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Is the UN with, or against, China?
Remember in April 2020 the US released UFO videos, and we had a near-miss asteroid not long after?
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Rowe does a very good Xi Jinping.
The man’s a true artist.
Haha, Al Goodwyn thinks no-deal Brexit is a bad thing.
It’s always been far and away the best option, to get rid of the ECJ and the rest of the Brussels totalitarian nannies. Which is why the EU is so persistent trying and trying to keep British law subservient to EU law.
Sharyl Atkisson on the media: they’re not doing news any more, they’re telling people what to think. More at the link, the decline and fall of the media.
For years there has been a cohort saying the media doesn’t matter. The sensible voters will win in the end.
Against that I submit that even in our better-than-USA voting system we still get Labor state governments, and sometimes rubbish federal ones as well. We get greens!
But in the USA we saw the MSM recite the daily phrase log such as “Biden’s adminstration will be the most diverse evah” like trained monkeys.
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Hi Bruce – BBC were making out that la Nina is a fizzer and has been kyboshed by their old mate Global Warming.
Pandering to Animism claims another natural wonder… Mt Gillen
https://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2020/12/mt-gillen-alice-springs.html
” they’re not doing news any more, they’re telling people what to think. More at the link, the decline and fall of the media.
For years there has been a cohort saying the media doesn’t matter. The sensible voters will win in the end.”
A classic example of this is Victoria. We see their ABC and all the rest of the progressive MSM scum run cover for Andrews and his incompetents. So watch Labor get reelected in Victoria in two years time. There’s nothing sensible about most Victorian voters.
Woolly thinking.
Prince Charles blasts cheap fast fashion as he promotes £150 luxury scarf (4 Dec)
He certainly seems to be biodegrading naturally and quickly, at least in the top paddock. Maybe he’ll turn into a raindrop too.
meeting the United Nations climate change goals set for the industry
Gives himself away there. I imagine he thinks the Saxe-Blauplunkt-Mercedes will be sitting in a box seat when the NWO comes. Maybe not.
Firstborn’s column – Sydney’s Daily Telegraph
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Minister missing
Vikki Campion
The world is denigrating our soldiers in trial by media over war crimes when the Afghan caliphate has killed more innocent civilians than the SAS ever did — while the minister paid about $365,000 a year to represent their welfare in cabinet wasn’t overwhelming in his defence of their honour.
Our soldiers are away fighting a war where they don’t know who the enemy is, fighting an army with no uniform, no minimum age and no morals. Back in Australia, every week a veteran takes their own life.
Not only adult males bear weapons in Afghanistan, but women and children are strapped with bombs. Piles of rubbish are filled with explosives and captured soldiers beheaded on tape.
Releasing an internal Brereton inquiry, while redacted, to the public was a statement of transparency by the ADF chief, but until the accused soldiers are tried these are allegations and the accused must be considered innocent until proven guilty.
Sources who have served in Afghanistan and who have read the unredacted Brereton Report urged me to be careful in my defence of soldiers because the internal inquiry would not have been released publicly without hard evidence to hand to the Australian Federal Police to investigate.
Being told to point a weapon at a human and extinguish their life in cold blood, goes against everything our soldiers are trained to do and if our senior SAS asked their juniors to do this, it is gutting for every defence family. Our soldiers are making decisions under mortal threat in extreme climates and in that sort of conflict, there is collateral damage.
In Afghanistan, often the person shooting you is not a soldier with the same standards as you, but a pre-pubescent, from 11-years-old, not a fanatic extremist who hates Australians — a kid who doesn’t understand.
Those who serve have a beef with those who send them to a war from air-conditioned safety, who have failed to explain to the public why they are there or provide adequate mental health support when they return. Now on top of coping with PTSD, defence families are being hounded, their loved ones dubbed “child-killers”.
The key cabinet minister, responsible for the welfare of defence force personnel and the veteran community, Darren Chester, fronted a press conference on the day the report was released but was his defence of serving men and women enough? Only when pressure erupted in party rooms from colleagues expressing the overwhelming feeling by the community that they need to remain rock-solid behind our armed forces, did Chester fire up.
It was not Chester who stood by Julie-ann Finney, mother of Dave Stafford Finney who took his own life, when she powerfully called for a royal commission into veteran suicides, but his Labor shadow.
Each week a veteran takes their own life. If this does not warrant an independent investigation at arm’s length from government, then how do we justify the royal commission into pink batts where six people died?
My family tree, like many working-class regional families, is heavy with men who served, who went to war, who were blown up, who were paralysed for life, who were in the waves turning back the boats, who pulled dead refugees from the ocean, who found their mates in the midst of suicide, who had to cut the rope and try to breathe the life back in. We must ask why so many returned servicemen are so haunted that they come home and take their own lives. We must ask why it was only two returned servicemen Members of Parliament, Phil Thompson and Luke Gosling, who spoke up for soldiers on each side while the Minister was silent.
LNP Herbert MP Phil Thompson was blown up by an IUD in Afghanistan in 2009 — and has since buried 10 of his mates from suicide.
Labor Solomon MP Luke Gosling was a former commando who worked in Southern Afghanistan securing an election.
While Thompson and Gosling went to bat from the backbench, cabinet minister Chester could only put out a press release with four phone numbers for defence personnel and their families to call if they were struggling.
Accountability should start at the top – and cabinet minister Chester is being paid about $365,000 a year to not say – or do – very much at all.
“Bruce of Newcastle
#3680017, posted on December 5, 2020 at 7:00 am
Woolly thinking.
Prince Charles blasts cheap fast fashion as he promotes £150 luxury scarf (4 Dec)”
Actually BoN….I think Charles is right about this. Anyone who buys crap from chains such as H&M is contributing to the evil that is global corporatism. I would rather buy one good £150 scarf than ten cheap scarves bought from a chain like H&M.
“Cardimona
#3680021, posted on December 5, 2020 at 7:10 am
Firstborn’s column – Sydney’s Daily Telegraph”
She’s a very good writer.
Yes, Cardimona. An excellent read today. Thanks.
Everyone should be absolutely fuming over the new national security and surveillance legislation Dutton wants.
A proposed power to edit your online data because *national security* which apparently involves tax cases…and of course, give the government infinite power because of pefodiles.
These are some of the most ridiculous laws ever proposed in Australia. Literally enabling *legal* evidence tampering and perjury.
What could we expect from a bald ex QPS cock sucker like Peter Dutton?
The MSM train voters like Pavlov’s dogs by using the same misinformation and disinformation and negative language to mess with people’s brains . Virtually the same take on a story to do with the side they are behind is presented . Even if the were more balanced and gave equal positive and negative messages ,human brains are influenced by the negative ones .
Over the recent years the notable personalities to get this negative bias were Abbott, Pell and Trump , others too . This manipulation has worked on climate change as well although some are finding if you look out the window you see they are telling us fabrications . Some trouble still with the bad gas because it cannot be seen however..
Friends and I have noted that organisations to which we belong and companies we invest in have a distinct left tilt these days as result of this constant brainwashing .
Observing what is happening in the States , why were the negative reports re Biden not even given any coverage in MSM if not to make him palatable? Just hope as Rasmussen ‘s poll s have indicated that Trump has poked them hard enough to wake people up , including Aussies.
Charlie seems sane compared to this guy, if he’s a guy.
Truly Blair’s Law level craziness, and a pretty stark symptom of decadence of the West. The good news is that for the first time this century universities are having to cut some drones from their staff roster.
The Higher Ed Meltdown Accelerates | Power Line (4 Dec)
RTWT it’s fun to see reality hit these people with a cluebat.
“min
#3680034, posted on December 5, 2020 at 7:37 am”
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Ben
#3679920, posted on December 5, 2020 at 12:08 am
‘Is the UN with, or against, China?’
A fully owned subsidiary…
Mark Knight is big on the VaxProp today.
I see elsewhere on the Net it’s being referred to as the Death Shot.
Interesting [if true!] that young women are most resistant to the prospect of The Jab, usually they’re the followers, not the leaders.
Will we be saved by the Revolt of The Karens?
I’m dubious, but it might be our best shot.
” to get this negative bias were Abbott, Pell and Trump”
I would add that Trump fights back against this bias. Abbott and Pell haven’t and whilst I can understand Pell not getting down and dirty, Tony Abbott should have…when he was PM and especially last year. Being dignified and being nice doesn’t win wars. The first three months of Abbott’s tenure as PM was a clear sign that he wasn’t going to be a warrior.
Fleccas:
Here’s one for JC, who likes granma Yellen.
Biden Treasury Pick Janet Yellen Promises to Use Department to Address Race, Gender and the ‘Climate Crisis’
I thought the idea of Treasury was to address money. But then I suppose every department in the US government now is the Department for Race, Gender and the Climate Crisis. It’s the B Ark writ large.
From today’s DT article: My family tree, like many working-class regional families, is heavy with men who served, who went to war, who were blown up, who were paralysed for life,
That country is the United States, not Australia.
I’m 62, from a large extended family, and would have to go back 78 years to find one person [not an ancestor] who was in the Armed Forces. And that’s the rule, not the exception.
How many Repat Hospitals have any soldiers as patients?
Very few.
It’s nothing like Walter Reed, where there are thousands of patients at any one time.
Daily dose of Vietnam!
Cheapest contractor?
IIRC stuff failed way below their safety limit.
Cassie of Sydney
#3680043, posted on December 5, 2020 at 7:50 am
‘Tony Abbott should have…when he was PM and especially last year. Being dignified and being nice doesn’t win wars.’
I have to agree there Cassie. I think much of the criticism aimed at Abbott is completely unfair, particularly given the “colleagues” he was lumped with (“Potentially Great” Mal, Julie “Catwalk” Bishop, The Mincing Poodle, Brandis, and a myriad of other LINO-Leftards). A failing of the Westminster system.
BUT he did have a choice. The Trump (fight) -or- Bolt (appease) approach. He could go on the attack against the tyranny of the swamp or he could choose to appease, to be liked by evil people that were never going to offer quarter.
He chose the latter, and despite being a thoroughly good man, it was this that led to his demise and with it, our country has been diminished. (Seriously, “Mal” & “Slomo” have come since with “BullShitten” and “Albo” the alternatives).
If I want to enjoy a few beers and good company, I will invite Tony Abbott. If I want a Leader, a warrior against the Deep State, I will take Trump every time. Not sure who the equivalent is in Australia, or even if our system of government allows one (maybe Mark Latham, maybe Craig Kelly). We need warriors, not “dignified” surrender.
If you plug that crap into AI what do you come up with?
Google’s algorithms must be good at sorting bulldust into piles.
Marxist ecofeminists rule the world?
Our Social Meeja Barons are Marxist Ecofeminists, of course.
Well, I guess we now know why you hate soldiers and veterans.
The history of the DVA explains this:
(p83)
Ed Case – your single example is topped by mine who like Vicki Campion’s has several service men and women in each generation over the last 100 years.
What exactly makes your singular experience …the rule not the exception?
No wonder your weak character comes across clearly in your contributions. It’s obviously inherited from all those descendents who hid behind the braver ancestors like mine, Vicki’ s and the hundreds and thousands of others who believed in fighting for freedom.
Pathetic.
Snap, Mater!
BTW Ed,
In less than a months time, there’ll be five ‘veterans’ at my Christmas table, and it’s not that big of a table.
You coming from a family of shirkers and skivers, does not a “rule” make.
Ed Case
#3680050, posted on December 5, 2020 at 8:09 am
I’ll stand with the Diggers, thanks.
I want these guys in my trench, not the jelly-backs that call themselves “leaders”, and certainly not the NPC useful-idiots that hate the country and society that these guys so thanklessly defend.
#justfuckoff
Looks like a no deal Brexit , talks arecstalemated ,as they have been for months. The arrogant bureaucrats in Brussells refused to really try to negotiate compromise ,the UK was to be a colony like Ireland they have encouraged member state citizens to believe they have ower when all piwer ultimately rests with the unelected Eurocrats .
WTO is the way to go ,the UK will thrive without the retarding regulations and the debt rdden dysfunctional state s like Italy ,Spain Portugal Greece etc etc dr8agging taxpayers mney out of their economy .
While on the subject of unelected rulers ,how is Paedo joes ankle ? Pity it wasnt his lying decietfull corrupt criminal neck ,one thing .ge will go down as the USA s most useless president that will take the record from obama .
Zippy from the last thread:
Things are either particles or waves, being both is illogical so there must be a transition point from what the micro experiments reveal and what the macro world reveals.
Then Zippy got a bit sad about missing wave functions. I don’t want to clog up the thread with heavy stuff but Murray Gell-Mann has a very neat and satisfying approach to the difference between QM and the real world. Gell-Mann talks about coarse graining (QM) and fine graining (real world) and the protean nature of QM. In the QM you have 2 (contradictory) choices but infinite choices in the real world; QM may underpin the real world with its binary coarseness and uncertainty and be perplexing but it gives us the reality with all its potential we live in.
Bruce, the ECJ is not part of the Brexit deal – it is a stand alone arrangement which would require separate action by the UK if they want to get out from under.
Needless to say, woke Boris and his predecessors have not shown the slightest interest in doing this.
Who needs government jackboot militias when an airline flunky can say, with full airline backing, “If we have to ask you more than once to cover your nose, mouth, put your mask on: we are not going to be rude, nasty, we will just take your seat number and your name. When we get to where we are going you will either be arrested, fined, and placed on a no-fly regulation which means you will never be able to fly with any airline for the rest of your life.
Rowe does a very good Xi Jinping.
The man’s a true artist.
And you’re a true bastard you old commie bastard.
***BTW Ed,
In less than a months time, there’ll be five ‘veterans’ at my Christmas table, and it’s not that big of a table.
You coming from a family of shirkers and skivers, does not a “rule” make.***
Ad Homs aren’t an argument.
My point, which you haven’t addressed, is that Vikki Campion’s Narrative, that Australia is a Nation of Service families, is not true now, and never has been.
The first AIF were volunteers, and Conscription was employed in the Second War.
Sure, plenty of Cats have got Military families, that’s not common in the wider community now.
How many Repat Hospitals have any soldiers as patients?
There are no more Repat hospitals.Was done away with long time ago. All Vets now have private hospital cover for recognised ailments.
Thanks for that.
The U.S, does have a Martial tradition [for better or worse].
They won’t be doing away with their VA Hospitals anytime soon.
Johanna – I may’ve been thinking of the EU CHR based on this recent story:
Boris Johnson ‘has caved in on human rights’: Michel Barnier claims Prime Minister has agreed to keep Britain tied to European human rights rules after Brexit (1 Dec)
If the UK crashes out of the EU and the EU tries something silly with the ECJ or the ECHR then it wouldn’t be farfetched to see the Tory back bench force Boris to carry out his promise.
When you import hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, over an extended period, that outcome is not surprising.
All going according to plan.
Now, do you want to address your Rehab Hospital face plant?
You mouth off a lot about stuff you know little about.
I know it is from the Guardian, but please read and even contact your MP or a firebrand Senator.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/03/dark-web-how-australias-powerful-new-warrants-would-work
The opportunity for corrupt law enforcement behaviour is virtually uncapped and it tacitly approves of evidence tampering and perjury.
They still served, dingbat. Most if not all, suffered for it.
Ad Homs aren’t an argument.
Against the left they always are.
Never mind Joe’s foot what about the poor dog’s tail.
I can count 3 in my family/close friends group, with one joined in the last 6 months.
Because hes an evil penis bearer it took over a year for him to be considered.
Young, keen, very fit, his dad is ex services tankie (peacetime only) definitely not as desirable a recruit as a Lambie and very unlikely to want his tackle lopped off and tits screwed on at the taxpayers expense.
Min just as well dogs have the same sense of self awareness as socialists ,otbPaedo joes dog would be ashamed of its owner.
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***When you import hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, over an extended period, that outcome is not surprising.***
That’s not the issue being discussed, and it’s not true anyway.
***Now, do you want to address your Rehab Hospital face plant?
You mouth off a lot about stuff you know little about.***
You’re nitpicking and pettifogging now, while making my argument for me anyway.
In Brisbane, are Greenslopes, Roseville, and Kenmore still operating as Hospitals?
How many ex Service men are in-patients there now, compared to, say, 1980?
Game, set and Match to me, i’d say.
Toms Toons; Branco today:
https://dailytorch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02-No-Evidence-DT-1080.jpg
Brexit was 4 1/2 years ago. The ruling class don’t want to let go, do they?
Miserable ghost is miserable..
Kevin Rudd says Scott Morrison’s ‘public relations eggbeater’ is harming relationship with Beijing
After meeting in person with the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, the Liberal leader issued a statement lauding the “landmark defence treaty”, on which the pair had reached in-principle agreement, adding its significance “cannot be understated”.
Rudd welcomed the agreement – aimed at better facilitating training and exercises in either other’s countries – but said Morrison’s language made it sound like a defence pact “where we have mutual security obligations to come to each other’s aid in the event of an attack”.
“If you want a clear living case study of how the public relations eggbeater is taken to these sorts of initiatives, that’s it – way in excess of what is actually a pretty mundane operational agreement which we have with armed forces around the world,” the ex-prime minister said.
Rudd said it was an example of “putting a premium on domestic political messaging in Australia and putting a zero premium on its foreign policy impact in terms of avoidable problems with Beijing”.
Rudd the miserable specter is not unacquainted with the taste of China Choad.
In Brisbane, are Greenslopes, Roseville, and Kenmore still operating as Hospitals?
Not as Rehab hospitals they aren’t.
Mater
#3680102, posted on December 5, 2020 at 9:24 am
Sure, plenty of Cats have got Military families, that’s not common in the wider community now.
There is lot in that observation, diluting the population with newcomers with different values.
Had a quick check. In our family there was no generation, war or peacetime, without someone or several serving in the army.
No navy or air force I recall.
(Just as generational unemployment wasn’t a norm before Whitlam IIRC?)
Rowe does a very good Xi Jinping. The man’s a true artist.
The poor man’s Ralph Steadman.
So is the Austin, but that’s not the point. They are not DVA hospitals, nor do they solely treat veterans.
Veterans are treated privately throughout the entire health system, so using these hospitals as a unit of measure is fallacious.
Nah, into the net is more the outcome.
Dot
Can you imagine Pells “”laptop from hell” after Vicpol got through with it??
The smaller the mass, the more wavelike the behaviour (photons): frequency -> colours in visible spectrum.
The Left can’t wait to call Morrison ‘racist’ in ‘disrupting’ our relationship with China.
This is funny in a “look at the man beating his testicles with a mallet and wondering if doing it harder will stop it hurting” kind of way.
Google hires a race pimp.
Race pimp is a highly “qualified” race pimp able to be “sciencey” about its feelz.
Race Pimp attacks google for not kowtowing to its demands enough.
Google dismissed race pimp prompting all the googlebots infected with googles “diversity” to chuck their toys out of the pram.
I hope they all lose.
More than 1,200 Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru
More than 1,500 researchers also sign letter after Black expert on ethics says Google tried to suppress her research on bias
Cats with Netflix might like to check this out: Mosul, a well reviewed and reportedly realistic portrayal of a team of Iraqi counter-terrorist specialists involved in liberating Mosul from ISIS, block by block.
Just a conspiracy theory, eh?
Now, do you want to address your Rehab Hospital face plant
Mater. Know Repat at Hiedelberg is still in operation, my dad used to get seen by them before he passed. Unsure about Concord in Sydney though, remember dad getting stuff done by them that he obviously didn’t want the Army to know about in the ’80’s.
Great presentation, again filled with such wonderful nuggets as Polish ship engaging Bismarck signalling continuously “l am a Pole” for the duration of the engagement (got so close ships AA guns were even able to engage!)
Highlighting the melanin content of the ethics expert creates the impression it’s an unlikely combination.
Which is only a bit racist.
The ABDIEL “See you in Egypt” anecdote from a couple of days ago is a beaut.
True RD, there are some preferred providers for certain conditions where it is convenient.
However, the fact remains that DVA got out of the provider business and pays for veterans to be treated through the standard health system.
I have been treated for a number of very serious injuries both whilst serving, and as a discharged veteran. Not once have I entered any former Rehab hospital.
Trying to use the lack of dedicated Rehab Hospitals to prove a point about veteran numbers, is distinctly dishonest (or misinformed).
Or just typical Grogarly.
Sigh.
Ed, the singular experience of your own family being vacillating fence-sitters is reflected daily in your uninformed and wrong analyses of everyday situations. You can see it. It screams it, because in every sentence there are weak qualifiers like ‘probably’, ‘most likely’ and ‘I’d say’.
Because there’s no concept of joining something bigger than yourself, and with broader goals than the personal impact on yourself in your own extended family doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in this country, because I’m here to tell you it does.
Your contributions are speculation combined with hope, and also with ‘I tell a lot of lies’.
If you’re 62, it doesn’t necessarily follow that you’ve had 62 years of experience. You’ve had one year of experience 62 times, and that’s a significant difference. When you explain your Queensland traffic paddle Nazi salute stance fully, I’ll take you seriously. Until then you’re a parody machine and I’ll treat you as such.
Is this the real monolith or a me-too copy hastily contrived as a commercial lure?
A “monolith”-like object appeared in front of Circa Resort on Fremont Street Friday in downtown Las Vegas.
I’d guess the latter.
Margolis #2 for me by the way.
I could think of a few who could benefit from flying lessons off the Nakatomi Tower this year.
That Biden Ïll develop some disease” is one of the most amazingly dumb things ever.
I thought it was an exaggeration and he couldnt have said that.
I was wrong.
His brain really is full of worms.
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1334686548122591235
“If Barrack and I I I I I I have some fundamental moral blah blah disagreement I’ll develop some disease and resign”.
In the old days politicians didn’t acknowledge that they habitually lied about the reasons why people resigned. They would say “family’” or “health” and we would all know they had been forced out, but they wouldn’t say that.
What Biden is saying here is that in the unlikely event of him and Obama getting into a situation where their interests conflict and Obama used whatever he knows about Biden or whatever control he has to force him out, the health excuse would be used.
You’re not supposed to say that shot aloud to the public, even though everyone knows that’s how it works. You just admitted being a liar controlled by outside forces, you moron.
***Trying to use the lack of dedicated Rehab Hospitals to prove a point about veteran numbers, is distinctly dishonest (or misinformed).***
No, you’re response is dishonest.
1. I asked how many vets were being treated at Repat Hospitals.
You’re gotcha was to ignore that point, and scream that the Commonwealth wasn’t operating Repat Hospitals any more.
2. Another commenter points pout that there are still Repat Hospitals- you continue pettifogging.
I’ll leave this discussion for the moment.
You appear to be a bit of a bully and a loudmouth, so i’m tentatively placing you in the Knuckle Dragger category, mildly funny in a non self aware way, but generally not worth responding to.
shit
Crystalline salt makes you live to 180, I’d say. Probably.
Daily Mail
Ed Case
The first AIF were volunteers, and Conscription was employed in the Second War.
The Second AIF were also volunteers, as were the RAAF (some 200,000 volunteers) and the RAN in both wars (around 40,000 in the Second World War). Many thousands of troops initially conscripted into the Army also transferred to the Second AIF during the war. All women members were volunteers.
The Street tries very hard to massage dotard into narrative:
Funny thing to kid about.
The world needs to know more about whose hand is stuck up the back of Harris.
My Pommy Grandfather was Royal Horse Artillery in WWI with bonus points for also being a founding member of the RAF. This wonderful human being then enlisted into the Royal Leicestershire Regiment at the start of WWII even though he was “mature” age. He was sent home from the front after the higher up mucky mucks found out he was in his 40’s, whereupon he joined the Home Guard.
My Father was in the Royal Navy for sending part of WWII, along with his elder brother. The oldest was in the RAF and little Sister was a nurse. Nice photo of Dad and Uncle Bob from 1947 in the HeraldI think when HMS Theseus visited Melbourne.
My own contribution was to join the Royal Marines Commandos out of school with a guest appearance in the Australian Army in 1989.
For those wondering, I was born in Melbourne where my Father settled after marrying Mum and emigrating as 10Pounds tourists. I ended up finishing school in blighty before returning home after service.
And that’s the longest post I will ever submit you all to.
Apropos of post-Brexit, and earlier discussion:
None of this UK vs EU law has been adequately tested. Therefore, as King of England I would:
1. Introduce selective conscription (wait for it. God), alongside massive modernisation and capability building of the Royal Navy and the RAF;
2. Create the British Afrika Corps and the UK ME Foreign Legion. Free food and diversity training;
3. Training. Jumping out of things. One week;
4. Launch Overlord II. Drop hundreds of thousands of conscripted reffos in Normandy and Brittany, all with inoperable ammo. No naval bombardment, no long range arty prep;
5. Minefields laid on the Flemish side of the Dogger Bank. Fishing grounds become English, and only English;
6. Go home. Use the Channel, and RN and the RAF as shields to blow apart anything turning up in the air or on water that’s not wanted; and
7. Give a giant middle finger to Europe and everyone in it.
Both foolproof and seamless.
You’ve had one year of experience 62 times, and that’s a significant difference.
And, unfortunately, it is the first year that has been repeated 62 times!
That should have read “second part of WWII”. My apologies.
Interesting post, thank you.
Thanks for that information.
Not sure if the Land Army were volunteers or there was some compulsion.
My point is that, contrary to Vikki Campiuon’s Narrative, and even though a million [?] Australians were in the Armed Services in WW2, we’re not a Country where service in the Armed Forces is particularly common, apart from the period 1942-45.
Most of those people have now left the scene.
Some blokes just enjoy aspects of the Armed Services, most don’t.
Of the million Aussies in WW2, how many reenlisted for Korea?
There might have been a few, not many.
“You ain’t heard nothing yet”
like the trolls here, biden is quite dumb. seems birds of a feather….
‘There might have been a few, not many.’
Okay. How do you know this?
Oh. Righto.
I’d say it’s likely all the election corflutes in SEQ were made of cheese.
Man. This is easier than I thought.
Don’t forget to get your coronavirus vaccine. It’s free! 👍🏻
https://twitter.com/xrptwin/status/1331651064391720960?s=21
A million Australian men enlisted in WW2, how many Australians were sent to Korea?
30,000?
So, yeah, there mighta been a few from WW2 that reenlisted for Korea, not many.
Had a good think about this over a G&T late last night. I’ll post more about it later today, I gathered some of my thoughts, might be a multi part post. I don’t buy either the penrose or gell-mann explanation. Not sure how original my thoughts are, I suspect not very.
AI 3D rendering from photos
Crazyoldranga – well done for the service of you and your family.
A million Australian men enlisted in WW2, how many Australians were sent to Korea?
30,000?
So, yeah, there mighta been a few from WW2 that reenlisted for Korea, not many.
If those stats are correct, factor in that our population was 6 million – which included women and babies. So there’s a one in three chance – at least – of any man having ww2 service. If 30,000 random men went to Korea, there’s 10,000+ who served in both.
A few? Depends on your definition, but I’d call 10,000 more than a few.
Pride in Protest group says their presence makes Indigenous people feel unsafe
So funny!
Four direct measurements of the fine-structure constant 13 billion years ago
The Black Plague didn’t kill that many people, I’d say. Probably.
Getting the hang of this.
“ Many of those who fought in the Australian forces in Korea were veterans of World War II or of BCOF in Japan.”
https://www.dva.gov.au/file/5314/download?token=1odbBJnf
The mysteries at the bottom of physics video was good fun. And accurate. Thanks Egg.
Among other things it tells us how amazing boredom is. 😄
***A few? Depends on your definition, but I’d call 10,000 more than a few.***
10,000 Australian WW2 vets reenlisted to go to Korea?
Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.
egg_
#3679946, posted on December 5, 2020 at 12:42 am
Thank you egg.
This is what makes The Cat supreme!
Listen here you obnoxious piece of shit. Do your research.
The institution that RD was referring to is the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital. As in:
ie. A Repat Hospital in name only. It does contain the Veteran’s Psychiatry Unit which specialises in PTSD. A unit to which many veterans are referred to for specialist treatment for this condition. (ie. A preferred supplier for a specific condition – as I stated).
They have contracts with hospitals all over the country to provide services on an as required basis. As in:
Learn your subject matter before mouthing off.
A bit of history of K Force, the recruiting of WW2 veterans for Korea in 1950:
RSL South Australia
16 August 2019 ·
In August 1950, the “K Force” recruiting campaign was launched for volunteers to serve in the Korean War. K Force was the last volunteer force raised by Australia to serve in a particular conflict, following in the footsteps of the First and Second Australian Imperial Forces.
The Army wanted to make use of men with World War II combat experience, so K Force aimed at recruiting 1,000 men into the Army for three years, including one year in Korea, minimising the training effort required.
Out of 17,000 Australians who served in Korea between 1950 and 1953, 339 were killed and more than 1,150 were wounded.
Lest we forget.
Ian Smith
Chair
ANZAC Day Committee .
I had a soldier uncle who served both in WW2 and Korea (now deceased).
I heard about K Force from him ages ago.
10,000 Australian WW2 vets reenlisted to go to Korea?
Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.
That was based on the stats you put up and reasoning I presented. Your own figure of 30,000 was too high; AWM says 17,000.
So it was probably more like 5000 than 10,000.
Define “a few”.
“An estimated 848,000 Korean War veterans also served in other war periods: 171,000 in both WWII and Vietnam, 404,000 only in WWII, and 273,000 only in Vietnam.” – from the US.
Almost half of Americans in Korea had served in WW2; extrapolating that to Australia would put the figure for both around 8000.
“ Many of those who fought in the Australian forces in Korea were veterans of World War II or of BCOF in Japan.”
The first units deployed, 3 RAR and No 77 Squadron, were from BCOF. A special force, K Force was raiised to reinforce and supplement 3 RAR. Many WW II veterans enlisted in K Force.
Stupefying the more you think about that.
A couple of years after WWII the Australian Army wasn’t able to put a battalion into the field.
Had to blow the bugle & hope enough pre-skilled soldiers would answer the call so the country could meet the pledge that’d been made to the UN force.
Tailgunner #3680228, posted on December 5, 2020 at 11:50 am
Okay, so the thing about co-incidences, even very unlikely co-incidences, is that they happen every day. You imbue them with meaning because of what you are seeking. This is always true, even when the co-incidence really is due to a causal relationship. It’s just the result of all living beings having limited senses and cognitive capacity and so needing to focus only on what is most important.
So you have to consider co-incidences against that background.
In this case, you have to judge significance of the phrase “stop all engines” by how often Gen Flynn says that in previous communications. It could be a personal cliche for him, which would make it unsurprising to use it in this context too. I think if you found lots of other odd phrases having predictive power in previous messages, that would also boost the chances of this being an intentional double-meaning.
One of John Gorton’s boasts at the 1969 election was that there were more men and women in uniform in the armed services than ever before in peacetime. (Although technically we were at war at the time; I’d have to check the wording.)
No one has gone to the polls on such a claim since; but he won that election.
British Government to compensate people who suffer extreme Covid-19 vaccine side effects with payments of up to £120,000 under existing scheme for common jabs
Salvatore
A couple of years after WWII the Australian Army wasn’t able to put a battalion into the field.
No. We had three
The Royal Australian Regiment (RAR) had its beginnings in 1945 when the Australian Government agreed to provide soldiers for the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan. The Australian Army component was the 34th Infantry Brigade based on three new infantry battalions raised at Morotai during October 1945, with volunteers coming from the Australian infantry divisions serving in the South West Pacific Area at the end of World War Two. The three battalions were the 65th, 66th and 67th Australian Infantry Battalions; they were the first full-time service infantry battalions raised for peacetime service in the Australian Army. They arrived in Japan during February 1946.
These battalions became 1,2 and 3 RAR – a bit of a letdown after fielding 67 Battalions during the war but everyone wanted to get back to their wives/girlfriends etc and get on with life
I think the problem is that we are used to regarding two entangled particles or photons as two things when they are separated in space or time. QM says they are different aspects of the same thing. It’s our notion of thinginess that has to go.
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It’s the time aspect that sucks the big one.
The delayed choice implies you could build an apparatus to send future information back to the present.
Suppose you had two entangled coins. If you toss one and get heads, then tossing the other one always gives tails; conversely if the first one gives tails, the second one is always heads. This always happens even if the coins are separated by the diameter of the galaxy or a thousand years in time. The explanation is that it’s not really two coins, just opposite faces of the same coin.
This is what is happening. I’m not saying this comes easy. Because you can’t entangle coins, so our experience of entangled things is rather limited.
Please prove dark matter exists first. Everything else is complete crap without it.
No limits to the stupidity of cancel culture!
Roll over Beethoven, cancel culture is coming for you
MATTHEW WESTWOOD
On the sestercentennial of his birth, the great composer is targeted for white-male privilege
After pulling down statues and banishing fantasy authors, cancel culture has caught up with classical music and is making a bogeyman of Beethoven, the world’s most popular composer.
This year was meant to be one of celebration for Beethoven, who was baptised (his exact date of birth is unknown) in Bonn on December 17, 1770. The pandemic has cancelled concerts of Beethoven’s music but that hasn’t stopped attempts by academic theorists and podcasters to bring him down a notch or two. Not so much a year of exciting performances of sonatas, string quartets and symphonies, it has been the year of cancel Beethoven.
His crime? For starters, he was white and a man. He is an exemplar of the European music tradition: the “common practice” that has colonised concert halls across the world. Seen through the lens of race and gender theory, his music dominates the concert repertoire because white-male privilege and assumptions about white-male genius keep him there.
Beethoven is inescapable because his titanic imagination remade almost every genre of concert music that matters. He unleashed the expressive power of the newfangled pianoforte. The concerto and symphony in his hands became driving musical narratives of heroic struggle. In the late string quartets he opens a profound window on to the soul.
Beethoven is described in these terms because of his superlative musical achievements — and that is why the anti-Beethoven brigade wants to bring him down. In one of the loopier utterances on the subject, Slate online rebukes Beethoven for his mononym: the fact he is known by a single name, like Michelangelo or Shakespeare. It gives the pedestal of nomenclature to “straight white men at the expense of everyone else”.
Melbourne composer and Yorta Yorta woman Deborah Cheetham says the idea of cancelling Beethoven is inflammatory and ridiculous. Earlier this year, Cheetham wrote a companion piece to Beethoven’s ninth symphony and translated the Ode to Joy into Yorta Yorta for performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
She recognises Beethoven as one of the musical giants on whose shoulders successive generations of composers stand. “Beethoven is part of the legacy of the canon,” she says. “We do not need to cancel Beethoven to include more female composers, they are not mutually exclusive.”
Yet the attacks on Beethoven have had wide circulation. Musicologist Nate Sloan and songwriter Charlie Harding argue that Beethoven, or rather the veneration of his music, is responsible for the class-ridden, exclusionary practices of the concert hall: sit still, shut up, don’t clap until the end. In their podcast The Fifth, they discuss the opening bars of Beethoven’s fifth symphony, and the da-da-da-DUM motif that is one of the most famous sounds in all music. A conventional reading of this theme is that it represents the sound of fate knocking on the door, or that it’s Beethoven’s riposte to his encroaching deafness.
But Sloan and Harding contrive to turn this musical motto into the sound of the gate slamming shut on minorities, such as “women, LGBTQ+ people, people of colour”.
In the frontline of the academic debate about Beethoven is US music theorist Philip Ewell, who recently published an article called Beethoven was an Above-Average Composer — Let’s Leave it at That. He takes issue with the epithets routinely applied to dead white composers and their output such as “genius” and “masterwork”, which evoke slavery (master-slave) and sexism (mastermistress). To be fair, Ewell is not taking issue so much with Beethoven as with classical music’s “white racial frame” that reinforces the hierarchy of white male composers. “He (along with countless other white males) has been propped up by the whitemale frame, both consciously and subconsciously, with descriptors such as genius, master and masterwork,” Ewell says.
That Beethoven is under siege from culture warriors on the left obscures the fact he was, for his era, a fairly progressive guy.
Beethoven believed passionately in liberty, equality and fraternity, and for a time thought of Napoleon as the guiding light of those ideals; he intended to dedicate his third symphony to him.
When Napoleon had himself crowned emperor, Beethoven struck out the dedication and renamed the symphony with a more generic title, Eroica (“heroic”). The ninth symphony and its Ode to Joy is stirring, triumphant music of a great humanity — not for the elite but for the “millions”.
As for Beethoven as an emblem of sexism and racism in music, two episodes of his life may dislodge the notion that he personally is to blame. Although he was disappointed in his romantic relationships and fought a bitter battle with his sister-in-law, he had enduring friendships with women. One of his best friends was Nannette Streicher, a pioneering piano-maker and businesswoman.
Another friend was virtuoso violinist George Bridgetower, who had mixed-race heritage: his father was from the West Indies. Bridgetower was the original dedicatee of a brilliant piece for violin and piano. Beethoven called it the “mulatto sonata” after his friend — a racist term but he evidently meant it affectionately.
The pair gave the first performance of the sonata but fell out soon afterwards, and Beethoven renamed the piece for another violinist, Rudolphe Kreutzer.
Richard Tognetti has long been fascinated by the story of Beethoven, Bridgetower and the work known as the Kreutzer Sonata. The artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Tognetti will perform the sonata in concert next year, in his own arrangement for string orchestra, and he would very much like to rename it.
“I want to remember Bridgetower and the extraordinary story — in part because of his heritage as a biracial person, but I want to remember him as a violinist as much as I do his heritage,” Tognetti says.
Beethoven’s critics are not wrong that he dominates the repertoire. Sydney composer Ian Whitney has made an annual study of the music performed by Australian orchestras and the low rate of Australian content. Beethoven often is the most-performed composer in the repertoire and his anniversary year was no exception. Before the widespread cancellation of concerts — because of coronavirus, not culture wars — 15 to 20 per cent of the repertoire programmed by some orchestras was music by Beethoven.
There certainly is plenty of excellent and interesting concert music to listen to: by Australian composers, by women, by people whose racial heritage is not the same as Beethoven’s. But to cancel Beethoven because of his race or his sex is nonsense. His only crime is that he is popular.
Today I was refused service at a Coffee Club because I refuse to download and use the SafeWA tracking app and yesterday I was refused the option to pay with cash at another venue.
We are F’ed.
If I toss my entangled coin but don’t look at it, and the next day you toss the other entangled coin and get tails, then you tell me and I check mine and see that I got heads, it doesn’t mean that information has travelled back in time, it just means they’re opposite faces of the same coin. This is what is going on with the alleged future influencing the past video.
I wasn’t aware the radio telescope at Aricebo had collapsed.
I wasn’t aware the radio telescope at Aricebo had collapsed.
Yep, the onset of a new dark age. Also we may not pick up inbound asteroids/comets etc.
When the Galactic Survey gets here eventually, our epitaph may be “they were too lazy to survive”.
For a small portion of the money being squandered on “climate change” the Aricebo telescope could have been maintained.
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This is awesome
“Tell me again how coal is a relic of the past”….
How coal baron Trevor St Baker turned a $1m power plant into a money-making machine
In 2015, the ageing Vales Point station seemed destined for the scrapheap – now, it’s making more than $100m a year
In September 2015, the then NSW treasurer, Gladys Berejiklian, sold the Vales Point coal power plant to St Baker’s Sunset Power International for just $1m.
At the time, the state government believed the 40-year-old generator on the shore of Lake Macquarie, which was famously the backdrop for Midnight Oil’s 1982 US Forces video, was on the way out and unlikely to last to its scheduled 2029 closure date.
St Baker disagreed. He told the Australian Financial Review that, while Vales Point had been a loss-making business for years, he and Sunset Power International’s co-owner, coal baron Brian Flannery, were experienced hands who would trade “in a smarter and more effective way” and run the plant for at least seven years “if coal-fired power generation continues to be required in NSW”.
Five years on, coal power remains comfortably the biggest contributor to the power grid – for at least the next few years – and Vales Point has become a money-printing machine for its owners.
Documents released this week showed the scale of their success: a profit after tax last financial year of $134.7m and a dividend of $62m. The year before it was a $96.8m profit and $30m dividend.
Not a bad result for an outlay equivalent, as the AFR put it, to the price of a nice suburban home.
Of course, the sales price was never a true reflection of the value of the plant. Just two years after the sale, in September 2017, the company revalued Vales Point at $731m, up from $70m a year earlier.
In a demonstration of how volatile these paper valuations can be, Sunset Power International says that has now fallen to $221.7m due to a drop in demand for the plant’s electricity, which it blames on the Covid-19 shutdown and a surge in the availability of cheap solar and wind power.
Every cent of that profit above historical margins is due to government meddling in the energy sector.
Every cent of that profit is an indirect tax on people paying for that energy via government brain farts.
Every cent of that profit above historical margins is due to government meddling in the energy sector.
Every cent of that profit is an indirect tax on people paying for that energy via government brain farts.
Absolutely spot on Mole.
Robots are not immune to bias and injustice
No. It’s not satire.
Thank you.
If it was wrong for Google, a private company, to sack this AI researcher for publishing a paper criticising some Google technology – and I agree it was wrong:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-05/google-staff-rally-in-support-of-ousted-ai-ethicist-timnit-gebru/12953844
… then how much worse was it for James Cook University to sack Peter Todd?
Old Lefty
Google are claiming she resigned.
And we know they wouldnt lie.
Race pimp vs China ensconced tapeworm, Im having trouble picking a side.
Out of the 17,000 Australians who went to Korea, we know around 1,000 of them were WW2 vets who reenlisted to go to Korea.
Let’s say 100 RAAFies from WW2 also reenlisted for Korea- that makes 1,100.
More than a few, but compared to the figures from the U.S., not the reenlistment numbers of a Country where everyone has family members who were blown up, TPIed, etc., which is the spin Political spinner Vikki Campion is trying to bowl up.
Here are my issues with this:
Someone claiming that Australians are something they’re not devalues the sacrifice of those that did serve in Wars, and with what is clearly going to be compulsory vaxxing for Covid-19 looming, dissenters are likely to be portrayed as anti Australia and not willing to join in the National sacrifice.
Not quite. There’s still the 500 metre radio telescope built by China…
Wiki.
Ed ‘I tell a lot of lies’ Case at 11.36:
‘Of the million Aussies in WW2, how many reenlisted for Korea? There might have been a few’
‘I’d say’ Ed Case, just now:
‘More than a few’
Butbutbutbutbutbut. Ah, there you are sir. You seem to have spilled your pudding. Here, let me help you back to your room.
egg_
#3680240, posted on December 5, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Four direct measurements of the fine-structure constant 13 billion years ago
So, in the galaxy up the road ‘C’ could be less or more than it is here. AE van Vogt dealt with the issues in The Voyage of the Space Beagle, a really weird book.
Ah, there you are sir. You seem to have spilled your pudding. Here, let me help you back to your room.
It may be brown, shapeless and have the consistency of pudding, but I dont advise a taste test…
Were we?
I reckon I might have noted it at the time, but that declaration seems to have never been reported anywhere.
Let me know when you find the “wording”.
Wasn’t too hard. Try here.
The relevant part:
“There are more Australians under arms today than ever before in our history except in time of major war. They are better equipped and they have greater mobility.”
Cheetham wrote a companion piece to Beethoven’s ninth symphony and translated the Ode to Joy into Yorta Yorta for performance with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Do cats think she yorta have done that?
Fuck off numbers. You aren’t an authority on anything.
Ha.
Liability Bob, the Scourge of Tents puts a toe in the water.
Has toe chewed off. Ow ow ow ow ow.
Oh I dunno. Unscrambling eggs has always been the go-to metaphor for me. 🙂
And above, great article in the Tele by Vicki Campion. Well written and concise. Important stuff too.
Try my knitting basket.
The original post –
The relevant part (and what I was looking for) was that (technical?) declaration of war.
I can’t find it anywhere in that speech.
Bruce
I’ve always maintained grandma ran pretty decent monetary policy. I wouldn’t put her in charge of anything else.
Today’s Oz arrived with a big colour glossy on how useful Flinders University was. I had a leaf through. Did a little tabulation, e&oe please, after lunch. 7 of the 23 articles were by men. Nearly all of the 23 writers were at Professorial level, with the occasional mere PhD (mostly from the three aboriginal writers putting forth aboriginal material of a very general nature). Only nine of my tick-of-approval articles were of the sort of quality that might signify that they come off anything like a significant scientific or international research base and were adding to it. Two were in serious archaeology done within Australia and for STEM two were on environmental chemicals for recycling and two medical ones came in respectively on medical devices – mainly facemask improvements; and microbes in the gut.
Quite a few of the others, my no-ticks, were articles of general interest in broad social work, nursing, health and community development and aboriginal issues, reporting on quite a lot of make-work studies, imho, all with full Professorial Chairs (and teams too) to back them of course. Two of the ticked ones were on mass terrorism and the cyber battlefront respectively; pretty general even there though.
We are not winning in the battle for serious STEM was my opinion from reading the offerings. Too much attention going to second-level studies of problems in our social system, fireside chats really, and climate change of course, where ditto applies regarding any real atmospheric science.
Anyone else read this? Am I being too tough? Or not tough enough? Or maybe just right?
Hard to tell these days.
And no one claimed it was in there.
A centuries-old village church has been ravaged by a huge fire.
Pictures of the blaze at All Saints’ Church in Mackworth, Derbyshire, show significant damage to the roof of the Grade I listed building.
Church warden Prof Bryan Jones said he felt “absolutely numb… watching 1,000 years of history go up in flames”.
Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the blaze was unclear but the possibility of an arson attack was being investigated.
Earlier this afternoon, it was announced that police have arrested a teenage boy over the incident.
Officers say the boy, from the Derby area, is being held on suspicion of arson
Numbers
The relevant part (and what I was looking for) was that (technical?) declaration of war.
I can’t find it anywhere in that speech.
Why are you looking for a “Declaration of War’ Under our constitution it isn’t necessary. I’m pretty sure we didn’t declare war for the Boxer Rebellion, the Boer War, the Russian Revolution, Korea, Indonesian Konfontasi, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan or East Timor.
What’s your point?
I share the concept of the Physics video – everything arises from Geometry – fields, the whole box and dice.
Some have difficulty understanding that the Sun’s gravity has an instantaneous effect on the Earth* (it’s a field, not a wave propagated in Simple Harmonic Motion) – gravitational waves are not gravity.
The thought experiment “what if the Sun instantaneously disappeared?” – it would have an instantaneous effect on the Earth! Duh!!
*Just like charged particles react to each other instantaneously over a distance (they’re in a field).
When Vicki in that article above wrote about her family history, it was pretty clear to me that she was referring to a strong family tradition going back to the First World War, and not to having shot-up soldiers currently at the Christmas dinner table. Australian working class families bore the brunt of those two major wars, and then the wars and skirmishes that came after that. Families tend not to forget their own heroes.
And especially those who are still being made, still serving.
Yup, Universal constants are one hell of an assumption – hence, junk Science like dark matter/energy fudges.
The relevant part (and what I was looking for) was that (technical?) declaration of war.
I can’t find it anywhere in that… *BANG!*
What will that change, Jack Hunt.
You went.
You came back.
For someone who loudly asserts himself to be a survivor and not a victim, you sure do spend a lot of time trying to comport and defend yourself as the latter. Particularly when your bullshit gets called out…
That Vietnam was the only war in our history when conscripts were deployed overseas to a civil war on foreign soil in peacetime.
That fact, amongst the other historical exceptions, explains why Vietnam is such a poor fit with ANZAC mythology.
Isn’t there a law of physics that covers the inevitable tangle when more than two cables or wires are close together?
Chris Kenny is usually sensible, now in Paywallian he has a pro undemocratic Aboriginal Voice article
Wonder how may beatings and rpes this will stop?
Vietnam is not a poor fit with the ANZAC tradition, you are.
Take some personal responsibility.
Chris Kenny is usually sensible, now in Paywallian he has a pro undemocratic Aboriginal Voice article
Wonder how may beatings and rpes this will stop?
Kenny is a nut about the 3rd nations bullshit; I think he even supports pascoe.
‘when conscripts were deployed overseas’
And volunteers, old Yeller. Volunteers like you, who could have just said ‘no thanks’ and that would have been the end of it.
12 months later you could have resumed your career as a parasite, but you opted to go for the benefits, left your mates in the lurch to go to the rear and put as many rounds through tents as you needed in order to stay there.
Electromagnetism = electron spin (not orbit) – it is theorised that there can be magnetic monopoles – i.e. not a North/South dipole, per a bar magnet.
*Old Yeller*
Shan’t be criticised for improper capital use.
…and it wasn’t a civil war, it was a communist invasion
That fact, amongst the other historical exceptions, explains why Vietnam is such a poor fit with ANZAC mythology.
Naturally the old commie bastard supports the commies; what a traitor it is. Vietnam was another yank good idea fucked by poor implementation, just like the ME attempt to destroy the RoP. The yanks had the dumb idea, and it will flourish again under the demented joe regime, that they could convert commies, and the RoP, to the joys of Western democracy. If they had concentrated on just destroying the vietcong commies, just like they should have destroyed the RoP in Afghanistan/ iraq and every other shithole then they may have achieved something.
Thanks, Mater, that was the passage I had in mind even though I didn’t remember it exactly.
The opportunity for corrupt law enforcement behaviour is virtually uncapped and it tacitly approves of evidence tampering and perjury.
You know what “they” say… if you’re not doing anything wrong you should have nothing to hide!
Are “corrupt” law enforcement going to just randomly pick your name out of the barrel just for fun?
Even in the Lawyer X debacle the bad guys were actually bad guys.
Worse comes to worse just stop using the internet, who needs it anyway…play golf, go fishing.
When a Mountain Lion stalks you, never turn your back on it!
P.S. Dutton’s just another sheet of used dunny paper, flush him!
One in 1972, and a second in 1975?
Every war starts in peacetime.
Not tough enough Lizzie.
I have the UniSyd mag thing here, unopened. On the plastic wrap it says
My only digital response you can imagine. I never wanted it. They tracked me down about thirty years after I graduated and sent it unsolicited, along with begging letters. The Chemistry department newsletter is as bad or worse – just about every featured researcher is doing something on climate bloody change. STEM is increasingly stuffed in this country.
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity
The video provides a good introduction to wokeorology and the main concepts.
Can you knit me a sweater of quantum entangled wool, please Calli? I’d like to be able to be in two places at once. 😇
Agrees with the Geometry/fields concept – a great analogy.
No worries. Just one thing though. I do difficult patterns so will it be Fair Isle or Aran?
When you get the box, it may or may not be inside.
Let’s look at the situation in Australia vis-a-vis the Vietnam War in 1969.
Calwell hadn’t opposed it while he led Labor, Whitlam talked out of both sides of his mouth at once, Menzies left Holt in the lurch, and Holt was the only one with the guts to pull us out of the mess, but he had a penchant for trying to swim Bass Strait, and was never seen again.
From memory, it was well supported in Australia, and continued to be until the Deep State of the day decided they’d accomplished their mission and it was time to exit.
Yes, I think I was trying to be nice and see some value there, whereas there is not much.
It is better than the UTS one which I saw recently, but that is not saying much. They are super woke.
And my USyd one should be along any minute if you have yours. I may not bother opening it.
Certainly not sending them any alumnus money.
Back to the birdies. Everyone doing well and I have trained the Lorikeet clan to leave the Currawong family alone while they breakfast by providing very separate tables, i.e. moving the dishes further apart along the balustrades. Lorikeets kept happy with wet grain and crumbled bread, while brekky is the time for the black bird family to get powered for the day on meat. Amazing, but the Lories still like a nip of meat too. They are highly amusing as they stand their ground and argue with me if I shoo them off the meat. They are outraged, absolutely outraged, they say, as they wipe their beaks on the edge of the meat dish and jump along to where they know I won’t be cross at them, further up at the bread and seed station.
Visiting possum smashed another dish last night so now there are no overnight treats left out.
I am running out of clean little bowls for them all and will have to buy some more.
Hairy needs to do the dishwasher more often.
Because hes an evil penis bearer it took over a year for him to be considered.
Seriously, why would any real young man whose not been locked incommunicado in a basement for the last 10 years want to join the military… makes no sense, unless, you have no other choices or are totally onboard with the feminising and dumbing down of the military and happy to be a party to it.
Until men stop signing up nothing is going to change!
Ed, deciphered:
‘Calwell hadn’t opposed buteyko breathing while he led Labor, Whitlam waved traffic paddles on both sides at once, Menzies left Holt in the lurch, and Holt was the only one with the guts to put up enough corflutes to get us out of the mess, but he had a penchant for trying crystalline salt, and was never seen again.’
Meantime, Attapuss is refusing his meat. I pick up his untouched meat and take it to the Currawongs, for that is the same meat they get too. Good lean Kangaroo. Attapuss doesn’t seem otherwise sick – I’ve consulted Dr. No-cost, the vet on Google, and Attapuss has no signs of problematic lassitude, hairball blocked gut, lack of urination and drinking, and he is still tucking into his kibbled grain free biscuits. The litter tray is working as usual with the same contents.
We think it might be jealousy. He’s put out by our cooing and concern over the babies on the terrace and now the noise Lorikeets. He’s become rather clingy to me lately, insisting I put my/his special rug on my legs and invite him up for a tummy and ear rub.
Yesterday, after he also refused the 4-star Coles mince I got him, I got worried, and so pulled out a $16 piece of steak, very tender, cut it into bits and offered it to him. It quickly vanished. So it’s not that he’s gone off meat, he’s gone off cheap meat. This morning I offered him another colour in his Fussy Cat menu, and laced it with the rest of the steak. He ate the lot. Subterfuge. It works on kids every time.
Mr. Biden and the Matter of Scandal
That Vietnam was the only war in our history when conscripts were deployed overseas to a civil war on foreign soil in peacetime.
Boohoohoo, Bad Bob Menzies did not declare war so why was I selected and called up
up and given the opportunity to go there which I did and have been raging and offering excuses about it ever since?
WAAAAAAH! 😭
Some successful ‘Survivor’ you are, Jack Hunt…
The Military has always attracted more than it’s share of Weirdoes, no one disputes that.
The figures for SexChange Ops in the U.S. Army is an eye opener, it’s about 50 times that of the general population.
Washington warned against Standing Armies.
Yes, you’re always going to need a Navy, and an Air Force since about 1910, but Standing Armies are only ever about mischief.
Militias are the best shot, we could still go back to that, altho we won’t.
Speaking from experience?
Unless you were Vietnamese, and you had seen the French, the Japanese, the French (again), and the Americans invade. I believe Ho was Vietnamese.
They call their wars after the invaders – viz, the French War, the Japanese War, the American War, and in 1979, the Chinese War.
Perhaps – just perhaps – they had the right to determine, and fight for, their own country.
They’d been repelling European foreigners since 1885 when the French prevailed in the Sino-French war, and Chinese warlords for centuries before that.
The Americans were just the last in a series.
And our government was stupid enough to join the conga line.
KD, the Daily Mail has a piece on ex-WAG, Mz Buckley. It contains this gem which says all you need to know
Lizzie – Just been out feeding baby magpie. She’s doing very well despite losing her parents somehow. Occasionally gets a biffing from one of the local adults, but has learned she can hide in the bushes and escape their attention. Early practical education!
Electromagnetism is a field. One pole cannot exist by itself. Maybe you could have a field with one pole in the centre and one on the outside like a sphere. My 2 bobs worth. Mind you 1 bob is 1 too many.
More rewriting of history on Catallaxy.
This is how he responded to Menzies’ commitment of Australian troops –
That reads like “opposition” to me.
He was the ALP leader at the time (May 4, 1965).
Roo meat has no fat, it’s no good for cats.
Ditto fish, that’s even worse, the cat will get abcesses.
Cats have a very similar digestive system to Man, in proportion to size.
Beef and Water is best for Man, ditto cats.
Jesus Weeping Christ.
‘The iconic dress featured a sequinned G-string’
It wasn’t iconic at all, and it wasn’t a G-string. It was a fake Bedazzler-encrusted G-banger stapled to the back of a dress that made her look like a reverse Ralph Nader, such was the Harry High-Pants look.
Terrible. I would have sacked her on the night if she’d turned up like that.
‘More rewriting of history on Catallaxy.’
Here’s some more:
‘I was deferred.’
‘I was deferred twice.’
‘I was not deferred.’
Deserves a repost (well I thinks so anyway) Cheers Dot.
Thanks for the reproof, Numbers.
Do you think he woulda changed direction on Vietnam had he won in 1966?
I say it was likely.
KD.
Mr Buckley seems to have been remarkably relaxed this year.
A great weight lifted?
Lead story on Channel 7 news.
Tumbleweeds in the ‘burbs.
‘A great weight lifted?’
On reflection – yeah, actually.
Like the bit on The Perfect Storm where Clooney and Wahlberg see the sun peeking out from behind the bastard storm clouds, with calm seas beyond. Without the giant wave drowning them and sinking the boat just after that.
Evita Duffy is a young conservative lady who defends her Downs sister against the new, actually its not new, it’s a defining aspect of leftists, leftie eugenics idea to kill DS in uterus. Like all conservative women Evita is a stunner and her little sister is vastly more attractive then leftist skanks.
While she does have a face that suggests ‘difficult’ and not very bright, it would seem that both of them had a hand in naming their progeny
Ayce……
Please stop making sweeping generalisations based on your exposure to Bob.
He’s kinda special, and not really a representative sample.
“Changed direction?”
On commitment of troops he was entirely consistent.
Maintaining his position, had he won, would have saved the lives of 500 Australians, 200 of them conscripts, avoided the wounding and traumatising of thousands more, saved the Australian taxpayer billions in repatriation costs, and made no difference to the outcome in Vietnam.
Sometimes history is a real bugger.
Off, suitably attired in bag of fruit no less to the NT Sports Awards 2020.
A big field in the Driving a Stolen VL Commodore on Three Wheels and a Rim event.
Now that will have an interesting highlight reel. I’m guessing white carnt, gubba, ‘inter tribal dispute’, grog, sit down, bashing and ‘he’s a legend, the only member of his family to have attended school’, will be present.
***On commitment of troops he was entirely consistent.***
Okay, and thanks for that.
But do you think there is any chance he woulda done a U-Turn on Vietnam if he’da won in ’66
like Curtin did on Conscription when he took power in 1941?
The figures for SexChange Ops in the U.S. Army is an eye opener, it’s about 50 times that of the general population.
Offer shit for free.
Wonder why you have people attracted to the free shit on offer joining out of all proportion to numbers in the community generally…
Its a mystery, wrapped in an enigma surrounded by a planetary body sized neon sign saying “Its fucking obvious you mong”.
“Army unsure why it has a high proportion of alcoholics after offering free booze”
“Air perplexed about possible connection between obesity and 24/7 all you can eat buffets on base”
” Navy confused about sudden surge in AIDs cases after compulsory daily group buggery implemented”
Definitely a graduate of the Numberwang academy for advanced window licking.
The old commie bastard supporting the commies again; what a bastard.
Ed, please take your questions to Gomer Pyle’s blog. You can find the link by clicking on his name.
It needs visitors, and this has the advantage of not shitting up the OT:
Wang returns like a dog to its vomit to the one true topic.
His brutal pegging by Bob Menzies and his 12 inch rubber conscription phallus.
That phallus gets bigger and more ridged each time the story is told.
Seriously, he should be ignored. Abusing him is boring; he’s as shameless as he is uninteresting.
Some sixty thousand summary executions after April 1975, one hundred and eighty thousand deaths from starvation and disease in the “re – education” camps, nobody knows how many “boat people” were drowned at sea or murdered fleeing the Communist paradise, and the new Government was just as venal and corrupt as the old South Vietnamese Government ever had been.
Warner’s PR team are in overdrive. He was on ch7 news having ‘family time’ with his kids.
The Wallabies practicing the anthem in the ‘Gadigal language’. Should be frickin practicing with a ball.
A-listers Matthew McConaughey and Russell Brand slam the left for their treatment of conservatives
Look, in this enlightened age I shouldn’t say this.
But I will.
Footballers have an uncanny ability to pull top birds (looks wise).
So the fact that Nafan Buckley has a head like a dropped pie should have been no impediment to him snagging a super-model.
Collingwood captain and more importantly a Brownlow medallist, which means a lifetime of invites to WAG mecca.
Shit, he could have been a balding ranga with a hare-lip and a turned eye and he could still reasonably expect to have his pick of some solid 10s.
But he didn’t.
He got stuck with a plastic wannabe.
Fair point Leigh
Ayce.
Jett.
FMD.
Move to Port Adelaide, Bucks.
Just back from Stobie Poland.
Their unusual custom of driving their cars on the beach is very appealing.
But I did make a mental note.
Do not buy a second-hand 4WD with fishing rod racks from coastal areas of Stobie Poland.
Likely to be riddled with cancer.
Back in the Days of Joh, when the Labor Party in Qld never looked like getting out of the woods, there were 3 from one family who stood for Labor on Brisbane’s Northside, Jet Drabsch, Ace Drabsch, and i’ve forgotten Dad Drabsch’s first name.
Then, a couple of years ago, Palaszczuk’s partner stood down from some sinecure over a Conflict of interest.
Another Drabsch.
What it all means, someone else will have to figure out.
Anyway, Bucks isn’t a winner, Malthouse and Matthews knew that …