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Nice work.
Soundtrack from the 1967 John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Val Guest film, “Casino Royale,” with Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, William Holden, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr & Orson Welles.
Casino Royale (1967) • The Look of Love • Dusty Springfield
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New Hershey’s Chocolate Cringe Commercial Goes Off The Rails Woke
Mark Dice
1.85M subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwXc4KTdzNo
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To go with the Dice video
Gay Frogs (Alex Jones REMIX)
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Cash is cool.
He looks at the white dane.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Simi Valley street fair 2022 (12 of 12)“What the f*ck are you going to do?”
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30% More Young People Now DYING Of Heart Attacks – New Study
The Jimmy Dore Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR7vfSir10o
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I’d like to see Stevo and Cash, down town in LA. Peter Santenello has the contacts. You’d see about twenty people walking and protecting this dog.
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Jesse Lee Peterson Agrees With Scott Adams
https://banned.video/watch?id=64014d25119981473a4a450b
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They ruin everything. Used to live at a beach S of Adelaide. Pretty much close to paradise if that was your thing. Just a bit too far out for most people so it was quiet except for public holidays. No local employment and poor public transport. They’re building 1700 low income housing units there. Wonder what will happen next. 1700!!
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The company you keep.
Just a slow takedown of the crooks.
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Couple of weeks old but I missed it.
I like this line –
Me reading interent links – “good God! Jesus! Christ!” and so on.
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Bald and Bankrupt:
4 Mar 2023
🇨🇴 Having checked into my hotel in the centre of Bogota I decided to go and take a walk around and see what the city had to offer. What I found was a place littered with rubbish, toxic smells and well, let’s just say the world’s oldest profession. However despite all that the people were extremely friendly and we met some Venezuelans who told me what to expect on my journey to their country. Join me on a street tour like no other…
This is part four of the Latin America journey from Cusco to Caracas.
Gracias a mi chama Lucy para ayudar con translations.
Solo On Bogota’s Dirtiest Street 🇨🇴
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Now look what you’re guilty of
A question for our times
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Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc
When Vaccines meet Science Fiction
3RD MARCH 2023
The following paragraphs are taken from the book Anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying: Here’s the proof – which was published in 2011
‘The vaccine industry never stops looking for new opportunities and researchers are constantly talking about introducing new vaccines. Although new vaccines are forever being introduced, vaccines are rarely if ever withdrawn – even though the diseases involved may be rare or mild. The drug companies can always warn: ‘If the vaccine isn’t given then the disease will come back.’
The search for new vaccines for old diseases is endless. Some plans are imaginative. Scientists have apparently developed a banana vaccine by creating genetically engineered banana plants. There are plans to develop bananas which `protect’ against hepatitis B, measles, yellow fever and poliomyelitis. Other scientists have developed a genetically engineered potato designed to be used as a vaccine against cholera. The active part of the potato remains active during the process of cooking and so a portion of genetically engineered chips could soon be a vaccine against cholera. (I am not making this up.) According to a British nursing magazine, nurses are now calling for a vaccine to help stop the norovirus. Giving a vaccine is, presumably, easier than washing your hands. Similarly, fat people are constantly demanding a vaccine to enable them to keep eating cakes without ever getting fatter. There are, so I am told, vaccines in the pipeline for just about everything ranging from asthma to earache. There is a planned genetically engineered vaccine which will provide protection against 40 different diseases. The vaccine, which will contain the raw DNA of all those different diseases, will be given to newborn babies to provide them with protection for life. Inevitably, countless scientists around the world have spent enormous amounts of money and energy trying to create a vaccine against AIDS. A vaccine that makes sex safe will be worth a fortune.
Naturally, the pharmaceutical industry is constantly searching for more and more new vaccines and wherever they spot the beginnings of a market, a demand, they will do their best to serve up something appropriate. I have lost count of the number of times I have read of researchers working on a vaccine to prevent cancer.
Meanwhile, the drug companies continue with the old faithfuls; the profitable cash cows which keep the billions pouring in. Every year new flu jabs appear on the market.’
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The stylish Dr Jill
First Lady (to wear a shower curtain)
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Cranky old Olaf Scholz is off to the Whitehouse to get a new set of instructions, there won’t be a press conference after the meeting as reporters may ask embarrassing questions about Nord Stream.
Joe will tell Olaf to start preparing for a new round of sanctions, this time against China. Germany depended on cheap Russian energy and cheap Chinese imports, they will be screwed completely when Babylon takes on China.
Our economy will be screwed too when Joe tells Albo to stop all exports of coal, iron ore, gas, farm produce etc. to China, the well-off Australians will be those who can afford to live in a tent.
Biden, ‘I had a nurse.’ Lavrov, Germany humiliated. Is Putin winning? Poroshenko strikes again. U/1 – Alex Christoforou, 29 mins.
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Why are celebrities and sportsmen and women going along with qwertyism? Could it be for their own personal gain?
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Are all vaccines unsafe and ineffective?
There is plenty of proof about the Covid vaxxes.
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37-year old mother
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Bollywood actress
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We are not prepared to learn from the mistakes of Europe and the US. That’s because the script for what the government should do is being dictated by the same instructors.
Biden’s Offshore Wind Dreams Face Rising Controversy, Opposition
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Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’
despite backlash
Who is responsible for the censored versions?
REVEALED: Roald Dahl books were neutered by woke consultants
aged eight to 30 – led by ‘non-binary, asexual, polyamorous relationship anarchist who is on the autism spectrum’
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I posted plenty of information (in my post and comments) on the subject matter of last week’s post.
There is a different take on the topic. Is there anyone who is willing to respond to this comment?
I hope there are some of you who will reply and share your thoughts in that thread.
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A lot of people think this is tin-foil hat territory. Those that say so are usually ignorant f-wits. People who pretend to know about the subject and dismiss it are a c-word.
1:16:50.
Worth every minute.
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The HighWire with Del Bigtree
Del tackles the taboo topic with Chemtrails and weather modification, questioning Lead Researcher for ‘GeoEngineering Watch,’ Dane Wigington, on his findings from US Patents, military whistleblowers, and even lab-studied samples from cloud seeding. Is it a global conspiracy?
#TheDimming #ChemTrails #GeoEngineering #WeatherModification
TACKLING THE CHEMTRAIL CONTROVERSY
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kaysee says:
March 4, 2023 at 3:00 pm
You are pixels on a screen and I love you to bits. If I was to comment on such subject matter, Adam would take a proverbial cricket bat to my head.
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May I offer a suggestion?
On issues that are hot topics, type up your answer offline, in a document. Read it, edit it. Cut off anything that is not in keeping with the rules. Make sure you are providing your opinion or experiences without being rude or inflammatory. Don’t take what anyone says, personally. Don’t get personal in your response.
I use the offline option for my longer comments because WordPress can suddenly have a hiccup and what I have typed is gone. But I also make sure to read what I am saying, edit it, take off any bits that shouldn’t be said on a public blog before I hit that Post Comment button. I still sometimes let through some things I regret when the comment appears, but I try most of the time to say what I want to, without breaking the rules.
We are fighting to save the world in our own small ways. With a bit of time and effort, it is possible to speak up and share what we think, on a platform that is available for free.
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There is much in AB Test’s rant which I agree with, for example I noticed that when the protests began in Sydney against the mandates, lockdowns, etc., the protestors were predominately from western Sydney which is where most of Sydney’s Muslim population resides. I cheered them on then and congratulate them now for taking a stand.
He’s wrong though to lay the blame for the degeneracy of western society exclusively at the feet of the Boomers. I’m in that generation as are most of my friends and acquaintances, and none of them like what’s going on and none of them supported it. It seems to me that most of the supporters of gay marriage, transgenderism, and the other weird stuff are in the younger generations.
Similarly Boomers aren’t responsible for high house prices. AB Test is right to say that prices are way too high and it’s a struggle to afford a house in most Australian capital cities, but that’s a government caused problem, i.e., limiting the amount of land available for residential development and ridiculously high taxes and stamp duties on house purchases.
Boomers aren’t without their faults but they aren’t responsible for all the evils in this world.
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I was going to write something similar.
We supported the Lebs on the old Cat for doing this.
As Aussie Cossack said at the time, thank God for multiculturalism in Australia.
If I had to pick on a demographic during the lockdown era it would be white gen X females.
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Not the Vax then.
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Decline of the West
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Why? Because we didn’t follow Kyle’ advice.
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This takes me back to Carnarvon, 1982. I was in grade two and my parents divorced soon after.
Posted previously.
That Kombi ride and motor sound stills plays in my head on our way to Perth…mum had a Supertramp cassette on constant playback.
Memories with this song. I was sitting on the floor at my neighbours and mum was discussing leaving dad…too young and oblivious to the conversation at the time. I remember it all now.
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home (with lyrics)
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True.
“You are at your very best when things are worst.”
Starman – Scene: The Human Race (1984 HD)
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Laugh or cry?
Entertainment via Omeleto:
A mother reveals plans to kill herself during a family dinner at a Chinese restaurant. | Clac
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Peanuts
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Beetle Bailey.
Dilbert
Dennis the Menace.
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Oops. I erred in putting three links in a post. Beetle Bailey, Dilbert & Dennis the Menace will appear once approved by Admin.
Blondie.
Family Circus
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I must have been too late for yesterday’s Spooner; The Australian’s editorial cartoon is the Johannes Leak one I posted last night.
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PJW
Is he wrong? #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9NoWdAwYBX4
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RPH wants feedback on my hospital visits via an app (no way am I downloading that sh*t)…I’ve looked all the nurses in the eye and conveyed my thoughts, and asked to pass it on to the surgeon. The paper file is big enough.
There was one nurse / doc?, training and going into anesthetics, wearing glasses…she was gorgeous and was so comforting before going under. Impossible to get her out of my head.
Lovely lady.
True story.
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What a RACIST looks like in 2023! #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JLQC4bmoulI
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They’ll need to re-work all those old “Fly united” jokes…
The comments identify the obvious misplaced priorities.
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Bonkers!
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The Lion Whisperer:
It’s Lion Moving Day! Filmed back before Kevin’s injury, watch the chaos and joy that always comes when the lions move around. While herding these big cats, Kevin talks about why these moves are important and why he can’t simply put all the lions in one big area.
This video is dedicated to Siam ‘The Catnip King’ who has sadly passed away.
Why Does Kevin Richardson MOVE the LIONS? | The Lion Whisperer
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Lightfoot Meets Bigfoot Edition.
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I love this dog. A perfect note to crawl into bed after watching that.
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woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Redondo Beach 16
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New World Order
‘God’s Natural Order Is Under Attack’: 16-Year-Old Student Arrested for His Biblical Values
CBN News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFv3Uapc8g
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🔴 LIVE: PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS AT CPAC 2023 IN DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixHF-UNQXdQ
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Listened to a fair bit of Trump’s speech.
I just don’t find him inspiring anymore. Good luck to him, but … meh
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Boomers aren’t without their faults but they aren’t responsible for all the evils in this world.
Actually the poster illustrates what is happening perfectly. Without a god and the concept of evil, he has to blame some one. So he reaches for the BS sociology categories. Fair enough. But there is no doubt that Islam is the answer – the spiritual embrace -for a lot of people. Jordan Petersen is just not enough. And it doesn’t take that many to swing the whole of society. My thoughts are here
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The Age
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That’s all! NATO is Shocked by the Flight of the Ukrainian Army from Bakhmut!
BORZZIKMAN
124K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLFadqBMLs
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Courier Mail headline
The horror! No fake tits.
You would think it was ‘over-50s porn’.
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What’s the meaning behind the Isle of Man being changed to Isle of Them?
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Tony Heller:
5 Mar 2023
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.”
– Theodore Dalrymple
Demoralization
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I didn’t see any boomers in the audience there.
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Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s twitter account was permanently suspended.
A number of big names got the message to Elon. One posted this:
There was a #ReinstateEva campaign and she’s back within a few hours.
There are Dutch provincial elections this month. Elon needs to find out who was responsible.
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Opinions may vary…a few good short films coming your way.
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Entertainment via Omeleto:
Two chess players are locked in a match in 1973. Their battle on the board reignites the memory of their first meeting during the Great War of 1914, where a young British soldier finds himself sharing an enclosed space with an enemy German soldier.
Both have just experienced the violence and trauma of the battlefield. The situation is unexpected and intense, but gives both of them the opportunity to look past their differences and rediscover their humanity.
“Pawns” is a short historical drama, and though only 13 minutes long, packs an epic scope in its short duration with rich cinematic detail, artistic ambition and engaging storytelling.
But despite the impressive scope and production value, the film captures the intimacy of two people looking across the chasm created by war and politics — and seeing each other as full human beings.
A British soldier is trapped with a German enemy. Then they rediscover their humanity. | Pawns
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They have ministers and yes-men but no leaders with the guts to speak up against NATO.
German defence minister says his country cannot protect itself in war
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Omeleto:
In the midst of the Cold War in the 1960s, a cosmonaut named Alexander orbits in space, adrift around the earth in his space capsule. He has lost all navigation and communication systems, and he will soon lose his life-support systems.
Alexander soon discovers an Italian radio frequency where a Sicilian radio engineer named Alvaro is working the night shift. The two men form an intense bond as they work through the night and Alexander reckons with the journey that led to the space capsule in the first place.
But as Alexander drifts away, the newfound friendship between the men may not last the night, and help Alexander find his way home.
Writer-director Andrej Landin takes a meditative, thoughtful tone in his sci-fi short about the mythic “lost cosmonauts” that were a supposed casualty of the so-called “space race” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first to send a human in space.
The story has the plot points and development of a thriller, with its elements of space travel and potential disaster. But the beautifully considered craftsmanship and pacing are steady, introspective and measured, with an emphasis on emotional resonance. The images have an elegiac power, full of natural beauty, light and texture, emphasizing just how rich life on earth can be.
Alexander’s memories of his training — and a particular love affair with a fellow trainee named Tanya — suffuse the film throughout via flashbacks, bathed in the golden hues of warmth and contentment. It can be hard for shorts to integrate flashbacks into the storytelling, but these memories form the sociopolitical context of the story, as well as the emotional core of the film — and give viewers a palpable sense of loss once we realize just what Alexander is losing as he floats in space.
Through the understated dialogue and the equally subtle, resonant performances that bring it to life, Alexander’s bond with Alvaro forms his final, last attachment — one that helps him come to terms with his fate, appreciate the richness of the life he has to leave behind and find meaning in the sacrifice that he made before he left earth.
“Into the Silent Sea” falls into a rich tradition of sci-fi films that use the vacuum of space and the unthinkable breadth of the cosmos as rich metaphors for the human condition, in all its ultimate helplessness and solitude. It takes its time to tell its story and develop its characters, but the result is a moving, emotionally immersive cinematic experience that tells an unusually full and complete story, with an ending that is bittersweet in its wisdom. As Alexander says, “We live as we dream… alone.” But we do carry the richness of memories and love within us, providing some comfort in our final journeys.
A Soviet cosmonaut who is stranded in space discovers a voice in the distance. | Into the Silent Sea
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On the other hand, here’s one who deserves the title of world leader.
Viktor Orban
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The Covid scam
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Experts
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The three men
who funded the “gain of function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Manufacturing vaccines
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It’s bloody awful to see what’s happening in Bakhmut, young boys and old men forced to fight a professional army. Inside Bakhmut, the Ukes blew up the bridges over the river which divides the city without first evacuating their troops stuck on the eastern side, there’s no way those people can retreat now.
This morning there was news that the Ukes had blown up the bridge on the last road out of Bakhmut heading west so the thousands of conscripts left in the area are also stuck there now. The retreat has been a shambles comparable to the US Army fleeing from Afghanistan.
I agree with Col. Macgregor, the Russians should just head straight to Kiev and force a surrender now rather than drag it out with their slow progress which could take many months.
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Flight of the Ukrainian Army from Bakhmut
I was rather hoping that the soldiers of Mother Russia would kill them all. I guess capture is good enough.
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For Lightweight, I pick this one.
(Powerline has changed its pic system so can’t link directly.
Test – ignore)
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The bloke in charge of the Wagner group called on the Uke military leadership to order an evacuation of Bakhmut to save the boys and old blokes. He said that if they left their weapons behind and walked away back into Ukraine they wouldn’t be fired on nor taken prisoner.
The Russians have released their POW in the past, if they return to Ukraine they are just sent back to the front. They have even released all the NAZI Azov guys taken in Mariupol but they have been sent to live in Turkey till the end of the war.
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The story was introduced as “Free Speech and Religious Freedom under fire again in Canada”. Not just Canada, but in the Western world.
The attack is not so much on free speech but on who can have it and who can’t. Schwab would be pleased to enlist these two main interviewees as the next generation of WEF’s Young Leaders. The male student, especially. It’s the “nuance”, he says.
They’ve been well-trained by the education system.
Do UK Students Back Blasphemy Laws?
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I posted this story, some days ago. Reposting:
School suspends sex education
after drag queen ‘told 11-year-olds there are 73 genders’
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Moja
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Mbili
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Tatu
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Damn, the was tough to listen to. I reckon the pilot had a medical episode.🤔 Pure guess work on my part.
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Blancolirio:
PC12/45 Guardian Flight Security Camera Crash Audio
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The Ruskies should at least consider slaughtering the Poles that are their fighting.
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Which channels are you watching Old Bloke?
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A Black salesman gets his first customer, then sees a Confederate flag on the wall. | Civil
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Thanks Kaysee, it’s time for the Vikings to take it over again.
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The bloke in charge of the Wagner group called on the Uke military leadership to order an evacuation of Bakhmut to save the boys and old blokes.
Yes the kids and the old bloke the other day. I imagine the Wagner guys said something like WTF, you guys don’t belong here. We’re professionals and chose this life.
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From a satire site.
Military Alphabet
New Alphabet
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Use the 90/10 Rule to Decide Where to Live
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Josephine Alexandra
False Alarm
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Un
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Deux
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Trois
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This is an interesting little thread about the movie we’re watching.
Moon boots, black eyes, masks and more
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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“Is it going to hurt, doctor?””No, no. Oh, hang on. Yes, yes, it’s going to hurt like hell”.
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From the mountains of Azerbaijan.
Emperor Genghis Khan’s Favorite Dish! Meat Cooked on Stones
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The future with robots
We should do this
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Dilbert
Dennis the Menace
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Blondie
Family Circus
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Cold-Hands,
You can include up to three links in one comment. That comment ended up in Spam for unknown reasons.
The Spam folder contains a great deal of……. well, Spam. I don’t check it unless someone lets me know that their comment didn’t get through.
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For general geo-politics,
Brian Berletic – https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas
The Duran – https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuran
Gonzalo Lira – https://www.youtube.com/@theroundtablegonzalolira5818
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For news about what’s happening in Ukraine…
Military Summary – https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary
Patrick Lancaster – https://www.youtube.com/@PatrickLancasterNewsToday
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Scott Ritter, Col. Douglas Macgregor and Mark Sleboda are worth listening to…
Scott Ritter – https://www.youtube.com/@ScottRitterAgain/videos
Col. Douglas Macgregor – https://www.youtube.com/@DouglasMacgregorStraightCalls
Mark Sleboda – https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealPolitickwithMarkSleboda
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Entertainment via Dust:
After repairing his HAM radio using parts found in the forest, a recluse radio operator receives a distress call from a stranded Soviet cosmonaut in orbit.
Sci-Fi Short Film “Voskhod” | DUST
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Garrison toon
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The Revival of Ukrainian Nazism (Sponsored by Anthony Albanazi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2LE8kM4Ec
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At least with Luigi as PM there is a chance he will eventually switch allegiances to the good guys.
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Enjoy the show.
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24 May 2022
For the finale of his five-night residency, which was the first of its kind to take place at the Royal Albert Hall, Simon Green aka Bonobo invited the Hall’s Associate Artist and acclaimed organist Anna Lapwood to join him in the show’s finale ‘Otomo’ (co-produced by O’Flynn).
In an act of near complete spontaneity and coincidence, the two met whilst Anna rehearsed in the building late at night after Simon’s fourth event at the venue. Fast forward 18 hours and the two were performing live together in a truly spine-tingling collaboration.
Watch Bonobo and organist Anna Lapwood perform ‘Otomo’ live at the Royal Albert Hall
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These malls will probably be dead in a few years.
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Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane visits an indoor shopping mall 37
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32 second weather forecast
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Out of form Liverpool 7, in form Man Utd 0. Salah breaks Robbie Fowler’ Liverpool PL goals record. Sadly he still can’t get the Scouse accent right.
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LOL. Related to my other post.
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Hope none of you saw Australian Story last week. Backyard tinkerer wants to power a suburb with ruinables using your money. “The up front costs might seem an awful lot but in 10 years it will have paid for itself and then the electricity will be free”.
He forgot to mention that the panels, windmills and batteries will be dead by then.
Luckily tonight’ is better –
No, it won’t. Because psychology doesn’t work. Especially psychology by ageing hippies.
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American Peter Schiff’s latest podcast/YouTube vid has him attacking our ABC for tonight’s episode of Four Corners. It’s towards the end if you wanted to find it.
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