Arky, I agree with (probably) everything you’ve posted this afternoon.
Deindustrialisation? It was probably underway before, but I believe it gained momentum from the early ’70s when KMart and Target arrived in our towns with all their discounted products.
Clothing, particularly, was very expensive prior to cheap Chinese imports.That’s why most women had knitted or sewed all of their childrens’ – and their own – clothes. (How many women (or men) could make a dress, or knit a jumper now? How many even have a sewing machine?)
Cheap utensils, electrical goods, linen… everything. It was enormously attractive to stay-at-home mums with very limited money. Some, including Best Man and me, heard alarm bells, particularly when Aussie ‘icons’ like Bonds went to China. And before much longer, we were dependent on China for everything. Even some medicines food stuffs, for goodness sake!
Lately, much of the cheap produce is coming from India, South Korea and Bangladesh which, I read, is affecting China’s economy. But we will never return to Aussie made because no-one is prepared to pay for quality, nor can employers afford the prices demanded by ethical production.
Great string of posts, Arky – I’ve been doing similar, including decades of Letters to Editors and two election campaigns.
But the masses are so brainwashed that I’m the conspiracy theorist…
I would settle for all vaccine test data and analysis good and bad be published and available. All health advice to government should be published and available as well
After winning Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic sang with artist Sasa Kovacevic during a celebratory dinner in a Belgrade-located restaurant. Djokovic had his wife Jelena and his friends at the same table alongside the Wimbledon trophy.
Kovacevic posted a video on social media showing the two Serbians singing Sting’s famous song Englishman in New York. At the end of the song, Novak and Sasa can be heard modifying the famous line “I’m an Englishman in New York” by replacing “Englishman” with “Serbian”
Huge news if true, there will be a joint Trump / DeSantis ticket in 2024.
I’m surprised that news like that has leaked. DeSantis is up for reelection this year, and he would want to win that before announcing any plans for 2024.
Trump is another to hang from a lamp post. He could come out and admit he was wrong with the jabs, but he will not.
I hope his 757 crashes with him in it. Do not make excuses for him.
Get the jab, get the jab get the jab get the jab the jab jab jab. That f8cking **** invited a JJ ( Jab producer ) on stage. He has yet to apologize for people getting injected with that poison.
Trump, can go get f*cked. He hasn’t the balls to admit he was played and wrong….he still hasn’t admitted it. Mr “warp-speed” does not have the balls to fess up.
Arky, you mention the sexual revolution, a phenomenon which, in our times, first came to prominence along with motion pictures, many of which, although lacking audible dialogue, had an abundance of nudity and innuendo.
Then came the seventies, and television, and readily available porn of the Debbie Does Dallas variety. Suddenly, couples realised that he can’t go all night blazing with animal passion… and neither can she. ‘I want some of that!’ was the shallow reaction, causing the divorce rate to rocket and introducing the era of live-in, no marriage (and temporary) love.
People saw how the TV other half (supposedly) live, with multi-story mansions, dishwashers and live-in maids. And so the ‘I wanna’ mindset continued, prompting a buying frenzy of unnecessary and disposable crap: this has flourished through to today.
The greatest influencer in the degradation of our civilisation is the rejection of Christianity. When I was a girl, the church was the hub of the community, the anchorpoint for young and old. As people increasingly desert the faith, so do they lose that security. I don’t need to spell out the results of this.
Tim says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:43 pm
All vaccines need to be questioned.
I would settle for all vaccine test data and analysis good and bad be published and available. All health advice to government should be published and available as well
You should see whats coming down the pipeline. mRNA, CRISPR-CAS, iPSCs, lipidnano, ZFNs, TALENs. Traditional vaccines are on the way out as they work toward somatic changes.
The chick that helped to bring CRISPR to the mainstream, Doudna, is getting a fair whack of money from DARPA to fund her lab.
I would settle for all vaccine test data and analysis good and bad be published and available. All health advice to government should be published and available as well
Yep. Id almost settle for the risk tables of specific outcomes rather that the vanilla may cause diarrhoea/constipation, somnolence/hyperactivity etc etc
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The greatest influencer in the degradation of our civilisation is the rejection of Christianity. When I was a girl, the church was the hub of the community, the anchorpoint for young and old. As people increasingly desert the faith, so do they lose that security. I don’t need to spell out the results of this.
That is at the core of the problems in the Western world, today. Those living in the west have forgotten their roots. They worship the gold bull-calf, instead.
In seeking the material, they have rejected the spiritual. They don’t need God or the church. There are many tempting “progressive” alternatives to the un-modern, un-woke teachings of Christianity.
When these unproven, experimental gene-therapy drugs first came out, they were identified as mRNA.
First thing I did was chase up info on mRNA “vaccines” – what stood out was the fact that for the last 10 – 20 years of development, they had not got over the problem of all the test animals dying when exposed to a “wild” virus.
The ones behind it need the death penalty (crucifixion) not gaol, and all them and their families’ assets consfiscated.
I have a grandson (almost 21) with a boy who turned one today – granson has been having bad chest pains – I have taken him to the ER Hospital twice.
I have a granddaughter (23) who has a 10 week old daughter. I have taken the granddaughter to the ER 3 times now with chest pains, headaches etc.
Both the grandson & granddaughter got the clotshots last year.
What shits me is that, although these are symptoms of the clotshots, there is no admission by the health departments that the “vaccines” can cause these problems so the real causes are never investigated or treated.
There will come a time when justice will be delivered to the medical & political/governmental scum.
All health advice to government should be published and available as well
I’d like the full details of the contracts our governments signed to purchase these “vaccines” and full audit of all money trails from BigPharma to BigGov and any other assorted hangers-on.
prompting a buying frenzy of unnecessary and disposable crap: this has flourished through to today.
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This is the crux of something I have been trying to think of a way to express for a while.
When the dismal economists try to convince us that we have had never- ending increases in the standard of living.
I wonder what world they live in, it isn’t the same one I do.
Getting snowed under in cheap, shitty imported crap and endless forms of stupid and meaningless “entertainment” isn’t my idea of an increase in living standards.
That they can only see the dollar component, at the same time as the dollar becomes less and less of a measure of value, indicates their obtuseness.
May I say I think it is in part a deliberate obtuseness, because they think themselves beneficiaries of these trends.
Like the fictitious university degrees, someone who thinks the country is better educated because we have shoved en masse the bulk of the youth through a degraded tertiary system, is the same stupidity as those pointing to the temporary possession of a plethora of manufactured crap we no longer have the capacity to produce ourselves as an indication of living standards.
Rented or mortgaged to the eyeballs homes full of stuff destined in the near future for landfill isn’t any sort of standard, no matter its contribution to lubricating the export of more dirt to communists.
That all the best cuts of meat and best seafood delicacies, the true bounty of this land, ends up flown on ice to the CCP elite while they send us their rancid pork is the true indication of the standard engineered for us.
I’m amazed my getting a flu shot has inspired such a bizarre diatribe.
I got around to a flu shot today because my daughter wanted me to get it.
Both my two year old grandchildren have already had theirs, and got them last year as one year olds too. After my daughter’s friend’s two year old spent five days in ICU with the flu they judge it prudent.
They’ve also gotten all the other vaccinations on the list for young children (not covid though).
In the meantime I’m very confident you wont be celebrating my vaccinations related death anytime soon.
kaysee says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:58 pm
They flee from their homelands and claim refuge in the West. But they have no respect for those who have taken them in and sheltered them.
That is not how they see it. Hajj means to travel or migrate – the original muz spread out all over the Middle East, hence the tribal names. It is part of the fundamental (salafist) belief to spread Islam. Of interest “Mehajer” , remember him?, means a person who travels for this religious purpose.
We are being taken for grinning idiots.
They will never convert or assimilate so they must change the society. The Chinese, Israelis and Russians know.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that it doesn’t matter where President Biden contracted COVID-19, and that the most important thing is that he was fully vaccinated and double boosted.
Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday morning and is experiencing mild symptoms, including a runny nose, occasional dry cough and fatigue, the White House said.
Reporters asked Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, during a press briefing where Biden may have caught the virus. After Jha said he didn’t know, Jean-Pierre interjected to say it’s not important.
“Look, I don’t think that that matters, right? I think what matters is we prepared for this moment,” she said.
I note a stupid pin cushion bitch@Dovers just got another flu shot. Her faith in Big Parma is now legendary.
Her immune system is now at the behest of wackos!
No grieving from me when she carks it. She’s a f*cking idiot. Hopefully her kids will smack some sense into her.
You can stick the entire vaccine regiment up your arse!
Mr or Mrs X: Vaccines are essential!
Me: Wake up you f8cking idiots!
But, but but but but but but, they have our health at the forefront. F8ckwits!
Billy Gates loves you.
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All vaccines need to be questioned.
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Arky, I agree with (probably) everything you’ve posted this afternoon.
Deindustrialisation? It was probably underway before, but I believe it gained momentum from the early ’70s when KMart and Target arrived in our towns with all their discounted products.
Clothing, particularly, was very expensive prior to cheap Chinese imports.That’s why most women had knitted or sewed all of their childrens’ – and their own – clothes. (How many women (or men) could make a dress, or knit a jumper now? How many even have a sewing machine?)
Cheap utensils, electrical goods, linen… everything. It was enormously attractive to stay-at-home mums with very limited money. Some, including Best Man and me, heard alarm bells, particularly when Aussie ‘icons’ like Bonds went to China. And before much longer, we were dependent on China for everything. Even some medicines food stuffs, for goodness sake!
Lately, much of the cheap produce is coming from India, South Korea and Bangladesh which, I read, is affecting China’s economy. But we will never return to Aussie made because no-one is prepared to pay for quality, nor can employers afford the prices demanded by ethical production.
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Josh Friedeggburger gets to bankrupt Goldman Sachs? Hope so.
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Great string of posts, Arky – I’ve been doing similar, including decades of Letters to Editors and two election campaigns.
But the masses are so brainwashed that I’m the conspiracy theorist…
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Pharma…oops.
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Steve trickler says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:08 pm
All vaccines need to be questioned.
Due to a lack of trust in BigPharma-BigGov Coalition, I will not, in future, get any vaccines.
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I would settle for all vaccine test data and analysis good and bad be published and available. All health advice to government should be published and available as well
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Trump is a Big Pharma guy.
Whereas Ron…
Ron DeSantis – Big Pharma They Have A Hammerlock Over The Medical Establishment
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Novak Djokovic is ruled out of the US open. The US Open has NO vaccination requirement… but it is the US government rules … like Oz.
If he is thinking of another career, it could be as a back-up singer. ^‿^
Novak Djokovic sings “a Serbian to New York”
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That race/ideology/religion/culture is not compatible with Western civilization and the values that go with it.
They flee from their homelands and claim refuge in the West. But they have no respect for those who have taken them in and sheltered them.
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Fat Tony says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:41 pm
G’day. This is not directed at you.
Anyone suggesting these wankers are promoting good health, name them! Do It! The entire industry is joke. Scum of the Earth.
But, but but but but but but, Big Pharma suggest otherwise.
Give us names to look up. Go on, do it!
A lot of people need to hang.
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I’m surprised that news like that has leaked. DeSantis is up for reelection this year, and he would want to win that before announcing any plans for 2024.
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mh says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:44 pm
Trump is another to hang from a lamp post. He could come out and admit he was wrong with the jabs, but he will not.
I hope his 757 crashes with him in it. Do not make excuses for him.
Get the jab, get the jab get the jab get the jab the jab jab jab. That f8cking **** invited a JJ ( Jab producer ) on stage. He has yet to apologize for people getting injected with that poison.
Trump, can go get f*cked. He hasn’t the balls to admit he was played and wrong….he still hasn’t admitted it. Mr “warp-speed” does not have the balls to fess up.
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I ain’t finished yet…
Arky, you mention the sexual revolution, a phenomenon which, in our times, first came to prominence along with motion pictures, many of which, although lacking audible dialogue, had an abundance of nudity and innuendo.
Then came the seventies, and television, and readily available porn of the Debbie Does Dallas variety. Suddenly, couples realised that he can’t go all night blazing with animal passion… and neither can she. ‘I want some of that!’ was the shallow reaction, causing the divorce rate to rocket and introducing the era of live-in, no marriage (and temporary) love.
People saw how the TV other half (supposedly) live, with multi-story mansions, dishwashers and live-in maids. And so the ‘I wanna’ mindset continued, prompting a buying frenzy of unnecessary and disposable crap: this has flourished through to today.
The greatest influencer in the degradation of our civilisation is the rejection of Christianity. When I was a girl, the church was the hub of the community, the anchorpoint for young and old. As people increasingly desert the faith, so do they lose that security. I don’t need to spell out the results of this.
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Tim says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:43 pm
All vaccines need to be questioned.
I would settle for all vaccine test data and analysis good and bad be published and available. All health advice to government should be published and available as well
Agreed.
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You should see whats coming down the pipeline. mRNA, CRISPR-CAS, iPSCs, lipidnano, ZFNs, TALENs. Traditional vaccines are on the way out as they work toward somatic changes.
The chick that helped to bring CRISPR to the mainstream, Doudna, is getting a fair whack of money from DARPA to fund her lab.
Yep. Id almost settle for the risk tables of specific outcomes rather that the vanilla may cause diarrhoea/constipation, somnolence/hyperactivity etc etc
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But Greg Hunt thought it ok?
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That is at the core of the problems in the Western world, today. Those living in the west have forgotten their roots. They worship the gold bull-calf, instead.
In seeking the material, they have rejected the spiritual. They don’t need God or the church. There are many tempting “progressive” alternatives to the un-modern, un-woke teachings of Christianity.
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Steve trickler says:
July 21, 2022 at 7:09 pm
When these unproven, experimental gene-therapy drugs first came out, they were identified as mRNA.
First thing I did was chase up info on mRNA “vaccines” – what stood out was the fact that for the last 10 – 20 years of development, they had not got over the problem of all the test animals dying when exposed to a “wild” virus.
The ones behind it need the death penalty (crucifixion) not gaol, and all them and their families’ assets consfiscated.
I have a grandson (almost 21) with a boy who turned one today – granson has been having bad chest pains – I have taken him to the ER Hospital twice.
I have a granddaughter (23) who has a 10 week old daughter. I have taken the granddaughter to the ER 3 times now with chest pains, headaches etc.
Both the grandson & granddaughter got the clotshots last year.
What shits me is that, although these are symptoms of the clotshots, there is no admission by the health departments that the “vaccines” can cause these problems so the real causes are never investigated or treated.
There will come a time when justice will be delivered to the medical & political/governmental scum.
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All health advice to government should be published and available as well
I’d like the full details of the contracts our governments signed to purchase these “vaccines” and full audit of all money trails from BigPharma to BigGov and any other assorted hangers-on.
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Delta.
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This is the crux of something I have been trying to think of a way to express for a while.
When the dismal economists try to convince us that we have had never- ending increases in the standard of living.
I wonder what world they live in, it isn’t the same one I do.
Getting snowed under in cheap, shitty imported crap and endless forms of stupid and meaningless “entertainment” isn’t my idea of an increase in living standards.
That they can only see the dollar component, at the same time as the dollar becomes less and less of a measure of value, indicates their obtuseness.
May I say I think it is in part a deliberate obtuseness, because they think themselves beneficiaries of these trends.
Like the fictitious university degrees, someone who thinks the country is better educated because we have shoved en masse the bulk of the youth through a degraded tertiary system, is the same stupidity as those pointing to the temporary possession of a plethora of manufactured crap we no longer have the capacity to produce ourselves as an indication of living standards.
Rented or mortgaged to the eyeballs homes full of stuff destined in the near future for landfill isn’t any sort of standard, no matter its contribution to lubricating the export of more dirt to communists.
That all the best cuts of meat and best seafood delicacies, the true bounty of this land, ends up flown on ice to the CCP elite while they send us their rancid pork is the true indication of the standard engineered for us.
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Greg Hunt was doing what his WEF boss told him to do.
It will help him with his next job in the UN or WHO or WEF.
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I remember being back at the roller rink in Carnarvon in 1983 prior to my parents divorce.
I also remember Wilson Tuckey telling us to GET OUT THE POOL! at the back of the Port Hotel.
Music takes you places.
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There are so many cases of adverse reactions and still the truth is being hidden from the public.
We would also be part of the ignorant masses if we had not been fortunate enough to have access to such blogs, sharing of info and links to the facts.
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All great points, Arky. And don’t despair, there are countless grounded people who think as you do.
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Dilbert and Dennis
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For the record, Mister Tuckey was a good bloke. We went back and kept swimming in his hotel pool.
True story.
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A bloke walking his dog.
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I’m amazed my getting a flu shot has inspired such a bizarre diatribe.
I got around to a flu shot today because my daughter wanted me to get it.
Both my two year old grandchildren have already had theirs, and got them last year as one year olds too. After my daughter’s friend’s two year old spent five days in ICU with the flu they judge it prudent.
They’ve also gotten all the other vaccinations on the list for young children (not covid though).
In the meantime I’m very confident you wont be celebrating my vaccinations related death anytime soon.
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rosie says:
July 21, 2022 at 10:14 pm
I’m amazed my getting a flu shot has inspired such a bizarre diatribe.
What bizarre diatribe & where?
To quote a famous singer-song writer: DILLIGAF ??
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This is what happens when people come to Adam’s Cat and can’t let the other one go.
Anyone here who has issues with individuals over at Dover’s, SORT IT OUT AT DOVER’S.
Stop acting like bitches.
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kaysee says:
July 21, 2022 at 6:58 pm
They flee from their homelands and claim refuge in the West. But they have no respect for those who have taken them in and sheltered them.
That is not how they see it. Hajj means to travel or migrate – the original muz spread out all over the Middle East, hence the tribal names. It is part of the fundamental (salafist) belief to spread Islam. Of interest “Mehajer” , remember him?, means a person who travels for this religious purpose.
We are being taken for grinning idiots.
They will never convert or assimilate so they must change the society. The Chinese, Israelis and Russians know.
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A lot of good people @dovers.
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Good fun.
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Stumbled across this one.
The interesting thing here is how pissed off Karl is with the RBA:
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Republican writes to House Agriculture Committee to call on Bill Gates to testify regarding his farming interests
Read letter here
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Could have picked it up in Israel last week
Biden tried to shake an invisible man’s hand
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Sleep well ladies and gents!
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Jim Rogers: Worst bear market in his lifetime will follow one last market rally
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