🇷🇴Deep in the heart of Eastern Europe lies the nation of Romania. A mysterious land to many with its own history of villains and heroes. And it was in search of one such polarising figure that I began a journey across this land ( by the world’s greatest train ) in the footsteps of Ceaucescu. Join me on this personal journey which I have long dreamed of making as we trace the leader’s final days in power and his ultimate demise.
Shoutout to all the friendly Romanian people I met on the journey.
Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in populated residential areas, including in schools and hospitals, as they repelled the Russian invasion that began in February, Amnesty International said today.
Such tactics violate international humanitarian law and endanger civilians, as they turn civilian objects into military targets. The ensuing Russian strikes in populated areas have killed civilians and destroyed civilian infrastructure.
“We have documented a pattern of Ukrainian forces putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war when they operate in populated areas,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.
“Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law.”…
Accidentally turned on the box this am, ABC news with the B-grader presenters waxing lyrical about cost of living pressures and how the Indians and mussies have nailed it by all living together under one roof so we should do the same. Naturally, interviews with said ethnics and how the NDIS/aged care doesn’t have enough culturally and language appropriate carers. Grr. B-grader, woman of colour ends saying “don’t worry, mum, I’m not moving in with you”. They pay the B graders too much. Double grr. Comeback for fellas So, it wasn’t just a joke Report comment
My neighbor Harriet Hageman is fed up with Liz Cheney and the Democrats she represents from her home in Virginia. The Wyoming Republican primary is the week after next.
Almost 1 year since the Daily Telegraph & the Herald Sun (and their associated mainstream publications) spread and amplified defamatory claims about myself and other Australians legitimately questioning and raising awareness of potential problems with government, mainstream media and big tech narratives related to the pandemic.
One of the main claims of misinformation attributed to me was around questioning why the UK’s Chief Scientist walked back statements on the over representation of vaccinated individuals in hospitals (breakthrough cases). This is now undeniable looking at the data available, just look at the amount of people reinfected multiple times in never-ending waves. It’s now crystal clear much of this information was knowingly suppressed early on by authorities with the help of the mainstream media and big tech.
There was a whole lot more defamatory jibberish, but the funniest piece of misinformation attributed to me was that I believed a man accused of punching a horse in Sydney during a protest, did not. Luckily that entire saga has gone through the courts, with the finding that no horse was punched by that man. How having an opinion on a legal matter even qualifies as misinformation baffles me, but these are the bottom of the barrel attacks the mainstream media levelled on many of us speaking out in Australia.
The entire article was riddled with nonsense, and even at the time of publication it was obvious, but looking back now it’s clear the media was actively engaging in a disinformation smear campaign in the hopes of censoring myself and others.
My personal & private life, including business interests were heavily impacted by these baseless smears. I can only imagine what doctors and scientists trying to provide balance have been put through by these same organisations and government bodies trying to discredit them.
Always question everything you read on mainstream media, they cannot be trusted.
I have a cousin who was a missionary in Romania during the Ceausescu years. He was working there as a teacher during those years as missionaries and Christianity was banned so he ran a clandestine church fellowship during that time.
He used to bring Bibles printed in Australia in Romanian into the country, he’d smuggle them in with his luggage when travelling. He would also carry a large jar of highly sought after instant coffee which the customs guards would take then wave him through customs with his Bibles. Report comment
I just went and had a ciggie with old dear neighbor. I took a few meals over, opened up the fridge and it was practically empty. FMD, that was a shock.
Goodness gracious! Hat tip, Kolya. Thankfully we do charity work that involves a lot of food. I’ll stock her fridge up tomorrow.
Beyond Meat Inc on Thursday lowered its revenue forecast for the year and announced job cuts as rising inflation hurt the company’s efforts to make its pricier plant-based meat more affordable for consumers
The lawsuit against Google, which has owned YouTube since its 2006 purchase for $1.65 billion, was brought in early 2021 by Rumble, the free speech competitor to YouTube
Carrying over a philosophical topic that started at the tail end of the previous Open Thread.
Steve: I’ll never put up a clip from this bloke again. I love the dog but the owner just exposed himself as a f*cking idiot.
Arky: If you stop consuming content from people who show idiocy, you won’t watch anything.
Just enjoy it for what it is.
Remember, 99% of Hollywood actors are either left wing idiots or moral cowards, but who wants to completely stop watching Hollywood movies?
Ragu: Theres a lot going for Stoicism…
So what are you gunna be? Looking for an excuse or ethically correct? Report comment
Entering the realms of philosophy and taking up Arky’s points.
We would need to give someone a fair go …. that is a few opportunities. If they persist in proving themselves to be idiots, then we have to decide whether we want to spend our time in the idiot-sphere. Maybe, idiocy is contagious and may infect us too.
Take the case of Snickers. Do they deserve another chance? Are you a consumer of those bars or anything from the makers, Mars Wrigley?
Would you cancel it from your shopping list?
How else would they learn that you can’t earn your chocolate dollars in Communist and non-Communist lands?
It would be hard to find a word that dealt a greater injustice at the hands of the English language than “Stoic.” In its rightful place, Stoicism is a tool in the pursuit of self-mastery, perseverance, and wisdom: something one uses to live a great life, rather than some esoteric field of academic inquiry.
And
What Are The 4 Virtues of Stoicism?
Courage.
Temperance.
Justice.
Wisdom.
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What Are The 4 Virtues of Stoicism?
Courage.
Temperance.
Justice.
Wisdom.
Thats interesting man
Stoicism to me is
Justice- not quite, it’s doing the right thing and being able to defend that decision
Temperance – is that achievable and is the negative so bad? Drinking has its place; the problem that is so wide spread and the action becomes an excuse for bad behaviour.
Wisdom and justice come from a non-reflexive place.
Courage should be intrinsic. If it isnt why? Report comment
Temperence – it’s a personal thing, but don’t use that as a cudgel to promote yourself to be better than everyone else.
I gather the point of sobriety is to not be a slave to anything. So it becomes a qualitative metric.
But then, if you get pissed and dont become a prick then what does it matter? Stoicism says don’t make a habit of being drunk because its a waste of time.
A lot of alignment of Stoics and Christianity. Report comment
Refinements of Stoicism came about not necessarily because of Bacchus but where that group ideology could lead.
It was perfectly right for ceasar to quash that movement. Not because the preversions were a threat to the state but because they serve no purpose to humanity. Report comment
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the South China Morning Post on Thursday that he would like to discuss his country’s war against Russia with the leader of Russia’s closest ally, Xi Jinping, “directly,” and invited China to help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over.
Are the brainwashed still living in dreamland? Still happy that your hard earned tax-dollars are being sent to Ukraine? So that China can use it to rebuild Ukraine? That your newly minted PM visited that country and continues to promise it unending support?
All these big dollar handouts while Aussies are struggling to pay grocery and power bills? Report comment
This is where libertarianism becomes mangled. The melding of stoicism with a bit of whatever.
They can not stop at the immoral. In fact they fuck it all up.
They take the primacy of autonomy and the coda of catholocism and then completely misinterprete the whole lot. To a libertarian as is constituted in the modern Australian the moral imperative takes a back seat to the individual. This is wrong.
When you follow that through it becomes an argument for the individual not the collective. So liberts defend gay marriage etc but not the moral of the primacy of family.
The error seems to be liberts avoiding any association with “collective” because thats commie shit. Report comment
One of my biggest faults is shooting my mouth off.
Arky:
If you stop consuming content from people who show idiocy, you won’t watch anything.
Just enjoy it for what it is.
Remember, 99% of Hollywood actors are either left wing idiots or moral cowards, but who wants to completely stop watching Hollywood movies?
Take the case of Snickers. Do they deserve another chance? Are you a consumer of those bars or anything from the makers, Mars Wrigley?
Would you cancel it from your shopping list?
This is interesting to think about. Choccie bars are a non-essential for life, if you want pure metabolic energy then eat butter.
So why are the purveyors of shyte going all-in for woke? Is it because they’ve a history of marketing themselves as ‘naughty’and they are using that to leverage and parlay hat stance to supporting something else thats naughty? Report comment
Halfway through a former Member of BoE monetary policy committee is interviewed. He says he would have voted for a rate CUT and the BoE is doing it all wrong. He argues that the outlook is deflationary. The CH4 interviewer then rightly points out that up until recently the inflation forecast was 4%, now it’s 13%, so how can he be confident inflation is going away?
Society has learned many times, the hard way, that increasing the cost of capital will lead to unemployment.
So we’re doing it again.
I understand that this time is unique but they are making the outcome beyond doubt. I tried to be smart and move my nest egg into cash and was told “this may not work because our cash instruments invest in central banks with negative interest rates”
I tried to be smart and move my nest egg into cash and was told “this may not work because our cash instruments invest in central banks with negative interest rates”
The financial institution you are looking to invest with should have publicly available information on its cash investment performance over different periods of time, ie last 12 months. Report comment
So why are the purveyors of shyte going all-in for woke? Is it because they’ve a history of marketing themselves as ‘naughty’and they are using that to leverage and parlay hat stance to supporting something else thats naughty?
ESG is your answer. Larry Fink won’t like your business if your ESG score isn’t suitably high.
It’s a social credit system for businesses brought to you by the wonderful people at the WEF. Report comment
The Chairman of a chocolate bar business went to his bank, which is largely owned by Black Rock and Vanguard, and asks for a business loan to build a new factory to meet increased demand for their chocolate bars.
The Loans Manager looks at his proposal and says that their application looks sound as they have always paid their bills on time, they don’t carry any debt, have a large market share, and their products always out-sell their competitors.
The Loans Manager however declines to give the business a loan as their ESG score isn’t high enough.
The Chairman then counters with a proposal to run the new factory exclusively on renewable energy, hire only poofters to run the factory, package the chocolate bars in recycled paper, and deliver the products to the wholesale distributors using electric trucks only.
The Loans Manager says that this improves his chance of getting a loan, but still something more must be done to get the ESG rating the bank needs to give the loan.
The Chairman considers his options for a moment then offers to tell the company’s shareholders that they won’t be getting any future dividend payments as all future profits will be donated to The Current Thing, whatever that will be from week to week.
The Loans Manager pulls out his big “Approved” stamp and stamps the Chairman’s amended application. Report comment
Passing Observations 120
6TH AUGUST 2022
This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.
The EU has decided that gas and nuclear energy are now suddenly ‘green’ and acceptable forms of energy for the Greens. This, of course, rather makes a mess of the British government’s policy on gas boilers. (Incidentally, it is often forgotten, by the way, that the euro was created to go with a single European government. The euro’s problems will continue until Europeans plead for that single Government. This was always the plan.)
It is the willingness, indeed enthusiasm, of totally corrupt organisations such as Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and broadcasters such as the BBC to comply and to suppress the truth which enables the conspirators to succeed. It is newspapers such as The Guardian which used to have good reputations but which are, like the BBC, now linked to Bill Gates, the man whose polio vaccination programme is now believed to be responsible for outbreaks of polio around the world – including in the UK – which must eventually take the responsibility for leading us into a world where freedom itself will be a forbidden concept; into a world of social credits and the Great Reset. And it is the way that the medical establishment is now in thrall to the pharmaceutical industry – the most thoroughly evil industry in world history, worse even than the arms industry and more relentlessly lethal than the tobacco industry – which is truly shocking. It is the medical establishment – including trade unions such as the British Medical Association, scores of medical journals and statutory bodies such as JCVI and MHRA which exist, in theory at least, to protect the public, which appear to have sold the truth to the highest bidder and sold our future to an industry and a bunch of evil conspirators. In my first book The Medicine Men, which was published in 1975, I pointed out that a profession which takes orders from a trade can no longer call itself a profession. What I saw then was that the medical profession was pretty well owned by the drug industry and that members of the medical profession had become little more than agents, salesmen and pushers for the industry. They had sold their virtue for a handful of free pens, a few luncheons and an easy life. It is their ready obedience which has enabled the drug industry to kill and maim without compunction and without hindrance.
There has always been an unhealthy ‘revolving door’ relationship between drug companies and medical regulators. I do not currently know of any doctors advising governments or the mainstream media who do not have, or have not had, some sort of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
Here’s a good way to concentrate your mind: work out how many years you’ve got left if God is good to you. Then work out how many hours you have left. Then you will be inclined to avoid wasting any of them.
There are far too many trolls around. We need a cull of the trolls.
Over half a million men are now claiming paternity benefit. They stay at home because their wife has had a baby. Are men now breast-feeding? The absurdities never end.
I passed a sandwich shop the other day. Just an ordinary little shop. They were selling sandwiches for £9 each. Now, that’s what I call inflation. And it hasn’t really got going yet.
Here’s how mad the world has become. While sitting in a café the other day I took out a small penknife to sharpen a pencil I was using. And I was so worried that someone would call the police and tell them that a man had a knife that I hid my hands behind my cup. That’s the world they’ve made.
The benefits system was designed to stop people working. If people work they are worse off than if they just accept their benefits. Everyone knows this. What most people don’t know is that the system was designed to bring about economic collapse. It was designed with this in mind. Remember: nothing happens by accident.
The world is full of trickery these days. I ordered two tubes of expensive oil paint. They were sent through the mail and the delivery was recorded by the postman. But the packet was empty. However, since the packet had been delivered I was unable to claim for the loss.
Three times recently I have posted letters with more than enough stamps on the envelope and the recipients have had to pay extra. Yesterday, I received a letter with a Royal Mail ‘postage paid’ franking – but the envelope had been surcharged ‘item underpaid – fee to pay £1.50’. Is this a new way for Royal Mail to gouge a profit out of customers? Charge at both ends? Like auctioneers.
Traditionally, the three most crooked industrial complexes in the world have been weapons makers, the pharmaceutical industry and the banks. Those three have been joined by a fourth: the surveillance industry.
An MP described the Russian war as ‘barbaric’. Can anyone remember a war which wasn’t barbaric?
There are now 100,000 Ukranians living in England. That’s nice. But what is the cost to the nation? I ask only because tens of thousands of older, taxpaying citizens in England can’t afford to eat and won’t be able to afford to keep warm this winter. As a result they will die. Western governments are spending billions on the war in Ukraine. Our Governments helped create the war. And now we are creating long-term refugee costs that we cannot possible afford.
A study by scientists in England found micro-plastic fibres in the lungs of patients awaiting surgery. Some of the plastic pieces were 2mm long and the same plastic as is used in facemasks. Micro-plastics have also been detected in human blood and in organs – leading to the death of cells and allergic responses. Isn’t it odd that the same loonies who oppose the use of plastic bags want to force people to wear plastic masks?
Dentists have been told to keep their windows open (so that the air circulates). This means that dental surgeries are no longer hygienic since flies can land on instruments. This is another ‘kill’ policy.
I always refused to do TV celebrity quiz shows (despite being offered large fees) because I wanted to maintain a little gravitas. I also refused to do any adverts or promotions to protect my reputation for independence. And now I am probably the most vilified and banned doctor in the world. Hurts a bit.
An HSBC banker who was global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management and who complained about climate change ‘nut jobs’, virtue signalling and cancel culture was suspended by the bank. He has now quit saying that his position is unsustainable.
We don’t drink tap water. We drink spring water that hasn’t gone through the life cycle of much so-called ‘drinking’ water today. We don’t want to drink anything that comes out of a sewage polluted river because of the drug residues and chemicals they can’t remove. Drinking the remains of someone else’s contraceptive pill, Valium or steroids doesn’t appeal to me. But the bottled water business has now got silly. There are branded bottles of water that will cost £130. Companies which sell bottled water now talk of ‘flavour’, ‘vintage’, ‘delicate mineral variations’, ‘body and elegance’ and ‘creamy with a delicate finish’. I’m not kidding.
‘People are greedy. The more you do for them the more they expect.’ – Veronica Lake.
created & is pushing the healthy welfare card (digital ID) they plan for everyone to be on it when they destroy the economy. He controls many of our pollies.
‘…governments and the would be powerful want us to think Magna Carta and the truths it contains do not matter anymore…’
The Reeds of Runnymede Rudyard Kipling
At Runnymede, at Runnymede
What say the reeds at Runnymede?
The lissom reeds that give and take,
That bend so far, but never break,
They keep the sleepy Thames awake
With tales of John at Runnymede.
At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Oh, hear the reeds at Runnymede:–
“You mustn’t sell, delay, deny,
A freeman’s right or liberty.
It wakes the stubborn Englishry,
We saw ’em roused at Runnymede!
“When through our ranks the Barons came,
With little thought of praise or blame,
But resolute to play the game,
They lumbered up to Runnymede;
And there they launched in solid time
The first attack on Right Divine–
The curt, uncompromising ‘Sign!’
That settled John at Runnymede.
“At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Your rights were won at Runnymede!
No freeman shall be fined or bound,
Or dispossessed of freehold ground,
Except by lawful judgment found
And passed upon him by his peers.
Forget not, after all these years,
The Charter Signed at Runnymede.”
And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,
And crowds and priests and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede! Report comment
James Lindsay explains ESG and why all the corporations are going woke to Gonzalo Lira in this Roundtable interview. If you’ve got money tied up in a superannuation fund somewhere, you’re financing this push for corporate wokeness. Report comment
OFF THE AIR
‘Fiasco’: Hadley storms out on live radio
Broadcaster Ray Hadley made an abrupt exit from his top-rating morning show, forcing a scramble to replace him. Report comment
Hadley forced to pull stumps at the Ekka
Ray Hadley has been forced to pull his live broadcast at the Ekka in Brisbane amid technical difficulties. Here is what happened.
George Soros-backed reforms making US cities ‘far more dangerous’
The so-called reform prosecutors backed by Hungarian-American businessman George Soros are making American cities “far more dangerous” than they need to be, argues author Douglas Murray.
Mr Soros has vowed to continue funding “reform-minded prosecutors” and dismissed the notion their policies are to blame for crime spikes across the United States.
“These are people who believe in for instance, bail reform; that they believe will empty the American jails and will bring great justice to America,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
“In reality, bail reform … is not reducing crime – it is as many people could’ve told him – accelerating crime.
“The New York Post showed this week there are people in New York who’ve been arrested up to 100 times and let out.
“So these sort of Soros-backed reforms are not reducing crime … they’re making cities far more dangerous than they need to be.”
Far out in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska is a very special woman, a “cowgirl” (cattlewoman) by the name of Jaclyn. In this video Jaclyn brings us into her world to give us a close up look at what this lifestyle is like.
Sweet.
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Sleep well ladies and gents.
Kal-El on the ship Zod’s | Man of Steel
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Good moaning one and all.
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Merogenomics
https://youtu.be/aZFm3ZAbX9s
Do viral infections reappear. Short answer- yes
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Bald:
🇷🇴Deep in the heart of Eastern Europe lies the nation of Romania. A mysterious land to many with its own history of villains and heroes. And it was in search of one such polarising figure that I began a journey across this land ( by the world’s greatest train ) in the footsteps of Ceaucescu. Join me on this personal journey which I have long dreamed of making as we trace the leader’s final days in power and his ultimate demise.
Shoutout to all the friendly Romanian people I met on the journey.
Solo Through Romania’s Dark Past 🇷🇴
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Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
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Accidentally turned on the box this am, ABC news with the B-grader presenters waxing lyrical about cost of living pressures and how the Indians and mussies have nailed it by all living together under one roof so we should do the same. Naturally, interviews with said ethnics and how the NDIS/aged care doesn’t have enough culturally and language appropriate carers. Grr. B-grader, woman of colour ends saying “don’t worry, mum, I’m not moving in with you”. They pay the B graders too much. Double grr.
Comeback for fellas
So, it wasn’t just a joke
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Hope you all saw this clip from the Alex Jones show trial.
We’re watching a movie.
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Fleccas Talks:
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #108
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Tony Heller:
My neighbor Harriet Hageman is fed up with Liz Cheney and the Democrats she represents from her home in Virginia. The Wyoming Republican primary is the week after next.
Harriet Hageman Campaign Ad
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China Fact Chasers:
Australian human rights activist Drew Pavlou heads to Wimbledon to ask the important question ‘Where is Peng Shuai?’
China Once Again Tries to Ruin International Sports. Where is Peng Shuai?
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Real Rukshan:
Almost 1 year since the Daily Telegraph & the Herald Sun (and their associated mainstream publications) spread and amplified defamatory claims about myself and other Australians legitimately questioning and raising awareness of potential problems with government, mainstream media and big tech narratives related to the pandemic.
One of the main claims of misinformation attributed to me was around questioning why the UK’s Chief Scientist walked back statements on the over representation of vaccinated individuals in hospitals (breakthrough cases). This is now undeniable looking at the data available, just look at the amount of people reinfected multiple times in never-ending waves. It’s now crystal clear much of this information was knowingly suppressed early on by authorities with the help of the mainstream media and big tech.
There was a whole lot more defamatory jibberish, but the funniest piece of misinformation attributed to me was that I believed a man accused of punching a horse in Sydney during a protest, did not. Luckily that entire saga has gone through the courts, with the finding that no horse was punched by that man. How having an opinion on a legal matter even qualifies as misinformation baffles me, but these are the bottom of the barrel attacks the mainstream media levelled on many of us speaking out in Australia.
The entire article was riddled with nonsense, and even at the time of publication it was obvious, but looking back now it’s clear the media was actively engaging in a disinformation smear campaign in the hopes of censoring myself and others.
My personal & private life, including business interests were heavily impacted by these baseless smears. I can only imagine what doctors and scientists trying to provide balance have been put through by these same organisations and government bodies trying to discredit them.
Always question everything you read on mainstream media, they cannot be trusted.
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I have a cousin who was a missionary in Romania during the Ceausescu years. He was working there as a teacher during those years as missionaries and Christianity was banned so he ran a clandestine church fellowship during that time.
He used to bring Bibles printed in Australia in Romanian into the country, he’d smuggle them in with his luggage when travelling. He would also carry a large jar of highly sought after instant coffee which the customs guards would take then wave him through customs with his Bibles.
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I just went and had a ciggie with old dear neighbor. I took a few meals over, opened up the fridge and it was practically empty. FMD, that was a shock.
Goodness gracious! Hat tip, Kolya. Thankfully we do charity work that involves a lot of food. I’ll stock her fridge up tomorrow.
Get to know your neighbors.
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Old bloke says:
August 6, 2022 at 1:38 pm
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May 2022
Davos
The bugs who sat around this table want you to eat fake stuff.
This was their lunch.
August 2022
Beyond Meat Cuts Sales Forecast
as Consumers Shun Pricier Faux Meat
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Africa Brooke
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An open letter:
why I’m leaving the cult of wokeness
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Interview
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jason bourne extreme ways music video
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Trois
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Posting it again.
Are you going dismiss it as sh*t? Good luck doing that.
WORLD PREMIERE: These Little Ones
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In the case of Rumble v Google ….
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Rumble Brings Lawsuit Against Google
Dinesh D’Souza explains why Rumble’s lawsuit against Google is crucial for exposing Big Tech’s illegal machinations.
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Court Rejects Google’s Attempt to Dismiss Rumble’s Antitrust Lawsuit,
Ensuring Vast Discovery
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Banned from Australia! And who was the prick that did that?
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Katie Hopkins:
Katie’s Arms 5 Aug. Crane Pants. Monkey-bumming. Lovely Mark dog rescue.
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Carrying over a philosophical topic that started at the tail end of the previous Open Thread.
Steve:
I’ll never put up a clip from this bloke again. I love the dog but the owner just exposed himself as a f*cking idiot.
Arky:
If you stop consuming content from people who show idiocy, you won’t watch anything.
Just enjoy it for what it is.
Remember, 99% of Hollywood actors are either left wing idiots or moral cowards, but who wants to completely stop watching Hollywood movies?
Ragu:
Theres a lot going for Stoicism…
So what are you gunna be? Looking for an excuse or ethically correct?
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Entering the realms of philosophy and taking up Arky’s points.
We would need to give someone a fair go …. that is a few opportunities. If they persist in proving themselves to be idiots, then we have to decide whether we want to spend our time in the idiot-sphere. Maybe, idiocy is contagious and may infect us too.
Take the case of Snickers. Do they deserve another chance? Are you a consumer of those bars or anything from the makers, Mars Wrigley?
Would you cancel it from your shopping list?
How else would they learn that you can’t earn your chocolate dollars in Communist and non-Communist lands?
Snickers maker apologises for advert suggesting Taiwan is a country
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On Ragu’s point about stoicism.
And
Something to practice this coming week. ^.^
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Some additions to The Mock, if you haven’t seen them.
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Thats interesting man
Stoicism to me is
Justice- not quite, it’s doing the right thing and being able to defend that decision
Temperance – is that achievable and is the negative so bad? Drinking has its place; the problem that is so wide spread and the action becomes an excuse for bad behaviour.
Wisdom and justice come from a non-reflexive place.
Courage should be intrinsic. If it isnt why?
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Pardon
Temperence – it’s a personal thing, but don’t use that as a cudgel to promote yourself to be better than everyone else.
I gather the point of sobriety is to not be a slave to anything. So it becomes a qualitative metric.
But then, if you get pissed and dont become a prick then what does it matter? Stoicism says don’t make a habit of being drunk because its a waste of time.
A lot of alignment of Stoics and Christianity.
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Refinements of Stoicism came about not necessarily because of Bacchus but where that group ideology could lead.
It was perfectly right for ceasar to quash that movement. Not because the preversions were a threat to the state but because they serve no purpose to humanity.
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True dat.
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Has NewsCorp received a call from WEF to get rid of Cory Bernadi?
His anti-Ukraine rant crosses million views with big support from the plebs. Currently at 1,094,357 views.
The truth cannot be permitted on MSM.
Volodymyr Zelensky Asks Xi Jinping for Talks,
Invites China to Rebuild Ukraine
Are the brainwashed still living in dreamland? Still happy that your hard earned tax-dollars are being sent to Ukraine? So that China can use it to rebuild Ukraine? That your newly minted PM visited that country and continues to promise it unending support?
All these big dollar handouts while Aussies are struggling to pay grocery and power bills?
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This is where libertarianism becomes mangled. The melding of stoicism with a bit of whatever.
They can not stop at the immoral. In fact they fuck it all up.
They take the primacy of autonomy and the coda of catholocism and then completely misinterprete the whole lot. To a libertarian as is constituted in the modern Australian the moral imperative takes a back seat to the individual. This is wrong.
When you follow that through it becomes an argument for the individual not the collective. So liberts defend gay marriage etc but not the moral of the primacy of family.
The error seems to be liberts avoiding any association with “collective” because thats commie shit.
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One of my biggest faults is shooting my mouth off.
Arky:
If you stop consuming content from people who show idiocy, you won’t watch anything.
Just enjoy it for what it is.
Remember, 99% of Hollywood actors are either left wing idiots or moral cowards, but who wants to completely stop watching Hollywood movies?
Cheers dude.
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In fact, the collective is what has made society, defines society and, is the battleground for a cohesive society.
The denial by the right that the collective exists is why they’ve ceded to the marxists.
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The unvaccinated ….
“They were the smart ones”
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Brought to you by… Pfizer!
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Jor-El and Son | Man of Steel
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Is it making sense?
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Break time
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Super Crispy!!
If You Have 3 Potatoes, You Must Try This Delicious Dish!!
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Fiddler on the roof
If I were a rich man
(with subtitles)
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The Prodigy – Firestarter HD AC3 448Kbps
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Peanuts and Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert and Dennis
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Check out this method of cooking.
Fried Chicken With Vegetables Around A Unique Oven From An Old Barrel
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Garrison
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A bloke walking his dog.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Redondo Beach 7
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Brilliant.
Clark Kent gets a job in the Daily Planet | Man Of Steel
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Powerline’s Week in Pictures: Your Lying Eyes Edition
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Well done bloke.
Teenage Boy Learns How To Play Reggae
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The sound of rain will send me to sleep…..real time in west. Checks this out before your head hits the pillow.
Massive Meat Doner Cooked On Fire! This Juicy Meat Will Drive Everyone Crazy
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…Check this out.
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Sleep well folks.
Starman – Scene: The Human Race (1984 HD)
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Short and to the point. Peter Schiff with Laura Ingraham
This recession is worse than people think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U8iA-yXzlk
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This is interesting to think about. Choccie bars are a non-essential for life, if you want pure metabolic energy then eat butter.
So why are the purveyors of shyte going all-in for woke? Is it because they’ve a history of marketing themselves as ‘naughty’and they are using that to leverage and parlay hat stance to supporting something else thats naughty?
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Put a mars bar in your mouth, its like a dick. Only it has a name.
Like us!
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Worst economic prediction for a generation – as UK heads for recession
Channel 4 News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3i-4m7xYfo
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Halfway through a former Member of BoE monetary policy committee is interviewed. He says he would have voted for a rate CUT and the BoE is doing it all wrong. He argues that the outlook is deflationary. The CH4 interviewer then rightly points out that up until recently the inflation forecast was 4%, now it’s 13%, so how can he be confident inflation is going away?
Yes, it’s all quite comical.
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Yum
Sticky goo
Just like a homo!
Ok I’ll stop now
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Society has learned many times, the hard way, that increasing the cost of capital will lead to unemployment.
So we’re doing it again.
I understand that this time is unique but they are making the outcome beyond doubt. I tried to be smart and move my nest egg into cash and was told “this may not work because our cash instruments invest in central banks with negative interest rates”
WTF?
Don’t do that.
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I really should find a lawyer and sue. How on earth does losing money benefit my investment? The common good that everyone is broke?
C’mon man!
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Whats the point of it all?
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The financial institution you are looking to invest with should have publicly available information on its cash investment performance over different periods of time, ie last 12 months.
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ESG is your answer. Larry Fink won’t like your business if your ESG score isn’t suitably high.
It’s a social credit system for businesses brought to you by the wonderful people at the WEF.
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Bannon calls for the end of the Federal Reserve
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Greg Reese
Human Cannibalism Being Pushed by the New Green Movement
https://banned.video/watch?id=62ee73960e67d64cfac8d103
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The Chairman of a chocolate bar business went to his bank, which is largely owned by Black Rock and Vanguard, and asks for a business loan to build a new factory to meet increased demand for their chocolate bars.
The Loans Manager looks at his proposal and says that their application looks sound as they have always paid their bills on time, they don’t carry any debt, have a large market share, and their products always out-sell their competitors.
The Loans Manager however declines to give the business a loan as their ESG score isn’t high enough.
The Chairman then counters with a proposal to run the new factory exclusively on renewable energy, hire only poofters to run the factory, package the chocolate bars in recycled paper, and deliver the products to the wholesale distributors using electric trucks only.
The Loans Manager says that this improves his chance of getting a loan, but still something more must be done to get the ESG rating the bank needs to give the loan.
The Chairman considers his options for a moment then offers to tell the company’s shareholders that they won’t be getting any future dividend payments as all future profits will be donated to The Current Thing, whatever that will be from week to week.
The Loans Manager pulls out his big “Approved” stamp and stamps the Chairman’s amended application.
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This Week in Culture. Hard to get through. Almost every violent act shown done by black Americans:
https://rumble.com/v1d5y5t-this-week-in-culture-106.html
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Neil Oliver:
‘…first among equals, rights, freedom & truth….’
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Doc Coleman:
Passing Observations 120
6TH AUGUST 2022
This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.
The EU has decided that gas and nuclear energy are now suddenly ‘green’ and acceptable forms of energy for the Greens. This, of course, rather makes a mess of the British government’s policy on gas boilers. (Incidentally, it is often forgotten, by the way, that the euro was created to go with a single European government. The euro’s problems will continue until Europeans plead for that single Government. This was always the plan.)
It is the willingness, indeed enthusiasm, of totally corrupt organisations such as Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and broadcasters such as the BBC to comply and to suppress the truth which enables the conspirators to succeed. It is newspapers such as The Guardian which used to have good reputations but which are, like the BBC, now linked to Bill Gates, the man whose polio vaccination programme is now believed to be responsible for outbreaks of polio around the world – including in the UK – which must eventually take the responsibility for leading us into a world where freedom itself will be a forbidden concept; into a world of social credits and the Great Reset. And it is the way that the medical establishment is now in thrall to the pharmaceutical industry – the most thoroughly evil industry in world history, worse even than the arms industry and more relentlessly lethal than the tobacco industry – which is truly shocking. It is the medical establishment – including trade unions such as the British Medical Association, scores of medical journals and statutory bodies such as JCVI and MHRA which exist, in theory at least, to protect the public, which appear to have sold the truth to the highest bidder and sold our future to an industry and a bunch of evil conspirators. In my first book The Medicine Men, which was published in 1975, I pointed out that a profession which takes orders from a trade can no longer call itself a profession. What I saw then was that the medical profession was pretty well owned by the drug industry and that members of the medical profession had become little more than agents, salesmen and pushers for the industry. They had sold their virtue for a handful of free pens, a few luncheons and an easy life. It is their ready obedience which has enabled the drug industry to kill and maim without compunction and without hindrance.
There has always been an unhealthy ‘revolving door’ relationship between drug companies and medical regulators. I do not currently know of any doctors advising governments or the mainstream media who do not have, or have not had, some sort of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
Here’s a good way to concentrate your mind: work out how many years you’ve got left if God is good to you. Then work out how many hours you have left. Then you will be inclined to avoid wasting any of them.
There are far too many trolls around. We need a cull of the trolls.
Over half a million men are now claiming paternity benefit. They stay at home because their wife has had a baby. Are men now breast-feeding? The absurdities never end.
I passed a sandwich shop the other day. Just an ordinary little shop. They were selling sandwiches for £9 each. Now, that’s what I call inflation. And it hasn’t really got going yet.
Here’s how mad the world has become. While sitting in a café the other day I took out a small penknife to sharpen a pencil I was using. And I was so worried that someone would call the police and tell them that a man had a knife that I hid my hands behind my cup. That’s the world they’ve made.
The benefits system was designed to stop people working. If people work they are worse off than if they just accept their benefits. Everyone knows this. What most people don’t know is that the system was designed to bring about economic collapse. It was designed with this in mind. Remember: nothing happens by accident.
The world is full of trickery these days. I ordered two tubes of expensive oil paint. They were sent through the mail and the delivery was recorded by the postman. But the packet was empty. However, since the packet had been delivered I was unable to claim for the loss.
Three times recently I have posted letters with more than enough stamps on the envelope and the recipients have had to pay extra. Yesterday, I received a letter with a Royal Mail ‘postage paid’ franking – but the envelope had been surcharged ‘item underpaid – fee to pay £1.50’. Is this a new way for Royal Mail to gouge a profit out of customers? Charge at both ends? Like auctioneers.
Traditionally, the three most crooked industrial complexes in the world have been weapons makers, the pharmaceutical industry and the banks. Those three have been joined by a fourth: the surveillance industry.
An MP described the Russian war as ‘barbaric’. Can anyone remember a war which wasn’t barbaric?
There are now 100,000 Ukranians living in England. That’s nice. But what is the cost to the nation? I ask only because tens of thousands of older, taxpaying citizens in England can’t afford to eat and won’t be able to afford to keep warm this winter. As a result they will die. Western governments are spending billions on the war in Ukraine. Our Governments helped create the war. And now we are creating long-term refugee costs that we cannot possible afford.
A study by scientists in England found micro-plastic fibres in the lungs of patients awaiting surgery. Some of the plastic pieces were 2mm long and the same plastic as is used in facemasks. Micro-plastics have also been detected in human blood and in organs – leading to the death of cells and allergic responses. Isn’t it odd that the same loonies who oppose the use of plastic bags want to force people to wear plastic masks?
Dentists have been told to keep their windows open (so that the air circulates). This means that dental surgeries are no longer hygienic since flies can land on instruments. This is another ‘kill’ policy.
I always refused to do TV celebrity quiz shows (despite being offered large fees) because I wanted to maintain a little gravitas. I also refused to do any adverts or promotions to protect my reputation for independence. And now I am probably the most vilified and banned doctor in the world. Hurts a bit.
An HSBC banker who was global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management and who complained about climate change ‘nut jobs’, virtue signalling and cancel culture was suspended by the bank. He has now quit saying that his position is unsustainable.
We don’t drink tap water. We drink spring water that hasn’t gone through the life cycle of much so-called ‘drinking’ water today. We don’t want to drink anything that comes out of a sewage polluted river because of the drug residues and chemicals they can’t remove. Drinking the remains of someone else’s contraceptive pill, Valium or steroids doesn’t appeal to me. But the bottled water business has now got silly. There are branded bottles of water that will cost £130. Companies which sell bottled water now talk of ‘flavour’, ‘vintage’, ‘delicate mineral variations’, ‘body and elegance’ and ‘creamy with a delicate finish’. I’m not kidding.
‘People are greedy. The more you do for them the more they expect.’ – Veronica Lake.
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Josephine Cashman
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The “Voice” Australia needs
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Andrew Forrest
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A fine job filleting the fish.
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Wilderness Cooking:
Huge One-And-a-Half-Meter Silver Carp Fried On A Fire To A Crisp
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Well done, Cory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPWgMXut_8
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Jihad Watch
Geller
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Dr Tedros
tells the truth.
(Warning label?)
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IndiaToday
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Blasts from the past:
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1992
Paul Harvey warned us about the climate change hoax.
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2000
Conspiracy theories from NZ Preacher and Author, Barry Smith
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Blasts from the present:
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Green Energy
The greatest deception in modern history
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Globalist Elites
how they plan their taking over of the world
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Getting Micro-chipped
So easy. So convenient.
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‘…governments and the would be powerful want us to think Magna Carta and the truths it contains do not matter anymore…’
The Reeds of Runnymede Rudyard Kipling
At Runnymede, at Runnymede
What say the reeds at Runnymede?
The lissom reeds that give and take,
That bend so far, but never break,
They keep the sleepy Thames awake
With tales of John at Runnymede.
At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Oh, hear the reeds at Runnymede:–
“You mustn’t sell, delay, deny,
A freeman’s right or liberty.
It wakes the stubborn Englishry,
We saw ’em roused at Runnymede!
“When through our ranks the Barons came,
With little thought of praise or blame,
But resolute to play the game,
They lumbered up to Runnymede;
And there they launched in solid time
The first attack on Right Divine–
The curt, uncompromising ‘Sign!’
That settled John at Runnymede.
“At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Your rights were won at Runnymede!
No freeman shall be fined or bound,
Or dispossessed of freehold ground,
Except by lawful judgment found
And passed upon him by his peers.
Forget not, after all these years,
The Charter Signed at Runnymede.”
And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the moods of kings,
And crowds and priests and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede!
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Break time
Judith Durham – A Tribute
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The Seekers
I’ll Never Find Another You
(HQ Stereo, 1964/’68)
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The Seekers
The Carnival Is Over
(1967)
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Latino vs Filipino street fight and all I hear is the n-word?
Anyway, no weapons used; no deaths, just a classic brawl with some street rules obviously in play.
The Filipinos won.
5 FILIPINOS VS ALMOST 20 MEXICANS😵🥊
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Biden border policies working as planned.
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Paywallian
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Aggressive, rude, pirate.
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A bloke walking his dog.
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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills 2
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You’ll never keep it a secret with this T shirt
Greta uses the F word
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James Lindsay explains ESG and why all the corporations are going woke to Gonzalo Lira in this Roundtable interview. If you’ve got money tied up in a superannuation fund somewhere, you’re financing this push for corporate wokeness.
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Who would you rather believe, Price or Fitzsimons?
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Mike Tyson isn’t happy
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/08/07/mike-tyson-disney-owned-hulu-stole-my-life-story-im-just-a-nr-they-can-sell-on-the-auction-block/
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Booster Barbie
PhD says…
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Hadley gorn:
OFF THE AIR
‘Fiasco’: Hadley storms out on live radio
Broadcaster Ray Hadley made an abrupt exit from his top-rating morning show, forcing a scramble to replace him.
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That was the Paywallian.
Unfortunately here is the real story
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Joel Jammal:
💣 END THE MANDATE MADNESS! 🇦🇺 ~ Senator Gerard Rennick
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The other Brinny is more interesting than ours.
I’m going for XY.
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George Soros-backed reforms making US cities ‘far more dangerous’
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A bloke walking his dog around some very nice cars.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Supercar Sunday Car Show at Pierce College in Woodland Hills 4
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Mark Dice:
It’s the New WorId Order!
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Will Birmingham fellate the NHS in the closing ceremony of the increasingly irrelevant Commonwealth Games?
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Well worth your time.
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Peter Santenello:
Far out in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska is a very special woman, a “cowgirl” (cattlewoman) by the name of Jaclyn. In this video Jaclyn brings us into her world to give us a close up look at what this lifestyle is like.
A Cowgirl – The Untold Story 🇺🇸
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