The opening of a freeway extension in Perth’s northern suburbs was interrupted on Sunday when an argument broke out between two Indigenous men over who had the rights to conduct the traditional smoking ceremony.
The incident occurred at the Romeo Road ribbon cutting ceremony that was being conducted by Transport Minister Rita Saffioti.
The premiere of the $232m, 5km project was halted – again.
This time it was an awkward cultural stand off, not construction delays which plagued the extension which previously held things up.
“I don’t need permission off you or anyone else, this is my country too,” one of the Indigenous representatives said.
“Neither do I,” the other man replied as the minister backed away while other Labor politicians, including WA’s Attorney General John Quigley, look bemused.
“I thought you fellas were from Moora,” one man said.
“Well, you thought wrong,” the other replied.
Other Elders had to step in to placate one man, telling him: “You’re included in this, alright?”
“Well, it doesn’t seem like it,” he replied.
Ms Saffioti was asked about the incident as it played out.
“It’s very interesting. Obviously there’s a lot of Aboriginal groups with history in this area,” she told 7 News Perth before blaming her department for “handling” the booking.
The Australian has contacted Ms Saffioti.
It’s the second cultural issue that has plagued the Cook government in as many days.
On Saturday, a tree planting exercised was cancelled in Geraldton after a “respected local knowledge holder” stepped in citing WA’s new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws which came into effect on July 1.
The individual did not have any authority to do so according to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Tony Buti.
Terry McCrann
Goodbye Lowe: New RBA governor within days
The PM and Treasurer will announce the next RBA governor this week and I can confidently share it won’t be Philip Lowe nor our current ‘minister for energy idiocy’.
What does Dim Jim believe Lowe did wrong?
If the Treasurer tells us, then we can judge the next governor on that criteria.
Albanese, standing in front of Berlin’s Brandenberg Gate which has become a national symbol of peace and unity, told reporters Stoltenberg was “a friend of Australia”.
“We need to remember the role that NATO is playing. There is a land war in Europe,” he said.
“This is a war about the international rule of law, about whether a large nation can seek to impose its will on a smaller nation. This is about national sovereignty. This is about the people of Ukraine, struggling to defend their democracy and their sovereignty.”
I have a Cats List on Twitter for those that want to follow it. Contains the original cats, let me know and can add to it. Sanjeev seems to make up 90% of posts!
I have not received any response from twitter as to why my account @_ColdHands_ did not benefit from the so-called ‘amnesty’. Given that the original offending tweet just repeated word-for-word a tweet I used twice before (here & here), & the only difference was that the ‘offending’ tweet was in response to one of Albanese’s tweets, I am suspicious that my account was suspended following a request made by the Albanese government to silence social media dissent- and, presumably, that is why I did not enjoy the amnesty. I see from the post-Dorsey “Twitter Files” that the Australian government did request account suspensions & post censorship during the ‘pandemic’.
ABC rating not low enough? Presenters not loathed enough?
Four Corners – Blocked
8:30PM – 9:26PM
The battle over youth gender care. Patricia Karvelas breaks open the debate, navigating polarised arguments and scientific research on issues including medical interventions, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
One of the very few worthwhile elected members of the LNP has lost his endorsement for the next election. Why would anyone bother voting for the LNP?
Cairns News article:
The Herald gleefully jumped on the Rennick story last week, signalling trouble ahead for the not-quite-woke-enough Peter Dutton. “Rennick’s loss means Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who wrote an endorsement for Rennick, will no longer need to deal with the negative media attention attracted by the maverick’s conspiratorial claims,” the paper reported.
If the endorsement from the leader of the Liberal Party is not worth the paper it is written on, then Dutton is just a puppet. Maybe that explains why he is not-quite-woke but also not-quite-conservative.
Dutton, along with Birmingham and Taylor have been critical of Labor for not doing enough for Ukraine.
Good on ya, Dutton. Encourage Labor to hand over more taxpayer dollars to your pal Zelensky. Aussies have plenty of spare cash. Yeah, Putin is the bad guy.
The opening of a freeway extension in Perth’s northern suburbs was interrupted on Sunday when an argument broke out between two Indigenous men over who had the rights to conduct the traditional smoking ceremony.
We want to hear your feedback on the proposed legislation. It’s easy to have your say—simply read the exposure draft Bill and the supporting documents and:
– Make a submission below by clicking the ‘Have your say’ button.
– Email us in writing, via video, or by sending an audio recording to information
See the link for details. Submissions opened on 24 June and end on 6 August 2023. It is easy to sit back and complain. Or we use the opportunity to let the government know what we think.
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In addition to the above: Contact your MPs
Tell MPs: Protect Freedom of Speech – Oppose the ACMA Disinformation Bill 2023
I am suspicious that my account was suspended following a request made by the Albanese government to silence social media dissent- and, presumably, that is why I did not enjoy the amnesty.
Cold-Hands, your links show up as “this page doesn’t exist.”
I will explain the situation from what I picked up on various Twitter posts and other news.
To save costs, Musk reduced the staff. In the pre-Musk censorship, there must have been different algorithms used to block out “offending tweets.” I think that there may still be some lefties there who are trying to interfere with his free speech policy.
The reason you are still suspended is most likely because you are lost in the system. I have read complaints of well-known people who are still blocked like Dr Zev Zelenko’s brother. There have been some posters with high viewership who were getting blocked or shadow-banned but because of their “status” they were able to get Musk’s attention either directly or via their other high profile friends. This helps them get unblocked.
Musk has been losing a lot of money running Twitter, and he is having problems making advertising dollars as the woke advertisers don’t like the free speech which hurts the feelings of the wokesters. How is he going to solve the problems and still have a free speech platform? Does he have a plan? He is trying to get more paid blue check accounts but that won’t bring in the revenue needed.
Hostile Ashes crowd ‘worse than bikies and killers’
Journalist Danielle Gusmaroli has covered riots, been teargassed and interviewed rapists, murderers and bikies, yet what she witnessed at the third Ashes test shook her. Read what happened
Musk wants users to sign-up. So I decided to give it a go and tried to sign up. To ensure that you are a real person and not a bot, there is an authentication system. After completing that, it fizzles out. I don’t know if the servers are busy or down or there are bugs/system errors.
If any of you like challenges, try it out. You don’t have to give your real details if you just want to test it and see what happens.
Parts of Queensland have recorded their coldest morning in years as a big chill grips the state, with the apparent temperature plunging to a freezing -7.7C on the Granite Belt.
How his ‘suppporters’ can bear this charade is difficult to fathom.
His ‘supporters’ won’t mind – his supporters being the deep state and the elites they work for. Biden is right on track in delivering their agenda – WW111. 💥 ☠️
Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
Joe Biden wasn’t supposed to say the quiet part out loud: “We’ve run out of ammunition”. But now that the cat’s out of the bag, one must ask whether continued support of Ukraine’s military is even feasible as the conflict rages on.
Sabra Lane reading the news from Hobart. Why? Taxpayer funded holiday.
Scientists are going to glue the Great Barrier Reef back together with plant glue and underwater robots. All 2000kms of it! GUmmint fails to secure FTA with EU
So in Lismore hospital now, the maternity ward is full of blackfella art, the rooms all have blackfella names, there’s a separate “culturally safe” room, presumably for blackfellas, etc etc so that black women will be “better connected to culture and country” while giving birth.
The thing is, even up here the blackfellas are well down in low single digits as a percentage of the population. So now, the 90+% of white women giving birth are totally culturally excluded so that the black women are culturally safe, whatever the f that means.
America risks losing the moral high ground by supplying Ukraine with a weapon banned by much of the world, so why are they supplying it?
It’s been apparent for some time now that NATO can’t supply the artillery ammunition which Ukraine needs to fight Russia. NATO has nearly exhausted their stocks and they can’t match Russia’s prodigious military output, analysts say that the combined US and European output is sufficient for only one week of every month of Ukrainian’s current usage.
The cluster bomb shells story is the same as Britain’s spent uranium artillery for the Challenger tanks they sent to Ukraine. Britain sent that artillery as they are very low on normal high explosive rounds for their tanks which they probably want to retain for training purposes in England. They wouldn’t want to spoil England’s green and pleasant fields with radioactive debris.
The problem NATO has is that they aren’t capable of fighting a conventional war with a peer adversary, they have spent too many years fighting little brown people in faraway countries who don’t have modern weapons.
I’ll keep linking and posting about this till the deadline date of August 6.
I hope that some of you will take up the battle by making submissions (Having your say) as well as contacting your MPs/Senators, especially in marginal Labor seats. Including Teal Pocock who has balance of power in the Senate.
If you want to do your part, but don’t know what to write or say because you are thinking:
What can I say in the submission to make my case? Or what do I say when I contact politicians?
Let us get into this project together. Starting up this draft list with some ideas. If others can help with suggestions, post them and I’ll put them together. It is important to always be polite when contacting the pollies or making submissions, and to find a way to make points that sound reasonable. If you use any info on this open list, please rewrite and rephrase so it doesn’t all sound similar.
Reasons for opposing the bill
I am against this Disinformation Bill because:
– Posters on online platforms should be free to write their opinions about matters that concern them regarding the economy, politics, world events.
– Those who are readers on these platforms should not believe everything they read, unless it is from a source they trust. It is up to the reader to decide what is real information and what may just be the poster’s impressions.
– We live in a democracy so we should be able to speak without censorship.
– Who decides what is truth and what is untruth?
– Why should we be afraid to share our views on any topic?
It would be useful to add some examples, like:
1/
One person may be using solar panels and in their estimate believe that solar panels are good and save money on power bills.
Another person may have found that solar panels are expensive and they increase the cost in power bills.
Who is going to decide which person is providing information and which one is disinformation or misinformation?
2/
Some people may be of the opinion that the Prime Minster is doing a good job of running the country.
Others may think he is a terrible Prime Minister.
Are people allowed to have their opinions?
3/
If someone posts some information online that is misinformation or disinformation, then others should use the platform to provide the correct details. That way there is no need for ACMA to be deciding whether something that has been posted online is mis/dis information.
To protest against the LA Dodgers, Bryson Gray came up with this song, which at the end of June was the #1 digital song in the rap genre on BILLBOARD this week and #3 in ALL GENRES.
“It’s written in the first book of Genesis, till Satan perverted it,” the song begins. “Reclaiming the rainbow, a promise that comes from God.”
“They turned the rainbow to sin, but they don’t even know what it means,” the first verse goes. “It is a promise … God said He would no longer flood the earth.”
Was there a list of the people in that photo? I could recognise only about half of them. There are currently 31 nations who are members of NATO, yet I counted 33 people in that photo, and that photo doesn’t appear to include NATO functionaries such as NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg who wasn’t in the photo.
Australia has again extended its military support to Ukraine, with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledging another 30 Bushmaster vehicles at a cost of $100 million.
Bushmasters can cost anywhere between $500,000 to $2.4 millon
$100,000,000/300 = $3,333,333.
Hmm.
They’re not very green –
In the soft sand of Afghanistan, where the Bushmaster has achieved a strong share of the heavily contested mine-resistant vehicle market, fuel use can quadruple. Yes, we’re talking 200 L/100km.
Maybe the missing $30,000,000 is vehicle registration and third party insurance. That would explain it.
Must check how that $105,000,000 we gaev to Vietnam for renewables is going.
Clever pest controller
Diversity
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Gerard Rennick gone.
One of the very few worthwhile elected members of the LNP has lost his endorsement for the next election. Why would anyone bother voting for the LNP?
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WE live in an age of pretence, blokes in frocks pretend to be women and Anglo-Celtic women pretend to be Aboriginal nurses.
From Shy Ted’s link on the previous page.
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From behind the paywall – a reality check
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What does Dim Jim believe Lowe did wrong?
If the Treasurer tells us, then we can judge the next governor on that criteria.
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Put the Kool Aid down, moron
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Mike Jones formerly of iEarlGrey trying to beat the Big Tech censors
Russia Captures Intact Storm Shadow Missile. U.S To Supply Cluster Munitions.
Foreign Agent TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4uR8e8dYPE
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I have not received any response from twitter as to why my account @_ColdHands_ did not benefit from the so-called ‘amnesty’. Given that the original offending tweet just repeated word-for-word a tweet I used twice before (here & here), & the only difference was that the ‘offending’ tweet was in response to one of Albanese’s tweets, I am suspicious that my account was suspended following a request made by the Albanese government to silence social media dissent- and, presumably, that is why I did not enjoy the amnesty. I see from the post-Dorsey “Twitter Files” that the Australian government did request account suspensions & post censorship during the ‘pandemic’.
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ABC rating not low enough? Presenters not loathed enough?
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Cairns News article:
If the endorsement from the leader of the Liberal Party is not worth the paper it is written on, then Dutton is just a puppet. Maybe that explains why he is not-quite-woke but also not-quite-conservative.
Dutton, along with Birmingham and Taylor have been critical of Labor for not doing enough for Ukraine.
Good on ya, Dutton. Encourage Labor to hand over more taxpayer dollars to your pal Zelensky. Aussies have plenty of spare cash. Yeah, Putin is the bad guy.
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*Time for a smoko break.
(*As Cold-Hands is having computer problems, I am just the Temp filling in. Maybe the comics will resume soon?)
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One of the important news items that we have to be concerned about as it could affect our freedom of speech – the Disinformation Bill.
Some articles on this subject.
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LSJ Online
New legislation to combat online misinformation
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Spectator
Free speech dying
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Sydney Criminal lawyers
Will New Federal Laws Protect Us From Disinformation
or Serve to Silence Political Dissent?
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Should be back to normal daily comics tomorrow when the monthly data limit resets.
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Now here is the Action part.
ACMA Disinformation Bill 2023
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What is this bill?
Communications Legislation Amendment
(Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023
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The government wants your feedback.
Exposure draft of the Communications Legislation Amendment
See the link for details. Submissions opened on 24 June and end on 6 August 2023. It is easy to sit back and complain. Or we use the opportunity to let the government know what we think.
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In addition to the above:
Contact your MPs
Tell MPs: Protect Freedom of Speech – Oppose the ACMA Disinformation Bill 2023
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Cold-Hands, your links show up as “this page doesn’t exist.”
I will explain the situation from what I picked up on various Twitter posts and other news.
To save costs, Musk reduced the staff. In the pre-Musk censorship, there must have been different algorithms used to block out “offending tweets.” I think that there may still be some lefties there who are trying to interfere with his free speech policy.
The reason you are still suspended is most likely because you are lost in the system. I have read complaints of well-known people who are still blocked like Dr Zev Zelenko’s brother. There have been some posters with high viewership who were getting blocked or shadow-banned but because of their “status” they were able to get Musk’s attention either directly or via their other high profile friends. This helps them get unblocked.
Musk has been losing a lot of money running Twitter, and he is having problems making advertising dollars as the woke advertisers don’t like the free speech which hurts the feelings of the wokesters. How is he going to solve the problems and still have a free speech platform? Does he have a plan? He is trying to get more paid blue check accounts but that won’t bring in the revenue needed.
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Courier Paywall
Well it is Leeds.
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Musk wants users to sign-up. So I decided to give it a go and tried to sign up. To ensure that you are a real person and not a bot, there is an authentication system. After completing that, it fizzles out. I don’t know if the servers are busy or down or there are bugs/system errors.
If any of you like challenges, try it out. You don’t have to give your real details if you just want to test it and see what happens.
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Makes sense. Given that my account is still suspended, only Twitter & I will be able to view them.
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More Mike Jones aka iEarlGrey:
INTERVIEW: Russia is demilitarising Ukraine and Nato | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 254
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaZn1KoNLpY
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Hottest Evah!
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Truthful toon
Truthful Frog
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The leader of the free world….
Americans Horrified After Seeing How Biden Looked at Beach: ‘Fitting Snapshot of an America in Decline’
Joe Biden Appears Lost Among the Honor Guard, King Charles Coaxes Him Away After Multiple Attempts
81 million votes.
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Biden – how embarrassment!
How his ‘suppporters’ can bear this charade is difficult to fathom.
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His ‘supporters’ won’t mind – his supporters being the deep state and the elites they work for. Biden is right on track in delivering their agenda – WW111. 💥 ☠️
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Mr President, cluster munitions – why now?
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Dammit, I keep getting the tags wrong.
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Judging Freedom – without the ads
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Was Cocaine ACTUALLY FOUND at the White House? | Flyover Clip
https://www.banned.video/watch?id=64ad29e865c2d1badbcb0eb5
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4chan has identified the prominent BBC presenter who likes boys. I’m not sure I dare link to it. Typical leftie journo.
Oh, alright then
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Gofundme well worth supporting
The cure for youth crime
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Sabra Lane reading the news from Hobart. Why? Taxpayer funded holiday.
Scientists are going to glue the Great Barrier Reef back together with plant glue and underwater robots. All 2000kms of it!
GUmmint fails to secure FTA with EU
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Next time I see a Tesla. Or Jane Caro
Maybe he is a lizard
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WELL DONE to the ABC and WAPol for not mentioning the A word
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My place is your place
or as 1 commenter says –
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Please please please point it at Canbra
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It’s been apparent for some time now that NATO can’t supply the artillery ammunition which Ukraine needs to fight Russia. NATO has nearly exhausted their stocks and they can’t match Russia’s prodigious military output, analysts say that the combined US and European output is sufficient for only one week of every month of Ukrainian’s current usage.
The cluster bomb shells story is the same as Britain’s spent uranium artillery for the Challenger tanks they sent to Ukraine. Britain sent that artillery as they are very low on normal high explosive rounds for their tanks which they probably want to retain for training purposes in England. They wouldn’t want to spoil England’s green and pleasant fields with radioactive debris.
The problem NATO has is that they aren’t capable of fighting a conventional war with a peer adversary, they have spent too many years fighting little brown people in faraway countries who don’t have modern weapons.
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Never change, Ted. 🙂
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The Warming hoax explained.
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Socialist Spanish Minister
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Margaret Thatcher
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ACMA Disinformation Bill 2023
I’ll keep linking and posting about this till the deadline date of August 6.
I hope that some of you will take up the battle by making submissions (Having your say) as well as contacting your MPs/Senators, especially in marginal Labor seats. Including Teal Pocock who has balance of power in the Senate.
If you want to do your part, but don’t know what to write or say because you are thinking:
What can I say in the submission to make my case? Or what do I say when I contact politicians?
Let us get into this project together. Starting up this draft list with some ideas. If others can help with suggestions, post them and I’ll put them together. It is important to always be polite when contacting the pollies or making submissions, and to find a way to make points that sound reasonable. If you use any info on this open list, please rewrite and rephrase so it doesn’t all sound similar.
Reasons for opposing the bill
I am against this Disinformation Bill because:
– Posters on online platforms should be free to write their opinions about matters that concern them regarding the economy, politics, world events.
– Those who are readers on these platforms should not believe everything they read, unless it is from a source they trust. It is up to the reader to decide what is real information and what may just be the poster’s impressions.
– We live in a democracy so we should be able to speak without censorship.
– Who decides what is truth and what is untruth?
– Why should we be afraid to share our views on any topic?
It would be useful to add some examples, like:
1/
One person may be using solar panels and in their estimate believe that solar panels are good and save money on power bills.
Another person may have found that solar panels are expensive and they increase the cost in power bills.
Who is going to decide which person is providing information and which one is disinformation or misinformation?
2/
Some people may be of the opinion that the Prime Minster is doing a good job of running the country.
Others may think he is a terrible Prime Minister.
Are people allowed to have their opinions?
3/
If someone posts some information online that is misinformation or disinformation, then others should use the platform to provide the correct details. That way there is no need for ACMA to be deciding whether something that has been posted online is mis/dis information.
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To protest against the LA Dodgers, Bryson Gray came up with this song, which at the end of June was
the #1 digital song in the rap genre on BILLBOARD this week and #3 in ALL GENRES.
Bryson Gray
Reclaim The Rainbow
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From the Tucker show:
Andrew Tate explains how migration is purposefully destroying western nations…and he explains how it’s only happening due to the lack masculinity…
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World Wreckers in one photo
War criminals acting like righteous leaders of the free world
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Was there a list of the people in that photo? I could recognise only about half of them. There are currently 31 nations who are members of NATO, yet I counted 33 people in that photo, and that photo doesn’t appear to include NATO functionaries such as NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg who wasn’t in the photo.
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The girl of my dreams has become available
Never have to work again. Sweet.
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We’re meant to try and keep fit as we get older so arm wrestling came to mind. Best buy ever
When June is over and you’re going home
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$100,000,000/300 = $3,333,333.
Hmm.
They’re not very green –
Maybe the missing $30,000,000 is vehicle registration and third party insurance. That would explain it.
Must check how that $105,000,000 we gaev to Vietnam for renewables is going.
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