(2353 Thurs BST) In Australia, in Melbourne, it’s now +9 hours, so 0853 EST and so the dawn service is over. NZ is two hours ahead of that, Perth in WA two hours behind. (0031 Fri BST)
ANZAC Day Dawn Service?
The photo below is of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance, with the city in the background.
It seems that people are still turning out for the commemoration of the assault on Gallipoli in 1915, under British donkey General Sir Ian Hamilton, along with other armies:
In the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, the Allied forces involved consisted primarily of British, Australian, and New Zealand troops, along with a French contingent and smaller units from India and Newfoundland. The main Allied force was the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF), including the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). The primary Ottoman forces were the Ottoman Fifth Army, with reinforcements from other divisions.
The old question arises … just how long does one commemorate a battle, after the last combatant has died?
Certainly the sons and daughters remember it, possibly the great grandchildren. Let’s say a combatant returned and married in 1920-22 … child was born about 1921.
That son marries 1946-48 and the grandchild is born maybe 1950. That grandchild marries or not around, say 1977 and the great grandchild is born just before 1980 … an early Millennial. His/her child is born around, say, 2010, a Gen Zee. The latest you could expect is the great grandchild, unless the event has become like Trafalgar, in which case it will be observed centuries later.
Unless … unless … sadly …
Unless protesters also turn up, shouting out that this is first tribes aboriginal land or leftwing brats turn up with Hamas flags. Which I believe did happen.
Back to that question … for how much longer? For how many decades more?
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19. Yuri predicted the incompetent insanity
18. Steve at 1030:2
That old expression “you can lead a horse to water” savagely applies with the Easter or Resurrection message. It’s far easier to go with the cultural Christianity nominally underpinning the west … that’s if you have a brain and give credit where it’s due … than it is to go any further.
“Hearts of Oak: Fr Calvin Robinson. The Cross and the Culture”
I was never crazy about the whole GB News, Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox, Calvin thing, the fallout, Calvin zipping off to the US to live. However, Hearts of Oak had him as a guest, he’s a good host, Steve decided to run him today, one week after the interview coming up the day before Good Friday.
And I’m glad Steve did, as Calvin acquits himself well, especially just past the 12 minute mark when he gets to the question of how the mob, the crowd (see Milgram) not just goes along with the chanting, baying mob but how they turn away from a deeply unpleasant topic before their eyes.
I have a huge problem with baying mobs, e.g. the karen thuggerati during the plandemic and as for the refusal to see realities … well, some people just can’t. There it is.
Which is why I do not push like an Ian Paisley. It’s not to placate the various denominations who kindly visit this site, even feel part of it … the Catholics, Orthodox, High Anglicans, low CofE, Methodists, Pentecostals (any I’ve left out?) … nor is it to appease the Dearieme and the “man can do anything he likes” humanist mindset, nor the “tech is god” lot either.
It’s that original saying above about leading a horse to water. Anytime some issue needs addressing, any time a good interview comes up … why not? There are also simple questions not concerned with dates, times, physical details, plus it concerns me when the faithful try to “prove” something which relies, in the final analysis, on choice and faith in that choice. Proof dispenses with faith.
The single most telling point for me is why such a strong Christology arose so quickly afterwards and far from dying with its adherents, it developed more strongly, against quite barbarous treatment … now this is a more political thought from me. Yes, people get hooked by cults … Manson, Hitler, there is even a cult of Donny … but this was quite something else.
There was some reason, Life of Brian notwithstanding, some truism, some element of “rings true” within the first twenty years after the crucifixion, which acted to hardwire people, when the cult leader was no longer there.
By now, after all the films we’ve shown, is there a decade, past which you essentially stopped watching? With me it comes down to violence, overt sex, feminazism, wokery … the light brown 80s for me is pretty much it.
What about the early movies … silents with vamps, precode and grainy talkies? It’s about 1935 where, if the copy is watchable, I start watching. For some reason, the 40s still had elegance, noir was effective … that’s probably my fave era. 50s gets a bit too sfx sci-fi for mine … dress and manners are still good.
Can’t think of too many good 60s films, 70s were getting bad … overt, slo-mo violence, same with sex … gauche, lacking in style, esp. the slappers. If I see a film is 90s onwards, imho it’s best avoided, usually some kickbutt female pretending she’s omnipotent.
(1313) Afternoon all. I could say I was busy with jobs but actually, was snoozin’. (1402)
17. Moosh corner
16. Another two-fer-one
15. There’s much on X on Miliband’s insanity
… which is really Gates and the WEF annunaki or whatever they are.
14. Vevey
Goodness me that takes me back:
Nestle_Hauptsitz_03
Some of you might recall a recent post on my being in Thonon, near Evian, heading for Geneva on this lake (behind us in the picture is Geneve), thence on to Vevey. There’s a tale I’ve also told, of being on the ferry and some girl came up, Swiss girl, tells me their President is onboard. Where? In there, why don’t you go in and say hello.
So muggins here got up and did just that … past the doormen, entourage etc., went up and said Monsieur le President? Couldn’t think of anything else to say, we exchanged some pleasantries and I departed.
“You met him?” she asked. Yes, nice man. She could not believe it. Shortly after, he appeared on the top deck, waving to us plebs below, then we docked at Geneva. I stayed onboard and we went on, to Vevey.
At Vevey, I walked past the Nestle HQ, think I met someone, we took a hire motorboat out to look at the shoreline.
In my long book, some of the action is set there. In the picture above, on the far shore over to the left, is a famous castle/chateau/chalet/whatever, dark past it had. Out of shot on the left is the cog rail heading upwards for Thun and other places.
(0955) Music at elevenses coming up. Chores now. (1025)
12. Who’s old enough?
11. Think it’s only fair to run this counterview
10. When will men ever learn?
9. Potable water
Years ago, they redid the water pipes to this house, resulting in far better quality water … still needed to boil it of course for drinking.
Then started the comparatively recent poison spraying from the air at that level of intensity … there’s been spraying for donkey’s years but I’m thinking readers ustd what I’m driving at here. And yes, gastric and lurgy issues have increased, with a bitter taste … and yes, that’s also food additives, cow additives, just the poisoned land and sea, all sorts of things …
Well, we also have, at this house, a wasp plague (or nest, have it your own way), which resulted in MMutR, out of the goodness of his heart, bringing me a venus flytrap, which doubles for wasps. He’s quite a male Morticia Addams character, MMutR … give him half a chance and he’d cultivate triffids and false widows.
Anyway, we set it at the window to entice the lil varmints but wotz this? They started to drastically change their behaviour. Yes, they’d still storm out of their HQ and swarm over to my triple window, coming at the window panes like dive bombers or fighters if the window was closed … but now, window open, they’d come at it, then suddenly swerve away, back towards their nest.
Now, why? Was it the musty smell of my abode pouring out … or was it that they knew the vft smell and avoided that from species memory?
Anyway, the water tray ran dry overnight, first night, and I made to fill it again but Our Julia said no … only still or rainwater, not tap.
Uh huh. Well I did still have an old six pack of 1.5 litre Brecon Carreg from the days before those stupid attached lids. So the vft got the good stuff and seemed happy. But MMutR asked if I’d considered using the still water as my main potable source. Um … had not thought of it … but started.
This morning, thought I’d see if I could use boiled tap water again for coffee … nope … immediate tummy, throat … tipped it all out, went back to Brecon C … seems fairly neutral. I had also bought Evian, so am well stocked. No issues just yet.
Right, I also added a walk yesterday to my gym-ratting, despite the low, billowing Gates poison cloud … was out no longer than twenty minutes, came back in, was retching, bad innards, throat, nose, ears. Headed for bed.
MMutR asked if I wanted to go for a spin … perfectly reasonable request … except last time I tried it, to go have the bloods done … I was as sick as a dog as well … the same way. Took 24 hours to be rid of.
The implications are fairly clear, plus I do have the trusty exercise bike. Sorry to be such a wet blanket for my mate but needs is needs.
First the subject matter … Rogan and Mad Max. MM stated what many of us know … that in South America, Bergoglio was not only saying all religions have merit, he was dabbling in the black arts … so he would have felt quite at home in the corridors of the Vatican with the smoke of satan wafting through them. And as is usually the case … the further you get away from the Vatican, the more pure is the Catholicism, e.g. with Jeanne la Pucelle.
Second in this item is my moan about noise inserted over dialogue, such that it’s irritating.
7. Another two-fer-one item
First, the subject of the item:
Second, what can be written what can’t. Those things yesterday were referring to text, the written word or a url and its text or a particular host … this above though is a sshot. Plus it’s straight reportage, not opinion.
6. A bit of nostalgia
5. DAD at 1030
a) Macron finally leaps into action” […] These two officers, considered close to the far right, co-signed an op-ed in 2021 published by Valeurs Actuelles, based on the blog Place d’armes, denouncing “the disintegration of France” and calling for the possible intervention of the army to “safeguard our compatriots.”
b) How should France solve the problem of unruly Afgans in the streets of Paris?
c) How anti-semitism became a defining principle of the French far left.
d) Some good news…..The ancient Chateau at Glénay, whose first mentions date back to the 12th century, continues to be restored using methods and materials faithful to its rich history.
4. Vital item at TDS today for li’l ole me
… not so much for our patrons and readers, given their career choices.
“Court documents reveal one colleague complaining to another that Dr Josephson was “literally going against the scientific and ethical position of the profession… and getting paid to do it”, receiving the reply: “Definately [sic] agree.” Yet in later depositions, both interlocutors disclaimed any expertise in gender dysphoria and were unable to identify a single ethical guideline he had violated.
Remarkably, senior administrators moved swiftly to placate critics, demoting Dr Josephson to the role of junior faculty just seven weeks after the Heritage Foundation panel event.
For good measure, they also reduced his salary, retirement benefits and academic travel funds. Shortly after the demotion, the Chief of Staff to the Dean of School reassured one irate employee: “We’ve taken care of that,” in reference to Dr Josephson’s presentation.
Over the ensuing months, colleagues continued to belittle and berate him, causing irreparable damage to his professional career and reputation. He was barred from treating LGBTQ patients. He was illegally mandated to use transgender terminology – i.e., language inconsistent with biological sex. He was prevented from discussing gender dysphoria with students, stripped of his teaching duties and even temporarily banned from faculty meetings.”
There’s nothing new in this thing … from the 70s, I saw signs of it, then in 88 came the first signs of a National Curriculum, it gripped even independent schools by 1992, then came the first Ofsted inspections, which completely altered the criteria. They had gone Woke, not good teaching practice.
But if you think that it was only from the 70s that this was happening … well, in 1956 had come Bloom’s taxonomy, with Spock-like thinking on ed psych, along with Piaget and Dewey, very much leftist thinking designed to kill off trad methods which had worked, esp. in Scotland.
I was lucky enough to escape the ostracism as it reached the mental illness stage … in fact, that had been so since my own final years of secondary … all my life I was the final year of the old, before the system changed. Nuff on all that.
JH: If you look at 1029 at 17:32, it’s not posted yet. I found this elsewhere but the post is sitting in spam. Question is of course … why? What’s in there which the machine does not like? First, here tis:
DC Draino: “They Want To Stall And Stop The Deportation Of 10 Million Illegals.”
President Trump: “I Won An Election Based On Getting Illegal Immigrants Out”
“Until You Start Putting Bad Guys In Jail I Don’t Believe You.” Beck To Pam Bondi And Kash Patel
Internet Accountability: Trump Admin Seeks To Breakup Facebook And Google
Tiffany Justice: Sexually Explicit Pride Lesson Forced On Maryland Children At Age 3
Naomi Wolf On Bird Flu: “It Reminded Me Of The Threat Waged Against President Trump Before Covid”
My thoughts are maybe refs to xes and chn, even the word Ticilpxe … who knows? Could be the flu or Beck’s view. I think part of it is the two names of our droppers, just as mine concerns the machine … once having been on the naughty step. Hard to know … perhaps the machine itself is unsure.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an anonymous letter sent to the board of directors of the World Economic Forum accuses its founder, Kl**s Schw*b, and his wife, Hilde, of having “commingled their personal affairs with Forum resources, without proper oversight.” The affair, also reported by AFP, notably mentions withdrawals of “thousands of dollars” by junior employees and payment for massages with Forum funds. These revelations precipitated the immediate resignation of Schw*b, 87, on Easter Sunday, before the end of his transition period. The W*F confirmed the opening of an internal investigation, saying it “takes these accusations seriously” although they are “unproven.” Schw*b, through its spokesperson, rejected the accusations outright, saying it was considering legal action against the letter’s authors.
12. Andy at 1029
The odious rag reports that our government are considering undertaking outdoor weather modification experiments. Bit late as it’s already happening, or is it ar*e covering? The whole article is the usual guff one would expect from that diseased organ. All honeyed words to reassure us how responsible they are and that there is no danger to the public. I won’t link to that article, it’s easy to find if you really want to. The article does have a link to the agency proposing this.
