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Two divisions of the Iraqi army bugged out of Mosul when a modest number of ISIS guys in technicals arrived.
This is the exact same issue. The Iraqi army guys were Sunnis because the Iraqi government sent the Sunni divisions to Sunni areas so that the locals wouldn’t shoot at them. So when a more observant bunch of Sunnis turned up the army kiddies took off rather than fight a more virtuous bunch.
Now the Afghan army guys, who’re Sunni, are bugging out rather than shoot at the more virtuous Taliban. Of course the Taliban regard Afghan army kiddies as infidels since they are in the Afghan Army therefore cannot possibly be muslims. It’s the whole “no true Scotsman” thing on steroids.
Sometimes a strongman dictator can get around this issue. Sisi has in Egypt, and Hussein in Jordan. But Sisi has a very Westernized officer class and has been purging the Salafis and MB from the Egyptian Army, and Jordan has a tribal basis for the Hashemites to keep control of the Palis, whom they hate. Tribalism can therefore offset the virtue equation sometimes.
But the West wanted a democracy in Afghanistan, not a tribal regime and a dictator. Sigh.
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crass speculation from the usual gentlemen.
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I’ll bet it filled the “ladies pages” in the day, hypocrite.
Notaflu would’ve only given such salacious articles a “casual glance”, no doubt.
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Ernie Sigley & Denise Drysdale – Hey Paula (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvhZVuPAUNw
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I believe he has a legal background
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Mr “could of”?
Doubtful.
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Pompeo responds to the dead zombie’s attempt to blame Trump for the debacle of afghanistan. Pompeo makes the obvious point that when Trump made a deal there were definite carrots and sticks as Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani found out when he was smeared on a back road in down-town shitholesville. With biden there is fuck all threat as the russkies, chunks, iranians and now the taliban bastards know:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/15/pompeo-biden-afghanistan-blame-504713
And I repeat the DHS has issued a new terrorism warning.
Maybe it’ll take everyone’s minds off the chunk virus.
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The latest totalitarianism from St Anastacia of Olympia:
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a huge change to the NSW border.
From Friday, any Queensland worker who enters NSW for an essential service will have to have received at least one jab.
Any Queenslander who enters NSW won’t be able to re-enter the state by road and will have to quarantine for 14 days in government accommodation after arriving by air.
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Good morning, Melbourne!
‘Victoria imposes strict 9-5 curfew’
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I’ll post this on both sites as it needs as much publicity as possible. Physical real property CTs as proof of ownership will cease at the end of October. It will be a debacle as the article explains; and note the smug reasons given by the relevant stooge/minister, Dominello, gives: to wit, people are implicitly too stupid to handles the CTs.
https://lsj.com.au/articles/what-will-the-abolition-of-physical-cts-mean-for-certificates-held-as-security/
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Dummies Guide to Afghanistan (illustrated) .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/HKHCRRM
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Often hear mention of the Furniture Shop .. soooooo a new header banner LOL!
https://ibb.co/Jqc608q
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Indolent says:
August 16, 2021 at 8:42 am
Has there ever been bigger stooges for global corporates than Antifa?
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They are the black shirts, the storm troopers of the new nascent fascist regime. Just look at their emblem. Nazism reborn.
Their emblem harks back to the German Communist Party pre WWII, international socialism versus national socialism. Not that it matters much, totalitarianism stinks regardless of it denomination.
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Grigory M says:
August 16, 2021 at 10:08 am
The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.
The former President let the Taliban back into power over the past two years, then decided to withdraw from Afghanistan by 9/11 this year. So, he owns it.
It was Biden who chose 9/11 as the final date. Your argument would have been stronger had you recognised that Trump wanted to be out by May 1, but the generals in the Pentagon dragged the chain. I suspect that Biden (or, at least his staff – he is non compos mentis most of the time) chose 9/11 as a final humiliation for the nation they are supposed to be governing.
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Roger
We are governed by idiots. It becomes clearer every day, alas.
Unfortunately, we are no longer being governed by our elected representatives, we are being ruled by a mob of fascists.
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Fraid to say Ernie and Ding Dong were before my time.
I know he was a son of Footscray, got a mention in ‘A Bunch of Ratbags’
I only remember her from Hey Hey.
You obviously spent a lot of time with the ‘ladies pages’ though
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‘Hey Paula’
Old people music.
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As soon as I asked “I wonder what stunt they’re going to pull while your all looking at Afghanistan” The Premiers go into overdrive.
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John H:
“If you want to see how much sport costs this country go to an ER on the weekends. Bodies everywhere damaged from sport.”
In 34 years of nursing, I’ve only seen two gunshot wounds in A & E. (outside of army.) One a suicide, the other a ricochet.
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Life goes on even with the restrictions imposed . Grand daughter has been looking for a house since before covid with granny helping out to buy something. First of all prices have gone up unbelievably over that period and every auction we attended the price was 2 to 3 hundred thousand over list price.
Thursday ,start of present lockdown agent rang her about house not on the market so she went with her mum , liked it and made an offer . She made a video so rest of family could see it and looks a good buy in a blue chip area . A house renovated in same area with only 1 bathroom no ensuite sold for well over 3 million on the weekend .
I have to do the legals to cover the money and also make a new will to as I said in case I got a new boyfriend haha as the say . But also to cover her if her partnership breaks up.
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told youse … base-camp of Mt Stupid
please mingle intensely at Woolies and Coles between 0900 and 1700
ya bunch of fucking mongs
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Rosie, you’re a fucking loon
when exactly is the correct time to ask if somebody who died just got vaccinated?
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mh says:
August 16, 2021 at 11:51 am
Good morning, Melbourne!
‘Victoria imposes strict 9-5 curfew’
It would be nice if all the cops chucked a sickie…just for one day. They better break ranks soon.
I envisage horrible stuff happening to them.
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That’s right mt
The only comments made about Ernie’s death after calli reported it were did he have sex with someone and a pathetic attempt to tie his death from Alzheimers to the vaccine.
I’m the one with a problem though.
I hope you aren’t leaving the house before 9am and are well tucked in at 5pm.
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Apropos of a shatterzz post yesterday on this thread..
I’ve also, somehow, managed to never wear a mask, register, QR code anywhere in locked-or-unlocked-down Sydney’s South-West and Inner-West.
Ever. Regardless of any applying Draconian diktats
Occasional “registering” on entry to Woollies was easily dealt with, providing 100% fictitious information, no verification ever requested.
Also, aside from hardly seeing them at all, I have yet to be stopped by police, while clearly not wearing the obligatory paraphenalia. This includes train stations, Westfields complexes and otherwise deserted main streets at peak periods.
Have others also had the same experience?
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I’m the one with a problem though.
Correct.
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You’ve got to be aware that they are pushing for a fight.
I believe the commos in power are upset they haven’t got one already.
There has got to be a display of crushing power to let the newly acquired slaves be in no doubt who is boss.
The problem is it has taken more tyranny than they thought.
This has never been done to any population anywhere in the world , in human history.
And now with state borders not able to be crossed without being a jabbed essential worker……….how much more do they have to do to get a bite?
How can they show you they can bring you to your knees if you are already there.
When this finally blows, Australia will be world news.
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Incidentally only a loon would attempt to link every death of natural causes to the vaccine.
And in loon world very single covid death is really a vaccine death, even if the person wasn’t vaccinated.
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other than your mouth ??
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Notafan is so sure his death was not from the jab.
She knows all…..
I asked if he died from the jab because it was not going to be reported that he died from it…of course.
And then in comes Notafan, with concrete proof he died of oldtimers.
He might have had oldtimers, but did he have the jab.
Notafan knows all, she heard it on the ABC.
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3 days into 7 day lockdown and Chief Poo Denter in the ACT has extended it to 2 September.
Insanity.
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you silly bint
somebody asked the question
and now here you are making a fucking drama outta the noise in your head
the fuck is wrong with you?
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All thanks to the millions of hysterical notafans and Karens out there.
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3 days into 7 day lockdown and Chief Poo Denter in the ACT has extended it to 2 September.
Insanity.
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Insanity is putting up with it.
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I missed it.
Where has Tom gone?
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Gulag Gladys stated yesterday that the elimination strategy wont be successful. Finally.
How about lockDan? Is he still a denier?
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Dan the man angry at those who drank beer outside of pubs without masks . Doing the same outside of coffee shops with coffee no problem however . Shutting more down and extending the lockdown , we have no choice we have no option he claims . He compares us to other countries with hospitals full didn’t mention that those patients are fully vaccinated .
No meeting in the park either because we have so many mystery cases according to Bretty boy . Unbelievable !!!
Of course BLM would probably get the ok to protest likewise Climate Chaange alarmists.
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Save a life … This clip depicts various families whose lives have changed because of the jab —
https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/share-video/
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Ah for the good old days of gentle humour:
The comic strip is set in the Western town of Conniption where Rick O’Shay is the deputy sheriff, since the town is too small to have a full sheriff. His best friend is gunslinger Hipshot Percussion. Other key characters include gambler Deuces Wilde, dance hall owner Gaye Abandon, physician Dr. Basil Metabolism (and his nurse, Ophelia Pulse), gunsmith and Civil War veteran Cap’n Ball, banker Mort Gage and a boy named Quyat Burp.
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https://newcatallaxy.blog/
I kept going to the Old New Cat site the dover started and it was never updated.
Had a proper look this morning and realised dover had to start again.
the link above is the New New Cat … I think.
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No meeting in the park either because we have so many mystery cases according to Bretty boy . Unbelievable !!!
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What does “the science” say about outdoor transmission?
Or are we just going by what feels right now?
One thing to look forward to – if there is ever a day of reckoning when these clowns are held accountable – preferably due to a class action – it is going to be so sweet!
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Mouse Utopia.
Bald glasses dude doesn’t quite seem to get it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7X-1V9nOs
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One of the other new Cat sites.
I’m having trouble keeping up.
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I originally put this on Dot’s guest post, but it’s worth sharing here.
Below is a link to an interesting article. The article is translated from the original Swedish into English and is a commentary about the recent leak of Pfizer’s contractual agreement with various nation states (which I suspect includes Australia) which are using the Pfizer vaccine. As always, take what is written with a grain of salt, but even then, what is written really does explain much of the irrationality of many of our State and Federal Governments’ decisions over the last year and a half.
https://juliacaesar.blog/2021/08/13/leaked-agreement-buyers-of-pfizers-vaccine-commit-themselves-to-breaking-the-law/
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With Palace Chook putting restrictions on Queensland tradies entering NSW, there are going to be a lot of unhappy plumbers, sparkies, brickies, concretors, steel fixers, tilers et al, given that there is a major project in train to build a new hospital outside Tweed Heads.
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MatrixTransform says:
August 16, 2021 at 12:43 pm
you silly bint
somebody asked the question
and now here you are making a fucking drama outta the noise in your head
the fuck is wrong with you?
VIBF – Vaccine Induced Brain Fog
https://www.ournewearthnews.com/2021/05/02/new-danger-on-the-roads-vaxxinated-are-exhibiting-zombie-like-behaviours-as-if-they-are-missing-whole-pieces-of-their-brains/
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The many new cat sites are killing each other.
Sort of like what new conservative parties do to each other.
Dilution is death.
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Thanks for that video gab, sent far and wide.
I’m sorry to say it, and I’m sort of embarrassed but I cried with anger and frustration.
I’m at wits end.
I only say this because I know there are many like me out there.
I’ve had enough of this shit.
If I knew a way to make it stop ……now it’s too late…………without bloodshed, and lots of it.
God help us.
Please get stuck in to Jacqui Lambie on twitter.
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Life is tough in Sydney. I was out walking and somebody on the other side of the road yelled at me that i was not wearing a mask. I told him i thought it was OK not to wear a mask outside. He told me i was wrong. So i went to the Police station and they did not know but said it was a good idea to wear a mask outside.
Also i mow the lawns of a local Church on Mondays and the Police said even though it was outdoors because it was not essential, mowing the church lawns was banned.
I think people had more freedoms under German rule during WW2
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Beethoven vs Justin Bieber@2:55.
60 Photos You Must See Once Before You Die!
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calli says:
August 16, 2021 at 10:58 am
Ahahaha! My comment about all the Cat’s kittens was reported and moderated!
Still trying to work out what was so offensive about a remark about the Old Cat’s litter of little kitties. So far it’s here, m0nty’s, Dover’s, Zipster, nilk and Arky.
Cattist!
Can you elaborate pls?
What’s it about?
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rickw:
“Their manufacturing strength is rooted in the UK government’s response to The Great Depression (cut government spending, cut taxes) which resulted in an unprecedented period of growth (and growth in manufacturing capacity) in the lead up to WWII.”
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Very good video.
Even better was the realisation that the war was won mainly because of the industrial economy produced by adopting appropriate (industrial) policy – reducing taxes and reducing the size of government.
If there is ONE thing history proves, time and time again, it is that Government is parasitic and grows without any effective inhibitions on cost to the communities it parasitises.
Our problem is that Government attracts only the ego driven and control freaks who see it as a tool of desire to remake society in their own image. Rudd was the prime example of this with his reams of documents at his side in Parliament.
The type needed – people who wish to remove the dead hand of government – are as scarce as rocking horse shit.
The command economy does not work and ends up destroying its host and impoverishing its citizenry.
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Neil,
it’s not about freedom.
it’s about thinking for yourself.
nobody is allowed to do that anymore
at least until The Pandemi-Death, or you’re hyper-inflated out of existence
which ever comes first
so anyway, if you feel original thought coming on, you’ll need to nip it in the bud before we all die.
in case of wrong-think, ring Rosie … I think she has a hot-line
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“ The many new cat sites are killing each other.”
At one of them it will be death by boredom
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“Biden decided to bring the troop withdrawal forward (by 11 days) to 31 August to avoid it coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre”
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Biden chose 9/11 in the first place, Grigory.
As a kind of symbol of America’s domination or something, to humiliate, or to “show Trump” who’s boss even.
With no plan for the withdrawal as it seems.
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Dob in a denier.
Know someone who has avoided the jab?
Phone the hotline now and tell us what you know.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
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Matrix
I also rang up ServiceNSW to find out if it was OK to mow the church lawns on Monday. After waiting for one hour on the phone i got to talk to somebody and they said as long as i social distance mowing the church lawns was fine. But the Police told me i could only leave home for a valid reason. And mowing the church lawn was not valid.
Should be perfectly safe. Nobody around and outdoors.
But i was shocked when out walking i was yelled at by somebody on the other side of the road for not wearing a mask. I still do not know if i need to wear a mask outside in Sydney but we will be turning each other in soon. Does not take long for society to crumble.
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Gab says:
August 16, 2021 at 12:56 pm
thanks, Gab. shocking stuff.
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Ruprecht says:
August 16, 2021 at 1:34 pm
but not here.😁
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‘Shitty choices’: Partygoers ‘not the victims’, says Andrews
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Victorians do make “shitty choices”, Dan.
That’s why you’re Premier.
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Notafan working overtime to convince herself taking an experimental cocktail of DNA altering drugs that we now know they blatantly lied about the effectiveness and longevity.
Sorry for your mistake nota. Look, I have a Nigerian prince friend who has a very interesting deal on pockets full of posies if you’d like to talk to him about a superior treatment that doesn’t turn your body into a covid-19 ‘spike protein’ producing factory and works just as well.
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AdamD’s “Report Comment” link must have been tapped by someone, I presume inadvertently, because the blue link disappeared and the word “moderated” came up in its place.
I assume this is to alert Cats to a flagged comment that has passed muster with the New Doom🧹(sweepings be upon him) through moderation.
The fact was that it was a completely innocuous comment on my part. But it shows that he’s now actively moderating the blog. At last.
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Winston @ 1:24
+1
great comment!
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can you get paid for that?
… like the good old rag-trade days.
piece-work?
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That’s the point. It’s a form of gaslighting and one of the features of Cardimoma’s leaflet on abusive relationships.
We are now in an abusive relationship with our government. That’s right. The government that spends millions on “help lines” and relationship counselling and domestic violence advertising. They are the abusers.
And their power is now absolute.
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I think there’s a technical term for it … we have collectively “Lost our Shit”
Min … back me up 🙂
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Australia can claim one gold medal, we lost our freedom before the Afghanis.
The Taliban will offer a consolation prize though to its citizens, they can go back to the Kabul Soccer Stadium for the weekly beheading of heretics and the stoning of adulterers.
Will Dan offer the same amusements for his vaccinated subjects? Will he allow the vaccinated true-believers to attend the MCG every weekend to watch the beheading of the unvaccinated, and the stoning of naysayers?
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Just a couple of things at the moment – I note that several regulars have now apparently left this site for (alleged) greener pastures. Very disappointing.
CL’s contributions were usually top drawer and poor ol’ Tom, who I did give a bit of curry over the weekend will be missed for his posting of the cartoons and his often pungent observations about the dire state of journalism.
Johanna – thanks for the kinds words the other day, I hadn’t seen them. Been holding off on the guest post as I’m not sure that we can accurately quantify the true cost of this insanity, especially given that the current round of schlockdowns are likely to persist for a while yet. There are basic indicators that could be cited that are beyond doubt and easily identified and I am currently looking at those.
We’ll see how it goes.
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The Lindbergh who took to the water
Jon Lindbergh
While American aviator Charles Lindbergh conquered the skies, his son, Jon, went in the other direction, exploring the oceans and underwater caverns.
He made the first successful cave dive in the US, demonstrated that humans could survive underwater for prolonged periods and helped to recover an American hydrogen bomb lost off the coast of Spain.
Lindbergh was still a student when in May 1953 he explored Bower Cave near Yosemite National Park and volunteered to dive into a submerged tunnel to see where it would lead.
Wearing a frogman’s rubber suit and fins, and breathing with an air tank, he made three trips underwater on different days. On the third he ventured about 45 metres through a dark passage before coming out in a previously unknown underwater chamber. Later, he emerged from the water soaked, having torn a hole in the seat of his frogman’s suit.
Lindbergh, whose only link on the dive was a rope, described with joy how stalactites never seen before by human eyes gleamed above the water, dripping from the limestone ceiling.
Beneath the surface was like being part of a new world. “You are almost like a fish and you see underwater surroundings with a different perspective that isn’t just like swimming or looking down into water,” he said. “You have a fish’s-eye view of things.”
In 1964 Lindbergh and Robert Stenuit, a Belgian underwater archaeologist, set a record by spending 49 hours at 131m during the “Man in Sea” experiment in the Bahamas. By breathing a mixture of helium and oxygen they were able to swim outside their rubber undersea “tent”, or decompression chamber, without any ill-effects, while in the quieter moments he sent telegrams to his children from below the waves.
That experience proved useful in 1966 when a US bomber flying over the coast of Spain hit a refuelling tanker in mid-air and accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs that parachuted down without detonating. One fell into the sea and Lindbergh joined a recovery mission in an Alvin deepocean submersible.
Another time he was part of a salvage team when a C-130 transport plane was shot down into the sea during the Vietnam War.
Lindbergh never ceased to be amazed by the wonders of the seas, writing articles for American magazines about the species he encountered. “You often see long chains of small animals strung together. Ribbon-like, sea serpent-like things,” he observed in Popular Science magazine. “You see ocean sunfish occasionally – the big, round, 8ft diameter Mola molas – and occasional sharks. You see octopuses if you look for them in the rocks.”
Jon Morrow Lindbergh was born in New York in August 1932, five months after the kidnap and murder of his older brother, Charles, aged 20 months, in what was described as the “crime of the century”. Jon’s name, apparently chosen from a book of Scandinavian history, was kept secret for two months.
His parents were celebrities: Charles Lindbergh had made the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris in 1927 and Anne (nee Morrow) was the first American woman to acquire a glider pilot’s licence.
They were anxious to protect their new son, and with good reason: Jon was six months old when two men were charged with threatening to kidnap him and trying to extort $50,000 from the family. When he was three, a car in which he was a passenger was run off the road.
The continuing hysteria surrounding his brother’s death drove the family to sail for Europe in 1936. They lived at Long Barn, their 14th-century home in Kent, but continued to be pursued by the press before eventually finding peace on Ile Illiec, off the coast of Brittany. Jon recalled it as being “a relatively small island, very rocky, windswept. I used to enjoy digging razor clams, looking for abalone”. He was four when Bruno Hauptmann, the killer of the brother he had never known, was sent to the electric chair.
Lindbergh had four more siblings: Land, who leads a private life; Anne, a writer who died in 1993; Scott, a conservationist; and Reeve, also a writer.
“The kidnapping was always sort of in the background,” Lindbergh said of their childhood. “I don’t think any of us had the freedom to mix around with the local neighbourhood, as my children for instance did.” Lindbergh also had seven half-siblings from his father’s mistresses.
In 1939 the family returned to the US, where Lindbergh Sr, who was suspected of being a Nazi sympathiser, advocated a noninterventionist stance on the war in Europe. By then their public profile had dropped and Charles allowed his son to go exploring. “He let me take a small boat out on Long Island Sound, under bad weather most of the year,” Jon said. More adventures followed. “He taught me how to fly, let me take a parachute jump once. He was flying the plane.”
He was educated at Darien High School, Connecticut, and craved excitement. At 15 he spent a summer sleeping rough in Europe. He also spent three summers in Colorado riding, hiking and shooting the rapids.
While studying marine biology at Stanford University, California, he rented a piece of land nearby in Los Trancos Woods and lived in a tent for almost four years. He cooked on a camping stove, drew water from the creek and used the woods for his lavatory. Self-caught rattlesnake was his preferred diet: fried, barbecued, curried or stewed.
In late 1953 he was leading a group up Mt Shasta in California when one of their number was killed falling into an icy crevasse. Lindbergh led the recovery party that brought his friend’s body down from the mountain.
The following year he married Barbara Robbins, a fellow student; for their wedding breakfast he caught three lobsters, “a characteristic gesture of self-reliance”, according to a profile in Redbook magazine.
Like his parents, they had six children: Kristina, Wendy, Lars, Leif, Erik (who also became an aviator) and Morgan.
On graduating from college he joined the regular navy and worked as a frogman in an underwater demolitions team. He appeared in the film Underwater Warrior (1958) and the television series Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges.
Later he became a commercial diver and took a job on the Seattle regional water treatment system, working at depths of 182m in the bitterly cold water. He settled there in the late 1960s, buying a secluded Georgian-style home on Bainbridge Island, and began farming salmon, later expanding the operation to Chile.
Lindbergh’s first marriage was dissolved in 1981 and two years later he married Karen Pryor, an animal trainer. That was dissolved in 1997 and he married Maura Jansen, a vet in West Virginia, who survives him with their twin daughters, Anne and Alena.
When Charles Lindbergh was nearing the end of his life, his son arranged for him to be taken to Hawaii, where he died in 1974. The older man confided that he was relieved Jon had not followed him into aviation. “Thirty years ago, piloting an aircraft was an art,” he said, adding that it had ceased to be fun.
Like his father in later life, Lindbergh became a passionate conservationist. Writing in Life magazine in 1967 he described his encounters with whales.
“All advanced life utilises other life to sustain its own survival. Whales consume plankton and squid, and man in turn consumes whales as he consumes cattle and sheep,” he wrote. “Only we must remember what we have so grievously ignored in the past: you cannot take more whales than the survivors in the sea can replace.”
THE TIMES
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Andrews bans people from removing masks to drink outdoors
“”””Premier Daniel Andrews is “angry” after what occurred over the weekend and has announced people will not be permitted to remove their masks to drink alcohol outdoors.
“There will be no removal of masks to consume alcohol outdoors, you will no longer be able to remove your mask to drink a cocktail at a pop-up beer garden on a footpath as part of a pub crawl,” he said.”””””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCDwhFgoGv8
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My troll detector gadget just gave me a zap.
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“Johanna – thanks for the kinds words the other day”
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Who is masquerading as Rabz?
What have you done with the real truculent old bastard?
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This is worth a watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ-P_nM_WUM
How long before Dementia Joe has gotta go?
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You have to admit, some of the most disgusting evil creatures on this planet are those currently in MSM tv and radio studios.
Facilitating a crime.
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Only if it invites me out in a date, Steve. Then we’ll know. 🤣
Just popped over to Dover’s. Gee they’re a nice bunch*. I feel very out of place…next time I’ll do my hair and put on a natty outfit. Torn trackies just won’t cut it.
* what would I know? Murderous intent may be lurking under the polished prolixity.
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FFS, Arks, just trying to maintain what little sanity I have left.
As Neil noted above, things are not good here in Sydneystan.
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Oh grate. Look who’s just flown in.
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Indeed. Loathsome smug sanctimonious hectoring hypocrites that are now effectively beyond parody. Some of the worst of them are on Sky.
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“As Neil noted above, things are not good here in Sydneystan.
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Oh boo fucking hoo.
Down here we’re into the numpteenth Danly Dickhead social experiment in human sanity deprivation with no end in sight.
Buck up. After your fourth or fifth lockdown the novelty comes back and you feel the same sting of absolute despair you did the first time around.
I’m about ready to attempt to swim to Asia to get away from the mental cases inhabiting this dismal brown land.
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Daniel Andrews after banning drinking without a mask should explain how to do it. No use in just saying you cannot drink without a mask. He should put a mask on and show us how it is done.
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I’ll go get the karcher
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incoherent rambler says:
August 16, 2021 at 1:16 pm
that’s a good point, I.R., One view that’s been put up is that if one is taken down at least there are others. While I could understand that view when it was Sinc’s site, personally I can’t see any risks from that now, but am happy to be corrected.
I’ve joined all the others, except Monty’s. But I’m hopeful that this one will survive.
Getting rid of the trolls will help that. Especially now that, fingers crossed, it’s the end of the birdstrike. And once the editing buttons etc return, that also will help.
Currently, it is a bit hard to keep track, but I suppose like water, we’ll find our level somewhere.
Just on your point, the left never splinter; all you have to do is understand how dominant is the ABC to the national “debate” whatever that “debate” may be and wherever it goes. And while there are always “affiliates” standing ready to help in “that fight,” it is the ABC that is, in the eyes of the population, is the chief Australian media outlet and, we would say, “player.”
I am in no any way suggesting that the Cat, whichever one that is, is the strongest bulwark against that gargantuan that is the ABC, but when the old Cat was closing down it was surprising how many lurkers revealed themselves to assert the importance of the place as a counterpoint to the other side and one of the most important places to get facts and real discussion.
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Fat girls hate Trump
So, I presume you’re thin then?
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Melbourne getting a 9pm – 5am curfew because that Makes Sense(tm).
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Bird’s back already, folks.
And he didn’t even bother to recycle back to meme #1.
Just straight on from where he left off.
It’s an obnoxious and appalling insult to Cats and our new Doomlord alike (Hail!), that you have assumed he is such a soft touch as to let you go again.
I note with interest you have not been brave enough to retry your luck with nilk’s or Zippster’s Discords, nor m0nty’s nor Dover_beach’s Cat sites. Which makes you a coward on top of your myriad other demonstrated failures of character.
Go infest someone else’s blog, Graeme. Like your own. It’s only been some 5 years since your last screed there, and your audience will be much more welcoming.
When Adam next smites you, take the hint, and stay banned.
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Carpe, don’t tell us, he’s back? Can you send a msg to Adam before the putrid mess starts building up?
(I actually thought that was a bona fide commenter.) 🤪
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Rex Anger says:
August 16, 2021 at 2:43 pm
+1mill
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Try.
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Yes. That was an eye-opener. I hope many of them decide to comment either here or one of the other forums.
It was also fun to watch the avalanche of old, unpaired socks empty itself onto the blog. Some of them years out of fashion. Brought back some good time memories of ancient trollathons.
And just a word in your shell-like…Dover’s site has buttons. Nice, shiny formatting buttons. In fancy typefaces. 😀
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“Andrews bans people from removing masks to drink outdoor”
I thought this was satire, but its real….. filter your drink through your mask peeps
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But i was shocked when out walking i was yelled at by somebody on the other side of the road for not wearing a mask. I still do not know if i need to wear a mask outside in Sydney
Careful.
Last time Sydney got ginned up into an existential hysteria, someone got bashed to death in his driveway for watering his lawn.
There are special telephone lines to report transgressors and there have been violent incidents in the past because of so-called “water vigilantes” informing on their neighbours. However, this is the first time an argument over water has led to a fatality.
Consider how mild the gee-up was about water restrictions was in 2007 vs what they’re doing now. People are going to get killed over this, the government and media are ginning up a mob and they know it.
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How’s the Taliban in
Baghram and KabulMelbourne and Sydney working out for everyone?Report comment
Maybe some formatting buttons will be to boid what garlic is to vampires?*
* poorly disguised plea for gaudy formatting goodness
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More personal liability would be a very good thing. Certainly focuses directors minds when it comes to OH & S matters.
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Buttons are overrated. Real men use HTML and drive manuals.
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Hi Graeme
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Fabulous stuff.
The Hustle, Orquesta Real de Xalapa, Esencial
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And lollies, chocolates and ice-cream for nice ladies.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
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Try again.
The Hustle, Orquesta Real de Xalapa, Esencial
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Does Dover’s site have a rosie?
Asking for a fiend.
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Dear Baba,
When I last wrote to you, I expressed hope that the legal farce I face might soon be over.
Unfortunately, today the New South Wales Local Court ruled that Part 3A of the NCAT Act has retrospective application.
This means that on 21 November this year I will face Court under a law passed in 2017 in New South Wales for statements I made about marriage, family and morality in Queensland in 2014.
I potentially face $300,000 in fines for those statements.
To make matters worse, the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board has also just referred a new complaint from Garry Burns to the Tribunal, which also carries another potential $100,000 fine.
The heart of the new complaint against me, as detailed below, is for these words posted in a comment by a third party on my Facebook page detailed
“[EDIT] supports bernard Garynor”
Apparently, the Thought Police believe that I have vilified homosexuals by allowing that comment on my Facebook page because it links to a page which then links to other pages which the most offended man in the world is, you guessed it, offended by.
Strangely, neither the person who left the comment or the people who actually run any of these other pages are subject to this complaint. Just me. That’s what the Anti-Discrimination Board has decided because that’s what Garry Burns wants.
It’s beyond vexatious obsession and it’s being empowered by the New South Wales Department of Justice.
To be honest, these latest developments are a huge blow.
For almost a decade now I have been hoping to move on with my life. And for almost a decade now the New South Wales legal system and the politicians who oversee it (with the exception of Mark Latham) have allowed this unjust farce to continue.
So I will need to keep fighting.
I have instructed my legal team to appeal today’s decision, to defend the latest complaint and to counter-attack.
I hope to be able to provide you more details about that counter-attack soon enough.
I ask for your continued help in this fight.
Please, if you can, donate here. I cannot continue without your support and generosity.
https://www.bernardgaynor.com.au/partner/
And, please, keep me and my family in your prayers at this time.
Kind regards,
Bernard Gaynor
Christus Rex!
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My daughter comments anonymously on a number of protest groups on Telegram. She is strongly against the vax. She believes there is a worldwide movement to undermine Western culture and white men and says so.
This afternoon she received a phone call from someone whose name she didn’t catch. He said he was from The Age and gave details of her online name and her real name and asked if she was the owner of the business she runs. None of the info he was asking about can be found online. How he managed to link her online name to her real name and to her business was left explained. As anyone would, she found the conversation sinister and menacing and hung up after the initial exchange.
Nobody she interacts with online has a clue about who she is offline.
The only way this information could have been obtained is through ASIO.
ASIO are now doxxing right wing commenters on blogs like this one.
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