Open Thread – Saturday, 01 October 2022

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  2. mh says:
    October 1, 2022 at 6:26 am

    Dow tumbles 500 points on Friday to end September down more than 8%



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  3. Shy Ted says:
    October 1, 2022 at 9:12 am

    The ASX had a bad week too. About time business started to exert a bit of muscle to AnAl and Charmless.
    And I did promise you a pic of the new Sally Power McManus, didn’t here. Here is the the angry lessbian.
    Now sit down, put your drink down, grab a bucket and be amazed at what makeover artists can do
    Now she just needs to work on the inside.


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  4. Shy Ted says:
    October 1, 2022 at 9:36 am

    The usual fwits getting all excited about an inch and a half of rain. How dare it! El Nino and La Nina, another theory to be thrown into the bin.


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  6. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:50 am

    Cheers, Adam. Apologies for being a d*ckhead.


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  7. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:52 am

    Not much qwerty stuff in this edition.

    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #116


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  10. Shy Ted says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:59 am

    Peeps at GayCat having a go at us. luckily there’s a pill for that
    One for the “men” too
    Where the sun don’t shine


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  11. Shy Ted says:
    October 1, 2022 at 11:14 am

    4 years ago yesterday Q made this drop
    You may have noticed that the Hilter speech by Biden had the same colour scheme as Red October
    Well, it’s October and it might just be th emost interesting month of your life. But remember, it’s a movie and you’re not allowed to leave the cinema.


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  12. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 11:49 am

    If you trust the votes.

    ************

    Tony Heller:

    Almost two thirds of California votes went to Joe Biden, and now California residents are short of electricity and paying more than six dollars for a gallon of gas.

    California Gets What They Voted For


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  13. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 11:49 am

    Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:50 am
    Cheers, Adam. Apologies for being a d*ckhead

    ..
    Everyone can be a dickhead.
    It takes a man to admit it.


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  15. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    Looks like Ukrainian advances continue, with possible encirclement of Russians in Lyman.
    Whatever your opinion of the rights or wrongs of it (which is the boring aspect, everyone can have an opinion on that) this phase of the war is going against Russia.
    The next phase? Mud again. Then General Winter.


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  16. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 12:11 pm

    I suspect the next tilt will be as Russia attempts to mobilise external help to overcome some of the technical disadvantages that have turned the tide recently and a change in tactics to overcome the HARMs. Gotta win in the air.


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  17. Delta A says:
    October 1, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    Everyone can be a dickhead.
    It takes a man to admit it.

    Exactly.


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  18. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    If push comes to shove, Putin will use scalar weapons. He could neutralize Ukraine with the flick of a switch. With that being said, so can the West.

    Anyone suggesting this tech doesn’t exist has been living under a rock.

    Stick this in your pipe and smoke it…weather modification is real. They have been doing it for years.

    ***********

    Dutchsinse:

    4/29/2022 — Secret Super Weapons That Drive Disarmament Negotiations – Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    Ze Schwab

    WEF founder Klaus Schwab is filmed with hidden camera bragging about who he has in his pocket: “politicians, media, experts scientists, NGO’s…”



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  21. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Beware Big Tech …….
    …..but you know that already.

    1/
    Here’s how to stop Google from collecting huge amounts of your data

    Without Google, the dream of a One World Government would likely never happen, as it relies on social engineering and artificial intelligence. It’s time to realize that privacy equals freedom.

    2/
    The simple reason why you should stop using Gmail

    We all need to get off Gmail. They read every email and can prevent us from receiving emails



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  22. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Goya Foods CEO pins soaring food prices on ‘evil’ political leaders

    Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue weighs in on the climbing food prices and inflation under the Biden administration on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’



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  24. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 2:44 pm

    Internetting can be very time consuming and there’s simply so much stuff out there to get through. I’m convided out so have no desire to bring you the latest revelations or political bullshit hence just a few memes and occasional comments.

    Shy Ted, thanks.

    I look at it this way: There are alternative media sites that are posting the facts and the truth. Those sites and contributors are making the effort and spending time to find and share the truth with others.

    If I have learnt from them, then I can do my part to share what I know with others. There are many who still don’t realise what is happening in the world. I don’t have to pay for using this blog, but I have this platform to use and share what I have become aware of. Who knows how many others may get a peek into reality from what they read on this blog?

    We have a free site and it is important that those who know and have the facts or news pass it on.

    If those who have high BS meters can spot the BS in the political, MSM and other areas and comment on it, it may help those who are naïve and brainwashed to also realise they are being conned.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 13: Ask the Inspector Today’s Ritter shot.

    JohnJJJ, I am getting the message

    Video Unavailable

    …blocked in your country on copyright grounds.


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  26. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 3:54 pm

    7.3 deaths per million, Phillipines in 2022, post Duerte.
    27.7 deaths per million in Asian region 2014.
    ..
    Look at the numbers above. I can’t easily find like for like data, but those are the best numbers to tell you what happens when you REALLY conduct a war on drugs. Drug deaths get cut in half and in half again. Every scumbag dealer who you blow away saves many, many other lives.
    ..
    Of course, now Duerte has gone, the “international community” will start working away at degrading his legacy and making the Phillipines again safe for scumbags to sell drugs.
    From their ABC:
    ..

    In the final days of his wild and bloody presidency, Rodrigo Duterte was wistful about a few things he had yet to achieve for the Philippines.

    “Before I leave, let’s finish three or five drug lords,” he said.

    “I want to kill them. I do not want them alive.”

    From the moment he was sworn into power in 2016, Mr Duterte declared that Filipinos had one common enemy: the drug trade.

    Claiming that there were 3 million addicts in need of “slaughter”, he said he would offer bounties to police for killing suspected users and dealers.

    A bloodbath ensued.


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  27. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    Cossack on the Optus breach.

    ********

    Aussie Cossack:

    Aussie Cossack shares his perspective on the recent data breach and the Government’s response.

    The Government is in panic mode. 10 Million Australians have been compromised


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  28. JohnJJJ says:
    October 1, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    JohnJJJ, I am getting the message

    Video Unavailable

    …blocked in your country on copyright ground
    mmm, I got it yesterday. Just tried again then got that message. Perhaps it will be up on Rumble soon, it is Episode 13


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  30. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 5:59 pm

    I had a bike circuit back in the day. Down to St Kilda beach, South Melbourne, then up the Yarra to Chapel street, over to Orrong Rd and home.
    Along the Yarra in the nob part of town they have all these big, majestic old houses facing the river. Lovely.
    Only I was back there the other day and all these mongs are replacing them with horrible modernist boxes. Same same everywhere. No imagination.
    Dumb sh*ts.


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 6:46 pm

    JohnJJJ, thanks for the link.

    Time for centre-right video content creators to move to Rumble and other free speech platforms.


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Some light shed on the character of our pollies, including the Labor leader of Senate + Foreign Minister.

    Such a big deal about indigenous voice to Parliament and yet a senior Labor pollie cannot extend the basic courtesy to a new Senator.

    Jacinta Price reflects on reaction to her maiden speech

    Senator Price said she had managed to crawl under the skin of Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Penny Wong, the leader of the government in the Senate, with her remarks.

    She added Senator Wong had left the chamber without shaking her hand or offering congratulations on her maiden speech as is tradition in Parliament.

    “I can safely say nothing told me I had my message any louder or any clearer than seeing that I had effectively managed to crawl right under the skin of Penny Wong,” Senator Price said.

    “Her bolt from the Senate floor to avoid following Senate tradition mind you, as government Senate leader to shake my First Nations hand and congratulate me on my first speech was a clear indication I thought.”



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  33. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 7:02 pm

    🐹

    Depending on where in the bingle bloody hell are you ….?

    This Reminder

    One
    .

    Two
    .

    Three
    .


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  38. johnjj says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    JohnJJJ, thanks for the link.

    Time for centre-right video content creators to move to Rumble and other free speech platforms.
    I looked into it more and the ‘error message’ refers to Sony Music Enterprises – SME. So my guess is that Sony has a web crawler (algorithm) that searching for the zero one combination (i.e. music) that they own (according to copyright law) and automatically informs Youtube to automatically stop allowing it in certain areas of the world. So it is a form of Artificial Intelligence. My link is still working as I haven’t closed it, so I guess, once you are linked, the web crawler just gives up. Poor thing. What an amazing world. Music is just a combination of zeros and ones in the digital world and that is what Sony has the rights to and can stop you hearing Scott Ritter. You might try a VPN connection, if you are into it.

    [You missed a J in your name and the system didn’t like that! – Admin]


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  39. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:16 pm

    Tony Heller:

    ABC News coverage of Hurricane Andrew August 1992

    Hurricane Andrew 1992


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  40. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:21 pm

    A bloke walking his dog.

    ***********

    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Danish Village in Solvang 6


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  42. Arky says:
    October 1, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    Model A shed demolition supposed to begin in two weeks.
    Then, eventually, they might build me a new shed.
    First order of business will be to strip down the A and see what can be saved and figure out a plan.


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  44. Steve trickler says:
    October 1, 2022 at 11:19 pm

    I would have cried, too.

    ***********

    Laika and the Soviet space dogs


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  45. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 12:02 am

    John Sherwood de Lancie, Jr, smashed it. Nailed the role.

    Star Trek: Q’s Lessons


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  46. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:02 am

    Same for anyone who opposes the regime

    Sandy Hook Lawyer Admits Lawsuit Against Alex Jones Meant to Silence Him Forever

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-sandy-hook-lawyer-admits-lawsuit-against-alex-jones-meant-to-silence-him-forever/


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  47. Arky says:
    October 2, 2022 at 11:56 am

    Tough chick. One in a hundred.
    I’d have her in my infantry section any day:
    ..
    https://funker530.com/video/female-lawyer-overpowers-and-disarms-man-with-gun/
    ..

    The woman in this video, who is identified as 27-year-old Nayara Gomes, was shout three times by the attacker, Diego Dorado. In spite of being shot once in the chest, arm, and hand, she continued to fight with her assailant until she gained control of the pistol. She then proceeded to point the pistol at Dorado’s head before changing her mind and throwing it down the stairs.

    “I took the gun and pointed it at his forehead and didn’t pull the trigger. I said: ‘you’re ruining your life’, and threw the gun down the stairs. In my view, no one has the right to take anyone’s life. Even in self-defense. I thought about his family and I didn’t want to carry a death on my back, in my heart,” Gomes told local reporters in January after the incident.


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  48. Arky says:
    October 2, 2022 at 12:06 pm

    For sure, you would still end up carrying that chicks pack on a long pack march, but at least she has determination and guts.


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  49. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    Singapore/Jakarta: A crowd stampede at a top-division football match in Indonesia has left 127 people dead and 180 others injured.

    The tragedy occurred after a match on Saturday between Javanese rivals Arema and Persebaya Surabaya at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java when fans from the home team, which lost the game 3-2, stormed the pitch.



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  50. Arky says:
    October 2, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    The longer term debt cycle has turned.
    Debt matters again.
    You can’t just buy shares on shorter term cycles or buy and hold.
    You have to look at individual balance sheets and debt is a company killer from here on.
    Higher interest rates, surging inflation are, in my bet: here to stay for most of this decade.


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  51. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 12:56 pm

    My economic prediction – pain


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  52. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 1:08 pm

    Still pockets of sanity at the Paywallian

    Right-wing wave nothing to do with ‘fascism’
    Swedes and Italians have elected traditionalists who, despite their considerable flaws, are the opposite of tyrants like Mussolini.

    HENRY ERGAS
    Columnist



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  53. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 2, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    Neil Oliver:
    ‘By taking back control of the money we can begin regaining control of our world’

    ‘Now is the time to take back control of money – its creation, its value and its flow. By so doing, we can begin the task of regaining control of our world.’



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  54. Eyrie says:
    October 2, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    The woman in this video, who is identified as 27-year-old Nayara Gomes, was shout three times by the attacker, Diego Dorado.
    Shot three times, got control of the gun and didn’t end it? Too stupid to live.


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  55. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 2, 2022 at 2:04 pm

    Right-wing wave nothing to do with ‘fascism’
    Swedes and Italians have elected traditionalists who, despite their considerable flaws, are the opposite of tyrants like Mussolini.

    The right, the far right, the far far right, the far, far, far …

    The far right is having a moment in Europe. Actually, everywhere.

    An expert explains recent (and maybe soon-to-be) far-right victories in Europe.



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  56. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 2, 2022 at 2:25 pm

    You have to look at individual balance sheets and debt is a company killer from here on.
    Higher interest rates, surging inflation are, in my bet: here to stay for most of this decade.

    That is why it is recommended that you get fully Covid-jabbed and then eat insects. But that is not enough. Turn off your power supply too. So by 2030, you’ll own nothing ….

    Meanwhile, two examples. There are many more.

    1/

    Ursula von der Leyen earns € 30,000 a month and has just received an increase of another € 2,500 a month to offset inflation. An affront to Europeans who live on € 1,000 a month and who are unable to pay bills because they have to feed their children. The EU must be dissolved.

    2/
    Dr. Fauci and wife’s wealth ‘skyrocketed’ by $5 million during pandemic: analysis


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  59. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 3:46 pm

    Tony Heller:

    California Democrats are doing everything they can to destroy the state, and now they are trying to bribe the citizenry with a one-time “gas stimulus check” ahead of the election.

    California Gas Stimulus Checks


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  60. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 2, 2022 at 4:14 pm

    For some light relief, updates to The Mock.


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  61. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 4:22 pm

    Sunday Times in WA:

    “What now for the anti-vaxxers” Front page.

    That f8ckwit journo has not read the Pfizer docs that they wished to keep secret for 75 years.

    Kerry Stokes needs to hang in ALLOWING THIS CRAP TO BE PUBLISHED….oh wait, no doubt he has received a vast sum of cash from big pharma.


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  62. kaysee kaysee says:
    October 2, 2022 at 4:23 pm

    Oracle Films | News Uncut (2022)

    James Freeman

    Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion

    Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion shines a light on Covid-19 vaccine injuries and bereavements, but also takes an encompassing look at the systemic failings that appear to have enabled them. We look at leading analysis of pharmaceutical trials, the role of the MHRA in regulating these products, the role of the SAGE behavioural scientists in influencing policy and the role of the media and Big Tech companies in suppressing free and open debate on the subject.

    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    (Note: If this video disappears, it can be watched here.)

    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    Double-posted in the CatWiki.


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  63. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    The Age

    Ukraine warns Australia against rubbing shoulders with Putin at G20

    We don’t rub shoulders.
    We SHIRTFRONT!


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  64. Old bloke says:
    October 2, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    kaysee says:
    October 1, 2022 at 1:56 pm

    Ze Schwab

    WEF founder Klaus Schwab is filmed with hidden camera bragging about who he has in his pocket: “politicians, media, experts scientists, NGO’s…”

    … and academia, religious leaders and trade unions all belong to Klaus according to that video.

    I’ll never forget that video footage Rukshan took of the CFMEU blokes in Melbourne destroying the CFMEU office building. Those poor buggers knew that business, government and the media were working against them but they thought that the union would stand for them.

    No hope, the unions have sold out too, the ACTU is part of the UN International Labour Organisation which Klaus now also controls.

    Traitors everywhere.


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  65. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    Will JC roll back his comments suggesting CO2 via “risk analysis” we should go nuclear?

    Attaching yourself to a fraud to make a case is not a good look, yet you did it.

    CO2 in the atmosphere is not a threat, much like methane.


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  67. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:17 pm

    Jimmy Barnes is the pre match NRL GF entertainment.

    Something new and different.


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  69. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:19 pm

    Ok peeps, footy tips.

    I’m tipping the underdogs Parramatta will get up in a close one.


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  71. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:41 pm

    Foxtel not showing the final, so I will have to suffer the Channel Nine commentary.


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  72. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    Panthers go 6 in front.


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  73. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    Looks like the Eels have no answers to the rampaging Panthers.


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  74. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    Market says this game is already over

    Panthers 1.005


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  75. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 9:24 pm

    Tony Heller:

    Prof Christian Schlüchter presentation May 2016. Alpine discoveries show that the pre-industrial Roman era was warmer than today. In fact most of the last 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age were warmer than today.

    Prof Christian Schlüchter presentation May 2016


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  76. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 9:30 pm

    Parra snatched two late tries, otherwise a perfect GF performance from Penrith.


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  77. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 9:32 pm

    John Stossel:

    This is my FULL interview with controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson.

    Protesters tried to shout him down, but they failed. Now millions buy his books about finding meaning in responsibility.

    Jordan Peterson: The FULL Interview


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  79. Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 10:10 pm

    Good to see him wagging his tail.

    **********

    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane making new friends at Omelveny Park


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  80. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 10:25 pm

    Vladimir Putin

    Presidential address on the occasion of signing the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia

    …At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time. In launching the sanctions blitzkrieg against Russia, for example, they thought that they could once again line up the whole world at their command. As it turns out, however, such a bright prospect does not excite everyone – other than complete political masochists and admirers of other unconventional forms of international relations. Most states refuse to ”snap a salute“ and instead choose the sensible path of cooperation with Russia.

    The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past.

    Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.

    But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can’t feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can’t heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can’t feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can’t heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.

    That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies…



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  82. mh says:
    October 2, 2022 at 10:58 pm

    Sky News

    At least 174 killed after riot at football match in indonesia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4iNF80PCI


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  87. mh says:
    October 3, 2022 at 9:59 am

    GB News

    Healthcare workers call for a pause to vaccine rollout to healthy children

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUMfF46aJuQ


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  88. johanna johanna says:
    October 3, 2022 at 11:21 am

    mh, Sweden has already discontinued mass vaccination of children, see here.

    Meanwhile, the morons in charge here are still trying to get infants jabbed.


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  90. JohnJJJ says:
    October 3, 2022 at 12:13 pm

    Vladimir Putin

    Presidential address on the occasion of signing the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia
    Now that is heavy duty. Well worth reading the whole speech. No messing around. What will the Left do? On one hand his speech excoriates neocolonials and racism and, on the other hand, praises mum and dad.
    I think the most amazing part of all this is how the Nord Stream sabotage reporting seems to have disappeared from the Western press. Possibly the most far reaching action of the battle.
    The Duran today Cui bono, “to whom is it a benefit?”


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  91. Arky says:
    October 3, 2022 at 12:57 pm

    Putin and Russia are experts on information warfare.
    Actual warfare, it turns out, not so much.
    That they have correctly identified the points of agony and fracture in the West, just as they did in the Vietnam era, and are pressing on them with every possibly vigour, is no surprise.
    What is a surprise is that many on the right have conflated our internal interests in combatting the extremes of woke ideology, with the lies in a campaign of disruption conducted by Russia via some of the most disreputable shills ever collected for one cause.
    Shame on those falling for it.


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  92. mh says:
    October 3, 2022 at 1:02 pm

    Now that is heavy duty. Well worth reading the whole speech. No messing around. What will the Left do?

    I’m in agreement with leftist George Galloway who argues very little remains of the Left, and what is referred to as ‘the Left’ are progressive liberals.

    This huge swathe of progressive liberals are firmly behind the US proxy wars and WEF/NWO. Not that they are evil, just as dumb as a bag of rocks.


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  93. Arky says:
    October 3, 2022 at 1:10 pm

    The West will go on.
    The pendulum will swing back and forth as it always has.
    Woke will tire itself out, like the hippies and the peaceniks and the drops outs from fifty years ago.
    Not before damaging a lot of young people though. Like those who burnt their brains out on LSD or wrapped themselves and their Valiants around trees while pissed at 90 MPH in the 60s, because, like now, back then there were dirty bastards who enjoyed exploiting the follies of youth, and their ideological bedmates who wanted to burn society down.
    The West will remain the best, and our internal struggles for meaning and order against chaos and decay will not be won by looking to Moscow or Beijing.


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  94. Old bloke says:
    October 3, 2022 at 1:24 pm

    Steve trickler says:
    October 2, 2022 at 10:28 pm

    Indigo Traveller:

    Caught in Dangerous Protest in Haiti (completely lawless)

    I wonder if that’s what Europe will look like in the coming months.

    Without the sunshine though.


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  95. Arky says:
    October 3, 2022 at 1:39 pm

    China is still locking down her subjects.

    The authorities have stepped up their ruthless and often chaotic restrictions ahead of a key meeting of the Chinese Communist Party next month, at which Xi Jinping is expected to be anointed as party boss for an unprecedented third term. ‘Defeating’ the virus has become central to the cult of Xi, for whom it is a measure of the CCP’s superiority over bungling western democracies. Party propaganda has gone into overdrive ahead of the congress. The Chinese people have faced a barrage of slogans relayed online, as well as on television and by loudspeaker, urging them to ‘Extinguish every outbreak!’ and telling them that ‘History will remember those who contributed’.

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/china-s-lockdown-nightmare-is-far-from-over

    ..


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  96. mh says:
    October 3, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    Full speech on Sky News

    Vladimir Putin hosts a signing ceremony for the annexation of four areas of Ukraine

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIuN6v_cmNM


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  97. mh says:
    October 3, 2022 at 5:19 pm

    The Age

    Melbourne e-scooter rider who died was ‘travelling at well over 20km/h’

    A 28-year-old man has died after he crashed his e-scooter when he hit a speed bump in Melbourne’s north.

    The man was not wearing a helmet when he collided with the speed bump on Cornwall Road at Pascoe Vale on September 22, according to Victoria Police.

    The Pascoe Vale man was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries but died on Friday.

    “From my knowledge, he didn’t have a helmet. He was doing well over 20km/h,” Fawkner Highway Patrol Sergeant Michael Free said on Monday.

    “I believe there’s also questions about whether he’s using a phone while riding,” Free said.

    The officer said the tragic accident was avoidable.

    There was another scooter crash on the weekend where a young child was riding with an adult, Free said.

    “With the speeds involved, the impacts and then the trauma that results is quite significant,” he said.

    It comes as police started a blitz on private e-scooter riders along the Upfield bike path at Brunswick on Monday morning.

    Scooters with a motor more powerful than 200 watts are illegal to use on public footpaths.

    “I’ve seen an e-scooter that had a 2400 watt motor on it, capable of 65 kilometres [per hour] with a 110 kilo person on it – you can imagine if that goes wrong, it’s going to be pretty nasty,” Free said.

    It is illegal to ride a private electric scooter on public roads, with people caught doing so facing fines of between $182 and $909.

    Investigations into the fatal e-scooter crash are continuing and police will prepare a report for the coroner.



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  98. Eyrie says:
    October 3, 2022 at 5:42 pm

    “From my knowledge, he didn’t have a helmet. He was doing well over 20km/h,” Fawkner Highway Patrol Sergeant Michael Free said on Monday.

    “I believe there’s also questions about whether he’s using a phone while riding,” Free said.

    Think of it as evolution in action.


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  99. Old bloke says:
    October 3, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    It is illegal to ride a private electric scooter on public roads, with people caught doing so facing fines of between $182 and $909.

    I’ve often wondered how the bureaucrats who draft the legislation arrive at the fine amounts. For example, why $182 and $909, why not $200 to $900?


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  100. rosie says:
    October 3, 2022 at 5:53 pm

    Wonder no more, Victorian fines are levied via ‘penalty units’which are indexed for inflation.
    Currently one penalty unit is ‘$184.92.


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