The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from the famed South Melbourne Market. On arriving at the modish, glorious bit of real estate known as Tipsy Village, a Polish establishment famed for accented French cuisine, she shrieked: Why do you have Ruskie dumplings on your menu?

The Polish host, a man of butter mild manner and infinite tolerance, covered in stout glory, took it in his stride. That is what they are called where I come from and that is what we serve, Peter Barnatt stated with serene clarity. (Such wickedness! Such a radical disposition!) The blonde shrieking wonder continued to invest in the dumplings some satanic quality, as if each one had been a shell, soldier, a weapon massed and launched against her pristine homeland which she had, it seemed, abandoned. We would just like coffees, she demanded. His temper finally disturbed, the host insisted that, as the two were not intent on dining, might just as well leave.

In a luxurious huff, they exited. Such behaviour was fascinating for being irresolvable no dining establishment worth its salt and cutlery should ever change that aspect of things. But for them, the issue had been decided, a prejudice firmed up and solid.

Names on the menu are a signature of a restaurants worth. Besides, dishes do not invade countries in tanks nor bomb cities. The episode was also strikingly, amusingly moronic. Food had been made out as somehow guilty, disgusting, revolting all because of a name, an identity. The sin had moved in the dough, the mixture and the potatoes, dumplings with agency. The restaurateur was all the more guilty for hosting them.

Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the gastro-culture war on serving dishes with a Russian name, be it with hint, flavour, or substance, has been total. Hatred of the Kremlin has become bigotry towards the dish. In Madrid, Sergiy Skorokhvatov, himself Ukrainian and an owner of a restaurant called Rasputin serving both Russian and Ukrainian cuisine, sensed trouble. He ventured into the thorny world of online discussions to clarify the nature of what he was serving, which was considered wise given what has happening to other restaurants serving Russian fare.

This method of insurance was not full proof. I thought that changing things would help us, but then people started posting similar stuff about us Dont go to Russian restaurants and pictures of blown-up buildings in Ukraine.

When politics ventures into the field of gastronomy, imbecility is sovereign, its crown heavy. The French restaurant chain Maison de la Poutine, specialising in the combination of chips, cheese curds and gravy (poutine, you might say),...

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It doesnt look good for balance or evidence when the Covid-19 inquiry is asking for lateral flow tests and masks

BY LAURA DODSWORTH | JUNE 13, 2023

These walls are funny. First you hate em, then you get used to em. Nuff time passes, you get so you depend on em. Thats institutionalised. From The Shawshank Redemption

The first Covid-19 inquiry public hearing will be held today, following the preliminary hearings which began in February. The inquiry will call witnesses to give evidence under oath and they will then be questioned by barristers and the chair, Baroness Hallett.

There is no deadline for the inquirys conclusion. It is an eye-wateringly expensive investigation, currently estimated to cost 114 million, but it will potentially run to more than the Bloody Sunday inquiry which was nearly 200 million. 63 lawyers are working directly for the inquiry and a further 100 are named as representatives. MP Graham Stringer has commented that this is a very expensive and very bloated inquiry and it may be used to kick things into [the] very long grass.

It is important not to pre-judge the outcome of the inquiry, but it has been increasingly difficult to be hopeful for the inquirys fairness and value for money. After the imbalance of the modules and core participants, the first serious dark cloud to descend was the lamentable list of 150 questions put by Baroness Hallett to Boris Johnson. Now, they are only questions and we dont have the answers yet, but to give you an idea, question 45 was particularly chilling:

45. To what extent did the UK Government have regard during the period January to March 2020 to the response of other countries to Covid-19? Did you consider taking more stringent measures in response to Covid-19 such as those seen in, for example, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand etc? What, if any, assumptions were made about how such measures would (or would not) work in the UK?

Why not Sweden? It did not impose strict lockdowns, or close schools for under 16s and currently has the one of the worlds lowest excess mortality figures. This inquiry appears to favour stringency above existing pandemic planning, minimum economic an...

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The victory of Novak Djokovic in the latest French Open had the usual mixed reception in Australia. While Australians pretend to like radicals, larrikins and the occasional deviant, the contrary is true. Tight buttoned, properly behaved and conformist to the point of invisibility, the boringly predictable are always preferred. You can rely on them.

Even in Melbourne, a town where his following is strong (he has won 10 Australian Opens), the call back circuit on the local ABC radio station qualified, ignored, even denigrated the Serbs latest achievement. At best, 23 grand slams, making him the most accomplished player in the open era, had to be seen alongside other caveats. He did not, one caller churlishly insisted, do the grand slam in one year, twice! Another, showing the sort of maturity demanded in some spectators, insisted that a French Open without Rafael Nadal was not a tournament worth seeing. Even the radio host joined in, regretting that it had to be Novak getting his nose in front.

Of the big three who have dominated tennis for almost two decades Roger Federer, Nadal and Djokovic the Serbian has tended to be seen as one playing catch-up, his talent formidable, colossal, yet limping behind the anointed ones. But the views of him as a player have rarely remained technical or specific to his craft. There is always something else about him that irritates and enrages, necessitating his diminishing. He does not play the role of what might be termed the nice person.

Cathal Kelly, writing for The Globe and Mail, wistfully recalls that other villain of tennis: the young Andre Agassi. Young Andre Agassi was insufferable. He was so easily detestable that Esquire magazine named its yearly razzy sports awards after him. But the insufferable became palatable: Agassi lost the wig, became a nice person. It was a real disappointment. He also found himself a wife of unquestioned goodness: another stellar tennis performer, Steffi Graf.

Djokovic, however, presents so...

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A 20-year-old man from Rochester, Minnesota, will spend less than six months in jail for raping two girls aged four and nine.

Mohamed Bakari Shei was sentenced to 176 days in the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center on Monday for two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with someone under 13, reported KIMT. Shei entered an Alford plea in Dec. 2022, pleading guilty while maintaining his innocence but acknowledging the evidence against him would cause a jury to convict him.

In addition to the jail sentence, District Judge Jacob Allen gave Shei 30 years of supervised probation and 200 hours of community work service, according to the report. Shei pled guilty to raping a nine-year-old girl several times beginning on Mothers Day 2018 and another girl around four or five years old in 2021, reported the Post Bulletin.

Olmsted County Senior Attorney Thomas Gort said Sheis plea deal included a stay of adjudication and no prison time to prevent him from prolonging his prosecution, according to the report. Shei could have challenged his status of being tried in adult court since he was around 16 years old when he committed the rapes.

With good behavior, Shei will serve, at most, 116 days in Olmsted County Adult Detention Center, the report stated. His jail sentence will begin Feb. 13, 2023. Shei was also ordered to undergo a sex offender program and complete 200 hours of community service.

At Sheis sentencing hearing, one of his victims gave a statement about her experience dealing with the sexual assaults. There is no moving on or getting over it. Ive tried, she said, according to the outlet.

A family member of one of Sheis victims told him he would answer for the sexual assaults that caused the child to become detached and introverted, the report stated.

Some day you will have to answer for his egregious act against a child, they told Shei in court.

Sheis plea deal does not require that he register as a sex offender.

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Smoking Mirrors June 9, 2023

God Poet Transmitting.

If you ask your search engine; why does the smoke from Quebec blow South? You find that both the NY and LA Times have a spin on it, AND so do all kinds of other mass media cloacas. Its called getting ahead of the story cutting the truth off at the pass seizing the narrative until its in George Floyd Country.

The bottom feeders who ironically appear to be resident at the top of the food chain are well aware of the changes in patterns and trends as the new age comes into its measured sector in the endless cycle of Nature in transformation responding to the way The Light is precipitated into form through the particular constellation it will be shining through. We can only hope you read that sentence with some degree of patient attentiveness.

So they have latched on to certain areas of change with the idea that we can collectively do something about them; Climate Change, for instance. They want to be out in front of the traffic caused by humanitys latest passage through Time and Space.

I wonder how many people think about how the story about The Tower of Babel happened to make an appearance? Who was behind all those Greek and Roman myths? How about Noah and The Ark? Its patently absurd on the face of it, but are there deeper implications concerning God and Natures reactions to the decay of culture at that time?

Dont you get the feeling sometimes that someone several someones or something is behind the curtain that cuts off the view of backstage from the audience in the theater? Is life itself a Punch and Judy Show? I mean of course there are those bottom feeders who like to give the impression that they are in charge of conditions and events, and you could surmise that The Dark Lord is behind them, but surely The Dark Lord answers to someone too. Doesnt he?

Is he responsible for turning existence into The Buggerers Banquet? Is it humanity causing it through its collective resistance to The Light, or are these the things that happen automatically when Materialism reaches a certain level of density and intensity?

Consider The Fetal Position. Please note how as life advances toward death how the body seems to curl back into a similar position. I imagine if it kept going and Nature was accommodating then Humanity would likely disappear up its own waste canal?

It seems to me that you have either a circular awareness if you are one who thinks that what you see is all there is or a spiraling consciousness that by stages progresses to states of being beyond the bandwidth of the senses, w...

THE 49-PAGE GRAND JURY indictment, filed last week in Florida by the United States Department of Justice, contains 37 criminal charges against former president Donald Trump. The charges can be summarized into a two-fold accusation: Trump is alleged to have stolen more than 300 classified documents upon leaving the White House in January 2021. Moreover, he allegedly schemed with a group of advisors and aides in order to obstruct efforts by the government to retrieve the stolen documents. Both accusations are spelled out in stark detail in the pages of the indictment. What remains unanswered, however, is the motive.

By Ekaterina Blinova Sputnik 11.06.2023

A senior FBI official charged with executing the raid on former President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago last year has raised a red flag about abnormalities and apparent violations in the Justice Departments handling of the case.

Former Assistant Director of the FBIs Washington Field Office (WFO) Steven DAntuono has reached out to the US Congress citing concerns and frustration with the manner President Joe Bidens Department of Justice arranged the August 2022 raid of former President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago home.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan unveiled the damning testimony earlier this week and sent a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers.

First, DAntuono, who had two decades of FBI experience, drew attention to the fact that the bureaus headquarters made the decision to assign the execution of the search warrant in Trumps Miami residence to the Washington Field Office. As per DAntuono, it looked strange given that the search occurred in the territory of the Miami Field Office, which should have been assigned with the task under the bureaus rules.

Second, the DoJ failed to assign a US Attorneys Office to the investigative matter of that magnitude which was unusual as per the FBI veteran. This triggered DAntuonos deep concerns as it was out of the ordinary. He noted that he never got a good answer from DoJ with regard to this decision.

Third, the FBI did not first seek consent to effectuate the search. DAntuono recalled that at the meeting between FBI and DoJ officials, the Department of Justice pushed the bureau to execute the search warrant as quickly as possible. Referring to his experience, the FBI veteran underscored that the agency should have sought consent to search the premises prior to the raid. DAntuono suggested that either AG Garland or FBI Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant despite opposition from the agents working on the case in the WFO. DAntuono pointed out that there was a good likelihood that [Trumps legal team] could have given consent.

Fourth, the FBI refused to wait for Trumps attorney to be present before the raid, as per DAntuono. The bureau veteran claimed that the FBI sought to exclude Trumps lawyers from the search, which again sounded an alarm for the senior officer.

The FBI veterans testimony has prompted US Republican lawmakers to make a repeated request for bureau documents and information concerning the raid. In his latest let...