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If you're not in the U.S., what's up in your part of the world?
The question is, are the guys who are launching missiles really in the cities?
Ian wrote: "The question is, are the guys who are launching missiles really in the cities?"Maybe it doesn't really matter.
Depends on whether you want to get the guys launching missiles
If they're storing their munitions in a town where the USA is already drone striking folk to keep the House of Saud pumping LSC...
Germany grinds to a standstill as farmers protest the war against them.REF: https://notrickszone.com/2024/01/09/w...
REF: https://europeanconservative.com/arti...
REF: https://www.reuters.com/business/auto...
Nothing like cutting the use of diesel to fight climate change, while forgetting that you can't grow food on a modern farm without diesel. As you all starve, you at lest know yu have done something for climate change, not that it will make any difference to the climate
Ian wrote: "Nothing like cutting the use of diesel to fight climate change, while forgetting that you can't grow food on a modern farm without diesel. As you all starve, you at lest know yu have done something..."Indeed, Ian. Unfortunately, Ideology trumps reason for some people.
Let them get hungry, then we shall see.
Why do German governments keep making tyrannical mandates based on pseudoscientific philosophies?
One possibility now is the green influence. The greens seem to lose peerspective. Here, in Welligton the green-infuenced City Council seems to prefer to invest money in cycle ways, etc rather than fix the rapidly decaying water reticulation.
Ian wrote: "The greens seem to lose peerspective. ..."No one can lose what they don't have in the first place.
J. wrote: "Why do German governments keep making tyrannical mandates based on pseudoscientific philosophies?"I'd ask that question of the EU, and their owners (WEF, etc...)
Tyranny is a European staple, it keeps happening.
Yeah, but the Germans have a specific history.
Papaphilly wrote: "Let them get hungry, then we shall see."Eat the rich....
REF: Youtube: LOTR < 2 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY4V3...
Leaving aside Hitler, Germany as not been much different from other European countries, other than the small ones that had no hope of being anything but passive because of their size.
J. wrote: "Yeah, but the Germans have a specific history."Indeed.
It's never wise to attack a state armed with nuclear weapons.Perhaps.
[1] Soon to be beheaded, rogue Iranian commander goes off script.
[2] Third party false flag - who benefits from Iran being distracted by a conflict with Pakistan, and or, chaos in general.
[3] Pakistani false flag/fake news without a visible motive.
[4] A genuine Iranian strike.
[5] Something else?
Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into Iran, with reports of nine killedhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-6...
J. wrote: "Pakistan launches retaliatory strikes into Iran, with reports of nine killedhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-6..."
Indeed. Chaos rises....
Josef Fritzl 'is spotted having coffee in local cafe as he prepares to be released from prison where he was serving life sentence for incest'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...
He kept his own daughter locked up in his basement as his sex slave for 24 years. He has only served about 15 years of his life sentence. HE HAS LITERALLY SPENT LESS TIME IN PRISON THAN SHE DID AS HIS SEX SLAVE!!!!
Sometimes, the only fair parole is feet first through a wood chipper.
J. wrote: "Josef Fritzl 'is spotted having coffee in local cafe as he prepares to be released from prison where he was serving life sentence for incest'https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti......"
The last suggestion reminds me of what the Russians did to the SS guards at a concentration camp they liberated, which also made timber from logs. The SS men were cut into small pieces from feet up, with the most junior first, the rest watching.
Graeme wrote: "@J, Soros DA?"European justice.
J. wrote: "In Austria?"Whoops.... mea culpa...
Ian wrote: "The last suggestion reminds me of what the Russians did to the SS guards at a concentration camp they liberated, which also made timber from logs. The SS men were cut into small pieces from feet up, with the most junior first, the rest watching..."Hard core karma.
Graeme wrote: "#Papa... see above mea culpa..."8^)
At the risk of reopening the Great Emu War discussion and its apparent psychic wounds upon some, it turns out that Neil the Seal has a YouTube channel.https://youtube.com/@NeilThesealfan?s...
If you put an emu in a cage match with a velociraptor - it's the emu that comes out the other side...
Graeme wrote: "If you put an emu in a cage match with a velociraptor - it's the emu that comes out the other side..."Proof in the pudding is the taste. We have Emus and not velociraptors....8^)
You think an emu could survive an asteroid strike?
I am just...Let's start with velociraptors. The movie was wrong. They weren't that big, They weren't in North America or Australia. And they went extinct 5-10 million years before the KT boundary event.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-d...
The raptor from the movies would probably be closer to deinonychus.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-d...
Against a velociraptor, an emu would probably just run away. The velociraptor wouldn't be able to keep up. A deinonychus would kill an emu, assuming it was hungry, could get into a good ambush position, and there wasn't something easier around.
Of course, the Australian military faced neither of those maniraptorans. Australia was beaten by the emu. A flight less and herbivorous bird with a brain smaller than its eyeballs. This is especially hilarious when one considers that the Australian military couldn't beat emus with rifles and artillery. But the Australian aborigines managed to beat megalania with sticks and fire.
https://australian.museum/learn/austr...
It is estimated that a velociraptor could run at 40 mph. An emu might be in trouble. There were, of course, a number of other raptors, although I am not sure any were in Oz.As for the Australian military, they faced a problem the aboriginals did not have - environmental law. I am reasonably confident no Australian commander would want to face the consequences of wiping out emus.
Except the Australian military was told to wipe them out by the Australian government.That 40 mph is projected sprint speed. Emus can maintain >30 mph for long distances. The size and speed differences are similar to the differences between a bobcat and a whitetail deer. Bobcats can successfully ambush whitetails about 10% of the time. But most of the time they don't bother because of lack of cover and difficulties arising from the weight difference.
Australian Mesozoic paleontology is scant on the ground right now, with many Aussie dinosaur skeletal specimens currently considered nomen dubia.
It is believed the raptors hunted in packs and were ambush predators, so the long chase was not for them. The raptor's kill method is believed to be like that of a leopard - jump on, hang on with front arms and rake with the back feet. Success depends on being able to jump on. They appeared to be successful, at least some of the species did, but they would never have fed on emus.
That's because Emus are too tough.
Emu flocks are ruled by Alpha Emu's that are 30% heavier then normal, and it's all muscle, bone and brain tissue. These super-smart Emu's rule their flocks with an absolute streak of tyrannical viciousness that Pol Pot would be proud of. They often swarm their flocks with other Alpha's to take out prize targets.The town of upper Congupna west (popn 26 souls) was turned into a ghost town overnight during the summer of 1936, after an attack by swarming emus.
The only surviving witness, a hobo who found shelter from the swarm within a corrugated iron water tank reported to the local papers, "They attacked like demons. Screeching. Cawing. Calling out hoarse barks while tearing the townsfolk to pieces. I just hid in a tank of water up on stilts near the railway line and prayed to the almighty. I must've had his blessing as the whole giant flock passed me by..."
All true....
That sounds like a bad horror movie. Night of the Evil Emus.
There is a low budget Australian movie.The Emu War
https://youtu.be/-QAyieTpLuA?si=a5LfF...
Wasn't that last little bit of the trailer from Waltzing Matilda?
Wishing HRH a speedy recovery, both because I genuinely wish him well and also because I can't face the never-ending news coverage about this.
In other news, Liz Truss, the PM whose tenure was shorter than the life of a lettuce, launches Popcons:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
Popular conservatism, it's enough to make one's mouth water, except it has been launched by an imbecillic fraud.
When Liz became PM, she made a big song and dance of not having any white males in senior Cabinet positions - fair enough if she was picking the best candidates for the job, but her record in office suggests otherwise.
She also wanted to give tax breaks to the rich, at the expense of everybody else's pension schemes and the economy as a whole.
And this is our new populist pin up? Lol.
When I enviously look at some of the populist leaders on the European mainland, I'm left wondering what us Brits have done to deserve this?
In other news, Liz Truss, the PM whose tenure was shorter than the life of a lettuce, launches Popcons:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
Popular conservatism, it's enough to make one's mouth water, except it has been launched by an imbecillic fraud.
When Liz became PM, she made a big song and dance of not having any white males in senior Cabinet positions - fair enough if she was picking the best candidates for the job, but her record in office suggests otherwise.
She also wanted to give tax breaks to the rich, at the expense of everybody else's pension schemes and the economy as a whole.
And this is our new populist pin up? Lol.
When I enviously look at some of the populist leaders on the European mainland, I'm left wondering what us Brits have done to deserve this?
Beau wrote: "When I enviously look at some of the populist leaders on the European mainland, I'm left wondering what us Brits have done to deserve this?..."That's a good question.
Don't knock her cabinet. Do you have any idea how tough it is to build a competent governing body with no white males in a country that is 82% white and a species that is half male? That woman was working her butt off so hard the mere thought of all that work made an immortal monarch drop dead.
Tbf, you'd struggle to form a decent Cabinet out of the current lot, even without tying yourself up in a DEI straight jacket.
Rory Stewart is by no means politically aligned with me but he's always struck me as a decent bloke. Here is how Truss reacted to news of his father's death:
https://www.tatler.com/article/rory-s...
I sometimes wonder if Truss is human or if she's one of those lizard creatures that David Icke warned us about.
I'm really disillusioned with our politicians at the mo. I try to look for the best in them but just can't find it.
Still, with Trump, Kennedy, and some exciting European leaders/ opposition leaders all knocking about, perhaps we'll be saved from impending doom?
Rory Stewart is by no means politically aligned with me but he's always struck me as a decent bloke. Here is how Truss reacted to news of his father's death:
https://www.tatler.com/article/rory-s...
I sometimes wonder if Truss is human or if she's one of those lizard creatures that David Icke warned us about.
I'm really disillusioned with our politicians at the mo. I try to look for the best in them but just can't find it.
Still, with Trump, Kennedy, and some exciting European leaders/ opposition leaders all knocking about, perhaps we'll be saved from impending doom?
I’ve dedicated a couple of hours to farmers’ protests gaining momentum across Europe, by being stuck on the highway blocked by protestors in Spain. They were clapping their hands when they’d finally let us through. Not sure, I’d deserved their admiration :)
I'd like to know more about that. What were they protesting, and why were they clapping their hands?
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Another organization that needs to be taught peace and love.
Glad that Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand and South Korea are onboard if necessary