I loathe the smarmy leftist clennel.
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Depends if it is smoked, or not. Hickory -smoked camel is pretty good stuff, Roast it low and slow, basting…
Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though. Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world…
Clennell is no loss.
If they don’t get them all, start razing Gaza to the ground.
Watching Kenny on Sky and he has posted Johannes Leaks toon describing Peanut head’s resignation.
I almost wet myself!
Johannes is close to passing his dad Bill in the rapier wit class.
See if you can find it online. It deserves framing.
Leak
And after what the establishment did to his Dad, I think it’s personal. There is some real sting in his cartoons. He is a national treasure like his Dad.
Tim Pool should probably shut up, listen to his lawyers and take a plea deal.
Or just wait for Trump to become President to get a pardon.
He’s in a mess of trouble.
As much as Grunter in relation to Ukraine, China and the Laptop from Hell? More? Less?
Piss off, Nazi.
I wonder has the great historian and strategist mUntard yet managed to work out the parallels between Hitler/Stalin in 1939 and Xi/Putin now.
Give him time, he really needs to think this one through before treading on his tiny dick again.
I read a novel about that – the US came in on the side of Russia as the Chinese launched Corps level attacks into Russia as the Russians pushed the millions of Chinese invader/settlers back over the borders.
China’s excuse was “to protect Chinese nationals against Russian Murderers”. No mention was made of the Chinese civilian invasion of Mongolia and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
It ended with nukes. Lots of nukes.
I had something on that just before the fold, Pogria.
Comedy gold.
Calli, I saw that when I scrolled back.
I’m calling Snap!
It was that damn funny it needed to be posted twice. 😀
As I’ve told you before, if you want perfection, may you live for 200 years, but you’ll only find it in the afterlife.
You win some, and you lose some.
How did things work in Italy and Greece battling the communist orc post-war.? How did things work out for the former Communist countries after the Berlin Wall came crashing as they raced at light speed to join civilization? For that matter, how did it work out for Germany and Japan after the war? South Korea?
As I’ve said before. One of the biggest downers for western civilization was the fall of the Roman Empire, both east and west. The next biggest was the refusal of the British to offer the colonies representation in parliament, thereby possibly delaying independence and an impregnable alliance.
The fat lady hasn’t sung the final tune regarding Ukraine.
You’re not allowed to mention the fact that several divisional sized units fought on the fascist side after the capitulation of Italy.
Nor are you allowed to mention that many of the Partisan units were directed by the Red Army.
It would be embarrassing for those who want to run the line that Mussolini was a Bad Man and all of Italy wanted to be on the Allies side.
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September 5, 2024 4:39 pm
Yawn! That tired old chestnut again.
In truth, I have seven to ten like minded people who, every election, state and federal, ask me for my views and frequently suggestions on how to vote. Can you say the same?
They trust my opinions because they know that I share their values and aspirations, and that I am politically informed.
TBH, I believe there are many female (and male) airheads who should not be allowed anywhere near an election ballot. But until you can come up with a way to to differentiate the ignorant from the informed, you’re stuck with both male and female idiots.
Non-compulsory voting would be a step in the right direction.
Delta A, Doc BeauGan is taking the piss. He gets a bite every time.
You are in very good company – it took me a while to work him out.
Just give him a good kicking in the nuts, he gets off on that.
Thanks for the head’s up. I’ll just change into my steel cap high heel and let him have it.
Whereas I am being completely serious when I suggest repeal of the female vote.
They’re high strung creatures who deserve to be loved and protected, but they shouldn’t have to worry their pretty little heads with men’s endeavours, which is just about every endeavour that made the modern world.
Arky is also right.
When God made Adam, he gave him a list of stuff he was meant to achieve.
When He made Eve, he gave her the stuff Adam couldn’t do – and that was to perpetuate the species.
Girls, when you started climbing the Socialist ladder of equality and equity, you were never told that to get up one rung, you had to let go of the rung beneath you.
Good girl!
Make sure you don’t miss the wedding tackle.
I thought it was the Gimps’ pleasure to bleed all over your carpet. 😀
Beaugie is old school. You need to twist his ear whilst soaping his gob. Lol.
Huh?
I am with Arky on this one. Purely on the numbers, the downside of women, especially young women voting directions are overwhelmingly negative towards the survival of the species. Socialists have made suckering young women into voting communist a fine art, in fact a well crafted science.
The catastrophic birth rates are the root cause of almost all major western problems. Women should get out of the workforce and higher education (they generally suck at both of these anyway.) and back into the home.
Fatboy, an American based media firm was paying him and he claims not to have any idea about the source of the funds. Reasonable.
Do you think he’s in as much trouble as Bunter Hiden and the rest of the crooked family influence peddling the Hiden “brand”?
Pool has never been pro-Russia or Pro Putin, according to him. Do you know otherwise?
Go!
Sounds like a DemonRat ploy to discredit a political enemy.
Shirley the DemonRats wouldn’t sink to political dirty tricks? Would they?
Stop laffing, this is serious.
They got Hunter Biden on firearm possession, didn’t they? The sort of charge Plod runs when they have nothing else at all that will stand up in court, and they just want to nail him on something.
Pool expects us to believe he didn’t know a bagman literally called Kalashnikov was somehow connected to Russian spooks. Don’t come the raw prawn, Timmy.
Daily talking points are out.
He just pleaded guilty to tax evasion of over $2 million. The sordid details will not now be aired in court.
LOL, cope to the umpteenth power.
I’m the same age as Bill Shorten and, like him, an arts/law graduate. I’d like to be the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, but I’m flexible regarding institutions.
I’m roughly the same age as Bill, and at the age of 23 I realised I was in a dead end job, and went Nursing.
Took 3 years of shit wages and crappy hours, and apart from fighting with admin every other day, I am so glad I did it.
I never wanted to be King of Australia, just wanted to be a dad with a mum, and kids.
Wouldn’t change it for all the tea in China (Well, some of the personal stuff, but shit happens.)
Swap with Bill?
Ha!
Does the University of Canbra still offer a BA in secretarial studies as it did when it was Mickey Mouse CAE?
No, it’s BA in Gender Studies now.
Old Faustus’ Almanac predicts: Goblin Shorten will be Dr Goblin Shorten before 2025 is done.
For services rendered to Bill Shorten.
But as an honorary he won’t be able to call himself Dr. Shorten, nor will he be entitled to be addressed as such.
Although I wouldn’t put it passed him.
True.
But a problem easily cured by a 50,000 word descriptive thesis on NDIS reform, gently reviewed.
cf Dr Rude
Oxford ain’t what it used to be.
Recommended reading:
Invasion, 1940: The Truth about the Battle of Britain and What Stopped Hitler: Did the Battle of Britain Alone Stop Hitler?
Derek Robinson (Author)
What stopped Hitler in 1940 – why did he not attempt to invade Britain? In this fresh look, Derek Robinson argues that the Battle of Britain alone could not have been why Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion, was scrapped. The real reason was a force that both Churchill and Hitler failed to acknowledge: the Royal Navy.
Whilst never downplaying the skill and courage of the pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain, Robinson challenges a verdit that has been in place for 50 years, and make us question our acceptance of the old story.
Came out in 2005, IIRR, but well researched and written. DR wrote a remarkable series of historical novels about the RAF in WWI, II and beyond, being an ex-RAFie himself
Pearl Harbor devastated the USN. Midway devastated the IJN. Both were huge naval forces. What makes the Royal Navy so invulnerable when operating so close to land based runways it would be have been subject to continual attacks?
Dive bombers taking out Capital ships had not happened by the Battle of Britain.
Nightfall. At that time, dive bombers (the most effective aircraft against ships at sea, see Midway) were blind at night.
The Ju-87 was also very vulnerable to fighters, thus were highly restricted beyond the range of the Bf-109.
Night doesn’t matter. The sheer volume of attacks by fighters, dive bombers, and bombers would have overwhelmed the navy. A navy without fighter cover is too vulnerable. The failure to take out the RAF made attacking the navy impossible. The plan to set the channel on fire may have also scared Germany. The other problem was the logistics of maintaining supply across the channel. The D Day preparation is an example of how difficult and how many ships were required to maintain supply. Germany didn’t have the hardware for that.
The Royal Navy was only one problem the invasion faced. Making it the sole reason ignores other factors.
Something to remember about Germany’s efforts in WW2 – the vehicle parks were full of tanks and artillery, the airfields in ’44 were full of fighters, but there was no way to fly them, or fuel the tanks, or fire the guns.
Something that has come out of the TIK Stalingrad series was that aircraft flying into the cauldron didn’t have full loads, because the war machine didn’t have the shells, the fuel, the men to fulfil the needs.
Simply, Germany had overstretched itself fighting a war on three fronts.
The very scenario that the Generals had predicted would lead to disaster.
The Luftwaffe failing to achieve Air superiority over the channel and the power of the Royal Navy were intertwined – if the Luftwaffe had managed to defeat the RAF, the RN would have suffered prohibitive losses trying to interdict the invasion. This is why losing the Battle of Britain made Operation Seelow impossible.
BTW, I have wargamed the BOB many times and concluded that, in contrast to what we were told (heroic victory against the odds and all that), it was in fact always going to be *very* hard for the Luftwaffe to win because 1) Their fighters were short ranged – the RAF always had sanctuary areas inland. 2) To win, the Luftwaffe had to get the RAF to come up and be defeated, but the relatively low combat power of the German bomber force, and the ‘home ground’ advantage (the RAF got about 1/2 their pilots back after a shoot down, the Luftwaffe lost almost all) meant the RAF could afford to husband their fighter forces so as to not have them defeated – remember, the Luftwaffe *had* to neutralise the RAF as a fighter force to win the battle.
Delta A
September 5, 2024 6:05 pm
I totally agree with you but with a slight difference, I find males are a bit more pragmatic and not too much influenced by ‘feels’ and looks.
Admit, small number of sample.
Yes. I will concede that.
But until you can come up with a way to to differentiate the ignorant from the informed, you’re stuck with both male and female idiots.
It was ever thus – the only solution is to a have a strong constitution which severely limits the power of government – if we cant have ‘the right people in government’ (and history says we cant), the fallback position is to have an impotent government.
A brilliant song and fantastic visuals! It’s the first my cochlea has heard it.
Jon and Vangelis – He Is Sailing – 1983 – with lyrics.
Everyone with an east European name should be considered a Russian spook now, Fatboy?
This wussia, wussia bullshit has been going on since 2016 by the dishonest demonrats. It possibly was a cause of the Ukrainian war by poisoning realtions and you lot are still trying it on.
@MikeBenzCyber
In the Netherlands, they keep two sets of books for the COVID vaccines
@IsraelWarRoom
#BREAKING: Shots were fired in a reported terror attack at the Israeli consulate in Munich.
The terrorist was reportedly neutralized before causing casualties.
I approve this outcome.
Of course last time I did that out loud, it turned out to be a poor Argentinian tourist mistaken by the spooks for al-Quaida.
I’m sure this will have been raised but I’ve missed the response. Does anyone know what’s happening with Tim Blair? He doesn’t seem to be writing these days.
Blair had a heart attack a couple of years back and reportedly isn’t well.
It’s a shame because good conservative columnists are few & far between.
I think he still has a column in the Spectator or maybe Quadrant. I don’t have a subscription to either.
No, I have a sub to both…he makes an irregular appearance….
Hard to know; the Paywall means unless it makes it to being re-posted by a Cat we don’t see it.
Tony Thomas seemed to think Tim was still fine when I commented what a loss he’d been.
Peter,
Tim was traversing the US for a few months.
It is his form of walkabout.
He is back and hopefully, giving his digits a workout.
He is back in his regular slot on Chris Kenny’s show, you should be able to YouTube it.
Tim Blair has a piece in this month’s (September) Quadrant.
Scott Ritter: Russia is WIPING OUT Ukraine’s Army and NATO is Doomed ft. Dan Kovalik
Ritter is correct. The war is over except Ukraine and the West don’t want to acknowledge that.
Scott Ritter hasn’t been right about anything in the last two decades. Possibly longer.
And Russia is bleeding out. Sadly Putin isn’t a statesman or he’d cut his losses and get out of the morass.
I am sad that a whole generation of young Russian men is being sacrificed to the ego of one ex spook.
Shades of Laurie Brereton when he was the Minister for
WorksLaurie Brereton. Did like a prominently placed sign that boy.Yes, real males.Not many of those among the whimpering sooks of the left. TBH Gabor, I have real problems with the gender inequality these days.
“More female than males in Law,” we read. Females (or variations thereof) dominate education. It goes on. I’m not feeling real happy about the idea of females running the show. Mainly, they’re the same ambitious, lying bunch like the lefties.
The war against men (or more precisely, Testosterone) is remarkably multi-pronged:
1) Plastics in food and drink lowers T
2) Statins lowers T
3) Captivity (welfare, unemployment etc) lowers T
4) Carbohydrates and seed oils lower T
5) Lack of sunlight (low Vitamin D) lowers T
6) Phytoestrogens in the food lowers T
etc etc etc
One of my favourite ” what ifs” for WW2 was the Allies deciding not to assist the Fins against the Russians because ( as a figleaf) both Norway and Sweden refused to allow the transit of troops across their own countries.
You would have had the god awful mess of France and the UK vs Stalin and Hitler just before France got smashed.
Or would Hitler have stuffed up and committed too many troops to Norway and Sweden?
And what would the Japs have done if things looked shakey for the USSR? Possibly a strike north after all?
And the USA isolationist seeing the Allies opening a second front??
Lucky the Swedes said no for long enough for the Fins to sue for peace.
@JackMaxey1
Seriously, WTF? FBI knew the shooter.
Every time. Literally, EVERY TIME they already know the shooter. Like amazing, right?
Once is a fluke.
Twice is a dodgy fluke.
Three times is a planned massacre by the Organs of the State for a determined outcome – removal of the Right To Bear Arms Against a Tyrannical Government.
Truer words have never been spoken. And not just America.
@elonmusk
2024 will be a real test of the US Constitution and institutions v the Democrats, media, Big Tech and alphabet agencies. Could go either way I suspect.
Indolent, good bloody luck with that – the last chance the US had of overthrowing a tyrannical government, they all sat on their arses quoting the 2nd amendment and polishing their weapons, waiting for the Law to rescue them.
Not one weapon was raised against an obviously corrupt vote.
Not one polling place was burnt to the ground.
Not one decent protest even approaching the level of the Antifa riots was made.
A mob of piss weak wannabes.
It’s the same in Great Britain and Australia and Canada.
Lots of talk and no action.
This is your go-to line because you don’t want to consider a different approach that, though not perfection, is different to the line you’re defending and might have produced a different and possibly better outcome.
They would have been fine without WW2. The policy you support gave the Soviet Union everything east of the Elbe.
It’s cooked.
“Ed Miliband Is Speaking Nonsense!” | Julia Hartley-Brewer Slams UK’s New Offshore Wind Farms
Leak
You found it! Excellent!
Johannes is the true son of his father. That is brilliant.
Italy would’ve been fine under fascism? Huh!
My earlier point was that even if you don’t win every battle and win the war. The Berlin Wall collapsing was the win.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall was the death knell for the West.
The contagion moved into our societies.
One cancer cell is one too many.
The Berlin Wall collapsing was the win.
It was, for the communists, for it lead to the cuddly face of the green movement spreading communism throughout Western Europe, and elsewhere.
I can still access Quadrant.org with my old login and 4 digit password
I am a subscriber because I feel it is important to support. They don’t get any funding.
In my softer moments I’m open to letting married women with at least two children vote in elections which fall upon their birthday.
Crikey! I just made it.
Thanks, Arky.
Delta A, there are a lot of friendly shit stirrers on our side of the demarcation line.
There are so many things destroying Australia and turning it into a shithole: climate change, ruinables, woke freaks, muzzies; but 3rd nation grifters would have to be on top. Note this duel way the grifters can control land:
Native title itself is based on recognising traditional Indigenous ownership of land and waters – native title is not granted; nor is it a right that has been created by the legislatures, it is about recognising rights that ‘have always been there’. Land rights on the other hand are a legislative response by the various parliaments to those traditional rights to the land of the dispossessed Indigenous people.
DISTINGUISHING NATIVE TITLE AND LAND RIGHTS: (austlii.edu.au)
It was a claim under land rights for instance which allowed the black bludgers to successfully claim the Newcastle Post Office, which they then onsold for a heap of fire water dosh. Basically any government land which has not been used or has been misused is susceptible to this grift.
Private land is also squarely in the firing line.
In fact, the Newcastle RSL sub-branch offered to buy the Newcastle Post Office from Australia Post in the years after the 1989 earthquake, as the cenotaph is outside the building, but the Keating government handed it to the indigenous cousins instead.
It is still empty and boarded up 30yrs later, owned by Gerry Schwartz.
Canadian multinational, Saputo, to close the King Island dairy “as the most viable way to strengthen SDA’s competitiveness based on changing industry and market conditions”.
Saputo’s products include the Cheese Formerly Known as Coon.
Still on the shitlist.
Quite right.
Which I have refused to buy ever since.
Same same.
Then they’re staggeringly useless and incompetent. For nearly two years, Peanuthead has been f*cking a bimbo who was the CEO of an NDIS provider that receives hundreds of thousands in taxpayers’ dollars per annum. Peanuthead, funnily enough, just happens to be the (soon to be ex) minister for the NDIS.
It’s a massive conflict of interest on both their parts and on peanuthead’s part potentially corrupt – he should be sacked and dragged before the NACC and I’m not joking when I say this.
Absolutely bloody disgraceful. I never signed up to being lorded over by these disgusting incompetent utterly corrupt staggeringly stupid moral and ethical vacuums.
The Feds corruption body has enough to be getting on with thanks to Brittany. Should open with a bang.
Hopefully, once he no longer has the protection of the pardy, Kathy Sherrif might get her day in court.
So wot’s happened to Cloe? Geeze are nomenklatura are vile, unimpressive wastes of space.
She’s still available for picture opportunities. Unfortunately (?) I don’t move in those circles.
This is an ‘enormous story’ that the Liberal press has ignored: Matt Taibbi
NativeNarrative title itself is based onFIFY
In replies, also appears a lot of foreign mercenaries were killed and injured too.
One of the biggest downers for western civilization was the fall of the Roman Empire, both east and west.
I’m about three quarters of the way through S.M. Stirling’s “To turn the tide”
and thoroughly enjoying it. Time travel/alternate history story. Just escaping nuclear armageddon our protagonists travel back to the era of Marcus Aurelius determined to change history by propping up the Roman Empire.
The late, great, Poul Anderson mentored Steve Stirling back in the 1980’s and it shows. Could almost have been written by the old master himself.
“Duty calls with a shrill unpleasant voice”
Which Anderson character said this, SF reading Cats?
Concerning Sea Lion, this might already have been said, but here it is anyway.
Having read a fair bit over the years about the efforts the RN made, and the losses endured to evacuate armies from Dunkirk Greece and Crete, I find it impossible to believe that a lesser effort would have been made against a German landing in southern England.
How might the operation have proceeded? In the first few days, the south coast destroyers would have timed their runs up the Channel to pass Portsmouth about the time that German aircraft had to return to base as night fell. The destroyers then get among the German supply ships, doing as much damage as they could before turning for home as dawn approached.
When the heavy ships of the Home Fleet arrived down the west coast, similarly timed runs could have been made against the French Channel ports, which would have received shore bombardment by the eight to 15 inch guns of the battleships and heavy cruisers.
Not many days of that should have cut the German landing force off, no more fuel or ammunition getting through.
Would there have been heavy naval losses? Certainly, but the invasion would have been defeated.
I have a mental vision of the C in C of the Home Fleet, rounding Land’s End in his flagship, ordering his Yeoman to hoist “England expects …”
“England expects every man to do his duty! Confusion and death to the French!”
“What do you mean, we aren’t fighting the French?”
Yes, fine. Spain managed.
Come on. This is cope. Britain declared war on Germany to preserve Poland but did nothing about SU invading Poland 2-3 weeks later and then allied with it once Germany invaded Russia only to have SU maintain Poland as a client state but Britain finally gained victory when the SU disintegrated 45 years later? Poland lost. Badly.
I’ve been thinking about this recession we aren’t quite supposed to be having, and comparing it to the one we really went through in the early 1990s.
Spouse and I were from working families who went through all the earlier travails of the 20thC, so we had a fair idea of how to pull our belts in.
At the time we were raising a young family of our own, paying a mortgage, my husband was a partner in a flying young media company, I was freelancing after a solid early career in journalism and raising the kids in a good mix of work and home.
When the sh!t hit the fan, the business overdraft went to 28%, the only thing that saved our mortgage was that we had a capped war service loan at 7.5% due to my husband’s service in Vietnam, and the property was protected from the 17% mortgage interest that would have killed us on top of the overdraft.
What really saved us was the muscle memory of hard times and how to get through them, all of the accumulated family knowledge of how to keep your head above water, We pulled our heads in on all private expenses, did all the things that businesses have to do in such times, I went back to a huge work load, and all of a sudden after a few years of austerity we were back on track.
We have no debt and a healthy SMSF, but we could do it again if we had to. I’m not so sure about a generation who hasn’t had to do this.
I believe that even using the word ‘resilience’ (let alone demonstrating it) is a punishable micro-aggression these days.
Muddy, “resilience” is a word purloined by the EU in the early 2000s to mean “do as you are told by the government.”
Yep, UK correctly understood what was the bigger threat at the time. What’s your point?
But yes, leaving Poland and others to the wolves wasn’t a good move at the end of the war.
Serious question.
If h@m@s, p.i.g., and related vermin did not have the Israeli and other hostages (alive or dead) to use as bargaining chips, what type of negotiating position would they be in?
A puff piece from the ABC for Plibersek’s arbitrary and baseless decision on the Orange gold mine and for the group of activists no I E had heard of beforehand.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-05/blayney-indigenous-elders-regis-gold-mine-threats/104313358
Needless to say, as it’s the ABC, not even a hint of an opposing view, let alone an acknowledgement that an opposing view could have any merit.
Your taxes at work.
I agree with you, Dover. The US made a terrible strategic mistake leaving Poland to the Soviet Union. The US had the big bomb at the time and should have given Stalin 30 minutes to leave all of Eastern Europe in or face annihilation by nuking all major Soviet cities. Instead of overdoing it and dropping two bombs on Japanese cities, the Americans should have lobbed one on the Kremlin with the promise of more to come if they didn’t get the fck out of Eastern Europe.
“Hamas is a terrorist organisation.
We can’t have people in the Australian Parliament who support terrorist organisations”.
Is there a law?
https://x.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1831482947305926845?t=XR8-USP1E1MoUIHNREwn1g&s=19
The point is that we have no idea who the bigger threat was had a different approach been taken re Poland in 1939. You cannot simply assume that what occured in our timeline would have had an alternative been taken. It may have been the case that nothing further re Poland would have eventuated had they agreed to matters re Danzig with the Germans (no non-aggression pact with SU for instance). One thing is certain though, declaring war on Germany when you could do nothing materially to prevent it, was pointless and counter-productive, likely prevented the Poles from coming to terms with their actual position. Further, war opened the door to what actually did.
Concerning a German sea-borne invasion of Britain in WWII, the enormous amounts of men and material necessary would have been transported across the Channel by troopships, oil tankers, barges, lighters, and freighters.
All would have been extremely vulnerable to even small gun – say 4-inch – fire from the hundreds of warships the RN would have put into the fray. Such damage as they would have inflicted would have sunk the German vessels by the score. The invaders would also have been running into the minefields the Brits would have sown closer to their own shores. They would also have been subject to shore-based gunnery from the English coasts.
RN submarines would have had plenty of targets available in the German vessels putting out to sea from the European coastline. And the RAF could have strafed and bombed at will while their fighters held off the Luftwaffe.
There has been some sort of discussion over the years about German paratroops. While capable, as the Crete operations later showed, the losses the incoming parachutists faced would have been considerable. And landing in small detachments and trying to link up and attack without heavy weapons and supplies would have made them a nugatory force.
There is no way in 1940 the Germans could have successfully invaded Britain.
Interesting in that Great Britain was the only country in Europe that had an organized Resistance, in the event of invasion…
See “The Last Ditch” by David Lampe. The actor Anthony Quale was one of those who volunteered to stay behind.
Muddy
September 5, 2024 8:55 pm
Taking hostages is an age old tradition, practiced before islam came on the scene.
But it was for ransom unless a politically important person was captured and even then money talked.
Plenty of historical records.
Hamas does not really have a bargaining power as most hostages are likely dead anyway.
As to your question, Israel is in a difficult position politically, they are losing soldiers trying to rescue hostages and getting nowhere.
My solution is different but unacceptable.
In your view treaties don’t count for much then?
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/cox-media-group-admits-using-your-phone-to-listen-to-conversations-report/news-story/6df0694ecda28e0affb6b737b86a8458
If you were ever wondering why on Earth a phone would need an octa-core processor, now you know! It’s not for your benefit.
You can turn the microphone access off for individual apps.
So far only read about the Tenet Tim Pool, Dave Rubin etc saga here and Wired, The Guardian and Daily Beast. Note they were top articles that came up via Google.
From what I can make out DOJ has only indicted Russians. Not sure but doubt they are in USA. They did not even name Tenet in the charges and that came out as it was said it was a Tennessee media company and media worked it out.
Tenet in turn paid $100,000 per week each to influence content of 6 right wing influencers including Rubin and Pool. It gives the suggestion the 6 were under control of Tenet or providing them content. Daily Beast actually describes Tenet as a MAGA media company.
The DOJ allegation is that the Russians were trying to influence the election. Having watched Rubin and Pool I would say both going to vote for Trump. Rubin was however a De Santis fan before Trump. Pool has interviewed Trump.
The scheme appears to have started in November 2023. So how does it work ? Suddenly Rubin and Pool out of the blue get somebody to pay them $100,000 per week. Seems like a lot of money to do what they were basically doing already. That is helping Trump side by their commentary. Their audiences would be almost all not Democrat fans although some would prefer RFK Jr over Trump. If the $100,000 per week is true it does seem to be cash for comment. Will be interesting to see if they confirm received such large payments.
Daily Beast mention the DOJ charges made a reference to the sharing of footage of a right wing influencer in a supermarket in Moscow. DB says this is a clear reference to Tucker Carlson although not named. Tucker interviewed Putin and did visit a supermarket and said well stocked. How does that become included in an actual charge as probably thousands of people shared clips of that visit? It was news as Tucker was saying the supermarket well stocked.
The Guardian article gives the game away as the aim is guilt by association. Russians – Tenet – right wing influencers – and then names people like Vivek, RFK Jr, Trump Jr who have appeared on their shows.
It has been very obvious that since Covid podcasters have become far more influential and some have many millions of followers and some interviews get millions of views. The reach becomes massive as they share clips from each other and then even more sharing on X.
I have not watched him but Theo Von interview with Trump has got over 13 million views in just over a week. Vivek and RFK Jr got massive exposure by going on multiple podcasts. This was after many like RFK Jr were effectively silenced during Covid
More recently for example Megyn Kelly has interviewed 4 who served with Waltz in National Guard.
There are other podcasters such as Joe Rogan, Jimmy Dore, Patrick Beth David etc who have definitely been helping Trump side by their comments. However for some it is clear it is because can’t stand the Democrats.
I have zero knowledge on who might be left wing podcasters in the USA but I am pretty sure the ones who are anti Democrat are more influential than those on the left. This is because the left have the huge majority of mainstream media.
The case whatever it is will never get to court before the election. If the Russians are not in USA then will never get to court. If it did get to court they would presumably have to show the content / clips that were “bought”. Not going to happen. They did not even name the podcasters in the charges but in some cases like Pool and Rubin had mentioned how many followers which basically identifies them.
My conclusion is we are looking at another misinformation “operation” similar to the 51 Intelligence signatories who said the Hunter laptop was a Russian misinformation operation. In this case it is an attempt to label some high profile podcasters as under Russian influence and thereby implying Trump is being supported by Putin.
Look for reporting by the mainstream media to discredit the podcasters who are now a major competitor.
For the real story I will be looking to independent journalists like Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald and Shellenbeger.
That looks pretty right.
I noticed my first reaction and then asked why this reaction?
Then realised I was led to it by the people who wanted me to lose faith in those podcasters.
Which got me thinking. I wonder how much China is pumping into the American left.
A bloody lot, much of it direct to DemonRat politicians.
If you are interested in freedom of speech Indolents link at 8.05 is a good one. In it Matt Taibbi talks about Zuckerberg, Brazil, X, Government interference and Harris etc. 2019 clip of Harris shows her asking for Trump to be silenced on Twitter.
Always remember that the Australian Government also influenced social media to silence people during Covid.
Stupid me didn’t post the link up thead.
Jon and Vangelis – He Is Sailing – 1983 – with lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDuIqAYXMGw
…up thread
Hamas does not really have a bargaining power as most hostages are likely dead anyway.
They do have bargaining power and they know it, because whilst Hamas worships death (Hamas IS a death cult), Israel and Jews value life. Hamas knows this, they know that Israelis and every single Jew across the planet hopes and prays that despite everything the hostages remain alive and will come home. We cling to hope. That’s the difference between a religion and culture that exists to die and to kill as many people along the way compared to a religion and culture that exists to live and to promote life.
If we give up hope then we give up on life, and we Jews will always resist this.
Cash and Rowdy:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Main Street in Ventura 20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho66bjKL0Sg
Reading probably the most detailed account of Operation Market Garden, and the Battle for Arnhem, ever written – William F Buckingham’s book.
The decision by Lieutenant General Frederick Browning to divert thirty gliders from the (Crucial) first lift, to take he, and his Advanced Airborne Headquarters into action is well covered, but Browning took his own, personal entourage included his batman, personal cook, medical officer, jeep and driver, and tent with him….( Page 65.)
“There was no practical or operational justification for Browning’s inclusion in the first lift, or indeed for being in Holland at all…”
They all wanted to get in on the “gig” .. There were 6 English generals on the ground in Arnhem ..
But there was a personal one, ZK2A. He could then say “I was in the first wave at Market Garden”.
Did he get medals?
If he did, there’s your answer.
Browning had friends in high places .. he didn’t get a gong for Arnhem but he didn’t get any blame either .. Both Sosabowski (Poles AB) & Gavin (US AB) copped the flack for Browning’s handling of Arnhem ….. ..
The Brits and the French entered into secret agreements with the Poles early in ’39 and formalised them just after the non-aggression pact was made. Now, what point was the treaty if abiding by it still leaves Poland materially helpless? All the agreement achieved was making the Poles less likely to come to terms and war more likely, while guaranting British and French entry and a continental war an actuality.
They went into the treaties in the expectation that Hitler take fright & back off not to , actually, do or supply anything .. It didn’t work out ..!
Valid points – both of them.
Ghostwritten, most likely. Chalmers seems equipped to do the job.
Duuuuh X 50 000 ……. LOL!
You’re basically playing historian with a time machine, trying to figure out why people didn’t predict the future. The UK and France were just trying to scare the Germans away from Poland—sort of like waving a big stick at a bully. As for Hitler, he wanted a piece of Poland, like a greedy fat kid grabbing the last slice. It’s a shame Poland didn’t want to hand over a slice. If only Poland had agreed to the Fuhrer’s demands.
Whoever down-ticked missed the /sarc tag of the last sentence .. LOL!
Daily Mail USA has a more detailed article about Tenet and responses from Pool, Rubin and others.
The comments under article show a great mistrust of mainstream media and DOJ.
If Dutton had any of the “mongrel” in him, the Mean Girls would have all resigned in disgrace, Plibbersek would be sweating, Albanese would be in the dog house… I wouldn’t have to ask
Rabz
who Bill Shorten is fixing up?
There’s not a blush amongst them…
Community notes is destroying Cooper’s responses.
Community notes says bullshit:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1831365045277860179/photo/1
That community note is being hammered in the comments because it’s source is Wikipedia. Does not make it wrong but proves that idiots will believe their own biases before they will consider alternatives. Even when they can be shown to be historically and factually incorrect.
TL/DR: Cooper is brilliant historian, Wikipedia is not.
“Playing historian with a time machine” is another phrase you’ve used when you refuse to entertain alternatives. Sure, but waving the stick is useless and harmful if you can’t defend Poland and doing so makes Poland reluctant to negotiate. Lastly, the Germans wanted the land connection to East Prussia through the Danzig corridor and the return of Danzig (another one of those stupid Versailles decisions).
Oilfield Rando on Russian cash for political comment.
Topped up in comments:
Nope, wrong again. never used before. Even if I did, which I didn’t, highlighting a similar mistake requires a similar response.
The old land claim again. What the Germans wanted wasn’t available.
Gosh folk get complicated at times .. What Hitler wanted was expansion East .. as far as possible .. the corridor(s), Danzig ect were just the diplomatic to-ing & fro-ing that sooo amuses politicians ……….!
Here we go, the start of wussiagate 2 narrative begins.
Tim Pool podcast opens with discussion of DOJ case and Tenet.
Says it was his other Podcast company Culture War that was licenced to Tenet. Does not mention amount.
Says Lauren Chen of Tenet had appeared on Culture War and the discussion was about dating. Pool says only spoken to her twice this year.
If it was $100,000 per week that would make it a profitable deal as Culture War production would be much less.
However one might think it could also include some side commentary on the main Tim Pool podcast.
You’ve mentioned ‘time machines’ when we’ve discussed Iraq 2003., and there’s noting apt about the response anyway. I’m discussing an alternative, here, fully recognizing the uncertainties involved. You just wave their consideration away by going, ‘time machines’.
It cost the Poles dearly.
V. Davis Hanson replies to Cooper’s bullshit.
Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right. Sohrab Ahmari
https://www.thefp.com/p/pseudo-scholars-and-the-rise-of-the
Watch out self appointed gatekeeper and valuer of posts.
Here come a couple or three of dubious value.
What kind of engine did the P51 have?
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The P-51 Mustang was powered by different types of engines throughout its production and service history. The first version, the P-51A, used the Allison V-1710-81 engine, a liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder, single-stage-supercharged engine that produced 1,200 horsepower at sea level and 1,100 horsepower at 14,400 feet (4,400 meters).
The Allison engine gave the P-51A good performance at low altitudes, but it suffered from a lack of power and efficiency at higher altitudes. The P-51A had a maximum speed of about 390 miles per hour (630 kilometers per hour) and a combat range of roughly 750 miles (1,200 kilometers).
The P-51B and P-51C models introduced a major improvement in the engine of the Mustang. They used the Packard V-1650-3 or -7 engine, which was a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin 66 engine.
The Merlin engine was a liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder, two-speed, two-stage-supercharged engine that produced 1,490 horsepower at sea level and 1,620 horsepower at 22,000 feet (6,700 meters). The Merlin engine gave the P-51B and P-51C excellent performance at high altitudes, where most of the air combat took place.
The P-51B and P-51C had a maximum speed of about 440 miles per hour (710 kilometers per hour) and a combat range of roughly 850 miles (1,370 kilometers).
The definitive version of the Mustang, the P-51D, used the same Packard V-1650-7 engine as the P-51C, but with some modifications to improve its reliability and durability. The P-51D also had a redesigned airframe that featured a bubble canopy for better visibility, a larger fuel capacity for a longer range, and six .50-caliber machine guns for more firepower. The P-51D had a maximum speed of about 437 miles per hour (703 kilometers per hour) and a combat range of roughly 950 miles (1,530 kilometers).
The P-51 Mustang was one of the most versatile and effective fighter aircraft of World War II. It could perform various roles such as escorting bombers, intercepting enemy fighters, attacking ground targets, and reconnaissance missions.
It could also operate in different theaters such as Europe, North Africa, the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and China-Burma-India. It was highly praised by its pilots and feared by its enemies. It is widely regarded as one of the finest piston-engined fighters ever built.
Great post – but the second picture is a
P 51 replica powered by a BBC
( big block Chevrolet ) not an Allison or Rolls Royce V 12.
This was never revealed in the sitcom itself.
Not sure I believe this, but it may be true.
who knew we were bugs and flowers.
I have read that plants in Africa will ‘bitter up’ quickly when being grazed by Giraffes, and also release pheromones to warn others … it makes sense, plants don’t want to be eaten (which is why I stick largely to the carnivore diet) and have all sorts of physical and chemical defences.
Johannes Leak.
He has a brown nose too
That is no way to treat the Hero of Beaconsfield or the memory of Richard Pratt.
Johannes leak is a genius.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel #2.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Tom Stiglich.
As It was mentioned in a prev. post, what’s the reason to keep such a tight control on the Canada border while letting in anyone who turns up in the south?
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
Today’s Tele:
SNAKE OIL SALESMEN COULD HALT GAS FIELD
KAITLYN HUDSON-O’FARRELL
A rare Australian sea snake’s new status as an endangered species could threaten the future of Woodside Energy’s $30bn gas project in Western Australia, with an “urgent review” into energy projects nearby ordered by environment minister Tanya Plibersek’s department.
The dusky sea snake was this week formally declared endangered by the Department of Climate Change, Environment and Water.
The snake is native to Scott Reef, a coral system which sits off WA’s northwest coast nearby Woodside’s Torosa gas field, which is part of the company’s proposed billion-dollar project in the Browse Basin.
In a report on the snake, advice from the department called for a review of all nearby oil and gas projects.
Of course…what were/are the odds?
Yet another reason to hate Canbra and its pubic parasites
The communists plan to enfeeble and destroy the Australian economy rolls on.
It’s the only way they will ever get voted in.
We could all name many projects wrecked by dusky – and “dusky” – snakes.
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/endangered-sea-snake-jeopardises-30bn-gas-project-off-wa-coast-as-australia-is-set-to-become-an-importer-of-the-resource/news-story/18fa2473eee11f25ad1bc74543b05df7
But in a swift response, the minister has rejected the advice and insisted she would not initiate a new review of proposals in the Timor Sea over the sea snake.
Today’s Tele:
EURO GREENIES SET TO RECOLONISE AUSTRALIA
MATT – CANAVAN
An interesting social phenomena has emerged in recent years where the more an organisation breaks the law, the more they immediately turn around and start lecturing the rest of us about how we should live.
You can see examples of this from governments, unions and all types of corporate organisations. But perhaps the starkest example is the banks.
The banks were exposed at a Royal Commission charging fees to dead people. In response, they appoint themselves the moral finance guardians of the galaxy, denying banking services to industries they deem evil, like coal or cattle farming.
The banks have fancy words to dress their edicts up in a veneer of sophistication. Their practices are known as ESG. ESG is meant to stand for Environment, Social and Governance standards. In practice, what ESG really means is Exempting our Selves from Guilt.
The latest example of this modern day right of penance comes in an arcane set of new rules passed by the European parliament. Europeans through history have invaded and ruled more countries than any other. They have done many good things but there was also a lot of bad things about European imperialism.
Long after almost all colonial regimes have ended, however, Europeans still seem to be living under the illusion that they can tell the rest of the world what to do.
In just four months time the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation will come into effect. Under this new regulation, any cattle grazier that does not comply with European land use regulations will not be able to export beef to Europe. According to the Europeans, this law intends to reduce carbon emissions “by at least 32 million metric tonnes a year” and “address all deforestation driven by agricultural expansion”.
I am not sure how the European parliament came to the view that they had the right to regulate how Australian land is used. Their politicians are not elected by Australians or accountable to Australians. If nothing else, the EU’s regulations are anti-democratic.
And, like most times when democracy is sidelined, the autocratic outcomes will be worse because Brussels (where the European parliament is based) has almost no understanding of Australian farm practices or the harsh Australian environment. For example, under the current interpretation of the regulations, farmers will not be able to clear basic weeds like lantana. Not only would that cripple our cattle industry, it would be terrible for the local environment.
The European regulations restrict the conversion of forest land to agricultural land in the future. This regulation most impacts Indigenous Australians who have native title rights in parts of the country that have remained largely undeveloped, including in Cape York. Europeans already colonised the land of Aboriginals once before and now they are trying to do it again.
The Europeans have released maps of Australia designating how much of our country is covered by the forest they want protected. They have identified 143.3 million hectares of forest land, which is curiously 8 per cent more than Australia’s official definition of forest. And, our definition includes all areas with more than a 2 metre height canopy whereas the European definition covers only areas with more than a 5 metre canopy. So the European numbers seem way out of whack.
Of even more concern, 44 per cent of the land that Europe designates as forest in Australia has actually been grazed for generations. This error means that even the clearing of “regrowth” may not be allowed. If applied broadly, most of Central Queensland’s grazing areas would be put out of action within decades.
I do not expect European bureaucrats to understand the harshness of the Australian bush or the unique economic challenges facing Indigenous Australians. But this is why the regulation of Australia’s environment should be left to democratically elected Australian governments.
The Australian government has raised these concerns with European regulators. The US government raised similar concerns recently too. But nothing seems to be getting resolved just months from the regulations coming into force.
The impact of the regulations will not hurt the overall strength of our beef industry, less than one per cent of our beef exports would be affected.
But Europe’s clumsy regulations will have a big impact on global beef markets. Every time new ESG restrictions are imposed on farming, energy or manufacturing they cut supply and that pushes up the price of almost everything. A big part of our inability to get inflation down is because of the ESGinspired green and red tape that stops production increasing.
And, that gives another interpretation to what ESG stands for, Extreme Shortages Guaranteed.
Matt Canavan is LNP senator for Queensland
Export and/or take the ‘Gympie bush’ / ‘wait a while’ to Europe and let it loose.
i work for a European owned business in Aus. We already report an estimate of our retail outlets carbon footprint to Head Office in compliance with EU rules. EU have determined our company’s global retail outlets need to be included in total carbon footprint. Coming soon we need to report each retail outlets actual carbon emissions to HO. Then each outlet will be expected to develop and implement a plan to reduce CO2. This in my opinion is an over reach by the EU into other countries. I suspect this is only the tip of the iceberg.
This reporting to government was what drove me to make up almost everything in the reports I was forced to submit on workplace equality.
In ten years of annual reports, not one was checked for accuracy. It’s box checking for dummies.
If Aldi is trying to piss off their Australian customers they are going about it the right way.
Not Aldi. Our Retail outlets are independently owned so be interesting to see if the network pushes back.
Has anyone informed the EU about the fire burning propensity of our petrol gums? Thought not.
I do not expect European bureaucrats to understand the harshness of the Australian bush or the unique economic challenges facing Indigenous Australians.
Giving power to bureaucrats with not the faintest idea of how things work has been disastrous everywhere. Their expertise is in making rules and following them. Physical reality is not within their purview.
I do not expect Canberra based bureaucrats to understand the harshness of the Australian bush
I fixed it!
Physical reality is not within their purview.
As the electricity generating debacle has demonstrated in Oz.
Not just in Oz, everywhere the green bureaucrats have any influence. But what do they care, they are well remunerated and will do just fine, the peasants not so much.
Henry Ergas from the Oz
Islamist barbarism exposes failure of West to tackle evil
In 1947, the International Military Tribunal described the execution of hostages as “a barbarous relic of ancient times”. Bemoaning the lack of an explicit prohibition on hostage-taking, the Tribunal urged the world’s nations to act, which they did in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.
The Convention is categorical: “The taking of hostages is prohibited.” Adding to the prohibition’s strength, the Convention defines hostage-taking, “which nothing can justify”, as one of the most serious offences against international humanitarian law, imposing on every signatory a duty to prevent it going unpunished.
Now Hamas has compounded the crimes it committed on October 7 by executing six hostages. Nor are those executions an isolated incident: as with al-Qa’ida and ISIS, seizing, abusing and murdering hostages has been part of Hamas’s strategy from the outset.
In effect, the Nuremberg Tribunal erred grievously in characterising medieval Europe’s widespread use of hostages as “barbarous”. The primary role of hostages in those centuries was as surety for the performance of treaties. Unlike prisoners, hostages were given, not taken; they were almost invariably of high rank and, more often than not, directly related to the party proffering the guarantee.
Because of their rank and role, hostages were treated as “hospes”, that is, guests. Protected by the laws of chivalry, viewed as equals rather than as captives, hostages should not merely be allowed to travel freely “around the country visiting ladies and lords”; they were, a 16th century German rulebook specified, entitled to a regular supply of baths, prostitutes and new shoes.
There were, for sure, egregious breaches of the chivalric codes. But over the course of the 14th century, with its dozens of hostage agreements, there were only two recorded instances in which hostages were executed. And those executions were regarded both as appalling sins and as manifestly illegal.
Thus, already in 1588, Alberico Gentili, the father of international law, denounced the punishment of hostages, who had themselves committed no offence, as monstrous. Emer de Vattel was therefore echoing a widely held view when his vastly influential The Law of Nations (1758) described executing hostages as “an inhuman cruelty” and “a barbarism offensive to human nature”, contrary to natural law and the law of nations.
By then, however, reliance on hostages as guarantors had virtually disappeared, with its last major use being in 1748. It was the rise, in the Age of Revolutions, of brutally authoritarian regimes that brought a new, more fearsome development in hostage-taking: the capture and execution of unarmed civilians as a way of cowering populations into submission.
Pioneered by the French Revolution, that tactic was exalted by Lenin, whose “Hanging Order” of August 1918 directed the Bolsheviks in wheat-growing areas to publicly hang hundreds of hostages “so that for miles around the people can see, tremble and cry: they are killing and will go on killing”. Imitated by the Nazis, to horrendous effect, in retaliatory massacres at Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane and the Fosse Ardeatine, that approach prompted the 1949 Convention’s prohibition against hostage-taking.
Unfortunately, the rise of Islamic terrorism marked the start of a third period in the history of hostage-taking that the new instruments of international law proved utterly incapable of quelling.
There had, even before then, been plenty of instances of hostages serving as bargaining chips. In 1958, for example, Fidel Castro’s rebels abducted 50 Americans and refused to release them until the US forced Fulgencio Batista’s regime into a ceasefire that would allow the rebels to rearm and regroup – which the US did, helping condemn Cubans to decades of misery.
What changed, however, was less the terrorists’ demands than the mechanisms they played off. While the Islamists were descending into a cult of death, ever-growing weight was being placed in the West on the innate value and equal dignity of human life. At the same time, the rise of the internet vastly enhanced terrorists’ access to, and ability to manipulate, public opinion – just as the new technologies were making public opinion increasingly influential in democratic politics.
The potential that created was at the heart of al-Qa’ida’s directive on kidnapping, which highlighted the scope to sow division in the target country by showcasing hostages’ desperate plight and demonstrating a readiness to mercilessly butcher them. The more obviously innocent the hostages and the grimmer the fate that awaited them, the more likely the strategy was to succeed; and the more open and democratic the target country, the greater was the harm it would inflict.
In short, much as Walter Benjamin famously observed, a step forward of civilisation spawned a step forward in barbarism: in this case, a barbarism that fed off the information revolution and used it to undermine societies that increasingly recognised, and were willing to debate, conflicting values, including the tragic choice between saving lives in the present and jeopardising even more lives in the future.
There was, predictably, deadly silence from the Greens. Equally, the protesters, who incessantly claim the mantle of humanitarianism, were curiously nowhere to be seen. As for the government, its comment was limited to a single tweet that rightly condemned Hamas but said absolutely nothing about bringing the perpetrators to justice.
And while the tweet’s final sentence – “Every innocent life matters” – may have been well-intentioned, it unacceptably implied a moral equivalence between the cold-blooded murder of innocent hostages and the unintended deaths (caused largely by Hamas’s use of civilians as human shields) arising from the conflict in Gaza.
In October 1941, two months before the United States entered the war, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt said the Nazi practice of “executing innocent hostages revolts a world already inured to suffering and brutality”. Yes, the executions could terrorise. But they would “never bring peace”, instead “sowing the seeds of hatred which will one day bring fearful retribution”. Soon enough, the Nazis – “desperate men who know in their hearts they cannot win” – would have to feel the unrelenting force and unswerving determination of the “civilised peoples” they scorned.
Today, as Israel mourns its slaughtered hostages, the “civilised peoples” Roosevelt relied upon are weakened, divided, poorly led. Unless we can once again find that resolve to stare evil in the face, and destroy barbarism rather than repeatedly granting it reprieves, it is barbarism that will ultimately destroy us.
This silence has revealed that those protestors were not in it for humanitarianism but for the fame and acclaim it brought them. It was all about me, me, me of the protestor classes just as is their newfound concern for the Palestinians.
Seems modern Poland since 1919 was just another bunch of dumb, stupid Euroweenies picking fights with the neighbours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland_(1918%E2%80%931939)
Doesn’t exactly appear to have been any kind of democracy after 1926 either.
Poland…the doormat of Europe.
Exactly in an unfortunate position geographically between the Baltic and Alps that channels every mounted Army from the Huns to Wehrmacht and later Soviets through this region.
Rosie
September 6, 2024 1:59 am
Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right. Sohrab Ahmari
https://www.thefp.com/p/pseudo-scholars-and-the-rise-of-the
Further to the Carlson/Cooper love in, I urge everyone to read Rosie’s link above to a piece written by the always superb Sohrab Ahmari. Ahmari thoroughly excoriates the adolescent attention seeking Cooper, and he also excoriates Carlson, a man who clearly has gone down some unsavoury rabbit holes. It isn’t pleasant.
Orange gold mine and for the group of activists no I E had heard of beforehand.
Leanna from Orange at least looks part aboriginal but she was up till recently living in Sydney teaching a dead language by internet searches, oh she’s also an artist. Her LinkedIn profile I can’t view because I’m not on Linkedin, she’s set it to private.
Jade, a musician from Bathurst and like most claiming heritage down south his heritage if there is any would be a fraction. His only claim to fame is being a musician and rabble rouser. Calling for reparations etc…
So far from my desktop searches and what’s in the public space we have 3 artists that live over 30km away from different towns and the shadowy hand of the Greens in the background with Delanie Sky. No journalist (As Roger pointed out) with resources & contacts far greater than ours has gone near it with any depth. The Opposition in NSW who would have similar resources hasn’t gone near it either.
Their aboriginal corp is headed by a self described cat lady and white fella lawyer from Blue Mountains who is into the non profit charity scene that blew in from WA after cutting her teeth doing prison advocacy.
Which leads me to Beerturks comment, I reckon non profit charities should be severely curtailed. Religious groups only, seems to be a massive slush fund source for endless far left causes that is white anting the country.
The Abo corp involved (Wow they don’t have to provide financial reports):
https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/5a3d95a0-3aaf-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/profile
The Cat lady director from Blue Mountains without a skerrick of heritage:
https://www.clcnsw.org.au/arlia-fleming-new-clcnsw-chairperson-interview
JC
September 6, 2024 12:23 am
V. Davis Hanson replies to Cooper’s bullshit.
I would urge everyone here to also read Hanson’s piece linked above by JC. Hanson, in his always measured and thoughtful way, thoroughly rebuts and demolishes the pseudo crank historian and all round anti-Semite, Darryl Cooper.
I would have more respect for Tucker Carlson if, whilst having Cooper on his platform, he also platformed someone like Hanson to respond and rebut Cooper’s outlandish claims. But instead, he gave a platform to Cooper, in the process lauding him. Yukk.
The Opposition in NSW
Firstly, what opposition? Secondly, most in the current NSW opposition would agree with Plibersek and the decision.
Indeed Cassie, hence my comment the other day about the federal intervention after some Victorians and a wet NSW ex-MP nominated to head, being nothing but window dressing in time for the upcoming federal election.
The underlying problems will not be addressed.
Tough times. Tough times indeed, with people just trying to make ends meet (the NT News):
And:
Also:
This is fair enough. Suitably mounted, a toe would be an excellent centrepiece used for family special occasion dinners, and an outstanding conversation starter.
People are so soft these days.
I like her entrepreneurial spirit. 😀
I feel sorry for the dog. It’s terrible when an animal is driven by hunger to attack the very thing that when alive that animal was so devoted to and loved. No animal should be put down for that.
Was she pepper-sprayed …?
So, would that be “making ends meat” …?
“…putting the body parts in a jar with the intention she would try and sell them“
Thankfully, whist Sudanese machete gangs run rampant thru shopping centres Vic plod dealing with the serious crimes .. makes you feel warm & fuuzy .. LOL!
Where would you put it on Gumtree?
Odds and Ends
The TDS is virtually oozing from the Sky News Daytime screen this morning as Michael Ware and Stefanovic appear to agree that despite Putin’s endorsement of Kamala (“she has such an infectious laugh!”) the Russians are really supporting Trump.
Wait, wot! The Poot supports KamelToe? Why didn’t mUnturd tell us? That would have changed everything, millions would have moved to her camp.
Contortionist thinking at work.
Here’s the story.
Vladimir Putin Endorses Kamala Harris for President, Praises Her ‘Infectious’ Laugh (5 Sep)
Maybe he means “infectious” in the way that herpes is.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Maybe he just wants to weaken the US and thinks this is the best way to do it.
I am surprised he wasn’t good enough for Queensland.
Not surprised NSW didn’t check properly.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13782355/Richard-Seamark-lismore-mental-health-director.html
He. obviously, applied for the Gaza security check visa ………! LOL!
From Cassie’s link:
That, in and of itself, is enough to make me run a mile from this person.
What the hell is “the Jewish problem”? What was it to Hitler? What is it to Cooper? More importantly, to my mind, does Carlson think there’s a “problem”?
I know the answer to the first question, but most people will shrug it off. It is a deep spiritual malaise that has existed from The Fall. The article touches upon it briefly. They like to dress it up in fancy words to hide the reality of this manic hatred. Some otherwise switched on Christians have fallen for it too.
It’s only a problem to people who aren’t able to empathise.
Oh those naughty Russians! They’re at it again!
Can’t the legacy meja just do us all a favour and drop dead? Unfortunately so much is on artificial life support. Weren’t the Fairfax rags in nthn NSW demanding to be nationalised?
Tucker’s an isolationist in foreign policy. If Tucker was around in the 40’s he would not have supported FDR in massaging the US toward support for Churchill in opposing Hitler.
I don’t give a good goddamn about how Aboriginal someone looks or not. I actually think it should be thrown out as a mode of thinking- we need to break the nexus between genetic aboriginality and cultural aboriginality. I ain’t aboriginal beyond 1/64, but I still know shedloads more about aboriginal culture than half the academics and zinc-slapped didge players around here.
What really does piss me off is the fact that so many of our moral betters, who would lecture us about the evils of whitefella ways, landuse change and mineral extraction, are fat, speccy-faced desk jockeys. Geoff Clarke, Pat Dodson, our local dusky duke here.
I’d love to say, one, British civilization is so good for you that you’d be blind without intervention, you don’t have to produce any sort of results for your salary, and you’re going to die early with obesity-associated complications.
No more taxpayer munni or contracts until your BMI is down to a sub-critical number, or else we’re all just further pushing out The Gap aren’t we?
Well said!
Well said! My local hospital has a clinic for diabetics, the majority of the patients are morbidly obese Indigenous, several of who are wheelchair bound, and I do wonder what their fate would have been pre colonial days….
They couldn’t have gotten into this condition.
Had they done so, they’d be first onto the campfire with a Jarrah stick up their arses and Voila! the rotisserie is invented.
They ate a low carb high fat high meat diet back then.
Also quite a lot of seafood if near the coast or on rivers.
Occasional ground-seed flour mixed with water into roast patties.
Supplemented by roasted rhizome roots and seasonal berries. Grubs and moths for seasonal snacks. Bush honey for treats.
Never obese back then. White man’s diet is obesogenic.
Aborigines indulge in the worst aspects of it.
See where you are coming from but unless we eliminate the special status and funding we’ve got to draw a line in the sand somewhere. Especially with more people identifying.
I’d love to see the whole government subsidy flow shut down, then end of separate Centrelink payments and bringing these Abor corp’s under the normal fiduciary regulations that other similar entities are subject to. However I know that isn’t going to happen so the next best thing is to weed the grifters & wanna be’s with their own agendas out. There are too many out there like Mayo, Pascoe, Hagan even Mansell with little to no heritage being taken seriously by the establishment.
Just my thoughts anyway.
And mine.
Remove all race based funding and legislation.
If the Liberals did that, I’d vote for them – but not until they did it.
Going by today’s updates, it would appear that everything that mUntard posted yesterday about the “new” WussiaGate was false, including the words “and” and “the”.
Is anyone really surprised?
What the hell is “the Jewish problem”?
Exactly.
That they exist, Cassie. And their existence is proof of God.
Tucker’s an isolationist in foreign policy. If Tucker was around in the 40’s he would not have supported FDR in massaging the US toward support for Churchill in opposing Hitler
Yes, like Charles Lindbergh and Joe Kennedy Snr, both isolationists, both pro-Hitler and both rabid anti-Semites.
When Kennedy was US ambassador he went around London telling anyone who would listen that Churchill was a drunken, deluded romantic fool and that the UK should seek terms with Hitler.
Oh dear ..! The best laid plans of men & Arnie gone astray again .!
Beaten 1-0 by Bahrain the Socceroos once again showed why I shouldn’t watch ’em .. duuuuuh!
defence wasn’t bad, tho as we had 70% possession that’s expected, but the attack, a word implying battering the opponents goal, was, almost non-existent .. The rules of “fitba” boil down to simplicity .. goals win games .. Sadly lacking in the Socceroos game plan(s) .. LOL!
And Arnie, of course, fell for the media hype surrounding the “wunder-kid” and instead of choosing someone with experience thru the lad into the fray and, basically, reduced us to 10 men .. quickly followed by Yengi lowering that number even further …..
Arnie, unfortubately, just doesn’t get the how-to-use substitutes game tho last night was, probably, beyond salvation anywayz …..
Lose, even draw, against Indonesia next week and we is in serious trouble ..
I am waiting, in vain, for reporter to ask the DNC and any Dumbocrat campaign…
Why is it 250k spent by the Russians on Faecesbook totally outweighed the billions spent by Hillary?
Why is the 10 million spent this year outweighing the billions spent by Kameltoe?
Why do the Russians seem to understand the American voter more than the Dumbocrats?
I was waiting for Hanson to weigh in.
Northern Territory to host Japanese marinesCameron Stewart
15 hours ago.
Updated 15 hours ago
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Australia will host more Japanese military in northern Australia, including elite Japanese marines, as part of a major plan to ramp up trilateral exercises with US marines in Darwin.
The move comes at a time when Beijing is stepping up its military brinkmanship in the region, with defence and foreign ministers of both Australia and Japan criticising China’s recent air and sea incursions into Japanese territory.
The boost in defence co-operation to a record post-war level was agreed at the annual Australia-Japan 2+2 Foreign and Defence summit at Queenscliff, Victoria, on Thursday.
Defence Minister Richard Marles said after the meeting that Australia had agreed to further step up military co-operation with Japan, including more exercises in northern Australia with Japanese air and amphibious forces.
For the first time, Australia will invite the elite marines of the Japanese Rapid Deployment Brigade to join trilateral exercises with Australian troops and US marines in northern Australia.
“This is a really huge opportunity for our three defence forces to operate in an amphibious context,” Mr Marles said, noting that Australia wanted its army to develop great amphibious capabilities as outlined in last year’s Defence Strategic Review.
Mr Marles flagged a further expansion of the deployment of Japanese F-35 joint strike fighters to RAAF base Tindal, which plans to have more planes conducting more exercises after last year’s initial deployment of several Japanese strike fighters.
The talks between Mr Marles, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and their Japanese counterparts, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kamikawa Yoko, and Minister of Defence, Kihara Minoru, canvassed growing concern about China’s military brinkmanship.
Mr Marles said Australia shared Japan’s alarm at August’s incursion in Japanese airspace by a Chinese PLA aircraft and into its territorial waters by a Chinese warship.
“We expressed our support for Japan’s sovereignty at that moment …we want to be in a world where disputes are resolved not by power or might but by reference to international law,” he said.
Senator Wong said the relationship between Australia and Japan had never been stronger and the two countries were ambitious to grow the partnership across defence and strategy co-operation, economic ties and trade and investment.
She said both countries were also concerned about China’s growing naval harassment of The Philippines coast guard in the South China Sea and Australia would look to provide greater support for the coast guard.
Mr Minoru declined to say whether Japan would join the competition to provide the Australian navy with a new fleet of general purpose frigates.
The old and the bold at the local R.S.L. will be snarling in their grog..
The Chinese do not accept International Law – except when it gives an advantage. Shoot down any Chinese aircraft, sink any Chinese ship that encroaches on Japanese or any other nations territory.
Like Muslims they refuse to speak honestly, or behave decently.
Had the Philippinos done that initially with the Chinese ‘Coast Guard’ incursions they’d not be in the situation they are in now.
The time for talking is past. We are at the Remilitarising of the Rhineland stage of dealing with China – and making the same mistakes – appeasing and collaborating with the enemy against our nations best interests, and not drawing a bloody great big red line in the sand and enforcing it.
I know this will shock some people but according to a couple of articles in Daily Mail USA NY has a corruption problem.
Deputy and aides to the Mayor been raifed as well as Police Commissioner and some of his top officers. Phones seized. Mayor matter seems to be Mayor election related. Not sure what cop story about.
Comes after assistant to NY Gov arrested for being Chinese spy.
Nooo!
Really?
🙂
And let’s not forget the role of Morrison & Frydenberg in this slowly unfolding disaster.
I was reading with interest until I hit the obligatory “decarbonisation”.
Life is too short to read crap.
Then you missed his criticism of it on economic grounds.
Besides which, one should always read a whole argument before criticising or passing judgement on it.
Gottliebsen is a global warming shill. He believes this shit.
At this stage, everybody knows where we are, the question is how to escape?
The energy problem, immigration and a country where everybody from actors to sports stars to politicians sees property investment as the only game in town on the road to further riches.
Maybe we can become an energy super power.
Then again…
Roger/Robert:
Both scenarios are carbon copies of each other – a massive rise in the price of Energy. The other is a grotesque oversupply of money – both caused by government.
They aren’t different, they’re the same. Both are caused by incompetent government.
There’s an eerie back-to-the-seventies feel about the present moment.
Sky just had one Shamikah Badra a Gaza on complaining he can’t get his mother out of Gaza, Australian Government needs to do more blah blah blah. Asked about Israel and he pauses the spits out some weasel words that the kiddy jisimist didn’t press on.
Rat smelt, I googled him. Well well well been here 2 months (Thanks Albo), been involved in protests already and is on record of accusing Israel of Genocide. Could this fit the definition of rhetorical support for HAMAS?
https://www.clcnsw.org.au/arlia-fleming-new-clcnsw-chairperson-interview
Over to you Burgess…
He should go home and care for his mother.
How is he supporting himself?
Another good question Roger, add it to the 3 of mine in Calli’s comment below.
Terror group equivalent of a FIS agent perhaps?
I will go out on a limb to suggest there were no checks done on his background and was rubber stamped.
Well, I know the likely answer, Rockdoctor – he’ll be receiving funds administered by Red Cross refugee program which are supplied by the taxpayer, leaving him plenty of time to protest and agitate.
He is here as a student? Where and studying what and how is his course being paid for and by whom?
Story date 30 July, 2014.
Should that be 2024?
Sorry link on my comment didn’t copy for some reason, intended link below:
https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/genocide-in-gaza,6718
Excellent detective work, Rockdoctor.
Perhaps we should give you the top job.
What irritates me is there is not a hope in hell News.com wouldn’t have known this guys past but they ran with it and dishonestly tried to pass it off as someone here studying and trying to get his poor mother out.
I now have more questions than answers, he got here 2 months ago on what visa? What ASIO checks were done on him, if any? The Green/Left publication throws this guys name up a bit so is this like the Blayney gold mine appearance another greens run campaign at arms distance?
In a nutshell; Hitler wanted Britain to lay off so he could focus on on ethnically cleansing Eastern Europe for the benefit of the Aryan nation but Britian said no?
Cooper and Carlson certainly brought out the Barbarians on Twitter yesterday.
Pope Benedict’s younger cousin was a victim of the Nazi euthanasia program in 1941.
Everyone knew.
His father had been pushed around and demoted in the police force, for his anti Nazi stance, retiring in 1937.
If it was obvious to good Catholics in the 1930s that Nazism was intrinsically evil and their aims monstrous why is Churchill now in sights?
The white supremacists have much more in common with the progressive left and muslims than conservatives.
No wonder so many, like Andrew Tate, convert to islam.
As for ‘muslim quarter’ Owens, she attacks long dead Rabbi Schneerson over her hot take on a sermon about Jews being masters of the universe while completing ignoring the very very clear views of muslims about non muslims.
The 20 July conspiracy seemed to involve a mix of Catholics and Lutherans.
17 minutes ago
Incoming NT chief minister puts parents on notice over youth crime
Mohammad Alfares
Incoming Northern Territory chief minister Lia Finocchiaro has defended reducing the age of criminal responsibility to 10 years-old, saying the Country Liberals are more focused on accountability and meaningful consequences.
Speaking on ABC RN, Ms Finocchiaro said under her leadership, parents would be held to account over offending by imposing family responsibility agreements with the Commonwealth.
“If we raise the age, there can be no sort of legal response, which means you can’t then make sure that young people are engaged in boot camps, for example, or programs to turn their life around,” she said.
She was also asked about her position to reintroduce spit hoods – a practice that Amnesty International has labelled as torture.
“What we’ve said is that modern spit guards should be able to be used by police and corrections officers for young people.”
“This is a highly-regulated practice, but when someone is spat on with blood and phlegm, they then can contract communicable diseases,” she said.
And as long as you keep calling them “young people” instead of thugs, deliquents, scum/whatever nuttin’ changes …….!
Calling them “thugs, delinquents, scum” would be so damaging to their young psyches….
I have been pushing the AIs to their limits lately and my conclusion is that we are a the single most important and greatest inflection point in human history on a scale that will rival the industrial revolution. Nothing will remain unchanged over the next decade.
By 2030ish, there will be two classes of people, those using AIs to make money and the unemployed.
timely…
the end of cat videos forever
Noooos
But true
Sad
And tradies, who will be the ones with money.
AIs can’t clean out a blocked drain.
(Btw AIs are 100% lefty, and believe all sorts of strange things because they’ve been trained on lefty lies. So their utility will be less than it should be because silly leftist fantasies aren’t particularly useful for solving real world problems. Other than that I agree with you. 😀 )
LOL!
I suppose the AI’s told you that, Zippster?
Well of course they’d say that, wouldn’t they?
“By 2030ish, there will be two classes of people, those using AIs to make money and the unemployed.”
And 5 years after that, those that make money from AIs will also be replaced by AIs.
“And tradies, who will be the ones with money.
AIs can’t clean out a blocked drain.”
It won’t be long before such robot workers will be available to do those jobs too – and they won’t need years to learn the trade, they’ll learn it in seconds.
The issue is “the singularity” – when AI creates better AI, AI zooms well past human abilities. At everything. Almost overnight. Can’t be stopped, it’s inevitable now. If the US doesn’t do it China will.
On the plus side, if we manage to give AIs a conscience so they don’t kill us all as useless, then the possibilities for molecular nanotech and fusion in particular will see anyone who does survive able to do things we can barely imagine – literally grow a house, car etc from a “seed”; high strength materials like single piece, 3d woven diamond fibre structures (50 times stronger and 10 times stiffer than the same weight of aluminium – IOW, 5 times stronger and the same stiffness for one tenth the weight!); structures that need to withstand heat coated in the most heat resistant material known – sapphire (crystaline aluminium oxide). Again, largely a single piece. The entire contents of the (current) internet in a device the size of a grain of rice. With such things and with robots to operate them, space ships can venture to the asteroid belt or the moons of Jupiter and obtain resources (metals, water, organics like ethanes etc) in volumes unheard of. We might be able to make a “space elevator” – a 36,000km long “rope” from the surface of the Earth, tethered to a satellite with its centre of gravity slight “outside” Geo-synchronis orbit, so you just need to “climb up the rope” to get to space. Machines that can kill cancer and “fix” the DNA that produced the cancer. Machines that can reverse aging. None of this is impossible as far as we currently know, and some is definitely possible. And this is barely touching the surface of what such tech would allow us to do.
If we survive it, and don’t have WWIII, we’ll see it. If not in 10 years, then almost certainly within 20.
Story of the day?
Germany’s migration commissioner has proposed relocating asylum seekers to Rwanda and making use of facilities paid for by Rishi Sunak’s UK government at a cost of £318 million. Rwanda has indicated it is open to the proposal.
Keir Starmer scrapped the plan on coming to office in July.
Since the facilities are now owned by the Rwandan government, the UK cannot recoup its costs.
20 000 purported asylum seekers have crossed the English Channel this year with the Home Office recently requesting councils to urgently find thousands of new beds to accommodate an expected surge in numbers before winter.
Kean’s not cutting the mustard.
Official advice: ‘Eat less red meat to reduce emissions’ (Paywallian)
I can’t read the article but the url says the government agency is Kean’s gig, the CCA. Well son my answer is not no it is hell no! Go eat your bugs and tofu and leave us normies in peace.
If they try to take away my meat, they will find out why carnivores have canines.
Great Knight at 4:01. I chucked my first job in in 1991. Learnt from that mistake.
Mind blowing isn’t it that mediocrities like Kean and Anal can slither into positions to lord over us. I’ve come to the conclusion that political office is restricted to slithering mediocrities with a few honourable exceptions.
Trump announces Elon Musk will head audit of ‘entire federal government’
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The deep state must be disinfected of wokeness
Bet he uses AI to do it, monumental.
Not just Catholics; in May1934 an alternative Protestant synod was formed after two Lutheran bishops (for Bavaria & Wuerttemberg) were deposed for refusing to cooperate with Hitler’s appointed Reichsbischof Ludwig Muller and his plans to “Aryanise” the German Protestant Church (DEK).
See my nested comment under Rosie’s of 0907 above.
I wonder how many Australian visas have been issued to Gazan Christians and Jews?
Jewish settlers in Gaza were evacuated in 2005.
Christians constitute less than 1% of the population after several waves of migration. Who can blame them?
Labor candidates are beholden to union-controlled factions.
In Howard’s broad church Liberal Party anyone of conviction gets weeded out sooner or later; cf. most recently Gerard Rennick.
Both systems serve to dissuade the talented, the independent minded and the self-made success story from joining.
Thus, both major parties are full of time-servers and careerists and their dominance is underwritten by compulsory, preferential voting.
Telling that she’s kicking the can down the road: killing gas development = problematic for the Bowen Masterplan.
But the girl has to do something:
Stop Woodside’s DrillGreenpeace:
Help save extraordinary Scott Reef from Woodside’s dangerous gas plans.
Marine Conservation Society
Andonandon…
Another endangered snake.
Hard to see Reece Whitby and not see a plodder j’ismist from Channel Stokes 6pm News.
Pity it doesn’t have wings in which case it will be permitted to be sliced and diced by the wind turbines.
Where is it found? “Why, it’s only found in the five reefs on which we have looked. Oh, and the original specimen may have been collected in Indonesia.”
Have you looked for it anywhere else? “Don’t ask inconvenient questions.”
Do you think that maybe you should look for it elsewhere? “Don’t be silly, the other places we’d need to look are icky and hard to get to, don’t have other reef diving.. oh and no one’s paying us to go there.” “Do you want to pay us to go there? We’ll do that, but it’s a bit dangerous to dive, so we’ll take the money and sort of look down the cliff face.”
That may be about to get extremely messy.
Union leader ‘disappointed’ at bitter split (Paywallian politics thread)
Union civil war threat to Albanese (Paywallian)
If the union movement is splitting down the middle then it bodes for a lot of interesting fallout.
Two unions in QLD have in recent years split from their ALP affiliated mother bodies.
Putting the organised into organised crime.
Putin is this decade’s Gaddafi.
I expect he will come to his bayonet meets ring moment eventually.
Probably after the peace.
He should watch the vid of Muammar’s last day on Earth to prepare himself.
Maybe do some arse cheek clenching exercises to get ready.
LOL!
Surely defenestration is more the Russian style?
The US might be growing tired of regime change by now. Their track record isn’t great. Due for a win though.
Both systems serve to dissuade the talented, the independent minded and the self-made success story from joining.
Which explains dull mediocrities and all round arseholes like John Howard.
Sorry, forgot to mention Scott Morrison.
A protege of the aforementioned John Howard.
Even SloMo eschewed the tracksuit.
AI will certainly spread widely into professional practice – it already is well on the way.
Looking at this trend (through my narrow prism of engineering) a couple of interesting things to consider:
1) AI is based on learning and inference from human knowledge piled up on Tinternet – so very far from perfect. Who then is going to be legally responsible for the resulting fcukups – crashed aircraft, fallen structures, blown control logic, and huge economic blunders?
Expect a AI lawyer beanfeast and a scatter of cockroaches – very similar to politicians escaping consequences.
2) Given AI will largely be replacing entry-level engineers and technologists, after 10 to 15 years there will be a tragic lack of experience able to apply judgement and sense checking to whatever AI thinks is the right answer.
In 40 years, next to none.
Dare I say…our AI will have to be outsourced overseas.
We simply won’t have the electricity supply.
Say, who remembers when we were going to be the clever country?
Exactly, very few Geologists get on to a grad position at one of the big miners. Most of us learn the ropes manning a drill rig before moving into the corporate scene.
Weatherford wireline logging has been messing with automatic logging features for more than 10 years now. BHPB were big on trying it out to get rid of us costly & pesky contractors. It’s not bad put in comparison to a human logging the chips but didn’t have the accuracy at a scale required for over and under burden around a target seam.
I think us exploration geologists will be around for a bit till that is mastered.
It also doesn’t have a functional ’hang on a minute, that doesn’t make sense’ module – critical in exploration drilling.
See all Australian bureaucracies some 40 years after expertise was replaced by “professional” managers with Yartz/Law degrees.
The analogy could be like surfboard shaping. CNC machines take it 90% of the way and humans do the last 10%. Plenty of menial grunt work in most jobs.
That’s very nearly my second point, Bear.
The hand shapers know what the whole design is about. When you lose that connection to the design principles you end up with random outcomes – sometimes tragic ones.
Some may recall that after a few attempts Senator Ralph Babet managed to get a Senate inquiry into excess deaths in Australia.
It has completed its report and Rebekah Barnett via her Substack has written about what happened.
Here are her first paragraphs :
Australia’s Excess Mortality Inquiry suppresses majority of submissions, omitting key evidence from recordDid the committee follow the evidence, or did it discard the evidence that didn’t follow its preferred narrative?
Two thirds of submissions made to the Australian Senate’s Excess Mortality Inquiry have been suppressed and key evidence omitted from its concluding report, calling the Inquiry’s integrity and findings into question.
The world-first Inquiry set out to investigate why record-high numbers of Australians have died in recent years, including non-Covid deaths, at levels not seen since World War II.
On Friday, the Excess Mortality Inquiry committee handed down its report, concluding that Covid is the “key driver” of Australian excess mortality, both “directly and indirectly.”
However, it has come to light that the committee buried the majority of submissions made to the Inquiry, acknowledging only 59 (31.5%) of 187 submissions received on the public Inquiry page.
Her article mentions some of those whose whose submissions were not included. Includes Dr Melissa McCann who is leading the vaccine injury compensation scheme and Australian Medical Professionals Society.
Plus a link to dissenting report by Senator Babet and the official inquiry report.
This is very disheartening.
Trials, followed by gallows. The guilty parties AND the senators involved in the coverup.
It’s not the crime that generates the most bodies – it’s the cover up. And many have added their names to the list of guilty.
This is not going away.
Tits gone to arguably the wankiest job in Australia: VC of a shit uni and as far as I know he made no mention of Kathy Sherriff. Here is an analysis of her rape allegation statement:
Statement Analysis: Kathy Sheriff accuses Bill Shorten of Rape | Sophie Zadeh
Was out by the ever expanding solar farm the other day.
The herd of Droughtmasters on the other side of the fence, staring at the spreading stain whilst chewing their cud, was perfect.
You should have taken a pic and turned it into a meme.
For those interested the Committee members were as below. Interesting to note all 6 members are female and Chair a Green.
Members Chair
Senator Penny Allman-Payne (from 27 March 2024)
AG, QLD
Senator Janet Rice (until 27 March 2024)
AG, VIC
Deputy Chair
Senator Marielle Smith
ALP, SA
Members
Senator Wendy Askew
LP, TAS
Senator Hollie Hughes
LP, NSW
Senator Maria Kovacic
LP, NSW
Senator Louise Pratt
ALP, WA
Participating Members
Senator Ralph Babet
UAP, VIC
Senator the Hon Matthew Canavan
LNP, QLD
Senator Gerard Rennick
IND, QLD
Senator Malcolm Roberts
PHON, QLD
Minor point but why is Canavan “the Hon” ?
It’s a courtesy because he’s a former minister.
Marine Le Pen must be doing cartwheels over the pedophilia victim appointing Mr EU as Prime Minister.
She’s holding off on the ban hammer until she knows more about what policies he’s proposing. The far-left are ropeable though, so I suspect he’s not going to last long before being voted into the sunset.
Babet, Rennick and Roberts are the 3 best senators in the federal brothel; and chances are all 3 will be out after the next election.
And Alex Antic – SA
Babet still has another term to go.
This is simultaneously the best argument for gun control and the best argument against gun control:
Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray’s broken family (nypost.com)
It’s the best argument for because it would make it harder for such ratbags to obtain weapons (legally); and it’s the best argument against because if these ratbags have weapons then you sure as hell want one as well.
To celebrate the murder of Jews, because that’s what some people do, yesterday in Munich German police shot dead a man (yes, of middle eastern origin) who opened fire on them. The ‘incident’ is being treated as a foiled “terrorist attack” on Munich’s Israeli consulate on the anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games killings.
Of course.
I’ve just the reportage of this incident in the Oz, and reading it my mind was taken back to those dark days in September 1972. I remember it well, I remember seeing the footage of Munich on our black and white box television set, I remember seeing my father sob with grief, and I remember….
Moshe Weinberg, wrestling coach
Yossef Romano, weightlifter
Ze’ev Friedman, weightlifter
David Berger, weightlifter (survived grenade but died of smoke inhalation)
Yakov Springer, weightlifting judge
Eliezer Halfin, wrestler
Yossef Gutfreund, wrestling referee
Kehat Shorr, shooting coach
Mark Slavin, wrestler
Andre Spitzer, fencing coach
Amitzur Shapira, track coach
Never forget their names.
It’s been over fifty years since the Munich atrocity. Once upon a time a stronger and more moral West denounced such atrocities against Jews but not in 2024, where many in the fallen West openly and unashamedly celebrate the murder of Jews, and this country even welcomes in 3000 Nazi Gazan barbarians.
In this country, over the last few days, there’s been numerous incidents of Jew hatred on display.
In Melbourne, two Jewish children were attacked, with one punched in the face, by a group of 8 -10 Arabs. And only hours later, junior players from the AJAX Football Club were called “f – king Jews” and “Jewish dogs” during an under 18s game against St Paul’s at Hurlingham Park in Brighton East.
Here in Sydney, around the iconic Bondi Beach where it just so happens quite a few Jews live, many sites around the beach have been covered by ‘Hamas’ supporting graffiti.
Charming. I don’t know what others think but I would call the above ‘real Jew hatred’ here in Oz. And since our very own Nazi, who moonlights as a Nazi hunter (I guess it takes one to know one), seems intent on calling out anti-Semitism (but only when it suits him), perhaps he should begin his ‘Nazi hunting’ closer to home, beginning in his home town of Melbourne.
Or is it that our Nazi Nazi hunter is a tad selective about the kind of Jew hatred he condemns?
Oh wait.
I can only try to imagine how disturbing that would be to Jewish residents.
One would hope the council makes cleaning it a priority.
Women and blacks should not have the vote: if cackles wins it will be due to them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdgrvIm6zxk
“Managed to embarrass a whole continent” It turns out it was our fault for not understanding break dancing and, anyway, they just need more money. A fabulous insight into the scam that is modern academia. Raygun interview with commentary . 10min youtube. Don’t miss the comments.
Not only the continent we stand on, the global community of every break dancer and dance watcher and dance movie fan and probably every one who ever had a dancing lesson had skin crawling embarrassment.
If I never see or hear another word about her I am fine with that.
What a gal!
Remember the Nazis who scaled Parliament House a few months ago?
Well….
Three of the four anti-Israel activists who caused a major security scare by scaling Parliament House have been let off with no conviction. One, who had an extensive record, received a 12 month good behaviour bond.
We also have two tier justice in this country.
Sets a pretty low bar for the next lot.
This is an absolute disgrace. They put up a Hamas terrorist’s death sign over our Parliament. They broke security in our key governmental building. And they were not immediately stopped.
This is two-tier justice on steroids.
via sky:
m0nty’s lot is the pick of Putin. Not a good look, monty.
Sneaky Putin knew his remarks would only boost Trump. Fine. 🙂
Grade A trolling by Putin. 🙂
It’s not hard to troll the cognitively impaired Western media.
Fishface is a compliment not an insult.
How fish guts might play a role in future skin care products (Phys.org, 5 Sep)
The beauty industry is rather entertaining. Ladies will put all sorts of odd and smelly stuff onto their faces if it’s claimed it’ll make them look better.
Nothing better than selling hope. See how money the vitamin guys make.
Not only that. It’s now fashionable in all state judiciaries in Australia, from magistrates to judges, to spite the taxpayers paying their salaries when it comes to meting out sentences that the community expects and keeping dangerous criminals off the streets, for whom bail is now dished out like candy.
The legal fraternity, in my opinion, has become a public enemy not subject to society’s rules that everyone else has to obey.
King Island dairy to close after 120 years of operations.
c. 50 jobs to go plus the knock-on effect on the island economy.
Sounds like a great business opportunity for someone else on King Island.
The goodwill would instantly and automatically transfer.
(Btw this is in reference to the decision by big boys Saputo.)
A co-op if they could manage it.
The parent company hasn’t been able to sell the business to date.
Yeah. Been passed around like Julia Gillard at a Liars National Conference.
They were paid six-figure sums of Yankee dollarbucks per week, each, by a Russian cut out! It’s about as plain a case of right-wingers colluding with Russian agents that you could see. Pool and Rubin are practically waving wads of roubles in your face.
Yet, all you see is you and them as victims of a vast left-wing conspiracy. The Bourne Idiocy.
No comment on Putin’s endorsement of KamelToe?
LOL wussians!
I’m fascinated by the Dems recycling the same stuff over and over, despite being taken to the woodshed repeatedly.
BMueller, anyone?The latest is of course all the Russian disinformation about Hunter who has just plead guilty to everything we’ve been saying for years. Joe is just so not going to pardon him on 19 Jan 2025.
It will be very funny how they tie all this into Wussiagate 2. The October surprise arrives in September.
Well, yes, he is in fact an idiot.
Prince Harry to Join Matt Damon and Address Gilded Elites at Clinton Global Initiative (5 Sep)
It’s amusing that a guy who played a character fighting to get to the truth out of the CIA is himself completely a deep state fanboi.
Hard to see who this is more demeaning for.
EXCLUSIVEBruce Lehrmann was living a life of luxury at Seven’s expense, with ‘bags of cocaine, sex workers and lavish dinners at top restaurants’… but he’s been claiming CENTRELINK ever since he was branded a rapist
Daily Mail.
I expect he can barely keep himself in cocaine and has had to resort to self pleasuring like much of the population.
The father is up on charges now. I think that’s a good thing in view of the stories coming out.
It’s been over fifty years since the Munich atrocity
Never forget Operation “Wrath Of God” where the perpetrators of this atrocity were hunted down, and executed, like the scum they were.
Wrath Of God II The Sequel seems to be going pretty well.
News today is that Sinwar tried to decamp to Egypt but was unsuccessful. I wonder how long he will survive?
No only, you fat lesbian. He’s just pled guilty to tax evasion charges, which I’m sure he’ll get out of by Dementia giving him a pardon.
Ah yes, tax evasion, for tax that he fully repaid, during the time when he was an addict. The other charge that they slap on you when they have nothing else at all on you, but just want to ruin your life.
That’s how Barry and the DoJ roll.
Anyone who wants to watch a super secret spy satellite launch, the live coverage starts in about 10 minutes time. 😀
I love how a superduper secret CIA mission is being launched with live coverage. It’s very Elon.
Daniel Greenfield….
The only people starving in Gaza were the Jewish hostages
While Hamas lied about a famine, they were starving hostages.
Last month I wrote ‘UN Blocks Food Aid to Gaza to Fake a Famine’ which broke down some of the ways that a famine was faked. Even the false claims of a famine have been falling off from the usual sources. And there are no shortage of videos and photos of open restaurants and Arab Muslims in Gaza throwing away U.S. aid.
That’s not to say there weren’t people starving in Gaza. Those people were the Jewish hostages.
Eden Yerushalmi, a young woman who was one of the six hostages murdered by Hamas, weighed only 36 kilograms or 79 pounds at the time of her death. Other surviving hostages have described severe hunger in the past.
While the U.S., Israel and other countries filled Gaza with food, the hostages were the ones starving.
Hamas supporters on college campuses and in public areas held fake ‘fasts’ and ‘hunger strikes’.
Meanwhile, the terrorists they were covering for were starving their hostages.
The thing to remember about Islam and the Left, is that the things they accuse you of are the things that they either are doing to you or want to do to you.
The more they scream about famine in Gaza, the more they’re admitting that they’re the ones starving people to death.
Don’t forget that World Central Kitchen (WCK) is still organising food deliveries into Gaza. A question, has WCK requested that some of its food be delivered to the Jewish hostages? Hmm, just wondering.
Here’s the latest puke from WCK…..
World Central Kitchen (WCK) is resuming its operations in Gaza. We continue to grieve and mourn the loss of seven of our friends and colleagues who were killed in an IDF attack in Gaza on April 1.
What about the Jewish hostages? Oh, and last week six young Jews, who’d been beaten, sexually assaulted AND STARVED for nearly eleven months, only to then to be shot in the back of their heads by Nazi Gazan cowards, after which those Nazi cowards fled the scene.
And yet the Nazi left, our own government and the Nazi here all celebrate this scum.
My God, we live in disgraceful times.
My God, we live in disgraceful times.
Expresses it perfectly, Cassie. Yet, when I say this, many – especially the young – are perplexed.
Words no longer suffice. I find it deeply, deeply, troubling, how much of the (western, first) world has responded to the egregious slaughter of the 7th of October, and Israel’s measured, cautious response.
I’ve been open previously regarding my lack of knowledge of, and connection with, Israel, however following the edging-toward-totalitarianism of the covidiocy, the cold detachment of the poser and pretender classes towards Israel has floored me.
I truly believe that we as a species are devolving into something more primitive.
The Maori Royal Family are going for equity since the King Died last week.
Youngest child and only daughter is to be Crowned.
I didn’t even know the Maoris had a Royal Family until news filtered through some years back upon the old Queen’s death.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13819333/New-zealand-maori-king-tuheitia-sons-overlooked-crown.html
That’s why there is a treaty in NZ and Mabo was wrongly decided. The idea of a sovereign Australian mainland is a laughable legal fiction.
Maori never had a king until they needed to appoint on the negotiate the Treaty of Waitangi with the British Crown. So far there have only been seven (7) kings and queens.
There is Dysfunction, and then there’s USS Manchester (LCS 14) Gold Crews in 2023
Bet you a dollar she was charging sailors to download porn. And she only got reduced one rank? The Navy should adopt a new recruiting song.
ACE?
It was the noncoms who put the Starlink dish in place. Noncoms are boss on a ship, the Captain is just a figurehead.
The ship herself is a fine Aussie lady, built by Austal. Nothing wrong with her, although there’re a lot of limitations with her design. But she works damn fine within her design specs. We could do a lot worse than getting the Defense Dept to build a dozen like her for RAN service. Cheap too.
Bruce,
thanks very much for the extra info. Very pleased to know it.
Funny how Royalty persists – both in EnZed, and in the good old US of A ( Harry brought in to prop up the Democrats).
And to top it off, he was posting hooker liaisons as business expenses.
mUntard will believe and spread anything that the daily DNC Talking Points tell him. He lacks the level of intellect necessary to challenge any of the rubbish he reads.
Watched some Megyn Kelly commentary about the Tenet Pool Rubin saga. She went into some specifics of charges. All related to assisting Russia in its propaganda war v Ukraine. None heard so far that help Trump in actual election other than the named podcasters not Harris supporters.
I think most podcasters I have seen are anti Ukraine war and hold view the neo cons kept pushing Putin too far.
However I think Putin wins either way on the election. Harris is a useless leader. However Trump has indicated he wants the war ended and that might help Putin as a peace deal might mean to keeps territory and an excuse to stop.
No. 1 son is passed over…
Surprise as eldest son overlooked for crown after king dies in New Zealand (6 Sep)
It’s fun that the people who ate Cook’s crew are now woke.
To be fair to them, they didn’t discriminate in who they ate,
Foreign political interference.
Owning two houses and a Ferrari weren’t blinking red lights for an investigation for a staffer?
Who are the FBI/CIA actually working for?
Look at the crowd, it’s 90% well-stocked middle aged sheilas voting for Kamaltoe.
Would that be the same demographic as mUntard? I think that I saw him in the photo.
I wonder if AI can plug itself back in again?
Hahaha……streaming…
Just into season 2 of BBC series “A Touch of Cloth” on Prime TV.
A piss-take of various BBC series of Crime/Detective shows MA15+.
If you watch it with the sound muted it looks a typical show of the genre.
However, with sound on, it’s full of double entendres and hilarious silly comments. Well worth watching if you want a laugh.
In this case it is an attempt to label some high profile podcasters as under Russian influence and thereby implying Trump is being supported by Putin.
Oddly, under all the circumstances, the DOJ seems to disagree:
A horrid cynic might think the Kremlin has jarked Tenet here. Small-change investment, RT staff safe, tipped off to the FBI – (correctly) expecting an immediate DOJ and slave media gotcha response – with the payoff being righteously indignant US influencers pointing out Russiagate 2.0 to a scornful and suspicious Nation.
Has anyone seen any protests about the war in Gaza being held in any Islamic countries (other than the UK of course)?
Strange.
Spot the odd “man” out.
MSM full of it again. Succession to Kiwi King was always likely to be the daughter, both boys have criminal convictions and not considered worthy.
Kiwiblog was discussing it the other day:
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2024/09/who_will_be_the_maori_kings_successor.html
Rock,
Did you have a PhD supervisor with the initials N R ?
Na don’t have even a masters. I’m a humble Bachelor Deg type.
Duly noted, thanks. The bloke referred to was a geologist on the LTU campus that i worked at.
Mac. Just been mulling NR, light bulb moment if it who I think a lecturer matches those initials. Very knowledgeable guy along with the rest of the Geology team, we had an ex cop, old school Geo and a another who when wasn’t on the red wine was a really good lecturer as well.
Thanks for the info Rock. I jumped the gun with the story and blamed “woke equity”.
I don’t believe the new Queen will care though. 😀
And there we go, the October surprise in September. It’s all Wussia again folks
Geez, the Democrat Desperation stinks as bad as the crotch spot inside the Gimps’ rubber suit. eeeeewwwww.
Worked last time. Worth another shot.
Yeah, I believe that Musk is short of a bob. But then again Democrat voters are not known for their brainpower.
What is going on at Quadrant?
No more freebies… so, lost my readership…
12 foot ladder works.
Stupid overkill by whoever is running it.
They were not being run well before either. As a subscriber I can log in OK.
However I think its really a bad move. Half their subscribers must be free readers who decide to kick in sometimes, like me.
Putting this out there for comment.
Hypothesis: ESG with banks and big institutions refusing to back coal, oil, gas, uranium and other miners might be great.
From oil to copper to cow farts, these are nice assets.
If the idiots prefer to put their money into solar farms, windmills, and an already maxed out AI field, have at it I say.
I assume all the good people who run miners will have to issue shares and bonds to smaller investors.
Might that not be a great boon to the little guy?
JC that’s blood on the hands of the Qvislings who use the bullsh*t euphemism “transwomen” in place of the sober and perfectly accurate “transvestite men”.
Roger
September 6, 2024 11:57 am
King Island dairy to close after 120 years of operations.
c. 50 jobs to go plus the knock-on effect on the island economy.
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A few days ago I bought small pieces of KI Brie and KI Camembert at Coles – not cheap either.
They were both rubbish. The Brie was bland and flavourless, hard instead of runny. The Camembert was similar, and also tasted slightly off.
Coles may be partly responsible, but the imported cheeses I used to buy there were always excellent. They seem to have reorganised their speciality cheese department and eliminated everything but two or three local brands, one of which is KI, plus a couple of boring and bland imports. They don’t even sell Edam any more.
I really miss the Port Salut (sniffle). Since it was often sold out when I went to buy it, it’s not because it wasn’t selling.
Bottom line, KI product is either crap to begin with or allowed to be crap when it is sold. Frankly, I doubt that the two samples I tried were much good to begin with.
Also, some moron has been allowed to turn the Coles speciality cheese department into an offshoot of the pre-grated Parmesan aisle.
Grrr!
We Dutch origin peeps take our cheese very seriously.
Wally, I did say spot the odd man out, so that compensates, no?
AI. Some processing on stuff swept off the internet. The thing Vernor Vinge called “the web of a billion lies”. How does the AI know what is true and real? As more AI generated stuff hits the web it will become self referential.
Human intelligence is bad enough at telling truth from lies – see the current conventional wisdom in numerous areas which anyone who cares to can find out is wrong.
How do you trust an output for which there is no way of finding out how it was arrived at? Let alone on any mission critical application.
How is that different to “trust experts”?
It’s no different, is it?
Large Language Models got us to where we are with AI.
As they are getting bigger, we see them doing things like making shit up.
Other paradigms that outperform current AI in terms of real outcomes and true predictions will win out. Grok is better than ChatGPT.
Me, me. I know the answer to that…
Which one is that from? I’ve read several his but ran out of steam. His stories are pretty chunky. My favourite of his is one of his early novels: The Witling, which is lighter and more like an Arthur C Clark story. Sadly I see he died this year.
One of his later ones, A Fire on the Deep I think.
I did enjoy the Peacewar and Marooned in Realtime stories.
Social media is praising Bill Shorten for his “leadership” at Beaconsfield. That was the most opportunistic, in-your-face look-at-me orgy I have ever seen.
Naaa, ya think. Bill was there to lend a hand.
Yep. He stood infront if the adoring ABC cameras, had nothing whatsoever to do with the rescue, pretended that he had principal involvement in proceedings, and committed shameful liable against company and authorities.
Opportunist scum.
Dick Pratt’s plane was a nice touch. Presumably he wasn’t up in Sydney shagging at the time. Everyone made sacrifices.
I’m reliably told that the miners at Beconsfied who got stuck/killed disobeyed a safety directive to not be in that area. Came from someone who was working at the mine at the time.
As for Shorten, I don’t rate him highly as both a minister and ALP leader. I have been told he is genuine about the NDIS but seems to have achieved zip in reigning in some of the more outrageous misuse of funds. Sorry the accolades are overstated, he comes across more as a lazy politician more interested in the trappings of power.
Someone on the old cat wrote a very funny line about Bill rescuing the boys single handedly with a spoon purloined from the cafe on the way through.
They really need to retire this flaming imbecile from the Oz
Sheridan and Kelly are the Stadler and Waldorf of Teh Paywallian.
Don’t ignore Cameron Stewart… the Kenny
Brazil is showing a Harris administration how to de-platform Twitter/X
JC posted a statistical breakdown up thread of who is more likely to commit violence against another person.
I would like to add this joyful thing to the list.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1831000314717344111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1831000314717344111%7Ctwgr%5Ef2eb054a9e6f9d0e699f850aad93bee98ee1ad51%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
Another good interview with Buchanan by Tom Woods on Churchill and WW2.
You can hear him say it.
@scrowder
He pleads guilty knowing his father will pardon him and none of the evidence will be heard. Easy-peasy.
@GrrrGraphics
Hunter Biden pleas guilty to Federal Tax charges, he knows he is in good hands with Deep State…
Throwback Ben Garrison Cartoon
Which earned the idiotic grub another sobriquet: “The Aardvark of Beaconsfield”.
The Bee
FBI Assures Public The Next Ten Mass Shooters Are Also On Their Radar
One comment –
“I thought this was a satire site.”
Who can tell, these days.
The ten next Presidential assassins are also on their radar.
Or in their speed dial list.
From Sky as well – the weekly tête-à-têtes between Sheridini and Blot are excruciating, to put it mildly.
Jebus. People pay to watch that?
With a short clip of her in 2019. Heaven help us if she gets in.
@elonmusk
Kamala wants to destroy your right to free speech under The Constitution
“We Should Have Named it What It Was” – WHOA! Biden Goes Off-Script in Wisconsin, Admits the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ was Actually the Green New Deal
I have found footage of our very own “Soy Boy Gimp”, politely informing Trump supporters they are wrong.
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1831351806498124031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1831351806498124031%7Ctwgr%5Ef2eb054a9e6f9d0e699f850aad93bee98ee1ad51%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
@WesternLensman
Is that the Fetterlump in the foreground?
Why the Political Establishment Won’t Touch the Chronic Disease Issue
Meme
No, that sort of thing does not require a level of cynicism. It does require a strong grasp of the stupid stick, though.
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LOL, keep trying idiot.
If I want a stupid stick I know who to go to to ask for one.
Senator Gerard Rennick
$18 billion spent on Covid vaccines & treatment. Why?
One of several reasons why the Libs want to be rid of Rennick.
He’s too principled & independent minded for them.