Open Thread – Saturday, 03 September 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    This was tough to watch.

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    Adventures with Purpose:

    We found 16-year-old Kiely Rodni in her 2013 Honda CRV underwater in Prosser Creek Reservoir – just 300 yards from her last know location where she attended a 300+ person party at Prosser Creek Family Campground near Truckee, CA.

    Family, friends, and the entire Truckee community have been left seeking answers leading up to her disappearance in what has become one of the most extensively searched missing person cases in California state history – encompassing 18 agencies and over 19,000 search & rescue hours.

    This video documents AWP Team Lead Divers – Doug Bishop & Nick Rinn’s detailed search for Kiely Rodni and brings to light detailed information as well as “x-factor” clues given by courageous individuals that day willing to step in and do the right thing.

    **SPECIAL UPDATE: In the original video at 39:44 Doug makes the phone call to Kiely’s Aunt and Grandmother to let them know first that AWP had found Kiely and her Honda CRV in Prosser Creek Reservoir. This section of the video has been removed in honor of a request by a family representative due to the sensitive nature and privacy the family wishes to have and maintain during these hard times. As in all of our past cases we prioritize the wishes of the family first and foremost. We are honored to serve Kiely’s family to help bring closure during these hard times. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the Rodni-Nieman family so that healing can begin and more answers be brought to light in the weeks and months ahead.

    Because Kiely’s case is currently an active ongoing investigation with the Placer County Sheriffs Department – some individuals have been blurred and/or names have been removed to protect the integrity of the investigation.

    If you or another person you know has ANY information regarding events that took place just prior to Kiely Rodni’s disappearance please step up, DO THE RIGHT THING, and contact:

    How We FOUND Kiely Rodni: MURDER or ACCIDENT?


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    Walk in the Pilbara. Enjoy the show.

    Ancient trees.


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  3. mh says:

    ‘Much worse than the 1970s’: Historian Niall Ferguson has a warning for investors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vqnpXWM0Y


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  4. mh says:

    Stephen Miller on Biden’s Hitlerian speech

    #FoxBusiness #kudlow
    Stephen Miller torches Biden’s ‘despicable’ speech: I’ve never heard such dehumanizing rhetoric

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdvI2K1oICY


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  5. mh says:

    Sky News Australia

    President Joe Biden’s ominous speech from a red-lit podium is a sign the United States could be in a civil war by the end of the decade, Institute of Public Affairs Director of Policy Gideon Rozner says.

    “The most important thing about this story is it discloses that so many journalists, so-called progressive journalists, are willing to go along with what is effectively declaring war on half of the country – on 70 million people who voted for Donald Trump,” he told Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xgY3jBs1n0


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  6. Shy Ted says:

    Now the article says –

    The Science Academy’s chief executive is Anna-Maria Arabia, whose early career included a total of five years as an adviser with Anthony Albanese and Kim Beazley. In a subsequent job as chief executive of Science & Technology Australia, she led a march of 200 members to Parliament in 2011 calling for legislation or similar means to silence global warming sceptics. (at 2.20). She jumped to the Academy leadership in 2016 after three years part-time as policy director for the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

    Who is equally not exactly scientific but equally left


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  7. mh says:

    An Aussie going toe to toe with Serena right now 🎾


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  8. Shy Ted says:

    FFS. We don’t do mouth to mouth (and haven’t for years) these days because the risk of getting something nasty is too high. And you don’t do CPR because it just pumps more blood out of the bullet hole.
    But having worked in NT health I’m not surprised.


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  9. Shy Ted says:

    PHON are at Senate hearings. 2 min vid of Barrister Julian Gillespie saying everyone can sue everyone else.
    That was 5 days ago.
    Just days later –

    A group of Australians against forced vaccination who tried to sue state and federal governments citing fears over “a new world order” have been slugged with $214,023 in legal costs after the case was thrown out of court. Thank you Barrister Julian Gillespie

    As many of us have said for the last 30 months the absence of lawyers standing up for our Constitutional rights is telling. Did you know the bigger law firms get much of their income from gummint work. That’s what you get when all gummint does is pass more laws. I remember one of the claims to fame of a female PM was passing more laws than ever before. Judiciary – bought and paid for.


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  10. mh says:

    Aussie takes first set.

    Serena may be playing her last set of tennis.


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  11. Shy Ted says:

    It’s about this time I go the the TGA and look at the weekly Convid report, in particular vax deaths. Last time I looked, maybe a month ago 900+ doctors had reported 900+ attributable deaths to the TGA but the bureaucrats had overruled them and accepted only 13 with no other pre-existing conditions. Well, look at that, they’ve got a new website which seems to have removed all this info.
    And if you want to look at a past report all such info has disappeared.
    Even from a year ago. Nothing.
    That must be because they’re safe and effective.
    The lawyers and media will be onto this any second…


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  12. mh says:

    CH9 Gem decide to switch to a men’s game.

    FMD.


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  13. Shy Ted says:

    “Even the rain that falls isn’t going to be enough to fill our dams” – Tim Flannery.
    Meanwhile, here on the driest continent
    We’re doomed to desert conditions forever


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  14. Shy Ted says:

    Just the headlines and first paras
    This article
    Shows it was done under ScuMo
    Seems to delete me if too may links, more to follow


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  15. candy says:

    Good morning folks.

    Biden’s speech I think is another attempt by Dems to enrage MAGA people into a protest, albeit a peaceful protest, to influence the mid-terms.

    In the long term it looks like the States the Union may split and the world would be a better place if the Dems had their own place and ruled their own people with their own energy polices and social gender policies, that’s for sure. A Democrat world of its own for its own.


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  16. Steve trickler says:

    Del Bigtree:

    Del travels to the Sunshine State to sit down with Florida Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, MD, PhD, for an interview with one of the most influential, inspirational, and scrutinized doctors in the world.

    DR. JOSEPH LADAPO, FLORIDA SURGEON GENERAL: Pandemic Politics & America’s Spin Doctors


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    Margaret Court reigns supreme. Unbeaten record.

    1/
    Was that really her last tennis match? Has she definitely retired evolutioned?

    Serena Williams’ dream run at US Open ends with third-round loss to Ajla Tomljanović

    2/
    Did she really win Round 2 ? Or did the crowd support carry her through? Wasn’t it disrespectful to Anett Kontaveit?

    3/
    So very fitting that she was beaten by an Aussie protecting the legacy of another Aussie.

    Who is Ajla Tomljanovic?


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    – First, force people to get jabbed with a substance that has not been tested adequately.
    – Two years later, quietly remove the approvals for pregnant and breastfeeding women.

    So it isn’t a conspiracy theory that the jab is bad? Especially for pregnant and breastfeeding women?

    It’s taken 2 years …. Trust the Government.

    UK Govt Denies ‘Safe Use’ Recommendation for Pfizer Vaccine In Pregnant Women,
    Says Those Breastfeeding Should NOT Be Vaccinated.


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    Project Veritas

    PART 1:
    Connecticut Public School Asst. Principal Admits Discrimination Against Catholic Candidates

    Jeremy Boland, who serves as Cos Cob Elementary School’s Assistant Principal, was recorded bragging about how he oversees the hiring of teachers who will disseminate “progressive” political ideas in the classrooms:

    “Believe it or not, the open-minded, more progressive teachers are actually more savvy about delivering a Democratic message without really ever having to mention politics.”

    (Boland has been placed on administrative leave and the school system stated it would begin a review of the case.)


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    1/

    California Guv

    2/

    When your in-laws don’t trust you.

    Gavin Newsom’s in-laws fled from California to Florida during the pandemic

    Fox News Digital previously learned the Siebel family trust made a donation to a Ron DeSantis PAC

    Not only did the in-laws of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom give money to one of his biggest political foes; they fled from his state during the pandemic.


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    I heard about this incident – the day after it happened.

    Red bandana phoned a talkback show in Sydney. The person who answered the phone passed the message to the show presenter. Show presenter passed message back – Ask him to hold on…we are going to commercial break right now.

    Bandana: How long is the break?
    Reply: 2 minutes
    Bandana: Call me back
    And hung up.

    The show presenter said: Now I understand what Jacinta Price was talking about.


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  22. mh says:

    Jane Fonda reveals she has cancer
    US acting legend Jane Fonda has revealed she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.


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  23. kaysee kaysee says:

    There are some who say that Twitter should be shut down. I don’t agree. There are some good Conservative voices there using the platform to spread the truth.

    What will be the outcome of the Musk-Twitter battle? Maybe Musk will be able to buy it for $ 1 billion and save 43 billion?

    8 in 10 Twitter accounts fake, claims top security expert as Musk laughs

    Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday went after Parag Agrawal-led platform once again, after a top cybersecurity expert claimed that as high as eight in 10 Twitter accounts are fake.

    Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity company F5, who spent more than 20 years with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations, told The Australian that more than 80 per cent of Twitter accounts are probably bots — a massive claim as Twitter says only 5 per cent of its users are bots/spams.

    “Sure sounds higher than 5 per cent,” tweeted Musk, along with tagging the news article.

    “On a $/bot basis, this deal is awesome,” he chuckled.


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  24. Steve trickler says:

    I counted about 40 pink and greys down the street.

    I walked up to them and they gave me an eyeball. Cool birds.


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  25. Bazinga says:

    Ha frickin ha

    Euroweenies learn price of not being self sufficient on energy. Hope France cuts off nuclear to them also.
    I wonder if theres anything Australia could learn


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Italy

    First Scotland and now Italy… citizens refuse to pay energy bills, and burn them in the streets. We control the system, if the system try’s to destroy us… we destroy the system.


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  27. mh says:

    No finals footy for the Brisbane Broncos.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    Boycott businesses that support WEF. It is not a necessity to buy a cup of coffee. Make your coffee at home. Or patronise those shops that accept your cash, gladly.

    Starbucks

    We have to learn to unite and work together.
    Cancel them.
    It works.

    Bed Bath & Beyond

    I love this! Bed Bath & Beyond canceled Mike Lindell and now the market is cancelling them


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  29. shatterzzz says:

    No finals footy for the Brisbane Broncos.
    After last week’s “joke” against the Eels I can’t believe they started favs .. how good & easy was that final Dragons try .. ran past half the team without any effort .. LOL!


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  30. mh says:

    Deja vu all over again

    Courier Mail

    Down and out: Broncos’ season ends in disaster


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    Noel Harrison

    The Windmills of Your Mind

    The song which made Noel Harrison a legend. From the 1968 Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway film The Thomas Crown Affair.

    The song entered the UK chart on March 1, 1969. It peaked at number eight and spent 14 weeks in the charts. It also won the 1969 Oscar for best original song in a film.

    It did not feature on any of Noel’s albums at the time, but was the stand-out track of the Thomas Crown Affair soundtrack.

    The track was recorded because the director of the Thomas Crown Affair, Norman Jewison, wanted a song that sounded like The Beatles track Strawberry Fields Forever to go with a scene where Steve McQueen’s character is flying a glider in the film.

    He asked legendary lyricists Marilyn and Allen Bergman to come up with the song.

    Speaking in 2006, Marilyn Bergman said:
    “The lyric we wrote was stream-of-consciousness.

    “We felt that the song had to be a mind-trip of some kind.

    “I think we were thinking… you know when you try to fall asleep at night and you can’t turn your brain off and thoughts and memories tumble.”


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  32. Mak Siccar says:

    The scales are ever so slowly falling of the eyes.

    https://spectator.com.au/2022/09/the-lockdown-jig-is-up/


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  33. mh says:

    #FoxNews
    Ron DeSantis: Biden is the American Nero

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nsB9sgVMmA


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  34. mh says:

    German study into the phenomenon of excess deaths | Kathy Gyngell and Mark Steyn discuss

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZsCju-Pe8


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  35. mh says:

    Media can now finally stop ignoring Serena Williams’ rotten behaviour

    News dot com via NY Post


    “I swear to God, I’ll f**king take this ball and shove it down your f**king throat!.” — Serena Williams before a national and international TV audience to lineswoman Shino Tsurubuchi during the 2009 US Open.

    Well, we media folks have done it again.

    We’ve taken indisputable, recurring and conspicuous facts and buried them to create a sustainable fiction in service to nervous, cautious lies.

    It’s known as the Tiger Woods Media Pandering Syndrome.

    It’s not enough that Woods and Serena Williams were superior in their sports, among the all-time best. To that, unfiltered nonsense had to be infused.

    They were the most noble to have ever played. Their unparalleled goodness may never be surpassed. They were the most extraordinarily positive influences, role models, humanitarians, offspring, spouses, parents and selfless crusaders who have touched our otherwise miserable, desperate souls.

    This week, coast to coast and via all form of media, Williams was crowned as more than a world championship tennis player. She is a woman of extraordinary valour and class.

    Doesn’t matter how much evidence to the contrary, and there’s plenty. It was wishful, ignorant, obligatory and unnecessary rubbish. Or are the Tiger Woods Impaired Driving Academy and the Serena Williams Charm School coming to a strip mall near you?

    Tennis may never again be “graced” by a woman who was such a relentlessly rotten winner and worse loser. She, and only she, was the reason she won or lost. If she extended credit to an opponent, it was heard as insincere, brief, parenthetical and culled.

    Was it mere coincidence that many in attendance at Williams’ second-round win, Wednesday, felt entitled to boorish, bully behaviour in support of Williams, cheering opponent Anett Kontaveit’s errors including double faults?

    During and after the match, judging from her silence, Williams, media personification of the sportswoman, was good with that.

    Williams’ livid, wild-eyed tantrum at the chair ump during the 2018 Open — he’d detected she was cheating, which she denied, via signals from a coach before she shouted, among other things, “You’re a thief!” — was also cheered by the obnoxious.

    Williams later dubiously excused herself by explaining her behaviour as an attempt to strike a blow for women’s rights.

    Sure enough, selectively blind and deaf media lined up to buy that “social activism” fiction. As always, she threw a fit on her own behalf only.

    The woman whose rights were trampled that day was newcomer Naomi Osaka, left in tears for the audacity to have beaten Williams in the final, as US Open chair Katrina Adams took the court microphone to declare disappointment for all in the outcome as Williams will always be her and our champion.

    Adams, a black woman, later amended her claim to explain she was “thrilled” to be standing on the podium with “two women of colour.” The head of the US Open held an admitted bias based on race rather than tennis.

    Even Williams’ last go at Wimbledon, this summer, was tethered to reports of excessive self-entitlement. Wimbledon held a Centenary Celebration marking 100 years of its Centre Court. Past champs, including injured Roger Federer, flew in.

    Williams blew it off. According to UK media, she was miffed that the five luxury courtesy cars she and her entourage requested and were provided, were expected to be returned the day after a player is eliminated. House rules.

    After losing in the first round, claimed the reports, Wimbledon refused her request to hang on to the cars for the duration of the tournament. So Williams bolted, to hell with that ceremony and Wimbledon.

    Weeks later in Cincinnati, ticket-buyers lured by a last live look at Williams were treated to her recurring gracious side. Crushed in the first round, she bolted, refusing a farewell to the crowd on the court microphone, then refusing to attend a post-match media session.

    As for that vulgar, threatening 2009 episode with that Open lineswoman, she actually continued to verbally abuse her as she apparently correctly concluded that there was no way anyone would have the temerity to disqualify her for such abhorrently low conduct.

    Or would the No. 30 seed have been granted such an indulgence?

    Afterwards, she was incensed by the mere suggestion that she owed that lineswoman an apology: “An apology? From me? Well, how many people yell at linespeople?” Yeah, hers was standard tennis behaviour.

    She later claimed she apologised.

    The recent movie “King Richard,” a varnished tale of the Williams sisters’ often unhinged and bigoted father and mentor — Serena was its executive producer — this year won for Will Smith the Academy Award for Best Actor. Yet it has been a colossal box office bust.

    Reasons given: the Covid pandemic and its streaming on HBO Max.

    Reasons not given are that the discerning public has grown sick of the Williams family’s act, tired of advertisers and media shoving Serena down our better senses as someone we all love and admire.


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  36. mh says:

    #FoxNews
    Twenty-six BLM chapters sue its leaders for defrauding them

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


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  37. Old bloke says:

    Steve trickler says:
    September 3, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #112

    No pronoun discussions this week, where did the narcissists go?


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  38. Old bloke says:

    kaysee says:
    September 3, 2022 at 7:32 pm

    Boycott businesses that support WEF. It is not a necessity to buy a cup of coffee. Make your coffee at home. Or patronise those shops that accept your cash, gladly.

    Bed Bath & Beyond

    I love this! Bed Bath & Beyond canceled Mike Lindell and now the market is cancelling them

    Imagine that, the new American civil war started as a pillow fight.


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  39. Steve trickler says:

    Old bloke says:
    September 4, 2022 at 11:33 am

    I think Fleccas has had enough of them. We shall see next week.


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  40. Steve trickler says:

    DR Koncerthuset:

    The Breaking of the Fellowship
    Composed by Howard Shore
    Vocals: Christine Nonbo Andersen

    In June 2019, The Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR) aired a concert called “FANTASYMPHONY – ONE CONCERT TO RULE THEM ALL” performed by The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, The Danish National Concert Choir, The Danish National Junior Choir with various soloists conducted by Christian Schumann.

    The music performed was soundtracks from a wide range of fantasy movies, TV series and a video game reflecting different musical perspectives on magic, fantasy, swords, dragons, rings and bells.

    Featured composers were John Williams, Howard Shore and Ramin Djawadi along side Ed Sheeran and Queen with music from Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Willow, Narnia and much more.

    Set design design: Vertigo and Nikolaj Trap
    Light design: Mikael Sylvest
    Director of photography: Karsten Andersen
    Executive Producer, idea and concept: Nicolai Abrahamsen

    Performed and recorded in DR Koncerthuset

    The Breaking of the Fellowship // Christine Nonbo & The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)


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  41. Steve trickler says:

    Doc Coleman:

    Dr Vernon Coleman joins UKColumn to provide an analysis of medical corruption and insanity. Backed by years of experience as a Doctor, Broadcaster, Journalist and Best Selling Author, Dr Coleman clinically analyses and deconstructs the malevolent health agenda installing itself in UK and world-wide. Our discussions highlight the reality of the pharmaceutical industry being used by our government as a weapon of war on the population. Man or woman, young or old, we are all in their cross-wires and, if we value our lives, Dr Coleman urges us all to stand and fight.

    UK Column Interview


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:

    1/
    Putin’s Last Laugh

    The West launched all-out economic war on Russia. It failed. Russia’s retaliation now threatens to cripple Europe. Only fools could be surprised

    2/
    Well explained with this pic from WIP


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:

    The evil Yuval Harari – Klaus Schwab’s psycho side kick

    The delusions of psychopathy. Listen to this vile demon and it’s insane ramblings

    Part1

    Part2

    Part3


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  44. kaysee kaysee says:

    If that wasn’t enough,

    here’s a bit more.


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  45. kaysee kaysee says:

    Kari Lake

    Destroys A ‘Journalist’ In 90 Seconds…


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  46. Steve trickler says:

    The intimidator in the black car. His death made everyone in motorsports seek solutions.

    Dale Earnhardt Sr. – The Intimidator


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  47. mh says:

    Trying to get Australians to take these lunatic birds seriously is not a job I would want

    Courier Paywall

    ‘She was screaming’: Girl ‘soaked in blood’ after magpie attack

    Maci Neeve, 5, had scratches across her face after a magpie swooped her at Mulherin Park, Mackay Harbour.

    A young girl suffered scratches “not even a centimetre from her eye” after a magpie attack. Now her mother is demanding action.


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  48. Steve trickler says:

    Tony Heller:

    “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” – Winston Churchill

    Another Fake Temperature Record


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  49. Black Ball says:

    Raiders going point a minute against Wests Tigers.


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  50. kaysee kaysee says:

    Mark Steyn – GBNews

    Nothing To See Here

    ‘Fit, healthy, in the peak of condition, and dead – and nothing to see here.’

    Mark Steyn questions why young healthy people are dying across the UK.


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  51. kaysee kaysee says:

    NATO chief

    admits that NATO allies have been training and arming Ukraine since 2014.

    Something to remember whenever Western media refers to an “unprovoked” invasion.


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  52. kaysee kaysee says:

    Prague, Czech Republic…

    You’ll never see these images on your TV because it’s a demonstration against NATO, European Union and the Government policies that have caused inflation

    Details here.

    70,000 protest in Prague against Czech government, EU, NATO


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  53. Steve trickler says:

    That bitch from Poland needs a firm kick to the head. She is a disgusting filthy bitch.

    A Polish spank.


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  54. mh says:

    That bitch from Poland needs a firm kick to the head.

    Who?


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  55. Steve trickler says:

    mh says:
    September 4, 2022 at 10:12 pm
    That bitch from Poland needs a firm kick to the head.

    Who?

    She runs Sussietube.


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  56. Steve trickler says:

    That burnout pad in Bristol was shit, dickhead. You screwed up!

    THAT was ridiculous!

    Pissed off!

    WTF was that?


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  57. mh says:

    New York Post

    The chief financial officer of troubled Bed Bath & Beyond has been identified as the man who jumped to his death from the iconic new Tribeca skyscraper known as the “Jenga Building,” The Post has learned.


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  58. Travelin' man says:

    cohenite says:

    September 4, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    Jihad Watch

    Geller

    Tens of thousands descend on Wilkes Barre for the real President – Trump. Biden couldn’t fill a gym.

    Same as before the last election, yet he had won.


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  59. mh says:

    Nigel Farage discusses net zero with Chris Smith

    ‘Life will come to a stop’: UK facing bleak winter

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_CFpqB58cU


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  60. Steve trickler says:

    Magpies are singing. I get no grief from these birds in my neck of the woods.


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  61. johanna johanna says:

    Good interview with Farage above. He’ll be here soon, visiting Syd/Mel/Bris. Those who can should go along – he’s entertaining as well as incisive.


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