Friday 29th of March 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

on the elevator...

libertee

flat-footed about the vulnerable platypus...

platypus...

A lack of research into platypus numbers is leaving the iconic mammal vulnerable to extinction, an expert has warned. 

our place in the sun...

castle

We’re only individual tiny specks of dust in the history of civilisations — even the more well-known of us, like the warring Caesars and the invading Hitlers.

 

latham finds love at last... pauline believes he will be a great addition to her trophies of loonies...

love

"This is a fight for our civilisational values. For free speech, for merit selection, resilience, love of country - all of them under siege from the left, and a lot of it is happening in state politics as much as federal," Mr Latham said.

return of boots and all...

boots

For Brazil, the world’s fourth largest democracy, to have elected the extreme right-wing Jair Bolsonaro is stunning.

real fake news items about a real fake provocation... who is in whose airspace?

flyby

Fake news: Nato’s “interception” of Russian planes

democracy...

lawrence

Before trying to understand then condemn Lawrence for this old crap, we need to know that Lawrence did not mind if the workers fucked the aristocracy. Fucked was the word he used :

 

“We fucked a flame into being.”

― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

 

plenty of variations on a theme of meme...

memes

When US President Donald Trump took the unusual step of using a Game-of-Thrones-inspired meme to announce the restoration of oil sanctions for Iran, HBO — which produces the TV series — was not amused.

and on the seventh day, god was pleased with Himself...

god

Trump’s strategy against Russia and China

by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme

The war in Syria has shown that when it comes to conventional weapons, the US Armed Forces are no longer the top dog. Russia is now in control. Moscow has brought a new resource onto the war pitch: the most recent generation of hypersonic nuclear carriers. This introduction should see Russia getting ahead of the United States in nuclear warfare. Unwilling to lag behind and seeking to make up lost ground, the Pentagon intends to profit - in as much as time remains for it to do so— from its quantitative superiority, to impose its choices on Russia and China.

 


and god saw which way the wind was blowing...

murdoch

We can’t be sure precisely when Australia’s major political parties lost the public on the issue of offshore detention, but the morning of August 20 confirmed it.

It was day one of a planned three-month Kids Off Nauru campaign, initiated by World Vision, and it began with Rupert Murdoch’s conservative tabloid newspapers firmly on the bandwagon.

firm like sheep boiled brains...

guru scummoo

Scott Morrison is ploughing on regardless — business as usual. There is no need to change direction. Rather the imperative is to go on pretty much with what we are doing, but more aggressively.

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