Open Thread – Saturday, 04 February 2023

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    Cash!

    Enjoy the walk.

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    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Malibu 26


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  2. mh says:

    Brian Berletic live streaming right now

    New Atlas LIVE: As US Proxy War Rages Against Russia, US Seeks War with China by 2025

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbGZ2XNHtk


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  3. Steve trickler says:

    On song Rev. The same sh*t applies here.

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    Civil Service (Run The Show)


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  4. Steve trickler says:

    I received the best news today.

    A close friend on mine, of whom with his wife after numerous attempts in their 40’s to have a child finally succeeded. The little bloke is healthy and has not been jabbed.

    I said, if you go to a doctor suggesting the little one get a C-19 jab, take me with you. I’ll proverbially rip his f*****g head off!

    Him: I take it you have not had it.
    Me: Correct.

    I’ve listed off all the reasons why and it rattled him. NO MORE JABS! He was completely oblivious to the information that exists and I will take no prisoners. His mum took the jabs and came close to death.

    His dad is f*ckwit that worked for Stokes for a news agency that… I’ll let you guess.

    My conversation rattled him. I need to do the same thing with my father. My comfort is not all batches are the same. BIG PHARMA were allowed Carte Blanche to do what they want…I’ll be asking for the batch numbers.


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  5. Steve trickler says:

    Blooming heck! A nice song for peak hour traffic.

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    Ivan Torrent – Grief (feat. Merethe Soltvedt) ***Descriptions attached***


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  6. Steve trickler says:

    You’ll either like the music or you will click off.

    Music takes you places.

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    Ivan Torrent:

    Ivan Torrent – Breathe (feat. Clara Sorace) ***Descriptions attached***


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  7. mh says:

    ‘Life-changing within moments’: Jess Watson opens up about shock loss of young partner

    He was the love of her life, but a catastrophic stroke at only 29 years took him from her. Now Jessica Watson has revealed her final weeks with her partner and how she makes him proud.


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  8. mh says:

    BREAKING: My security guard awarded MASSIVE Police payout over unlawful arrest

    Avi Yemini
    779K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y4GfrdewkI


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  9. mh says:

    Russia Was Not Invited to Auschwitz Liberation Day

    Richard Medhurst
    158K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ded21KPMMLA


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  10. johanna johanna says:

    Ted, that story about quolls is just anthropomorphism writ large.

    There are all sorts of weird (to us) variants on mating in the natural world.

    What do these ‘researchers’ make of spiders where the female kills the male after mating?

    There is obviously far too much money washing around in the world of ‘researchers’ if that’s what they come up with.


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  11. johanna johanna says:

    Forgot to add – big tick for the second link! 🙂


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  12. Steve trickler says:

    John Stossel:

    4 Feb 2023

    Has America become a nation of freeloaders?

    A person panhandling is what we usually picture when we think of freeloading … but in America today, the bigger recipients of handouts is not poor people, it’s corporations.

    A Stossel Classic from 2011.

    Classic Stossel: The Biggest Freeloaders


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  13. Shy Ted says:

    Albo’ expert – “immediate reinstatement of alcohol bans”
    But –

    Action delayed on alcohol bans despite report recommending immediate reinstatement
    The immediate reinstatement of alcohol bans in remote communities and town camps in Central Australia has been delayed following crisis talks between Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and the Prime Minister in Canberra, with the pair stating the report recommending the bans will be discussed by their respective cabinets next week and decisions made then.


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  14. Steve trickler says:

    Stew’s take on the balloon.

    Perhaps it is a distraction squirrel?

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    Stew Peters Network:

    The Chinese balloon story doesn’t make any sense and the media is lying.
    Edward Szall joins Stew to confirm the balloon story is being used as a distraction.

    China is a convenient “boogie man” when in reality our own government is trying to kill us.

    The Biden crime family has sold the United States to China and the Blackrock funded mainstream media is happy to cover it all up.

    Chinese Balloon False Flag! What Are They Hiding? Media Pushes Narrative About Montana Balloon


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    Malcolm Roberts:

    If you needed any more proof that we don’t need a voice to Parliament, we need politicians who will actually do something; it is the avoidable tragedy in Alice Springs.

    Alice Springs tragedy shows uselessness of Voice to Parliament


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    Hundreds allege sexual abuse in Victorian state schools

    Will there be an apology? An investigation? Don’t hold your breath

    A freedom of information (FOI) request submitted in 2022 by outgoing Victorian MP Stuart Grimley has this week yielded a shocking revelation. As reported by the Guardian, “almost 400 civil claims have been made against the Victorian government for historical child sexual abuse in state schools in the past 12 years”.


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    If you enjoy watching the Olympics Games and had to choose between
    No Russians + Belarusians OR No Ukrainians,
    how would you choose?

    Ukraine Renews Threat to Boycott Olympics if Russians Compete

    Ukraine’s sports minister said his country was marshaling allies to press the International Olympic Committee to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes [at next summer’s Paris Olympics.]


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    In the UK

    1/
    UsForThem
    Pfizer taken to regulator

    2/
    Pfizer: sales before child safety

    The inside story of how we held Pfizer to account for misleading parents about Covid vaccine safety


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    1/
    No Happy Endings in Transland

    The boy is six years old. Someone told him these mythological tales from the place called Transland. There is a vagina hidden inside a penis. Hormones can give you girl parts.

    This was one of the most chilling scenes in the new documentary Dead Name

    2/
    Dead Name (2022) Trailer

    3/
    Dead Name

    Full documentary – can be viewed for a fee.


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    Kaysee, regarding your point above about those people who didn’t attend Cardinal Pell’s funeral, their behaviour is disgusting.

    They fear the god of the Commie cult and are afraid of being cancelled.

    For what does it profit a man, woman or anyone to win the earthly trophies and become Premier or Governor or Prime Minister or President or CEO or whatever else…..


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  21. mh says:

    This might be relevant to some of the topics above

    The NWO Future of Sex: Robots
    https://banned.video/watch?id=63dd8895f246b125ed3ea0d4

    I listened to some of this earlier today.
    One interesting topic was the idea being pushed that rejecting the sexual advances of someone is discrimination. This ties in to trans men being given access to female bathrooms, and if you object you’re a bigot. They mention an interesting story of a Google employee that was sacked because he didn’t reciprocate the advances from an Asian female working there.


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  22. Steve trickler says:

    This balloon saga made me look this up. It seems many others did, too. Stew Peters was right, it’s a distraction.

    Reading the Gateway, it seems Twitter has given the latest Project Veritas video the flick*. It’s still up on Rumble.

    #Piss weak Musk. #WEF chump.

    *That may have changed?

    NENA | 99 Red Balloons [1984] (Official HD Music Video)


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  23. Steve trickler says:

    See how far you get into watching this.🤦‍♂️

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

    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #134


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  24. mh says:

    Heat chose to bat first. 🏏

    1-86 after ten overs. Nice start.


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  25. Shy Ted says:

    The headline read – 5,000 year old bar/tavern discovered with food and ancient refrigerator…
    That’s the Abos I said to myself. But no, it’s the teettotallers!


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  26. mh says:

    Perth Scorchers require 176 to win.


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  27. Steve trickler says:

    I’ll place this in the CatWiki under C-19 – Other Issues.

    The entire vaccine schedule should now come under immense scrutiny. People and their blind faith in Big Pharma today is bloody ridiculous. There will be those who’ll would demand such a conversation and debate be shutdown.

    Two words for those with that view – f*ck off!

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    The HighWire with Del Bigtree:

    ICAN CEO and ‘The HighWire’ host, Del Bigtree, presents ‘The Vaccine Safety Project,’ a comprehensive presentation on Vaccine Safety and Policy in America.
    The presentation explains the framework in place to monitor safety, shortcomings of the current vaccine licensing process, details the history of vaccine safety, and establishes the failure of the current system to establish the safety of the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedule.

    Presented from the stage of the ‘Truth About Cancer’ Conference.

    #VSP #VaccineSafetyProject #SafetyFirst #ICAN #TheHighWire

    ORIGINAL AIR-DATE: October 18, 2018

    DEL BIGTREE Presents The Vaccine Safety Project


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  28. Steve trickler says:

    There will be those who would….


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    19 minutes in with the Bigtree – The Vaccines Safety Project.

    Put your hand up if you knew about this? All those anti-vaxxers on talk back radio years ago were onto something. I, like many others, dismissed them. This changes everything. As I’ve said before, audio record and film every interaction with the MSM…basically avoid anything to do with them with their current platforms.

    If they want an interview, you do it under your terms. If the bastards decide to do a slice and dice, you will have the opportunity to expose them.


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    Remember this? He floated up from Northam; circumnavigated the globe; flew over Perth and almost bang on over the top of the launch site before landing.

    Remarkable.

    31 Jan 2017
    Veteran adventurer Fedor Konyukhov landed in Australia on 23 July 2016 after a 268h 20min flight in a Roziere balloon, breaking the 2002 record of aviation legend Steve Fossett (320h 33min). Konyukhov and Fossett are now the only two pilots to have completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon.

    Konyukhov incredible solo flight around the world in a balloon


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  31. mh says:

    Cooper Connolly – remember the name. The Big Bash League has a new star after the 19-year-old denied Brisbane Heat a famous final win in one of the tournament’s greatest matches.


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  32. Steve trickler says:

    Another memory with that balloon flight. People got out their scissors and razor blades and cut out pieces of the balloon to take home for mementoes.

    I’d have done the same.

    Konyukhov was not happy, but probably chilled on it afterwards. I doubt he would ever do it again. He got scared when approaching Antarctica, but thankfully, caught the jet stream to take him back to Northam from where he started.


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  33. Steve trickler says:

    Just finished watching the Del Bigtree – The Vaccine Safety Project clip in full. I reckon most would not have a clue about the facts contained in it. It’s not a fault of them for not knowing, the power of Big-Pharma is immense when it comes to the MSM, so share this. How else will people find out?

    Scary stuff.


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  34. mh says:

    The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

    While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, it was shot down by U.S. military fighter jets on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources. A senior U.S. military official said that an F-22 was used to bring down the balloon at 58,000 feet, adding that a single A9X missile was fired.

    A senior defense official said during a Thursday afternoon briefing that the U.S. government is “confident” the surveillance balloon is from the People’s Republic of China.

    When asked about the balloon on Saturday by a reporter, Biden said, “We’re going to take care of it.”

    You have to question everything coming out of the USA right now. Has this story been hyped to move attention to China and away from the US created disaster in Ukraine? Will the US shoot Zelensky next? Tune in next episode, folks.


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  35. JohnJJJ says:

    Has this story been hyped to move attention to China Certainly seems to be. SPY BALLOON – right. Best spy is one everyone can clearly see. Perhaps they are preparing the population for war with China as the Ukraine one winds down. Best comment I saw was that a clown show needs balloons.


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  36. Steve trickler says:

    At the time of making this clip, there were 16 US Spy balloons aloft over the States. This bloke has been tracking and commentating about them for ages.

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    Monkey Werx:

    Saturday Special SITREP 2.4.23 – Balloons Everywhere!


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  37. mh says:

    Anthony Brian Logan

    🔴 ABL LIVE: Chinese Spy Balloon, AOC Cringe Meltdown, DeSantis vs Woke College Courses, and more!

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


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  38. mh says:

    Latest on global warming

    CNN

    A life-threatening cold spell began to ease its grip on the northeastern United States on Saturday, but only after a new national windchill record was set in New Hampshire.

    The record was set at Mount Washington Friday night when it felt like minus 108° F thanks to a temperature of minus 46° F and wind gusts of 127 mph.


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:

    I don’t want to use up the pixels on this blog with my rants. But, then again, there’s plenty of ranting space on the Open Threads for those who want to do so.

    This past Wednesday, I heard something on the radio that had me wanting to rant. As is often the case, the time ran out on me. There is a great deal to write on this – it would take up a series of Posts but again 🕗 …. not enough of it.

    I will stick with the basics here – for those who may not have had access in the past to the discussions.

    I sometimes forget that posting one long comment makes it hard to read. Will split this into 3 parts.


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  40. mh says:

    Random YouTuber

    Ukrainian Refugees SUDDENLY PROBLEMATIC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi3jS_rQpz0


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:

    1/
    There is a presenter on the air waves referred to as “the king of talk-back radio”. He has been around for decades. Hung up the mike. Then came back. He doesn’t need the money. He doesn’t need the experience. Does he have what it takes to keep up with the influx of news and info, in this present scene of 2023?

    There are younger and better radio presenters who are more aware with what is happening in the world today, of world affairs – Ukraine, Covid, WEF, UN and so on. To keep going on, based on one’s past reputation and knowledge, isn’t good enough. He is okay on some past issues and general topics and if someone wants to have a yarn.

    A few days ago, he mentioned George Pell – the lying in state and funeral service the next day. And he proved how out of touch he is with real news and that he relies on FSM (Fake Stream Media) and the lies of Always Biased Cabal.

    The same tape:

    a/ George Pell guilty of not doing enough about the cases of sexual abuse in the Church. He must have known …….

    b/ Pell’s case was quashed by the High Court on a “technicality”

    c/ The evil Catholic Church, sexual abusers and paedophiles.

    All that he said displayed his ignorance and intellectual laziness. He has probably been getting his info from the MSM and been guzzling the Kool Aid with it. Wrong on Covid. On Ukraine. And on Pell and the Catholic Church.


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/
    a/ Did George Pell do enough about the problem of sexual abuse cases?

    His work in this area has been detailed elsewhere and also repeated during his funeral mass on Thursday.

    What is the “enough” I do not know? I’d think no rational person, in a position of authority, can feel that they have ever done enough about stopping any evil taking place.

    b/ The case where Pell was on trial and jailed was quashed due to “a technicality”?

    No one who has read and followed the case can say he was freed on a “technicality”. There are facts that explain that there wasn’t a case to begin with. The technicality mantra is used by the losers who were on a “Get Pell” mission and instead of objectively reading the available facts they persist in their delusion.

    According to our legal system, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. If anyone had any doubts, reading the thorough dissenting judgment in the Vic Court of Appeals case by Justice Mark Weinberg, one of the most experienced jurists in the area of criminal jurisdiction, should have convinced any intelligent person that Pell could not have committed the crime he was accused of.

    Add to that plenty of books, articles and info in Quadrant as well as Cat2 (Sinc’s blog) would be proof to anyone with a functioning mind to understand that Pell had been accused of a crime he had not committed.

    He was innocent.


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:

    3/

    c/ The “evil” Catholic Church

    Yes, there is a big problem of sexual abuse and paedophilia in the Catholic Church. No faithful Catholics – clergy or laity – who follow the teachings of Christ and the Catechism of the Church would be part of something that is so immoral and wicked.

    So how has this abuse taken place in the Church?

    Infiltration. The same system used to contaminate the education system, political parties, corporations, institutions and organisations. If you have an evil agenda, you can’t implement it from the outside. You need to get in, posing as someone who is authentic, get others of the same ilk in, and then set about causing the wreckage.

    For over 50 years, the Catholic Church has been infiltrated by people with a plan and motive to bring it down. Take a look at the UN, WEF and similar entities. See how they have been quietly working away, recruiting “suitable” candidates for their agenda. Most ordinary people were too busy living their lives to realise how bad it was. Until Covid.

    The paedophilia and sexual abuse “in the Church” is connected to the Lavender Mafia. These are homosexual or homosexual-friendly clerics occupying positions of power with the Catholic Church. It is not faithful seminarians, priests and bishops who were frustrated and practising homosexuality. It was the paedo wolves who sneaked in sheep clothing to satisfy their sinful goals. This whole evil phenomenon of sexual abuse is heart breaking for Catholics faithful to the Church. It is abhorrent and the despicable perpetrators need to be punished.

    (I have just touched on the topic very briefly here. There are links for more info. If I have the time, I’ll search them in my documents and post and link to this comment.)

    Back to the point I started with. Ignorant statements from radio callers is one thing. But when a talk show host, on a station that has a big section of a Conservative audience, spruiks the same lies, it is a different matter. The topic of Pell and sexual abuse in the Church has been in the news for decades. A good broadcaster, with a team to help, could have carried out a thorough research and analysis. All the information is in the public domain. That is, if they care about facts. Instead of running with the fake news that helps their ratings.

    I used to listen to this “talkback king” in bits and pieces, as time permitted, when I was busy with other chores. I listened with the aim of learning. I turned off his radio show that day. Haven’t listened to it after that. It’s not as if I am missing out on real news. Why listen to garbage? I roll the radio dial over and listen to my favourite music station for a serve from the likes of Bach, Chopin or Strauss.


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  44. Barking Toad says:

    Name and shame the culprit Kaysee.


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  45. kaysee kaysee says:

    I just came across two bits of news, linked to Pell.

    According to some article, Dominic Perrottet couldn’t be present at the funeral of Cardinal Pell due to some “prior commitments”.

    I would have thought that, in the civilised world, cancelling other appointments or work attendance because one had to go to a funeral would be easy enough, because people understand that death happens without prior notice. And you may need to go to a funeral to pay your respects to the person who has passed away.

    Maybe the Catholic Premier of NSW couldn’t get the required permission to attend a funeral Mass of a Cardinal of the Catholic Church
    ….. from whoever grants these permissions?

    But he got the permission to sign up to supporting the Voice to Parliament
    ……from whoever grants these permissions?


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  46. kaysee kaysee says:

    Some stats I was looking for.

    Groups of pilgrims prayed at the tomb of George Cardinal Pell all day yesterday.

    About 6,000 faithful and 300 clergy attended his Requiem Mass, defying the anti-Catholic hate whipped up the the Australian media


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  47. kaysee kaysee says:

    Barking Toad, which culprit?
    There are so many.

    I was not sure whether to post that rant or not. But, there is so much of misinformation being circulated, and the lazy and ignorant just repeat what they get from the MSM. So I decided to take up the main points and give the brief facts for any one who comes to this blog with the intention of learning and is also prepared to take up the topics and do some research.


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  48. mh says:

    Cringe category 5 from the Courier Mail

    Nightmare: Cyclone Freddy forming in Coral Sea

    Queensland’s first tropical cyclone of the year is likely to develop into a nightmare category-three storm that will share the name of an iconic horror movie star.


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  49. mh says:

    Zhang Meifang张美芳
    @CGMeifangZhang
    China government official

    Perhaps #China was simply giving the #US a balloon. Much like one would give a child to make them feel better! #balloon #Saturdayvibe

    https://twitter.com/CGMeifangZhang/status/1621973027847020546?s=20&t=6trSmWPThXngaKqJXOQpxw

    Yes, ungrateful Americans went and popped it.
    Party poopers!


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  50. mh says:

    Is this one of the Ukranian soldiers that Australia trained?

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ADISIBojHg8


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  51. Steve trickler says:

    A room full of filth. All of them.

    Many are worthy of a noose.


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  52. Steve trickler says:

    Bourne: “Get in the basement”
    Father of the kids: “What?”
    Bourne: “Get everyone in the basement right now”

    Bang, bang!

    Professor: “Look at this. Look at what they make you give.”

    Bourne VS The Proffessor – The Bourne Identity


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  53. Steve trickler says:

    4.5 EQ near Narrogin today.

    A few books displaced.


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  54. Steve trickler says:

    A balloon meme.

    ********

    The United Spot:

    Took You Long Enough


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  55. Steve trickler says:

    $39.99 a kg for local garlic from the local green grocer. Perhaps cheaper prices can be found elsewhere?…I purchased two bulbs. The stuff from China comes in a bag with about 7 bulbs at a cost of $4.99 total. I thought about buying that, but nope, a voice in my head continues to say no.

    I eat two crushed raw cloves a day for good health. I do not trust that garlic from China.

    Just sayin.


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  56. mh says:

    So if the guys running America have pencilled in 2025 for a war with China, when do they wind back their support for Ukraine?


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  57. mh says:

    Washington inflates the China balloon threat

    Jake Werner Feb 3, 2023

    Foreign surveillance of sensitive U.S. sites is not a new phenomenon. “It’s been a fact of life since the dawn of the nuclear age, and with the advent of satellite surveillance systems, it long ago became an everyday occurrence,” as my colleague and former CIA analyst George Beebe puts it.

    U.S. surveillance of foreign countries is likewise quite common. Indeed, great powers gathering intelligence on each other is one of the more banal and universal facts of international relations. Major countries even spy on their own allies, as when U.S. intelligence bugged the cellphone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

    Typically, even when such surveillance is directed against the United States by a rival power, it does not threaten the safety of Americans and it poses manageable risks to sites where secrecy is of the utmost importance…

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/02/03/washington-inflates-the-china-balloon-threat/


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  58. mh says:

    This is awkward

    Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
    @mtgreenee
    Chinese espionage is a very real threat. That’s why President Trump established a special initiative at the Department of Justice tasked with the sole mission of targeting Chinese espionage in the United States.

    Joe Biden terminated that program right away.
    6:36 AM · Feb 5, 2023


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  59. Steve trickler says:

    A mate said check out this channel. 6 minutes in and I am hooked.

    Excellent. No chance of seeing 8K unless you download it.

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

    8K Videos Ultra HD:

    Ultimate Birds Collection 8K TV HDR 60FPS ULTRA HD


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  60. mh says:

    Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Entry into the Kremlin – Imperial March

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYpj3r1Wrck


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  61. Steve trickler says:

    Rowdy clip.

    I’ll be honest. I thought that girl in the blue active wear and orange beanie was pushing her luck walking away with Cash like that in the beginning. Stevo’s response made me take notice.

    Immediate thoughts: WTF! do you think you are doing?

    Nothing burger in the end. She was cool.


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  62. Steve trickler says:

    I’ll watch in the morning.

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    Dutchsinse:

    15 days warning flopped. Questions arise on the original deep M6.8 below Argentina from 15 days ago.

    As for the rest of the locations, spot on in expected movement.

    Here is the information on the “core of the earth stopping rotation”.. and a bunch of denial about it as well as people saying they think it is happening. I think both are wrong. I think their explanations on the core are total BS, there are 4 poles, not 2, and a solid or rotating solid core doesn’t exist at all.

    It is plasma electrical in nature, not physically rotating… therefore all the stories and conjecture from professionals are wrong to begin with right off the bat unfortunately for them…

    Earthquake activity across West Coast USA, Europe, and Asia — Seismic spread obvious


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  63. mh says:

    America last four decades: lets offshore American industry to China!

    America 2023: lets have a war with China!


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  64. Shy Ted says:

    Rat…ship.

    Professor John Skerritt will retire from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), effective 18 April 2023.
    Skerritt’s title was deputy secretary health products regulation group, having been in the role for over a decade.
    Health minister Mark Butler said Skerritt had become synonymous with the TGA.
    “During this time it was his reassurances that left Australians confident in the approval and regulation of medicines, vaccines and treatments,” the minister said in a statement.
    “Professor Skerritt has had many achievements over the course of his career including implementing the Medicines and Medical Devices Review, digital transformation, the regulation of medicinal cannabis, the rapid registration of COVID vaccines and treatments and playing a leading role in international harmonisation of regulation.”

    The minister added Skerritt leaves behind a large legacy.

    He certainly does. Seize his passport.


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  65. Shy Ted says:

    Remember the book and film A Town Like Alice?
    1 minute of Murrica, 1 minute of Alice.


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  66. mh says:

    Black leaders in Miami apologized to Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis after one of its members called him a racist.

    Pierre Rutledge, chair of the Miami-Dade Black Affairs Advisory Board, issued a statement on behalf of his board that apologized to DeSantis for a comment made at their Wednesday meeting from a member who said, “Our governor is racist.”

    “We take it to heart when someone uses the term racist,” Rutledge said Friday. “Words matter. And so as chair, I must start by saying we want to pull that back. There’s nothing wrong with saying ‘we’re sorry.’ That’s not what we intended to say or be depicted by anyone. And that’s not the feeling of this board.”


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  67. Shy Ted says:

    True story. In the late 90s I was working in one of the most remote parts of Oz with a good fun team. Christmas Eve and someone had organised a karaoke machine as part of the fun. One by one we sang a song from the machine, some people could hold a tune while me and others were pure torture. One of the gang, lady, had her husband there, quite one of the most quiet and ordinary chaps you’re ever likely to meet. Very reluctant to join in but after much intoxicated cajoling, he did. Sang like an angel and the rowdy room was silenced. “He was in the Glitter Band” she told us and he confirmed it.
    They were all choir boys and highly talented musicians but couldn’t make a quid until they were selected for GG’ backing band. They were signed up to a standard recording contract and worked to death for a pittance – the money usually goes to the agents and producers in these with promises of riches further down the track but it was all over before they saw any of it.
    Further cajoling and he belted out one of GG’ hits with a rockstar’ voice for us. It was like being there. Turns out wifey had been a bit of a groupie and hoping to get close to the band had latched onto him but being a good boy, as the band members were, it was hand-holding and stolen kisses.
    They went solo with some success and toured as The Glitter Band well into the new millenium but had to change names, not allowed to use “Glitter”.
    The people you meet.


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  68. Cardimona says:

    It is plasma electrical in nature, not physically rotating… therefore all the stories and conjecture from professionals are wrong to begin with right off the bat unfortunately for them…

    Spot on, Steve.
    There is a vast amount of knowledge that the predator cabal have deleted or hidden.
    They know knowledge is power, and they want all the power for themselves.


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  69. Delta A says:

    Nice story, Ted.


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  70. mh says:

    Glitter no longer owns the master rights to his songs — meaning he no longer receives any royalties.

    In 2019, his song Rock and Roll Part 2 featured in hit movie The Joker, but rights holders insisted he would not receive any royalties.

    Good to know as the stairs scene is a cracker

    Stairs dance | Joker
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeyVU4nMWCg


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  71. Steve trickler says:

    Not good.

    Enter this in G-Earth. 37.174°N 37.032°E

    ********

    Dutchsinse:

    Premiere in progress. Started 18 minutes ago
    Feb 5, 2023 / Feb 6, 2023 (local time just after 1am).

    The largest earthquake in years, M7.8 to M8.1 has struck South Central Turkey next to the Syria border (directly along the plate boundary).

    Additionally multiple M6.5 range earthquakes (two of them) struck 30 and 60 miles to the West , totaling three large earthquakes within a few minutes time along the whole boundary between Turkey and the African Plate.

    This is likely a devastating earthquake for Turkey, help will likely be needed as many of the nearby cities are stone stack cinder block multi-story buildings.

    Much love to the people of Turkey.

    The warning for Turkey was for M6.0.. instead a M7.8 to M8.1 struck, this is FAR GREATER than I was looking for unfortunately.

    I will issue new watch locations on top of this videos warned spots in Europe.

    A new video will be made in the next few hours.

    2/05/2023 — Massive M7.8 (M8.1) Earthquake strikes Central Turkey / South Europe — SEISMIC UNREST


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  72. JohnJJJ says:

    Stairs dance | Joker
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeyVU4nMWCg

    I always thought the mask idea could have got Assange out of the siege at the Ecuadorean embassy. Just have an Assange look alike festival. 5000 to 10,000 people dressed like him and in Assange masks.


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  73. kaysee kaysee says:

    Bill Maher can see what is happening in the woke left world. He will mock and ridicule it. But he will try to sneak in a dig at those on the right side. Does he fear being cancelled by his lefties friends?

    From an article in Powerline

    There is something drastically wrong when the most prominent voice in popular culture on behalf of common sense about our runaway wokery is Bill Maher. And yet he keeps killing it, once again on last night’s broadcast ratifying what we’ve reported here several times—that today’s woke climate and cancel culture resembles nothing so much as Mao’s infamous (and murderous) “Cultural Revolution.”

    Language warnings

    New Rule: A Woke Revolution

    Real Time with Bill Maher


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  74. Steve trickler says:

    Cardimona says:
    February 6, 2023 at 11:59 am

    G’day bloke.


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  75. kaysee kaysee says:

    February 2023

    1/
    The Research:

    Massive Peer-Reviewed Mask Study
    Shows ‘Little To No Difference’ In Preventing COVID, Flu Infection

    A massive international research collaboration that analyzed several dozen rigorous studies focusing on “physical interventions” against COVID-19 and influenza found that they provide little to no protection against infection or illness rates.

    The study, published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, is the strongest science to date refuting the basis for mask mandates worldwide.

    2/
    The Employer:

    Fired

    I was just fired for not wearing a mask. Please share if you can. I have no one in my corner.


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  76. kaysee kaysee says:

    Emerald Robinson

    “Listen, they are not predicting food shortages, they’re planning them!!”


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  77. kaysee kaysee says:

    Lidia Thorpe quits Greens
    amid internal party division over Voice to Parliament

    Lidia Thorpe has quit the Greens after continued division within the party over the Voice to Parliament proposal.

    Ms Thorpe’s resignation comes on the first day of the Parliamentary calendar for 2023 and will throw a major spanner in the Greens’ legislative agenda.

    The controversial Victorian Senator had clashed with leader Adam Bandt and other colleagues over her opposition to the Voice to Parliament.

    Ms Thorpe said she would resign from the party to sit on the Senate crossbench as she argued her move would allow her to fully represent a “strong grassroots black sovereign movement”.


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  78. Steve trickler says:

    It’s a mess in Turkey from that EQ. Gee whiz.


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  79. Cardimona says:

    G’day Steve
    Stay strong, bro!

    ……

    Ms Thorpe said she would resign from the party to sit on the Senate crossbench as she argued her move would allow her to fully represent a “strong grassroots black sovereign movement”.

    “Sovereign movement”?
    So, “sovereign citizens” then?
    With “warped ideologies”?
    Straight to the internment camps?
    Yeah, nah – not if they claim to be indigenous…


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  80. Old bloke says:

    mh says:
    February 5, 2023 at 10:25 pm

    So if the guys running America have pencilled in 2025 for a war with China, when do they wind back their support for Ukraine?

    Pretty soon I think, they will abandon Ukraine like they abandoned Afghanistan and start looking for trouble elsewhere.

    Project Ukraine wasn’t a total loss though for the Americans, Europe has lost all their military equipment so the order books for the American armament manufacturers will be full for new equipment, and Europe has become totally dependent on the USA for energy supplies. That’s a big win for the USA.

    What are they going to do with China? They can’t launch a seaborne attack as their ships will be at the bottom of the ocean, and they can’t attack over land as Russia didn’t collapse as they planned.

    The only option is to launch a land attack up the Korean peninsula, I wonder if we’ll start seeing problems along the Korean north/south border soon as a prelude to a war with China.

    What a bloody shame that Trump wasn’t re-elected in 2020, the neocons and the war mongers must have hated his speech at the UN when he declared that the American hegemon had ended and that the future lies in a peaceful multipolar world.


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