48 Replies to “October 31, 1917: Reader Tips”

  2. Heh…. another British journalist is being taught lessons by Peterson.
    Looks like the journalist did not learn anything from the channel 4 interview.
    Committing plenty of errors and misunderstandings of logic. Needless to say the journalist is a socialist.

    Jordan Peterson: “There was plenty of motivation to take me out. It just didn’t work” | British GQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYQpge1W5s

    As part of our 30th-anniversary dissection of masculinity, Helen Lewis interrogated controversial Canadian academic and bestselling author Jordan Peterson about the patriarchy, #MeToo, the alt-right, gay parenting, fascist ideologies, his all-beef diet and much more..

    You need a lot of time to watch it is 1 hour and 42 minutes long.
    You also may enjoy every minute.

  3. I don’t know what to make of this… what are Ozzy’s doing there , in this disco themed recreation of 1917, and what purpose those men fought, so far from home, for what? Jews? Israel was years away….. I want to know what the point of this was… this was a really crazy post by Kate, I can’t see Australian men being killed for a undeclared patch of desert.
    I need someone to explain this to me…. right now it looks like propaganda.

    Australians in the middle east are foreign aggressors, then and now.

    1. Cam – it was a part of WWI, lots of troops fought in faraway places. The Turks were on the other side, the Aussies were part of the British Empire.

      1. Colonial troops also took heavy casualties, such as the ANZACs in the Dardanelle campaign and the Newfoundlanders during the Battle of the Somme.

        1. “Colonial troops also took heavy casualties, such as the ANZACs in the Dardanelle campaign and the Newfoundlanders during the Battle of the Somme.”

          Everybody took heavy casualties, not least British troops from the UK itself. The Australians make a big noise about Gallipoli but the majority of the soldiers involved were from Britain and they took lots of casualties (34,000 British dead, just over 10,000 ANZAC dead).

          Contrary to preconceived notions about using colonial troops as “cannon fodder”, the greatest number of casualties were from the UK, which furnished 80 percent of the military manpower of the British Empire in the Great War (744,000 UK dead out of just under a million for the Empire).

          1. That may be true but the population of Australia back in 1914 wasn’t all that big…I think it was even smaller than Canada’s which at the time was just shy of 8 million–and to put in perspective 1914-1918 Canada had 600K men in uniform vs today’s 33M and 67K military

    2. Ever hear of a place called Tobruk..? Aussies were there as well…WWII mind you…all part of the British Last days as anything resembling an Empire…

      1. Excerpts from it were also used in the Australian movie Gallipoli, which featured a young Mel Gibson. (It was in the theatres here in Canada at about the same time as The Road Warrior.)

        I also thought that music was out of place in a WW I setting.

        1. It looks like that video used segments of the Australian movie The Lighthorsemen.

          The music used for that video was composed by Jean-Michel Jarre. His father, Maurice Jarre, wrote the score for another WW I movie: Lawrence of Arabia.

    5. If only there was a away you could look the Campaign up and answer those questions for your self.

    1. UN troops kicking American butt, hahahahahahahahaha. you get the stupid comment of the day award.

        1. To be fair. formatting comments is limited, Kate needs to install the Sarcastica font.

  6. Am I the only one or does anyone else think the pipe bombing fiasco is a total frame up? I am finding it difficult to believe even a lone wolf could have been that dimwitted as to leave so much evidence resulting in that quick of an arrest. the more I think about it ,things just don’t make sense . It seems to me there is people in some pretty powerful positions that are desperate.

    2. Remember that poor shmuck who was blamed for making a youtube video that supposedly incensed the Muslim mobs to attack the American embassy in Benghazi?–well, this pipe-bomb fiasco “fall-guy” certainly fits the bill (I wonder if that poor shmuck, who was blamed for Benghazi is still in jail).

    1. Well, that is bad, but no worse than Trudeau Senior driving around a Jewish area of Montreal in his Nazi garb. Boy that story has certainly been buried, but many of us have seen the pics. I suspect they are no longer available, but have not actually looked. I believe Trudeau Senior was anti-Jewish — at least at an early point.

      1. oh ya. looooooong buried. expunged from everywhere I found it previously, now only a fleeting reference to a book by Mordecai Richler about queerbek goings on.
        loooooooong gone. aka controlling the past = controlling the future.
        TURDoo 1.0, charter member of ‘les snobs’.

      2. Well, now I did search for the picture of Trudeau in the Nazi uniform. I should have been able to find it if it is there. Instead I got a picture of someone in a Nazi uniform (nothing clear re location) with the suggestion that Trudeau riding around in a Nazi uniform is an urban myth based on the fact that the guy in the picture posted looked like him. ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. The picture they posted trying to fob off this story as an urban myth is nothing like the original picture which clearly was Trudeau. I saw it either in a book or online. I was shocked at the time because it clearly was Trudeau. Talk about manipulation. Indeed they are sending lots of stuff down the memory hole.

        1. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/german-helmet-wwii.html
          LindaL:
          I think this might be a photo of a similar helmet that you may have seen P.E.T. wear. (See the 10th on the extreme right, the one with the goggles and mesh, only perhaps minus the mesh.)
          The old man tooled around Outremont on a motorcycle because there was a fuel shortage during the war. The German helmets were well built, covering the ears. Helmets weren’t necessary then, unless as a fashion statement.

          We all know how that family has that sartorial flare for fashion, right?

  9. Queen Adrienne left the GG office in 2005 but the taxpayer continues to pay for her expenses.
    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/former-governor-general-adrienne-clarkson-still-bills-more-than-100000-a-year-in-expenses/wcm/47fa0c70-bd8e-4a46-81be-748d1c4d441b?fbclid=IwAR2g-QHed4CPQFOwsD9bmTG_Mah–LmWJDYLnGIMw5WKqWUJGlU7mEzpHv8&utm_source=Action+Updates&utm_campaign=bcc21c03b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_10_30_09_07_clarksonexpenses&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_59605796e2-bcc21c03b0-33656050

    1. That’s hardly surprising. She treated the office of GG with complete contempt.

    1. lol… Happy Halloween !! “Be careful ladies or the Kokanee Groper will get you !!”

  12. https://www.blacklocks.ca/govt-in-court-for-10-apples/

    Interesting article on how our brave government has raked a Ukrainian lady over the coals for the crime of accidentally bringing ten apples in her purse when she came back to her home in Canada.
    There was a trial, a loss by government,and an appeal,all at taxpayer’s expense for the importing of TEN f***ing apples from Ukraine!

    But returning ISIS soldiers……………..

    1. Don – understand your cynicism, but am old enough to remember the introduction of potato nematodes as well as an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in the 1950s. Both diseases were introduced by people returning from Europe and bringing the diseases with them through food products. The results were devastating.

      Under the circumstances, CRA should just have confiscated the apples and forgotten the fine. However, raw food brought into Canada can have serious consequences to our ecosystems as well as our farming.

      Mexico knows this; you don’t even think of bring food in. They have a sniffer dog greeting you. Australia is likewise very strict.

  14. Any suggestions or ideas for what an appropriate Halloween costume would be for Trudeau? We know he likes to dress up whether it be on a tour or visiting religious places of worship. IMO he should be a puppet with his big brain Butts in a black curtain as the puppeteer.

    1. IMO he should be a puppet with his big brain Butts in a black curtain as the puppeteer.

      I’m reminded of a joke I heard back in junior high school nearly 50 years ago: “Let’s play horse. I’ll be the front end and you just be yourself.”

  15. The Roseann-less “Conners” show is failing miserably.

    https://www.showbiz411.com/2018/10/31/ratings-the-conners-beaten-by-everything-drops-in-total-viewers-and-demo-as-abc-orders-only-1-more-episode

    The finale show should hopefully end with the entire cast being killed off ignominiously, perhaps by a tornado as they all sit down for a Sunday dinner?

    You know that the idiots that run Disney/ABC will never admit they were wrong and resurrect their billion dollar Roseanne character. They would rather flush it all down the toilet, just like they are doing with their Star Wars franchise.

    Too bad Roseanne couldn’t move her series to Fox like Tim Allen moved “Last Man Standing.”

  17. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/german-helmet-wwii.html
    LindaL:
    I think this might be a photo of a similar helmet that you may have seen P.E.T. wear. (See the 10th on the extreme right, the one with the goggles and mesh, only perhaps minus the mesh.)
    The old man tooled around Outremont on a motorcycle because there was a fuel shortage during the war. The German helmets were well built, covering the ears. Helmets weren’t necessary then, unless as a fashion statement.

    We all know how that family has that sartorial flare for fashion, right?

    1. Thanks — that is quite interesting, but the Trudeau pic I remember involved the full regalia — uniform (not just a helmet). I mentioned this to my husband and he also remembers the picture. He thinks it still might be available in one of the older Trudeau biographies.

      1. There is a well established gap in the employment rate between recent immigrants and Canadian born – about 20% (higher unemployment rate in recent immigrants). This means many immigrants are being supported by working Canadians. This is being increased by the Federal government. It should be interesting how this plays out – immigrants paying our pensions versus immigrants living off our generous benefits. I feel grateful (relieved actually) that I do not have to rely on the government for my retirement.

      2. Who will pay their pensions when the time comes? The time may be sooner than we think. Trudeau also has bumped up the family reunification numbers. If I recall this can include grandparents. It is not a good policy if your intention is to preserve Canadian social programs — but Libs are not focused on that.

  19. Thank you for posting this. We Aussies are rightfully proud of the achievements of our Australian Light Horse, particularly so this remarkable charge on Beersheba. We’re also immensely proud of the Waler, the Australian-bred horses that carried these men into battle. Very few true bloodlines are left of these horses, a type that has all but vanished now.

    PS – I don’t find the soundtrack out of place at all. On the contrary, knowing the history and the immensity of the achievement of the charge, it seems to fit well. Dialogue, or something orchestral, would just have been off-key in the context. Maybe you have to be an Aussie to understand it, I can’t explain it.

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