Open Thread – Saturday, 05 March 2022

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  1. kaysee kaysee says:

    The US federal government paid hundreds of media companies
    to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines

    In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations. These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its efficacy and safety.


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  2. egg_ says:

    Canadian truckers getting uppity?

    -> Emergency Legislation!

    Canada Is Wondering What Exactly Emergencies Are
    After protests are forcibly ended, questions remain about government power.


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  3. kaysee kaysee says:

    Some advice

    Be like Karen.
    You will be happy.


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:

    In honour of International Wymyns Day, a group of wymyns got together to tell Australia that they need to talk about

    Safety, Respect, Equity.

    (If it helps, I quit after a few seconds.)

    I wonder if they consulted that other wymyn, Alan Tudge’s former media adviser, Rachelle Miller about how she was unsafe and not respected.

    Emotional text messages between married former cabinet minister Alan Tudge and his ex media advisor Rachelle Miller have been revealed after an inquiry found he did not breach ministerial standards.

    Texts and emails between the pair, seen by The Australian, show Ms Miller was persistent in trying to reconnect with Mr Tudge for four years after their affair ended in 2017, telling she missed and loved him.

    Since the investigation cleared Tudge, Miller is no longer useful to the project.

    emotional love notes between married minister and his staffer


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  5. kaysee kaysee says:

    How the NWO works

    Welcome to Australia 🇦🇺
    100,000 Ukrainians inbound.
    Wouldn’t let one Serbian in.
    Probably all unjabbed too.


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  6. kaysee kaysee says:

    From Marise Pain

    Russian ‘propagandists and purveyors of disinformation’ targeted as Australia announces further sanctions

    Very good comments:

    – Paine: Please don’t mention the war in Ukraine for the last 8 years, NATO encroaching on Russia or the coup in 2014. If you do you will be banned.

    – Basically in a nutshell minister you cant get the bully so you want to kick the bullies dog.

    – I think disinformation is very relative. What I have seen lately is people expressing their opinion, and others trying to suppress that because it goes against theirs. I am able to check information, and in order to make a judgment we need to confront different views.
    So there’s another name for that and it’s clearly not “disinformation ”.

    – Discernment : The ability to judge well.

    It is constantly and frequently being taken from others (censorship) as the powers that be do not believe the public capable of discernment (they do not believe the population is smart enough, or ready enough, for all the information they control).

    – The only news we see is all one sided ! Surely Marise does not think that Australians are unable to discern fake news. Lots of propaganda pro Ukraine. Com’on give us a break. And don’tt push it!! This is not Australia’s fight!


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  7. cohenite says:

    This is the sort of shit the left-wing media vomits:

    Climate change: Five things we’ve learned from the IPCC report

    1- Things are way worse than we thought

    2 – Loss and damage gets scientific backing

    3 – Technology is not a silver bullet (the technology is of the sort of machines to suck CO2 out of the air!)

    4 – Cities offer hope (because they will rely on renewable energy!)

    5 – The small window is closing fast. (8 years according to the demented squirrel, AOC)

    Investing in nature will also be a bulwark against the worst, says the IPCC, which calls for 30-50% of the world to be conserved.

    “Nature can be our saviour,” said Inger Anderson, the head of the UN Environment Programme.

    “But only if we save it first.”

    These people are fucked in the head.


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  8. Fat Tony says:

    cohenite says:
    March 8, 2022 at 8:13 pm
    These people are fucked in the head.

    Once Society got rich enough to allow people to be non-productive and still live very comfortably, Society was doomed.


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    Always good for a reboot. Enjoy the show!

    Faithless – Sweep (Live At Alexandra Palace 2005)


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  10. egg_ says:

    Emotional text messages between married former cabinet minister Alan Tudge and his ex media advisor Rachelle Miller have been revealed after an inquiry found he did not breach ministerial standards.

    Wymminses are the predominant texting stalkers, apparently.

    /IWD


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  11. cohenite says:

    Krauts laughing at Trump when he warned them from becoming dependent on wussian gas instead of giving up green shit and becoming energy independent:

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

    You can never trust a kraut.


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  12. mh says:

    OBAMA – “80S CALLED, WANT POLICY BACK”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0IWe11RWOM


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  13. egg_ says:

    Dodge’s new TWIN TURBO Inline 6 is in production. No more Hemi
    Automotive Antics

    The Hemi V8s couldn’t meet emissions standards, apparently; just like the demise of our own Ford 4.0 inline six.


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  14. Steve trickler says:

    How many clowns are watching MSM TV at the moment?

    But, but but but…it is one of my favourite shows!….gobbling up Bunnings ads at the same time, after watching the 6 o’clock news.

    Many in the family fall into that category. They have not learnt a f8cking thing!

    Unplug you aerial cord and shut it down! What is wrong with you!….but but but but but…I want to watch a show I’ve watched a gazillion times!

    Morons!


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  15. egg_ says:

    Egyptologists’ Notebooks Part III: Archaeology Begins
    Chris Naunton

    Fascinating series of lectures from one of the top experts.


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  16. mh says:

    Benny
    @bennyjohnson
    Remember when Trump warned us about $7.00 gas if Biden got in?

    Well here we are.

    https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1500835075784597506?s=20&t=xk7z_T_-cyOfgz3QHunoZQ


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  17. Steve trickler says:

    WordPress and Sussietube are a joke.

    Everything has gone to shit.

    Half hour for a post to appear… What is going on?


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  18. mh says:

    Is this the same low pressure system off the NSW coast that did the damage in SE QLD the weekend before last?

    http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml

    If so, isn’t it about time we gave it a name, UK style?


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  19. Steve trickler says:

    Adam, sort this place out or shut it down. Spare yourself the time. As is stands, it is a joke, mate.

    100% respect, my dear fellow.

    Lets us wait 5 hours ( exaggerating) for a post to appear?

    Sort it out!


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  20. Steve trickler says:

    Dover, gave me the boot. Not welcome.


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  21. egg_ says:

    Dover, gave me the boot. Not welcome.

    LMFAO!

    You’ll have to brush up on your “Hall Monitor” style!


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  22. Steve trickler says:

    I should clarify, some of the biggest bunch of fuc*wits on the planet are those tweaking sussietube and wordpress. I figured out those dickwads along long time ago.

    A lot a people typing on keyboards in silicon valley trying for the psy-ops at the moment.

    Bonkers!


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  23. calli says:

    I don’t understand why you’re not welcome, Steve. Are you sure you were booted and not a link that was captured by the WordPress setting?

    They tolerate me, and that’s no mean feat. You are far more tolerable.


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  24. srr says:

    “Steve trickler says:
    March 9, 2022 at 2:07 am
    I should clarify, some of the biggest bunch of fuc*wits on the planet are those tweaking sussietube and wordpress. I figured out those dickwads along long time ago.

    A lot a people typing on keyboards in silicon valley trying for the psy-ops at the moment.

    Bonkers!”
    ____________

    Steve, I’m shocked that Dover booted you. I’ve always found you a great read.

    However, long before the old, old cat, I had fun around the Net flushing professional propagandists from their ‘friendly’ hides on ‘Social’ Media.
    It’s the worst crime you can commit, to prove to people that their ‘very dear, long term friends’ on ‘Social’ Media are only BS peddlers grooming them to unquestioningly buy whatever new lie Global Totalitarians need people to buy.

    It’s like telling a plain 40 something woman that her boyfriend only wants to marry her for her money; first they hate you for warning them, then they hate you more for not convincing them before it was too late.

    Now for some reason I was allowed on Dover’s cat, early oversight, I don’t know, but I do know that the old herd of narrative controllers love having someone to ‘make an example of’; ‘Step out of the acceptable lines and you to will be hated & lied about this much, without any being bold enough to step & say, “Sorry, I hate them to, but what you said about them there is a blatant lie.”‘

    Mind you, I still work on the belief that it’s those who read but don’t engage who are there to gather information to sort for themselves rather than push an agenda and it doesn’t hurt them to see that not everyone is scared of bullshitting cyber bullies and that standing up to them is simply practice for standing up to the thugs in real life.


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  25. Eyrie says:

    There are a number of people who should be banned from Dover’s Cat*. Steve Trickler isn’t one of them. Neither is srr or Struth.
    * As long as they aren’t allowed here either.


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  26. srr says:

    Eyrie says:
    March 9, 2022 at 9:49 am
    There are a number of people who should be banned from Dover’s Cat*. Steve Trickler isn’t one of them. Neither is srr or Struth.
    * As long as they aren’t allowed here either.

    Yes Eyrie, I didn’t realise Steve was booted from Dover’s, I just thought he preferred not to post there.

    I like coming here to read things worth reading (without having to scroll through pages of Social bullying by those still committed to selling Govt BS), so there’s rarely anything I feel needs adding to what are great posts full of good information.

    But this thing about Steve Trickler not being allowed at Dover’s while there are tag teams of those who hang out there 24/7 for the sole purpose of stalking other posters, has got me scratching my head.


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  27. srr says:

    “… for *what seems like* the sole purpose of stalking other posters …”


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  28. Eyrie says:

    there are tag teams of those who hang out there 24/7 for the sole purpose of stalking other posters
    That site would be more compact and have a far better signal to noise ratio if that nonsense was stopped.


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  29. egg_ says:

    tag teams of those who hang out there 24/7 for the sole purpose of stalking other posters, has got me scratching my head.

    The team from S.A.D. where “The Furniture Store Blog” owns their headspace?


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  30. JohnJJJ says:

    Never mind Wuhan Virus, deaths, Ukraine, Biden, trucks, jihadis, … this is the story of the week from the Oz
    One of Australia’s largest private benefactors to university research, the Snow Medical Research Foundation, has banned the University of Melbourne from future grants because its latest honorary doctorates awarded last week went to six white men, leaving out women and people from other ­diverse backgrounds.

    Speaking on International Women’s Day, Snow Medical chair Tom Snow said he was “deeply upset” by the university’s decision to go ahead with the ceremony, which was shown in a photo on the university’s website.
    DEEPLY UPSET, I stress, DEEPLY.


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  31. Steve trickler says:

    I might have (probably ) got it wrong folks. Post went into moderation and then vanished…apologies to Dover for jumping the shark.

    Peace.


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  32. srr says:

    Eyrie says:
    March 9, 2022 at 11:45 am

    there are tag teams of those who hang out there 24/7 for the sole purpose of stalking other posters

    That site would be more compact and have a far better signal to noise ratio if that nonsense was stopped.

    In the old days when Sinc was still new to owning the old cat there was a genuine desire for the place to be a respected one-stop-news-&-views shop and so dodgy posts were questioned for clarification and lies were called out, hard & fast.

    There was none, well, very little of that dangerous practice of letting ‘friends’ or ‘your side’ get away with blatant BS so long as it was against ‘the other side’.

    Now, that’s gone out the window and it doesn’t matter how clearly, quote by fully contexed quote, you show the liars lies to be lies, they just double, triple & quadruple down, constantly repeating the same BS like deranged, cackling witches and even that doesn’t inspire others to tell them they’re ruining the blog.
    No, for fear of also being targeted, it’s those who prove the liars lies who get told to STFU & piss off.

    It’s as if 2 years of Global Totalitarianism really had trained people seek shelter in the mob and drive any on the edge into the jaws of the predators.


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  33. mh says:

    apologies to Dover for jumping the shark.

    Dover has a shark?


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  34. Steve trickler says:

    calli says:
    March 9, 2022 at 7:40 am
    I don’t understand why you’re not welcome, Steve. Are you sure you were booted and not a link that was captured by the WordPress setting?

    They tolerate me, and that’s no mean feat. You are far more tolerable.

    You are one of the most coolest ladies on the planet 😘


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  35. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    In the threat has passed news, the Hun:

    ‘Fewer then 2 in 5 kids in some of Melbourne’s northern suburbs have been vaccinated against covid-19.
    The municipality of Hume continues to have the state’s lowest rate among children aged 5 to 11, with only 37.8% having had one dose.
    A Federal government push for school-based vaccination programs will be reignited to help get more children to roll up their sleeves in the wake of the alarming findings.’

    So thinking those of a certain religion would make up a fair whack of northern suburbs in Melbourne. But let’s have the government intervene!


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  36. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Teh Climate wars are far from over. Hun:

    ‘Meat, bread, dairy food and fruit prices are being driven up by climate change, and a new report warns of more hip-pocket pain ahead.
    It has raised fears of food shortages under severe warming that could main parts of Australia “run out of food”.
    The Fork In The Road report says a 2C average warmer climate will put the food supply chain “under acute stress”. Anything more would have “catastrophic consequences for Australia”.


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  37. Shy Ted says:

    National press Club shortly

    National Press Club Address Ronni Kahn – CEO of OzHarvest
    12:30PM – 1:41PM Ronni Kahn, social entrepreneur and founder of Australia’s leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest, addresses the National Press Club on the topic On Purpose: Believe, Discover, Give.

    Call me a cynic about charities but it’s the way tehy dress that makes me suspicious.

    Anyway, here’s the financials –
    Briefly, revenue $29mill, expenses $27mill, employee benefits $13mill!!!
    Cash flows from operating activities –
    Receipts from donors and customers $26,560,132
    Payments to suppliers and employees $25,906,107

    It seems much of the food is surplus from Colesworths and repeat funders are state gummints. Is it me or is there not an awful lot of money left for the less fortunate?


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  38. Neil says:

    Wow

    Pakistan scored 728 runs against Australia in the recent test match. And Australia only took 4 wickets.

    In contrast Pakistan bowled Australia out

    Maybe getting rid of Langer was not a good idea.


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  39. srr says:

    🙂 ok, this makes more sense –

    Steve trickler says:
    March 9, 2022 at 12:19 pm
    I might have (probably ) got it wrong folks. Post went into moderation and then vanished…apologies to Dover for jumping the shark.

    Peace.


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  40. srr says:

    If you weren’t a cynic Shy Ted, you’d be Simple Ted. 😉


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  41. Shy Ted says:

    And