dover0beach September 19, 2024 11:53 pm Israel didn’t tamper with Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, it made them – New York TimesLots…
Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Sept 2024
- The Unnecessary War?
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Sept 2024
- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
- Open Thread – Weekend 14 Sept 2024
Exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, eh? What will go off next? Their Sony Walkmans? The telex machine?
dover0beach September 19, 2024 11:53 pm Israel didn’t tamper with Hezbollah’s exploding pagers, it made them – New York Times…
Holland also produced a substantial number of volunteers for the SS. I had a workmate who told me his Grandfather…
This was a cyber attack similar to the Stuxnet worm that crippled Iran’s nuclear facilities a decade or so ago.…
Thanks for that, Bushie. Another la Nina would suit me just fine.
CIA Whistleblower on Julian Assange
CIA Agent Reveals Deadly Mistakes the Government Tried to Cover Up
It’s outrageous that something like this should even need to be contemplated.
Trump pledges to launch federal task force to ‘liberate Aurora’ from foreign gangs
Why Men Hate Kamala
Kamala Harris goes to Trump country in Pennsylvania but gets called a ‘war criminal’ by members of her own crowd
Biden-Harris initiative could be giving well over $1 billion in federal benefits to Haitian migrants
anyone who’s ever had a heart …
wouldn’t turn around an’ break it …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTt0L_qwntg
Rhodesian “Ballard of the Green Berets”
This ones for a couple of the okes – they know who they are…
Anyone passing a law like this is a fascist.
@cb_doge
Australian PM dismissed Elon Musk’s claims that the Labor government is “fascist,” stating X has a “social responsibility.”
Australia proposed a law to fine social networks up to 5% of global revenue for failing to curb misinformation. Its a clear attack on free speech.
@themarketswork
How in God’s name can anyone watch this interview and then vote for her?
@robinmonotti
@robinmonotti
If journalism is printing what someone else does not want published then I don’t see a single journalist in this photo.
@robinmonotti
Is this the same Oprah Winfrey who wants to depopulate planet earth? With “vaccines”?
“They gathered at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist.. they agreed that overpopulation was a priority.”
@robinmonotti
THE REAL REASON FOR CLIMATE CHANGE:
The warming from the Sun is cyclical, it’s NOT constant. The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly changing because both the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is irregular and the Sun itself wobbles due to the combined gravitational pull of all the planets together. Look at the Schwabe solar cycle of 11 years, the Jose solar cycle of solar Inertial Motion of 179 years, Eddy Solar Cycle of 1000 years, the Bray-Halstatt Cycles of 2300-2500 years, then look into the three Milankovitch Cycles.
Short to medium term climate change:
Solar Inertial Motion: the combined mass of the planets also moves the position of the Sun through their combined gravitational pull, meaning the Sun moves around following the ever moving barycentre of the Solar system rather than being in a fixed central point in the middle Solar System. That is the key thing to understand: the Sun is moving around, wobbling in spiral like motion as it travels, it is not stationary. Once you understand that all medium term climate change can be explained simply because of the Sun’s changing distance from the Earth.
None of this has anything to do with humans. None of this has anything to do with CO2. The models of the Solar System you grew up believing as a child were gross over simplifications. They conditioned you to believe that the Solar system has a fixed Sun position with a regular Sun activity with regular orbits, of which the Earth is one. Yet that is not the reality: not only the earth both tilts and wobbles as it orbits, but the orbit is a changing ellipse not a perfect circle, meaning the distance from the Sun is not constant. These are the three Milankovitch cycles. Also other planets have irregular orbits.
The combined effect of all these irregular orbits together pulls the Sun off centre of the solar system into the barycentre. A wobbling Sun is the real reason for short to medium term climate change, and an irregular earth orbit, tilt and wobble is the reason for long term climate change.
And this is just the beginning of the story of irregularity in the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, then there are cycles of Sun activity, making it stronger and weaker according to how close to the 11 year cycle of magnetic poles flip it is, next being in 2024, and how many Sun spots & Solar flares we are exposed to.
Then you need to factor volcanic activity, the Hunga-Tonga Hunga underwater volcanic eruption of January 2022 increased the water vapour in the stratosphere by 10%, this in itself will cause considerable warming of the planet in most regions.
It’s definitely not a simplistic neat black and white story of CO2, a minor greenhouse gas, as 95% of the earth’s greenhouse gases are constituted by water vapour instead.
Humans have no power to determine either the orbit of the Earth around the Sun or the Sun’s internal & external activity, or the water vapour in the atmosphere.
Life adapts much more easily to higher temperatures and increases in CO2, particularly plants, vegetation, trees, plankton& phytoplankton, than it does to decreases in CO2.
The real danger is a decrease of CO2, and a decrease in temperature, not an increase in either.
Once again, we have been deceived by a systematically corrupt scientific funding system linked to oligarchs interests.
CO2 was always a control knob for economic prosperity, not climate.
@liz_churchill10
Bill Gates to use AI to silence those that oppose his ‘vaccines’.
“We should have free speech, but if you’re inciting violence…OR if you’re causing people NOT to take vaccines, where are those boundaries that even the US should have rules?” -Bill Gates
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore heads into a third decade in power
From the Oz.
@MikeBenzCyber
the US State Dept’s cut-out, US Institute of Peace (which gets $50 million a year from the State Dept) openly protested the closure of the poppy fields & lobbied to keep the world’s largest supply of heroin flowing
@MikeBenzCyber
the Biden White House & US State Dept censorship officials worked with the same UK censorship cell that targeted @rustyrockets
Another good walk with Cash. Always attracting a crowd and smiles.
I do wonder what people think when Stevo just drops the leash with so many people around?
—
Woof bark Growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Americana at Brand in Glendale, California 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcNTiqY2DXU
JD Vance now straight up running the Nazi playbook.
mUnter:
Are you able to say, without equivocation, that this isn’t happening?
No?
No. Thought not.
Fatboy
So, the state invites 20,000 Haitians to move into a tiny town, knowing it’ll cause serious tension, and somehow Vance is a Nazi for pointing that out? Seems like the left’s strategy is, “If you spot a problem, congratulations, you’re now a Nazi”
The sheer callousness of doing this to vulnerable folks is just unfathomable.
will cats decide the presidential election?
Doing good work without pay a humane thing to do, it happened, still does.
The Extraordinary Story of ‘The Madonnas of Pervyse’.
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In 1914, Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker left London determined ‘to do their bit’ on the Western Front.
The women had met through their shared passion for motorbikes.
In Belgium they got jobs driving ambulances to military hospitals.
Yet, Mairi and Elsie soon discovered that many of the soldiers who they transported across bumpy roads, died of their wounds before they reached hospitals.
To address this, Mairi and Elsie resolved to set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the wrecked village of Pervyse, near Ypres.
Elsie, a qualified nurse who was full of bold ideas, reasoned that soldiers could be treated and stabilised in the aid post within a few critical hours after their wounding, which would save lives. After initial resistance, medical authorities agreed to the plan.
Elsie and Mairi installed themselves in a primitive cellar of a house that was 55 yards from the front line.
To combat the bitter winters, they dressed and slept in rubber boots over two pairs of stockings. They also wore thick trousers, a shirt, three sweaters, and a heavy overcoat that reached to the tips of their boots.
The friends continuously risked their lives, working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment, to treat their patients.
News of their courage and expertise quickly spread. They soon became known as The Madonnas of Pervyse’.
A procession of journalists, photographers, dignitaries, and royals visited them.
Despite their celebrity, Elsie and Mairi were not paid for their work. Rather, they spent their savings and sold their beloved motorbikes to keep their first aid post open.
Elsie and Mairi remained in Pervyse until arsenic gas nearly killed them in the spring of 1918.
They returned home and tried to readjust to peacetime life. They soon discovered that society still retained narrow views on a woman’s role in everyday life.
This proved more challenging for Elsie and Mairi than the war itself.
Under sail.
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
(Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat)
Incidentally, he said the very same thing about the US.
“You can always count on the American people to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”
Nothing changed since.
Obviously many here at the Cat have been traumatised by all the recent cat and animal memes related to Springfield.
Just a trigger warning about the Great Springfield Pet Massacre over at the Week in Pictures. You might think you are mentally tough. However prepare yourself and have a handkerchief ready for what happened to the brave firefighters after they rescued some cute animals. Some counselling may be required and under no circumstances look at this week’s images with children as the horror will stay with them forever.
You have been warned.
PS KevinM great story about the nurses. However not very gentlemanly of the British Army not to pay them.
Week In Pictures.
From a Daily Mail article about Welcome to Country at an AFL game. Must have been some new cave paintings or archeological dig we have not been told about.
Seems added another 150,000 years.
‘It’s a ceremony we’ve been doing for 250,000 years-plus BC – and the BC stands for Before Cook.’
Today’s Sunday Tele:
ANGRY LIBERALS TRASH BALLOT
LINDA SILMALIS – JAKE MCCALLUM
15 Sep 2024
Angry Liberal supporters turning up to council elections with no conservative candidates ended up trashing their ballot papers with record numbers of informal votes recorded yesterday.
And while Sydney’s independent Lord Mayor Clover Moore last night claimed victory after snatching a historic sixth term, she was set to lose her majority with three rather than five councillors being elected.
The day brought mixed results for both major parties while the Greens were being punished in Woollahra and Waverley in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
On the northern beaches, up to one quarter of votes lodged were informal with the lack of Liberal councillors blamed for the record high.
The absence of Liberals was also attributed to the Greens looking to double their number from two to four councillors while the Your Northern Beaches Independents were on track to increase their number from five to seven.
The lack of Liberal candidates on one ward in Penrith resulted in all five Labor candidates being elected.
Down in Sutherland, the Liberals were set to gain a majority despite the controversial dumping of the mayor and deputy mayor, both of whom ran as independents.
In Parramatta, the Liberals were also out-polling Labor while the party was experiencing a landslide in the Hills – a council where candidates were previously rolled by the party in 2021.
The Liberals were also set to retain the Ryde and Canada Bay mayoralty.
Up in Byron, independent Mayor Michael Lyon was set to be defeated with Labor to take his place. Mr Lyon, who is currently embroiled in domestic violence allegations, said he was feeling defeated over early polling results.
Mr Lyon is accused of assaulting his wife Susan Lyon at their home on August 1. He has pleaded not guilty.
“It’s an absolute disaster for me at the moment,” he said. “To be honest, my initial results are so bad that I’m not sure I’ll even get on council this time around, let alone mayor. The results have been pretty poor so far but not wholly unexpected.”
Over at Ku-ring-gai Council – which has waged a war against the Minns government housing reforms – Mayor Sam Ngai declared development to have been the “single biggest issue for voters” at north shore polling booths.
“About 80 per cent of people who talked to me had concerns about the six-storey uniformed approach the government is taking,” he said.
Sydney’s most popular mayors are independent Frank Carbone – who comfortably retained the top job at Fairfield with almost 80 per cent – and “pro-housing” Burwood Labor Mayor John Faker who was far behind.
In Liverpool, Mayor Ned Mannoun was ahead with more than 40 per cent over the vote last night.
The lead-up to the NSW council elections saw a catastrophic failure from the NSW Liberal Party, which failed to nominate almost 140 candidates by deadline set by the NSW Electoral Commission.
Counting will resume on Monday.
Hopefully the dog collar will have it’s wings clipped a bit.
Today’s Sunday Tele:
HE’S A REAL ALBO-TROSS AROUND ALL OUR NECKS
Peta Credlin
15 Sep 2024
The fact that a first term government is now struggling in the polls, just 50/50 in two party preferred terms, with its primary vote well down even on the last election’s record low, and some 30 seats in play, shows that many voters are starting to think they’ve been had.
Dudded.
Worried that a great country is now in decline, Australians look at Anthony Albanese and see that, far from trying to improve economic competitiveness and social cohesion, his government is making things worse.
Sometimes, deliberately.
Take energy. Our electricity bills tell the story of renewable power; the more of it we have, the more expensive our power has become. The government keeps insisting that power from the sun and wind is “free” as if there’s no capital cost, no transmission cost and no firming cost but all of that must be paid for.
Take the so-called “Made in Australia” program. This government talks constantly of so-called “investments” that will supposedly “unlock” private capital – especially as part of the so-called “green economy” – when, in fact, all this will do is create a sector of subsidy dependent crony capitalists. Likewise, it boasts about job creation even though statistics prove that two-thirds of the recent jobs created are in the public sector, so jobs we pay for as taxpayers.
Take rights. Of course, Australians have a right to protest but they don’t have a right to disrupt the daily lives of others and they certainly do not have a right to use violence no matter how strongly they feel about climate issues or about life in Gaza. And, while no one wants to see trans people disrespected, that doesn’t give biological men the right to invade women-only spaces such as change rooms and sporting competitions. On issues like these, the Albanese government can’t quite seem to decide whose side it’s on.
At least for a time, most prime ministers grow into the job, as they transition from party to national leader. But because he chose the divisive Voice as his “signature” policy, Anthony Albanese has never really transcended intense partisanship. Even the couple of issues where a measure of bipartisanship has just been achieved, such as putting the CFMEU into administration and aged care reform, reflect more on Peter Dutton’s growing political maturity than that of the PM.
It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the PM’s heart is still basically with the far left he championed as a student activist. You want to know why preschool kids are expected to participate in reconciliation week activities; why nearly all official business starts with an “acknowledgment of country”; why the military now have diversity targets; and why schools won’t tell parents that their kids want to change their gender? It’s the impact of the rampant cultural Marxism that holds that societies like ours are essentially illegitimate because they’re supposedly based on white, male, settler “privilege” and are bent on destroying the environment. And it’s this cultural Marxism that Labor finds hard to resist because it now depends on the preferences of the Greens to survive.
For the best part of 50 years, the hard left has been trying to undermine our institutions and corrode the self-confidence of western democracies, especially the English-speaking ones. The phrase “the long march through the institutions” well describes the left’s tactics: To infiltrate leftist thinkers into key institutions, especially educational ones, and to put committed, or at least malleable, people into key jobs so that, over time, institutions such as universities, bureaucracies, courts, and even the army and the church become agents of radical social change rather than social stability.
As it’s turned out, the Marxists who could never persuade the working class to revolt over strict economic equality have been much better at persuading the middle class to revolt over saving the planet, ending the patriarchy, and fighting racism, even though environmental protections have never been greater, and minorities of every type have never been better looked after.
It was the PM’s identity obsessions which saw him unleash the Voice onto an unsuspecting public: a massive sneak attack on a constitution that had served us well for over a century, that would have given some people a special say over everyone, based on their ancestry. Naturally, Albanese dressed it up as just being “polite” and “gracious” to Aboriginal people and a way of saying sorry for the past even though that had supposedly been addressed with Kevin Rudd’s apology in 2008.
This is why Anthony Albanese stressed, pre-election, that he was “safe change” and really only wanted to swap out an unpopular incumbent in Scott Morrison, plus cut power bills, boost real wages and ease mortgage pressure – none of which, in fact, he’s done. Instead, cost of living has never been higher, hospitals are in crisis, he’s massively boosted union power, made new resource developments almost impossible, weakened border protection and released foreign criminals into the community.
More and more, the Albanese government looks like it could really be a “oncer”.
THUMBS UP:
Peter Malinauskas: The SA premier has finally forced all sides of politics, state and federal, into doing something to limit the harm that social media is causing our young people.
THUMBS DOWN:
Melbourne’s violent, masked-up protesters: They attacked police, further damaged the state’s reputation and cost taxpayers$30 million in extra security costs during the three-day defence expo.
Today’s Sunday Tele continued:
MEDAL-STRIPPING DEBACLE IS WHY WE HAVE SUICIDE EPIDEMIC IN ADF
Peta Credlin
2024
The Albanese government has just stripped medals off mid-ranking officers who fought in the Afghanistan campaign.
We don’t know how many are involved because the Defence Minister refuses to tell us, but his reason is that possible war crimes were committed on their watch. It’s hard to overstate how badly this whole business has been handled.
First, it’s very hard from the comfort and safety of our lounge rooms to judge the conduct of people whose lives are at risk every day, and have seen their mates killed, in part, because of rules of engagement specifying catch and release.
It’s wrong for soldiers to take matters into their own hands – if that’s what’s happened – but it’s not entirely their fault when we ask impossible things of them.
Second, if there must be punitive action, it can’t drag on and on and on and on.
Our part in the actual fighting finished in 2013, more than 10 years ago. The Brereton investigation began in 2016.
A redacted version of his conclusions was published in November 2020. For some eight years, 25 special forces soldiers have been living under the shadow of possible war crimes trials – yet still, only one individual has ever been charged. It’s just not right that people who volunteered to put their lives on the line for our country have been treated like this, even if some of them might have made serious mistakes.
Earlier this week, with the release of the royal commission on veterans’ suicide, we collectively resolved to treat our soldiers better.
How is this latest humiliation and indignity consistent with that? If this is a national shame, it’s at least as much about how our soldiers have been treated as anything done on the battlefield.
And please, the idea that senior command was completely without fault, that they were blameless? Don’t insult our intelligence. Senior command can’t claim ignorance, many of them, including the current Chief of the Defence Force, all served on the ground in Afghanistan. I went there three times, I sat in their briefings at our base in Tarin Kowt and now, from the safety of Canberra, they say they never knew? Truth, they say, is the first casualty of war.
Too many points to highlight.
JD Vance now straight up running the Nazi playbook.
Nazi, everyday you’re here ‘running the Nazi playbook’.
Today’s Sunday Tele
TESLA TRUCKCRASH BLAZE
15 Sep 2024
US firefighters used 190,000 litres of water to extinguish a blaze involving an electric Tesla Semi truck after a crash, a government agency said.
The crash took place in the wee hours of August 19 near Emigrant Gap in California, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed.
The truck, operated by a Tesla employee, veered off the road while navigating a curve and struck a tree.
The driver was uninjured, but “the vehicle’s lithium-ion electric battery system ignited after the roadway departure”.
Lithium-ion batteries…’saving the planet’…/sarc off
From The Oz…..
Early results suggested the party had also taken a hit across wards in Waverley and Randwick respectively. The former has a large Jewish population, although Labor has preferenced the Greens, and, in Randwick, it was placing third and last in incumbent Greens Mayor Philipa Veitch’s ward.
The Labor party preferencing Nazis. What’s good is that the Nazis have lost ground in Sydney’s suburbs, particularly here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs with big swings away from them.
Amen, nice to see the Nazis get punched electorally. To paraphrase the character Jake from The Blues Brothers…..
‘I hate Green Nazis’.
Oh, further to Nazis, I note how our very own and very real Nazi comes on here late at night when he thinks nobody is around to post a comment. Our Nazi is such a coward but then Nazis are always cowards.
Clover Moore will still be Lord Mayor in 50 years time.
Saw what I assume was a genuine video of Biden carrying a maga hat up the airborne one steps with him.
Reinforcing the message?
The city, not the state, asked for legal immigrants to shift cities to work jobs that the locals weren’t.
The migration was not 20,000 Haitians.
Haitians are 94% Christian.
House prices did not rise much more than the average.
Crime and communicable disease have not skyrocketed in Springfield.
There are no credible first-hand reports of Haitians stealing and eating household pets. It’s all rumours and hearsay.
Viral photos of black men carrying dead animals are not from Springfield, not of pets, not of Haitians and not recent.
Apart from that, good talking points you lot.
Cassie, Gemma Tognini has a good op-ed in the Paywallion:
Yes, I read her piece last night. I presume it was Tognini’s piece that triggered the Jew hating flasher/nudist from Whale Beach when he took to Twitter to call The Australian, ‘The Israelian“. The flasher, like our own Nazi, doesn’t like it when non-Jews speak up for Jews and Israel.
Nazi alert.
I would have thought Cranky would recognise a blood libel when she sees one. But no, she hates black people so it’s fine by her that her side is spreading lies about Haitians like the Nazis said about Jews with their lice spreading disease. Oy.
Follow your media lead ..
Thanks for all the cat memes. This one amused me, having sat in the snug where The Guy hatched his plot.
The munted one is a disease only excised by complete removal from the planet. They have no place in civilization, a corporal, backed by a tailor and now supported by a footy fabulist shows the depth of intellect available. Death cannot come soon enough for this contagion.
A nasty piece of work.
Gosh this moggie, doggie and goose story has legs! We are even arguing over it thousands of miles away!
The real problem here is incompatible cultures combined with overwhelming numbers. It isn’t that difficult. Squeaking “waaaacist” won’t help the situation.
The Amazon angle is interesting. Cheap labour. Which will annoy the locals even more. It may well be that even a town loaded with progressives has had enough, which would account for all the chatterdebunking and squidink.
There are racists in Springfield like there are in any small town.
Yes, there are racists on blogs like there are on any blog, and here on this blog that racist is you, Nazi boy.
By the way Nazi, we noted your silence on the blood libels spouted on Melbourne’s CBD streets this week. You and your lot didn’t utter a word of condemnation.
We see your venal hypocrisy, Nazi, and we hear your deafening silence, Nazi.
Our Nazi using the word ‘pogrom’. Our Nazi has no shame.
@catturd2
The Left … “You lied about them eating dogs and cats.”
Us … “Okay here’s video evidence.”
The Left … “RACIST.”
I would have thought Cranky would recognise a blood libel when she sees one. But no, she hates black people so it’s fine by her that her side is spreading lies about Haitians like the Nazis said about Jews with their lice spreading disease. Oy.
Hmm, interesting comment from our resident Nazi. Clearly, he’s rattled, he doesn’t like being called Nazi despite the fact that over the years here he’s called others ‘Nazis’, even proudly saying how much he wanted to ‘punch a Nazi’. When he hasn’t advocated violence against his ideological opponents, he’s called them ‘Nazis’. Gosh, could our resident Nazi be a venal hypocrite? Why yes, he is!
Actually, our Nazi can punch a Nazi everyday if he wants, all he has to do is look in a mirror, and punch away!
Just vomiting up the latest Demorat ‘talking points’
Putting Covid patients into nursing homes.
ALMOST UNTHINKABLE: Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Andrew Cuomo Of Murder To His Face
Speaking of the left establishment, what are Starmer, the soft handed lawyer, and the old perv, another lawyer, up to? Trying to rev up the war in the Ukraine? These rubbish people are beyond despicable.
Buried news: Hamas digging tunnels under San Diego -IDF colonel
Of course if the 6665 residents of Seymour suddenly had 2000 Sudanese residents move in and made some objections Monty would call them racists too.
Normal people would be okay with people being less than comfortable that non English speaking people of an alien third world culture, religion, and skin colour moved in to their neighbourhood without so much as a by your leave.
Especially of most of them were young adult males.
I see the fat fascist fool lauding the Haitians in Springfield Ohio.
Grant him his wish, but locally. Increase the population of his suburb by a third by flying thousands of Somalis and Sudanese there, and giving them preference for housing and social services.
Grant the m0ron his wish.
Influx of wild-driving Haitian migrants turning streets of Springfield, Ohio, into combat zone: ‘Eight to 10 accidents a day here’
The Cat Eaters of Ohio
Meme!
Even CNN’s Erin Burnett shocked by unearthed evidence of Kamala Harris’ radicalism: ‘She supports that?’
Seattle Times Tries to Fact Check Trump on Seattle Rioters Taking Over Portion of Seattle in 2020, Gets Fact Checked by Community Notes
6 Dirty RINOs Sign Pledge with Democrats to Certify the Results of the 2024 Election – Without Knowing the Details
Vote for the least bad candidate. Okay?
https://x.com/ModernBoethius/status/1834693333026824562?t=VjZh-FJPYSyEMh6IAJhI5w&s=19
Humanoid Robots, the Job Market & Mass Automation – The Current State of AI w/ Emad Mostaque | EP114
The video features an in-depth conversation with Imad Mustak, the previous CEO of Stability AI, discussing his perspectives on the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for society, technology, and the economy. Mustak emphasizes the transformative potential of AI, referencing his recent white paper “How to Think About AI,” which outlines the urgency of harnessing AI responsibly while mitigating its risks. The discussion covers various themes, including the future of work, investment opportunities in AI, the role of international cooperation, and the need for open-source infrastructure. Key points include: – Mustak argues that society is on the verge of one of the most transformative events in history due to the rapid advancement of AI, which he likens to the introduction of electricity as an essential national infrastructure. – He expresses concern about the potential existential threats posed by AI, particularly if mismanaged. – The white paper serves as a framework for understanding AI’s impact on daily life, urging individuals to consider their agency in relationship to AI developments. – He emphasizes the need for urgent action to harness the benefits of AI while addressing fears related to job displacement, predicting that despite job loss due to automation, many new jobs will emerge as a result of AI adoption. – Mustak notes that AI agents, likened to interns, will soon be capable of performing a variety of tasks, revolutionizing industries and potentially enhancing productivity across sectors. – He highlights the importance of human and AI ( calls them Centaurs) collaboration , arguing that the combination of human intelligence and AI capabilities will yield much greater results than either could achieve independently. – He calls for international cooperation in AI development, advocating for open-source models and infrastructure that can be accessed equitably, stating that this will ensure a balance of power and improve outcomes for society as a whole. – Mustak suggests that to understand and adapt to the evolving AI landscape, education systems must incorporate AI literacy, prompting users to engage with AI tools and explore innovative use cases actively. – He concludes by advocating for a collective approach to building AI systems that respect ethical considerations and reflect diverse global perspectives. An important quote from Mustak: “Intelligence is like electricity; it’s like clean water. It becomes available to everyone.” a collective global approach to harness its benefits for all of humanity.
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Chagpt o1-preview is out and I’ve been giving it a good workout. its coding abilities are mind blowingly good. Gpt 3 was a bit like an idiot savant, its small context window made it barely useable. gpt4 was probably at senior high school, undergrad level. o1 preview feels like post-grad level so far. The speed at which it generates really complex code is insane.
At this rate super intelligence is only a couple of generations away ie in the next few years.
Memes are all very well, but this makes me sick to my stomach.
BREAKING: Not Just Springfield, Ohio — Three Cats Found Mutilated, Cut in Half with Paws Cleanly Chopped Off, No Blood at the Scene in Houston, Texas in Less Than Two Weeks
WWIII agenda indeed.
WATCH: “Blinken, Go Home! Get Lost!” – Polish Member of European Parliament Slams Blinken After Meeting With Poland’s Foreign Minister, Discussions of Enhanced Military Aid to Ukraine
Can anyone say “election interference”?
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: National Association of Letter Carriers, representing nearly 300,000 postal workers responsible for handling millions of mail-in ballots, has officially endorsed Kamala Harris.
@TONYxTWO
@catturd2
Anything but help American citizens. These people are pure scum.
what an idiotic statement
@DC_Draino
The same thing happened in the town in which I was born: Shepparton. You don’t see pogroms led by my kinfolk running the Sudanese fruit pickers out of town. The local industries need the workers, to be honest.
My godparents still live there, and they have told me stories of neighbours living in rather cramped conditions due to poverty. There are teething problems and cultural differences, as there have been throughout Australia’s migrant-fuelled history, but largely the story is the same as every other non-Anglo group since the Irish: they become part of the richer whole.
Haitians for Hawthorn. You know it makes sense. Coming to a basement near you soon.
Has mUnturd yet commented on KamelToe being endorsed by both Putin and Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney?
With those two on side, Shirley she will win.
You don’t see pogroms led by my kinfolk running the Sudanese fruit pickers out of town. The local industries need the workers, to be honest.
Lot of potential workers at Centrelink.
If a farmer went into Centrelink and yelled out ‘I NEED 20 FRUIT PICKERS’ most of them would scatter like cockroaches.
Words have meaning and meaning is important.
It also means “violent riot” in English.
I see no evidence of either in Ohio. I see cheesed off, worried residents.
Next we’ll see “Holocaust” used to describe mean looks.
Suddenly the Nazi is obsessed about pogroms. Weird because he had nothing to say about the October 7 pogrom.
m0ron with the current leftard talking points;
Black machete wielding B&E gangs, car theft, violent robbery etc – just your normal “teething problems and cultural differences”. And that’s just Melbourne suburbs.
Never ever believe a word m0ron posts. Not only is he invariably wrong, he’s an inveterate liar.
Pollutes this blog
Monty the rebel on the side of Amazon, that struggling little startup, and its quest to suck those sweet, sweet non citizen benefits.
https://hiring.amazon.com/our-team/refugees#/
Step one: Have a friendly mob import a group with “assimilation” problems.
Step 2: Offer to assist as a good corporate citizen.
Step 3: Get rid of your local employees who cost you about $14 an hour and replace them with ‘fugees you pay about $9 an hour (once the subsidy kicks in).
Step 4: Profit.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/07/09/03-17398/employment-subsidy-program-for-refugees-with-assimilation-difficulties
Monty is on the side of scab labour, slumlords and grinding the poorest segment of society into the dirt.
This is thing, canbra is very big on importing people who attack and kill regular citizens. Murders in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. People murdered in their own home in Brisbane. Home invasions in Melbourne. But that’s the canbra way. I sometimes wonder if the poisonous pubes in that despicable city built on theft have a little giggle about teaching the bourgeoisie a lesson in diversity.
As I’ve stated many times, the challenge for any half decent government is making those vile parasites in canbra actually act like public servants.
LOL. Our troll is determined to ensure Australians vote for the establishment candidate in the November 5 US election after the ruling party sacked the senile puppe it installed in 2020 and nominated his bimbo box-ticking exercise for 2024 because people are stupid enough to vote for anything.
Actually I recall ‘Dr’ Miles did have a giggle about that attack in Ipswitch.
This might have helped:
This is normal.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1835068431957418449/photo/1
The FBI is putting up BILLBOARDS written in HAITIAN CREOLE here in Springfield, Ohio encouraging people to “report hate crimes”
It gets even better…
Tesla Semi Truck Crash Required 50000 Gallons of Water & Fire-Fighting Aircraft to Put Out Blaze – Fire’s temperatures reached 1,000 degrees F! (14 Sep)
They actually brought in a waterbombing aircraft…
I wonder if Blabbersack is paying attention to the Haitian/cat eating drama unfolding in the US.
She may be able to save Taxpayers money on the Feral Cat Eradication Program by importing several thousand Haitians, and dumping them in Alice Springs.
I’d pay to see that. Wait, I’ll be paying for it either way…
Outsiders is nearly unwatchable when the three hosts (especially Rowan Dean) talk over the top of each other. Not good television.
Rosie
No thanks I still have relatives in Seymour and surrounds. They incidentally try talking about dumping Sud’s there 10 years ago but the backlash was furious along with the screams of waaacism. It was quickly and quietly dropped.
Beertruk
September 15, 2024 8:57 am
Was in Shep recently when I was in Vic, it’s an shole but even before the illegal immigrants were dumped there by RGR it always had a rough element with the orchard workers and half caste Aboriginal element out by Mooroopna.
My observations over a few visits, there’s some Sud’s there but they are dwarfed by Iranians/Arabs overwhelmingly the majority of who don’t have any wish to work.
Shep was a city down on it’s luck and taken advantage of by Labor. Most of the business owners I talked to had nothing good to say about the new arrivals and the younger ones exuded typical Middle Eastern macho behaviour.
I don’t think the Local Government is helping either, the massive beautiful park on Lake Victoria had the best part bulldozed and some monstrosity of an art gallery built on it. Beautiful established trees, pic-nic areas and BBQ’s bang gone for something that looks as trashy as the Melbourne eye sore. CBD is dirty, full of vagrants and run down. Only place seemed to be doing well was Benalla rd industrial area.
We stayed 2 nights on our way in and out of Vic and because it’s the main commercial centre of thr GV if I needed car parts etc we’d have to go up there. Also even though it was in decline I don’t think Amatil’s take over of SPC has helped any, the seconds outlet used to be very good. It is now not much cheaper than the supermarkets and has all this other produce that isn’t cheaper than the supermarket.
I think the murder of the Pelligrini coffee guy in Melbourne was a shameful indication of the complete degeneration of public administration in Australia.
hamarse pallyweirdos – the fattest famine victims in human history.
Yesterday, the Muslim Vote conducted a test run in the local government elections.
Presumably in preparation for the upcoming federal election.
In the Cumberland Council ward of South Granville, Labor’s share of votes collapsed from 64.9% in 2021, to 20.6% at the close of counting last night.
A group of previously unknown candidates now leads all others in South Granville ward, by a significant margin.
This group consists of individuals (Ahmed Ouf, Marwa Mosallam and Selim Khalil) who are associated with the Auburn Islamic Centre, which is believed to have issued directions at Friday prayers to vote for these candidates.
The previous long-serving Labor candidate, Glenn Elmore, is said to be devastated by the result.
I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours
No doubt Albo is paying very close attention to these results too and also somewhat devo’d..
We’ll see in coming days and weeks an onslaught of moslem a*se kissing from our Labor Govts, soothing Islamic sensibilities, more anti-Israel slurs and gas lighting, more Govt jaw boning about the terrible “hate crimes” directed at moslems , Burgess moaning about “far right” terrorist organisations congregating in churches etc.
They only have to get the numbers to control the swing and then we have lost the country.
My observations over a few visits, there’s some Sud’s there but they are dwarfed by Iranians/Arabs overwhelmingly the majority of who don’t have any wish to work.
So why were they brought here? Shep is a pretty depressing place I agree and it reminds me of Wendouree.
They’ve run out of room to store all the food.
Hamas Has More “Humanitarian Aid” Than It Knows What To Do With (14 Sep)
Meanwhile UNRWA is feeling unloved. I’m blackly amused given how many of their employees were Hamas guys.
Proud Boys marching in Springfield. What was that about no pogroms?
The Daily Mail article about Welcome to Country has only one comment showing and it has 711 likes as I write.
If you look at the comments area you can actually see how many people are typing comments. Perhaps the moderator not approved them yet but an article to watch as might be a sudden surge of comments going up.
Clr Elmore is passionate about Cumberland…
A most overused word
Pope Francis: ‘All Religions Are a Path to Reach God’ (breitbart.com)
Cranky Frankie (nasty old turd) seems to be the Catholic version of Huxley’s Arch Community Songster.
The current creep in Canterbury seems to show Huxley got it right and much sooner than predicted in Brave New World.
“an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries”
Noticing that Monty has nothing to say about Nigerian Christians be slaughtered by Muslims in ‘organised massacres’
Why is that?
So why were they brought here? Shep is a pretty depressing place I agree and it reminds me of Wendouree.
From what I heard cheap labour and businesses thought they’d increase business not take them over, employ only their own and sell to only their own. Try getting 2nd hand parts for cars round that way, they won’t even serve you unless you are middle eastern. Also a raft of government subsidies from RGR that dried up later.
Seymour had bitter experience with the ungrateful Kosovars, I had already left home working in Brisbane but dad was on the cusp of retirement and mum worked on the base. I heard first hand what they were like and that businesses in Seymour were banning Kosovars from their premises. Goes that’s why they said na to the Sud’s.
m0nty
September 15, 2024 9:43 am
Proud Boys marching in Springfield. What was that about no pogroms?
Dickless salivates at some good old boys being patriotic. Poor old dickless is jealous because those boys have dicks.
But the passion is no longer reciprocated.
Well deserved obscurity awaits, you political whore.
I’ll remind Monty of the event I mentioned to him since it was so gloriously hilarious at the time.
Feds in Khaki Pants March in DC (2021)
So it is just so amazingly amazing that the FBI is putting up Creole signs saying “report hate crimes” (see Mole’s comment) and entirely coincidentally a bunch of not-at-all-glowies are suddenly doing a march in Springfield.
The panic on the Left about this pet story is wonderfully entertaining!
Yeah interesting, car parts is def a middle eastern thing.
Not one Namatjira amongst all this activist crap:
Largest exhibition of First Nations art to open at the National Gallery of Australia (msn.com)
Shepparton is a welfare town with huge social problems.
Did you forget about all the fairly recent incidents at the Secondary college.
Also linked to a grooming gang a while back.
But great some Somalis do a bit of seasonal work.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/forced-marriage-shepparton-perth-guilty/103885642
Yeah interesting, car parts is def a middle eastern thing.
My 2c worth, remembering the towies & panel beaters links to mafia of older times I wouldn’t be surprised if there an element of organised crime involved as well.
Trump on God: Moralistic Deism
Bruce, surely you arent spreading “disinformation” that the prod chaps march might be a glowie effort?
Why that would be unheard of in US politics.
Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI ‘entrapment’ questioned
Sydney’s most popular mayors are independent Frank Carbone – who comfortably retained the top job at Fairfield with almost 80 per cent
He does a decent job, overall, but does has a tendency to be biased towards ethnics on specific “people” issues .. Lotza “Sgt Schultz” involving Council by-laws .. Especially with rubbish on footpaths and park-where-you-like issues …….
Still, he’s a professional trougher and with, probably, 70% of Fairfield ethnic he knows how to keep in with the voteherd ……
..
I guess when it starts to dawn on a person that Dick Cheney and all the Bushes love your gal, but Kennedy and Tulsi back Trump, you will grab any old bollocks to try to salve the brain dissonance.
The democrats became everything you said you hated, Trump took the ordinary working classes away, all that’s left for you is crazy woke and the warmongering, failed new world order mob.
The democrats and their supporters really have become a basket of deplorables.
This is an analysis of the Kamala post debate interview on ABC by Barry Cunningham, who I have never heard of before, which was posted some six hours ago and has had well over 400,000 views and about 8,500 comments.
The Kamala Harris Presidential Campaign Is OFFICIALLY OVER After This Interview!
Link here.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots
But in its commonly understood usage, FBI entrapment is a widespread tactic. Within days of the 9/11 terror attacks, FBI director Robert Mueller issued a memo on a new policy of “forward leaning – preventative – prosecutions”.
As someone said. There are two wings in the Kamaltoe campaign. Those that don’t want her to do any interviews and those that that do. Those that do won on this occasion and those that don’t were vindicated.
Next week in the New York Times:
Our Top Five Fast and Flavorsome Cat Recipes.
Just got in car for short trip. 4BC playing the clip from AFL Welcome to Country and host not impressed with the lecture given.
Monst:
I saw this joke and thought of you.
It’s hot out here! It was 118° in the Valley. I was sweating like Fatboy at a donut shop.
How hilarious. Western Sydney pets are eating their Labor owners.
Albanese will compound the negative effect by dumping Australia’s interests in favour of winning his grubby little western Sydney kasbahs. He is lost.
Good to see that the ABC has finally won it’s fully owned electorate of Byron Bay.
Dickless supporting the suds as well as the haitians. Black boys have big dicks so no surprise that dickless supports the big black boys.
Some relevant facts about the suds:
Sudanese top for crime charges Sudanese-born people are 67 times more likely to be charged with aggravated robbery and 55 times more likely to be charged with riot and affray in Victoria than those born elsewhere, according to analysis released yesterday by the state’s Crime Statistics Agency.
Also memorable was fatty Ashton’s advice to Victorian suckers/citizens: don’t defend yourselves; just do what they tell you to do.
My own experience with black immigrants at the gym is that the suds are arrogant shitheads who are typically good in gangs but not so good by themselves. Alternatively the stocky east Africans are good blokes.
If one gets paid (and handsomely) to welcome other people to country they consider theirs, then it’s not really a welcome.
No, not at all.
For those that know..
mUnter, when the Horn of Africa people move in next door:
‘But…… but you’re bleck’.*
*h/t Lethal Weapon II
Yeah quite a few Africans (not Somalis or Suds afaik) belong to my gym and they are generally pretty courteous if a little reserved.
It’s a very yo bro sorta place
In The Plot Thickens news:
More bomb threats hit Springfield, Ohio, after Trump elevates false claims about Haitians
Bomb threats? More bomb threats?
Could only possibly come from the vast hoards of White Supremacists parading downtown Springfield like lethal panthers.
Shirley there’s an DOJ/FBI incitement charge pending for Trump.
Presumably Mx Lee is in witness protection.
Pay that!
Axial movements, of both the earth and the sun, introduce instability into that ‘regular’ eliptical solar system we learned about a children, just as the excellent artice at 10.11 suggests.
How else to explain the major ice ages, and the movement in and out of them? In the face of this, minor variations in this planet’s climate in the interglacials seem fairly small beer, related to smaller variations in the sun’s reach or to the sun’s own sunspot factors. What is clear is that factors on earth, things that disturb the earth’s atmosphere, such as volcanic erruptions, or things that are the after-effects on landforms of the melting ice, explain some past historic variations in regional climates (‘earth’s’ climate, if you must). These are not related in any meaningful way to CO variations, the anthropogenic component of which is very small indeed even in recent times. Oceanic cycles affecting water vapour (cloud formations) seem the more likely culprits for any cyclical variations noted.
We need to be thankful for warmth, not fear it, for cold is what the black darkness of space is all about. No wonder ancient peoples put their faith in the sun, as a ‘light bringer’, as god and creator. No surprise either that human societies became shattered and often religiously changed when normal solar activity became abnormal, as in circa 1500bc or 536ad, both periods when Volcanic winter dimmed the sun world-wide.
King Arthur, a sun god if ever there was one (as I have argued in Quadrant, 2018), is said by religious annalists to have ‘died’ in 536ad. He was by no means the only sun god to have a hard time then either, nor earlier. During the 1500bc period, in Egypt, after a major volcanic tsunami, the sun god Ahkenaten rose as a lone monotheistic sun god, for a brief period destroying Egyptian polytheism. Even the Roman Emperor Constantine, who favoured Christianity, took his time about that, giving credence initially to a Sol Invictus – an unconquered ‘unconquerable’ sun god, aligned with the Persian Mithras. I find it interestng that the Invictus title was also applied to the Roman gods Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo and Silvanus – all what I call ‘aspect’ gods, deities respectively of fatherhood, war, strength, beauty and nature – but sometimes sun deities too, especially Mars, Apollo and Silvanus.
Word find.
Tetter (n.) vague name for skin diseases characterized by scabby eruption or scaling (ringworm, eczema, herpes), Middle English teter, from Old English teter, from a reduplicated form of PIE root *der- “to split, flay, peel.”
Example of usage: “He [Napoleon] is covered with tetter, a disease of such a sort as to increase his vehemence and his activity.”
There’s an advertisement circulating online (quite a lot), urging Americans living abroad to vote by mail or even email. I suspect it’s a scheme by the Demo to inflate the vote count.
It doesn’t appear to be difficult to use
Here.
The 21st C. identipol equivalent of “Some of my best friends are black, but…”
The benefits of their terrible colonial past, often with Christian upbringing,schools and good command of English.
Whereas the Suds (mostly Southies here) come from horrifically violent , tribal voodoo like backgrounds , preying on anything and anyone their thug gangs can overcome.
From Indolent’s link on the Cat memes taking over the internet:
if they ignore it, it thrives and they look scared, but if they try to refute it, they just add fuel to the fire and keep the conversation on a topic on which they cannot win.
and once started, the discourse all flows one way.
apparently, the guy who made this remix from the debate is now having a melt down because it was intended to malign trump and instead has been adopted as a MAGA and immigration reform rallying cry.
sorry amigo, but the internet decides what things are for, not you.
it was meant as critique.
it turns out this is “meowsländer raus.”
and every time someone says “no, they did not eat a cat!” not only is it likely not true, but the obvious pivot is to “perhaps, but they did kill my auntie in a home invasion” or “OK, but they have overwhelmed schools, are beating on local kids, and have displaced low income americans in housing because the feds are paying top dollar for landlords to kick you out and put them up.” oh, and let’s not forget “voter fraud.”
Why don’t they import all of the population of Haiti into the US – as soon as they cross the border they all transform into upstanding wonderful hardworking citizens – then immediately return them to Haiti and fix Haiti’s problems. Because apparently there’s some kind of magical process where anyone who crosses into the West suddenly discards all the problems of their previous culture and society and become lovely industrious people.
Which explains why m0ron’s tribe is so intent on destroying this foundation of our civilisation. Specifically by getting at the kids. Evil doers, all of them.
The big take out from ‘that debate’ a month or so down the track is only going to be that Trump pointed out that 20K of immigrants wrecked a community of 60k by ‘eating people’s pets, eating cats and dogs’. Who remembers anything at all that Kamala said?
Outsiders is nearly unwatchable when the three hosts (especially Rowan Dean) talk over the top of each other. Not good television.
They were pretty bad this morning. We should all write to them.
Explainer:
Mate had his car stolen this week.Yojng African guys broke in took the keys while he and wife and kids were upstairs.
The miscreants are obviously scared of the police as evidenced by their online posts showing what they had stolen.
Car dumped and recovered but thrashed.Insurer will write if off.
Cops can’t seem to find them despite the online posts
The Ig Nobel Prizes are always awesome.
Backside breathing and pigeon bombers studies win Ig Nobel prizes (Phys.org, 14 Sep)
If, in hospital, a nurse shoves an oxygen line up your anus you now know why.
As usual cohenite is right behind the Nazi putsch.
Seems if you don’t like something and say so then you are Nazi.
Yep Lizzie, Trump’s campaign has all the momentum of George Wallace in 1968.
Week in Culture:
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 203 (rumble.com)
Great opening scene with Trump; then goes down hill rapidly. Did you know Abraham Lincoln was gay?
As usual cohenite is right behind the Nazi putsch.
That is Herr cohenite to you dickless.
Monty is correct. All immigrants are wonderful and anyone who doesn’t agree is a pogroming nazi.
https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1835083919361798617?t=c9VAhQiuGVwUUOzut68_cg&s=19
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/14/the-trans-activist-who-destroyed-a-rape-crisis-centre/
I see Trudeau was out overnight spruiking for the use of long range missiles against Russia with gusto. Quite interesting how the centre-Left have to a man in the Anglosphere dropped the mask and revealed themselves as neocons. Of course, neocons were Leftists, not so much ‘mugged by reality’ as the story goes, but by power, and not so ‘mugged’ either.
Daily Mail put up the Welcome to Country article but with 6 only comments I think we can safely say they either have no moderators on or are suppressing the comments.
Hey FatBoy
How many Haitians were murdered, assaulted, or expelled from their homes in the Great Springfield Pogrom and riot of September 2024?
Now I really feel like a woman.
https://x.com/godblesstoto/status/1835042947156566220?t=FH7S40uLEDXOWIs6C3A2kw&s=19
Footage of Monty, convincing the Dems hes useful to them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgHXHtHSsNo
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House Press Secretary was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France, the daughter of Haitian immigrants. She has two younger siblings, and was age five when her family relocated to Queens Village, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City.
Interesting.
Blainey is just great in this piece. What a contribution from a tiny minority.
Yet another ABC big brain take on the US:
Imagine being dumb enough to not laugh at the claim of a presumably toddler-aged Kamala Harris shouting “fweedom” from her pusher, and instead include it in your article as the gospel truth.
And imagine also being sleazy and disingenuous enough to call Trump a white nationalist, whilst no doubt insisting its literal truth – he is white and he is a nationalist – but with full knowledge of the altered meaning those two words, when collocated, take on.
If you can imagine this, you have conjured up a typical ABC journalist.
Wow. Going after the writing skills of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. That is some serious chutzpah right there. And to speak on their behalf regarding their intentions and 2A as if this were settled fact – nope, what he puts forward as fact is actually a minority opinion on what the FFs intended, and has been for the last 40 years at least. The “specious interpretation” is now the mainstream interpretation. To claim otherwise is specious. SCOTUS merely reflects this shift. It’s true that the ‘collective right’ interpretation was prevalent throughout much of 20th century scholarship, but SCOTUS didn’t expressly embrace this and it rarely adjudicated on 2A (still doesn’t). Its decisions in the 20th up until Heller were either narrow or ambiguous. This ABC hack is flat out wrong to say SCOTUS rejected individual gun ownership until Heller.
And by the way, Heller didn’t “alter the meaning” of 2A. It isn’t obvious based on the ordinary and natural meaning of the words of 2A that they refer to collective rather than individual gun rights. Heller affirmed what SCOTUS considered to be the correct interpretation of the Amendment. Courts don’t “alter meanings”. They interpret the correct meanings of statutory and contractual text, which can be open to multiple interpretations. That is an important distinction. Legal disputes are, at a fundamental level, disagreements over what words are understood to mean.
There is just too much partisan bullshit in this purportedly neutral article to fisk the entire thing. I’d be at it all day. But I have to end on this howler:
As Paulie from the Sopranos would say, ‘the balls on dis f*ckin’ guy’. Obama was twice elected by a nation desperate to become “post-racial America”. The reason it didn’t was because Obama himself was extraordinarily racially divisive. This was not due to a popular reaction to his pigmentation. It was due to his deliberate policies and pronouncements that exacerbated racial animus and grievances. In office, Obama did the opposite of what he promised to do prior to his election in 2008.
And to claim Trump was elected based on his race is to essentially state you know nothing about the US electorate. It’s an impressively stupid article, all up. Read it here if you want to.
Kentucky Klan recruiting in Springfield, allegedly (unconfirmed but going viral).
So he’s a white nationalist but not a white nationalist, mmhmm. OCO living up to his name by posting ridiculous nonsense as usual, LOL.
I have to add the following:
In the previous paragraph to this, the guy was pushing an originalist interpretation of 2A as being the truth. What an oblivious, know-nothing tool.
I see m0nty’s sparkling intellect is on display as always.
The milko must be visiting the kiddies today and dickless is out on the corner with time on his greasy hands to post polished turds.
Monty grasping for the Jussie Smollett/KKK handout now?
Things must be bad.
Has Trump with his “eating the cats” line done more to unveil the government/NGO people stacking nexus than any amount of “serious” reporting could have done?
Lets face it, if hed said “they dropped 20,000 Haitians into a town of 40,000 people” it would have got zero traction.
Good Grief, Monty thinks a photo of a flyer allegedly produced by the kkk in Kansas is proof of something something.
Meanwhile Haitians, many of whom practice voodoo irl as well as eating just about anything back in Haiti couldn’t possibly be stealing pets and protected wildlife to eat in Springfield Ohio.
Kentucky Feds laughing their arses off.
And really, m0nty. You sure you want to come at me with that? You know using the words isn’t your strong suit. Last time you tried to get clever with language, you ended up inadvertently defaming a well-known and liked commenter here as a paedophile because you were throwing around words you don’t understand.
Fortunately for you, they saw the lighter side of your idiocy. If I were them, I wouldn’t have.
Slip-ups like that can cost you $50k, easy. I’ve seen it happen first hand, in fact. Best you head back to the wading pool for your own safety, m0nts. Deep water isn’t for you.
Perhaps Monty the Journalist could go to Haiti and report back.
Oh wait it’s on the Do Not Travel list.
“The security situation is volatile. Violent crime is common, including murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, assault, sexual assault and carjacking. There’s a State of Emergency in Port-au-Prince and curfews in place from 10pm to 5am. Air, land and sea borders between Haiti and the Dominican Republic are closed. Airports are open but can be difficult to access due to the highly volatile security situation”
You can see why Americans are wildly enthusiast about Haitian immigration.
Amused that Monty has just revealed, in his own words, that he is a full-on antisemite.
Haiti has the dubious distinction of being No 3:
Ranking of the most dangerous cities in the world in 2024, by murder rate per 100,000 inhabitants
Sorry, link:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-most-dangerous-cities-in-the-world-by-murder-rate-per-capita/#:~:text=World's%20most%20dangerous%20cities%2C%20by%20murder%20rate%202024&text=In%202024%2C%20Colima%20in%20Mexico,are%20all%20found%20in%20Mexico.
How else do you pay for your black ops?
Now I left my protestant religion behind 50+ years ago, but I do have considerable sympathy for those genuine followers of the Catholic faith who must endure IMHO the worst, most divisive and destructive ‘Pope’ ever.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/09/13/pope-francis-all-religions-are-a-path-to-reach-god/
Serious question: do people not know how to hide the link address?
Monty is also fine with the pleb American workers on $14 an hour being replaced by the Haitians who cost $9 an hour after Federal employment subsidies.
Scab labour.
Aaaah! .. the Intelligence of the thugby player just shines thru ..
Josh “Addled” Carr sez, I’ll be cleared” not long after accepting the dui charge & fine .. “Addled” doesn’t quite understand that by accepting the fine he’s G-U-I-L-T-Y and he ain’t gonna be “cleared” ..
Besides he’s got a bigger problem ……. Gus ain’t gonna be too happy .. LOL! https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2024-josh-addocarr-wont-attend-bulldogs-sea-eagles-final-requested-fast-tracked-results-of-secondary-drug-test-will-he-be-suspended-rugby-league-news/news-story/4c5bdb222cced859d41d7c771a2cf031
Hey Rooster
Were Dover’s linking instructions helpful?
Monty is also fine with the pleb American workers on $14 an hour being replaced by the Haitians who cost $9 an hour after Federal employment subsidies.
Scab labour.
Used to be/may still be standard CentreLink practice here .. 2009 on the ‘dole’ & got a job as a storeman .. With CentreLink subsidies for age/time out of work the employer was only paying $150 a week out of $450 gross the rest was covered by CentreLink for 6 months ……. Laid off after 6 months & two weeks ……!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/not-for-white-people-why-dont-you-go-and-get-stuffed-you-racist-old-tool.html
Let me test this linky thingo…
Test
Now…I wait…
Try again…
And again…
Okay Dover. Your instructions clearly left a step out.
It is indeed interesting how the US has had a tendency to involve itself in conflicts adjacent to major narcotics production regions. Aside from Afghanistan, there’s the Golden triangle/Vietnam, Central and South America…all just coincidences I’m sure.
I never had a problem, not once, linking on the old layout.
Calli, you are not alone. 😀
the people of Springfield …
Step 1. Write and then highlight a word or phrase.
Step 2. Press link button, third from the right.
Step 3. Paste the address in the window that appears.
Step 4. Press save.
If comment finished, press post.
Interesting:
Step 1. Write and then highlight a word or phrase.
Step 2. Press link button, third from the right.
Step 3. Paste the address in the window that appears.
Step 4. Press save.
If comment finished, press post.
WordPress.
OCO summarised: okay so Trump is a white nationalist but he’s not a white nationalist, know what I mean orright. One and one may equal two when added together but individually they are still just ones so QED that proves Trump is not racist. I am a noted intellectual and you are a poo head.
Someone here made the same point.
https://x.com/Slatzism/status/1835090022183403728?t=RrMt7sSd4I1kSVsWDF7A3g&s=19
Cranky Old Bats
Yee Haw!
PeteM, could you please re-write the instruction manual for my son’s Bosch oven?
Ta. 😀
“As paganism and Judaism prepared the way for Christ, so all religions MAY be pathways to God, but the ultimate destination of the pathway (by God’s providence) must be the foot of the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Way, the Truth and the Life”
“Pope Francis is ambiguous and imprecise, but not a heretic so y’all stop spouting this nonsense on social media.”
Pope Francis’s comments on this and that have zero effect on my faith, or of the faith of anyone I know.
https://x.com/dlongenecker1/status/1834942155208454512?t=tiG5ZMvqCVfw1xtjTrHEig&s=19
I’ll say this for m0nty, he’s the ultimate answer to white supremacism.
Nobody who has read any of his posts and seen his picture could conceivably believe that white men are innately superior to the rest of the human race.
Mutley’s brain is the hole in the krispy kreme.
I see Nazi boy has been dropping his Jew hating turds here all day.
Wasn’t there a Jew hating riot for Nazi boy to attend in Melbourne’s CBD today, or have they decided to take Sunday off? How sweet and thoughtful of them, it must sooooo tiring throwing acid and bricks at horses and police, all the while screaming genocidal Jew hating rhetoric.
By the way, upthread the Nazi describes ‘nationalism’ as akin to sewerage. Another weird statement from Nazi boy, but Nazi boy is nothing if not weird. And if Nazi boy really believes this, if Nazi boy is so repulsed by ‘national’, ‘nationalistic’ and ‘nationalism’, perhaps he should avoid anything with those words in it, such as the National Gallery, the Australian National University, the National Museum of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Art School, the National Art Gallery, even the ABC prides itself on it being our ‘national‘ broadcaster. Are any of these organisations ‘far-right’? I don’t think so.
So, if Nazi boy thinks nationalism and being nationalistic is akin to sewerage then Nazi boy should steer clear of the above mentioned filthy sewer laden ‘national‘ organisations.
Singapore Changi airport makes anything we have look very ordinary. But when you have a 9-hour layover it’s still just an airport.
Looks like Yemen fired a single ballistic missile that evaded Iron Dome and hit what looks like an industrial area near Ben Gurion airport.
Tom
September 15, 2024 9:13 am:
I’ll vote for $5K a week pension, two women in every bed and a free booze card.*
Apart from that, you’ve gotta work hard to get me motivated.
*OK, $4/week pension and a free ammo card at the range.