The ICC World Cup is on in England and Wales. Yes, Cricket. Cricket is the progenitor of baseball. This can be seen quite clearly by some of the shared rules, especially if the ball is caught on the fly, the batter is out. I won’t get into the details of the game at this time as that would lead to a few hundred pages of unneeded writing…and yinz wluldn’t read it anyway. 😉
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is scheduled to be hosted by England and Wales, from 30 May to 14 July 2019.
The ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) takes place every four years, featuring 10 teams and is the culmination of a global qualification process that runs over a 5-6 year period.
The top eight teams in the ICC one-day rankings at the given date (approximately 18 months prior to the CWC) qualify automatically. The final two teams come from the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier which takes place in the year prior to the Cricket World Cup. This event is the culmination of the ICC World Cricket League series and regional qualification events which provide the opportunity for every ICC Member to progress through the qualification process and participate in the CWC.
All teams play each other in a full round robin format with the top four teams progressing to the semi-finals and the winners contesting the CWC final.
Here are some highlights of the West Indies destroying Pakistan
I watched the entire match. The fans for Pakistan were mostly angry bearded men. The fans for the Windies were men and women dancing in the stands and having a great time. The difference was quite telling.
Cricket, like Rugby, would be completely dominated by Americans if we played these sports. The US won the Gold Medal in the Olympics in 1920 and 1924, and then football gained in popularity. Another blow to cricket in the United States was the formation of the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909. As the name implied, this was meant to be an organization for cricketing nations in the British Empire. Countries such as Australia and South Africa were able to continue playing internationally, while the United States was left out.
The idiot AOC strikes again.
https://www.weaselzippers.us/422190-ocasio-cortez-guaranteed-housing-comes-before-a-persons-privilege-to-earn-a-profit/#disqus_thread
@ right_wing2:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/mini-aoc-2/
right_wing2 wrote:
I was wondering when the US Communists were going to go there. When the health care “debate” took place where the communists argued that health care is a “basic human right”, my question was, what about housing and food? People need that more often than health care.
/I hate being right
@ AZfederalist:
ok, let’s work out the steps to get to ‘no private property’
I said this from the get go, now it looks like I have been proven right.
The News Friday on US Attorney Huber Proves Jeff Sessions Was Not Compromised But Was Part of the Coup
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/the-news-friday-on-us-attorney-huber-proves-jeff-sessions-was-not-compromised-but-was-part-of-the-coup/
This is an interview w/Sidney Powell on the Mueller report. But she also talks about something else. At about the 16 min mark she brings up the OIG’s declination to prosecute the deputy AG for misconduct that we talked about the other day. She says the decision needs to be revisited and she doesn’t know whose decision it was. It may have been the U.S. attorney for the district of Columbia who just HAPPENS to be the same person who let the Awan brothers walk.
[insert shocked face here]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udRqsEa2N9E&feature=youtu.be
doriangrey wrote:
BUT HE IS A *PRINCIPLED* CONSERVATIVE!!!!!
mmmhmmmmm
@ doriangrey:
Barr said he (Huber) has been working on ‘clinton’ stuff but then Durham is also working on that.
As soon as Toensing said her client hadn’t been contacted, let alone interviewed, and others said the same, you knew it was a feint. And as far as anyone can tell, there’s no grand jury either.
I’d love to be surprised, but it would be one helluva surprise.
@ yenta-fada:
She’s brilliant.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is the Agenda for this year’s Bilderberg Group meeting:
1. A Stable Strategic Order
2. What Next for Europe?
3. Climate Change and Sustainability
4. China
5. Russia
6. The Future of Capitalism
7. Brexit
8. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
9. The Weaponisation of Social Media
10. The Strategic Importance of Outer Space
11. Cyber Threats
@ AZfederalist:
Just wait for clothes, vacations, and God knows what else.
eaglesoars wrote:
That piece of information makes me feel like it’s turtles all the way down.
@ yenta-fada:
the main overriding topic is:
how do we convince he peasants not to vote for their best interests and willfully do our biding?
the whole ‘globalization’ thing didnt work. even some of the doctrinaire word whores on the right get it now that destroying your own economy for the good of a stupid idea isnt such a great move after all
I think this will be coming here soon if the BDS crap isn’t stopped
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Pro-Palestine activists have been conducting a ‘campaign of intimidation’ against Jewish shops that sell products from Israel for years
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which is supported by Corbyn, has forced two Jewish businesses to close and activists have threatened others
Other groups targeted a British Jewish shopkeeper in Ireland and Scotland, forcing him to relocate three times and eventually flee Britain
A new film, Hounded, has been released by anti-racist campaigners to draw attention to how British Jewish shopkeepers have been living in fear for years
<b?EXCLUSIVE: British Jews in fear after pro-Palestine group supported by Corbyn forces Jewish shops to close with 'campaign of intimidation'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7087929/Pro-Palestine-group-supported-Corbyn-forces-Jewish-shops-close.html
yenta-fada wrote:
Rickerts is going to be there
@ eaglesoars:
People that feel warm about Nazi Germany would be the ones to want to continue that type of heritage. …. your local progressive.
@ eaglesoars:
How Third Reich of them
It was a great day for Aussie, his boys beat Afghanistan quite handily. NZ also took it to Sri Lanka.
Cheers, mate! Great overs for yinz’s lads.
coldwarrior wrote:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1134551569956036616.html
This statement of a few lines tells the answer. The right has to go on the offensive. It’s been stuck on defense for too long. Mind you, being censored on social media by billionaire psychos does force you to be imaginative.
@ darkwords:
Hey. Great to see you jump back in. 🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Looks like Samantha Fish is going to be in your area soon:
https://www.moondogs.us/
lobo91 wrote:
of course she is,
and this is how it always works, i’m out of town that day and monday, back tues PM (then off 3 weeks). i am off wed, thurs fri sat of the week before the show
its a conspiracy. and it almost always works like that. i swear to god these bands psychically have my schedule months in advance and book shows so that i cant go. really, i’m serious. if yinz only knew the crap that goes on if i want to see a concert, its NEVER during a time when i have 5 off in a row, oh no. why should that happen? I WORK LESS DAYS THAN I AM OFF!!!! therefore, it is statistically impossible that this keeps happening OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
i have to plan concerts months ahead of time because there is never a chance that i am off even though i work less than i am off, unlike a normal 8 hour human who works 5of7.
you know why this is? i do. it’s payback for me seeing hundreds and hundreds of shows in my past. the karma bomb is hitting now. payback from the great croupier in the sky. i get it. time for me to lose to the house for the rest of my life.
i have vented.
harumph.
@ yenta-fada:
left/right is the wrong way to look at this
@ coldwarrior:
6 days until Flagstaff for me. Samantha Fish, Larkin Poe, Tab Benoit and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
And the following Saturday, I get to see Ally Venable in the tiny town of Alpine, AZ.
@ lobo91:
That’s great stuff there.
I’m headed to the beach for 2 weeks. Oh yes!
Video at the link
@ coldwarrior:
Still trying to decide whether or not I want to make the drive up to Denver to see Hannah Wicklund in July
lobo91 wrote:
the die is now cast
the puti is having her first sleepover here.
of course, dad is doing all the work.
why is that?
🙂
Brand new Kenny Wayne Shepherd:
Cold… (snicker snicker) you heard me talk about this. Just thought it was time I backed it up a bit.
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-physics-musicians-valve-amps.html
coldwarrior wrote:
Yet the elephant in the room remains hiding in plain sight in the corner of the room. Trump’s lack of ability to consistently select qualified and trustworthy staff, especially the senior members of his administration’s cabinet.
Trump’s Chief of Staff should take him aside and suggest that Trump needs to delegate that responsibility to some totally trustworthy bad ass who can select trustworthy staffers and fire the arses of those who transgress. There are many known offenders who wilfully slow-walk Trump policy decisions and seem to place themselves and their personal opinions above that of the CIC. Sure staffers should openly argue their positions but when the boss says jump their immediat reaction should be … how high?
🙂
This is a major Trumpian flaw in his character.
coldwarrior wrote:
Thanks mate. Now for some serious opposition in the Pakistanis
I was also given ticket to a corporate boxon Friday night for myself and Mrs Aussie Infidel. Watched the Auckland Blues vs the South African Bulls. Pissed down as the game kicked off with freezing rain. Then a front went through that decreased the temperature another 6 degrees C due to wind chill. Both sides looked like they just didn’t want to be there. Lots of unforced errors. The Blues actually looked blue from the cold and wet. VERY ordinary game with the Blues up 10 points at half time. LOTS of more unforced errors in the second half with the Blues missing two kicks from right in front of the posts. The score was finally 22 all as the siren sounded with a middling difficult still waiting to be taken by the Blues. It never looked as if it’s go over the bar and flew across the face of the goal. So 22 all draw was the final score and neither side looked as if they really wanted to win.
That leaves the Blues with an impossible task to move onto the championship stage of the competition, with the Bulls still holding onto their chances by their fingernails.
The free parking, food and drinks were GREAT!
🙂
yenta-fada wrote:
You really got that right!
Channeling Standard and the breakup of big oil via anti monopoly laws.
coldwarrior wrote:
You have lost count mate !
We’re onto the Fourth Reich already!
🙂
The next generation of Texas blues rock artists, from this year’s Dallas International Guitar Festival.
Singer Kelsi Kee and Reece Malone (the kid with the Les Paul) are both 15. Ally Venable is the old lady of the bunch at 19 🙂
Going to start a charity thing.
A very good friend is going to go to a sort of boot camp thing.
I bet $100 my friend is number five falling off a rope thingy and going face down in the mud.
Possum wrote:
Actually I know my friend very well. My friend will end up number five face down in the mud rescuing number four.
Yes, that is what my friend will do.
oh, great
DoD bought phony military gear made in China, including counter-night vision clothing that didn’t actually work
The U.S. military, government agencies and other purchasers bought more than $20 million worth of Chinese-made counterfeit goods designed to look like domestically produced gear from a company that defrauded the government and helped to orchestrate the counterfeiting process between January 2013 and October 2018, Justice Department officials said last week.
The counterfeit gear included 200 specialized parkas designed to counter night vision goggles that would have been used by U.S. Air Force personnel stationed in Afghanistan.
But the Multicam APECS Parkas sold to an unnamed U.S. Air Force base supply center didn’t actually do that, which could have put troops’ lives at risk.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/05/30/dod-bought-phony-military-gear-made-in-china-including-counter-night-vision-clothing-that-didnt-actually-work/
It might help if we started executing people. In public.
Christopher Balding apparently lived in China and decided it’s a good time to skedaddle. I just found this website, looks interesting
Christopher Balding: China Short on Dollars, Reserves Looking Small
Devaluing is going to be very difficult… They can’t devalue by any significant amount because of the amount of US dollar debt they have coming due in the near future. If they devalue, then foreign investors aren’t going to be inclined to roll that debt. So they’ve basically backed themselves into a corner… I don’t meet anyone in China who says ‘Oh we’re doing fine, don’t believe the headlines…’”
https://thesoundingline.com/christopher-balding-china-short-on-dollars-reserves-looking-small/
@ eaglesoars:
we taught them just enough to be a danger to themselves.
central banking is war by other means
@ eaglesoars:
this shit and medicare fraud should result in public hanging.
coldwarrior wrote:
see this part? So they’ve basically backed themselves into a corner…
And they do it every time. This entire Belt/Road thing they thought was going to be their way of getting the world by the shorthairs – they forgot you can’t get blood out of a stone. They built this dam in Ecuador and it was built with the usual Chinese attention to structural integrity, which is to say, zero. Not being an engineer, I don’t know, but it sounds like, once again they were in a hurry and didn’t let the cement dry. It’s under water now and – how do you fix that? China wants to be paid for the dam regardless, Ecuador wants it fixed, they going broke just on the installment payments and it looks like default is the only option. And all the bad blood that comes with it. Some of it was to be paid in oil and we know what the price of oil has done. Ecuador promised (I think) something like 90% of it’s exported oil to China. China now has the reputation of being the devil you don’t make deals with. They aren’t getting paid what their economy needs from all these Belt/Road projects, everybody hates them, and their demographics still suck canal water. If we’re halfway lucky, they’ll make the same mistake the USSR did and break their economy on their military.
They’re putting out a white paper today I have to find. It’s all about how they’ve never stolen anything in the entire history of the Chinese people and all the tech innovation is due to the purity of the Communist Party and its ideals. Also, Orange Man Bad.
@ eaglesoars:
the last invention that the chinese had was gunpowder.
they are incapable of original thought
coldwarrior wrote:
When you have the policy of “let 1000 flowers bloom” so that you can identify and violently cut them off, there is not a lot of incentive to be creative. Plus, you have probably killed most of the creative people.
Some public comment about our friends, the Chinese, in the Indo Pacific region.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/pentagon-indo-pacific-report-highlights-chinas-ambitions-and-taiwans-significance-in-us-strategy_2947673.html
Announcement from another blog.
Major outage for Google. Google mail, cloud storage and most other services are out apparently world wide. So much for depending on the cloud to keep your important stuff when it suddenly goes off line. This has been off for over 3 hours.
“We continue to experience high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. Our engineering teams have completed the first phase of their mitigation work and are currently implementing the second phase, after which we expect to return to normal service.”
@ yenta-fada:
I was supposed to work all day today. I went in at 8, and at 9, our entire network went down. Then I remembered that they were doing scheduled maintenance most of the day.
When our network is down, we don’t just lose internet access. Our computers don’t work at all. I can’t even write a Word document, because nothing’s stored on my computer.
And our phones don’t work, either. And of course, we aren’t allowed to have cell phones.
I spent the morning shredding stuff and cleaning my office, and went home at lunchtime.
@ lobo91:
If the outage lasts overnight, it will be messy. The lords of chaos are making their presence known. Chinese fit hack over tariffs?
@ lobo91:
Wait a minute. You work in a prison and can’t have a cell phone in an administrative position? Did they think that through?
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
On Rare Earths that aren’t particularly rare at all.
It’s just the processing that is fairly restricted to china and Australia/ Malaysia. The commercial ‘edge’ that the Chinese have is that they do NOT have any environmental safeguards. Call me shocked !
🙂
They also manipulate the price of Rare Earths for political and not market reasons.
Here is a wrap up…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-panic-about-rare-earth-elements/?redirect=1
yenta-fada wrote:
There are only 4 people allowed to have cell phones in the facility: The warden, assistant warden, chief of security, and chief of unit management.
German Gov’t on brink of falling apart after Merkel Coalition leader resigns. Deutsche Bank going lower? Not good for EU stability.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-02/coalition-has-come-end-merkels-government-verge-collapse-after-spd-chief-resigns
@ Aussie Infidel:
for years I have read that rare earth metals are…rare. Go figure.
Cher’s wig is on too tight again.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/06/01/cher-if-trump-wins-re-election-hell-put-lgbtq-people-in-internment-camps/
@ yenta-fada:
That is one seriously unhinged person
yenta-fada wrote:
She resigned AFTER Merkel pulled her support as the next Chancellor. And from what I can tell, she really is an idiot, the question is why Merkel supported her in the first place. Which leads to the idea that they’re not working with a deep bench here.
Here’s an article on our dependence on China for our pharmaceuticals. It’s not a new story but it’s come up again. It’s not just the manufacturing and it’s not just China, I remember reading several years ago that a lot of testing is done off-shore also. I used to need a med that was made by ONE company here in the states and the FDA shut them down because they wanted to change the formula slightly. And it was for the FILLER. Very simple drug made from desiccated pig thyroid. I had to go to essentially a black market/specialty pharm that had it stockpiled, the plan B was Canada. Our pharm industry is a mess.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/china-aims-to-disrupt-americas-ability-to-make-its-own-medicine
I’m catching up on Chernobyl, later.
@ lobo91:
https://thediaryofdaedalus.com/2019/06/02/charles-f-johnson-credentialed-professor-of-economics-master-o-farts-at-rumpswab-university-dimisses-arthur-laffer-ba-mba-ph-d-as-a-crackpot-pheew/
https://tackyraccoons.com/2019/06/01/saturday-matinee-leon-redbone-1892-2019/
https://tackyraccoons.com/a-humble-request/
https://youtu.be/2qOazqRSRAw
I’ve finished about 11 of my 125 mile goal for the cancer fund raiser.
This was predictable.
That major Google outage meant some Nest users couldn’t unlock doors or use the AC
https://www.fastcompany.com/90358396/that-major-google-outage-meant-some-nest-users-couldnt-unlock-doors-or-use-the-ac
Not having AC can be deadly for some people.
@ eaglesoars:
Anyone who relies on the “cloud” desreves to die.
A horrible death.
@ Possum:
truly
I’m still catching up on Chernobyl
The Russians/USSR really needs to do something about their wallpaper choices. Yeesh.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ran across this years ago. You may have already seen it; I found it fascinating as it gives a view of the USSR from a Russian one generation removed from that evil system. Also, the pictures are fascinating.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
@ AZfederalist:
oh thank you! I have seen it and was wondering where I could find it again because I want to see it after finishing Chernobyl. The last episode is on now on HBO if anyone is interested. It’s unbelievably sad.
I do not fucking believe this. There’s an emergency alert WITH COMMERCIALS that just interrupted Chernobyl
eaglesoars wrote:
HOW DARE they allow one reality to collide with another.
holy crap. They didn’t finish the confinement construction at Chernobyl until 2017. And you know the place was leaking the entire time.
gah.
Well, now.
Walter Lübcke: German politician from Angel Merkel’s party found dead in ‘mysterious’ circumstances
Walter Lübcke, who led the district government in Kassel, reportedly died of a gunshot wound to the head in his own garden. Police say no weapon was found at the scene.
The police in the state of Hesse, of which Kassel is a constituent district, are understood to be treating the 65-year-old’s death a murder investigation.
doesn’t sound all THAT mysterious, he took a bullet to the head.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/walter-lubcke-death-cause-age-germany-cdu-kassel-merkel-a8942001.html
YESSSSSS!!!!
30 mins ago.
remember when I posted that the judge had let Gallagher be released because the prosecutor lied to the judge about tracking defense team’s emails?
The judge just removed the prosecutor
Judge orders prosecutor tossed from Navy SEAL’s war crimes trial
https://nypost.com/2019/06/03/judge-orders-prosecutor-tossed-from-navy-seals-war-crimes-trial/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
now toss the case.
eaglesoars wrote:
He angered Hillary?
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
nah. They forgot to take the cannoli and leave the gun, so now there’s no weapon and it looks like the murder it is instead of looking like the suicide she always sets up. Amateurs.
it’s bedtime, nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Night. I always wondered about the people the clintons had do their dirty work. They were almost always sloppy. Unless they wanted everyone to know the deaths weren’t suicides.
crap, there’s always one more thing. This just popped up. Looks like people are smuggling out gov’t docs from China, these are about Tiananmen Sq.
The New Tiananmen Papers
Inside the Secret Meeting That Changed China
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-05-30/new-tiananmen-papers
@ eaglesoars:
Someone knew too much about something. Bribery and blackmail are in epidemic mode during these turbulent times. I’m seeing zerohedge stuff everyday that show the tug between various elites as they panic. Last week the head of the “plunge protection team” unexpectedly resigned as did another guy under him. This is the small sneaky market manipulators that buy millions in stocks to keep the stock market going up. Or, at least try and control the volatility so as not to scare the sheeple and keep the social order running.
Trump and his stunning first lady got off the plane in England accompanied by Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary. The heads of the Central Banks in the US. and England (a Canuck) will be spending quality time trying to maintain financial stability. NY and London are still the major financial centers, and events are roiling the markets. Remember, Deutsche Bank is teetering, and it owns massive derivatives on its books that could explode European banks.
People who hold great power are not going to give up a bit of it no matter what they have to do.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I saw a youtube a couple of years ago with a guy who claimed to be the Clintons’ regular hitman. It’s the net, but he sure knew a lot about Bill’s sex addiction and gave convincing quotes about how Bill talked and acted when he could say anything he wanted. Yeah, he sounded like a hillbilly hound. Makes sense that they would only have to trust one person through the years. Again, it’s the net. But the NYT is the NYT.
yenta-fada wrote:
Yeah, reminds me of the guy Hannity had on who did threats for Hillary. He def. sounded legitimate. Just knew too many details for a fraud.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
I can only tolerate about 20 minutes of Hannity. Every day it’s EIEIO. Then I flip to Sebastien Gorka until Mark Levin comes on.
@ Bunk X:
Levin is awesome.
Bunk X wrote:
It was about a year ago. I can’t remember what it was but I quit listening to Levin about a year ago too, he was off on some kind of tangent for a while and was just irritating me.