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Shocking pics of Trump’ arrest
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Despicable people at their fave restaurant
Despicable person hiding a boner
Birds of a feather
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Family Circus
Johannes Leak
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Old bloke, my comment does not relate to the negativity around the Pope and Vatican by non-Catholics. It is based on the interpretation, within the Church, by devout Catholics.
I’ll check out the link and references in your comment and respond later to that and share what I have read in the past about the Antichrist, from other sources.
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The Covid and The Vaxx
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Dr. McCullough Testifies the Stunning Truth
About the Cover-Up of Vaccine Injuries
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What really went on inside the Wuhan lab
weeks before Covid erupted
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Green Monkey DNA Found in COVID-19 Shots
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Tucker has received a cease and desist from Fox News due to his Twitter postings.
Tomorrow morning, our time, his next episode is expected. It is supposed to be on the Trump indictment. I would like to hear what he has to say – where his research, sources and analysis lead him. I hope he stays on the truth-seeking path.
In the meantime:
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Law Professor Jonathan Turley On Trump Indictment:
‘He Could Have A Terminal Sentence’
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The boxes
Six photos – four + two below.
As JohnJJJ says, a Fun Fact: The bathroom has a chandelier.
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I wouldn’t place much credence on what Bill Barr says, but there are some points to consider in this interview.
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Van + stabbing means one thing – beardos
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I am posting some comments in the other threads on the blog main page, if they are linked to those topics. It gets easier to locate links, later on, if they are in the Posts or the CatWiki. Much harder to trace them in Open Threads.
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Qwerty
Flashbacks
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Flashback1
The Presidential evolution of gay marriage
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Flashback2
Conspiracy theorist Dennis Prager
The Present
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This month
At the White House
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Rushing to the Rescue
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The Elephant
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The Monkey
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A Ponderable
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Great tribute from Dave Rubin to the GOAT
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The Voice toon
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Fact checkers have lost all credibility
Spare a thought for the ‘fugees
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Today’ NPC –
Here’s the Prof
Reproductive medicine. I think we know where this is going
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In today’ “where is our money going?”
to the usual suspects
And their mates
And the usual troughers
Money well spent? I think not.
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stabbing people, security sources believe
Interesting situation the Government authorities have got themselves into. In many countries they have created new well funded sub-bureaucracies called Anti-terrorism, then the Ruskies, Shia, Kurds and Syria wipe out the ISIS Caliphate. The Yanks have now decided that school mums are terrorists. At the same time the authorities can’t tell us if anything is a terrorist attack. After all the Jihadis are proud of what they do. The cops know straight away. The Anti-terrorism units need something to justify their budgets.
Fascinating world we live in.
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And he wasn’t even not roped to get a confidential payoff, i mean, payout
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We dodged a bullet
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It’s starting to look a lot like Labor
Everywhere I go
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France wants to join BRICS, how will the EU respond to that?
Australia should do likewise.
BRICS Is Growing: FRANCE Is the First European Country To Join? – Lena Petrova – 8 minutes.
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Family Circus
Spooner
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Tucker Carlson on Twitter… episode 3! Talks on Trumps Indictment – 13 minutes.
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France:
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‘Christian’ who stabbed children on playground
turns out to be a Muslim named Selwan Majd
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Eva Vlaardingerbroek
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Tucker’s Twitter account
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When young people admire sports stars as heroes, here’s the one they should look up to as a role model. He talks the talk and walks the walk.
Novak
A TRUE champion – on AND off the court.
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Tucker is dealing with one aspect of Trump’s indictment. The concerns about political interference, the witch-hunt, the corruption in the government and the DOJ. Why is it that Hillary Clinton, the Bidens and any other Presidents have also not been indicted in similar circumstances? If a crime was committed then the same rule should apply to all.
But is all this really a surprise? It is obvious that there is something going wrong in the US. The swamp has been there for a long, long time and needs to be drained.
I am waiting for legally qualified Americans, who are objectively watching the drama, to evaluate what has happened. To explain the situation clearly, so that those in the GOP who want what is best for their country can make the decisions that need to be made.
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Forget about the problems Aussies are facing with cost of living, energy bills, rents and mortgages. This is the Parliament of Australia, dealing with the really important issues.
Lidia Thorpe claims Liberal senator sexually assaulted her
Extraordinary scenes played out in parliament as Lidia Thorpe exploded, accusing a Liberal senator of sexual assault — a claim he denies.
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Tucker was saying that the deep state opposed Trump primarily because he was against the perpetual war machine (from a comment he made in 2015).
That was one reason, I think the main reason was because Trump saw no benefit in maintaining America’s hegemon, all those foreign military bases are too expensive to maintain. Trump’s world view was for a multipolar world together with a semi-isolationist foreign policy, make America great again by concentrating on America’s internal needs rather than trying to maintain a hegemon by sabre rattling.
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Jun 14, 2023
The Alex Jones Show
Edward Dowd (https://twitter.com/dowdedward) joins guest host Maria Zeee of https://zeeemedia.com/ to break down the evidence pointing to the rise in excess deaths in millenials following the COVID jab push.
https://www.banned.video/watch?id=6489025747c3b95f25ee03b6
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Believe wimmin
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Tucker was saying that the deep state opposed Trump primarily because he was against the perpetual war machine
My thoughts are that the deep state has nothing on him. Epstein was the mere indicator of the massive control of people through threat of exposure, extortion and blackmail. All the techniques they are using on Trump show their MO. Being independently wealthy, smart, able to negotiate and with enormous loyalty means he is untouchable to the intelligence agencies. They can’t control him.
If he gets back in, he now knows how politics works and will expose this system of extortion. But I doubt he will make it.
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Yay, tonight’s the night on NITV
Surely a comedy
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If only there had been a clue
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Hmm, that wasn’t right.
He was a customer
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Wow, the days when Harvard was famous for the ‘preppy’ look are long gone.
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Family Circus
Spooner
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INTERVIEW: The crawl of the light brigades
George Galloway
15 Jun 2023
INTERVIEW: The Ukrainian leadership has to know that a frontal assault on layers of defences with hodge-podge of equipment is going to lead to massive losses, says ex-US marine Brian Berletic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqnb65nlpIo
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“Thrived” That’s one way of putting it. “Thriving” societies wouldn’t need this unusual dietary supplementation.
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Ain’t that a shame
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Entrepreneur Matt Barrie warns Australia is on the brink of financial collapse
https://www.couriermail.com.au/business/economy/entrepreneur-matt-barrie-warns-australia-is-on-the-brink-of-financial-collapse/news-story/82f7f58731d57e045f68acd3cc33c04d
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If you like the Tate brothers
Streamed on: Jun 14, 4:00 pm EDT
EMERGENCY MEETING – COUNTER ATTACK
https://rumble.com/v2rmaqm-emergency-meeting-counter-attack.html
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DeSantis War Room 🐊
@DeSantisWarRoom
Keep your hands off our kids.
https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1669419865600344079?s=20
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Fossil fuel companies opt to remain profitable
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Young Brittnah
Lost child
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Pauline’ latest.
Those caricatures are so good
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Local council has a cunning plan to solve homelessness, high rents etc – double the rates on short term rental accommodation, homes with spare bedrooms, undeveloped land and so on.
They’re also mandating that there be at least 4 face-painters be “on duty” at local shows and such, to reduce queue lengths and waiting times.
I’d love to say these are the initiatives of top men but they’re actually the initiatives of top women.
FMD (1st of the day). I’m sure there’ll be loads more.
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When Kevin Rudd became PM he gave the issue of homelessness top priority.
US President Ronald Reagan – “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
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America seeking to recruit retired Air Force and Navy pilots to return to service in Ukraine. They will be employed by a private company, hence there’s no direct conflict between the US government and the Russian military. I suppose they will be asked to fly the F-16s which some NATO countries have donated to Ukraine.
Will there be a similar recruitment drive for retired Australian Air Force pilots to fight in Ukraine flying the F18 Hornet jets we’re donating to Ukraine? I hope these guys are well remunerated, Russia has the world’s best air defence systems so they won’t be in the air for long.
Evidence of Ukraine’s Devastation / NATO looking to expand the war – Col Doug Macgregor – Napolitano/Macgregor – 2 minutes.
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In “where’s your money going? news – a few months ago, super fund HESTA, invested (on your behalf) $100,000,000 of your retirement savings in a renewable energy business, Renu Energy, which had no income-producing assets but had big plans for big hydrogen energy. Amid all the excitement the share price went up 30+% but it’s all died down now and reality has set in. The investment is now valued at $85,000,000. So don’t retire just yet.
The board has the usual suspects burning your money.
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It’s reassuring to learn that the important issues facing the nation are being addressed by our elected representatives.
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I wonder if the board members are aware that their trustee obligations and liabilities exceed corporate liabilities. Trustee liabilities are personal liabilities, the trustees can’t shrug off bad investments and hide behind corporate liability limitations, fund members can seize and sell the trustee’s personal assets for compensation.
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sHE’S FAR TOO OLD FOR HIM
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Australian government to block new Russian Embassy in Canberra, see from the 28 minute mark here..
Scholz, Russia top threat. Kakhovka war crime, Energodar assault. NATO fake security guarantees. U/1
It’s also interesting that Biden is going to gift Australia with a new trans national railway, from the Pacific to the Indian Oceans. I don’t know why we need a second railway across Australia, but if Biden is giving us one I won’t complain (from the opening segment in the above video).
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Lost in America
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Alice Cooper – Lost In America
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Bashful duo no longer flavour of the month
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Climate change advocates cherry-picking data – who would have thought!
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Some laundry advice
George says
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Andrew Probyn got the push from the ABC cos he’s married! To a woman!! Can’t have that!!!
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Are you sure he does not mean a trans ocean railway across the Indian Ocean? He is also fond of saying “God save the Queen” – perhaps Dr. Jill could educate him on how times have changed.
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Trans only? What happened to LGBTQI?
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Bud Lighting The Dodgers
The Dodger Stadium
Outside the Stadium
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A Disney re-edit to Raiders of the Lost Ark
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From behind the pay-wall – resistance to planned obsolescence
Retailers may still be reeling from the challenges of online stores, but they now face another disrupter in the shape of sustainable shopping and the circular economy.
It’s a challenge that is forcing some big outlets, including David Jones in Australia, Britain’s Selfridges chain and big brands such as Rolex, to do what might once have seemed unthinkable: get into the business of reselling their used products online. In Britain it’s a website called Worn Again; here it’s RELOOP on the DJs website.
The trend is being driven by societies, especially their younger members, that hate waste and increasingly look for ways to recycle goods from T-shirts to television sets.
They’re not wrong to call it out. A recent Deloitte Access Economics report calculated that about $2.5bn worth of unused merchandise is wasted, some of it going to land fill, every year in this country. That’s merchandise – clothes, toys, whitegoods, electronics, books, furniture, bedding – that retailers simply cannot sell, even if heavily discounted.
All that waste has also generated a partnership between retailers and a not-for-profit called Good360, set up in Australia in 2015 by Alison Covington. Having read about a similar group in the US, she wondered “If not me, who?”.
Her charity, which now has 30 employees, connects retailers to charities who distribute goods direct to people in need.
It has partnerships with 450 businesses and 3500 charities and disadvantaged schools and distributes about $100m worth of goods each year.
Now Good360 has partnered with the Australian Retailers Association to launch a program, Inner Circle, in which retailers, including Big W, Linen House and the Winning Group, commit to working with the charity.
Australian Retailers Association head Paul Zahra, the former CEO of David Jones, says the circular economy is a mindset shift for retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers.
“What we’ve got now is consumers saying this is just not good enough,” he says.
He applauds Covington for showing that “pre-consumer excess inventory” can fill a need. He says part of the problem is that premium and luxury brands don’t want to discount their product because it affects the way the product is perceived.
There’s also a problem when retailers order too much and can’t move product, even if discounted.
And while AI will in future probably refine inventory management, for now it remains an inexact science and subject to consumer whim.
The good news is that retailers and brands that resist the Good360 model are pursuing other ways to deal with excess inventory – for example, by setting up discount outlets or outlets under a different brand name to offload product.
“A lot of the newer retailers are doing much more customisation where they only produce the product when the customer has actually ordered it,” says Zahra.
“Environmental sustainability is emerging as the biggest issue and opportunity for retailers. There’s a whole model in the future of retail where retail shops are seen as showrooms and then you order online and the inventory is held centrally.
“We’re moving away from the disposable economy to the circular economy. We’re seeing brands selling products in the second-hand market because they think they should own this market.”
Covington is now looking for government funding – $5m a year for five years – to scale up her charity, which now can only manage to distribute about 5 per cent of the waste merchandise. About 30 per cent is clothing. “We’ve been asking government to fund what we do, just like they fund food waste (distribution),” she says. “We haven’t received any significant funding. We serve 3500 charities, helping them through drought, flood, fire.
“The demand has been growing: we did $5m in February, $12m in April, and in May, we’ve just done $17m worth of goods. The demand just keeps rising every month, but we could do more if we received government funding. That’s the only thing holding us back.”
Good360 operates nationally via websites, with a warehouse in western Sydney.
Covington says the waste is across all product lines: “Think about seasonal clothing, homewares, think about the way that towels and cushions all have different seasonal colours now.”
Selfridges runs the Reselfridge concept: a “resale, rental, repair, refill and recycle ecosystem” which circulates used goods and is designed to “keep products in circulation for longer”. Part of that concept are pop-up stores called Worn Again for luxury second-hand shopping. A recent report suggested Selfridges wants 45 per cent of their transactions to come from circular products and services by 2030.
Rolex is also “owning” the second-hand market in watches, which is booming. It certifies pre-owned Rolexes which are then sold by certified retailers, ensuring the all-important authenticity of the brand.
Zahra notes another trend – renting goods, such as clothes. Outlets include GlamCorner, an “on-demand and subscription clothing hire” operation where you can rent a designer dress overnight.
GlamCorner has been in a partnership with David Jones since 2020, with a hub on its online platform and its Sydney store on Elizabeth St. Last year, the retailer and GlamCorner set up RELOOP which allows customers to “recommerce their items through resale, rent, recycle or repair”.
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While on the topic of trains (not trans), Sydney readers might be interested to know that there were plans for a northern beaches train line. Platforms 1 and 2 at Wynyard were built for the northern beaches line which was to terminate at Manly, but this was never built.
Instead, platforms 1 and 2 were modified for tram services which ran over the harbour bridge and connected to the northern suburbs tram services. The tram services in Sydney ended in the 1950’s and Wynyard platforms 1 and 2 were sealed off to the public.
Sydney’s Abandoned Underground Tram Station – 12 minutes.
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Garrison
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Pride & No Prejudice Edition
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In the comments
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Pwobyn got sacked –
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It’s all over for Wally
I checked and checked and checked and can’t find it’s fake or photoshopped
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All these Parliament shenanigans about the unsafe environment for female politicians.
Case Study: Dealing with toxic males in the workplace.
Heard this story from a caller on talkback radio.
The lady sounded like someone in her late sixties or seventies. She was narrating an incident that took place when she was quite young – probably 40+ years ago. She worked in the secretarial pool of a very big company. All the secretaries sat and worked in one room and would be called by managers for dictation and secretarial work. There was one manager, Kevin, who was the groper, and the secretaries hated working for him. They would talk about their experiences.
One day, our radio caller was asked to go to his office to do some work. She went in and took the dictation. Then groping Kevin asked her to get some files. So she opened the filing cabinet and while she was looking for the files, he came up behind her and put his hands on her breasts.
Caller: I was young and quite agile so I lifted my foot and hit him where it hurts most. He was clearly in pain. I walked out of his office.
She was worried what would happen now. Sometime later, the very Big Boss came into the secretarial room and walked around. He seemed to be looking at the floor. Then he walked out.
Soon after, she got a message that she was wanted in the Big Boss’ office. She was wondering what would happen.
Big Boss: What happened in Kevin’s office?
Caller: So he complained about me?
Big Boss: No. I was in the Men’s Room when he came in. He seemed to be in great pain and had white shoe polish on the front of his trousers. You are the only one wearing white shoes today.
Groper Kevin was kicked out of the company.
No workplace laws, no dramas, no feminixt whingeing about toxic males.
The caller explained that she was young at that time, but she would often overhear her older sister and friends talking about how to deal with certain males and hitting them where it hurts the most.
There are real situations and environments where women are being sexually abused, attacked and molested. And it would be hard for them to fight back or defend themselves.
But the Parliament of Australia being an unsafe work environment? Those fragile women don’t wear shoes with heels? Maybe our talkback lady caller could give them a few lessons in self-defence.
If women politicians in this country are not prepared to go to the police to report sexual abuse, what kind of leadership and example are they providing to ordinary women in the same situations?
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Alex Soros Vows To Eradicate Conservatives From the Internet:
“I’m 100 Times Worse Than My Dad”
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Climate change
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The scam
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The Congo
Now that she’s finally graduated from school, Greta could take a Gap year in the Congo teaching the children there how to organise schools strikes for climate.
Then she could get back to the Western world and tell us about the wonders of Green Energy.
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Caption the following photo.
Muskmelon
There will be a prize for the best entry. 😉
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Here’s this weekend’s Leak toon since it has not been posted.
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Old bloke,
I tried to download from your link the America the Babylon by Richard Coombes zip file. It is a very large file and I was having problems trying to download it. It was taking so long that I gave up.
I will look through the points you have listed and the references. Will take some time to go through that. On my To Do task list.
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If women politicians in this country are not prepared to go to the police to report sexual abuse, what kind of leadership and example are they providing to ordinary women in the same situations?
They’re troughers, like they their male counterparts, in it for the money until the signal a bit of publicity won’t cost ’em anything ..
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Fetterman gives Biden the introduction he deserves
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Yes, I agree these cossetted females are a disgrace to the species.
Turn around and slap a face or say loudly “Keep your hands to yourself”. These are not downtrodden check out chicks trying to keep body and soul together.
I recall when I was in Japan, Japanese males took advantage of the crush to press up against females. Japanese females responded by announcing “Oh, there seems to be a “Japanese equivalent of masher” in here and looking into the faces of the offenders.
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Their ABC tells us there are 2500 people in hospital with Convid. It’s a pandemic I tells ya. People falling over dead everywhere I go so it must be true.
Dorinda Cox given lengthy interview and we’re all racists if we vote No. Happy to oblige.
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The NIAA has a budget of $4.5bill and a workforce of 1300. My calculator says that’s $3.5mill per employee. Money well spent, I say.
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Lidia Thorpe says the “tokenistic” Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government is the final nail in the coffin that gives her people no power.
Another reason to vote No.
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You vill not tell ze truth.
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Courier Paywall
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Family Circus
Johannes Leak
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I’m sure Australians will find many reasons to vote NO.
All the dictatorial shit like changing the names of world-famous places like Fraser Island will be a catalyst to tell the overlords to get stuffed.
Not allowed to walk up Mt Warning. Just say NO.
sTan Grant – just say NO.
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