Wait till Chinese-made vaccines are mandatory. pic.twitter.com/aLPb7297tL
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) August 10, 2020
Lay down these words
Before your mind like rocks.
placed solid, by hands
In choice of place, set
Before the body of the mind
in space and time:
Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall
riprap of things:
Cobble of milky way.
straying planets,
These poems, people,
lost ponies with
Dragging saddles –
and rocky sure-foot trails.
The worlds like an endless
four-dimensional
Game of Go.
ants and pebbles
In the thin loam, each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
Crystal and sediment linked hot
all change, in thoughts,
As well as things.
Gary Snyder
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
— BY THEODORE ROETHKE
The scientists are in terror
and the European mind stops
Wyndham Lewis chose blindness
rather than have his mind stop.
Night under wind mid garofani,
the petals are almost still
Mozart, Linnaeus, Sulmona,
When one’s friends hate each other
how can there be peace in the world?
Their asperities diverted me in my green time.
A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change
Time, space,
neither life nor death is the answer.
And of man seeking good,
doing evil.
In meiner Heimat
where the dead walked
and the living were made of cardboard.
His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o’clock;
And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.
— Eliot
I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this
air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their
parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
— Walt Whitman
Gerard Van der Leun
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Are you people really gonna lose your shit over this video? It’s the white-Aussie equivalent of George Floyd. Did you learn nothing over the last three months? Show me the rest of the video where the rough-looking dyke in the JNCOs and Docs was actually the picture of docile femininity. I ain’t buying it.
That cop was pitiful though. Looks like Bill Nighy trying to roll up a large carpet.
Really? So, if it is equivalent, when someone has a knee or a choke hold we should just film it or go on our merry way? Over not wearing a mask. Nice. I’ve got kids, and if they were handled like this, there would be no place to f’in hide. You better figure out what side you’re on because the time is nigh.
This is a kid not wearing a mask OUTSIDE in the summer, when coronviruses fail to thrive, due to heat
There’s thousands of feet air.above his head for the virus to circulate. There’s no AC to recirculate the virus in an enclosed space. Which is why nobody asked anybody anywhere to mask up during the first few months
Aussie culture is not British culture, but it comes from British culture. And one definite aspect of British culture is that one does not resist arrest. If a police officer says, “You’re nicked,” you don’t fight it.
This is disturbing on multiple levels.
Mark Steyn’s podcast of this date tells that the young woman had a medical exemption not to wear a mask. Yet that policeman wasn’t interested in whatever that young woman might have had to say, was he?
2 inexperienced buttplugs
HIS nutz were exposed
SHE didn’t de-nut him
@ Callmelennie
Just a small quibble, but August is a winter month in Australia.
But yeah, this is disturbing, and those responsible for enforcing these insane mandates should expect resistance. Eventually, somebody’s going to get shot. Over a mask.
How do you know it was because she wasn’t wearing a mask. Because the camera guy said so? How many protestors in Portland are Victims of “unprovoked attacks by police?”
You see what you want to see, but you haven’t seen the whole story.
Vignettes are never the whole story. One could make a plus or minus decision based on this snippet,with no real understanding of what the ? is really going on.
Very good point Gordon brought up-“If you’re nicked,don’t fight it.”
Pick your battles,and live to fight another day.
Ezra Levant is correct. Just you wait til the vaccine is mandatory for entry into a grocery store, liquor store, or the your local state park, what are you going to do then? I’ve a pretty good idea what the cops are going to do, and the local bureaucrats, and the local grocery store owner who doesn’t want to lose his state issued operating license. They are all going to become, in essence, deputized enforcers of the state, just like the cop in that video enforcing a mandatory mask order. The abject compliance we are witnessing, and zealous enforcement by both officials and Karens, over wearing a mask, to me seems to highlight the total abdication of the American people to what can only be described as overlords of micromanagement.
There is a video of the Melbourne police chief explaining that there will now be hundreds of police diverted to check points to stop people, check their ID, and demand that they reveal where they are going, as they want everyone to remain at home. He said that if you taunt police or refuse to lower your window to answer the questions, they will break your window and drag you out of your car. He also disparaged people who state that they are sovereign citizens saying “Whatever THAT is.” They are also enforcing mask wearing. Coming to a neighborhood near you soon.
Anonymous,
Your post provides a lot more context to the police policy. Thanks for providing that info.
Do you know anything further about how the encounter unfolded with the girl?
She is a young, poorly trained, Agent of Change.
On our last trip to Australia we met two different Australian men who had just travelled to the US to be trained as “consultants” “Agents of Change”. They were both going back home to Australia to waiting jobs in the education field.
The first was well dressed gay man in his early 30’s. Met him in the bar while waiting for departing flight to Sydney. We started chatting an he said, ” I was sent over to the states to learn how to make the private Christian schools back home accept homosexuality”. “My job when I get home is funded by a private group with government clearance to help these schools write their new curriculum.”
Second man we met at a restaurant in Melbourne. Older gentleman had lost his government job at the age of 55. As part of his retirement package he was sent to the states for “training”. His job when he got back home was to help “re-write some of the curriculum in the public schools”. He was a devout Australian union/liberal.
During the wildfires last winter there was a woman posting online from Australia. She was very good at silencing any opinion other than her own and when I asked what her profession was and how did she learn to be so good at managing the audience her response was, “I have been trained by a “Community Organizer from the States”. I followed up on the rest of the info she gave and found that the private consulting group that put on these “training sessions” in Australia is based in Chicago.
This young lady has all the indicators of a young person being directed from someone outside. Your guess is as good as mine as to who, or where, or which USA consultant has directed that act of rebellion.
The state of Melbourne put a total lockdown on all citizen . They are allowed out 1 hr a day to exercise can only travel 5 miles to Market for food .Curfew from 8pm to 5am daily ,Masks are MANDATORY outside at all times if you don’t have or wear one you are ARRESTED there are several more like if you travel the police can stop you demand your Identification ask where you are going where you came from if you don’t provide answers the arrest you if you don’t exit your car the break windows and pull you out. The reason given by the overlords of the state is that they had 7 COVID deaths in 1 day. Here is the kicker 3 were OVER 70 2 were OVER 80 and the last 2 were OVER 90 ALL had Major pre existing conditions HOW is that for Over reach .