preferred Narrative
@REMASCULATE
When will the American press be this honest?
and
Americans would be scared to drive cars designed like COVID vaccines: ex-Pfizer trial pioneer
@TheInsiderPaper
MS-13 leader, one of FBI’s most wanted fugitives, arrested on southern border
Very ISIS.
ISIS share sick selfie of Moscow gunmen terrorists boasting of attack on Christians (23 Mar)
Again that will need confirmation, but if they’re claiming to’ve taken a selfie before the attack that does suggest it was them. It’s their style. ISIS have been on the outer lately so they have motive to do something like this, to prevent loss of fighters to the resurgent Al-Qaida, Hamas and other groups.
I’d rather believe Catturd.
@catturd2
This has already had over one million views.
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Full Putin address in English
“Those wedded to their decision to vaccinate will refuse to look at evidence”
That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
Have you not noticed the numerous occasions various people have rushed in here to announce the latest ‘died suddenly’* to be stumped five minutes later with facts like died aftee destroying their body with long term drug and alcohol abuse, committed suicide, previoudly undisclosed long term illness. I’ve yet to see a single so called celebrity death definitively linked to the vaccines.
And in this litigious age you’d think if any of their families though covid vaccines were at fault they’d be running them through the courts.
Latching on to the most preposterous claims doesn’t help the cause either.
Ifthe evidence is there, it will be found, so far resoundingly unconvinced.
*I’m not referring to any obvious immediate adverse reactions
No Rosie, I would not expect people – even in litigious USA – to be litigating suspected vaccine deaths. The vaccination lobby in the past 4 years has been far too powerful to mount a successful challenge. Too many outstanding medical careers were destroyed just by questioning the efficacy of the vaccines.
I think we will all have to accept differences of opinion until perhaps events change the battle field.
And in this litigious age you’d think if any of their families though covid vaccines were at fault they’d be running them through the courts.
Good luck with that, the courts are as captured as the rest of the institutions, and largely accept government claims of ‘safe n effective’, ‘we were facing millions of deaths, we had to act fast…’ etc etc etc
Looks like Jackie Jackie Lambie, as head of a cultish political party that didn’t take any actual policies to yesterday’s Tasmanian state election, is on a mission to kill Tasmania’s new AFL team and the new Hobart stadium that had been negotiated as part of the deal.
Thanks to Tassie’s Hare-Clark system of multi-member electorates, it looks like the Jackie Lambie Party will be the largest elected splinter group with two or three MPs in the 35-seat House of Assembly while the Stupid Frigging Liberals are still half a dozen seats short of the 18 they need to govern alone.
Never get between a politician and a bucket of money: thanks to Hare-Clark, Lambie is the new kingmaker in Tassie politics and it looks like the roofed stadium, which promised a tourism boom for Tassie, will be the first casualty.
Lambie is going to cost the state billions as she campaigns – as its newest power broker — to save the state government millions.
This promises to be the 2010 federal pork-barrelling episode – caused by a couple of independents – on steroids and Tassie will have to be bailed out by the rest of the country – as usual.
?
Doesn’t bode well for any self funding State.
Piers Akerman:
What the hell is Paul Keating up to?
Lining his pockets?
A yearning for the dayz when he was a media luvvie, the opportunity presented itself & the media obliged …
Reality is given the option of a meeting with “plenty wrong” or anyone else who would any of us choose .. LOL!
Dilbert. I note that the airport terminal bookshop has dozens, probably hundreds of management books. If there was a formula for success, there would be only one.
Whatever else you skip today, do watch this one. The ignorance, it burns.
@saras76
Kennedy just made Gen Z pretty boy “expert witness” rethink his entire existence in 6 minutes
Exactly Pancho. People are polarized on the issue. I don’t think time will tell. People have too much faith in statistics. Hence I don’t follow the debate anymore because obviously we’ll never be able to mount sufficient evidence. I am very tired of people arguing that those people over are biased because they don’t think like me.
Good morning, mUnturd.
Me channeling Babylon Bee:
Harry Belafonte threatened by kiddy wokesters when they learn that he performed and recorded Hava Nagila.
DEI Priorities Create Havoc in Kidney Transplant System
They do things slightly differently in Russia than in the West…
Russian security cut off alleged terrorist’s ear and force him to eat it in gruesome video (23 Mar)
Having had several uprisings in muslim territories a firm message may be what is intended. There’s been some islamist stuff going on in the Caucasus area very recently.
More importantly, how much is the Chinese Communist Party paying him to represent Beijing’s interests in its newest South Pacific colony?
?
Isn’t Keating on the board of a major Chinese development bank?
@GenFlynn
‘Much worse’: Grim theory after deadly Russia attack
An ISIS group has claimed responsibility. The USA had warned Russia of an impending attack but …
Plenty of material to work with here.
I see you’ve read Red Storm Rising as well.
Where’s the conspiracy theory – why was that place capped with signage using latin script?
The two best energy systems from the point of view of reducing emissions are the two that the destructive left forbid construction of. Hydro and Nuclear. Talk about useful idiots.
Correct, their schizophrenia on the problem and the solutions is evidence of this: find a spotted frog on the site of a proposed gas plant , it gets instantly canned, chop up eagles and bats with your wind fans, thats just fine.
And, btw, the geographic sites suitable for hydro are limited, those where you can put a reactor are endless – they put them in ships ffs.
From Piers Akerman posted above…
Tell that to our navy divers subjected to sonar blasts by the Chinese military and the crew of a Philippine coast guard vessel rammed by a Chinese naval ship,
Would like to hear Digger’s thoughts on this.
We used sonar when there were unfriendly divers down,
it make things awkward for them, which is probably why it was known as Operation Awkward. Is Piers upset the Chinks have the same SOP
as we do?
Quite possibly. But when it comes to stuffing myself with drugs that work on the autoimmune system, I’ll take the nil hypothesis every time.
Ditto, Bear. What could possibly go wrong?
Look, I’ve said it before & will say it again – I don’t cast aspersions on those who agreed to vaccination. If it had not been for the tragic death of the mother of a family friend ( within 24 hours of the vax & one of the only deaths accepted by authorities as vax associated ) I would probably have proceeded with vaccination. As it happened, I threw self into getting up to speed on immunology process et al & -came across the Great Barrington Declaration & the concerns of some of the worlds leading virologists.
sabotaged so many attempts to build a productive economy. A bit of a trial run for the whole country
We see our economy pictured on the TV daily – they used to say England was a nation of shopkeepers. According to the MSM we are a nation of baristas. It’d be nice to see more facets of our economy pictured, and even nicer to see them supported instead of vilified and undermined. Agriculture, Mining, Aluminium smelting, Manufacturing.
Tom
March 24, 2024 8:35 am
Good.
The AFL can pay their own way.
By dint of their proximity to a couple of marginal electorates, Geelong FC have scored hundreds of millions in ground redevelopment, all paid for by taxpayers.
Enough.
The Docklands crew certainly rely heavily on the OPM model. There may be something in that.
Most football clubs are barely profitable. They turn over millions or tens of millions of dollars with virtually nothing to show for it. Most could barely fund a sausage sizzle from their accumulated surpluses.
I’ll repost this with most of the links removed. Caught in moderation.
PAGING John H
Part I
Important news
Sibaii H, El-Zayat SR, El-Shaheed AA, Mahfouz NN, Sallam SF, El Azma MH. The Hidden Function of Vitamin D. Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2016 Dec 15;4(4):591-595. doi: 10.3889/oamjms.2016.134. Epub 2016 Nov 30. PMID: 28028396; PMCID: PMC5175504.
We concluded that vitamin D may be an essential factor that influence or determine the level of thymosin ?4.
Part II
Rahman, A., Rao, M.S. & Khan, K.M. Intraventricular infusion of quinolinic acid impairs spatial learning and memory in young rats: a novel mechanism of lead-induced neurotoxicity. J Neuroinflammation15, 263 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-018-1306-2
Background
Lead (Pb), a heavy metal, and quinolinic acid (QA), a metabolite of the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism, are known neurotoxicants. Both Pb and QA impair spatial learning and memory. Pb activates astrocytes and microglia, which in turn induce the synthesis of QA. We hypothesized increased QA production in response to Pb exposure as a novel mechanism of Pb-neurotoxicity.
Results
Pb exposure increased QA level in the blood (by ~?58%) and increased (p?<?0.05) the number of QA-immunoreactive cells in the cortex, and CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus regions of the hippocampus, compared to control rats. In separate experiments, QA infusion impaired learning and short-term memory similar to Pb. PSD-95, PP1, and PP2A were decreased (p?<?0.05) in the QA-infused rats, whereas tau phosphorylation was increased, compared to vehicle infused rats.
Conclusion
Putting together the results of the two experimental paradigms, we propose that increased QA production in response to Pb exposure is a novel mechanism of Pb-induced neurotoxicity.
Well, I found that here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9o9ngo/anyone_here_use_nicotine_as_a_nootropic_sa_article/
Nicotine is an antagonist to quinolonic acid. Quinolonic can Acid is the nasty end product of the L-Tryptophan pathway, and it is the only end product of the D-tryptophan pathway(d-tryptophan is very high in modern wheat and legumes). Quinolonic acid, according to the available research, is involved in ADHD, Schizophrenia, Autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. So, it kinda makes sense why this population is more likely to smoke. It raises the possibility that addiction partially the bodies attempt to lower inflammation. Thumb sucking, nail biting and ice chewing also fall into this category of behaviors that are indicative of deficiency or an attempt to achieve redux balance. Just like the grasshopper that will eat, and eat, and eat until it acquires the amount of protein it needs to function… even if it means early death. So, humans are smarter than grass hoppers, and might invent a less toxic route and a more stable dosage to achieve the medicinal properties of nicotine.
Quinolonic acid, according to the available research, is involved in ADHD, Schizophrenia, Autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. So, it kinda makes sense why this population is more likely to smoke
That rings true, anyone who has dealt with schizophrenia patients has noted they are almost always high end smokers – perhaps in an attempt to self medicate. Similarly, PTSD sufferers are often heavy drinkers and likely for the same reason – it helps with the symptoms.
Not every time. mRNA technology will be utilized for cancer related immunotherapy. That could be a great benefit because despite all the hype immunotherapy has a long way to go. BTW you might be surprised at how many drugs impact the innate and adaptive immune responses. Even Vitamin D can alter our immune responses.
All good. The onus is to provide more than a press conference and banning me from the pub then.
Not every time. mRNA technology will be utilized for cancer related immunotherapy.
And it likely has potential there, but theres a big difference between forcing billions of healthy people to take a prophylactic vax, and offering an individual with a life threatening cancer a chance of a cure.
Even Vitamin D can alter our immune responses.
Vitamin D is misnamed as a ‘Vitamin’ when in fact it is a powerful hormone vital for many bodily processes, including immune function – funny how they locked us all inside instead of saying ‘go out in the sun’ this last few years wasnt it?
Similarly, cholesterol is a vital building block for many bodily processes, including testosterone production – yet they have demonised it for decades, along with demonising masculinity – does anyone see a pattern here?
So far however, my understanding is that each mRNA therapy is tied to each specific patient, generated in a laboratory just for them. So quite different to the anti Covid mRNA products.
I’m a bit suss on the “permanent damage to the immune system” angle.
If people took two shots and two+ boosters (three shots on average in Australia) and it was at best, moderately effective for a short time…
If it didn’t do much to alter the immune system, then I’m not convinced that it is claimed there is permanent damage.
Look, I’ve found a paper that showed reverse genetic transcription, which wasn’t meant to happen….but few seem to care about this.
Another thing is the “spike protein”. Do the laymen getting hyped about this stuff realise how ubiquitous spike proteins are? They’re “sorting hats” for microbes. They’re used to fight other microbes and eat them or at least from inside the cellular walls. No, not all microbes use them but they’re incredibly common.
The issue is it was forced on us off of bogus epidemiological doomerism, and people lost their jobs and social standing, whereas vaccines were incredibly safe they were only now very safe. It’s ruined the public perception of vaccines. Coercion, ineffectiveness and safety issues are terrible PR.
Snap. I think.
The issue is it was forced on us off of bogus epidemiological doomerism, and people lost their jobs and social standing, whereas vaccines were incredibly safe they were only now very safe
The whole ‘safe and effective’ narrative is built upon fraudulent science via 2 lies:
1) that the vaccines are ‘effective’ because they prevent the disease concerned … it is now abundantly clear, at least for respiratory viruses, that this isnt true – injected vaccines *cannot* prevent inhaled illness, because they produce antibodies in the wrong compartment – you have to inhale the vax for it to have any chance. And, at least for respiratory viruses, they change too rapidly for the vax to work anyway – they are obsolete even before they are given – exhibit A: Influenza shots.
2) that the vaccines are ‘safe’ because they dont cause significant adverse effects – this is a lie perpetuated by fraudulent science, ultra short surveillance windows and failure to look at the overall health of the vaccinated. There is now clear data that shows that even if (say) the childhood vaxxes do prevent childhood diseases – the overall health of the vaxxed is much worse, with higher rates of allergic and inflammatory chronic illness (whoda thunkit?) like asthma, food allergy, eczema, sinusitis, ADHD, autism etc etc etc . It seems we are (at best) swapping questionable protection against a usually mild and transient childhood illness (like measles) for a life time of asthma, peanut allergy and autism.
Well folks 2024 is shaping up well and consistent with my prediction of some sort of armageddon. The ISIS atrocity on top of the hamas atrocity combined with the imminent attainment of the nuclear bomb by iran will be the base. The emasculation and ultimately assassination of Trump will symbolise the destruction of any capacity in the West to adequately respond. China will ascend in the mess with Russia as a secondary partner.
Aussie goals for 2025:
Awful prophecy Cohenite. But the tragedy is – that it s very feasible.
No. The difference being that us Cookers are still alive and living free of the unshakable thought that maybe….
And, some of us even rate mentions in ‘Cookerpedia’ 😉
That’s obviously nasty. Even without QA The K pathway is nasty in itself.
Nicotine might be useful because microglia have nACHR receptors and occupation of that receptor quells inflammation. One of the great puzzles is why male smokers appear to have some protection against PD. There have been trials of nicotine patches for Alz and PD but nil result. That is to be expected, by the time symptoms appear too much damage has been done. Recent reports claim that blood tests can now detect Alz and possibly PD a decade or more in advance of symptoms. That’s when the nicotine patches might work. This gets complicated because while AB 1-42 and tau phosphorylation are implicated in Alz and other dementias it is also the case that microglia shifting into an inflammatory state(amoeboid) amplifies the pathogenic cascade. I read an animal study that found stripping microglia from the brain very much reduced neurodegeneration. The microglia are quickly replenished through peripheral immune cells. A now disused drug, etanercept, appeared to help dementia patients. It was a decoy receptor for soluble TNF a, an inflammatory mediator that drives microglial inflammation and can also induce apoptosis in many cells. The trials demonstrated immediate cognitive improvement which occurred through reduced inflammation. That is something that can be overlooked. Inflammation alone impacts cognition.
The D-T linkage is very interesting, highlighting yet another important aspect of vitamin D. Need to do a pubmed search on it. Quick look: TB 4 has some interesting health promoting properties!
Thanks for this, another reason I can throw at friends to get their D levels checked, especially as winter approaches.
As to the reddit comment. Not impressed.
Thanks for the info DOT. Useful.
Testing.
I’m actually super pissed off that TB-4 is banned. There’s no good reason to do so. It’s not “performance enhancing”, it promotes healing. It’s certainly not dangerous either. Why not just impose Sharia law on athletes then?
As someone getting back into high-level amateur sport, some of the nonsense rules WADA come up with are just nuts.
Even if it was ‘performance enhancing’, so what? Every other aspect of sport is aimed at improving performance: training, coaching, diet, equipment etc etc etc. Why are *drugs* specifically demonised in this regard? And why only in sport – many many drugs people take are ‘performance enhancing’ too: viagra, insulin, anti-inflammatories, asthma meds, heart failure drugs….
LOL
No ACE-2 inhibitors for you, you drug cheats! You’re cheating death, you big cheaters! Death demands you play fair!
The German Health Minister admitted the school closures were too severe. Denmark stopped the mandate for people under 18 to get vaxxed.
No such luck here in Aus, no admitting that the government response was too severe, that too many people were punished, that someone should have punched Norman Swan senseless.
I agree with DOT, the idea of permanent immune response damage doesn’t make much sense. The reverse transcriptase issue may explain a number of studies finding antibodies to both the spike and the nucleocapsid many months after infection. The other possibility is occult latent infection which is not that unusual with viruses. The issue with the reverse transcriptase is that unless that happened with long lived cells eventually it would wash out as the cells die.
No such luck here in Aus, no admitting that the government response was too severe, that too many people were punished, that someone should have punched Norman Swan senseless.
Its not just that the quantum of the government response was excessive, my biggest objection was that parts of it were illegal or unethical from the outset, however severe – this included mandation of vaccination (a clear breach of informed consent – ‘free of co-ercion of any kind), state border closures, and the use of the Australian Military (and police) to impose restrictions on Australian citizens who had committed no crime.
I agree with DOT, the idea of permanent immune response damage doesn’t make much sense.
No, it makes perfect sense, the whole point of vaccination is to make permanent changes to your immune system, and it does, which is why the rates of immune mediated chronic illness in vaccinated people is much, much higher than amongst the unvaxxed.
Reference: https://rumble.com/v2kmfa4-dr.-paul-thomas-blows-up-the-conventional-vaccine-narrative-with-stunning-d.html
Pendulum swinging back toward ISIS after having had the misfortune of seeing a particular video taken by one of the terrorists. Still a lot of ground to cover though over the next few days.
Possibly still backed by Ukraine elements?
Hard to say but the planning and logistics is probably too involved for ISIS alone.
911 was more complex and no state actor was involved. Other than the CIA, who would you blame? Surely, not Ukraine.
I wish they would leave people alone. It should be like body building. There are nattys and there are boosters. It is inevitable that increasing numbers of people will be using supplements for health, increased physical and cognitive performance. I know a couple in their mid 70s who have FBEs done every year\18 months, eat very well, take many supplements, have no chronic health conditions, are cognitively sharp, and take no meds. The future of public health is going to require that more people live like them. If not, health services will be overwhelmed.
The future of public health is going to require that more people live like them. If not, health services will be overwhelmed.
1) there is no such thing as ‘public health’ – whether my blood pressure or cholesterol* is high, or my diet is so shite that I am at risk of any number of inflammatory diseases is *my* problem, not the communities. And as COVID showed, even the ‘prevent infectious disease’ aspect of public health is much overstated – your risk of dying of COVID was largely predicated on your pre-existing health, not the avoidance of exposure via masks, distancing, lockdowns etc.
*example only – the cholesterol hypothesis is BS.
2) Health services are already overwhelmed: 3/4 of the population has chronic metabolic ill health, if not florid insulin resistance, obesity, hypertension, diabetes etc etc etc. Health services are broken because the public are broken – we are facing a tsunami of ill health already.
Looks like Jackie Jackie Lambie, as head of a cultish political party that didn’t take any actual policies to yesterday’s Tasmanian state election, is on a mission to kill Tasmania’s new AFL team and the new Hobart stadium that had been negotiated as part of the deal.
Lambie will be after many favours to give the stadium the green light.
Victoria Nuland, just prior to jumping ship, stated that Russia is in for some “pleasant” surprises.
On March 7, the US Govt issued a warning to its citizens in Russia, to avoid large gatherings and specifically mentioned concerts.
The Washington Post has reported that the US had prior information on the attack in Moscow. It did not state whether or not this information was relayed to Russia.
Kirby announced that “at this time there is NO indication that Ukraine is involved in this attack”.
That seems a rather odd thing to say.
Why would a leading NeoCon make a statement on behalf of another country? Is Ukraine incapable of speaking for itself?
I am not suggesting that Ukraine was involved, given the information at hand now. That is a strange comment by Kirby though.
Many countries, including the US, have passed on their condolences.
The Lithuanian Foreign Minister, instead tweeted “Lets not lose focus”.
At this stage, there is not enough information available to complete the puzzle. Without doubt, more information will surface.
Anyone found to be involved, should not buy green bananas.
By dint of their proximity to a couple of marginal electorates, Geelong FC
No marginal electorates near Geelong. All safe Labore
The fat, black evil kunt going after Trump in NY is spoilt for choices about how she can steal his assets:
Three Ways Letitia James Could Collect $454M if Trump Does Not Pay (breitbart.com)
ISIS-K: it was us
US: it was ISIS-K
Ukes: it wasn’t us
Putin: it was the Ukes
db: it was probably the Ukes
It was not the Ukes.
“I’m a bit suss on the “permanent damage to the immune system” angle.”
The date now is March 2024.
The alleged “Pandemic” began late in 2019 in China and Northern Europe and (evidently) reached Australia in Feb/Mar 2020.
I say “alleged” because as of 2022, the Covid-19 virus, had NOT been isolated.
Work was completed on the “vaccines” by that year.
I am not an immunologist but how can a “vaccine” be developed if the virus against which it is to used, has not been isolated?
That is very much like the “annual Flu jab”.
No one has any idea of the make up of the flu virus in any given year and the vaccines are produced months in advance so that supply is available.
The chances of the flu vaccine being effective against the annual flu virus, is not just low, it is zero. Still, if logic isn’t *your thing, knock yourself out.
Back to your statement.
It is a reasonable assertion.
Had the health authorities carried out due diligence and conducted testing along the lines of every other vaccine developed, we would almost have completed phase one of three.
(If everything runs exceptionally well in vaccine technology, it takes at least ten years to get the product to market. How did they get these vaccines out in two years? Simple, skip the testing.)
This IS the problem.
Nobody knows what the long term effects of these MRNA interventions will be, because there was NO long term testing.
My GP, who I always trusted and respected, attempted to persuade me to have these experimental untested intrusions. He said that even though the testing was not long term, they tested many times more people than usual, so this substitution was ok.
I never went back.
It’s not actually, it is above zero because the virus can’t change that much over a flu season. But a gold star for you, for not bringing up nonsense like terrain theory.
It’s actually moderate – 30% to 60%. Herd immunity is not possible. You can merely reduce your risk factor.
I am not an immunologist but how can a “vaccine” be developed if the virus against which it is to used, has not been isolated?
If you delve into the ‘science’ of virology, you will find serious questions about the ‘isolation’ of any virus – the specimen contortions they go through to produce even a blurry EM photograph – or more recently a (fraction) of a supposed genome, are not the rigid scientific processes we were all lead to believe. Im not at the ‘viruses dont exist’ point, but have certainly discovered there are a lot of things dont add up about the so called science of virology.
How on earth do you know this? You’re confirming there was no lab leak, right?
I didn’t know this:
~A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
– Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
– Yes, created by God.
– Did God create everything? – a professor asked.
“Yes, sir,” replied the student.
The professor asked :
– If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists and according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
~The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself.
-He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
– Can I ask you a question, professor?
“Of course,” replied the professor.
~A student got up and asked:
– Professor, is cold a thing?
– What kind of question?
Of course it exists.
Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man’s question.
The young man answered:
~ Actually, sir, cold doesn’t exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat.
~A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
~Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat.
All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.
~Cold does not exist.
We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
~A student continued:
– Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
~ You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light.
~We can study the light but not the darkness.
~We can use Newton’s prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color.
~You can’t measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is?
~You measure how much light is presented. Isn’t it so?
~Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
~In the end, the young man asked the professor:
– Sir, does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
– Of course, as I said before. We see him every day.
Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world.
~These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
~To this, the student answered:
~ Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself.
~Evil is simply the absence of God.
~It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God.
~God did not create evil.
~Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth.
~Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart.
~It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.
——Student’s name was …
~Albert Einstein~
Sorry, but this sounds like LinkedIn Lunatic copypasta.
Alene Composta?
It’s crap. How would anyone have such an accurate record of that conversation? FFS. It is the sort of nonsense that regularly pops up on Quora, typically USA Christians trolling.
Yes, but leaving aside the God part, were any of the examples provided false? And, even if you just equate God with conscience, is the final statement false? Evil could very well be described as the absence of conscience.
Dr Bird is IN.
And he was channeling St. Augustine.
Indolent is right. The expert witness on climate change was perfectly grilled by Senator Kennedy. Doing the rounds on Twitter as it is that good.
“Whatever else you skip today, do watch this one. The ignorance, it burns”
Westerners, at least Europeans don’t operate in this way. Ukraine wouldn’t be part of an attack on the people in the theater. This was an Islamic attack because this is what they do. For further reference, Oct 7 2023, 911 and many many others.
Yes JC. I hadn’t considered this.
One thing we are certain of is that the tip of the spear of the Moscow terror attack were Tajiks. It’s curious that ISIS-K have potentially conducted terror attacks in Iran and Russia in the space of three months.
ISIS are Sunni. And Iran and Russia are allied, especially in Iraq and Syria, for which ISIS is named. Plus the kiddies are all very excited right now because nominally Sunni Hamas is getting the treatment. They want to DO SOMETHING!!! And are frustrated. It’s a lot easier for Tajiks to get to Russia than to anywhere else much, so taking out their fury on Christian Russians is plausible. There’s been quite a lot of Islamist attacks on Christians and churches as proxies for Israel.
Also as I linked earlier Russian security forces have been repressing Islamists in Ingushetia this month, so there’s potentially a bit of payback going on. Kadyrov has Chechnya under good control, but he doesn’t have as much sway over Ingushetia and Dagestan.
See also the Dubrovka Theatre and Beslan sieges, JC. Both in Russia.
Yeah db, funny how Muslim-majority countries ruled by Russia want to arc up about it.
“Yeah db, funny how Muslim-majority countries ruled by Russia want to arc up about it.”
You’re rationalising the murder of civilians by muslims.
What was the excuse, in Bali in Bataclan, in Manchester, in Melbourne?
That is the “terror” part of “terrorism”. Being closer to a random act I’m not convinced it is terribly effective. I was in Manchester in the mid 90s and walked past the front of Debenhams or something blown off by the IRA before my arrival. So did thousands of others. People might look at 7/11 differently.
Yeah db, funny how Muslim-majority countries ruled by Russia want to arc up about it.
Sure dickless you slimebag; now explain why the muslim majority countries ruled by nobody do the hideous crimes they do. It would make sense that you as a dickless leftie would support the scum of humanity, muslims.
rosie: Russia’s imperialism is not an excuse for terrorism, but it is a reason.
It’s not as if they don’t have a rationale for doing so in their minds.
India & China are also potential targets due to their rapprochement with the Taliban.
And the exit of the US from the region has created a space in which they can operate more freely than before.
rosie: Russia’s imperialism is not an excuse for terrorism, but it is a reason.
Islam needs no reason; it is its own raison d’etre which is to conquer and convert anything not halal.
You’re a fuking moron dickless; and your view is part of the reason the West is rooted.
Fair enough. So what is Russia’s excuse for bombing civilian targets in Ukraine day after day after day?
Is monty suggesting that those in attendance in the concert hall brought this on themselves?
Fair enough. So what is Russia’s excuse for bombing civilian targets in Ukraine day after day after day?
They’re commie kunts led by a dictator with a tiny dick.
For Cassie (if she is watching) and others. From the Oz.
DEBORAH WIENER
?Demonising Zionists won’t spare self-hating Good Jews in the next pogrom
These days there are two kinds of Jew. There is the Jew who is proud to be a Jew, who stands up for other Jews and acknowledges that the vast majority of Jews, in Israel and the diaspora, are Zionists.
That is, they believe in the right of Jews to self-determination in their ancient homeland. Let’s call them the Bad Jews.
Then there is the other kind. This kind is regularly wheeled out by the ABC and other left-green organisations and media, and religiously (if you will pardon the pun) begins their commentary with the words “as a Jew”. They then go on to deracinate themselves from any attachment or connection to the Bad Jews. They refer to the word Zionist with the same disgust most people use for pedophiles or animal abusers. What they do in effect is to remove their skin from the rest of them, or any part of them that has attachment to the Bad Jews, so they are ritually reborn, if you will, as Good Jews.
Good Jews march at pro-Palestinian rallies and appear on panels with those screaming for intifada and jihad and for their children to be shahid (martyrs). Good Jews make no mention of the 134 hostages still languishing in god knows what kind of conditions. Good Jews are feted at writers festivals and other events with unholy, or perhaps it is holy, reverence. Good Jews may have been born Jewish but they renounce it, or reject it, or refute it (to use the words of The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer), revelling in the delusion that because they are Good Jews and not Bad Jews, the Gentile doors in the diaspora will magically open for them, and acceptance and love will flow, and there will be peace on earth. Or at least for them.
Good Jews may have been born Jewish but they are not Jew-ish. That is, they do not have the spark of a Jewish soul. They do not have courage or internal fortitude. They lack, for example, the courage of a Queen Esther, who prevailed upon her husband, the king of Persia, to revoke a decree to kill all the Jews of the land. The Good Jew would have seen such a decree, no doubt, as lawful resistance. The Good Jew despises the Bad Jew. Yet, like Cain and Abel, they are inextricably joined. Two sides of a coin. Where the Good Jew seeks to demonise his cousin the Bad Jew in the hope that in the next pogrom he will be spared, the Bad Jew knows in the next pogrom no one will be spared.
The truth of that is apparent when one considers who was murdered on October 7 – the peace-loving leftists of the Gaza envelope were those who were committed to peace, to working with the Palestinians in Gaza, who took them to hospitals in Israel, who helped them with the checkpoints, who did everything they could to bring peace. These Jews were murdered, raped and mutilated just like everybody else down there. The peace-loving kids at the Nova festival were not Bad Jews. They were kids wanting to have a fun time and no doubt used some chemical assistance for that purpose.
But the Good Jews cannot bring themselves to condemn these atrocities. They regard them as lawful resistance. They are so consumed by internal self-hatred and by the desire for acceptance that they are blinded by what they see and by what they cannot see.
Dara Horn, in her wonderful book People Love Dead Jews, writes about how, during the Greek occupation of Judea, the Jewish boys who wanted to compete in sports underwent a sort of de-circumcision so they would not be recognised as Jews. The Greeks, she writes, wanted not to exterminate the Jews, as did the Persians under King Ahasuerous, or the Nazis, or indeed Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but to de-Judaise them. In other words, not to kill them but to remove from them any vestiges of Judaism. Hence the desire of the boys to undergo an extremely painful kind of surgery.
The Good Jews of today attempt the same kind of intellectual and moral surgery. They try to de-Judaise themselves so they will “pass” as Good Jews. It is probably tempting to be a Good Jew. After all, public spaces are rapidly becoming judenrein. So why not be a Good Jew so you can get on that panel, speak at that festival? All you have to do is to yell and scream the same phrases. Just remember to start with “as a Jew” and the rest will flow. There’s a standard vocabulary, you just need to learn it. Your new friends will salute you and fete you and herald you as a true hero, as a righteous person.
But one day, and that day will come, much as Dorian Gray looked in the mirror, and instead of seeing a young beauty, saw a wizened freak, the Good Jew will be condemned to a lonely existence, shunned by those by whom he thought he was accepted and by those he rejected. And when they come for him, as they surely will, as they came for the peace lovers in the Gaza envelope, he can try to reason with them by saying “as a Jew”, but they won’t hear him.
All they will see is a Bad Jew.
Deborah Wiener is a Melbourne barrister who specialises in family law. She also has a deep interest in prevention of family violence, human rights and racism, and Holocaust historiography.
No.
Yes, you are.
Indeed he is.
Putin’s imperialism.
A primer.
That downtick went up so quickly they couldn’t possibly have read the article.
Of course!
Nightmare road accident.
Queensland Police suspect driver may have failed to give way before fiery crash on Bruce Highway in Maryborough West (Sky News, 23 Mar)
Admittedly a petrol tanker would be even worse, but the firefighters would have a job on their hands putting out a truckload of burning Li batteries.
Admittedly a petrol tanker would be even worse, but the firefighters would have a job on their hands putting out a truckload of burning Li batteries.
As a volunteer fire-fighter, I once attended a fuel tanker fire – single vehicle crash, driver dead, rural area, nothing else at risk. A lot of resources were employed to extinguish the fire, then the ‘environment’ ppl took literally days to clean up the scene, all whilst the road was closed.
Mypoint is, sometimes ‘putting the fire out’ isn’t the best thing, and that’s v often the case with battery fires – they keep re igniting until the energy is dissipated – unless it was the watermelons that were the cause?
The 2014 Maidan massacre in Kiev must have been ISIS.
Killing innocent people?
Glad to see you agree with me, Roger.
Glad to see you right for once, monty.
Is that the first downtick you’ve received? Congrats, Roger. 🙂
Oh, no, JC…whenever I comment on Putin I get a downtick.
It’s kind of fun.
This guy is going to be a tad confused when the new Labor-Green coalition government starts clear-felling forests to put up wind farms.
Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests will be wiped out by heat waves unless we step in to help them (Phys.org, 23 Mar)
Well when they get cut down for all those turbines they will certainly die, he’s right about that. Here’s who he is (I’m making an assumption about gender, yes I know):
Tassie is a complete basket case. Give it to New Zealand.
AGW fanatics have a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance, Bruce.
Check out TERN’s ‘partners’ – https://www.tern.org.au/partners/
No big surprises there.
That’s funny…they forgot the CCP.
Here’s a solution, greenfilth – clear fell the bloody things before they die and put the timber to some positive use.
This intelligence assessment brought to you by the newly appointed Director of Central Intelligence, mUnturd the First.
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March 23, 2024 at 2:06 pm
ISIS released a photo of the 4 terrorists allegedly taken just before they set off on their mission. This photo just confuses things further.
1. Their faces are blurred out, unlike virtually every other jihadist photo/video, where the “martyrs” proudly show their faces.
2. Since when do ISIS “martyrs” not martyrize themselves? Surely they could have slaughtered many more civilians if they stuck around instead of fleeing, and taken at least some of the cops out when they finally showed up. But they wanted to live.
3. There are no “Allahu Akbars” spoken in the videos of the attack, which is strange since Muslim terrorists typically scream that over and over when carrying out an attack. And while being interrogated none of them mention Allah or Islam, but instead claim they did it for the money.
4. They are doing the Shahada (profession of the faith, pointing to the sky) in the pic, except it’s with their left hands. No Muslim would ever do the Shahada with their left hand, it’s strictly Haram.
5. It’s implied that the terrorists are wearing the same clothes in the pic as those they were captured in. Although at first glance this seems correct, and many people online seem to think this is proof that they’re the same guys, upon closer inspection they are clearly wearing different shirts than the ones the terrorists were wearing when captured.
6. ISIS martyrs almost always prerecord videos of themselves pledging allegiance to ISIS, so everybody knows for sure it was them. If such videos exist why hasn’t ISIS released them?
7. Why were the terrorists fleeing towards Ukraine? Russia borders 14 different nations, yet these guys ignored the seemingly easier routes and thought they could escape across the front lines of an active war zone where they would surely be surveilled, captured or killed trying?
The ISIS photo and lots of additional info can be found here:
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo
Very interesting. Thanks. I unplug as much as possible, so I’ve not been following this, but these type of analyses – albeit amateur – can be instructive.
If this report is accurate – it would not surprise me.
aka, ‘they lie to us about everything’
Is Islamic imperialism therefore also a reason for terrorism? Did you defend the NZ mosque attack on those grounds?
Ivan’s bombing civilian targets in Ukraine day after day after day?
I thought the NATO member countries’ overwhelming technical and economic advantages had reduced them to using shovels.
Russians may have various hangups, issues and suchlike but they’re damn fine at producing weapons.
Russia Confirms Increase Of Artillery Shell Production By 150% In Past Year (23 Mar)
I saw somewhere they’re producing three times as many artillery shells as the entire West put together.
Watched a very good copy of His Girl Friday last night. One of the best screwballs and arguably the darkest. Underneath the wit, panache and charisma of its stars, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and an ensemble of the best character actors of the time, 1940, It shows why the MSM is a leftie morass.
The basic scenario is a down trodden guy is scheduled for hanging for shooting a cop. Being about a leftie newspaper all they are concerned with is justifying what the unemployed, poverty stricken sap did, not the dead cop and his grieving family which doesn’t get a mention. The sap is down trodden so he is a designated leftie victim who’s crimes are not his fault but the systems. The movie is template for this leftie psychology which is now fuking the West. If you are a victim recognised by the left there is no blame to what you do: full steam ahead if you’re a trannie, muzzie, 3rd nations etc.
But as I say the movie is very witty and the stars so brilliant that it sucks you in. It’s only later you realise you didn’t get a blowjob but that your dick was chewed off. Here is the colourised version:
His Girl Friday | COLORIZED | Cary Grant | Classic Romantic Movie (youtube.com)
People who think the forties or fifties were a bastion of conservative white picket fences and Christian patriotism haven’t watched enough films from the era.
The progressivism started very early and was well engrained in culture long before the arse fell out during the summer of love and then the degenerate 1970s.
Cancerous. If the primary tumor isn’t removed ASAP metastasis’s pop up everywhere.
The early retirements of Ken Buck and Mike Gallagher are part of a scheme by the uniparty cabal to stop Trump from winning the 2024 election.
How? They want to flip the House blue in time to nullify the electoral vote via the 14th Amendment.
Trump, the US and the world are doomed.
There’s a new name for RINOs.
Exclusive — West Virginia Conservative Derrick Evans: Congresswoman Carol Miller Is Not a ‘RINO,’ She’s an ‘Undocumented Democrat’ (23 Mar)
“Undocumented Democrat”? ROFL!
We may be getting close to finding out exactly how the US military will react to this ploy to enact one-party rule.
The Generals will go with the Democrats because the Democrats have been putting their own in charge. What may save the show is the Colonels. They’re the ones who are in close contact with “The Common Soldiery” and are not too distant from them.
Broad church devotees seek heresy trial:
Dear me, some folks don’t like democracy do they?
It’s interesting that few – if any – of the usual suspects define Chinese expansion as ‘imperialism.’
Of course it is.
When I hear ‘moderate’ I think of trash like Payne and Photios and feel somewhat queezie
It does exist, as a manmade bioweapon. It was literally cobbled together. Let me quote David Martin again, who stated at least two years ago that every part of it had been patented over the past two decades or so.
Progressive chickens coming home to roost:
A plush Los Angeles neighbourhood that is home to activist basketball player Le Bron James & Jennifer Lopez also hosts a mansion occupied by squatters who hold all-night raves. Needless to say, locals – including James – are unhappy.
To add insult to injury, utilities to the property are being covered by the state government (i.e. the CA taxpayer) and local authorities refuse to evict the occupants because “squatters have rights.”
The US$4.5m estate was previously owned by a doctor accused of hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend.
I’m sure he had a very good reason. It’s LA.
lol
Tucker and Roseanne Barr React to Her Viral Trump Speech
The smart ones were the unemployed obviously. They didn’t have to comply as they didn’t have jobs or businesses to lose.
what a fukwit
Online giant Redbubble savaged over anti-Israel propaganda
By john ferguson
Online retail giant Redbubble is providing a global platform for anti-Israel propaganda that includes expletive-laden messaging and calls to boycott the country’s products, sparking condemnation from a Jewish leader.
Redbubble is promoting for sale anti-Semitic t-shirts that scream “F**k Israel” and “Boycott Israel” as well as other related merchandise including stickers, posters and iPhone cases.
The Boycott Israel t-shirt is linked to the long-running Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement which has a record of targeting businesses with links to Israel.
Redbubble is also providing a platform for political messages opposing Israel that suggest that “resistance becomes a duty” when “injustice becomes normal’’.
Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dvir Abramovich has called for an end to the sale of the items on Redbubble, which describes itself as a third party marketplace where artists can upload their designs.
The F..k Israel, End Apartheid t-shirt can be bought on Redbubble for $26.69, in 18 different colours.
Dr Abramovich said the more extreme messaging could not be tolerated, adding that Redbubble’s role in the sales was a show of disrespect for those murdered by Hamas last October 7.
“Companies own the message of the products they sell, and as one of Australia’s biggest online sellers, the company should not be an incubator and a cesspool of antisemitism, extremism and anti-Israel propaganda,’’ he said.
“And it should not function as a gateway for anyone to enter a world of pure hatred.
“It is inexcusable for Redbubble to put out the welcome mat for anyone to promote their evil and genocidal agenda through items that include excusing the atrocities of October 7 under the cover of “resistance” is a “duty” and stickers with calls to exterminate Israel and its boycott. “By doing so, Redbubble is showing zero respect to the Jewish community and the more than 1400 Israelis murdered by the terrorists of Hamas.”
Redbubble claims to help sell products produced by hundreds of thousands of artists.
A spokeswoman for Redbubble owner Articore, whjich is Melbourne-based, said it was a third party marketplace where independent creators uploaded their own designs.
“We continuously strive to strike the right balance between legitimate content moderation and artistic expression,’’ she said.
“We have strict community policies against, among other things, racism, promotion of violence, and vilification but we do allow for legitimate political discussion including criticism of governments, political parties and states.’’
She said the two t-shirts did not violate company policies.
The row comes after more than 32,000 people have died in Gaza and growing concern over the welfare of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian survivors, as well as Jewish hostages.
i believe the title is:
Director of Intelligences, Clowning, and Knavery. (Home, Everywhere, Anywhere Division)
When you extract the acronym you can see he is uniquely qualified.
Indeed.
mUnty on International Geopolitics is even funnier than Economics. He was a great loss to j’ism.
Don’t let the shrill headline put you off. This isn’t really about Kate, it’s about the frighteningly exponential improvement in AI technology. Just to add a personal opinion, she did look somewhat robotic but what really caught my eye was her beautiful hair. Doesn’t chemo generally affect that? Just like with the photo, the point is not that she has to account to us in any way, it’s that we shouldn’t be lied to and deliberately misled.
Palace’s Latest Kate Video HEAVILY Questioned|The TRUTH will SHOCK You|William Questioned About…
Might be a wig?
MY sun-bleached surfer locks never came back .. lol!
Tho the, bloody, hair still grows scraggly enuf to need a three week shearing .. dun at home with a Kmart $25 cordless ……..!
Test.
Oh, I see.
Looks like you passed, Delta.
Daily Mails announcing that racist fans will boycott the James Bond films, if a Jewish actor is selected to play Bond.
Well at least there will be less idiots in the cinema and hopefully less ‘splodey dopes.
My god, people are so selfish. At a coffee shop and all the people on their own using the four seat tables instead of the two seat tables.
So three of us are crammed together facing the same way.
Can anyone provide a reason why I shouldn’t abuse them for their selfishness?
How about you cram into one of their tables? You should be able to work out a way to rub their noses into their selfishness. Two people at one table and two to the next and shouting inane comments across the socially inept occupiers of excess seating. It’s the same mindset as people who park in two or even four car spaces. I’ve even seen one wanker park across 6 spaces – it must have really annoyed others, because when I came back about half an hour later, he’d been parked in by 4 other cars, and was waiting for them to come back so he could get out.
It’s a couple of steps short of the Petrov Affair, but (the Tele):
Righto.
‘Irish citizen’. Ah yes. A traditional Celtic name. You can tell.
Reviewed by who? The Penrith Council?
And:
That’s the way, Russkies. Flog that horse.
From the pics accompanying the piece, the only thing Ms Sologub’s innocent of is dodging cheeseburgers.
Excellent.
who is the Jewish actor?
Aaron Taylor Johnson. Never heard of him.
Shirley not ..! .. gotta be a “blek” lesbian, preferably with ADHD .. think of diversity .. and the rainbow luvvies …….!
Around ten years or more ago, Russians were being fast tracked into DSTO.
Breaking news, from the Daily Mail. Labor has conceded defeat in Tasmania.
Or, more precisely, switching tactics from ridiculously optimistic promises to dishonest characterisations of the government.
One option never considered is to tell the truth.
The vice of the Libs is always cowardice – but they cling to their cravenness the way Labor does to deceit.
So a good policy the Libs might settle upon will be lied about by Labor and the Libs will fold. In a way Labor wins.
Saw a couple of firsts for me the last couple of days
A peregrine falcon at North Head, looked a little damp so may have gotten too close to the waves.
An Ineos Grenadier( the Landrover Defender look-alike) being driven. Looked the goods but I don’t know how the dealership, reliability, accessories etc are working out.
I think what Dover earlier about the Libs down there makes a greast deal of sense. Promote business and have lots of oldies settling down there.
I think it’s the first comment of his I’ve ever agreed with. 🙂
The Paywallian have unusually not paywalled their politics thread.
Tas Liberals begin talks with independents, JLN (24 Mar)
Ms Lambie has been roasting the Libs this weekend, so I don’t know which way it will go. But the Greens’ manifest destiny imaginations do seem a little over the top.
Well it keeps them busy I guess.
They will get whatever they deserve I hope, complete chaos.
Some big strikes near Lvov. Incoming missiles also flew mightily close to the Polish border apparently.
The Ukies have been returning the favour. Russian oil refining capacity has been hit extremely hard in the last week.
Two punch-drunk fighters pounding each other meaninglessly.
i have never criticised or demonised those who were financially press-ganged into getting the death shots when they didn’t want to. They are victims themselves.
Castigating them is also counterproductive. If you want do what you can to ensure the state never tries this on us again, it will take more people to do this than just the hold-outs who, one way or another, managed to dodge the mandates. We need those who weren’t able to and look back in anger, as well. That makes a much larger group of people primed to resist.
Alienating the unwilling vaxxed by imposing some stupid purity test on them and never missing a chance to rub their noses in their failure to pass it is strategically boneheaded. I can forgive many of those that do this because they themselves were persecuted by the state for not complying and paid a heavy price as a consequence, although I hope they are able to get over their hostility towards the coerced proportion of the population.
What about those who were mandated into the vaccine, took it against their will, and subsequently died.
that is a non- zero population. That occurred.
Even the CDC documented early on deaths among the young due to the vaccine.
Plus 1000