Illuminati-R-Us

Мастер wrote:Send the tanks in!

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-64343274

What’s the hold-up? Is there something wrong with the tanks? Are they defective?

FWIW, the standout ones for me would be Jacinda Ardern, Helen Clarke, David Lange, Robert Muldoon, Norman Kirk, Keith Holyoake, Peter Fraser, Michael Joseph Savage, William Massey, Richard Seddon, Julius Vogel and George Grey, who were all notable for different reasons, some good, some bad. (Muldoon...

She has been the most popular leader in NZ for most of the time she has been PM, and certainly ranks among the highest profile PMs NZ has ever had. She was the reason the Labour Govt got elected with an overall majority in the last (2020) election. Considering NZ adopted a proportional voting system...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politi ... february-7

I predict a cycle of Labour Party infighting leading to a change in NZ Government in October 2023

So is a democratic republic more fragile to maintain than the Westminster parliamentary system ("constitutional monarchy" n'all)? Depends on who's Charlie at the time I guess.

I’m surprised that there’s still people living who could’ve been employed in one of those jobs during that time period.

g-one wrote:I clicked on the 'cc' (closed captioned) button and it gave me english sub-titles.

Okay that does it! I’m just a boomer - officially!

I must be in the wrong YouTube region or something.

Cool. They just became my #1 band. Is there a vid with English subtitles? I get the gist but I’m curious to find out how inflammatory the lyrics are.

25 December throughout the current and previous millennium (the previous few centuries*) in the Christian world.

* https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christmas

About covers it.

22 December in History - See yesterday's post

21 December 1964 NZ Whalers harpoon their last Whale

Now and again, 21 December is the longest day in Southern Hemisphere - but not in 2022. The longest day this year is tomorrow, 22 December 2022 because

Some random guy playing his gat through a 1959 Fender tweed Bassman

RIP Puppy.

Lance wrote:the Director's Cut.

Same blooper?

Every year

Beer Hall Putsch II

Saw it a few years back (I think?). Some good laughs (If it’s the same flick, there was a national power supply grid doubling as a top secret electric fence to keep the biggest baddest giants fenced in ‘up north’. Same movie?) Nope, this is brand shiny new. You’re probably thinking of the excellent...

Saw it a few years back (I think?). Some good laughs (If it’s the same flick, there was a national power supply grid doubling as a top secret electric fence to keep the biggest baddest giants fenced in ‘up north’. Same movie?)

I think I saw it (with the Skarsgård kid and The Queens Gambit girl?). Enjoyed the Vikings series* that came out on Netflix a few years ago. Lots of license. (Seeing as how it was based on the Sagas’n’all) - too heretical? *Particularly the first**series (before Ragnar Lothbrok became chieftain.) **...

Мастер wrote:Too early to say if Xi Jinping is going to end up like Yanukovych or Ceauşescu, though.

Yes, way too soon

Why does the Orion Spacecraft look like its travelling 'sideways'? Is the Capsule oriented to travel 'sideways' for some reason? (Such as keeping the bottom of the service module facing the sun?) Does anyone know?