Open Thread – April 2024

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  1. mh says:
    April 26, 2024 at 7:08 am

    ‘Stabbed In The Eye’ Israel Hoax DEBUNKED

    Breaking Points

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1nXTlNpNkI


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  2. Interested observer says:
    April 26, 2024 at 9:58 am

    In their anxiety to ensure every woman was heard (and believed), the Me Too movement appears to have overlooked judicial principles. From behind the paywall.

    New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a shock reversal in the landmark case that launched the #MeToo movement.

    In their 4-3 decision, judges cited errors in the way the trial had been conducted, including admitting the testimony of women who were not part of the charges against him.

    “Order reversed and a new trial ordered,” the ruling said.

    “The accused has a right to be held to account only for the crime charged and, thus, allegations of prior bad acts may not be admitted against them for the sole purpose of establishing their propensity for criminality,” wrote Judge Jenny Rivera, in an opinion for the majority.

    “The court compounded that error when it ruled that defendant, who had no criminal history, could be cross examined about those allegations as well as numerous allegations of misconduct that portrayed defendant in a highly prejudicial light.”

    Weinstein, 72, was convicted in February 2020 of rape and sexual assault by a court in New York, and later sentenced to 23 years in prison.

    It was not immediately clear what would happen to Weinstein, who is being held at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, New York state.

    He was subsequently convicted and sentenced by a Los Angeles court to an additional 16 years in prison for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel room, to be served after the first sentence.

    Bombshell allegations broke against the Academy Award-winning producer in 2017, launching the #MeToo movement and paving the way for hundreds of women to fight back against sexual violence in the workplace.

    “With today’s decision, this Court continues to thwart the steady gains survivors of sexual violence have fought for in our criminal justice system,” Judge Madeline Singas, who dissented against the ruling, said.

    “Forgotten are the women who bear the psychological trauma of sexual violence and the scars of testifying again, and again.”


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  3. mh says:
    April 26, 2024 at 5:35 pm

    Can’t watch all this as I’m on hols, but looks like a banger

    GAZA WAR DAY 201: MASS ARRESTS??? Student Uprising Spreads Amid Crackdown | America First Ep. 1326
    Nicholas J. Fuentes
    68.7K followers

    https://rumble.com/v4rml0n-america-first-ep.-1326.html


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  4. mh says:
    April 26, 2024 at 8:52 pm

    Ｐｈｉｌｉｐ　Ｄｅｒｒｉｄａ
    @PhilipDerrida

    Burn our cities down vs saying mean things about Israel

    https://x.com/PhilipDerrida/status/1783564978559037793


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  5. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 2:59 pm

    3G Network

    Years ago I made the decision to not go down the “smart” phones route. All I needed from that little gadget is to be able to make phone calls, receive phone calls, send text messages and receive text messages.

    I bought a dumb phone which I have been using for years. It also has a few add ons like clock, date, low grade camera. The only downside is when sending text messages…takes a bit too long to send a message on these basic phones and I can only send short messages. I have two phones – one for the important contacts and the second when I have to provide a phone number but I don’t want to risk the spam.

    It has worked well for my needs. If I have to send emails or use the internet, I have my computer which I don’t use 24/7.

    So what’s the problem now?

    3G is being shut down and my phones are 3G. So I now need to buy two new dumb phones.

    I’ve been checking the options and the few flip phones available are clunky – the manufacturers think that only grandmas with weak eyesight and poor motor skills would choose to buy dumb phones. Ideally, I would like to buy one dumb flip phone which allows 2 SIM cards in one phone. And a qwerty keypad for easier typing of text messages. But I doubt that is available. I’ve seen one that is available overseas, as far as the keypad goes, but not here. And I don’t want an expensive phone.

    Anyone else in a similar situation?


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  6. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 3:07 pm

    My research into dumb phones led me to videos where I discovered that there are many others, including young people, who are choosing to give up smart phones and get dumb phones which will provide the basics.

    This is Charlie Rewilding from the UK with a few videos:

    1/
    Dec 2023
    why I’m becoming a digital minimalist in 2024

    2/
    Dec 2023
    why I’m downgrading to a flip phone in 2024


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  8. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 6:56 pm

    The first person who came up with this term deserves the copyright credit for it.
    eKaren

    eSafety Commissioner
    Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 7:07 pm

    Covid Vaccines
    1/
    Dr. McCullough

    Dr. McCullough Issues Chilling COVID Vax Injury Analysis

    “What we’re seeing, I’m convinced, is the tip of the iceberg.”

    2/
    Email Reveals Why CDC Didn’t Issue Alert on COVID Vaccines and Myocarditis

    The nation’s top public health agency didn’t send an alert about a connection between COVID-19 vaccines and heart inflammation because officials were concerned they would cause panic, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times.

    3/
    Safe and effective
    The pages of side effects Pfizer wanted to hide from you for 70 years.


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 7:43 pm

    From a few days ago.
    This must be the anti-semitism on American campuses that Netanyahu was concerned about. And the friends of Israel like Texas governor Abbott.

    Joint Passover Seder
    In this moving video, many students – Jews, Arabs, and others – hold a joint Passover Seder, a Feast of Liberty for all, calling for an end to the war and the occupation.

    This Seder with university students took place in the Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. The speaker is Naomi Klein calling out Zionism as a false idol.

    When we speak of the Judeo-Christian heritage and tradition? This is it.
    This connection I understand. The analogy to events in the Old Testament.
    Judaism. Not Zionism.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 27, 2024 at 7:48 pm

    1/
    What the student revolutions in the US and around the world
    mean to the people of Gaza and Palestine

    2/
    Universities-1

    3/
    Universities-2


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  14. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 9:31 am

    The Age

    Australia announces further funding for Ukraine’s fight, passing $1b in total

    Defence Minister Richard Marles was in Lviv on Saturday, becoming just the second federal government minister to visit Ukraine since the war started.

    ***

    Meanwhile Russell Brand has an hour long interview with the Colonel

    “There’s NOTHING Left!” 600,000 Ukrainians DEAD! | Colonel Douglas Macgregor On The Ukraine War
    Russell Brand
    1.87M followers

    https://rumble.com/v4rosxb-bombshell-us-army-to-revolt-against-biden-stay-free-354.html?e9s=rel_v1_b


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  15. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 9:54 am

    Russell’s questions are too long.

    When will these people learn when you have a guest, it’s the GUEST we want to hear!

    At least with Rumble it’s easy to fast forward.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    Neil Oliver
    ‘They want to reduce carbon,
    but WE are the carbon they actually want to reduce’

    ‘The warmongers have their tails up, that’s for sure’


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 2:35 pm

    All those behind the Covid vaxx experimental gene therapy, including the various authorities, must be held accountable and jailed. Another heartbreaking testimony.

    Malaysia
    Video Testimony from Parents of a Boy who Died
    18 days after taking the COVID19 jab.

    He was 13 years old. He was told to vaccinate at school. He never wanted to vaccinate. He cried and told he didn’t want it. Because of the school’s requirement, he had to inject himself.


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 3:04 pm

    Your opinion of events taking place will be influenced by the sources from where you get your news. For example, in the past few days, there have been these articles in the media.

    Overseas media

    -George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

    -Jewish Law Student, October 7 Survivor, Spit on at University of Texas Protest

    – Don’t mess with Texas, “protest” edition

    Here in Oz

    -Labor silence on campus anti-Semitism ‘a disgrace’

    – Uni too dangerous for a show of faith

    And more along the same lines. To get you to believe what they want you to believe.

    Do they succeed in their brainwashing?


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    It is a sign of hope when journalists can provide an objective analysis. This piece is written by Howard W. French a columnist at Foreign Policy (magazine), a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a longtime foreign correspondent.

    Analysis
    What Columbia’s Protests Reveal About America

    Some politicians have called student protesters a threat. Instead, they are providing us all with an education in democracy.

    Yet the ongoing campus movement that sprang forth from Columbia arose not out of anti-Jewishness, as some would have it. It grew out of profound shock over the hideous and indiscriminate violence that Israel has visited upon Palestinians in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas that killed an estimated 1,200 Israelis.

    It is a good analysis of the situation not just on the uni campuses but also the root problem.

    In case the article gets paywalled, the archived version is here.


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 3:22 pm

    Jewish Student DEBUNKS Mainstream Media Reports Of Violence In Columbia Protest

    Columbia University student Jon Ben-Menachem gives firsthand account of Israel-Gaza war protests on campus
    …

    This is his article related to this interview.
    I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia.
    Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’


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  21. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    Thomas Massie
    @RepThomasMassie

    Some of my colleagues are introducing legislation to create federally sanctioned “antisemitism monitors” at colleges.

    I’ll vote No.

    Policing speech, religion, and assembly is not the role of the federal government. In fact it’s expressly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

    https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1784125453789270191


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  22. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 5:26 pm

    As highlighted by The Colonel ⬆️

    Trump joins Beltway Uniparty to pay for WWIII

    The Grayzone

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDvyYfQCYvs


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  23. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 6:51 pm

    US intelligence believes Putin probably didn’t order Navalny to be killed,
    Wall Street Journal reports

    The Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said on Saturday that U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin probably didn’t order Navalny to be killed in February.

    It took the WSJ over two months to reach this conclusion?
    We discussed it on the blog the day his death was reported.
    Glenn Greenwald posts:

    The WSJ reports that Putin did not order Navalny’s murder: now the consensus of US intelligence agencies.

    I could, needless to say, spend the whole day posting corporate media reports that stated this fiction as fact. They lie and lie with impunity.

    and

    Anyone at the time who questioned whether there was really any convincing evidence to support this claim was smeared — needless to say — as a Kremlin agent.

    The number of lies told to increase tension with the world’s largest nuclear power is as massive as it is dangerous.


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 7:05 pm

    National Day of Protest for people to stop Uniparty’s Digital ID

    Malcolm Roberts

    One Nation is organising protests against the Uniparty’s Digital Identity bill

    Sunday 5th May at 11:00am

    All mainland state capital cities

    Brisbane location: King George Square.
    Brisbane speakers to be named tomorrow.

    Details coming soon for each capital city at One Nation web site:

    I’ll keep a lookout for updates and post them.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 28, 2024 at 7:49 pm

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕
    And for this Sunday…

    Amazing Grace

    John Newton and His Great Hymn

    As a parish priest serving at Olney, England, John Newton made a practice of writing hymns to accompany his sermons. The Scripture text for the New Year’s service on January 1, 1773, was 1 Chronicles 17:16–17, a prayer of King David’s in which he asks, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?”

    As Newton reflected on these words, he thought of how God’s grace had found him in his sin and brought him to a place of honor as a minister of the gospel. Over the next few days, he wrote the hymn we call “Amazing Grace.” He gave it the title “Faith’s Review and Expectation.” In the first three verses, Newton reviews God’s grace in his life thus far; in the next three, he states his certainty that God’s grace will lead him on and at last to heaven.

    link to details

    .

    A Ponderable


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  26. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 7:58 pm

    “If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

    ― Tacitus


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  27. mh says:
    April 28, 2024 at 9:31 pm

    Sky News – someone who can see! (Lady in green)

    Hildebrand has learnt nothing. Ever.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqTe-jke_h4


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 29, 2024 at 2:54 pm

    Sky News – someone who can see! (Lady in green)

    Liz Storer:
    I don’t think we should be sending a cent to Ukraine … this is not our war.
    In under 3 minutes she summarises the issues around the Ukraine war.

    The others on the panel are free to dig into their own wallets and send donations to Zelensky.


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 29, 2024 at 2:58 pm

    Champion of Freedom of Speech and Religion

    Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel Returns

    Experience the uplifting sermon by Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel as he returns after the tragic event which took place on the April 15 2024. In this sermon he shares a message of unity and faith on Palm Sunday. Join us for a powerful reflection on the victory of Jesus over evil and the unifying spirit of Christ among Christians.

    I’ve heard something in the news about the government and public consultation on eSafety. Need to see if there are any submissions being called on it.


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  30. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 5:43 pm

    In under 3 minutes she summarises the issues around the Ukraine war.

    What the hell is she doing on Sky News Australia?

    Doesn’t she realise the qualification is to be as thick as shit?

    Stick to the narrative, woman!


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  31. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 6:26 pm

    Meet The ‘Wrong Jew’ The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know Exists

    Double Down News
    528K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mEuE-XiHj4


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  32. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 6:35 pm

    Senator Babet
    @senatorbabet

    AUSTRALIAN FREEDOM CONFERENCE:

    US media titan Tucker Carlson and leading Australian businessman Clive Palmer will be joined by American filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza and Queensland GP Dr Melissa McCann for the Australian Freedom Conference.

    The event will cover a range of topics, including current and future threats to truth, democracies and personal freedoms.

    Tucker Carlson obviously needs no introduction, the Tucker Carlson Network is a global phenomenon, he has interviewed some of the world’s biggest personalities, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the 45th President Donald Trump.

    “Tucker has long advocated that news coverage in the west can be wrongly used as a tool of repression and control,” Clive Palmer said.

    “He believes democracy cannot function properly under these controls and the only solution to ending propaganda is fearlessly speaking the truth. I’m delighted Australia has the opportunity to hear from Tucker and our other speakers on this informative national tour.”

    Tickets are now on sale.

    https://x.com/senatorbabet/status/1783706020151533737


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  33. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 7:02 pm

    This is hilarious.

    Genocidal German Ambassador goes to Pakistan to lecture on civil rights, then unleashes his inner Hitler when receiving a gob-full about his hypocrisy from protestors:

    German Ambassador Loses Temper in Lahore as Gaza Protesters Disrupt His Speech | Latest News

    The Express Tribune
    116K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx9-UyI6CKI


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  34. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 29, 2024 at 7:18 pm

    Why Elon Musk is right to fight politics of online censorship

    The commissioner and the government, and even sections of the Coalition, want the video taken down under threat of severe financial penalties. They want censorship of this video. Thus far the owner of X, Elon Musk, is saying no.

    I agree with Musk. Here’s why.


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  35. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 7:30 pm

    Evangelical pastor Loran Livingston called Trump’s USA Bible stunt ‘blasphemous’ and ‘disgusting’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axSJ0qbb6ec


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:
    April 29, 2024 at 7:40 pm

    In 2020, this was Konstantin Kisan talking about rights.

    Now the “sensible right” folk like Kisan have introduced a new term called “woke right”.

    In the world defined by Kisan, if you are from the right wing but not pro-Ukraine and pro-Israel, count yourself woke right.


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  37. mh says:
    April 29, 2024 at 7:48 pm

    30 secs googling shows Konstantin Kisan is ethnically a Russian Jew.

    Like Ben Shapiro.


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  39. mh says:
    April 30, 2024 at 6:30 am

    Zionist Shouts ‘K*ll The Jews’, Gets Everyone ELSE Arrested | The Kyle Kulinski Show

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usmemW1c-Qs


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  40. mh says:
    April 30, 2024 at 6:58 am

    The United States of Israel

    Reaction to Netanyahu’s call for Campus Protest crackdowns: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

    Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
    354K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tar23KYwjLk


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  41. mh says:
    April 30, 2024 at 6:11 pm

    Ted Cruz
    @tedcruz

    The ICC is on the verge of throwing in with genocidal terrorists and against a democracy responding to acts of terror. They want Israel to accept suicidal terms for a ceasefire that will not work. It would be the end of the ICC’s credibility. The absolute minimum response from the US if the ICC targets Israel would be sanctions against the Court and its officials.

    ***

    Ted’s at number 5

    AIPAC Tracker
    @TrackAIPAC

    These 14 members of Congress have received more than $1 MILLION in support from the pro-Israel lobby:

    https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1775696974160998694


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  42. mh says:
    April 30, 2024 at 6:51 pm

    George Galloway reveals election plans and will stand in ‘every constituency’…except one | LBC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWxFUMrdoL8


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  43. mh says:
    April 30, 2024 at 7:15 pm

    Courier Mail

    Held to ransom: CFMEU strikes over $240k entry-level pay demands

    Worksites across Brisbane ground to a halt today as CFMEU workers walked off the job over unmet demands for huge pay rises.


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