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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