tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7939358490764101981..comments2024-03-29T10:53:28.617+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond connects with prattling Polonius and B. A. Santamaria and Franco ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36003153264246351402016-07-11T01:25:06.425+10:002016-07-11T01:25:06.425+10:00Probably very wise of you. For me, all my memorie...Probably very wise of you. For me, all my memories just up and left of their own accord.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45923397692615737362016-07-10T08:52:58.988+10:002016-07-10T08:52:58.988+10:00I don't remember a thing about the 80s, GB. I...I don't remember a thing about the 80s, GB. I've expunged all those memories from my brain.Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25244641507874255612016-07-09T18:42:58.905+10:002016-07-09T18:42:58.905+10:00Santamaria was also infamous for openly pressuring...Santamaria was also infamous for openly pressuring the government of the day to use nukes against the North Vietnamese. <br />Meanwhile Mussolini had a very cosy relationship with the "catholic" church - the recent truth-telling book The 'Secret History' of Fascism & the Church by David Kertzer is essential reading.<br />And of course Mussolini was instrumental in creating the "independent" vatican state, thus giving the vatican unprecedented "official" political power in every world forum. <br />But the vatican is actually the worlds penultimate parasitic entity. It runs the worlds biggest money-sucking scam. Its banks were, and probably still are, involved in laundering money for the mafia and other assorted low-life criminals, including the billions stolen from the people of the Philippines by the Marcos klepto-maniacs. It also happily received the vast amount of money and gold looted from the people of Croatia by the Ustasha fascists, which they enthusiastically supported during the war. Google ustasha atrocities.<br />It also provided the finance, and rat-lines for nazi war criminals to escape from Europe, especially to South America.<br />Meanwhile this reference provides some interesting behind-the-scenes information on how it scams or suckers some countries www.concordatwatch.eu - and puts itself above and beyond the reach of the laws of the secular state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59954071275131296282016-07-09T16:44:05.173+10:002016-07-09T16:44:05.173+10:00I'd reckon, VC, that the vast majority of livi...I'd reckon, VC, that the vast majority of living Australians have never even heard of Mao Zedong, so who's going to be afraid of him. Or of the "red menace" either - who's Joseph Dzhugashvilli again ?<br /><br />Nope, I think we're back into the "yellow peril" days when the evil Chinese are coming over here and buying up our country (and our dried milk and infant formula too).<br /><br />Back in the days when 'yellow peril' meant the fiendishly efficient Japanese and their industrial might, well they were going to come over here and buy out our country too. Thing was, I reckoned then that we should let 'em do it: they pay each of us Aussies $1 million and we'll swap countries - we'll all go to Japan and use the money (worth a great deal more back then than $1 million now) to hire live-in Filipino servants and the Japanese can all settle in Australia. Sadly, nobody would be in it. A great opportunity lost.<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28873196315757052016-07-09T15:51:54.236+10:002016-07-09T15:51:54.236+10:00Hmm, now Merc, did you mean Joe Bananss win in Que...Hmm, now Merc, did you mean Joe Bananss win in Queensland in 1986, or did you really mean the Bo Bork win in 1987 following a ... wait for it ... double dissolution ! (He beat Howard)<br /><br />Now let me see: Bork won in 1983 and again in 1984 and then in 1987 and then Keating won in 1990 and 1993. Chris Pyne was born in 1967 so in 1993 he'd have been able to witness 5 successive Labor wins. Plenty enough for him to have been able to get up on TV and state that "The Liberals are an election losing machine !"<br /><br />Funny thing is, I don't remember him actually doing it. Anybody ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-59747488780549224292016-07-09T14:10:50.568+10:002016-07-09T14:10:50.568+10:00Yep, the booth I worked at in Wills was absolute a...Yep, the booth I worked at in Wills was absolute abuzz with chatter about the Maoist threat. Malcom, Medicare, Maoism - you could even call it the MMM affect.<br /><br />I am really surprised that Henderson doesn't get more traction in the national conversation. He's nailed it again.via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-70879893180124324312016-07-09T10:07:59.945+10:002016-07-09T10:07:59.945+10:00Good to see Henderson referring to 'this month...Good to see Henderson referring to 'this month's election". Otherwise we might have thought he was talking about the election in, oh I don't know, 1986?Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-12155853540583932392016-07-09T09:21:39.153+10:002016-07-09T09:21:39.153+10:00God, it's always Vietnam time for these guys,i...God, it's always Vietnam time for these guys,isn't it? You didn't have to be exactly bright to see that the people talking up the Iraq invasion were often the same sort of people who fucked up the Vietnam War.GlenHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978357851849422273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45608389335310587912016-07-09T09:05:27.750+10:002016-07-09T09:05:27.750+10:00I was a little surprised that Henderson didn't...I was a little surprised that Henderson didn't immediately write a droning piece defending Blair (and thereby Howard)from those drawing critical conclusions from the Iraq War report. I expected this to be an attack on the attackers, consistent with his comments in 2003 about those who marched against the war being primarily motivated by a desire to experience (or relive) the frisson of the Vietnam Moratorium.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com