Open Thread – August 2024

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  1. SVC says:

    The English has gone mad. Like third-world mad. Come to think of it, probably worst than lots and lots and lots of third-world countries.


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  2. Admin Admin says:

    Sorry for multiple comments above – didn’t seem to be posting

    The site had been put in maintenance mode due to some updates and testing.

    That caused all comments to be delayed until the testing and upload was completed.

    I had meant to notify posters before it took place but it went ahead of the scheduled plan.


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  3. Admin Admin says:

    Pls. keep a lookout for any system changes that any of you may notice, eg, bugs or other glitches when using this blog. Or anything not in the usual mode.

    Post in the comments so I can pass on to our site software developer and he can sort it out.


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  4. mh says:

    Trump 2024: Blacks, Hispanics, and Jews.

    Chris Menahan 🇺🇸
    @infolibnews

    WATCH: Trump pledges to restore the power of the Israel Lobby over Congress during “fighting antisemitism” event with pro-Israel megadonor Miriam Adelson.

    “You’re gonna end up winning because you’re going to have the president, okay?”

    https://x.com/infolibnews/status/1824261278501572634


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  5. mh says:

    Watch the first minute to understand breakdancing (or ‘breaking’)

    BEST BREAKING HIGHLIGHTS of Red Bull BC One 2023 World Final Paris

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TtY-FN2htE

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    Admin – the name and email constantly gets deleted.


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  6. Tester-1 says:

    Testing123456


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  7. Admin Admin says:

    Admin – the name and email constantly gets deleted.

    mh
    Can you check the Save my name checkbox and see if that works?


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  8. Tester-1 says:

    testing5555555
    aaaaaaaaa


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  9. mh says:

    It’s saving them now.

    Looking good.


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  10. Admin Admin says:

    The bug has now been fixed.

    Any other bugs or issues you come across any time, pls post in the open threads to let me know. I won’t know about any problems you have while posting or reading the blog unless one of you posts a comment here.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Monkeying Poxing

    July 2022
    M-pox-1

    August 2024
    M-pox-2

    Monkeypox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic saw its stock SKYROCKET after the WHO declared a global health emergency.

    But with just 15,600 cases and 537 deaths in a world of 8 billion people, it’s hardly the global catastrophe they’re making it out to be….

    But with numbers this low, the only crisis we have to be concerned about is medical tyranny and mass vaccination.

    August 2024
    M-pox-3


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    Ready to roll up your sleeves (adults and children) and get jabbed?

    M-pox-4
    .

    M-pox-5
    .

    M-pox-6


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    Perfect Puppets.
    What money can buy.

    October 2015
    Adelson and Rubio
    .

    August 2024
    Adelson and Trump
    .

    August 2024
    The applause


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  14. mh says:

    Black Caviar, brown bread.

    Champion racehorse Black Caviar dies after giving birth

    Australian horse racing’s greatest sprinter, the unbeaten Black Caviar, died a day before her 18th birthday.


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    Digital ID

    Different global methods to reach the same goal.
    All that is needed is the public to fall for it and sign up.

    Like “safe and effective” we are told this is “safe and voluntary”.

    1/
    In Australia

    Finance Minister Katy Gallagher reveals that the Digital ID Act 2024 will officially commence from 1 December, 2024.

    2/
    In the US

    There is no way that this remains exclusive to immigrants. Both parties are pushing a biometric entry/exit system that will lead to biometric digital ID. There is a truly global push for this & if you want to stop the technocratic Agenda 2030 you must do all you can to opt out.

    3/
    In China

    China. No digital ID no food.

    This will 100% come to the EU and US


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  16. mh says:

    The browning of America

    Trump Calls for Increased Immigration: ‘We Need More People, Especially With A.I. Coming’

    Chris Menahan
    InformationLiberation
    Aug. 16, 2024

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64602


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  17. mh says:

    Sportsbet

    Kamala Harris 1.72

    Donald Trump 2.00


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  18. mh says:

    Message in Nick Fuentes’ Superchats

    Hi Nick, been following since Groyper War 2019. As a Palestinian Christian I appreciate what you’ve been saying on behalf of Gaza. Pray for the people of Brit Jala, one of the last Christian villages in the West Bank: Jews are trying to expel and ethnically cleanse the village to build a new Settlement.


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    UNRWA

    There was some news story that resurfaced in recent days about the UNRWA allegations. Here in Australia, the usual section of society is questioning why we are giving funds to UNRWA.

    What are the facts?

    1/
    January 2024
    Israel claimed that some staff members of UNRWA were involved in the October 7 attack.
    Following the accusations, the UN Secretary-General immediately ordered OIOS to investigate.
    .
    2/
    April 2024
    Israel had not provided any supporting evidence so one of the cases was closed.
    .
    3/
    August 2024

    The UN said on Monday that nine staff working for its Palestine refugee agency UNRWA will be sacked because they may have been involved in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel….

    However, OIOS was not able to independently authenticate information used by Israel to support the allegations.


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    4/
    Check what this report below says. There is not enough evidence to prove that the UNRWA staff were really involved in the October 7 attacks. But UNRWA is the only agency there to provide the much needed life-saving help to the Palestinians.

    So they decided on the “guilty even though not proven” route and sacked the staff members in order that they (UNRWA) can continue to help the Palestinians. I cannot blame them for this decision, under the circumstances.

    Yet, the ignorant masses are jumping up and down because Penny Wong has sent funds to UNRWA. Just as many other countries reversed their ban and restarted their funding.

    Why bother with facts. UNRWA is an evil agency because Israel said so.

    August 2024
    Investigation completed

    “The OIOS investigation’s outcomes are the following:

    “In one case, no evidence was obtained by OIOS to support the allegations of the staff member’s involvement. That staff member has rejoined the Agency.

    “In nine other cases, the evidence obtained by OIOS was insufficient to support the staff members’ involvement and the OIOS investigation of them is now closed.

    “For the remaining nine cases, the evidence – if authenticated and corroborated – could indicate that the UNRWA staff members may have been involved in the attacks of 7 October.

    “I have decided that in the case of these remaining nine staff members, they cannot work for UNRWA. All contracts of these staff members will be terminated in the interest of the Agency.

    “The Agency’s priority is to continue lifesaving and critical services for Palestine Refugees in Gaza and across the region, especially in the face of the ongoing war, the instability and risk of regional escalation.


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    Pray for the people of Brit Jala, one of the last Christian villages in the West Bank: Jews are trying to expel and ethnically cleanse the village to build a new Settlement.

    Like this one?

    Israel is wiping out one of the last Christian villages in Palestine, so Israeli settlers can build a settlement over its ruins.

    .
    Boycotts work.

    Starbucks
    .

    Daily Wire


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  22. mh says:

    BLACK DAY World’s greatest sprinter Black Caviar, who famously won at Royal Ascot, dies aged 18

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/29930302/greatest-sprinter-black-caviar-dies/


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  23. mh says:

    I think you know the topic

    Keith Woods
    @KeithWoodsYT

    Apparently Dan Bilzerian wasn’t holding back on his PBD appearance

    https://x.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1824543939980120160


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  24. mh says:

    Missed this one

    Oppression Olympics | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjHthW_LMM


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    … it’s a simple psychological trick, isn’t it? For example, familiarity – we trust people with whom we are more familiar. So they put these people on our television screens and seed them to us.

    Francis O’Neill has worked it out and understands the game plan.

    I think that human beings need some hope and as far as politics go, I’d like to think that Trump is the real deal….

    The person speaking around the 40 min mark seemed to be off screen. I could hear the voice but couldn’t see the speaker. You’ve identified him as Stephen Frost. He seems to think that Trump is the best of what’s available. The pity is that many of those calling out that Trump is the lesser of the evils are pretending that there wasn’t a selection process to reach this point.

    I think we can agree that he’s the best of what’s available in the United States anyway…

    The best.


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Gareth Evans:
    AUKUS is terrible for Australian national interests
    – but we’re probably stuck with it

    Politics played a significant part in the birth of AUKUS in Australia, and politics both here and in the United States will play a crucial role in determining whether it lives or dies. That is so at least for its core submarine component. The second pillar of the agreement, relating to technical cooperation on multiple new fronts, is both much less clear in its scope and less obviously politically fraught.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    I’ve watched plenty of video and photo evidence of the genocide in Gaza and have found it disturbing. But this one of the twins and mother killed when the father was out to get the birth certificates has stayed in my mind since the day I saw it.

    The most advanced military in the world does not make “accidental mistakes”. They are precision strikes. Whether humanitarian aid convoys or civilian residences.

    Why did it happen? Here are 2 accounts.

    The strike-1
    sarah

    She was a doctor documenting and exposing how Israel systematically snipes children in the head.

    So Israel killed her and both of her 4-day-old babies.

    Her name was Jumana Arafa.

    The strike-2
    Richard Medhurst
    Israel Killed His Wife and Kids as He Was Getting Their Birth Certificates
    .

    It should have been a time of joy. The birth of twins.
    A boy and a girl.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    There is no left wing or right wing. That is in the past.
    Now, it is those who support the evil vs those who protest against it.

    I will sit here and pass on what I come across and hope that there may be a few out there who have been the supporters until now but finally are starting to see what is taking place. We have to expose the role of the media, politicians, governments, organisations in this deception.

    1/
    Dr. Ben Thomson

    a volunteer doctor in Gaza, retells the horrific crime of when a Palestinian physician who refused to leave his patients, was stripped naked for two days… forced to pee and defecate on the ground, then forced to treat his children patients naked…

    2/
    Germany
    says Israel’s massacre at Gaza school justified in ‘self defense’

    3/
    Genocide
    Defined by the US Holocaust Museum


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    Journalists, as in the war correspondents, know what are the risks when they live and report from war zones. They want to record and relay the news as it happens. They are professionals, and some of them have been doing it for decades.

    Why is it that real journalists are not being allowed into Gaza to report? Why is it that those who have made it in there, have been deliberately targetted and killed by the IDF despite wearing vests identifying them as Media? If it wasn’t for the citizen journalists recording and reporting on social media, we wouldn’t be learning the truth.

    1/
    Intentional targetting of journalists

    2/
    According to Israeli spokesman
    journalists are not allowed in Gaza “to keep them safe”

    3/
    MSM
    Rupert Murdoch: Israel’s Most Powerful Supporter
    Without a sympathetic media, Israel’s powerful military would be next to useless in its attempts to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It relies on crucial Western support for its project…..


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  30. mh says:

    Rupert has always tried to out-Zion the Jewish media moguls:

    Rupert Murdoch
    @rupertmurdoch

    Why Is Jewish owned press so consistently anti- Israel in every crisis?

    11:19 AM · Nov 18, 2012


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  31. Esme says:

    Francis O’Neill has worked it out and understands the game plan.

    I so appreciate the keen insight of these younger Brits regarding the role of psychology. (And understand better now my own instinctive aversion to the field in general, though I see it pays to know how they try to use it against us.) Even on a supposedly ‘friendly’ call like that, the attempts to bring it back round to “well, yes, but people need hope and Trump’s the best on offer, so let’s wait and see” or “no, Trump was a surprise winner, and he’s really a thorn in their side”.

    The pity is that many of those calling out that Trump is the lesser of the evils are pretending that there wasn’t a selection process to reach this point.

    Yes, if it’s a uniparty, with all candidates ultimately globally controlled, then who’s better or worse is the wrong question, leading to a short-term answer at best. And that’s from our so-called alternative media!

    I’ve seen more commentary on all the recent conversions to Catholicism among the international ‘alternative media’, all promoting the Palantir-funded Hallow app.


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

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

    A Witness for Christ

    Sydney McLaughlin is an athlete who has won events and broken records, including her own. She is the only woman to ever win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in the 400-meter hurdles and is now being described as one of the best athletes in the world.

    Ūnus
    At the press conference in Paris following her win:
    I credit all that I do to God
    .

    Duo
    This answer:
    I don’t live for the approval of people
    .

    Trēs
    A Ponderable on:
    Her twitter profile banner
    .


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    If you want to know more about Sydney….
    She is 25 years old and is married to former NFL player Andre Levrone Jr.

    August 9 2024
    Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breaks world record
    to win another Olympic gold in 400m hurdles

    May 2022
    Track star Sydney McLaughlin marries former NFL player Andre Levrone Jr.
    in Virginia wedding

    May 2022
    Andre Levrone Jr
    Sydney McLaughlin’s husband is also a devout Christian.

    On their wedding day, he engraved verse 1 John 4:19 “we loved because He first loved us” on his shoe


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  34. Esme says:

    Sydney McLaughlin

    Reminds me of that Chariots of Fire quote – “When I run, I feel His pleasure”


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  35. mh says:

    She was a doctor documenting and exposing how Israel systematically snipes children in the head.

    So Israel killed her and both of her 4-day-old babies.

    Her name was Jumana Arafa.

    Ah yes, the Jews.
    Those precious apostles of culture.


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  36. mh says:

    Interesting discussion with British Nationalist Nick Griffin

    VOTER FRAUD EXPOSED! SYRIA & TOMMY ROBINSON WITH NICK GRIFFIN & WARREN THORNTON

    WARRENTHORNTONSHOW

    https://rumble.com/v59sz0i-voter-fraud-exposed-syria-and-tommy-robinson-with-nick-griffin-and-warren-t.html


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  37. mh says:

    The Age has a pic of Nic Fuentes on its homepage.

    This is the unpaywalled article

    Far-right influencers turn against Donald Trump’s campaign

    By Drew Harwell
    August 19, 2024 — 5.17pm

    https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/far-right-influencers-turn-against-donald-trump-s-campaign-20240819-p5k3e1.html


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  38. mh says:

    ⬆️ If the article is paywalled for you, just use 12ft ladder to view.

    Some of the article (which is via WashPo):

    … During Trump’s conversation with X’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, Fuentes directed his followers via live stream to repeatedly post their views on X, where several of their demands for changes in the campaign sailed to the top of the platform’s trending topics.

    His followers led a parallel effort on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, and messages such as #NoMoreImmigration still ranked among the top hashtags the morning after the interview. #FireLaCivita, with 20,000 recent posts, overshadowed even #Trump2024. Fuentes has also told his followers they should start collecting the phone numbers and email addresses of campaign officials to contact them en masse.

    In an interview, Fuentes said he intends to push his followers to adopt “guerrilla” tactics and “escalate pressure in the real world,” including through mass appearances at Trump rallies in battleground states such as Michigan until the campaign meets their demands to stop “pandering to independents.”

    He has urged followers to withhold their votes for Trump, saying it is the only way to awaken a campaign that has “no energy … [and] no enthusiasm”.

    “If they blame me for Trump losing, so be it,” he said. “He’ll have lost because he stopped talking to the MAGA base he had in 2016.” (Loomer and Owens did not respond to requests for comment.) …


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:

    What’s happening in Britain?

    Neil Oliver
    WAKE UP call to the ‘blatant distortion’ of ‘angry people’
    by the Government that ‘DESPISES Britain’

    Neil Oliver speaks out on those in Britain that ‘are angry’ and ‘have been ignored by the Government’, claiming that the current unrest has been ‘blatantly distorted.’


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  40. kaysee kaysee says:

    Eva Vlaardingerbroek

    The day that David Spring (61) got sentenced to 18 months in jail, was the day UK citizens lost their freedom.

    The message their government is sending is clear: “You don’t get to disagree with us. And if you do, we send you straight to jail.”

    The UK is no longer a democracy.


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:

    What it’s like if you are reporting from the wrong side of the prescribed narrative.

    1/
    Palestinian journalist Salma Al Qadoumi
    She is wearing her PRESS vest so there can’t be any mistakes.

    Salma-1
    Israel shot Palestinian journalist Salma Al Qadoumi directly in the back in Gaza.
    .
    Salma-2
    .
    Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Muhareb

    With the killing of journalist Ibrahim Muhareb, the number of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli army since the start of the Gaza offensive has reached 169, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/
    As of some hours ago, Bassem Youssef has been off the 𝕏 platform…
    Did he close his account or has he been suspended?

    One of his videos.

    This was his last post.


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:

    3/
    Richard Medhurst

    I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act, Sec 12 because of my reporting.
    6 police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft.
    I was held for almost 24 hours and questioned.
    I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under this provision of the Terrorism Act.
    I feel that this is a political persecution and hampers my ability to work as a journalist.

    Responses:
    Kit Klarenberg

    Richard’s experience was considerably worse than mine, which is saying something. And he remains on bail, forced to meet with police again in three months’ time, for the crime of factual reporting critical of Empire, and Zionist genocide. To say the least, he needs our help.

    Kim DotCom

    Truth-tellers everywhere are under attack. As the propaganda media crumbles and people look for honest information elsewhere the deep state is abusing anti-terrorism and spy laws to intimidate and silence independent journalists like Richard Medhurst. Support him with a follow.


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  44. kaysee kaysee says:

    What is the dividing line?