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Dr Eli David
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Top Ten Reasons to Vote NO! Albanese, Linda Burney, Thomas Mayo, Noel Pearson, Bowen, Bruce Pascoe
Danger Dan Reviews
11.3K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg0zFRVVkGA
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Magadonians and their media influencers are pushing their candidate as the only one to win 2024 claiming he is the front-runner and others should drop out and support him.
What are the qualities of a great leader?
Check these two clips.
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During this past week, while the House Speaker fray was on:
Reporter asks Trump a question.
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This weekend:
Trump on Hannibal Lecter:
If you have a twitter account, the comments below the second clip will provide further amusement. Here are a few:
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In New Zealand, people were getting the jab just to keep working while the Doctor giving them the jab was secretively unvaccinated. One law for thee, one law for me.
Thousands of New Zealand health service workers secretly exempted from Covid vaccine mandates
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From 5 months back, Bolt speaks with Lidia Thorpe’s father
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Old bloke, the public were coerced into taking the jabs due to various threats to their jobs or freedoms. It is not just something that happened in the past. They are still pushing the jabs as I’ve posted in the other thread today.
There needs to be Nuremberg 2.0 to get to the bottom of what really happened and why some in government, politicians and those in the medical field don’t want scrutiny.
Came across this thread today. The person who wrote it says it required a lot of work to put it together.
COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Origins:
the TRUTH about Trump, Kushner & Vivek and the threat to medical freedom
The following thread details how @realDonaldTrump and @jaredkushner used @VivekGRamaswamy’s business as a back-door to tear away our medical freedom and claim innocence.
What happened in the US had ramifications globally.
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The Nest
Timelapse of a bird building a nest and raising its young..
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🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕
And for this Sunday…..
Harpa Dei
Prayer For The True Peace Of Nations
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A Ponderable
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https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas to Bombing It
Hamas wants to destroy Israel, right? But as Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group.
Mehdi Hasan, Dina SayedahmedFebruary 19 2018
What do you know about Hamas?
That it’s sworn to destroy Israel? That it’s a terrorist group, proscribed both by the United States and the European Union? That it rules Gaza with an iron fist? That it’s killed hundreds of innocent Israelis with rocket, mortar, and suicide attacks?
But did you also know that Hamas — which is an Arabic acronym for “Islamic Resistance Movement” — would probably not exist today were it not for the Jewish state? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)
“The Israeli government gave me a budget,” the retired brigadier general confessed, “and the military government gives to the mosques.”
“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.
They didn’t listen to him. And Hamas, as I explain in the fifth installment of my short film series for The Intercept on blowback, was the result. To be clear: First, the Israelis helped build up a militant strain of Palestinian political Islam, in the form of Hamas and its Muslim Brotherhood precursors; then, the Israelis switched tack and tried to bomb, besiege, and blockade it out of existence.
In the past decade alone, Israel has gone to war with Hamas three times — in 2009, 2012, and 2014 — killing around 2,500 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the process. Meanwhile, Hamas has killed far more Israeli civilians than any secular Palestinian militant group. This is the human cost of blowback.
“When I look back at the chain of events, I think we made a mistake,” David Hacham, a former Arab affairs expert in the Israeli military who was based in Gaza in the 1980s, later remarked. “But at the time, nobody thought about the possible results.”
They never do, do they?
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Dr. John Campbell had a lengthy discussion with Prof. Angus Dalgleish a couple of days ago which I haven’t watched yet (link below), but he posted a short video yesterday discussing the main points of their lengthier discussion.
The main point is that the vaxes have destroyed or severely damaged individual’s immune systems so that patients who he had previously been treating for cancer, and who had their condition under control, have now succumbed to that disease.
I know of a couple of people who have died recently from cancer, they were living normal lives with their condition yet after taking the vax and boosters the cancer exploded.
Cancer reactivation – Dr. John Campbell – 16 minutes.
Professor Dalgleish – Dr. John Campbell with Prof. Dalgleish – 1 hour 16 minutes
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Here’s something I didn’t know; donations to the Yes campaign in the Voice referendum are tax deductible, contributions to the No campaign aren’t tax deductible.
Voice Polling gets worse: No demographic supports it. – Australian Agenda – 9 minutes.
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Not so, Old Bloke. But, while the Yessers were deductible from the get go, the Noes only got their exemption fairly recently.
Not that it did the Yessers much good, as it turned out. 🙂
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Thanks Johanna, my comment was based on the commentary of that Australian Agenda video I posted.
I think that the tax deductibility for corporations is a rort. If gigantic mega-corp XYZ Corporation has numerous subsidiary corporations, for example a mining company, an airline company, a gas and oil company, and a media company, and those businesses contribute to the Yes campaign, then they can claim those contributions against their tax liability.
However, if those contributions go to their media company for newspaper and TV advertising, then XYZ Corporation’s ledgers remain unchanged, it’s really just an internal fund transfer from one or more subsidiary’s to another.
If I was to transfer money from my saving account to my cheque account, I can’t claim a tax deduction for doing so.
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Ask us anything: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
970,568 views 28 May 2018
Is it ever OK to ask how someone how Aboriginal they are? Our students and staff answer anonymously submitted questions to confront myths and stereotypes about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
At this point in vid, the question is ‘What is one stereotype that needs to stop?’
https://youtu.be/SHVbVBLlhCM?t=213
The last young woman who answers this question pretty much destroys the case for voting Yes for The Voice/Treaty.
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Regarding the present war in Israel, things could get very messy if other parties join the fray.
The US kept a large stock of 155mm artillery shells in Israel to have it handy for a rainy day, but the US recently took that ammunition and gave it to the little green man in Kiev.
They did the same in South Korea, they took a large part of South Korea’s artillery ammunition to give it to the little green man, what will Seoul do if rocket man decides it’s time to pay a visit?
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700 pro-Palestinian protesters arrive at Opera House
By Sarah Keoghan
The pro-Palestine rally has reached the Sydney Opera House to protest the lighting of the sails in the colours of the Israeli flag tonight.
The group, which police estimated numbered about 700, marched from Town Hall via Pitt Street Mall before reaching the Harbour precinct.
The protesters chanted: “Shame, Shame Australia,” and “Shame, Shame Albo” as they approached the Harbour.
Police have blocked off the Opera House stairs. There are currently no Israeli protesters at the Sydney Opera House.
Sydney’s Jewish community has been warned to stay away for their own safety.
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Avi is on his way to Israel.
I don’t trust the media—so I’m going to Israel to tell the truth about the war – 4 mins.
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Rishi Sunak has extended the production cut-off date for petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030 to 2035. EV car owners just experienced a drop in the valuation of their vehicles and insurance costs have increased.
Another MacMaster rant…
My ELECTRIC CAR is EVen more WORTHLESS & I CAN’T GET INSURED now the BAN on Petrol & Diesel is 2035! – 57 minutes.
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“An idiot or a bastard:” Putin rips Canada House speaker who invited Nazi veteran to Parliament
Global News
2,982,264 views 6 Oct 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vaIlhFe9t8
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Gaza the world’s largest open air prison?
Try Australia 2020-2022. And the inmates loved it!
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Tate Brothers Respond To Jordan Peterson On The Palestine/Israel Issue!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZnwKADiXc0
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The_Real_Fly
@The_Real_Fly
ALL GOVT BUILDINGS IN THE UK WILL FLY THE ISRAELI FLAG
https://x.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1711096946365002152?s=20
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It should be the Pride flag.
How quickly they forget.
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Just to toss in my ten sheqalim worth. It seems the new rulers of a country have three options if they want to survive:
Ghengiz Solution: slaughter everyone, destroy their history and graze your horses on the graves.
1920s Solution: move the population en-mass to another country. Used by the Turks. I believe Stalin did a knock up job.
Conversion: convert the existing population to your religion or else pay tax and be second rate citizen with no legal rights. Early Islam was the expert on that one.
Anything else and the country has a festering group that can be used by politicians and kept as perpetual victims.
The Israelis can’t do the later as there are no conversions.
Barnes is good on this, as he compares Hamas to the Mob. It needs to perpetuate the problem to stay in power and obtain constant international money.
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Courier Paywall
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You got to admit the Hamas mob is dumb. They video the abductions and murders. The faces of the mob are very clearly seen. Israel will hunt down and kill each individual. Probably blow up their houses and more.
Hezbollah on the other hand, being Shia are far smarter. They are the dangerous ones. Hence the tank movements to the north.
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First used by the Assyrians in 800 BC. When they conquered the northern tribes of Israel, they moved the entire population to other recently conquered territories on the fringes of their empire, in the Caucasus, Steppes and Persia.
There the relocated tribes had as neighbours people with whom they shared no language, religious nor family connections with whom they could plot against Assyria.
Ancestry.com recently published a DNA report which shows that half of the Turkish population is actually Greek. The Turks were a central Asian people who invaded Anatolia and forced conversion to Islam on the Greeks. The Turkish government complained about this report to Ancestry.com took it down.
Early Islam and current Islam. After the American invasion of Iraq the local Muslim strongman started calling on the small Christian and other communities to pay the Jizyah tax. How long before we start seeing the same demands in other places, Sweden for example.
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Regarding the Jizyah tax, it is called a protection tax, to protect the unfortunate people from those who take the tax. It’s a protection racket, the Sicilian mafia learned how to do it after they were ruled by the Arabs for some time.
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Since the weekend, I have been consuming the main topic of news. Photos, videos, stories, reports. I think anyone following the news will have seen images. Some are being censored due to the graphic content or have a warning attached. People need to see what has taken place.
How can it be described?
The politics of the Middle East is complex and I have a limited understanding of it. But we don’t need to be historians to understand this – innocent civilians going about their lives have been wounded, tortured, raped, murdered, taken as hostages. Children, women, men, elderly. There is no justification for this kind of massacre involving thousands of innocent people.
I have been thinking of how to post comments here on this subject. I want to avoid the images but not because they should be hidden away. They need to be viewed to understand the depth of the brutality that took place in Gaza a few days ago. But there is so much unfolding as a follow-on. Reactions, reflections, opinions. I want to share what I am picking up in the media, the same as some of you here on this blog have already been sharing.
I won’t post the links to everything as it gets hard to manage. But if you read something I have posted and want the link, let me know and if I have it, I’ll post it.
Konstantin Kisin
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Posts/Comments on twitter
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I wonder who the next PM will be?
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No, they are not celebrating in their native lands. They have come in to the West and they are allowed their free speech and expression.
The NSW Deputy Police Comm. was talking this morning to the media about how we are a multi-cultural, multi-faith community and freedom to protest.
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Sydney Opera House
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New York City-1
They are not just allowed their protests …..
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New York City-2
……they get away with threats.
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I’ve talked to quite a few about Israel and Hamas over last days. One aspect of the Sunni jihadi not understood in Australia, is their willingness to die. A superficial atheist country does not understand the strength of this belief. It is deep and part of the whole extended family structure. The family welcomes it as it ensures their, the family, entrance to paradise. They cry and wail at the funeral, but they know the jihadi is in paradise. This is why threatening them is pointless. Western security training has no concept of the ‘willingness to die’. Hamas, Al Qaeda and ISIS have all stated that they are unafraid to die. They mean it.
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While we are on the topic
All while chanting Allahu Akbar (God is great)… I’m sick
I believe Allahu Akbar actually means “our God is the greater”. Like Salam does not mean really “peace”, it means “submit” – as in submit to Allah.
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UN celebrating the rights of “Women”
Matt Walsh
Before you think of sneering at the UN, here are “conservatives” in the US.
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A Prayer from a “Pastor”
we pray to silence Trumps naysayers
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RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
the deadly attack on Israel is a “great opportunity” for Republicans
Who endorsed her nomination?
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I watched that video and Tate makes valid points. If that video was taken in isolation as his only commentary, it is easy to agree with him.
But check this response to a post from someone.
Easy to talk. Why is he living in comfort in Romania?
Why not actually move to live in Palestine with his Muslim brothers? Will he still enjoy all his creature comforts, toys and cars?
Talk is cheap. Give up the safe mansion. Go and live in bomb shelters and fight for Palestine.
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We are living in strange times.
Playboy has far higher standards than many media and other organisations.
Not sure if it was just this post…
Playboy’s response
I had no idea who this female was but I think she is a porn star. She hasn’t realised what her life would be in the Middle East as a woman. And a porn star.
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Is this willingness to die rooted in something that is real?
They have been brainwashed into a fiction about prophets and gods. If anyone dares to query the prophet,the great one or that book, they will have to flee to save their lives.
It takes courage to say this publicly.
Personal thoughts from a Palestinian
Which has led to the western policy of appeasement.
Will they learn?
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KC,
The Tate brothers have recently spent months in prison without charges being laid.
Andrew and Tristan put their balls on the line every day.
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Not the smartest idea of the Jews to create Hamas in order to weaken Yasser Ararat’s secularist Fatah party.
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* Arafat
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World is ‘on the cusp’ of a 1914-scale war: Joe Hockey
Sky News Australia
3.61M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOW83J6YcLM
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The protests in Sydney yesterday.
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Anglican clergyman
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A Jew
There are times when we can take individual “tiny” stands and our protest will count. We can do a solo “resistance” as discussed in the Resisting the Reset post.
Sometimes, a group resistance is required.
They organise a protest and do it as part of a crowd.
We make the mistake of going solo.
The Anglican clergyman is right. We cannot give in to fear. But instead of doing it alone, he could have sent a message to some parishioners asking if they would like to join him.
Easy to do.
Then ten or twenty or fifty could have stood on the steps of the Cathedral with the flag.
The same with the Jew. He could have got a few more to join him.
The police would then have to decide how they were going to manage one group’s freedom to protest against another group’s freedom to support in this multi-culti-diversity-faith city.
The left know how to unite even when they are wrong.
We don’t. Because we think being right is enough, in all cases.
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Why did they end up in prison?
Because they were unselfishly fighting a great battle on behalf of some noble cause?
For whom?
The vulnerable sections of society?
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Brian always keeps a cool head
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Time to move on to other aspects. Seeking the answers and the truth. Questions are already being raised.
In early 2020, we started to get glimpses of the Covid hoax. At that time, most believed the media and government propaganda. Slowly, some realised that they were being conned. But some stayed with the fakery and did as they were told.
Here we are in October 2023. What is the truth about what has happened this weekend? Some opinions are being posted.
Conspiracy theories? Or truth?
Some comments:
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Efrat Fenigson is a journalist who was reporting about the Covid tyranny in Israel. Her views on the attacks and the war.
Israel-Hamas War – An Update
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Former IDF soldier
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War mongers
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Scott Ritter gone wild!
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Re the Scott Ritter link above.
Scott’s thinking is something similar to this at the Paywallian:
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Can’t disagree with Putin.
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Ok, one more
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Matt Gaetz GRILLS Air Force Superintendent Over Gender Diversity Scholarship
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c8RsOLAC7Zg
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AFR
They are doing no such thing, dickhead.
More like Albo is reaching out for his own survival as PM.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are “reaching out” to the rest of the community for their own survival.
I don’t think that is the October surprise. If it is coming it will be Thursday or Friday.
Interesting the ‘teal’ look of the Yes women handing out the leaflets at the voting. They are all the same age group, have that victim poodle look with the pathetic smile.
The No are blokes, probably retired or self employed so they can’t be fired. I thanked one No bloke and was yelled at by a Yes gal. The Yes is on a moral crusade and therefore beyond the Law. I just hope Jacinta Price exposes all the companies and organisations that gave money to the Yes. Perhaps a class action is called for.
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Scott is a very excitable person who is right on most things but not all. He doesn’t seem to notice that the Hamas Charter calls for the death and removal of all Jews from Israel, you can’t sit down and negotiate with such people.
He also seems to be unaware that the bulk of the Arab “refugees” voluntarily left Israel in 1948. After the UN vote which established the state of Israel, the surrounding Arab nations called on the Arabs within Israel to leave before they attacked. They were told that the Arab armies would kill all the Jews, then they could come back and get all the Jew’s stuff. That didn’t work out for them.
All the Jews in the mid-east were driven out of the countries were they had been living for hundreds of years, over a million Jewish refugees poured into Israel and had to leave all their stuff behind. Around 400,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, they didn’t have to be “refugees”, they could have taken over the previously Jewish owned houses and businesses etc. which the Jews were forced to leave behind but none of the Arab states wanted them there.
The Prophets said that the Jews would return in 1948 but they would only control a small coastal strip and would never find peace, that won’t happen till Yeshua returns in His role as Messiah ben David.
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I don’t want to trust polls and pollsters.
Would prefer to hear this result on Saturday evening.
Leading pollster declares there’s ‘no chance’ the Voice referendum will succeed
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With the continuous influx of news, opinions and commentary on the Israel-Hamas conflict, we can pick one of these options:
1/ Consume the info only from the Legacy media and accept what they say as the truth.
2/ Consume the info from all sources and get confused.
3/ Ignore all info – just wait till it is confirmed and verified weeks or months later.
4/ Follow all info, be aware of what is being discussed and use your analysis and discretion.
My option is number 4. I am reading, watching, listening to input from many sources. Some of it is true, some may or may not be true, some to be filed away until there is more detail.
This is like Covid. In the early stages we thought that masks and social distancing would protect us from the virus. Then there were clues that it could not be true, and later the scientific papers gave us the answers.
Covid personally affected each of us but the Middle-East conflict is in another part of the world – at least for now. Are they unconnected or is there something to the “conspiracy theories” now floating around? The truth may not always get presented to us on a platter. We may have to pick bits and pieces from different posts, articles, videos and so on and then set them together to see the final answer.
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Prisoner swap
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Matt Baker
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Which prophets?
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With the continuous influx of news, opinions and commentary on the Israel-Hamas conflict
For a while my Israeli friends and I got the information from Hamas. They are proud of what they do and, like ISIS, quite straight forward in their information. They want to be martyrs.
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I’ll “take that on notice” and get back to you. From memory, it was one of the “Z” prophets who prophetised about the House of Judah, Isaiah and Jeremiah were focussed mainly on the House of Israel and Ezekiel was 50/50.
The prophecy was given after the Jews returned from their 70 year exile in Babylon, the prophecy said that if they annoyed God again in the future they would be exiled again for a multiple of 70 year cycles.
A former UK Police Chief of all people, it may have been Sir Robert Peel, did a study of the last exile starting on the recorded date when the Romans sacked Jerusalem in August 70 AD and destroyed the Temple. He used that date and worked out that the Jews would regain the land in May 1948 based on x number of 70 years.
He calculated that date based on 360 day years, not 365.25 days on our present calendar. Prior to some cosmic event which occurred around 4,000 years ago (see Immanuel Velikovsky’s books), all ancient calendars were based on a 360 day year, and a 30 day lunar cycle.
He used the 70 AD date and calculated the number of days in the X x 70 years cycle and arrived at the May 1948 date, from memory I think he picked the exact date, 14th May 1948.
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Wouldn’t the Jews still be annoying God?
Look at the Ukraine proxy war.
The template for the Ukraine war written by George Soros.(Scott Ritter read out the Soros submission to Rand Corp on Ask the Inspector and YouTube promptly shut down the show).
Then war was then implemented by Victoria Nuland, Anthony Blinken, and Jake Sullivan.
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They probably are, so too is the House of Israel (aka House of Joseph).
Nevertheless, God said when they (House of Judah) return they won’t be separated from the land again. We’ll all be judged, the Jews and the Joes alike.
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Laurence Fox got fired from GB News because he had a discussion with Dan Wootton where he responded to something said by a media feminixt about the men she would not shag. So he said he would not shag her.
For that he got reported to Ofcom and the gutless GB News – the home of free speech caved in and got rid of him and Calvin.
On the BBC’s Have I Got News For You, Carol Vorderman is asked by VictoriaCoren about Laurence Fox “would you shag him.”
The BBC doesn’t get reported to Ofcom because they have their own “internal reviews” and we know how that works.
The problem is the left know how to protect their own.
The right throw theirs under the bus.
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Not just censoring free speech. Censoring access to information
And to Aus too.
This is advice from a commenter:
Can any tech savvy person explain how this will work?
Will the VPN be able to get past the Big Brother censor board if they set some content as “not available in Australia?
Won’t they find a way to control all networks?
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Through the sorrow and sadness ….
What followed this message.
Humanity can be despicably evil, but it can also be wonderful.
The result.
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Michael Rivero
All wars are bankers wars
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1,200 cars gone at London’s Luton Airport multi-storey car park. Cause presently not determined.
It’s OVER. The Luton Airport Fire just KILLED the EV market. Here’s why. – Geoff Buys Cars – 10 minutes.
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May I just advise anyone in the UK reading this: GET A #VPN: a #VirtualPrivateNetwork
The moment someone says this is the moment it does not work. There are billions of dollars at invested here. VPN worked for a little while until the nomenklatura caught up e.g. try watching films not allowed in Australia using a VPN.
I.T. opens opportunities and then closes them. Lawyers and doctors are the same. Find a problem, create a solution that creates new problem that needs you to solve it. It’s the cycle of the post-modern life.
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Nice people.
‘Horrific’: Israeli forces discover bodies of 40 babies murdered by Hamas – Sky News – 15 mins.
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JohnJJJ says:
October 11, 2023 at 7:37 pm
May I just advise anyone in the UK reading this: GET A #VPN: a #VirtualPrivateNetwork
Depends on the VPN service, the free and cheap ones have only a few IP addresses to offer and it’s dead easy for the webmasters to filter those out and block them.
They are always catching up but catch up the do.
The better VPN providers, that you pay a reasonable amount for are a lot better and have 100s of servers, even offer a unique private VPN IP for extra payment.
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Scott Ritter off the chain in this latest episode
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Bankman-Fried was very concerned about his image, including his big hair, ex-girlfriend Ellison testifies
And remember how the ABC fell for this, even after FTX went bust.
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Thanks JohnJJJ and KevinM for your input on the reliability of VPNs.
Living in what is supposed to be free countries which are democracies, Canadians, Brits or Aussies should not have had to be concerned about alternative methods of accessing information. But it seems like we have to be prepared.
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The main topic this week is the conflict in the M.East but a number of connected issues have led me to get back to the US Election 2024 topic. Long comments coming up.
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In the past 6 – 12 months it has become very hard to read/watch/listen to many of my bookmarked, so-called “conservative” sites and blogs. The bias from these “conservatives” is so obvious, it would have puzzled me had I not had access to other avenues that have provided me with clues. When it comes to the candidate for the 2024 election, they have decided on the winner.
If you have not been keeping up with a wide range of news outlets, or are in agreement with the “conservative” pick of the candidate, that is okay. If you seek to understand beyond that, here is an explanation.
The US: Pre-2015
Americans, esp GOP voters, were unhappy with what was happening in the country with a growing awareness of the Establishment, Deep State, Rinos and so on. Politicians more focused on self-interest and survival than the country and the people.
Suddenly, along comes this guy, a non-politician, an outsider. He has a public profile because he is a businessman, billionaire, television personality. He is not a conservative or a republican, but he couldn’t get into the political scene via other options so he joins the Republican party. Presents himself as a battler for the common man, says all the right things, makes the right promises including that he is going to Make America Great Again – MAGA.
His message and status as outsider and non-politician appealed to the voters and he got nominated. Running against the despised Hillary Clinton, he won the 2016 election.
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Moving on to the Conservative media. They had a great job now. Criticise all the known factors: The Dems, the Establishment, Rinos, Deep state as the negatives. And praises and support for this hero, Trump, who is going to save the country.
Their audiences began to grow. People full of hope and wanting to vent their anger at the existing political system and believing in the changes to come. Voters were not just donating to MAGA, the political party, but also to the MAGA media which carried the message. Conservatives gravitated to the media – print, online, blogs, videos, podcasts – anything that was pro-Trump, anti-establishment, anti-pollies.
Anyone on the side of Trump counted as the good guys, the patriots. Anyone who criticised Trump, said anything negative about him, were the bad guys, Rinos, pro-establishment. This was quite easy in the period 2015 – 2020.
This is the MAGA conservative media called the “Influencers” – whichever medium they used. The message was to praise and promote Trump and criticise anyone not in the same camp. Using this formula, they built up a following of millions: followers, subscribers, site-clicks, site views.
All that translates to very big $$$$$$$$.
It worked fairly well from 2017 – 2019. Then Covid brought in some questions about the way Trump handled it, but he continued to have the support of most of the Conservatives into 2020 and the election that year.
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Beginning with Jan 2021, J6 and the aftermath, there were questions starting to be asked by some. As the year progressed and into 2022, some Conservatives were not happy with Trump and the split began. By the time of the mid-terms, there were further break-aways.
The Influencers had been able to establish themselves under the MAGA brand and build up their name, fame and fortune because of it. Without MAGA they wouldn’t have had a job, an income, a livelihood. They helped Trump and MAGA, and MAGA helped them. Trump achieved a god-like status because they used their megaphones to promote him.
Now, they are in a situation where they know that if they say anything negative about Trump, there will be a drop in their donors, subscribers and hence income generated. So, knowing which side their bread is buttered on, they still support Trump, refuse to call him out when he says or does something that in not in keeping with Christian teachings or conservative principles.
These Influencers have now come to be known by a derogatory term: Con Inc.
When I visit some of these MAGA sites, the impression is that Trump is not just the clear winner of the GOP nomination but also the general election. And DeSantis is failing with single-digit polling and is losing donors. He is a Rino, pro-establishment, etc, etc, etc. There are so many negative tales about RDS, it is easy to be misled and think they are facts.
When I check twitter, it seems like a different picture because there are posts from people telling a different story.
What’s happening?
Some of the MAGA Influencers/sites are hard-core Magadonians. But there are others who are afraid to say anything negative about Trump. The MAGA movement is a money spinner, a cash cow. For them, it is not whether Trump wins or loses. It is not about their country. It is not about being patriots. It is about maintaining their well-established business.
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Does the criticism of MAGA and the Influencers, in the comments above, seem harsh and untrue?
Here’s an example.
Remember Charlie Kirk? I mentioned him in the US Election thread. (see this comment and the one after it.) Why is he shilling for Trump? Because MAGA has been lucrative for Kirk and his organisation.
Turning Point USA (TPUSA). From its website:
The TPUSA team includes Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson. If you follow their twitter posts, you will see that they are MAGA shills too.
From this article in 2021:
And this article in 2022:
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11 years after the founding of TPUSA, a non-profit organization, this is the life of Charlie Kirk at the age of 29.
How Trump’s MAGA movement helped a 29-year-old activist become a millionaire
Read the rest of the article.
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This is the link to the TPUSA website referred to in the previous comment.
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If you don’t understand it, don’t vote for it; if you do understand it, you’d never vote for it!
— Paul Keating
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If a MAGA Influencer bad-mouths DeSantis, ask them what profits they are making off the MAGA gravy train. If they were really cared about what is best for America, they would pick the best candidate available.
As for the Magadonians, ask them why they are against Ron DeSantis, and the answer will be:
Ron DeSantis is a RINO, an Establishment guy, has links to Deep State, Soros, WEF, has been endorsed by Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. He is a “politician”. He is disloyal.
Ask for evidence, they don’t have it. They are simply repeating from the MAGA playbook.
Ron DeSantis is one of the most Conservative politicians in the US. He is not perfect but his flaws are fewer and of a smaller downside than any of the other candidates. The Establishment hate him. The RINOs hate him. The Deep State hates him. He is not their guy.
If DeSantis was a RINO, how come he is not a part of this?
Invited but ….. wouldn’t an Establishment RINO have jumped at the opportunity?
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan host 2024 candidates at influential donor summit
Who is the real Establishment candidate?
Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley
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I am not on Truth Social. I have no time or interest in the content posted there. But screenshots get shared on twitter by those keeping track. If the screenshots were not true, Magadonians would have pointed it out.
Following the massacre of innocent civilians in Gaza this weekend, most of the news has focussed on what is happening there and why. In addition to Israelis, the dead and missing include Americans.
Here are examples of what has been more important for the candidate who thinks he should be Commander-in-Chief again in 2025. Monday and Tuesday of this week, these were some of his posts:
Forbes. The polls.
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Cowboy boots
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The polls again
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Some comments from posters on twitter:
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Alan Jones
Will Anthony Albanese, whose popularity is in freefall, resign after the Voice fails on Saturday?
ADH TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MJSJZkXR_I
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And finally for this session, on this topic:
Jack Poso
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Carly Atchison
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About those cowboy boots, MAGA and their god are mocking one Ron.
But they haven’t ridiculed the other Ron.
Wonder why?
Down memory lane
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https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/10/ron-desantis-will-keep-america-safe/
Check the comments at the end.
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From behind the paywall – our ABC expert on the Middle East
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Ray Martin in 2019
Ray Martin in 2023
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Has there been clear evidence presented to anyone about baby beheadings?
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If there is a lesson it is NO to apartheid.
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The ITV News reporter who originally reported this event has walked back from the report. Similarly, the White House has issued a correction to Joe Biden’s condemnation for this event saying that it was reported by Israel but hasn’t been confirmed.
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The US Defence spokesman, Admiral Kirby (creepy looking bloke, wouldn’t buy a used car from him) has changed his tune regarding support for Ukraine. The “as long as it takes” message has been replaced with a message that continued support for Ukraine can’t be assured.
The IMF has told the little green man that he’ll have to increase taxes, that won’t be received well by the Ukrainians.
Elensky solidarity tour. IMF, UKR raise taxes. NYT, Russian economy beats US/EU. Gaza corridor. U/1 – Alex Christoforou – 40 mins.
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The Australian still trying to create hysteria over a story that the ABC reporter had the stones to call out.
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Vote No | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
50K views 10 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EUVpyL8jVc
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Killing Gaza
2 years ago
Dan Cohen
https://vimeo.com/549520612
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Don’t buy a Range Rover Evoque.
The Luton Airport Fire – DIESEL or a HYBRID? You decide. – Geoff Buys Cars – 17 mins.
There’s been another EV car fire in an airport car park, this one in Glasgow, plus a Volkswagen and a Tesla car dealership burnt down.
I’m going to buy a horse & cart, seems much safer.
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Contrarian Ukraine Geopolitical Update!
Jeff Taylor
150K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0oVNU80TNA
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A comment from the Jeff Taylor link
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Henry Kissinger admits that multiculturalism is a grave mistake.
He admitted it. JPW – 7 mins.
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JPW = PJW
There’s nothing dyslectic about me.
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The YouTube version
Killing Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwb2OlqTO0M
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