Recent Posts
»  
 

Friday

10 out of 10 based on 1 rating

May 16th, 2025 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized | Print This Post Print This Post | |

10 comments to Friday

  • #
    Skepticynic
    May 16, 2025 at 1:54 am · Reply

    Even Canadian fake conservative Erik Kaufmann acknowledges woke progressivism is dead and dying.
    Western governments are a bit slow to catch on.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1922973741740437843.html

    We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted

    Post-Trump the Left are beginning to wake up and de-woken. They’re licking their wounds, de-constructing, and doing the soul-searching that Australian so-called conservative Liberal parties need to do.
    Here in the colonies we’re a bit slow to catch on.

    30

    • #
      Ted1
      May 16, 2025 at 3:09 am · Reply

      “Post-progressivism argues that the end of the progressive grand narrative demands a new social science”.

      Well I’ll be woken!

      And he’s post Trump already!

      20

  • #
    Skepticynic
    May 16, 2025 at 2:07 am · Reply

    UK Citizen Sentenced to 10 Years in Saudi Arabia Over Deleted Tweet
    …
    A British citizen has been handed a 10-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia over a tweet that no longer exists and was seen by barely a few dozen people. The post, erased years ago from an account with just 37 followers, is now at the center of a case that exposes how harshly the Kingdom is punishing digital speech.
    Ahmed al-Doush, a senior business analyst with Bank of America, was taken into custody at Riyadh’s main airport on August 31, 2024, as he prepared to return to the UK with his wife and children following a family trip. He never made it onto the plane. Saudi officials stopped him at the departure gate and transferred him to a maximum-security prison, where he was kept in isolation for more than a month.
    It would be five months before Saudi authorities disclosed the supposed basis for his arrest: accusations that he used social media to “spread false and harmful information…”

    etc.
    https://archive.ph/6DKHb

    20

  • #
    David Maddison
    May 16, 2025 at 4:18 am · Reply

    Even as a child, I thought this show waa stupid.

    “Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men”.

    It waa made 1952-1953, before I was born, but endlessly repeated by Their ABC for many years after that.

    https://youtu.be/hcF9JSxkUSE

    From Wikipedia:

    Flower Pot Men features the story of Bill and Ben, two men made of terracotta flower pots who live at the bottom of an English garden. A third character, Little Weed, of indeterminate species resembling either a sunflower or a dandelion with a smiling face, is shown growing between two large flowerpots. The three are also sometimes visited by a tortoise called Slowcoach and, in one particular episode, the trio meet a faintly mysterious character made out of potatoes, Dan the Potato Man.

    Typically, while the “man who worked in the garden” would be away having his dinner, the two flower pot men, Bill and Ben, would emerge from their pots. After a minor adventure, a slight mishap would occur, for which someone would then take the blame: “Which of these two flowerpot men, was it Bill or was it Ben?” the narrator would trill in a quavering soprano; the culprit would then confess, before the gardener’s footsteps would be heard coming up the garden path; the flower pot men then would vanish into their pots and the “Goodbye” screen would appear. The final punch-line was, “..and I think the little house knew something about it; don’t you?”.

    10

  • #
    David Maddison
    May 16, 2025 at 4:21 am · Reply

    Gad Saad comment on Canada:

    https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1922883782626927097

    I love Canada. I’m Canadian. But Canada is no longer a serious country. It is irrevocably changed by a mixture of parasitized minds, cancerous socialism, and suicidal empathy.

    10

  • #
    Auto
    May 16, 2025 at 4:27 am · Reply

    Story tip
    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

    Caveats in the link, but it looks as if one national supplier of kit has inserted some ‘backdoors’.
    I would do the same – and fully intend to do so, if I can work out how to do so in a wooden Welsh lovespoon.
    And if it profitably restrict Chinese actions …

    Auto

    00

    • #
      David Maddison
      May 16, 2025 at 5:01 am · Reply

      A Trojan horse.

      Just imagine if the Chicomms decided to turn off all Australian rooftop solar?

      And that’s exactly why during the first TRUMP administration he banned the import of large scale electrical infrastructure from China, a ban reversed by Biden.

      https://www.akingump.com/en/insights/alerts/president-trump-establishes-framework-to-ban-the-use-of-foreign-sourced-equipment-in-the-us-electric-grid

      On May 1, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (E.O.) aimed at curtailing the use of foreign-sourced electric equipment installed on the U.S. “bulk-power system,” which is commonly understood to mean the U.S. interconnected electric grid. It authorizes the Secretary of Energy to block transactions involving certain bulk-power system electric equipment with a nexus to designated foreign adversaries.

      https://www.reuters.com/article/business/us-bans-utilities-supplying-defense-facilities-from-buying-power-grid-items-fr-idUSKBN28R31Q/

      WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. energy secretary on Thursday signed an order prohibiting electric utilities that supply critical defense facilities from importing certain power system items from China, in an effort to protect U.S. security from cyber and other attacks.

      https://www.powertransformernews.com/2021/04/23/us-department-of-energy-reverses-trump-ban-on-chinese-electrical-equipment/

      The US Department of Energy has reversed former President Trump’s ban on the import of certain electrical equipment from China.

      The announcement comes as part of a push to increase electrical grid security. China is one of the world’s major manufacturers of electrical grid equipment, and energy regulators cite the need to modernize equipment as part of the reason why the ban was reversed.

      The ban on Chinese electrical equipment began in December 2020, just one month before Trump was due to leave office, when the Department of Energy issued a prohibition order on such equipment. The order was authorized by Donald Trump last May when he signed Executive Order 13920, which declared a state of emergency over the state of the power grid. Cyberattacks are commonly directed at power grids, especially from state-sponsored hackers abroad.

      00

  • #
    David Maddison
    May 16, 2025 at 4:50 am · Reply

    In this disarmingly honest, frank and confronting video, various black people comment about the situation in Africa and its overall lack of progress before and after Western colonial powers were kicked out. No, it wasn’t the fault of the colonisers, Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonised and still have the same situation. And all other countries elsewhere that were colonised such as Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, NZ, Singapore, United States etc. are all doing fine.

    https://youtu.be/YClIfiwBD_8

    00

Leave a Reply

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>