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I cannot read it to make a judgment on whether it’s fake news:
Courier Paywall
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Thanks admin
Further to the old thread
It should be easy to find out if this is already agreed in Oz but it isn’t. Going by the weasel words Albo and Marles use, “we are part of a global, rules based order” it’s a done deal. We’ll find out soon enough.
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Queensland exports its excess energy to the whole east coast, NSW, Vic & SA are all dependent on the Queensland coal generators to keep their lights on. If Queensland is having an energy crisis then the whole eastern coast grid will be in trouble.
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I love a good bit of fiction
AKA six things to do with sticks.
Love the headline –
At least they’re honest about it.
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I don’t understand how an increase in interest rates will fix the housing shortage problem, perhaps the government should halt or limit the number of new immigrants.
Is Albo going to force people to give up their spare bedrooms to house a new migrant family?
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There’s nothing global about this “rules based order”, it only applies to NATO aligned countries and the English speaking world.
The rest of the world continues to operate on recognised international law.
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Whos’ caring for granny?
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Choose a speed for your fave MP
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Joke ad. Surely!
My bad
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Philip Lowe is now talking about lifting productivity to beat inflation. I can’t remember anyone talking about lifting productivity since the Costello era. Lowe must be searching through the bottom of his briefcase.
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Some of the sites I link to on here are having their journos interrogated in the UK.
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Headline of the day
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On a similar theme:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-gossip/kanye-west-steps-out-with-new-aussie-wife-bianca-censori-in-revealing-outfit-c-10654558
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US Climate Czar Announces War Like Effort To Shut Down American Food Supply
Greg Reese
https://www.banned.video/watch?id=647742adf6134e1e8dbc8492
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Better than a Judge interview
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They have become a nasty bunch of fascists haven’t they.
On other matters British, the Royal Navy lost 22 officers in Odessa yesterday as a result of a Russian missile attack. The British Navy were involved with underwater and surface drone attacks on Russian targets and the Russians warned them but they continued.
They were responsible for the drone attack on the Russian port of Sevastopol some months ago and broke the truce Russia granted Ukraine for grain shipments from Odessa and Sevastopol, Russia named them and that was a warning.
More recently a Russian ship guarding the Russian gas pipeline under the Black Sea was attacked and damaged by surface drones, the Russians blamed the Brits hence the missile attack.
From the 25 minute mark:
Donbass Zugzwang | The Russians Suddenly Launched Another Operation. Military Summary For 2023.05.31</a
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Oops.
I posted today’s cartoons on the old thread.
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In the old days you would hear British boomers say stuff like “We don’t hate Americans, we just hate America’s foreign policy”.
Today the British foreign policy is lock step with every US neocon disaster. In fact, Boris Johnson is often sent to Washington to rally everyone for the new foreign adventures.
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For some strange reason I watched part of the ABC 7.30 report last night. Sara Snowcone interviewing righteous journo and lawyer, barely able to keep a smile off her face. Come on Karma, do your job.
Meanwhile…
gummint
leftie hero
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Things for Da Voice to fix
Just the headlines
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Good cop is bad cop
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Joe Biden ‘trips and falls’ during Air Force Academy graduation ceremony as staff rush to help President up
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22552272/joe-biden-falls-during-air-force-academy-graduation-ceremony/
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New Catallaxy went down yesterday afternoon as discussion concerning the Ben Roberts-Smith case was continuing on the Open Forum. That may have been entirely coincidental but people are worried. New Catallaxy is still offline. If Adam permits then this site could be a point of communication about the outage. Numerous Cats have emailed me re it.
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Aha. New Catallaxy is up again. Good to see you all here and to know too that Catallaxy will never ever die.
Thanks Adam for providing this site which has some faithful adherents and offers another set of opinions on similar issues with a few of its own specialties also regularly maintained.
Some people do cross over one t’other at times, me included.
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Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman is on Twitter. There were some problems and it was labelled hateful. Elon says that it was a mistake by people at Twitter and that it is definitely allowed. There still seem to be problems being resolved at Twitter.
It still has the label “Hateful Conduct” and there are some who are unable to view it.
Here it is:
What is a Woman.
A second link if the first doesn’t work.
Let me know if you can access it. The documentary is free on Twitter only for 24 hours.
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Welcome Lizzie, yes, v suspicious on the topic of BRS. Everything I read is the opposite of the MSM gloating, people are appalled.
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Now arrest him
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Trouble at t’renewables mill
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I heard CNBC’s Rick Santelli referring to this possible liquidity crunch following a debt ceiling deal
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Correct. Expect another 0.25% rise on Tuesday.
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Biden – Meme generator philanthropist
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New Atlas LIVE: Mike Jones: Living in Russia and Life Amid the Special Military Operation
The New Atlas
231K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYj2eQs6VUQ
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$90,000,000 a day we give to Inigenius corporations to advance the lot of their people. Where does it go?
$120,000 cash in a remote community?!
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From behind the paywall – it’s not our job
Australia’s most senior health leaders have dismissed suggestions the commonwealth should take a greater oversight and regulatory role in the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children as the federal government admits it has no idea how widely the drugs are being prescribed off-label for gender dysphoria.
Therapeutic Goods Administration chief medical adviser Robyn Langham was asked in Senate estimates if it was appropriate the federal agency regulates the use of androgen-blocking drugs that are approved for the treatment of prostate cancer but are prescribed off-label to children to halt the progress of puberty.
There is concern among some physicians in Australia and internationally at the long-term effects of the puberty-blocker drugs on children experiencing gender dysphoria being prescribed
Professor Langham said it was up to individuals doctors to use their clinical judgment in prescribing the drugs and the TGA had no role in the matter. “Where doctors wish to prescribe off-label, we do not regulate doctors’ practice,” she said in response to questions from Nationals senator Matt Canavan.
“When a doctor chooses to do that, they do so in the full knowledge that they are accepting all of the legal responsibility, that they understand the research and they get full consent of their patients.”
Commonwealth health department secretary Brendan Murphy also rejected any need for greater oversight of gender-affirming medicine and the treatment of children in the wake of the Cass review in the UK, which identified “gaps in the evidence base” on the prescription of hormone drugs to children.
“Our position is that where these services are provided by very expert, multidisciplinary clinic services, such as a Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, we have to rely on the best clinical advice we have,” he said. “They have their own governance structures that look at look at those things.”
Professor Murphy said the federal government had no idea how many children were being prescribed puberty blockers, because data on the off-label use of drugs on the PBS was not collected.
“We wouldn‘t know for sure,” he said. “The drugs that are prescribed in a clinic, such as at the Royal Children’s Hospital, are normally prescribed through the hospital system, and we wouldn’t have access to that data,” he said.
In the wake of the decision by medical indemnity insurer MDA National to withdraw providing insurance cover to doctors in private practice prescribing cross-sex hormones to those under 18, the insurer’s president, Michael Gannon, said it was “keeping a very close eye on the evidence as to whether or not the effects of (puberty blockers) are reversible”.
“We think there are so many unknowns,” said Dr Gannon, a former president of the Australian Medical Association. “We came to an authentic view that there is likely to be significant claims from individuals through expressed regret years down the track about decisions they made when they were very young … there might be multimillion-dollar claims.”
Dr Gannon said doctors in clinical practice had “seen this complex social issue, complex set of considerations, turn from something that involves a very small number of people, to an issue of the questioning of personal identity being made by a sizeable minority of teens”.
Some members of state parliaments, such as Victorian Liberal Democrat David Limbrick, have also begun raising the issue with greater urgency in light of the shifting international evidence.
“With the changing view on what’s happening with gender medicine around the world, great caution needs to be taken around Australia,” he said. “If the TGA is not monitoring this, they should be. I definitely support some sort of review into gender medicine for children … If some children on puberty blockers are being treated inappropriately, it could lead to catastrophic, lifelong issues.”
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Professor Langham said it was up to individuals doctors to use their clinical judgment in prescribing the drugs and the TGA had no role in the matter. “Where doctors wish to prescribe off-label, we do not regulate doctors’ practice,” she said in response to questions from Nationals senator Matt Canavan.
“When a doctor chooses to do that, they do so in the full knowledge that they are accepting all of the legal responsibility, that they understand the research and they get full consent of their patients.”
So no doctor will get struck off or threatened for prescribing ivermectin?
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It was supposed to be free only for 24 hours but has been extended for the weekend. Musk also has it up as his pinned tweet.
The woke world must be in a tailspin. It was hard for Daily Wire to get most media and movie outlets to show that documentary, this past year. Even short clips got removed due to complaints from trannys of “emotional harm”. And now it is freely available on Twitter and they can do nothing about it.
Their minions at Twitter tried to block it yesterday, but the big boss intervened and has approved it. For the sake of the children, we have to hope that parents, teachers and all those who care for or work with children stop whatever they are doing and watch it.
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Jennifer Bilek (Trans Agenda post) revealed the reason for the tranny project – money.
In the What is a Woman doco (1:01:15), Scott Newgent said:
Newgent Press Conference
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Dr. Naomi Wolf Uncovers Pfizer’s Depopulation Agenda,
as Evidenced by Its Own Documents
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Dr Patrick Moore is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace. In this interview he makes a compelling case for nuclear energy.
On Nuclear Energy:
On Net Zero:
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Observer, that was my first thought, too.
All that balls about how they don’t interfere in presribing – a lie.
Why didn’t the Senator ask that question?
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Wow – go Matt Walsh!
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Another NATO flashpoint this week
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GOAT
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Powerline’s Week in Pictures: Down Goes Biden Edition
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Thanks, Coldie!
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The de-dollarisation process, how America chose to shoot itself in the foot.
How U.S. Sanctions On Russia Caused De-dollarization – 15 minutes.
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Back to potatoes
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The Covid Vaxx and the CDC
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CDC Drops Bombshell on the Vaccinated
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It is not just that the vaxx doesn’t work …
Repeated COVID-19 Vaccination Weakens Immune System
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Getting to know the new CDC Director – Mandy Cohen
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Biden’s likely pick for new CDC director
loosely followed her own COVID protocols, laughed off lockdowns
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Do the Voice Yes voters know what lies ahead?
From The Australian newspaper are the reported views of the general manager of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation in western Queensland.
Treaty Negotiations To Include Mine Veto*
(*The above link to the Oz paywalled article was provided by a commenter to a Quadrant post.)
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The Bee in the Mock.
The month of June
The real centuries old dedication of the month of June
And the fake alphabetxyz one which requires warnings for children to be protected.
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The What is a Woman doco is currently at 148.7 million views in the 48 hours that it has been available. Two days ago, when there were some hiccups with the posting, Elon called the attempts to censor the doco the “Streisand Effect”.
A bit of digging into the history of that term:
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How Barbra Streisand Inspired the “Streisand Effect”
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Streisand Effect meme.
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More shocking pics from the war in Ukr
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America first
Courier Paywall
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The marker above indicates this is a faith-based section so stop or scroll, as you please.
A few days ago, I came across some info on a church that I had not heard about before. The history: In 1978 the property was purchased and soon after, due to some electrical short, was badly destroyed.
This church – The Immaculata – is built on a hill overlooking a small town, St Marys, in Kansas, USA. The cost of building the church was US$ 42 million. 99% of the cost has already been raised.
The question asked is: How was the church able to get this money?
The fund-raising for The Immaculata began 45 years ago. According to Bishop Fellay:
The Immaculata church can seat over 1,500 people. It is 40 metres high and over 6,000 square metres. The building of the church started in 2020 and was completed earlier this year.
A few short videos.
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Final stages of the construction
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Getting it ready
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The church was consecrated last month, 3 May 2023
Consecration of The Immaculata
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If you want to watch the entire
Consecration and Dedication Ceremony
It is five and half hours.
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The Russians won’t bomb the Chinese Embassy in Kiev as the Americans did in Belgrade in that NATO war. Ooops, sorry, we had the wrong address.
There’s a statue featuring a young girl, a memorial to the children killed in Belgrade in that war, in a park in that city. Recently a visiting EU official saw the monument and complained, he wanted the statue taken down and replaced with something more uplifting, something which better reflects “European Values”, whatever they may be. His request didn’t go far.
On the current war, Alexander Mercouris made a comment recently about a photo in the Guardian newspaper. The photo was taken in a Kiev subway station where people were sheltering from a Russian missile and drone attack, and from air defence missiles returning to the ground.
I haven’t seen the photo but Alexander said it featured some women and children, and the former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, huddled together in a Kiev subway station.
Poroshenko was installed as President after the American coup in 2014. He achieved notoriety soon after with his public statements that the Ukrainian children would be able to go to school and play in the parks, but the Russian children would be locked in their basements as they would be shelled by the Ukrainians.
Alexander wondered about what would have been going through Poroshenko’s mind, there he was sheltering with women and children, things didn’t work out as he planned.
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Backlashes and boycotts work. At least in the US.
1/ The US Navy
2/ MLB
But, I am now a fan of the
3/ Texas Rangers
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The Babylon Bee
After you’ve watched the full movie …. 😉
A memester managed to create this.
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A Ponderable
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A cock and bull story.
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Crazy Bill’s plant milk coming soon
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GG on Kosovo
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Airhead alert
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Family Circus
Johannes Leak
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CH, Leak link goes to Oz subscribers only.
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Sorry, Johannes Leak
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Thanks, CH.
Appreciate your efforts.
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Save Calvary Hospital
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Sign the Petition – Get Involved
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Contact the PM
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George Galloway on the fight against the Californication of the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx8rUQzWRfo
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Entertaining
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Think I’ve found a solution for the leftie problem
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Where’s your taxes going?
Anthony Albanese announces $105m clean energy deal after Vietnam meetings
Which is not at all connected to
$50mill+ each.
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The Californication of the West. A new term from GG?
He says:
Looking forward to more MOATs from Galloway.
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On matters Galloway, here’s George talking to Gonzalo Lira Senior, father of the imprisoned Gonzalo. It’s a very heartfelt talk, this 80 year old Dad is pleading for his son’s life.
INTERVIEW: All I know is that Gonzalo was detained on May 1 – 15 minutes.
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Dim Jim – blame the guy over there!
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The wokeism
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Going Woke
WHY are all these companies going woke despite it negatively impacting their bottom line? What’s in it for them? The answer may surprise you…
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BlackRock CEO
“At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors… you have to force behaviors.. like gender and race”.
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Most new home loan borrowers will hang on to the bitter end as they already know the rental market is absolutely fv—ked.
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A Ponderable
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Lower than a well-digger’s ringpiece
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The thief had to ask Nick’s Mum how to drive the Tesla, but forgot to ask about how to turn off the tracking. Or the speed limiter. Apprehending him was not too much of an effort apparently. 😀
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At the dogtor’s
Yup
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Going Woke
WHY are all these companies going woke despite it negatively impacting their bottom line? What’s in it for them? The answer may surprise you
One of the companies I work with has gone woke gradually in order to obtain government contracts. It started with equity statements and hiring ethnic women for jobs. The women then implemented DEI policies and nagged constantly about it. All of which gave them more power within the company. Next was the welcome to country at every meeting.
This was a hard nosed, highly efficient company. None of the new policies or people actually produce direct value, just contractual compliance. None of these people are involved in the real operations. It will eat away the insides of the company.
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This is interesting
You’d think in this day and age someone would look at the childhood vaccination dates.
This is the mutant gene suspected
found in 2 of the 4 kids.
What it really shows is the lack of actual evidence in the beginning.
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Rowe toon
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Chris Christie aiming to be first female POTUS
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While woke Fox News is celebrating this
Tucker is back
Episode 1 of Tucker on Twitter
In 10 hours the views are at 48.4 million
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Get F’cked.
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Please page …..
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Turn over …
Sword-Billed Hummingbird
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