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I have just been informed by my energy retailer that price will go up from 1 July 2023. Currently, I am paying 23.269 c/kWh. On 1 July, it will be 31.739 c/kWh. That is a 36% increase.
Go and get a second job. I did. And just as I thought I am now ahead, 36% comes along.
What are they telling you to do? Vote Yes!!!!???????
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The Vaxxx
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Confidential Pfizer document shows the company observed 1.6 million adverse events
covering nearly every organ system
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U.S. Doctors
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BRICS
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BRICS Applicants
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BRICS membership
(GDP)
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Pauline Hanson’s speech in the Senate before the referendum bill was passed.
Albo considers the facts in Pauline’s speech to be “not worthy of a prime ministerial response”.
This is a worthy response for Australians.
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Moja
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Mbili
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Tatu
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How did they know she “liked” it? ASIO might have the answer
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A Ponderable
I put this to those on the blog who are following the US 2024 election news.
It is not a trick question.
If you have to choose only One option of the following, which would it be?
1/ Donald Trump should win the GOP nomination for 2024.
OR
2/ The GOP nominee should win the 2024 general election.
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Audio of woke UK teacher attempting to indoctrinate two 13 year old girls – and failing.
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1/ Donald Trump should win the GOP nomination for 2024.
There is no plan B.
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1/ Donald Trump should win the GOP nomination for 2024.
In the words of Benjamin Franklin
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What the U.S.A. has now is a federal government controlling revenue to the States and dictating moral imperatives. Secession of conservative (not necessarily Republican) controlled States may lead to a new Civil War but the Uniparty has over-reached and the pendulum will swing back.
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Yep, local council going ahead with it. Rates on houses used for short term accommodation to double.
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Ted – and this significantly increases the number of affordable dwellings available for renters how? It’s just sucking up to Greenies and other socialists.
Notice how they never mention lifting the myriad government imposts by way of taxes and ‘standards’ that add tens, indeed hundreds, of thousands of dollars to the cost of new builds?
Strangely enough, never mentioned in the touted ‘solutions’ to the housing shortage.
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johanna, the councillors words were to the effect that this would force people with short term rentals to save money on rates by making them long term rentals. It will have the wrong effect of course as such things always do but in public-servant-with-no-consequences land it’s a sure fire winner
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Trump is a braggart, a narcissist and is susceptible to flattery, leading to the appointment of inappropriate subordinates & advisors, but he’s a patriot who hasn’t gotten into politics to enrich himself; he’s not in the pockets of vested interests (such as the military-industrial complex or big pharma) and is the USA’s best hope of saving the republic from the corruption that is destroying it.
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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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A new crime – selfies
Continuing in the theme of doing things that won’t work and will make things worse
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I’ve had these links for a few weeks but there is so much to post in the short time I have, that some items get forgotten. Some of the images in the video need a warning due to what they reveal. There is so much evil at very high levels.
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Pizza Gate 1 (29:20)
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PizzaGate 2 (11:49)
PizzaGate is Not a Conspiracy
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Ireland:
Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022
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Pauline O’Reilly
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Senator Rónán Mullen
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The race to get the biggest virtue signalling award.
Elizabeth Gilbert Cancels Herself
The author sacrifices her new novel because it’s set in Russia.
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Mass Migration
Italy
The situation in Italy is out of control. In the last 24 hours, 22 boats have arrived with 1400 illegal immigrants, only men. Stop the invasion, save Europe!
On the other hand,
Sweden
is cracking down on mass-migration. Sweden will follow through on expulsion orders, and those who don’t belong in the country must leave…
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Shy Ted, I’ve been to Carnarvon Gorge. The “Rock Art” appears to be crude pornography done by children or adolescents. If you haven’t been there, don’t bother is my advice.
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And what do we have on the ABC wireless this morning?
Refugees are staying in hotels at a cost of $470,000 pp pa but they’d rather be in prison. Human Rights Commissioner says it’s OK to put Aussies in detention but not refugees,
All roo shooting in the country must stop because a yoga teacher has moved there and doesn’t like it.
Hunter Biden pleads guilty to tax avoidance so he won’t get charged with felony gun possession while a drug addict but it doesn’t matter because several of Joe’s relatives have died.
Finally, in local news, the social and affordable houses are nearly ready but vandals have broken all the windows but it’s Ok cos taxpayers will pay for some more.
Clearly lots of things need lots of distractions.
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Might need to add a PS to the Shane Warne movie
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And I got an email from the LNP “Meet the real Peter Dutton”, a vid of people saying nice things about him. Very short reply which wouldn’t get published on this august blog.
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Pauline’ latest
Apparently Barnaby’ squeeze, Vicky Campion is doing some of the voices
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Has anyone heard about a large “housing development” site in Alice Springs? I’d imagine that the Alice would be the last place a real estate developer would invest.
From the 10 minute mark here: SITREP 6.16.23 Friday Live – Massive Immigrant Camps in Texas!
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Yep. Pfizer killed Warnie.
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Simon Birmingham parroting the crap fed to him by America
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International Law DOES NOT KNOW a “Rules Based International Order” | Professor Glenn Diesen (2/2)
Neutrality Studies
16.1K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhVX13JYNc
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Infowars covering our Warnie
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22 Jun 2023 #TheJimmyDoreShow
In 2016 actor Robert DeNiro was actively promoting a documentary called “Vaxxed,” which alleged a connection between vaccines and autism. He even went on the Today show to encourage viewers to watch the film and consider its message. Then, practically overnight, DeNiro suddenly stopped talking about the movie and clammed up about vaccines and autism. But why?
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the curious case of DeNiro’s about face on this controversial subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk_cG6Ul_-w
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Courier Mail headline –
Apparently people subscribe!!
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Too soon?
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How’s that diversity recruiting going?
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Stay home this evening –
Snowball fight rock art?
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The ‘science of story’, like many lies, has a tiny basis in truth.
Things like myths and legends, fairy tales and so on which have been passed down through many generations often contain truths about human behaviour, historical events and so on. But they are invariably mixed up with changed dates and characters, additions and deletions, etc.
They have nothing to do with science, more like anthropology.
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I checked my library shelves for Broca’s Brain by Carl Sagan to refresh my memory of the claims for ancient astronauts by Erik Von Daniken and R.K.G. Temple – strangely, not so much quoted today.
One of the so-called proofs was the Dogon tribe of the Republic of Mali mythology that Sirius has a dark companion each 50 years. And so it does! So there!
However as Sagan points out this was known around the 1930s and explorers were venturing into Mali to research tribal customs and knowledge. Stories shared around the campfire easily become part of the tribal knowledge passed down. My brother was a teacher in Aboriginal lands and recalls an oral story of the first time a jet plane was sighted.
How often does Rock Art require to be renewed before disappearing?
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Courier Paywall
Never mind the attacking dingoes, it’s the name change that’s important.
‘Fraser’ is just so white. Eeewwwww.
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Incidentally, Broca was the scientist who determined that men were more intelligent than women by measuring brain anatomies. An brilliant scientist and researcher but captive to the shibboleths of the time. He was most disappointed not to be able to distinguish between German and French brains.
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No way.
Let’s have a vote and blow it out of the water.
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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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Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie glammed up for the Mid-Winter Ball
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Interesting to listen to this now
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Dutton should, very gently, stir the pot with questions about not just Australia Day but also the flag, anthem, treaties, reparations, taxes, Voice panel selection, salaries, High Court legal challenges.
Question Time
Dutton: Mr Speaker, Australians are hard working people and many have worked two and three jobs and borrowed money so that they could afford to buy a home.
My question to the Prime Minister is whether he can guarantee that non-indigenous Australians will not have to pay additional taxes on their homes after this Voice advisory body is set up?
Ask the questions, very politely. Let these issues get into the news. Let the referendum go ahead and be settled with the No vote.
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Next month, the Sound of Freedom movie is being released. They hope to get 2 million people into theaters opening week to remember the 2 million children who are trafficked each year.
I posted on this last month.
Jim Caviezel interview with Bannon:
“All of our children are in trouble, it’s got to stop, we have the power to do it”
He makes some noteworthy points related to the film about the Ukraine war. He also speaks about “Anti-semitism” and his experiences. It is a pity that this term gets tagged onto anyone or anything without sufficient cause.
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I asked a Ponderable question this week re the 2024 election. Some of you have replied to that. I will be sharing my opinion after I complete my postings on the Awakening thread.
I have being collecting plenty of material on the subject of the US election. What happens there affects us, so it is an important topic. I would like to take it up in a separate thread as there is so much happening there. But I would like to know if there are others here who would be willing to take part in the discussion.
This is not an echo chamber so everyone is free to have their own opinions, and discuss, disagree or rant. I do get weary of talking to myself on Post threads. 😔
Any takers?
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Earlier this week, Bret Baier from Fox news interviewed Trump. There are two parts but I don’t think the entire interview is freely available.
A few clips:
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After going through a laundry list of insults Trump made toward people he hired in his administration, BretBaier asks “Why did you hire all of them in the first place?”
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Trump’s response
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BretBaier points out that Trump has spent more money attacking Ron DeSantis than he did helping GOP candidates in the 2022 midterms.
There are more clips but …..
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When will Fox ask Mitch McConnell why he didn’t support the Senate campaigns in the key swing states in 2022?
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I did not include the clip related to the allegations as I can’t locate it now.
Reactions from conservatives to the interview.
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Turley
Bret Baier conducted an extraordinary interview with Donald Trump who discussed the criminal allegations in detail. Statements of this kind are generally admissible at trial…
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Ben Shapiro
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A commenter
the Defendant” has the right to remain silent but not the ability
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Fraser Island dingo trying to free the G
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CNBC
LONDON — The Bank of England on Thursday surprised markets with a 50 basis point hike to interest rates, its 13th consecutive increase as policymakers grapple with persistently high inflation.
The Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 in favor of the half percentage point increase, which takes the bank’s base rate to 5%. The move defied market expectations, which had priced in around a 60% chance of a 25 basis point hike.
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FMD. PK of the failing ratings has taken over Q&A. Makes Tan look good. Nice to see disability advocate in the largest mask you’ve ever seen and that the offensive Reuben Kaye get a kicking in the real world for his offensive joke. Audience applauding at all the things we find offensive.
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It’s a must watch to see the timeline to blow out to 100,000 years – a single rock carving of a roo with a turtle shell and some sharp stones found on the sea bed. All explained by evil white people. Next episode is about mathematical genius. 1, 2, many?
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I would certainly follow a separate thread but feel helpless to affect the outcome. The blatant corruption and perversion of law enforcement cannot be corrected from Australia.
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Traditional welcome to country for international tourists in Alice
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Gummint. Where would be be without it? Just received an email from car rego –
So, they send me an email, apologising for not sending an email, the email could have included the relevant details, but didn’t, but all future emails will be sent by email. Gummint logic.
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According to Napolitano, Trump is in trouble. Napolitano is of the opinion that the Presidential Records Act (if that is what it’s called) applies only to documents or other records which were created by the former President, and not to other documents where the President was not the author.
Why didn’t the orange man hire an archivist to go through the boxes, make a record of what was in them and return those items which he wasn’t entitled to retain.
Orange man might have shot himself in the foot biggly.
Trump Misunderstands the Charges Against Him in His Indictment – Napolitano – 6 minutes.
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I just saw a concerned looking talking head lady on the TV who was reporting that the evil President Putin was about to blow up the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. She knew that this was true because that nice President Zelenski said so.
The ZNPP has been under attack for many months by the Ukrainians and has experience artillery shelling and commando raids across the lake which no longer exists since the Ukrainians blew up the dam. The Russians demanded in the UN that the International Atomic Energy Agency send inspectors to report on the damage inflicted by the Ukrainians, the IAEA inspectors arrived and saw the damage but they said it was caused by some unknown party.
The UN is well past its use-by date, it’s now, at best, a useless assembly, just look at the IAEA, the WHO, and some other agencies.
The fearful talking head lady didn’t question why Russia would destroy a nuclear power plant which it controlled, nor did she question why the other four nuclear power plants in Ukrainian controlled territory haven’t been targetted by the Russians.
Zelenski is trying to create an outrageous outrage which would result in NATO forces coming in to the war.
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It’s not all bad news. We now have Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety commissioner. It seems she is following the lead of the fabulous Supersoupspoonpussy or whatever his name was. Making us all safer – I think… But she is not as chubby.
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Marvellous.
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Frankie Dettori wins Gold Cup at his last Royal Ascot on Courage Mon Ami
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W.A. is introducing new “heritage” rules which require a property owner to obtain the approval of the local aboriginal body if you are to disturb the soil to the depth of 50 centimetres or more on land holdings which are greater than 1,100 metres.
There’s a lot of housing blocks in Perth which are larger than 1,100 metres, so these regulations will hit the suburbs too.
If I was to put in a new fence post I would firstly have to obtain permission from the aboriginal group who have some historic connection to my area. I’d have to pay their consultant $150 per hour to clear my fence post hole of cultural significance, and pay for his overnight accommodation should he so choose.
Insanity prevails over here.
Aren’t going down without a fight’: 29,000 sign petition to delay heritage laws – Peta Credlin – 9 minutes.
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Imagine what life will be like if The Voice gets up.
Goodnight Australia.
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Finland to take down the EU! EU is ‘Finnished’! – Jeff Taylor* – 10 minutes.
* I’ve never seen him before and initially thought that Alexei Sayle had reinvented himself as a geo-political commentator.
I don’t think that Finland will take down the EU, but the new government in Helsinki is making life difficult for Brussels. The EU must long for the good old days when they had the WEF Dancing Queen running the show in Helsinki, but the voters kicked her out.
Now the new government is making trouble, must be some more of that dreadful Orbanisation happening.
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That’s 50mm, old bloke, 2 inches. Good luck trying to plant a garden if your property is over 1100m2 and as for farming…
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Cripes, that means that I can’t even plant some veges when Spring is sprung. I’ll have to pay a local elder to inspect my vege patch to ensure that it’s free of cultural significance before I plant anything.
I wonder if he’ll turn up in red underpants.
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Re. WA’s pending “heritage” rules: Fifty centimetres is half a metre (500 mm), closer to 18 than 2 inches. So it’ll kick in whenever you have to dig to put in a tree or fence post, not if you’re just preparing a plot for vegetables.
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Another BoM forecast bites the dust:
But don’t worry, folks, when it comes to forecasts decades or further out, they are completely reliable!
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Click on any of these links to see the extent of the shakedown.
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New Atlas LIVE: Carl Zha on Russian-Chinese Ties, Ukraine’s Offensive, Blinken in Beijing & More…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS56Z1am_Xg
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Falling in the polls? Time for a sympathy card
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This is the exclusive club Hunter Biden got ejected from. Have a quick squiz through some of the tabs.
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Be that elephant
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If Dutton and his team are prepared to use the opportunities they are getting, it should be easy for them to get back in government in 2025. But are they really any better than Labor?
The Higgins saga contains a huge link between the justice system and a major political party. There were a number of accomplices to the scandal.
In today’s Australian, there is another story that adds fuel to the questionable methods employed by the DPP in their handling of the case.
Paywalled.
Sophie’s story
‘My abuser got an easy run amid Higgins circus’
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My motivation is different. I don’t know whether in the case of the US election I can make any difference with what I post on this blog, based in Australia, with a mainly Australian audience.
However, it is an important topic with many dimensions, and we can use this platform to talk about it. The discussion won’t help those who don’t want to query, analyse or think, because they won’t change their opinion or beliefs, no matter what the facts say. But for those who are truth-seekers, different points of view and information on a topic help provoke thought and reveal the facts and the fake.
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It may be that Finland wants to impress its new masters – NATO. So much for a new right-wing government. Still has the WEF-stench.
1/ Blackmail via aid cuts
Finland may cut aid to African countries supporting Russian war in Ukraine
2/ But aiding Ukraine
Finland has already delivered 238 truckloads of civilian material assistance to Ukraine
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Cancer Taking Off ‘Like Wildfire’:
Unsettling Insights from Pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole
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The musicians off-key
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Hammer blow to Albo
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In case you missed it Perth restaurant doing well for a smile. Look for the photo of the vegan protest – thin lipped, resting bitch face and NO Chinese – where’s the diversity? I guess the dog/pig photo would have confused them.
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No, he isn’t.
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Cisgendering on Twitter
Cause (scroll for tweet above)
Result (Elon’s verdict)
Term origin (scroll for tweet below)
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Zuckerberg vs Elon Musk cage match
A preview
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Procol Harum
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Performing live with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and choir at Ledreborg Castle, Denmark in August 2006.
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Paywalled
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I was just watching Bob Geldof with Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy following the win over Manly.
No, I cannot explain it. But this song came to mind recently due to the regime in America. Catchy tune, crap video
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Trans-Biden Edition
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After doing a manual update to Windows, it looks as though that turned auto-updating back on again. A subsequent unexpected auto-updatehas left my PC is frozen again at the boot-up stage, and winding back the update(s) or going back to a restore point have not fixed things. Looks like another re-install is in the offing. Hopefully normal activity will resume shortly.
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Looks like Putin has wrapped this one up quickly
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The lack of spin here suggests everyone rallied behind Russian authorities, and the Wagner boss knew the game was up.
A loose cannon that has been dealt with firmly but fairly.
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Borzzikman from 12 hours ago
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Scott Ritter on Prigozhin’s Treason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ojxc3vRKVA
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Albo banned the Russkies building an embassy. He didn’t consult
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Won’t someone think of the poor citizens?
And the fighters
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