Open Thread – December 2023

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  1. mh says:

    Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
    @jacksonhinklle
    🚨🇲🇽 I am honored to receive the International Journalism Award from “Club de Periodistas de Mexico” in Mexico City today for my coverage of the ZIONIST GENOCIDE on GAZA.

    🚨🇵🇸 I dedicated to my award to the 50+ PALESTINIAN journalists who have been MURDERED since October 7th.

    https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1730325341938340021?s=20


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  2. mh says:

    Dan Cohen
    @dancohen3000
    Israeli Journalist Retracts ‘Babies Hung on a Clothesline’ October 7 Atrocity Propaganda

    Journalist @ishaycoen published and erased a fake story furnished to him by Israeli military spokesperson officer
    @yaron1bu

    https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1730334141906927889?s=20

    ***

    I’m sure Andrew Bolt and his viewers still believe the story.
    It’s low info over at Sky News.


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  3. mh says:

    Bombs away!

    Explosions, air strikes: Israel resumes fighting after truce ends

    Israel has “resumed combat” in Gaza after Hamas violated the truce, Israeli military confirmed after the ceasefire expired


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  4. mh says:

    The Age

    Israel knew of Hamas’ attack plan more than a year ago, probe finds

    A 40-page document, which Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall”, outlined, point by point, the devastating invasion of October 7.


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  5. Old bloke says:

    This may explain the undue haste which the government is employing to push the digital id bill through Parliament.

    She’s EXPOSING the WEF false flag coming in 2024, Journalist Whitney Webb | Redacted – 26 mins.


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  6. mh says:

    Outstanding Gaza coverage on Al Jazeera – CH 651 on Foxtel.


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  7. mh says:

    🌪 🚨

    Severe Thunderstorm Warning
    for TORNADOES, DESTRUCTIVE WINDS, LARGE, POSSIBLY GIANT HAILSTONES and HEAVY RAINFALL
    For people in parts of Central Highlands and Coalfields, Wide Bay and Burnett, Darling Downs and Granite Belt and Maranoa and Warrego Forecast Districts.

    Issued at 9:41 pm Friday, 1 December 2023.
    THIS INCLUDES A TORNADO WARNING.

    Possible tornado with severe thunderstorms east northeast of Wandoan.


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  8. mh says:

    Musk & MC Hammer

    Eva McMillan ♥️
    @EvasTeslaSPlaid
    Elon Musk’s “Go f*** yourself”
    I stand with @elonmusk 🫶

    https://x.com/EvasTeslaSPlaid/status/1730297499179475072?s=20


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:

    We need a similar survey from the Reserve Bank of Australia.

    Bank of Canada survey respondents largely oppose creating a digital loonie

    The Bank of Canada‘s public consultations on the creation of a digital Canadian dollar reveal most respondents are opposed to it.

    The central bank released its findings Wednesday that show more than 80 per cent of respondents strongly opposed the Bank of Canada researching and building the capability to issue a digital dollar….

    The vast majority of respondents also said they do not trust the Bank of Canada to issue a secure digital currency.


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:

    Consumer Reports Survey
    Electric Vehicles Are Less Reliable Than Conventional Cars

    On average, EVs were found to have had 79 percent more problems than gasoline-powered cars, when considering the past three model years, according to the report.

    The least reliable were plug-in hybrids (PHEV), which had a whopping 146 percent more problems than gas vehicles.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver:

    What are they planning next?

    …the system around us has been broken – we need a paradigm shift!


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    3/
    Members of the European Parliament

    MEPs notify WHO that IHR amendments “adopted” in 2022 are null and void
    in the absence of evidence of a vote having taken place

    On 28 May 2022, the World Health Assembly quietly agreed to reduce the period during which nations have to opt out of future amendments to the IHR. “It now turns out, that that vote might have not been lawful,” Vlaardingerbroek said.

    On 28 November, 12 Members of the European Parliament, led by Dutch MEP Rob Roos, wrote a letter to WHO’s Director-General after they uncovered that the basic procedural rules for the correct formation of a vote had been violated by WHO to speed up their attempted power grab.

    According to the MEPs, the 2022 amendments were not validly adopted because there is no evidence that the vote of its 8th plenary meeting on 28 May 2022 to “adopt” these changes was correctly executed with the required majority vote as foreseen under Art. 21 in conjunction with Art. 60 lit. (b) of the WHO Constitution.


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    Tomorrow, the season of Advent begins.

    Ūnus
    .

    Duo
    .


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  14. mh says:

    This is global warming too

    Weather warnings are in place across the UK as temperatures plunged below freezing overnight.

    Snow hit parts of London on Friday and the icy conditions are forecast to continue throughout the weekend. It comes after temperatures plunged to their lowest since March.

    The Met Office has issued yellow warnings through Saturday morning for the northern coast and southwest of Scotland, as well as southwest and the eastern coast of England.

    Conditions could affect some roads and railways, forecasters said, and slippery surfaces would increase the risk of injury for pedestrians and cyclists.

    The mercury approached minus 10C in some places overnight, with Tulloch Bridge and Eskdalemuir in Scotland reaching minus 8C.

    Temperatures are tipped to continue to fall over the weekend, with several sporting events cancelled amid snowfall and icy conditions.


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  15. mh says:

    Musk takes action following his meeting with Netan

    Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸
    @jacksonhinklle
    🚨🇮🇱 X has SUSPENDED the Netanyahu parody account
    @netanyahupress

    https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1730807343485497751?s=20


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  16. mh says:

    Max Blumenthal
    @MaxBlumenthal
    As evidence of friendly fire killings on October 7 mounts, Israel plans to bury cars containing important forensic evidence which were burned in southern Gaza

    It will shred the cars completely before burying them to “be as environment-friendly as possible”

    https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1729745158596448698?s=20


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  17. mh says:

    Great lady

    Tucker Carlson
    @TuckerCarlson
    Ep. 43 You think elected Republicans in Washington are craven frauds who’d sell your children for a steak dinner at the French Laundry? Actually, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s worse than that.

    https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1730360809522401522?s=20


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  18. mh says:

    If you watch MTG with Tucker, you should realise why there was no “red wave” in the mid terms, and there can never be a red wave again.

    ‘A pox on both your houses’ was the result, as expressed by Louisiana Senator John Kennedy.


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  19. mh says:

    Nigel Farage being censored on I’m A Celebrity

    PJW

    They just can’t allow it.

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


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    Where is the justice for the victims?
    How deep is the corruption link?

    Ex-cardinal McCarrick’s sex assault case in Wisconsin appears to be dead

    A Wisconsin prosecutor has declined to challenge a doctor’s assessment that disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick is incompetent to stand trial, making it more likely the only remaining criminal charge against McCarrick will be dismissed.

    There are more important topics for the Holy See to be concerned with.
    Like kicking out faithful bishops of the Church like Bishop Strickland and Cardinal Burke simply because they are faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church.

    And critical topics like the climate.
    Climate Has ‘Run Amok,’ Planet ‘Overheating

    Climate change “greatly endangers all human beings,” the pontiff said in his sternly worded address, and “time is short” to react to the current ecological crisis.


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  21. Old bloke says:

    It’s possible that Ukraine is heading towards a civil war.

    There are rumours that General Zaluzhny, the Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian military, is conducting secret talks with General Gerasimov, the head of the Russian military. Zaluzhny has said that he wants to run in the Ukraine presidential elections next year, so Zelensky has cancelled the elections.

    Zaluzhny wants to end the conflict with Russia, hence the ultra nationalists want him out of the way. They are represented by a character named Lieutenant General Budanov who is the chief of the Ukrainian intelligence services. Budanov is believed to be the person who assassinated Zaluzhny’s first assistant by sending him a hand grenade bomb as a birthday present. and the recent poisoning of Budanov’s wife was most likely a retaliatory strike from Zaluzhny.

    There are other voices in Kiev who have revealed to the public on national TV broadcasts that the peace negotiations which were conducted with Russia in February (?) last year were highly favourable to Ukraine, but Boris Johnson went to Kiev to tell Zelensky to cancel the peace agreement.

    Zelensky fears a military coup and he is protected (and held prisoner) by the ultra nationalists, hence his recent visit to the front lines to meet with the military commanders, but he didn’t meet with Zaluzhny.

    One of the aims of the Russian military operation was the removal of the ultra nationalist crazies in Ukraine, I wonder if the Ukraine military will remove them to make a peace agreement with Russia.

    If he’s lucky to survive, Zelensky can then sail away on his $75 Million super yachts to his various mansions around the world.

    BREAKING! Ukraine’s Zelensky CAUGHT buying $75 million luxury yacht with U.S. money? | Redacted – 12 mins.


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  22. kaysee kaysee says:

    So let’s focus on the current topic:
    Global Warming and the COP-OUT28 in Dubai.

    1/
    Private jets flying to Dubai for COP28 shows the hypocrisy of bureaucratic groupthink

    Jacob Rees Mogg MP shares his thoughts on COP28: ‘These sorts of institutions which are free from scrutiny and democratic accountability always show the same problems – bureaucratic groupthink as they don’t have to justify their decisions to a potentially cold and poor electorate.’


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  23. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/
    Dr. Patrick Moore

    Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, on Net Zero/the Green New Deal: “It’s a recipe for mass suicide”. “Why would anyone vote for something that was going to result in the death of nearly all humans on Earth?” “It would basically begin a process of cannibalisation amongst the human species, because the food could not be delivered to the stores in the middle of the cities anymore.”


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:

    4/

    COP28:
    What’s the deal with carbon capture?

    From the Beneficiaries and Activists:
    Applause. Applause.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    5/
    He flew in his private jet to Dubai to let the stupid plebs know what Mother Nature told him.

    John Kerry:

    this year.. was the hottest year in human history that we measured… If we can’t hear Mother Nature and can’t judge with our own eyes what the science is telling us, this is not about politics, is no ideology is no pejorative against any one business or any approach. There is simply mathematics and physics and some chemistry and biology. That is what we are acting on.


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    6/
    Europe: December 2023

    a/
    Europe-1
    .

    b/
    Europe-2
    .


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Contributions on twitter from Europe

    c/
    Prague
    .

    d/
    Scotland
    .

    e/
    Germany


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    7/
    And to end this COP-OUT28 session
    for now.

    (The fest goes on in Dubai till Dec 12)

    a/
    Cop-out-1
    .

    b/
    Cop-out-2
    .

    c/
    Cop-out-3


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  29. mh says:

    They were Palestinian hostages held by Israel

    The Age

    Freed Palestinians were mostly young and not convicted of crimes

    Israel released a total of 240 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange for 105 hostages freed by Hamas during a weeklong pause in hostilities, an arrangement that diplomats had tried to extend before it collapsed into fighting Friday morning.

    An analysis of data on the Palestinians released showed that a majority of them had not been convicted of a crime. There were 107 teenagers under 18, including three girls. Another 66 teenagers were 18 years old. The oldest person released was a 64-year-old woman.

    The negotiations for the seven rounds of exchange – one for each day of the pause – had centred on women and children on either side of the conflict. Citizens of Thailand, the Philippines and Russia, who were freed through separate talks, also numbered among the hostages Hamas released. More than 120 hostages are believed to remain in the Gaza Strip.

    The Israeli government initially posted a list of 300 Palestinian teenagers and women who could potentially be released through the deal and added 50 names to that list as the exchanges progressed. The list included people’s birth dates, the accusations levied against them and other information. Among those who had not been convicted of a crime, it did not distinguish between those imprisoned without formally being charged and those who had been charged and were awaiting trial.

    The New York Times compared the Israeli data with lists of the Palestinians released each day by the Palestinian Authority’s Commission for Prisoners’ Affairs. The Israeli data shows that three-quarters of the released Palestinians had not been convicted of a crime. Most had been in prison for less than a year; 37 were arrested during the Israeli military’s crackdown after the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.

    Israel detained all of the people on the list for what it said were offences related to Israel’s security, from throwing stones to more serious accusations like supporting terrorism and attempted murder. More than half of the cases were being prosecuted in Israeli military courts, which try Palestinians in the occupied West Bank but not Israeli settlers who live there.

    Nearly all Palestinians tried in Israeli military courts are convicted, and those accused of security offences can be imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial. Israel has defended these practices as necessary for maintaining its security, but international human rights groups have widely criticised them as violating international law and said they are used to suppress Palestinian political activity and expression.

    A majority of the people released, 155 of them, were from the West Bank; 72 were from East Jerusalem; and one was from Gaza. The lists also included some Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are not normally included in exchange deals. That raised alarm among some observers who feared their inclusion could be used to tie them to Hamas or to threaten revoking their citizenship.


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:

    Following the resistance effort from Stand Up Now Australia, this is the news posted on their site.

    The People’s Letter – Update: this was our latest effort to save Australians from the tyranny of the W.H.O. The campaign is now closed but the letter has been sent with our 25,304 signatures! on it. Thanks to everyone who supported this 🙏🙏🙏

    Thanks to the Cats on this blog who signed up.
    I will follow that site and share any info or ways in which we can get involved.


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Censorship Files:
    Fighting back against the ‘International Censorship Industrial Complex’

    Dr Jay Bhattacharya and Michael Shellenberger join Neil Oliver to discuss a new documentary, ‘The Censorship Files’, and how we can push back against the international censorship industrial complex.


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  32. mh says:

    I guess this happens a lot

    Quds News Network
    @QudsNen
    A nurse at Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital was shocked to find members of her family among casualties who arrived at the hospital following a brutal Israeli strike in #Gaza.

    https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1730757801092296920?s=20


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  33. mh says:

    Dan Cohen
    @dancohen3000
    The Jerusalem Post, run by U.S.-born settler and Israeli military propagandist @AviMayer, has quietly deleted its article falsely claiming that Palestinian baby Muhammad Hani al-Zahar, murdered by Israel, is a doll.

    The more their propaganda fails, they lower they go.

    https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1730982940396372288?s=20


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  34. mh says:

    The Fox Studio fell silent

    Ian Miles Cheong
    @stillgray
    Greg Gutfeld stands up for Elon Musk and says the quiet part out loud: Tucker Carlson was canceled from Fox by special interest groups tied to political interests.

    https://x.com/stillgray/status/1730832149866303786?s=20


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    👼 Advent: First Sunday 👼

    First Candle

    .

    Advent Anthem
    Awaken and Prepare Us


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  36. mh says:

    Warning: contains explicit material

    Jerusalem Post, Ben Shapiro Push ‘Crisis Actor’ Conspiracy Theory Claiming Dead Palestinian Baby is a ‘Doll’
    Chris Menahan
    InformationLiberation
    Dec. 02, 2023

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64156


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  37. mh says:

    Comment at the above link

    catothewiser
    7 hours ago
    So, they can be sued like Alex Jones was?


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  38. mh says:

    George Galloway
    @georgegalloway
    #SUNDAY Join me for The Mother Of All Talk Shows!

    With guests @jacksonhinklle and Arab Barghouti

    Watch #LIVE on YouTube Rumble Telegram and all platforms

    🎙#MOATS
    🇬🇧 7PM LONDON GMT
    🇺🇸 PT 11AM – ET 2PM

    https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/1731040534997717339?s=20


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  39. mh says:

    The Sun

    KILLER COLD Homeless man ‘freezes to death’ while sleeping in a car as cold snap grips Britain

    According to residents in Beeston, Notts, the man relied on the car for warmth and shelter


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  40. mh says:

    Try not to laugh

    Germany now! Munich is in chaos! A terrible snowstorm buried cars and houses

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ3nI4MWbt0


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  41. mh says:

    The 100 year war on Palestine w/Rashid Khalidi | The Chris Hedges Report

    The Real News Network

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ55JmOlSdg


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