I got nothin’, yinz. Maybe some UFOs to distract us?
It’s vacation season and, well…lots of OT for me.
Enjoy this open.
The Ashes Test #2 starts at 0600 on the 28th. The Aussies beat the POMEs in test #1. This will be at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, ‘The Home of Cricket’. Mrs Coldwarrior and I have a visit to Lord’s CG on our bucket list, we want one of these Baskets.
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well, gorebull warming…
i’ve had the AC on for 3 whole days. normally by now the house is windows closed and AC on for at least 3 weeks.
odd, that.
i dare say that if the Aussies take this second test, all will be lost for the POMEs in this best of 5.
coldwarrior wrote:
Being ‘done’ in the Ashes tests is one thing. Getting done by the Aussies at LORDS is quite another thing.
The POMEs are fielding 4 seamers and a single spinner, and will be trying their darnest to win at least one test ….. just for olde times sake! If the English can pull one back then we will have a serious campaign for Tests #3 #4 #5. As English summer deepens I hope the rain gods stay away and give us another 20 days of First Class Test Cricket, for the ultimate prize …. the Ashes. (an ugly tiny brown trophy 4″ high full of the ashes of a set of bails …. but worth a hundredweight in gold bars)
🙂
Two openers, three of specialist batsmen, an all around and handy wicketkeeper, and five bowlers with (two handy bats and three sloggers) round out the English team.
@ Possum:
LOL
TEN MORE YEARS!!!!
U.S. Honeybees Suffer Second Deadliest Season on Record
https://www.statista.com/chart/30260/honey-bee-colony-losses-in-the-united-states-timeline/
I will see if I can find out more later
And we got shots fired. Five close, then one then two more. Then two more distant.
Eight close,,
And has I am typing this loud music 1:00am
” Happy birthday to you ”
These fuckers need deporting ASAP
mornin y’all
yup, temps this spring have been cooler
love the weather guys… gonna be scorching hot today at 91
riight
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/28/watch-players-foil-just-stop-oil-protest-at-lords-cricket-test/
AUS is 160-2 after drinks, bairstow and warner teamed up for 2 for 2 against the protestors with some lovely cross-rival teamwork.
@ eaglesoars:
We need to be careful with pesticides.
Possum wrote:
Ten more years of probationary citizenship?
@ coldwarrior:
Stumps at the end of Day #1 in the second Ashes Test at Lords. Australia 339/5, Steve Smith unbeatan on 85* runs and Alex Carey on 10* runs. What a day for Australia – Steve Smith is the Hero of the day! The guy is a freak of nature. 85 Not Out. Let’s see if he can beat his best score at Lords when he scored 215. GOAT batsman who scored a double century at Lords in an Ashes Test. Best since 1938 when ‘The Don’ ( Aussie’s Sir Donald Bradman) claimed a double century in an Ashes Test at Lords pre WWII.
Steve Smith is a cricketing freak who seems to be able to slow down time and sees the ball coming before it even leaves the bowler’s hand. When a mere man can do that sort of thing and makes it look easy handling a seamer bowled at 100MPH, then he’s in a GOAT contender. I still think ‘The Don’ was the GOAT, whose batting average was 99.35. Nobody has ever had a batting average anywhere near that average.
‘The Don’ is truly the GOAT, but Smith is also one of the best batsmen ever to tread the grass of Lords, and the modern professional game can’t really be compared to Pre-war cricket.
@ Aussie Infidel:
This was a rout.
England looked flat and unmotivated
@ coldwarrior:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/russias-new-time-troubles?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=America%2C%20China%2C%20and%20the%20Virtue%20of%20Low%20Expectations&utm_content=20230628&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017#author-info
This is a Foreign Affairs paper on the Wagner ‘blip’ .
Not a bad historical summation, but remember to cross your fingers whilst reading it, as it is Democrat / RINO Establishment opinion. Definitely worth spending 10 minutes reading the paper but remember to keep muttering under your breath…. it’s the US Establishment(AKA the Swamp) that is saying this stuff.
🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Ohhh I don’t know! England’s Bairstow looked pretty damn ‘motivated’ while he carried one of the eco-terrorists to the fence.
🙂
HEH
I’ve been busy so I’m not sure I have this right. Jack Smith who is prosecuting Trump’s document case, sez Trump was ready to bomb Iran but Milley stopped him – and now Smith tells the court he can’t find the memoes?
???
https://thespectator.com/topic/walls-closing-joe-biden-corruption-hunter-irs-white-house-trump/
Olde Joe is starting to feel the walls closing in on him …. until he has an ice cream and all is again well with the world.
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Sounds like it’s par for the course!
Try looking for the Memos in ‘Olde Joe’s’ garage.
🙂
@ coldwarrior:
Sister in law out of town. Started the week with a CAO Firewalker. Damn good.
https://croakingcassandra.com/2023/06/14/reading-the-china-tightrope/
One of the ‘Five Eyes’ having a conniption fit as they attempt to ‘try to have a bit each way’ whilst not embarrassing themselves and fouling their pants. Guess which ‘Five Eyes’ member!
The easy one’s first!
🙂
Mrs. RW’s creepy employee is staring at her chest now.
She took it to her boss and is going to EEOC. The problem is if it turns into a formal complaint, he gets pulled from her team, and his whole improvement plan starts over.
This joker thinks he’s going to get on disability/retirement and can then go to work for another branch of the government. Not if he gets fired!
He’ll be gone by the end of August.
More house problems.
Our dishwasher leaked and rotted the subfloor. That’s fixed but we won’t have the replacement dishwasher for another 10 days.
And we have termites.
This is getting old, real fast.
John Solomon called the secret cell phone paid for by Hunter Biden.
And Joe Biden answered. He hung up very quickly.
Devon Archer may spill the beans on the entire Biden crime family.
https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1674164552257159168
video at the link
right_wing2 wrote:
owning house …
don’t get me started
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Yep!
Which proves the point that Biden’s lax immigration policy lets anyone live here.
The interesting food fact for tonight.
It takes twelve twists of a ” Good Food ” brand can opener, the one with the red handle, to completely remove the lid of a 15oz can of Amazon Happy Belly Sliced Carrots.
If your preference is to leave the lid attached so draining your carrots is easier I recommend only eleven and a half twists of the can opener twisty thing.
Also, the number of twists obviously depends on how much rotation you apply to each turn, and if you are right handed or left handed.
If you are left handed then forget about eating sliced carrots using that model of can opener. You are going to be twisting, and twisting the twisty thing all day and night! It is designed for normal, right handed people only.
Eat a bag of frozen broccoli instead!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/hohmann-atlanta-airport-goes-full-dystopian-using-digital/
I see the POM bowlers showed up this AM, but…416 for the Aussies is too much.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Smith is fun to watch.
Oh this should be fun!
Supreme Court outlaws RACE as a factor in college admissions in major affirmative action ruling: Justices vote 6-3 to rule Harvard and UNC programs unconstitutional
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12247191/Supreme-Court-ENDS-race-based-affirmative-action-admissions.html
@ eaglesoars:
guess who dissented? HAR!
Politics Whatsapp
‘Political persecution’: Farage says his bank accounts were closed with ‘no explanation’
BREAKING: Nigel Farage has claimed that the establishment are trying to force him to leave the UK after seven banks refused to let him have an account.
By DAVID MADDOX – POLITICAL EDITOR
11:14, Thu, Jun 29, 2023 | UPDATED: 13:46, Thu, Jun 29, 2023
1.2kBOOKMARK
Nigel Farage: ‘Establishment are trying to force me out’
Nigel Farage has blasted an establishment plot to force him out of the country after seven banks refused to let him have an account.
In a Tweet this morning, the award-winning GB News host and former Brexit Party leader said: “The establishment are trying to force me out of the UK by closing my bank accounts.
“I have been given no explanation or recourse as to why this is happening to me.
“This is serious political persecution at the very highest level of our system. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you too.”
The actions appear to be a coordinated attempt by financial institutions to target parties and politicians on the right of politics.
Express.co.uk understands that all the British-based banks have denied the Reclaim Party a bank account and one of the accounts for Reform UK was also closed with minimum notice.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1785774/nigel-farage-bank-accounts-closed
I didn’t know Disney owns NatGeo. It looks like everything they touch turns to shit. I loved NatGeo, but it went overboard w/’climate change’ and cost a freaking fortune.
National Geographic lays off its last staff writers:
Future assignments will be handled by freelancers or editors who remain on staff, the Post reported.
The magazine’s small audio department was reportedly axed too.
In addition to the job cuts, Disney announced in May that physical copies of the magazine will no longer be available on the news stands in the United States from 2024.
Some employees who were let go said the company have also started to cut back on contracts that allowed photographers to spend months in the field to capture the breathtaking shots the magazine is known for.
The latest round of layoffs was the second over the past nine months and the fourth since a series of ownership changes began in 2015.
In September 2022, Disney removed six top editors from the magazine.
In a statement to CNN following the latest move, a National Geographic spokesman said the magazine will continue to publish monthly issues.
“Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work, but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audiences where they are across our many platforms,” the spokesman said. “Any insinuation that the recent changes will negatively impact the magazine, or the quality of our storytelling, is simply incorrect.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/national-geographic-lays-off-its-last-staff-writers-report
The last exhibit I went to was at their HQ in D.C. Ancient Greek treasures and it was breathtaking. Included a solid gold crown Alexander had made for his mother.
I was going to golf this am…but. I couldn’t see across the valley and everything smells like a stale wood fire. So, no prob. Fire up the pizza oven and make this smell better.
Bonus home made sausage on the smoker with lots of extra smoke.
Might use my gas stove too.
@ eaglesoars:
Nat Geo used to be a real treasure
I’ve been hearing about this for a year
Whistleblower: NHS ordered EUTHANASIA to Inflate COVID-19 Deaths in Hospitals
Officials at the U.K. National Health Service (NHS) reportedly ordered medical staff to euthanize patients in order to artificially inflate the number of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths, according to a whistleblower who wishes to remain anonymous.
Contrary to what authorities and the mainstream media had reported, the COVID-19 pandemic did not overwhelm NHS hospitals, according to the whistleblower who went by the alias Dr. John. Additionally, he revealed the two ways NHS executives falsified data regarding COVID-19 fatalities.
First, they negligently directed medical staff to treat patients with the barest minimum and then simply allow them to pass away. Second, they gave staff instructions on how to put patients to sleep using the drug midazolam and the End of Life Care program. Both of these orders resulted in deaths that were mistakenly recorded under COVID-19.
https://theleadingreport.com/2023/06/28/whistleblower-nhs-ordered-euthanasia-to-inflate-covid-19-deaths-in-hospitals/
@ eaglesoars:
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/28/pfizer-vaccine-batches-in-the-eu-were-placebos-say-scientists/
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s Versed. I got it when I got cataracts removed.
Something’s happening on the 405 south.
Black military helicopters are tracking someone. Two are drifting in formation, a third is circling and a fourth just flew in from Los Alamitos.
Who’s in town?
Possum wrote:
LOL
TEN MORE YEARS!!!!
They quit bothering you when you sign up for an ESL class. Meanwhile, hobble the spaniel.
Possum wrote:
I got all bachelor’d up last night. Opened a can of Progresso barley and beef with a church key, heat it on the burner, let it cool enough to pick it up without an oven mitt, then poured it into the 12 oz mug with a picture of Army Elvis.
eaglesoars wrote:
A blow against REAL institutional racism.
Now get rid of the penalties for white-owned businesses bidding on government projects.
I suspect being a monster is a requirement for heading up the CDC, cuz this Wallensky bitch reeks of it
Yet I fear the despair from the pandemic is fading too quickly from our memories,…
https://instapundit.com/592355/#disqus_thread
eaglesoars wrote:
I don’t remember when I dropped my long-time subscription, but it was the global worming propaganda that did it. Nature Magazine started doing it about the same time – late 80s early 90s IIRC.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Sortie is over. Black helos returned to base. No formation.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I used to get Scientific American. What a waste now
@ eaglesoars:
Disney acquired NatGeo around 2019, so Disney had nothing to do with the content shift decades earlier.
eaglesoars wrote:
That was the other one I had a subscription to. Same content shift, same time as the others.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
ah
Bongino’s gonna have Moon Griffon on tomorrow! Yay!
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Seriously, I wonder if Bongino is going to end up a good ole southern boy. He keeps talking about finding a place in the small town south and how an uncle was from Dothan Alabama (where my family lived and my sister has moved back)
coldwarrior wrote:
Glad to see Smith get his century as he deserved it. that may even nudge his batting average up to just over 60. At the moment it’s about 59.71. In the professional era anything above a 60 batting average is an indication of a consummate professional.
The POMEs are 4 down and still a hundred and ‘change’ behind the Aussies, however the Brits are getting into their deep middle order bats but the wicket is getting better and flatter so there are loads of more runs to be has. From my perspective the Second Test is pretty evenly balanced with the Aussies still with the wind at their backs. A fascinating battle looks on the cards. This is like a 3 dimensional chess game, with the weather gods always threatening to complicate matters over the next three days.
Lyon the Aussie spinner looks as if he was hurt in the field stopping a ball and that must be a bit of a worry for the Aussies. Ahhhh this game has it all. Drama, changes in fortune, close run escapes, unbelievable athleticism, tactics and even the threat of weather, unforeseen injury and luck. Ahhh Test cricket!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Scientific American began to lose the plot when they got rid of ‘The Amateur Scientist’ and when the first rot of ‘scientism’ began to expose the shift towards PC garbage. I grew up caddying to save the $$$$ so I could keep my ‘lab’ stocked with gear. Turned out that my #1 son married the daughter of the owners of Selby Scientific Ltd. my main chemical and scientific equipment supplier. Selby’s would sell anything chemical to children as long as they looked as if they realised the danger. Ahhh those were the days! … “excuse me sir may I purchase some sodium metal and some red fuming Nitric Acid? Sure thing sonny just remember to keep the sodium under the oil and don’t expose it to water of air. And you be careful handling that HNO3 kid, ensure you use your mum’s latex gloves when handling it! Keep the bottles upright when travelling home on the tram sonny”.
Ahhh those were the days
eaglesoars wrote:
That Greek Treasures is currently in NZ for 12 weeks. I take it that it’s worth a visit? I have my own personal ancient Greek vase expert in my daughter who wrote her undergraduate thesis on that subject at Bristol University. Yes there are undergraduate thesis at UK universities.
TV3 here in NZ is owned by Warners who were originally owned by Nat Geo before Disney+ ruined it with their PC garbage. ALL free to air TV are feeling the cold winds blowing and are now not hiring any more. The sinking lid is doing damage to TV3 staff and loading them up with morale sapping problems. Daughter is keeping her head down as one of two Foreign Affairs News producers.
Dangerous times to be in an increasingly ‘wobbly’ media company.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Oh YES, don’t miss it!
I’m looking at the house across the field -it’s white – and thinking my eyes really suck.
No. It’s haze. checked the weather page. Air quality is UNHEALTHY, meter pegged at 106 for fine particulate matter
wildfires smoke? down here?
oh jeez
Hey Doctors out there…is 25 sigma above trend too high for Haematological System disorders? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We are going to need your help on our next report.
The so called governmental health authorities won’t be able to run from this data.
Stay tuned.
https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/1674594888242036737
Dowd is a Wall Street analyst who is looking at insurance data (sigma, IIRC, is simply standard deviation)
Why do I have to read the Daily Mail to find out what’s going on here in the US?
Harvard women’s hockey team were forced to skate NAKED, leaving them with ‘bleeding nipples’ and ice burns: Ivy League school now vows to overhaul toxic culture one player dubbed ‘mental health Hunger Games’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248475/Harvard-womens-hockey-team-pledges-overhaul-culture-abuse-hazing-allegations.html
Katey Stone, 57, stepped down as head coach June 7 after a 29-year tenure that was eventually dogged by accusations she’d emotionally damaged players
Multiple outlets have reported on a toxic on and off-ice culture, including allegations of hazing and naked skates at practice
Athletic Director Erin McDermott announced Wednesday in a statement that the school plans to revamp the culture after Stone’s retirement
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Players anonymously told reporters of having to put condoms on bananas, simulate orgasms and perform skits mocking their sexual orientation.
One former player said she reported the behavior to the administration but never heard back.
Stone – who coached the silver medal-winning USA women’s hockey team at the 2014 Sochi Olympics – was never directly implicated but former players said she was aware of what was going on and didn’t stop it.
Maine Senate Blocks Ban on Trafficking in Aborted Baby Remains
https://www.themainewire.com/2023/06/maine-senate-blocks-ban-on-trafficking-in-aborted-baby-parts/
If Gov. Mills’ late-term abortion bill becomes law, as now seems certain, elective late-term abortions on healthy babies will be allowed for the first time in Maine, raising a question currently unaddressed by Maine’s laws: What happens to the viable baby after an abortion clinic has ended his or her life and induced a stillbirth?
“If this legislation to legalize abortion up to the point of birth is to go into law, the least we can do is to establish this moratorium on the trafficking of fetal body parts so that the legislature can thoughtfully consider this issue in the coming years and develop more permanent policy,” said Sen. Brakey.
Depravity writ large.
We are well into the Sodom/Gomorrah scenario. I’m not a deeply religious person but I’m pretty sure God will not be mocked.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Homemade black powder for me. Didn’t explode but a quarter of a grocery bag almost took out a locust tree.
Just found this site via Free Republic
https://europeanconservative.com/
eaglesoars wrote:
no, citizenfreepress
Oh fuck off. Yesterday
Visiting Zelensky Mike Pence Declares “No Room in Republican Party” For Those Who Do Not Support Ukraine War
Presidential candidate Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and affirm Pence’s position that the unilateral power of the Ukraine government needs to be supported.
Mike Pence then presents himself as the arbiter of what it means to be a republican with a Twitter message saying, “I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal, and I know who needs to win this war in Ukraine, and it’s the people fighting for their freedom and fighting to restore their national sovereignty. There is no room in our party for apologists for Putin. There is only room for champions of freedom.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/29/visiting-zelensky-mike-pence-declares-no-room-in-republican-party-for-those-who-do-not-support-ukraine-war/
uh…I think there are problems in France
Elite Tactical Units of the French National Police including RAID and the BRI have reportedly been Activated and have begun to be Deployed into Cities across the Country alongside their counterparts in the National Gendarmerie of the French Armed Forces, the GIGN.
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1674601406173421569
Some cop shot somebody and all hell has broken loose (as far as I can tell, it was NOT a ‘clean’ kill)
@ eaglesoars:
NOW – Looting, violent riots spread to several cities in France. The situation is out of control in parts of the country.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1674571774225268739
video at link
eaglesoars wrote:
ok, an ‘Algerian’ [Muslim] teenager was stopped for a traffic violation and the cop killed him. Very murky here, no idea if there was any kind of provocation, etc.
Anyhoo, France is burning. Again.
How hot was it?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1674432649493110784
No food post. Supper is pork and carrot stew yet again.
This should be the last of it I hope.
As to the weather it was another 100F day here and the cats refuse to go outside.
Now at 02:40 they are all outside and will not come in!
Cats are assholes. Going to give them another hour then the door is going to be closed!
( yes I will make sure their water dish outside is full, but they aint getting breakfast! )
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t like either Putin or Zelynskii.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
FSB Spooked CIA on Prigozhin ‘Coup’
M.K. Bhadrakumar | 26 Jun 2023
CNN, followed by the New York Times, broke the story on Sunday that the US and Western intelligence were indeed aware of the failed coup attempt on Friday night by Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group of Russian military contractors, “for quite some time and making preparations for such a move, including by massing weapons and ammunition.”
What we do not know is at what point Russian intelligence got wind of it. The Kremlin acted forcefully, decisively and with foresight in real time to scotch the coup attempt within hours. By Saturday evening, the foreign intelligence chief Sergey Narishkin announced that the coup attempt had failed. The Russian authorities were waiting for Prigozhin to make his move.
It is only natural that Russian intelligence kept a strong presence right inside the Wagner tent all through. Damn it, it is a war zone where Russia’s fate is hanging in the balance.
Just as the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) or most intelligence organisations do, the FSB (Russian intelligence service) also psychoanalyses the remarks of their targets for profound meanings. They do that routinely and have trained analysts who do only that.
It wouldn’t have escaped the attention of Russian intelligence analysts that Prigozhin’s ranting and ravings from Donetsk from last autumn and winter began originally on the operational aspects of the Bakhmut war front in Donetsk oblast, but incrementally began acquiring political overtones, culminating finally in his incredible statement that the raison d’être of the special military operation in Ukraine since February 2022, was all baloney.
Even more strangely, this man who physically witnessed the Battle of Bakhmut, came to the bizarre conclusion that Kiev or Nato had no mala fide intentions toward Donbass or Russia.
Therefore, the ‘known known’ here is that the Russian intelligence was under instructions to be in ‘listening mode,’ give the eddies a free flow in the Battle of Bakhmut where Wagner was in the driving seat. (Interestingly, though, at some point, much to Prigozhin’s annoyance, Moscow also began deploying regular troops selectively on the Bakhmut front alongside the Wagner fighters.)
On Saturday, top US intelligence officials sprang into action to brief the media as it emerged that Russian authorities were literally waiting with a road map to squash Prigozhin’s coup attempt. Even the Chechen militia was put on standby.
The crucial element in the deal struck with Prigozhin has been that he will not be prosecuted but must simply get lost. And where else could his exile be arranged better on Planet Earth than in Belarus under the benevolent eyes of President Alexander Lukashenko?
Now, we may get to know at some point from Lukashenko, who struggles to keep secrets for long, as to when exactly would Putin have taken him into confidence on a ‘need-to-know basis.’ It strains credulity that such a complex dealmaking was possible within a clutch of hours via tortuous three-way negotiations between Moscow, Minsk and Rostov-on-Don even as the renegade Wagner column was approaching Moscow.
An intriguing sub-plot here is that amidst all this heavy traffic, Lukashenko also negotiated with Nurusultan Nazarbayev, the former Kazakh dictator who headed a pro-western regime in Astana and was ousted from power after reigning for nearly three decades, following the failure of a similar US-backed coup attempt like Prigozhin’s in the winter of 2021-2022, which too was crushed with the help of the CSTO forces (Russian troops) led by a Russian general.
On the previous day, in fact, Putin had spoken with two Central Asian leaders — Kazakh President Jomart Tokayev and Uzbek President Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev. Did he share any crucial intelligence? In fact, both these countries have been facing Western plots for regime change lately.
By the way, Given Moscow’s preoccupations in Ukraine, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stepped in to take a hands-on role to consolidate the stability and security of the Central Asian region. (Please see my recent articles — China takes leadership role in Central Asia ; An “Axis of Seven” to supplement SCO ; and, Russia, China take holistic view of the Pamirs and Hindu Kush.
Clearly, something was seriously afoot in Kazakhstan, which is sandwiched between Russia and China and is the most crucial piece of real estate in geopolitical terms in Central Asia.
In all probability, this was what the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken alluded to when he told ABC on Sunday that the situation with the attempted coup in Russia “is still developing… I don’t want to speculate, and I don’t think we saw the final episode.” That said, however, Blinken has piled up a consistent record for being horribly wrong on his assessments on Russia — starting from the deathly blow the ‘sanctions from hell’ were expected to give to the Russian economy; Putin’s hold on power; Russia’s catastrophic defeat in Ukraine; Russian military’s deficiencies; Kiev’s inexorable military victory, and so on.
In this case, he has reason to feel embittered particularly because of the spectacular unity of the Russian state, political elite, media, regional and federal bureaucracy, and the military and security establishment in rallying behind Putin. Arguably, Putin’s political stature is now unchallengeable and unassailable in Russia and the Americans have to live with that reality long after Joe Biden’s departure from the scene.
Going forward
The Kremlin has adopted a very thoughtful strategy. From available details so far, it has the following five key elements:
1. Principally, the top priority is to avoid bloodshed so that life moves on and the focus on the war in Ukraine, which is at a tipping point, doesn’t suffer;
2. In immediate terms, get the few renegade Wagner fighters and Prigozhin to leave Rostov-on-Don and return to their camps in Lugansk;
3. Clinically separate Prigozhin from the rest of Wagner Group (In fact, not a single Wagner commander or officer joined his revolt);
4. Offer immunity to the bulk of the Wagner Group — except the participants in the coup, of course — and facilitate their formal integration into the defence ministry. That is, the logic behind the creation of Wagner Group by the Defence Ministry (and an unnamed top secret internal security agency) holds good still, but it will no longer be a quasi-state force, but will have a habitation and name and led by designated professional military commanders instead of free-wheeling fortune hunters like Prigozhin.)
5. Get Prigozhin to leave for Belarus, which was not difficult once he realised that he should request mercy from none other than Putin (who agreed to the oligarch’s safe passage to Belarus.)
The last element is utterly fascinating. The Kremlin is extremely annoyed with Prigozhin for his seditious behaviour but is also aware — presumably on the basis of intelligence inputs — that he has been manipulated by Western powers. Of course, there is going to be a price to pay. Prigozhin will never get back his towering stature as an oligarch with a personal fortune of $1.2 billion or the fabulous lifestyle he led.
But at least, the 62-year-old oligarch is spared a possible 20-year prison term. This is of a piece with Putin’s handling of oligarchs in general. (Read my article The Rise and fall of a Russian oligarch.)
Make no mistake, Lukashenko will eventually make Prigozhin sing — sooner rather later — and the song will be transmitted live to the Kremlin. And that accounts for the great nervousness in Washington, which has raised the spectre of nuclear war, etc. to give the spin to distract attention from the CIA’s plot to destabilise Russia. The irrepressible Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov calls it a “turbulent stream of consciousness.”
To be sure, now that the CIA-MI6- Prigozhin plot has failed, out of its debris, new Western narratives will be born like a Phoenix out of the ashes. And the US’ sleeper cells abroad, including in the Indian media, will parrot that narrative.
But, not for long. For, what lies ahead is the manifestation of the steely resolve of the Kremlin — and Putin himself — to seek an all-out military solution to the Ukraine crisis. Putin declared last week — most likely in anticipation of the storm brewing on the horizon — that the war will be over when no Ukrainian army will be left on the battlefield, or NATO weapons.
Read the official transcript of a videoconference that Putin took last Thursday, in the immediate run-up to Prigozhin’s coup attempt, with the full quorum of the Security Council (post-Soviet Russia’s ‘politburo’), which gives a flavour of the mood in the Kremlin and will provide some clues to what to expect on the battlefields of Ukraine, going forward. It is a huge signal in advance to the “collective West” that nothing will be forgotten.
MK Bhadrakumar is a former diplomat. He was India’s ambassador to Uzbekistan and Turkey.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
so we fucked up again
FYI Supreme Court rules for Christian web designer in 303; says Christians do not have to service LGBTQ customers; strikes down state laws asserting gay rights over religious rights.
Justice Gorsuch: “Tolerance, not coercion, is our Nation’s answer. The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands.”
https://twitter.com/Maximus_4EVR/status/1674786175910019074
ruling was 6-3, Roberts with the majority
In Justice Sotomayor’s dissent: “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class.”
https://twitter.com/newsbusters/status/1674781436170375168
uh, maybe the problem is the existence of ‘protected class’?
maybe importing the culturally feral by the plane load over decades isn’t such a good idea.
France Violence: Rioters Burn Down Largest Public Library In Marseille; Visuals Surface
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/france-violence-rioters-burn-down-largest-public-library-in-marseille-visuals-surface/ar-AA1dfWF2
The Left is racking up the Ls today
SCOTUS just killed Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness
Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Biden’s $400 billion student loan forgiveness: Justices rule president does not have authority to cancel debt of millions in another landmark ruling
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12251033/Supreme-Court-strikes-Bidens-student-loan-forgiveness.html?ito=push-notification&ci=i76J5i7XIf&cri=qa2W-N6HK1&si=zvuP_nMxfAwg&xi=8333e08e-6764-4a18-81e6-f6889f219e89&ai=12251033
Chief Justice John Roberts agreed and said in the majority opinion that a move ‘requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department (of Education) Secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy.’ He goes on to say that the HEROES Act, which the Biden administration cited as justification for the plan, actually provides ‘no authorization for the Secretary’s plan’ and therefore there was no clear congressional authorization.
eaglesoars wrote:
oh, forgot – the vote was 6-3, usual suspects
wait. I needed to call a local nursery to see if they have garden stakes for my gladioli but I couldn’t remember the phone number so I googled.
Got the correct result but it had some interesting extra info. It told me I visited last month. Which I had.
I have no idea how those dots were connected.
I’m thinking Planned Parenthood is worried about its bottom line
The idea of virginity comes from outdated — let’s be real, patriarchal— ways of thinking that hurts everyone.
https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1674462837425446912
@ eaglesoars:
The left will be melting down for weeks.
France:
Zemmour on the riots: “We are in the early stages of a civil war. That’s obvious. It’s an ethnic war. We can see clearly that it’s a race war. We see what forces are involved. We need someone determined and firm. … The problem, above all, is the number [of immigrants].”
https://twitter.com/malmesburyman/status/1674755645185163265
This is Eric Zemmour, who ran for president as leader of the party Reconquete, a right leaning nationalist party which he started. Sort of a French Nigel Farage who started UKIP.
right_wing2 wrote:
And when they’re done melting, they will get violent. Remember Eric Garland did NOTHING when they started demonstrating outside justices houses, which is absolutely illegal. They’ll get the signal and hit the streets.
Did they ever find out who leaked the Dobbs decision? Think they’d tell us if they had?
Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lille, Paris
the cities that are having riots. They’re about to shut down public transport across the entire country starting at 9 pm tonite. I think they’re 6 hours ahead of me, so that’s another 30 minutes
A US$100B wealth migration tilts U.S. economy’s centre of gravity south
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/a-100-billion-wealth-migration-tilts-us-economy-s-center-of-gravity-south-1.1939466
The numbers tell the story. For the first time, six fast-growing states in the South — Florida, Texas, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee — are contributing more to the national GDP than the Northeast, with its Washington-New York-Boston corridor, in government figures going back to the 1990s. The switch happened during the pandemic and shows no signs of reverting.
A flood of transplants helped steer about US$100 billion in new income to the Southeast in 2020 and 2021 alone, while the Northeast bled out about $60 billion, based on an analysis of recently published Internal Revenue Service data.
The Southeast accounted for more than two-thirds of all job growth across the U.S. since early 2020, almost doubling its pre-pandemic share. And it was home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing American large cities.
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Nashville, where the asset-management firm AllianceBernstein relocated a few years ago, has become the country’s top real estate “supernova” in surveys by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Urban Land Institute. Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte, longtime home of Bank of America Corp., rank among the top 10 moving destinations nationwide by Penske Truck Rental — all ahead of boomtown Austin.
And no one beats Fort Worth, Texas, near Dallas, the country’s fastest-growing big city in the latest Census Bureau data.
I don’t know where Knoxville is on that list but I know it’s on it. People are bitching about all the development and more traffic.
eaglesoars wrote:
Your phone tracks you and if you carry out a transaction it locks your location time and date into the location’s database. I use a separate car mounted GPS and switched off my phone GPS amongst other apps years ago. Not that the phone companies can’t still track you although it’s more of an embuggerence for them as they have to manually use cell tower cross references and it’s not as accurate.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yet the City of London has ganged up against Farage and are trying to cancel him for being Nigel Farage. He can’t find a bank to handle his accounts, such is the reach of the banking industry. The finance houses collude to destroy well known individuals and seek to ‘cancel them’ as a warning to Joe Public that total monetary control is coming with digital money. Just part of the waft and warp of the 2030 Agenda.Make a song and dance destroying some well known conservative, as a warning to Joe Public that they too can be destroyed on a whim.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup Eagles.
At least the BIG end of town is consistent in screwing up regularly, and taking the short term easy way out, instead of thinking about long term goals first before ‘deciding to play Checkers’, instead of Chess.
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I shoulda thunk of that.
As for Farage, I saw somewhere that they’re saying he took money from some Russians. Really? The Russians AGAIN?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
nope. In the event of an emergency, I want to be ‘findable/trackable’.
eaglesoars wrote:
I think the lefts power levels are slipping and they need to generate sacrifices.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
The Aztecs come to mind
eaglesoars wrote:
There is an App that lays out in stark relief the various Apps buried within your phone that screw you over every second of the day. When you need to be ‘found’ then turn that App on before you go out and then then it off when you get home….. or alternatively leave your phone at home when you do NOT need to be tracked.There are something like 30+ different Apps loaded onto your phone that log everything you do even if it doesn’t have anything to do with communicating. My brother has a phone that allows him to Phone and send Texts…. and that’s it finished. He can’t read a paper or Google how many nations belong to the UN, or look at a picture of his step grand daughter…. etc…. etc. He also has a smart phone that stays turned off until he needs it to do something smart. THEN he turns it ON, uses it and then Turns it OFF. He uses the electronics as a tool and not a crutch and controls it rather than the other way around.
eaglesoars wrote:
Stay clear of volcanos!
🙂
HEH
@ coldwarrior:
Rain has appeared over the horizon at Lords Cricket Ground shutting off the rest of Day #3 with the Aussies into their second innings that started 91 runs ahead of the POMEs, Rain that most English of weather, intervened after tea with the Oz second innings 2 out for about 230 ahead of England. Poor light helped one opener to get out in marginal conditions whilst the #3 batsman was just rash , surviving two LBW appeals on contiguous overs that looked pretty cut and dried to me and then holed out caught off a seamer, offering up and easy catch at Mid-Off. Then it was Tea and the heavens opened and the wicket got the covers on, and that was that for Day #3 of the second Ashes Test.
At this rate Oz should be over 400 by Lunch on Day #4, and then it’ll be deciding when to add a bit more before DECLARING, before leaving enough time to bowl England after Tea Day#4 plus the rest of Day #5. Getting that WINNING balance right will be a serious decision!. By now England will be thinking about playing out the clock and accepting a DRAW and living to fight the Third Test with a loss and a draw, instead of two losses and an almost impossible hill to climb with having to win the next three tests to WIN the Ashes rather than just having to win two of the next three tests, for a drawn test and two tests each, and keeping hold of the Ashes locked away as they are in the Lords safe !
Decisions …. decisions!
Given the two teams decision making …. I think the Aussies will take a punt and DECLARE at around 450 , put the Brits in and try to WIN. The Brits will but up the shutters early on Day#5 and grab a DRAW and live to fight another day!
GO the Aussies!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I looked at the weather at lord’s and decided to pick up OT instead.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Declare at 451.
451F. Lol.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Here’s the thing. I’m old. I don’t care FOR MYSELF. “They” can waste storage space/resources tracking my youtube cooking and history shows. Have at it.
I know one thing.
God will not be mocked.
I sleep soundly.
Black Chicago Residents OUTRAGE Over NON STOP Teen Takeovers WRECKING HAVOC In Their Neighborhood!
17 minute video
I could GIVE a monkey’s butt. These assholes voted for it, they can embrace the suck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8MVnHZB45s
I’m over paying for subscriptions, so this is behind a paywall but here’s the headline
Building society admits it would close customers’ accounts if they are ‘rude or discriminate’ after Farage row
Yorkshire Building Society said it cut ties with a client who questioned the use of Pride flags in their branches
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/06/30/nigel-farage-bank-row-building-society-close-accounts/
Last night for pork and carrot stew!
Either I eat the rest of it tonight and let it pass through 22 feet of my intestines when it will emerge 12 or so hours later to be deposited in a large and white porcelain receptacle and will be gone from my life forever or….
I just throw the rest of it directly in the shitter and find something else for supper.
Two fried eggs sounds nice! On toast!
AW SHIT, NO TOAST AVAILABLE.
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/the-amish-died-of-covid-at-a-rate
oh goody! heat index today will be 108.
This is a good piece on how to fight voter fraud
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/2024_how_to_outcompute_the_left.html
This is an excerpt as the article is behind a paywall
Solar Projects Turn Into Disaster as Groundwater Dries Up, Leaving Residents Furious: ‘Dead Without Water’
Located just about halfway between Los Angeles and Phoenix, Desert Center, California, was once bustling with business.
In the ’20s, the local Desert Center Cafe was open 24-7 with customers filtering in and out as they made their way back and forth between the two iconic cities. According to The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, the cafe’s motto was “We lost our keys, we can’t close!”
Today, the Desert Center Cafe — along with the rest of the buildings on the dingy Desert Center main street — is abandoned and dilapidated.
Other than the small ghost town at its center, what’s left of Desert Center is the handful of small communities surrounding it.
Even absent the historic downtown, area locals had much to be thankful for. The landscape, for example, is beautiful. You can stare out at the endless desert, examine the lush palo verde and aged ironwood trees or even spot local treasures, such as the rare species of desert tortoises and sacred indigenous sites.
Thanks to the construction of massive solar farms, all of the above are under threat, along with one more resource locals likely treasure above almost all else: the water supply.
No More Water John Beach owns a bit of land in the middle of the desolate Desert Center. At first, it’s unlikely Beach thought the area’s local solar project — a product of the Obama administration’s push to scale solar energy development on public lands — would have much of an effect on his property.
Beach’s land doesn’t even have a home on it, only two palm trees, both of which he has been watering for 15 years.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4164802/posts
aw jeez, too bad……….
Pictures: Look What a Few Punishing Minutes of Baseball-Sized Hail Did to Massive Nebraska Solar Farm
https://www.westernjournal.com/pictures-look-punishing-minutes-baseball-sized-hail-massive-nebraska-solar-farm/
total loss, pics are WOW!
Well, Mrs MF’s problem employee is someone else’s problem now.
They both filled EEOC complaints. She filed because he was staring at her chest, and he claims he has long COVID and is a high functioning autistic, and thinks she’s not being fair.
He probably pulled the same crap at the VA which is why he got bounced around so much.
He’ll go to a male supervisor now.
I suggested she start wearing slightly lower cut blouses, and filing complaints every time he ogles her. I might go hang out by his car, dressed in my rattiest clothes, and start ranting at him in Irish.
they did WHAT?
‘The Netherlands appears to be a petri-dish for the conducting of all manner of experiments in social engineering. What happens there, might happen elsewhere, and then everywhere.’
Neil Oliver reacts to the Netherlands broadening euthanasia rules to children of all ages.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1675196713563242497
coldwarrior wrote:
Careful that that sheet of paper will combust in your hands mate! 451F indeed!
Great movie too!
🙂
There’s a Giant Gravity Hole In The Indian Ocean, And We May Finally Know Why
https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-giant-gravity-hole-in-the-indian-ocean-and-we-may-finally-know-why
Gravity’s pull is a constant on Earth, but our planet is no uniform sphere. It’s covered in lumps and bumps, with geology of varying density yanking on nearby masses with subtly differing degrees of force in an undulating map known as a geoid.
Deep beneath the Indian Ocean, that pull weakens to an extreme low, leaving what is considered a massive gravity ‘hole’ some three million square kilometers in size roughly where the seafloor sinks into a vast depression.
One of the most profound gravitational anomalies on Earth, its presence has been alluded to for a while. Ship-based surveys and satellite measurements revealed long ago that the sea level just off the tip of the Indian subcontinent dipped on account of the gravitational tug-of-war between the aptly named Indian Ocean geoid low and the surrounding gravitational ‘highs’.
Just what caused this relative weakening has never been clear. Now two researchers from the Indian Institute of Science think they have a better idea of the kinds of planetary phenomena that could be involved.
“All these [past] studies looked at the present-day anomaly and were not concerned with how this geoid low came into existence,”
I am clueless but I think it’s too kool for skool
Yeah, this is organized.
BREAKING:
The riots and looting in France and Belgium spread tonight to Switzerland too.
Stores were looted in the city of Lausanne and rioters clashed with the riot police.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1675276749410643968
This is the backdoor ‘disinformation’ bullshit effort
Bogus online reviews are targeted by US regulators with new, proposed bans
https://apnews.com/article/ftc-fake-reviews-ban-f86efd3b777fafb37f9cea68a62b5520
can we just shoot these fuckers?
More gloomy news from Biden! White House says it’s open to plan that would BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12254167/More-gloomy-news-Biden-backs-plan-BLOCK-sunlight-Earth-bid-limit-global-warming.html
So what happens to all those solar panels?
oops!
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel Admits Company Produced 100,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses In 2019 BEFORE The Pandemic Started
Big Pharma & Big Money run the world, even with crimes against humanity evidence spoken ON CAMERA by the criminals committing the genocide STILL nothing ever gets done.
The President does nothing. No World Leader has stepped up to do anything about this. We live under corporate cartel control. There is no equal justice.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1674946607366930432
@ Aussie Infidel:
I just watched day 4 highlights. I think Lyon is done for his career.
England need 257, the Aussies need 6 wickets. Smith is amazing, the Aussie bowlers will get this done tomorrow
@ eaglesoars:
Teddy Roosevelt tried to stop it, Eisenhower warned us, JFK got murdered trying to stop it, Trump exposed it.
Yet, here we are.
coldwarrior wrote:
I am just getting a clue
eaglesoars wrote:
When the Swiss start to take shit then you know that something nasty is about to happen.
Police discovering the are of interlocking fields of fire and light and medium mortar fire to pin an enemy down to the killing zones will break this insurrection. The military will of course do the dirty work as a sub-contractor to the cops!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I think you mean ‘ARC of interlocking’….??
bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Amazon filed lawsuits “against fraudsters attempting to mislead Amazon customers.”
Best Amazon reviews ever:
https://www.amazon.com/Tuscan-Dairy-Whole-Vitamin-Gallon/product-reviews/B00032G1S0
coldwarrior wrote:
I need a refresher course…
Happy Fourth of July Weekend!
The real patriots here are having a blast. Loud music, celebratory gunfire and much drunkenness.
This is just day one, another three days to go.
LOL
@ Possum:
I was happy to learn today that the missus’ friends decided to invite themselves to our house. I might have to wax the garage floor.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Hide the Karyoki equipment!
Word on the street says Weaselzippers had money problems despite a fundraiser.
https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2023/06/does-anyone-have-any-updates-on.html
Boombada
Going to try keto again. That means NO beer!
Order from Walmart is due in an hour.
Notice the price of eggs.
Skinless Smoked Sausage, 14 oz Qty 1 $3.46
Thick Cut Applewood Real Wood Smoked Bacon, 1.5 lb Qty 1 $8.98
Sweet Cream Salted Butter, 16 oz Qty 1 $3.68
LouAna 100% Pure Coconut Oil, 14 fl oz Qty 1 $4.94
Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese, 16 oz Qty 2 $7.36
Grated Parmesan Cheese, 8 oz Qty 2 $5.96
Cream Cheese, 8 oz Qty 4 $5.92
Large White Eggs, 36 Count Qty 1 $3.32
Mayonnaise, 30 fl oz Qty 1 $3.18
Jul 02, 2023 order Subtotal $47.60
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
What on earth did Tuscan Milk do to deserve THAT?
An Anglican church leader has accused the Yorkshire Building Society of bullying after it announced that it was closing his account within 14 days when he protested against it allegedly pushing transgender “ideology”.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/07/02/british-vicar-suffers-de-banking-for-politely-disagreeing-with-his-banks-pride-push-n561980
I guess it’s too much to expect that people might pull their money en masse from the banks that pull this crap
The French government decided to shut down internet service in certain areas amid riots turned violent to prevent the spread of false information.
Police officials quoting France Interior Ministry said the ban on social media is to secure the life and property of the citizens.
The French Police said landline and mobile service will be restored.
https://www.samaaenglish.tv/news/40040867
This is a one minute 20 sec video.
“I don’t think we’ll ever get to the 2024 election. Things will implode in Washington before that.”
Colonel Douglas Macgregor
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1675383132873449474
He sounds like he thinks it’s all planned. See France. And now Belgium and Switzerland
There are unconfirmed reports that certain senior and serving French Military commanders have delivered an ultimatum to #Macron. Restore order within 48 hours or they will. The picture is of retired and highly respected Général Pierre de Villiers a French Aristocrat. A decorated and respected General who Macron publicly humiliated in a disagreement over defence cuts. There are no further updates at this time.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1675301483619786754
27 sec video that is pure fun. Go!
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1675250442677174273
THE YEAR IS 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown.
According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of “Escape from New York” and “Robocop” — with dashes of the “Warriors” and “Divergent” thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.
At least that’s the scenario outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.
That’s just the teaser. Some aren’t buying it.
Mike Davis, author of “Planet of Slums” and “Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb,” was not impressed by the video.
“This is a fantasy, the idea that there is a special military science of megacities,” he said. “It’s simply not the case. … They seem to envision large cities with slum peripheries governed by antagonistic gangs, militias, or guerrilla movements that you can somehow fight using special ops methods. In truth, that’s pretty far-fetched. … You only have to watch ‘Black Hawk Down’ and scale that up to the kind of problems you would have if you were in Karachi, for example. You can do special ops on a small-scale basis, but it’s absurd to imagine it being effective as any kind of strategy for control of a megacity.”
But it’s great propaganda for allowing the military to turn on its own citizens
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/13/pentagon-video-warns-of-unavoidable-dystopian-future-for-worlds-biggest-cities/
French police have declared they are ‘at war’ with ‘savage hordes of vermin’ amid widespread rioting and looting that saw a bus stolen and a car smashed into a supermarket front.
Two police unions threatened a revolt unless Emmanuel Macron’s government restored order amid protests sparked by the killing of a French-Algerian teenager by police on Tuesday – also causing the French president to cancel his trip to Germany.
‘Today the police are in combat because we are at war,’ a report from the unions said. ‘Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12254233/We-war-French-police-vow-hit-rioters-steal-bus-smash-fast-car-Lidl.html?ico=related-replace
@ Possum:
about 3 months ago I was paying $4 for the store brand. Now they’re $1.98
Might be time for The French Foreign Legion…
Guess who was head of DOJs public integrity unit during most of the Obama years?
When Hunter Biden was profiting off his name, setting up “legal” and “consulting” firms to start laundering foreign money into family coffers?
None other than Jack Smith:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1675510957571817472
I’m betting his ass is on the line, too
@ eaglesoars:
I pay 3.50 for eggs from my supplier. Straight out of the coop…and, I get a say about the feed.
Wonderful
This guy wins todays internet award for correctly analyzing all the factors in Twitters lockdown.
The intelligence community built a “Censorship Deathstar” by scrapping everyone’s data and Elon just threw a fat monkey wrench into the whole machine.
“This guy” is Mike Benz, a cyber dude. It’s a 9 min video but he explains it well
https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1675287728555167744
coldwarrior wrote:
I think that’s a fair price as I’m thinking your supplier is a small operator and doesn’t have the economies of scale the grocery store producers have
@ eaglesoars:
21 chickens
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh it’s past time. France is THIS CLOSE to falling. It’s organized, I’m telling you. Belgium, Switzerland, what’s next?
video – Paris is burning (and this isn’t the worst I’ve seen, it has the best close-ups tho)
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1675293227585269762
I think this is an actual quote from Napoleon: I saw the crown of France laying on the ground so I picked it up with my sword
Macron is resisting calls from his Police and military commanders to declare a state of emergency as he feels this will weaken his already shambolic Presidency as rioters have carried out raids on Police stations which have been ransacked and rioters are are now armed with Automatic weapons. Security forces are being driven back and appear to be losing ground. Patience with #Macron is almost gone and there are increasing calls for the military to remove Macron and take control of the Government. Britain’s foreign office is now warning UK citizens not to travel to France. #RiotsFrance #Coup #Revolution #UK
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1675142444940242945
@ eaglesoars:
Police stations which have been ransacked and rioters are are now armed with Automatic weapons.
just wanted to be sure you caught that………….
from our Dept Defense
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@USArmy Maj. Rachel Jones found solace after coming out as a transgender female. Her journey from battling depression & suicidal thoughts to embracing authenticity inspires us all. #WhyWeServe
https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1675474400517185538
check out the pic. We’re fucked
eaglesoars wrote:
THIS is what he’s talking about – AI machines scraping twitter data
NEWS: It looks like ChatGPT’s web browser extension can no longer access Twitter’s data.
https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1675382027883884544
There’s a shitload of $$$ in war……..
Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2023/06/raytheon-calls-retirees-help-restart-stinger-missile-production/388067/
Ezra Levant/Rebel News have a page devoted to France
Ezra is on the ground in Marseilles
https://www.rebelnews.com/tags/france_on_fire
so this is good
Florida International University scientists discovered the first and only known natural arsenic-containing antibiotic to fight antibiotic resistance. Now, research reveals it can stop transmission of a deadly disease spreading in the U.S. for the first time in 20 years: malaria.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-weapon-antibiotic-resistanceit-malaria.html
‘A natural way to diversify’: Janet Yellen now says Americans should anticipate a decline in the USD as the world’s reserve currency
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/natural-way-diversify-janet-yellen-125500087.html
@ eaglesoars:
Posts #145 to #147 twitter attachments can’t be opened.
You must have upset ChatGPT or something?
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
must be on your end, the open for me
@ Aussie Infidel:
Hmmmmmm.???
@ coldwarrior:
Ben Stokes the England skipper can hold his head high. First he thought his way back into the Second Ashes Test match as he should have as England’s skipper. But then when all looked lost he took it to the Aussie bowlers, especially the seamers, led from the front for a true Captain’s ‘knock’ of 155. Given the mental pressure he was under as skipper , the last true batsman left in the England batting line up, and the only real hope left to England, he could be forgiven for a short lapse in concentration for lofting up an easy catch in covers. He’d been batting for the best part of a full day and must have been mentally exhausted. The whole of Lords rose as one to clap him off the ground, including the whole Aussie team. Obviously upset with himself as he strode through the ‘Long Room’ to the Members accolades, he must have known that the 80% chance of an Aussie win had moved to 95%. The tail enders numbers #9#8and #7put up no serious resistance and two lost their wickets for a ‘duck’ and a one in 7 balls.
England’s Numbers #10 and #11 put up a brief cameo, until Starc ‘the Aussie Axeman’ brought his ‘hardman game’ to the fore. He relentlessly bowled bouncers off a flat wicket, hit the batsmens’ helmets and bodies on numerous occasions, demoralising them. Typical Body-line take no prisoners intimidation tactics, from a fast seamer. Refused to ‘take the new ball’ obviously deciding to finish it quickly. You could see him thinking …. intimidate them with fast bouncers targeting their heads and bodies and then when they were set up and cowered, slipped in either a leg-cutter for a LBW or a Yorker at the batsman’s boots, right on the stumps. Starc’s Yorker was a tad short but was fast at 90MPH and took out the middle stump. England fell 43 short to tie ( hardly ever happens) or a miraculous 44 to win. Given the Aussie’s seamer line up that just wasn’t going to happen.
So it’s two Tests to zip in the best of Five for the Ashes. From here England would find scaling Everest a cinch, compared to getting their hands on the Ashes by winning the next three Tests.
Ben Stokes the England skipper should have been ‘man of the match’ with his captaincy and his ‘skipper’s knock’ of 155 however it was curtains for England when he showed that he was human and had a brief loss of concentration.
@ coldwarrior:
Ahhhh Test match cricket and Ashes Cricket to boot!
Five Test matches of 5 days each for the ultimate cricketing trophy …… an ugly little wooden bottle full of ashes of burned bails, but worth a LOT more than the Cricket World Cup.
There is something special about Ashes Cricket Tests. Like chess as a blood sport in five fabulous chapters fought in picturesque surroundings, and a model of life, with all its victories and tragedies writ large.
Now on the the Third Test
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eaglesoars wrote:
Made by Tuscans 4 Tuscans.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/6701-the-great-uprising-on-globalism-s-popes-presidents-and-profiteers
ID ing Public Enemy #1!
@ Aussie Infidel:
Day 5 was brilliant
@ Aussie Infidel:
Lots a balls short and up into the grill.
It got chippy
@ Aussie Infidel:
I do disagree with not taking the new ball.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Stokes got on his horse and led by example. England had a long tail, Stokes is clearly man of the match in a losing effort.
https://zerohedge.com/markets/top-most-searched-foods-bbq-ahead-independence-day
Aren’t we Pennsylvanian’s a bunch of toffs.
Wtf?
coldwarrior wrote:
Yup. Did you see the Aussie Team manager on his two-way radio talking to ‘someone’ about Starc refusing to take the new ball. The new ball would have totally tied down the two tail-enders for a few more overs but the Second Test would have ended in a damp squib. Starc wanted to use the old ball as a blunt weapon and had his own plan to totally intimidate the last two by attacking their bodies with 90MPH halls and forgetting about the stumps. Then when the two batsmen were just trying to survive a vicious ‘Body-line attack and just trying NOT to get hurt, Starc planned on a fast switch back to the stumps with the batsmen’s feet all out of the line and aim at hitting the Batsman’s boots with a fast Yorker and destroying the base of the stumps. Starc got the middle stump and blew it right out of the ground!
It worked.
🙂
Brutal, cruel and dangerous, to use those tactics against a tail-ender and not a specialist batsman, but it certainly was effective and drew a definite line under this Test!
@ Aussie Infidel:
This was physical, violent cricket.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I Skyped ya. Holla if u can
@ coldwarrior:
Who the fuck is looking for ASPARAGUS?
I love the stuff but SRSLY? Steam it and load it up with composed butter, ffs.
Even my intelligence is insulted by this bullpuckey
Yellen set to travel to Beijing as part of ongoing efforts to stabilize relationship with China
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/02/politics/yellen-beijing-trip-china-relationship/index.html?
The article is behind a paywall, so I can link only this
British Banks are to be told by the Treasury that they must protect free speech amid an escalating row over the blacklisting of customers who hold controversial views.
Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, is understood to be “deeply concerned” that overzealous lenders are closing down accounts because they disagree with customers’ opinions and has asked City minister Andrew Griffith to investigate the issue.
Whitehall sources said that results of a consultation on the subject will be published within weeks, after it was launched earlier this year in the wake of PayPal blocking the accounts of free speech groups.
The controversy flared up again last week after the leading Brexiteer Nigel Farage revealed his account had been closed by his bank. A vicar was also dropped as a customer after criticising his lender’s stance on LBGTQ+.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4165120/posts
FWIW
SHOCK: RFK Jr Reveals REAL Killer of His Father, Thane Eugene Cesar, Lockheed Martin/CIA Operative
video
https://rumble.com/v2xjxaa-shock-rfk-jr-reveals-real-killer-of-his-father-thane-eugene-cesar-lockheed-.html
@ Aussie Infidel:
yinz’s man
coldwarrior wrote:
Sorry I missed ya! I was at Mercy Hospital doing the dye and CT scan thingie. First time in my life I reacted to something that my body didn’t like. Turned cherry red and was given an antihistamine and a cup of coffee and some bikkies until my colour stopped liking like a surfer from Bondi beach with a bad sunburn!
🙂
Heh
They gave me some more antihistamines, just in case I turn red again later. Told me to head back to Mercy if I turned red once more, and to tell my Professor Quack that I seemed to be allergic to dye used with a CT scan, to get some pictures of my left aerial appendage, in case I might consider a LA appendage closure. The guy who tried to get some TOE shots failed miserably to pass the TOE probe, hence the CT! $2,480 charged for the privilege, but I get 60% back from Air NZ Crew insurance, and 100% back if the LA appendage closure happens within 6 months from my surgical insurance!
Bloody insurance companies! grrrr
The great great grandkid of my Paramount Maori (actually he was one of the few male survivors of the Chatham Islands Moriori who were predated upon by the Taranaki Maori Ewe, who sailed Sydney purchased a 700 ton a square rigged ship in about 1850 , sailed around NZ and up to the Chatham Islands 500 miles East of NZ , butchered most of the peaceable Moriori males and ate them, and enslaved the women and children to tend Taranaki Kumera sweet potato ) gardens. Ahhh the noble savage! NOT!
My Paramount Moriori chief built a Pa site at Thornton Bay. The Moriori had ginger hair and green eyes. There is a shitload of material and early photos of the Pa site and refugee Moriari. At the end of WWOII Lt. Ngarimu a Moriori won a Victoria Cross ( Like a Medel of Honour on steroids) in Lybia fighting the German 7th Armoured Division. In 1945 the southern end of Thornton Bay was renamed Ngarimu Bay in his memory. Our Paramount Chief was the ~ 50 year old bushy red haired ‘visitor’, standing through my mattress, through the floor and with his feet on the ground underneath looking East towards the Pa site up the hill.
He died about 1870 and his Memorial stone will get professionally mended and placed with a historical board in the Morirori gifted park near the swings on the land he gifted to the colony.
Our Moriori Paramount Chief gifted land for the Kauri Anglican cathedral the Police station and the Court House in Thames township. Back in the gold rush glory days there were 40,000 prospectors living in Thames. The town had a Kauri Anglican Cathedral, pubs on every corner in the town and ‘knocking shops’ between each pub for the miners’ pleasure. 🙂 The Northern end of the main part of Thames roads are all up and down as the worked out mines collapsed. They were mining huge volumes of quartz for vein gold. The Northern end of Thames still looks like you’re walking into an American Western movie set!
HEH!
🙂
In the 1950s there were all kinds of financial shenanigans and some of the gifted land was stolen and sub-divided, an access road built and the prime sites overlooking the beach built on, including our house. The story that was bandied about by the corrupt developer was that the Paramount Chief’s grave site was lost and someone used dynamite to destroy his Memorial Stone. That was 100% BS and just a cover to cover their corruption. The Paramount chief has been there for 150 years and his Memorial stone was there with him. Now we’ve found it his stone will be repaired and raised again near the playground on the gifted land just behind our place. The Paramount Chief’s great, great grandson allowed us to temporally move his bones, dig the footings on Wednesday and then we’ll return his bones back beneath our house where he belongs, overlooking his beach. We’ll look after him. No wonder the poor bugger was so pissed off that he put in an appearance a fortnight ago. Fr. Rory Morresy the Auckland Diocese Exorcist was 100% right on the money with his assessment that he was just a disturbed soul, that just needed to be told to Be at Peace.
The whole thing turned out just fine.
Oh and our Auckland apartment, next door neighbour’s father was the dodgy lawyer who handled the corrupt land grab back in the 1950s and who spread the falsehoods about the Paramount chief’s grave was lost and that his Memorial stone was destroyed with dynamite in about 1952. It was all lies.
Tell me ……WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
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coldwarrior wrote:
Sir Donald Bradman AKA … The Don.
A poor boy from Bowrel in New South Wales bush who practiced with a STUMP and a tennis ball against a brick wall every day until he re-programmed his brain and eye to razor sharpness……. until he became Cricket’s GOAT with a 99.94 or was it 99.98 average score.
His average will never be surpassed as that was another era that is set in history. ‘The Don’ raised up the whole of Australia during the Great Depression single handed. Definitely the GOAT but fortunately his average remains still HUMAN as it’s still just a smidgen under the perfect 100. THAT tiny shortfall makes the Don accessible to mere humans even to this day and a hero to every boy cricketer.
@ coldwarrior:
For Kansas, it’s Salmon.
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s grass.
It’s what my meat eats.
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’ve been doing medicine for a while now, I have no idea what a left an aerial appendage is.
But I do know from the movies that building on an Indian burial ground causes haunting and stuff.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Next ct with contrast, you’ll need the pre-cocktail prep. It takes hours and hours and an admission to hospital to do it right
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12185871/Hunter-Biden-photographed-smoking-crack-DRIVING-speeding-172mph.html
He’s no Hunter Thompson.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/07/02/30-shot-at-block-party-sunday-in-gun-controlled-baltimore/
Mass shooting…Ummmhmmmm
coldwarrior wrote:
The left atrial appendage is a left over blind chamber on the left of the heart that was left over as the human heart developed over a few million years. A bit like the appendix that was left behind after the human second stomach was bypassed when early humans began to eat meat and protein. The LA is just a left over bit of now unused heart muscle that was bypassed during evolution.
Trouble is that if a human is prone to the development of blood clots familiarly then they will probably develop in the Atrial Appendage. For someone who has CAA and can’t allow blood thinners, the alternative is to place a Nickel metal memory plug into the heart LA blocking off this pocket permanently. A hand made to measure Nickel gauze memory plug is passed through a catheter from the Femoral artery into the beating heart and positioned and squirted into the Left Atrial appendage, blocking it permanently. Hence the failed attempt to use a TOE probe to photograph the LA and having to revert to a CT to craft the memory metal plug to size and shape. If I decide to do the LA Appendage plug it’ll just be an overnight procedure and a little monitoring afterwards to ensure its securely place with heart muscle developing around it. After it stabilises I can get back to the gym and my ultra slow very heavy weights limited reps to failure program. Otherwise I have to do the light weights, fast multiple reps training, which is a total waste of my time.
As far as hauntings of Indian grave sites are concerned, the Moriori are OK with looking after their Paramount Chief in situ as that is his resting place and he now appears at Peace as his Memorial stone is being looked after and repaired and re-established on the gifted site after being toppled by some grifter developers for the past 70 years. Both the Anglican Priest (who also belongs to the Ngaru Mari tribal Moriori Pa up the hill) has blessed the site in Morori (with his Catholic mate in Rome provided Lourdes water for the blessing), as well as the Local Catholic Parish priest who also did his thing under the instructions of the Catholic Dioceses Exorcist in English and Latin.
Fr. Rory Morrasy the exorcist suggests that we just had a disturbed soul who has probably been quietened and is now again at Peace. If not then and we have Fr. Rory Morrasy the nominated Dioceses Exorcist who will visit, (if the 1:500 against chance happens) and will corrupt dealing of of the land site and building has now been corrected. Fr. Rory believes that we have fixed the wrong that has been perpetrated for the past 70 years.
We will assume the best and we know how to sort it out if something untoward happens again, and have the weapons available if necessary to fix the problem.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
uh, when was this? (A lot of people think my mom showing up for 7 years after she died is a bit – you know)
@ Aussie Infidel:
Ah. I see.
Atrial, not aerial.
eaglesoars wrote:
This whole shebang has happened over the past 3 weeks. The detective and cops, the local council, the contractor actually doing the job, the Memorial stone’s partial destruction , extraction, collection by Moriori and great great grandson, Auckland council archeologist, the footings, the visitors of course, the Anglican and Catholic priests doing their ‘thing’, the Auckland based Exorcist opinion, the historical research project, the expose about the shenanigans over the land scam in the 1950s….. et al!
Now we’re ready to lift the bones pour the concrete footings, replace the bones or place them where the Memorial stone will be re-erected on the gifted land, get the plaster and painters in to finish the living room/ solarium ceiling and enjoy that VIEW over the beach … and get back to normality!
🙂
As for your mom the RC Auckland Dioceses Exorcist laid it out clearly that just because folks die it doesn’t mean that they still don’t have free will and quite some latitude. Some just refuse to move on and need to be helped along a bit. Most take the ‘help’ but on extremely rare occasions a few who have ‘issues’ and could be malevolent do require some intervention to get them out forcibly. Leave that to the’ pros’ however or you could make a bad situation even worse. Do NOT dabble yourself even though bad outcomes are extremely rare. Take the advice and keep it simple is the best solution.
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coldwarrior wrote:
Yup!
Take that up with my software’s bloody ‘predictive’!
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Aussie Infidel wrote:
I didn’t, believe me. She showed up on her own, and it was very difficult for me. Every time I’d have to say goodbye to her AGAIN, which was brutal. My sister and I held her as she died and that was about all I ever wanted to take, thank you very much. And it’s NOT just me – she showed up once when I was on the phone with my sister and my sister heard her voice and her laugh. That was the one time I saw her physically, altho she had no problem touching me. My sister’s daughters could always smell her perfume (White Gardenia). 7 years until she moved on. She waited until her first great grandchild arrived.
I really don’t care if people don’t believe me/us. It happened.
@ eaglesoars:
Yup
It certainly does happen. Not a lot but it still does whether you believe it or not, you just can’t deny it and wish it away!
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Now this is an interesting site
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Just dial in your city and dial up a nuke and set up the features and push … DETONATE …. the results are quite surprising. Dial up Lvov and scale up the nukes … The Russians have dilatable 0.3 Kt to 100 Kt tac-nukes the weather is set ate nominal local wind conditions and directions.
And you think that Putin wouldn’t use a tac-nuke in Eastern Ukraine?
@ Aussie Infidel:
I’m not doing that. Just on the not-so-off chance some gov’t goon is watching.
Archbishop Viganò founds group to help priests and religious resist ‘the Bergoglian revolution’
… under my personal patronage, the civil association Exsurge Domine has been founded, which has as its social purpose ‘to provide assistance, support and material help to clergy, religious and consecrated laity who are in conditions of particular economic and logistical difficulties; to defend the unchanged and incorruptible Tradition of the Catholic faith; to preserve and promote the traditional liturgy; to encourage the study and theological and cultural awareness of the immense religious, historical and artistic heritage of Christianity; and to foster opportunities for dialogue and encounter between the various associations, experiences or groups operating within the perennial Tradition of the Catholic Church.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-vigano-founds-group-to-help-priests-and-religious-resist-the-bergoglian-revolution/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=catholic
more at the link
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This is our day of deliverance.” – John Adams
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1675897921559207936
The bank that is no longer holding cash: Aussie immediately closes her account after teller refuses to let her withdraw money
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12257329/ANZ-Australia-no-longer-keeping-cash-branches.html
$3500
‘The teller proceeds to tell me they don’t have cash in the bank anymore, that you can only get it out through the ATM but she said “don’t worry I’ll set you a card up so you can just tap it in place of your card”.’
However, when Ms Comptyn tried her temporary card at the ATM it repeatedly flashed up an error message.
‘She (the teller) said “I am really sorry there is nothing we can do”,’ Ms Comptyn said.
@ eaglesoars:
from the comments
My Credit Union has been doing that, they even tell me who I can spend my money with. I only found that out when I attempted to make a purchase and my card was declined. They said, we use ‘Trust pilot’ and if the company has bad reviews, we stop the transaction! Great hey?
@ eaglesoars:
And if we decide you’re spending it on the wrong product or if we don’t like the company (not bad reviews), or that you’re spending too much, or…
eaglesoars wrote:
I’d be getting my cash out of that bank ASP. How dare they!
During the Covid 19 crisis in Greece the banks refused to allow people take more than 60 Euro a day out of their own accounts! Disgusting. Nigel Farage of Brexit fame was ‘ministered’ by all of the banks in the Uk. He raised the attack by the banks with the government Treasurer and the banks have been told that they are breaking the law by picking on people banking with them because they disagree politically. This is just the first bit of a long battle over actual money and its use rather than digital dollars and PC banks. Push back while you still can Eagles!
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right_wing2 wrote:
This is just the first ‘shots’ in the battle over the concept of ‘SOCIAL CREDIT.’ That’s how the CCP controls the people of China. If your Social Credit score you can end up starving as you are prevented from buying food. The new project is 15 minute cities. You are restricted to stay within of 15 minutes walk of the central area where you live. The exits are automated and you need to be registered by facial recognition to cross into the contiguous 15 minute region. If your Social Credit score is low you can’t get past the gates. You’re effectively a prisoner inside your 15 minute city. You can however pay (electronically) a sum of money (a fine) to give you enough points to lift your Social Credit score high enough to get out of your 15 minute region!
1984 in steroids!
Coming to a neighbourhood near you. If you think it can’t happen to you then look at Oxford in the UK where the first 15 minute city has sprouted thanks to a socialist council in Oxford!
Here’s a birthday cartoon I think yinz will like
https://twitter.com/WilkowMajority/status/1676235181051596802/photo/1
Happy Birthday ‘Merica!
From one of my Brit friends
“Happy Birthday to the Traitorous Colonials!”
This is a long video (over an hour and a half) but you might like it. Jordan Peterson interviews Jim Caviezel about his new movie, The Sound of Freedom, and global child slavery and the sex trade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTBGNEliczc&t=16s
We got tickets for today’s showing this afternoon.
Happy Birthday to the US of A!
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Here is a little humour….
The 2022 Nobel Prize winner for Physics with all of the credentials to speak authoritatively lays it on the line in chapter and verse….
Global Warming is a proven SCAM and even the IPCC can’t deny it anymore. You’ve been sold a pup folks. CO2 keeps Earth warm and people and plants alive. The socialist wreckers want to see a COLD Earth and loads of dead people! It’s come down to just THAT fact.
Not that the MSM and the Fascist Left will stop attempting to ignore the TRUTH staring them in the face.
Enjoy their hate folks they are eating themselves alive…
HEH
🙂
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/2022-nobel-prize-winner-says-there
eaglesoars wrote:
We just got home. What a powerful movie. Even more so as it’s a true story. There’s a lot of evil in this world. A lot. What these guys did to get one little girl out of some god forsaken jungle in Colombia is unreal. And the sting they set up to rescue more – it was amazing.
LIFE ABOARD a US NAVY NUCLEAR SUBMARINE – Full Tour USS INDIANA
21 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7DqK0f8lI
Our nextdoor neighbors are setting off QUITE the fireworks show. It’s lovely and I have a front row seat.
The heathen beagles are sleeping thru it.
@ eaglesoars:
Good gun dogs.
@ coldwarrior:
Just bloody lazy, more like it………..
The U.N. Is Planning To Seize Global ‘Emergency’ Powers With Biden’s Support
Once triggered, the emergency platform would give the U.N. the ability to “actively promote and drive an international response that places the principles of equity and solidarity at the centre of its work.” The U.N. would bring together the “stakeholders” of the world, including academics, governments, private sector actors, and “international financial institutions” to ensure there is a unified, global response to the crisis.
The emergency platform would also give the United Nations the power to “Ensure that all participating actors make commitments that can contribute meaningfully to the response and that they are held to account for delivery on those commitments.”
In other words, the United Nations would be given unprecedented authority over the public and private sectors of huge swaths of the world, all in the name of battling a yet unknown crisis.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/04/the-u-n-is-planning-to-seize-global-emergency-powers-with-bidens-support/
Stuff has been going splody around here since yesterday afternoon. I imagine it sounds a lot like Mr. Possum’s neighborhood on a weekday.
Aside from that, a friend sent me a story about the renaming of Fort Pickett in VA.
Sound of Freedom gets a very good review from Variety. I didn’t know Glen Beck was one of the big financial backers. It was actually finished in 2018 but Disney shelved it and it appears Beck fronted the money to buy it back.
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/sound-of-freedom-review-jim-caviezel-1235660035/amp/
“Sound of Freedom” as a compelling movie that shines an authentic light on one of the crucial criminal horrors of our time, one that Hollywood has mostly shied away from
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This is a genre thriller. That said, it’s an urgent and honest one, and Caviezel gives his most committed performance since “The Passion of the Christ.” He’s seasoned now, with the smoldering aura of a more sensitive Clint Eastwood. He knows how to underplay the rage and despair, and how to make the drama of going undercover into something lifesize. [also he’s drop dead gorgeous]
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The director, Alejandro Monteverde, stages this sequence without hyping the danger. It’s not a glorified “Rambo” movie or a Netflix thriller pretending to be serious. When the deliverance we’ve been seeking arrives,
All the performances are superb
It’s a temporary injunction but better than nothing
Judge orders Biden to stop censoring Real Americans
“In this case, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech, such as:
“(1) suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election;
“(2) suppressing speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin;
“(3) suppressing speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns;
“(4) suppressing speech about the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccines;
“(5) suppressing speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential election;
“(6) suppressing speech about the security of voting by mail;
“(7) suppressing parody content about Defendants;
“(8) suppressing negative posts about the economy;
“and (9) suppressing negative posts about President Biden.”
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He [Judge Doughty] said, “During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/judge-orders-biden-to-stop-censoring
This is great…..
Donning a T-shirt with the message “Say NO to child support #ProChoiceMen,” pro-life advocate AJ Hurley trolled the Women’s March on Saturday in Washington, D.C. to expose abortion activists’ hypocrisy.
Hurley posed as a male abortion activist at the march, using a megaphone to shout phrases like “Your body, your problem!” and “Keep your womb off my wallet” at the crowd. His stunt was part of Live Action’s new satirical video series #ProChoiceMen.
https://www.lifenews.com/2023/06/30/watch-pro-life-man-hilariously-trolls-womens-march-im-not-paying-for-child-support-your-body-your-problem/
Altho I’m not sure he’s not providing them with ammo, as in “Well, he won’t take any financial responsibility so get rid of it”
Keep in mind Bongino was Secret Service assigned to the WH. He knows the drill
There’s absolutely ZERO chance anyone other than a family member brought that cocaine inside the White House complex. No chance that would make it past the mag/security checkpoints. Family bypasses those.
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1676699214544355334
Quick question for the firearms experts here.
Why do surgeons and medical examiners on TV crime shows and movies always dig out bullets from bodies using metal instruments?
Or is that something I should not concern myself with?
eaglesoars wrote:
“Honest, Dad! I was just holding it for a friend!”
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Did you see that video of Hunter on the WH balcony w/the family? God was he wired. Jump out of his skin wired and drenched in sweat
I absolutely despise Laura Loomer
Wow. Did I or did I not call this?
I told you she was using her previous cancer as a cheap way to get sympathy votes and pander now that her husband is tanking in the polls.
I called it months ago.
I’m starting to see a pattern. And that pattern is that I AM RIGHT.
A LOT!
[Casey DeSantis breast cancer]
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1677117610595348481
I didn’t know QAnon had a leader
QAnon leader Michael Protzman dies from horror injuries in dirt bike crash aged 60… but followers of his JFK-obsessed conspiracy cult claim he’s still ALIVE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12272915/QAnon-leader-JFK-obsessed-cult-dies-motocross-accident-followers-believe-alive.html
This is my congressman and I adore him
Congressman on intelligence committee says aliens ‘have the technology to turn humans into charcoal briquettes’ and Government has been covering up UFO existence since 1890
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12271763/Congressman-intelligence-committee-says-UFOs-defy-physics-know-fly-underwater.html
@ eaglesoars:
wasnt the point of Q is a non-leadered blob of rolling information?
@ eaglesoars:
i’m not buying the crashing nonsense of ufos.
unless douglas adams was right in his theory ’bout that.
new thread
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2023/07/06/its-headingly-cricket-grounds-match-3-of-the-ashes-2023-open/
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, which is why I don’t get it.
I have no idea who Douglas Adams is/was
@ eaglesoars:
He wrote “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” and “Goodbye and Thanks For All the Fish”. He wrote in one of the books that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42. 42 is the ASCII code for *, IIRC