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WH

Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:15:25 +1200

Above: Ghislaine Maxwell and Kevin Spacey on the Queen’s thrones at Buckingham Palace in 2002

President Trump has commuted the sentence of former campaign aide Roger Stone, who was convicted of witness tampering, making false statements to Congress and obstruction of justice in 2019. The commutation leaves Stone’s criminal convictions…

WH

Tue, 26 May 2020 10:13:08 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k

Radiohead’s take on the 1973 film The Wicker Man.

WH

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:51:15 +1200

The role of British intelligence and British police in these matters deserves special scrutiny. The following video discusses the role of MI5 and Special Branch in covering up the serial sex offending of Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n8qg4vwYA0

Similar kinds of corruption exist at the highest levels of the…

WH

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:56:01 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt4a9ie5MGk

This is Channel 4’s interview with Richard Kerr, victim of one the UK’s notorious VIP paedophile rings. In this instance, young boys were taken from the Kincora Boys Home in Northern Ireland during the Troubles to service elite paedophiles in London.

The report outlines that MPs at Westminster were…

WH

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:58:19 +1300

A few years ago North & South magazine ran a piece about New Zealand’s own Temple of Higher Thought and the Order of the Golden Dawn. The article is worth reading in full, but for present purposes it’s enough to note that the leaders of these occult movements infiltrated New Zealand’s…

linger

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:44:00 +1300

A glossary of technical terms for types of abbreviation.

Initialisms = words formed from a sequence of initial letters (e.g. RSVP, TLA, WTO, YMMV ). Acronyms are, strictly, more specifically sequences of initial letters creating a pronounceable wordform (e.g. HART, JAFA, WHO ), though acronym is also used more loosely…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:36:46 +1300

Speaking of Spam – I was depressed by one of Radio NZ's summertime radio attempts to educate the public – namely about Acronyms, they correctly identified 'Laser', 'Nasa', 'Scuba' as acronyms, next they used 'Radar' which is slightly more problematic and not a true acronym, more a contraction – but…

Sacha

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:20:29 +1300

nothing quite like what public address was

true

linger

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 21:00:52 +1300

The next New Zealand election will be first class.
"Such a big election. The biggest."

linger

Fri, 24 Jan 2020 15:19:33 +1300

What, because of the coming election?
Dunno if I’m exactly looking forward to that.
Predictably, over at No Right Turn, I/S is arguing that our current political leaders are part of the environmental problem andif we want to survive – not just as a species, but as individuals – we…

Rob Stowell

Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:53:47 +1300

I miss this space. So many options out there, but nothing quite like what public address was.
(Are we allowed to be nostalgic yet?! :) )

Sacha

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 15:19:21 +1300

He is.

John Farrell

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 07:09:52 +1300

How very odd....

WH

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:13:49 +1300

This is the temple on Little St James Island, the underage sex lair of notorious pedophile, underage sex trafficker and billionaire insider Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein’s apparent suicide in US federal custody sparked widespread speculation that he had been murdered by the famous and politically important people he associated with, such…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:54:38 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZiVsGR8u2w

WH

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:26:01 +1300

Who could have predicted it?

The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach US President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The matter will now be referred to the US Senate for adjudication. In the unlikely event that two-thirds of the senators uphold the charges…

WH

Sun, 01 Dec 2019 14:00:38 +1300

This photo of the Cybertruck – that mostly bulletproof challenge to the aesthetic of our times – is from Tesla's website. Elon Musk says Tesla had received 250,000 orders as of 26 November.

Pricing starts at $39,900USD, or around $62,000NZD. The battery on the most expensive model is said to…

WH

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:14 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Kv6vxZwL8

If witchcraft really is the future, it would be good to see proponents and commentators take its drawbacks more seriously.

If there is such a thing as magic, it should be a criminal offence to use it on other people without their informed consent.

WH

Mon, 23 Sept 2019 15:50:13 +1200

The Trump Administration is in the news for revoking California’s right to set its own tailpipe emissions standards under the Clean Air Act.

The Guardian reports that Trump will be skipping an upcoming UN climate summit to attend a conference on religious freedom. While religious freedom is important it’s not…

Sacha

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:24:00 +1200

Tricksy bees, not to be trusted.

John Farrell

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:18:17 +1200

Bonnet, meet bees.

WH

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:56:09 +1200

Above: John Dee presents to Elizabeth I, Henry Gillard Glindoni

Distrust of the occult is an important part of many traditional spiritual systems. It’s in the warnings about spirits, demons and jinn given in Islam, Judaism and Christianity, in stories of poltergeists and taniwha, in the trickster legends of Loki…

WH

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:15:22 +1200

The quote from Marie Claire UK relates in part to the #witchesofinstagram. There's about 2,725,000 posts there as of this morning. You can see the hallmarks of Bernays' ideas about the power of symbolism and the subconscious – as they were expressed in his torches of freedom campaign – throughout.…

Sacha

Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:21:44 +1200

our growing obsession with witchcraft

Only one person here meets that description. Who hurt you?

WH

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:14:01 +1200

Many of you will know the work of Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann, pioneers in public relations and modern journalism respectively. Lippmann’s 1922 book Public Opinion argued for the management of public attitudes by elites in a process he called “the manufacture of consent”. In his 1928 book,…

John Farrell

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:03:39 +1300

It's the Witchfinder General!

Sacha

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:39:02 +1300

What do you imagine binging that topic here will do?

WH

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:26:03 +1300

Above: Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen in March 2008.

Six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady recently talked about the contribution wife Gisele Bundchen has made to his success.

https://vimeo.com/321427046

From the CBS Boston article:

Brady said Bundchen “always makes a little altar for me at the game because she…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:18:21 +1300

And yet still I am not prepared for the idea that..
Lump'n Dotard is an anagram of Donald Trump
but even spookier:
Vladimir Putin = Trump I invalid

In the beginning was the word....

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:12:46 +1300

The Bard of Hibbing is wistful in his dotage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9FTlKK1e0
Give 'em enough trope ...
plus:
https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Louis_Cypher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTC9Lt3hiWo

WH

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 01:35:02 +1300

U.S. Route 61 runs from Wyoming, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana. It's infamous in American music as part of the story of the crossroads, the tale of the devil's bargain sometimes struck where Highway 61 meets Route 49. In the first volume of his memoirs, Bob Dylan wrote:

Highway 61,…

BenWilson

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:32:05 +1300

And yet still I am not prepared for the idea that a billionaire president honored a sports team in the White House by serving them a McDonald's meal.

WH

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:50:48 +1300

Above: Donald Trump touches the magic orb.

To note the midpoint of the Trump presidency The Atlantic has prepared a list of fifty previously unthinkable stories about his time in office.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg writes:

This week marks the midway point of Trump’s term. Like many Americans, we…

Kumara Republic

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 02:39:20 +1300

On a lighter note, SNL pokes the beeswax out of Theresa May and David Cameron.
https://twitter.com/KeejayOV2/status/1074221099490119680/video/1

WH

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 02:04:41 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK1nuvXmiDA&list=PLft0vOv0DuPV_h3wzWFzFsCYVTDA2Aru2&index=105&t=88s

Eighth generation soldier Tommy Clack served as a US Army captain during the Vietnam War. On 29 May 1969, Captain Clack was hit by an explosive shell in combat near Củ Chi, Saigon and was severely injured.

Clack’s near death experience has a number of familiar elements: a feeling…

linger

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:15:13 +1300

Magic is literally “coming out of his ears”I suspect that last word was an automagically corrected typo.

WH

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 11:26:00 +1300

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Donald J. Trump, “magic man”. Magic is literally “coming out of his ears”.

In other developments, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned at Trump’s request. Sessions incurred Trump’s displeasure by recusing himself from Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:16:59 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXlXc0lA9c

John Farrell

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:37:10 +1300

I give the occult the same sort of regard as I give religion.

WH

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:11:29 +1300

The Eagles’ song Witchy Woman was inspired by the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s also about the ubiquity of witchcraft in the culture of the 1970’s. As Don Henley told Rolling Stone:

Another inspiration for the song was the roommate of a girl I was…

WH

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:12:22 +1300

This is a short piece by James Fallows, former chief speechwriter for President Carter; this is an op-ed by Chesley B. 'Sully' Sullenberger III, famous for his heroics as captain of US Airways Flight 1549.

Neil

Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:33:31 +1300

Odious ex-Nat wages vendetta against Nats. Not a bad career move but job currently taken.

mark taslov

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:13:24 +1300

I’m sure no one wants that – as I said, I’m wondering what the intended meaning of the video is given you previously directed it at me – specifically – without comment when you came at me in that thread – and then reposted it today.

WH

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:17:58 +1300

While I don't mean to be unpleasant, I don’t want to continue our conversation about Hone Harawira and Don Brash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRTC3cfWfGk

mark taslov

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:38:23 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgFpJRC3g4

for anyone who missed 2018 I assume.

To be honest I’ve been wondering about the message you’re trying to convey with that John Malkovich clip since you sent it to me here some weeks back as part of that series of gaslighty __"There’s a subtext to Mark’s comments…

WH

Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:51:52 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjcCN3EEDus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLCn88bfW1o

Bear this in mind the next time you see an apparently inexplicable outburst or politically important faux pas.

How seriously should you take this? Well, Elon Musk is one of the most important figures in technology today. He almost single-handedly revived the electric car and runs a company…

WH

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 20:52:56 +1300

Roman generals were not permitted to begin a military campaign without a taking of the auspices and a receipt of positive signs.

Crassus doesn’t seem to have been unduly burdened by piety – he had ransacked the Jewish temple in Jerusalem the year before the disaster at Carrhae. You can…

linger

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:41:31 +1300

But surely the more direct moral of that story is: don’t get involved in greed, narcissism, and megalomania. The occult is irrelevant, and was treated as such by that ruler, however Crass he was.

WH

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:17:09 +1300

Marcus Licinius Crassus was one of the richest men in history. A member of the First Triumvirate, Crassus is known for the brutal means by which he put down the rebellion led by Spartacus – re-introducing the decimation and crucifying 6,000 prisoners along the Appian Way. Crassus is also remembered for…

WH

Wed, 19 Sept 2018 16:34:31 +1200

Above: the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

During the last meeting of his cabinet on 14 April 1865 – the day of his assassination at the hands of John Wilkes Booth – President Abraham Lincoln spoke of a recurring dream that had preceded nearly every great and important event of…

WH

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:09:20 +1200

Vox has summarised some US legal opinion here and here.

The discussion is around whether the granting of a pardon can constitute obstruction of justice, whether a pardon prevents the recipient from invoking the privilege against self-incrimination and whether a Presidential pardon can protect the recipient from prosecution at the…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:19:42 +1200

Are these convictions of the sort that Trump can't pardon?

WH

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:17:31 +1200

A US jury has convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on eight counts of tax and bank fraud. Manafort faces a possible retrial of the ten charges on which the jury could not reach a verdict and a further trial on separate charges of money laundering, failing to register…

WH

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 11:52:16 +1200

The RMS Titanic has been in the news again this week, this time linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory (which you should generally ignore).

The Titanic sank in April 1912 upon hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage across the North Atlantic. 1500 of her 2200 passengers and crew were…

mark taslov

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:35:51 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc

WH

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:59:53 +1200

This is a link to Noted’s podcast about police dog handler Bruce Howat entitled The Policeman, His Dog and the Premonition. The part of the story that relates to the 1983 attack on Howat begins at 27m:38s.

Please note that the audio contains disturbing details of the attack.

"When I…

WH

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:37:42 +1200

Charles Krauthammer passed away today; the Washington Post carried a column from his friend and colleague George Will.

Will’s column mentions Krauthammer’s 2007 column about the career of Rick Ankiel, an MLB pitcher who suddenly and unaccountably lost the ability to find the plate during the 2000 postseason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDZX525CSvw

[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Ankiel#2000_postseason|Wikipedia…

WH

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:56:32 +1200

It just so happens that I know a little about Titan and went so far as to name my personal services company after it in a moment of levity. Unfortunately, the company had to be wound up following a series of events that have inspired and informed my participation in…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:07:34 +1200

do you have any ideas as to what’s causing the occultation?
It's the physics of the affair...
...and galactic and intra-solar system alignments
Saturn is in opposition to Earth and the Sun, and is lined up with the constellation Sagittarius – one of the 'bright stars' there will pass behind…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:38:09 +1200

RC/DC
Mexico scoring a goal?
That nice Mr Trump assures me that they are all 'criminals and papists'

Tom Semmens

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:39:59 +1200

do you have any ideas as to what’s causing the occultation?

Mexico scoring a goal?

WH

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 22:05:13 +1200

I've been thinking about a similar kind of problem. But back to your thing – do you have any ideas as to what's causing the occultation?

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:50:38 +1200

Don’t get involved in the occult.
Meanwhile in Chchch NASA is flying high to observe a unique occultation!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/104710132/from-christchurch-nasas-flying-telescope-to-record-eclipselike-event

Mind boggling really – they are flying at 12km above the surface to spend maybe two minutes in the earthbound penumbra of a single star’s light behind Titan (a moon of…

WH

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:52:13 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqW7iC42WM0

This is part of a Fox News interview with conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer that describes the 1972 accident that left him paralysed from the neck down.

The Washington Post recently informed readers that Krauthammer has been diagnosed with cancer and is expected to pass away within the next few…

WH

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 23:25:57 +1200

Former Spanish and Barcelona midfielder Xavi has noted the unusual circumstances around Real Madrid’s winning of the 2018 Champions League:

Real Madrid had everything in their favour: injured [Bayern Munich] players like Neymar, Robben, Boateng [WH: and first choice goalkeeper Neuer], the referees, the most important player in Liverpool who…

WH

Mon, 28 May 2018 11:18:05 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d0IRisK5Fw

This one goes to out to Lee from Huddersfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDo6g4CCeU

WH

Thu, 24 May 2018 11:15:10 +1200

This is an episode from Disappearing World inspired by Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard’s sociological study Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande (1937). You can access a PDF version of the book here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmug_qvO15s

Witchcraft is having a moment. Don’t get involved in the occult.

WH

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:49:33 +1200

I had a friend who used to like to talk about the Kansas City shuffle. The thing you need to remember about this particular instance of the scam is that while Kansas City is in Missouri, Koch Industries is headquartered in Wichita. It’s a joke of a certain sort for…

WH

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:41:13 +1200

delve too far into finding out what being guillotined might feel like

I’m not sure how to approach that. Have a look at the video if you’re interested in learning about people’s experiences of veridical perception. It indirectly addresses the point I think you’re making.

linger

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:23:10 +1200

time slowing down effectN.B. the brain does not process information any faster in moments of stress than otherwise. Rather, our sense of time passing is distorted after the fact by the amount of processing time devoted to the moment afterwards (for obvious reasons, we spend more subsequent processing time on…

WH

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:36:10 +1200

I wouldn’t go as far as calling it scientific evidence though.

Like many of the researchers in this field, Moody is a doctor, but the questions around how you collate personal experiences to create data are interesting ones. While Moody states that the information he’s collected isn’t offered as proof…

WH

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:15:45 +1200

The near death experience is one of the most famous and compelling lines of evidence for the ongoing existence of the human spirit. Modern interest in the phenomenon was rekindled by Raymond Moody’s 1975 bestseller Life After Life. In the course of collating and summarising around 150 NDEs, Moody writes:…

WH

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:31:26 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nscGRxzH2gg

WH

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:31:29 +1200

There shouldn't be a Chinese military base in the South Pacific.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes

WH

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 18:51:52 +1300

This is a photo of Albert Einstein, his wife and Gene Dennis – a well known American psychic. The photo was taken in 1932. Einstein told the New Republic that:

[Dennis] told me things no one possibly could know, things on which I have been working, and she demonstrated to…

andin

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:05:15 +1300

more prevalent and more dangerous than you think

The same can be said of stupidity

WH

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:27:47 +1300

So… Rex Tillerson has been fired just as Trump prepares to meet Kim Jong-un to discuss the future of the Korean peninsula… I call on Trump to resign the presidency and to thereby end this humiliating farce.

The Arab Weekly has an interesting article on witchcraft in Iraq:

The phenomena…

TracyMac

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:41:54 +1300

Given "private security firms" and their "close links" to certain figures in the US govt (not to mention the winking and nodding relationship with US security and intelligence forces), I start to feel the slightest glimmerings of sympathy for the insistence of certain sectors of US society on their 2nd…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:19:21 +1300

The other shoe just dropped for me – when I read that Trump's unqualified head of Education – Betsy DeVos, was at one of the public meetings – as Erik "Blackwater' Prince's sister she'll probably suggest private security firms for 'defense of schools' – Prince sold Blackwater a while ago…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:12:59 +1300

I was just watching a White House Press Conference – with some Trump mouthpiece spruiking up the economy – and he said "...as we are approaching the 21st century" !!!
That explains a lot...
(I'm just not sure which century they think they are in)

I'm also guessing Trump's solution…

WH

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 22:39:11 +1300

https://vimeo.com/88341711

This is a clip from When We Were Kings, a film that recounts the story of The Rumble in the Jungle – the fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman held in Kinshasa in 1974.

George Plimpton at 1m38s: I was very interested in people called “féticheurs”. They are…

WH

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:50:30 +1300

https://www.theonion.com/nation-praying-for-super-nasty-luge-accident-1822934800

Something has gone horribly wrong.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11994069

Rich Lock

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:49:50 +1300

Joe Wylie

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:18:44 +1300

Posted yesterday by Gary Huck, Baltimore MD.

Rich Lock

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:09:12 +1300

military supply flights

Military personnel will apparently be expected to continue to serve without being paid.

I'm sure that that will end well, if this drags on.

Joe Wylie

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 22:03:29 +1300

I'm beginning to wonder if any day now it will be revealed that Trump (and all that that envelops) is really a time expansive private conceptual art project of Gilbert and Georgian-conceit...

Something's got to give. Trump's screaming shabbiness evokes the Jorge Luis Borges dream-story Ragnarök , where the ancient…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:59:18 +1300

Man at work...
Reading this: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/100788520/trump-working-hard-or-hardly-working-during-shutdown I'm beginning to wonder if any day now it will be revealed that Trump (and all that that envelops) is really a time expansive private conceptual art project of Gilbert and Georgian-conceit – or maybe an amalgam of Jeff Koons/Damien Hirst and Billy Apple/Andy…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:52:09 +1300

NASA owes its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Thelemite and Crowleyite Jack Parsons back in 1943.
Famously shafted by L. Ron Hubbard
He blew himself up in ’52. (aged 37)

WH

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:37:20 +1300

There are two main types of criticisms of witchcraft and the occult: those associated with the view that it’s a kind of fantasy or fraud (it often is) and those associated with the view that it’s capable of generating real effects.

Staying safe means considering the possible downsides of using…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:42:54 +1300

Now that Trump has allowed the US Government to grind to a halt , does that mean we will have another truncated Summer Research Season in Antarctica?
Reliant as we are on military supply flights from the US's military base at Chchch Airport...

linger

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:13:33 +1300

Another episode of Rich Hall's irregular updates on Trump has just become available for download (this one looking back at his first year in office).

WH

Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:35:01 +1300

Russia Today has noted that the curse of the Seventh Fleet has been implicated in three further naval incidents:

– the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold was participating in a scheduled towing exercise on November 18 when a Japanese tug boat lost propulsion and drifted into the ship;
– a C-2A…

WH

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:49:40 +1300

As you’ve probably heard by now, this handsome fellow has just been voted Australian Bird of the Year. Congratulations to magpies everywhere!

We recently lost one of our local magpies. It had lived in the trees in the school across the road. We’ve since seen the surviving member of the…

WH

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:56:55 +1300

The Bohemian Club

Every year, some of the most prominent men in the world gather in California to pay homage to a giant owl. Despite the uneasy fit with the Christian/conservative prohibition against such practices, it’s mainly a Republican thing. The photo shows Nixon and Reagan in attendance circa 1955.…

WH

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:49:48 +1300

Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle.

WH

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:12:52 +1300

Sri Lankan cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal has been in the news for attributing his side’s upset win over Pakistan to a blessing he obtained from a meyni, or sorcerer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9vbLDwH81s

Australian MP Bob Katter has attracted international attention for this reaction to the result of the same-sex marriage referendum. As…

WH

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:20:49 +1300

I’m sorry I didn’t reply sooner Ian. It’s not an easy subject to discuss.

This is a photo of Miron-Aku, a Finnish witch or shaman. The photo depicts a re-enactment of a ceremony to transmit the witch’s powers to an apprentice.

Himmler’s Ahnenerbe embarked on an expedition to Finland in…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:26:42 +1300

Hah!
I completely failed to notice that Winston wasn't among the 'Ps' either...

I still think Scott's dig at the queen should be held to account – or is this just the start of National's messing with the process – silly bluster followed by filibuster.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:03:47 +1300

Good old National
– I note Alistair Scott in his swearing in, disrespectfully said he would ‘bear true allegiance to her majesty Queen Elizabeth the second, her airs and graces – he did then correct himself and say ’successors’
– but was it a cheap shot or a telling Freudian…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:13:39 +1300

Just watching the opening of Parliament – had to laugh watching Maggie Barry stick her chewing under her new opposition bench...

andin

Mon, 06 Nov 2017 07:11:47 +1300

Dont need magic to reveal how greedy some people can be

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 16:49:26 +1300

involvement in the occult as Nietzschean power grab is back on trend
Gives a whole new take to the 'working' class...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjTxIlpT_UY

WH

Sun, 05 Nov 2017 12:55:09 +1300

The NYT’s Michelle Goldberg has an op-ed in which she notes that involvement in the occult as Nietzschean power grab is back on trend:

On a Wednesday evening last week, I sat in on a class called “Witchcraft 101: Curses, Hexes and Jinxes,” at Catland, a fashionable occult boutique in Bushwick,…

WH

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:55:00 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_H7IBP3jM

I don't know whether this is magic or mentalism but it's interesting all the same. Colin Cloud calls himself a 'forensic mind reader'.

mark taslov

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:44:23 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KvDF4F5GYw

WH

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:46:31 +1300

This is an account of David Booth’s premonition of the crash of American Airlines Flight 191. 273 people were killed when a fully loaded DC-10 crashed into the outskirts of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on 25 May 1979.

https://vimeo.com/237676110

The case is well-known because Mr Booth contacted the FAA before the…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 05:52:02 +1300

May and the writing on the wall...
...she was literally told to 'eff' off!

WH

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:12:02 +1300

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/the-cough-the-p45-the-falling-f-theresa-mays-speech-calamity

Give me an F! Give us an E!

https://youtu.be/KpW-EpIEBQM

https://youtu.be/JE6vSOlNoQw

https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/915545479236251648

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG94GJT8okE

Caleb D'Anvers

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:18:28 +1300

Cool! Yes, I really like SE16. The always changing moods and colours of the river; the views across to Wapping and Canary Wharf; the repurposed warehouses; the foreshore and the churches and the brickwork everywhere. I lived in East Greenwich for a while when I first moved to London, but…

WH

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 22:28:24 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJjASV20kc

I like the turntable device on the clip.

I used to live in SE16 – near Bermondsey station, on the river, not far from the Tesco. The place had some great views of the city. I moved to a place in Angel after that, and eventually got a great…

Caleb D'Anvers

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 21:38:18 +1300

We're well into this territory by now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy6yCPtXReE

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:54:41 +1300

...or even an irrational explanation – sometimes weird stuff happens...

WH

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:19:49 +1300

Are you saying that the incidents that gave rise to the decision to withdraw US personnel are unconnected, or are you saying that there's probably a rational explanation for the pattern?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG3vr19mFMk

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:33:03 +1300

Stanislaw Lem has a great book 'The Chain of Chance'
Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation.
An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect…

WH

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 10:57:47 +1300

Well, I hope Nancy finds those responsible and brings them to justice.

While the use of a sonic weapon can't be ruled out, this would be an unusual way to test or deploy one.

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:17:29 +1300

WH

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:48:29 +1300

The incidents are occurring in the residences and hotel rooms of those affected, rather than in the embassy building itself. As CNN reported:

In November, following the US presidential election, American diplomats began to experience a series of strange incidents. As CNN first reported in August, diplomats were awoken late…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 16:32:29 +1300

Good, good, good vibrations
While officials have been investigating whether a kind of sonic weapon has been deployed, the source and cause of the attacks remain unknown.
I’d be looking at long term cellular damage caused by low frequency harmonics, possibly created by micro turbulence through the diffraction grating formed…

WH

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 14:56:23 +1300

Following a spate of collisions involving US naval vessels, the State Department has withdrawn more than half of its staff from the US embassy in Cuba due to a series of unexplained "health attacks".

The Atlantic reports that:

at least 21 U.S. government officials in Havana had exhibited a range…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 06 Sept 2017 15:55:22 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Exbl-Svkk
Holy Magick some lyrics in actual 'Atlantean'
by noted Crowleyean – Graham Bond

mark taslov

Wed, 06 Sept 2017 15:19:45 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUPvREEoqE

WH

Wed, 06 Sept 2017 09:48:57 +1200

Black magic involves using spiritual forces to influence the mind, body or property of others without real consent.

mark taslov

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 02:34:42 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmNgiEgPoQ

WH

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:27:37 +1200

In witchcraft-related news, Vox’s Tara Isabella Burton has a story about viewing the solar eclipse with the Asheville coven in North Carolina.

In addition, the Pentagon has ordered a temporary halt to naval operations following a collision involving the USS John S. McCain. It’s the third collision involving US warships in…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:37:23 +1200

Today's Tremain – editorial cartoon from the ODT

Alfie

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:13:59 +1200

In the unlikely event that you're a Trump fan (perish the thought) and you've been tempted to splash out $US200,000 on a Mar-a-Lago membership, you may want to read this first.

Alfie

Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:24:17 +1200

Today's LA Times editorial entitled "Our Dishonest President" doesn't hold back. This is the first of four editorials they're publishing this week collectively called The Problem with Trump.

Alfie

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:20:26 +1300

Meanwhile, Rich Hall is back on BBC Radio 4...

Yay! Rich Hall. That episode is worth listening to, if only for the colourful descriptions of Bannon.

And may I mention a great little site that's become a daily must for me since Trump took power. [[https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com|What the fuck just happened…

linger

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:28:26 +1300

Meanwhile, Rich Hall is back on BBC Radio 4 with his US Breakdown series commenting on Trump’s first 60 days in office.
Episode 1 (March 22) will be available to stream or as MP3 download for 30 days after broadcast.

WH

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:03:05 +1300

I've read that traditional news outlets are experimenting as they explore the digital frontier but that does sound a little extreme.

Did you know that Christian Dior consulted the tarot before each show?

This is an interview with Florence Welch.

Rich of Observationz

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:48:31 +1300

a short video of one of the ceremonies at the Independent

Are they trying to somehow manifest a reader?

Brent Jackson

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:39:08 +1300

I saw that too, and smirked, ... and then wondered.

John Farrell

Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:24:22 +1300

Deliberate, or serendipitous?

WH

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:49:11 +1300

The Atlantic's Peter Beinart has an article about religion and politics after the culture wars here. He writes:

The alt-right is ultra-conservatism for a more secular age. Its leaders like Christendom, an old-fashioned word for the West. But they’re suspicious of Christianity itself, because it crosses boundaries of blood and…

John Farrell

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:42:35 +1300

Trump's latest travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii.

mark taslov

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:21:17 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzTnsSgs2s

WH

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:34:05 +1300

Oops – I just missed the edit deadline.

It's a strange moment and some very unusual decisions are being made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4AaIx0Ggz4

WH

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:01:18 +1300

send him to Coven Tree…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:44:07 +1300

a group of witches are participating in a mass spell against Donald Trump.
He already has the Eye of Newt!
send him to Coven Tree...

WH

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:36:58 +1300

The ABC and The Conversation report that a group of witches are participating in a mass spell against Donald Trump. There’s a short video of one of the ceremonies at the Independent.

WH

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:48:54 +1300

I didn’t take to the Harry Potter series but do remember seeing T-Bag, The Craft and Charmed on TV.

I also found this classic episode of the Smurfs and have been trying to find a plausible way to mention the immolation scene from The Ninth Gate, which I take to be…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 11:37:03 +1300

...a holder of the QSM.
Quidditch Senior Master?
;- )

WH

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 10:29:51 +1300

While I'm firmly against wizards and the like I hope he's going well on a personal level. I understand he's a holder of the QSM.

Joe Wylie

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 07:59:25 +1300

https://youtu.be/Pd9TxbNvXQU
Back when Sunday public speakers were a thing in Sydney Domain's version of Hyde Park corner, Webster was the undisputed king. When he appeared with his distinctive yellow ladder crowds would desert the freethinkers and the Bible Ladies for some real entertainment.

Everything the Wizard knows about public speaking…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 06:44:39 +1300

Let’s keep him away from the new one.
He's 'working tables' in New Regent Street these days...
...saw him haranguing some tourists there just the other day.

WH

Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:32:49 +1300

Let’s keep him away from the new one.

mark taslov

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:56:53 +1300

⠀ ⠀

Alfie

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 17:12:55 +1300

Comedian Peter Serafinowicz takes Trump's own words, and reads them in a slightly more camp style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNHNtXwtpBE

WH

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:36:36 +1300

Thanks for that link – I have a slightly irrational susceptibility to U Thant quotes.

With all their genius and all their skill they ran out of foresight
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkDK2mZlOo

I understand that a sequel is being released…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:53:39 +1300

Anthropocene alert!!
Amitav Ghosh has a really interesting viewpoint.
I just finished his short treatise The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable – I probably need to read it again to fully digest the content, sobering stuff.
He mentions a prescient warning from the Burmese statesman U Thant in…

WH

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 01:30:37 +1300

Ross Douthat writes:

For some time now it has felt as though God or the muse of History or some mischief-making demiurge has been placing thumbs upon the scales of Western politics, with an eye toward achieving the most disruptive and unlikely seeming outcomes.

From the shock of Brexit through…

WH

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 04:06:52 +1300

By way of postscript, Australia has won the first test by 333 runs and ended India's 19-match unbeaten run.

India suffered a second consecutive seven wicket collapse to be all out for 107; man of the match Steve O'Keefe returned 6/35 in each innings to end with figures of 12/70.

nzlemming

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 22:41:18 +1300

This is brilliant

WH

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:14:18 +1300

The Indian cricket team suffered a dramatic seven wicket batting collapse on day two of the first test in Pune, the worst such slump in its history. From the relative safety of 3/94, India lost seven wickets for eleven runs to be all out for 105. Left arm off-spinner Steve…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:16:58 +1300

Dimensional irregularities detected
Potential escalation and proliferation of transuranic elements!!
Life exists, so medium atomic weight elements Sapphire and Steel have been assigned!

…or is it Lady Penelope and Parker?

pic source

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:32:51 +1300

The Age of Aquarius…
Trump bans all travel into the USA from the Trappist 1 system!

Kumara Republic

Thu, 23 Feb 2017 02:04:30 +1300

This report from Michael Moore is disturbing. Trump is already future-proofing his reign.

Trump of the Will?

linger

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:18:33 +1300

much more scatologically […] the Face of Trump’s Movement

Which brings to mind Tokyo’s own “Trump Tower” –
the Asahi beer hall statue known locally as the “golden turd”.

nzlemming

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:02:14 +1300

Over 50,000 rabid Trump faithful have shown up to this massive rally now underway.

Except that it was only 9,000. Far fewer than the 15,000 the place could hold (and did when it was used during the 2016 campaign, along with 12,000 outside that they couldn’t fit in). If Moore…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:47:41 +1300

The worrying thing I’ve noticed is that recently Trump refers more often to ‘his’ or ‘our’ Movement
Maybe they’re the ‘Minute-hand Men’?

…something I think of much more scatologically when I see Kellyanne Conway ill-advisedly say:
"I’m the Face of Trump’s Movement”
source

I see the ‘bright Bart’ idea has…

linger

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:40:34 +1300

Well, that's one way of looking at it.
But more simply: narcissist sets up yet another group to feed his ego.
What else could we really expect?

Hilary Stace

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:18:17 +1300

This report from Michael Moore is disturbing. Trump is already future-proofing his reign.

Michael Moore
19 February at 11:23 ·

Just so you understand: The rally Trump is holding right now near Orlando, Florida is, as his aides are calling it, "an official Re-Elect Trump 2020 campaign rally." On Inauguration…

Alfie

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:41:52 +1300

Time isn't holding back either.

nzlemming

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:26:54 +1300

Seems Chris Wallace is showing his spine as well.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media

nzlemming

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:32:54 +1300

So this happened.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320249-cnn-host-abruptly-ends-segment-after-trump-surrogate-makes-fake

For reference, Paris Dennard describes himself as a __"GOP political commentator and consultant with over a decade of private and public sector experience on all levels of politics and public relations. In addition to his political background, for the past 20 years he has provided brand…

Jeremy Andrew

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:23:17 +1300

If you don't think that what didn't happen yesterday in Sweden can't not happen here, you better think again!

Katharine Moody

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:57:40 +1300

Hilarious – so the President who is so concerned to warn his public about fake news about his administration, repeats some fake news about someone else's administration;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Horowitz

Even more hilarious that Fox wasn't included in his tweets about fake news;

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/320168-trump-the-media-is-the-enemy-of-the-american-people

Oh what a tangled web....

Katharine Moody

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:34:24 +1300

Also important to look at where Americans get their news from;

http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/pathways-to-news/

Alfie

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 08:51:17 +1300

Swedish 3D artist Anders Ryttar created this cute take on Trumpet's bizarre handshake.

http://www.andersryttar.se/

Kumara Republic

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 00:00:22 +1300

IIRC the Washington Post is now majority owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame, and the NYT's single biggest shareholder is Carlos Slim. You can also add Tribune Media (owner of the LA Times and Chicago Tribune).

Of the major media networks listed by Katharine above, only NewsCorp seems to…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 16:57:36 +1300

And remember who “the press” are:
Strictly speaking this list is ‘the Media’
and leaves many of 'the Press' out
The Washington Post
The New York Times
The Guardian
The Independent
(and The ODT )
all have different ownership models
(Family business, Russian oligarch, cooperatives, etc)

not to mention Condé…

Katharine Moody

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:27:15 +1300

And remember who “the press” are:

Comcast

NBC
Telemundo
Universal Pictures
Focus Features
USA Network
Bravo
CNBC
The Weather Channel
MSNBC
Syfy
NBCSN
Golf Channel
Esquire Network
E!
Cloo
Chiller
Universal HD
Comcast SportsNet
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Studio Home Video

The Walt Disney Company

ABC Television Network
ESPN
The…

Paul Campbell

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:44:09 +1300

I've found a new way to think about the ongoing range war between Trump and the press over the nature of reality .... Every time you hear a question about whether something Trump has said is true substitute "is wearing no clothes"

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:18:59 +1300

One thing leads to another...
I've just been reading through Christopher Fowler's 'Bryant and May' series – highly recommended for the inner polymath and fact hoarder – a comment at his website lead me to this marvellous piece of Live New Yorker copy editing...
**WATCH: Andrew Boynton copy-edits recent speeches…

WH

Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:33:03 +1300

This is Akhil Suhas’ short film of his trip around New Zealand.

WH

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:13:45 +1300

This is Slate’s interesting take on ESPN’s in-game estimate that the Falcons were 99.8% likely to win Super Bowl LI. While the statistical gizmos tend to be a little over-confident, the end result was still very unusual:

Because these kinds of comebacks are so rare, Burke told me, it’s very…

Neil

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:44:30 +1300

I'm parodying not very subtly the disturbing intent-driven phenomenon of well financed people claiming to be against Trump and Putin but who campaigned against Hillary Clinton and who continue to attack people who are actually opposing Trump and Putin.

andin

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:34:20 +1300

The sun must be shining where you are? you giving a speech by any chance? Check for rain or FO

Neil

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 18:17:16 +1300

A Trump appointee lying about contacts with Russia is not evidence that the Trump admin has had clandestine contact with Putin.

It is evidence that the Deep State is trying to distract us from Chelsea Clinton's tweets advocating war against Iran.

Anway, I was right and progressives and Hillary caused…

WH

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:49:02 +1300

I understand your point of view.

andin

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:46:52 +1300

More importantly Al Jarreau has died. His brand of smooth soul may not be to everyones taste, it was beautiful, especially when he did his scat vocal interlude's. RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaoXRJOjo3k&index=26&list=RDUU_ufcAkhFc

andin

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:23:40 +1300

Yep and there's all manner of madness like...
Bannon now seems to be trying to bring about the Fourth Turning,
Bannon is convinced he see's method in the madness, Nah.
He's just projecting his madness into everything making it full blown methodical insanity.

WH

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:16:11 +1300

I went looking for this (which is pretty good I reckon) and came across this.

nzlemming

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:45:54 +1300

A propos of nothing much in this thread except He Who Must Not Be Named being called one, can I recommend to you this delightful article about the linguistics of shitgibbon as an insult? It's worth thinking about, considering how many times portmanteau terms are nominated as WOTY.

Edit: See…

mark taslov

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:10:20 +1300

Applied to politics, the people who think that “interesting times” are interesting, probably aren’t thinking of the people for whom even minor extra difficulties could be enough to sink them.

I did mean it in the Chinese proverb sense :-)

One hope I have in this “post truth” era, is…

WH

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 22:36:27 +1300

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote:

in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

South Korea. China. The Philippines. Cuba. Ghana. Germany.

Mary Lincoln, Nancy Reagan and a very odd phone call reportedly placed by Donald Trump.

Although this piece about John…

nzlemming

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:10:20 +1300

Unbelievable. Republicans just voted down a bill that would "affirm that the Nazi regime targeted the Jewish people in its perpetration of the Holocaust" and condemn Trump's Holocaust Day statement. Talk about tribal politics. Won't sit too well with AIPAC...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/07/republicans_block_vote_on_resolution_stating_that_holocaust_targeted_jews.html

mark taslov

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:53:37 +1300

Paul Anka's 'My Way'

Which shares motifs with Charles Dumont and Michel Vaucaire's 'Non, je ne regrette rien'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCYEkA0_q8

nzlemming

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:15:10 +1300

The Atlantic has been keeping score of Trump's pre-election scandals

nzlemming

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:38:31 +1300

The tweet was sent from an iPhone. Cheetolini usually uses an unsecured Android device.

Yes, it's usually his staff who use the iPhone. That said, he's also said that he dictates his tweets and someone else sends them, so who the fuck knows?

Rich Lock

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:02:23 +1300

I was also majorly surprised to hear on Morning Report that he tweeted this during a CIA briefing!! I'd have thought those would be held 'in camera' with devices excluded.

The tweet was sent from an iPhone. Cheetolini usually uses an unsecured Android device.

Draw your own conclusions.

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 07:48:57 +1300

Donny-Do-Right hasn't quite mastered a separation from his and his family's business concerns it seems...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/89220464/donald-trump-criticises-nordstrom-after-store-reportedly-curbs-deal-with-ivanka-trump
"It's never great to have these questions about dual allegiance," said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan watchdog group.
"But certainly we've never seen before a…

John Farrell

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:54:48 +1300

Whitehouse.org is back – it was on holiday while Obama was president.

http://whitehouse.org/

mark taslov

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 16:51:42 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl_60kr5kzY

http://www.adls.org.nz/for-the-profession/news-and-opinion/2014/11/7/proceeds-of-crime-legislation-%E2%80%93-five-years-in/

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:42:32 +1300

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/89185442/trump-jokes-with-sheriffs-about-destroying-a-texas-legislators-career-over-asset-forfeiture

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:17:40 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB38DvTV5kc

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:55:40 +1300

I often feel that PAS is a a kind of League of Notions...

mark taslov

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 03:11:23 +1300

I imagine being someone in Iraq who has lost her mother, her husband, her son and her daughter in a US bombing. I count death tolls. Death upon death upon death upon death. Some profess to have this or that ideology but the result, the outcomes, the actual impact on…

Rich Lock

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:57:34 +1300

Mark, the reason I keep replying to you rather than ignoring you is because I think you are arguing in good faith and are receptive to arguments. So I'm not trying to paint you into a corner or trap you in some sort of gotcha!

But having said that, I…

mark taslov

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 23:30:33 +1300

Your argument veers dangerously close to the sort of argument that bloviating windbags like Piers Morgan here in the UK throw up all the time: ‘why are you protesting [bad thing X], when [bad thing Y] is also happening?’

It may well do, but again one might argue that making…