Open Thread – Saturday, 10 December 2022

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  1. mh says:

    Economic Crisis: Is the Worst Yet to Come? | Nigel Farage vs Peter Schiff

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D2TF9KiOtQ


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  2. mh says:

    Holland level up with Argentina in added time.


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  3. mh says:

    GOAL! Holland 2-2 Argentina – Wout Weghorst 90+10mins

    That is the best-worked free-kick under pressure you’ll ever see!

    Teun Koopmeiners ran up, declined to shoot, then just passed it forward as the wall jumped up. Into Weghorst, who spins around and rolls the ball home.

    It’s cheeky, it’s inspired. It looks like extra time.


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  4. mh says:

    Activist Danny Lim has been spotted out in Sydney after an arrest which left him hospitalised in November.

    The iconic Sydneysider was spotted at Newtown Station spruiking an event he is part of for Human Rights Day.

    Mr Lim has been in the spotlight after footage of him being slammed to the ground during his arrest went viral, with many viewers condemning the actions of NSW Police officers while they were taking him into custody.

    The footage shows Mr Lim’s head slamming into the ground before the two officers place him in handcuffs.

    The 78-year-old was left with a fractured skull and brain bleed from the arrest and was rushed to St Vincent’s Hospital where he remained for several days.

    Despite being out and about after his trip to hospital, Mr Lim still requires the aid of two walking sticks to stand and walk.

    Those who spotted Mr Lim at the station said in addition to the two walking sticks, he was not standing freely and was leaning against the wall to support himself…

    https://www.couriermail.com.au/breaking-news/detail-reveals-danny-lims-struggle-after-arrest/news-story/e8829e86ca6cdf84afc57d9a3fff72c1


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  5. mh says:

    While NSW cops are bashing 78 year olds, Albanese is looking elsewhere

    The Albanese government is deploying a special form of targeted sanctions for the first time, imposing asset freezes and travel bans on 13 alleged human rights abusers including the head of Iran’s notoriously brutal morality police…


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  6. PerryJ says:

    Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced she has registered as an independent, a renegade move that could bolster her political brand but won’t upend the Democrats’ narrow Senate majority. She says she will not caucus with Republicans.

    Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema switches to independent


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  7. Delta A says:

    Thanks, Perry J. Some great toons in there.


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  8. johanna johanna says:

    Hear, hear, Delta.

    Much appreciated.


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:

    Evidence indicates Biden Admin prioritized WNBA’s Griner over Marine Paul Whelan,
    despite claiming otherwise

    On Thursday morning, the Biden Administration announced that WNBA player Brittney Griner had been freed from a Russian prison in exchange for Viktor Bout, a notorious Russian arms dealer who was known to western intelligence agencies as the “merchant of death.”

    Griner was indeed prioritized over Whelan, and that Moscow allowed the Biden Administration to choose either individual for the one to one swap.

    This is paywalled

    Putin was SCAMMED in Brittney Griner Trade

    The Russkies were holding an American citizen who hit ALL the media’s erogenous zones:

    Black – CHECK!
    Lesbian – CHECK!
    In a gay marriage – CHECK!
    Brought hashish and vaping cartridges into Russia – CHECK!
    Played for the WNBA – CHECK!


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:

    Tories face WIPEOUT at General Election as Reform UK support surges

    Reform UK’s leader Richard Tice has recently vowed that he hopes to play a part in ensuring this “is the last ever Conservative government”…

    More than 7,000 grassroots Conservatives have joined Reform since, i has been told, Liz Truss resigned as prime minister and the party is increasingly confident of MP defections.

    It is understood Mr Tice the party’s founder and Nigel Farage its honorary president, have met several “Red Wall” MPs in recent weeks in an effort to tempt them over to the party.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Protesters

    Free Saxony, [25 Nov 2022 at 15:07]
    In the video: Germany’s most embarrassing climate stickers fly from the Elbphilharmonie!

    More …

    These German climate protestors failed to take something important into consideration when planning to delay a playing of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall: the conductor’s railing they decided to glue themselves to is removable.


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    These people like Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price are such racists. They support the No vote on the Voice. They must really be white people just identifying as indigenous.

    Warren Mundine:
    Don’t let Marcia Langton paint Indigenous opponents of the Voice as nasty race-baiters

    It’s not racist for any Australian to vote No at the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament.

    It’s certainly not racist to vote No to a proposed constitutional amendment that is fundamentally race-based by design.

    Australians shouldn’t feel embarrassed or guilty about voting against a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice.


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  13. Steve trickler says:

    Viktor Bout: Lord of War.

    Lord of War – Intro (HD)


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    Tucker Carlson

    “Jonathan Greenblatt is a petty tyrant…He has taken the helm of a once venerable civil rights organization and has totally corrupted the mission…He has become a two-bit shakedown artist partisan hack.”


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    F*ck off.

    ***********

    Not for sale.
    “Please don’t skip this message. This Saturday December 10th, I invite you to give $2 or whatever seems right. When I set up the Wikimedia Foundation as a nonprofit to host and support Wikipedia, it meant that we could preserve our core values: neutral, high quality information, not outrage and clickbait. Being a nonprofit means there is no danger that someone will buy Wikipedia and turn it into their personal playground. Instead, we rely on donations from readers. If you can this year, please join the 2% of readers who give. Online, Wikipedia is the closest thing we have to a public park or a library where everyone can go to learn. And that’s priceless. If Wikipedia has given you $2 worth of knowledge this year, please donate now, it really matters.” — Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikimedia Foundation


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  16. Old bloke says:

    This could be embarrassing if true, Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ was called up for military service in Ukraine in 2014 but he didn’t turn up at the military base.

    He went instead to play a role in a movie which was shot in Moscow.

    From the 37 minute mark:
    Viktor Bout and Brittney Griner, MBS mediator. Twitter shadow banning. U/1


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  17. Steve trickler says:

    His Wikipedia page was changed overnight when he came out against the C-19 jabs. Prior to that, the MSM loved him.

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    Doc Coleman:

    On 6th December the mainstream media in the UK ran a story about babies being given the toxic, useless covid-19 jab.

    But I reported that this was going to happen a MONTH ago.

    So why did they crooked mainstream media hide the news for a month?

    Were they hoping to release the news when no one would notice because there’s a lot of other news around?

    Or are they just completely useless at reporting the news?

    This website carried my video about the Government giving the useless and toxic covid-19 jab to infants on 9th November 2022.

    We reported the news nearly a month before the British media managed to share it.

    If you missed my video please watch it now. The video is called ‘Covid Jabs: Never before have we been in so much danger’. It was released on http://www.vernoncoleman.org on 9th November 2022 and most people missed it.

    The video is packed with information the mainstream media will never dare tell you. For example, I name the European government which did research over 30 years and concluded that the DTP vaccine was probably killing more children than died from diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus prior to the vaccine’s introduction! I bet the BBC never told you about that. The scientists concluded that the vaccine had ruined the immune systems of children.

    If you have children, or know anyone who has children, you MUST watch this video.

    Vernon Coleman’s book on vaccines and vaccination is called Anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying: here’s the proof. The book is available as a paperback and an eBook. The book and I have been lied about repeatedly, and attempts have been made to suppress it – but it’s available and it’s packed with well-researched facts you won’t see anywhere else.

    Why did the mainstream media suppress the news about doctors giving covid jabs to babies and infants? 8TH DECEMBER 2022


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    The control over your money.

    Vandana Shiva

    It’s worth watching this commentary by Vandana Shiva – where she expresses her concerns over the ‘war on cash’, digital id, social credit systems, WEF, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and The Great Reset. “If ever there was a time for humanity to wake up, now is the time.”

    Maajid Nawaz

    “The Central Banks wants to have “absolute control” over your money”


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    A poll from Jordan Peterson

    By failing to separate the anonymous cowardly troll demons from real people in the comments section @youtube and other SM platforms are enabling sadistic Machiavellian psychopaths and narcissists

    Poll results
    Agree 39.3%
    Disagree 60.7%

    This thread analyses the above tweet from JP.

    A thread on privacy, anonymity, courage and cowardice.

    The thing is @jordanbpeterson you’re right about your observations. Anonymity breeds trolls, keyboard warriors, comment monkeys and all sorts of basement dwelling losers.

    BUT…it also does so much more…
    Anonymity also helps defend truth, freedom, dissent, civil disobedience and humour – all which are essential to a robust and functional civilisation.


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  20. PerryJ says:

    Delta, I know that some here (including you) have said that they enjoy the comics. But I wasn’t sure if anyone was checking the toons. You (and johanna) have read my mind 😎 and let me know.
    It depends on the cartoonists. Sometimes there are good toons and sometimes ordinary ones.


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  21. Steve trickler says:

    We do, Perry.

    **********

    Bald and Bankrupt:

    🇻🇳 It’s miraculous that the nation of Vietnam even exists because for over 1000 years mightier neighbours have been trying to invade and subjugate it, be that the Mongols, Chinese, French or USA. Yet the Vietnamese held on and defended their land thanks to leaders like Ho Chi Minh. Well I flew in with two friends to explore this proud nation and to re-visit some of its darker past. Join me in this the first part of the journey.

    The Nation That Would Not Submit 🇻🇳


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  22. mh says:

    We’re seeing a lot of this

    Grant Wahl, longtime soccer journalist, dies at age 48 in Qatar while covering World Cup

    Grant Wahl, longtime soccer journalist, has died in Qatar after collapsing at a stadium while covering the 2022 World Cup, according to statements posted on line by his widow and brother.

    Wahl is one of the best-known soccer writers in the United States. He died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.

    U.S. media seated near him said Wahl was stricken at Lusail Iconic Stadium during extra time and could not be revived…


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  23. Bazinga says:

    Moscow allowed the Biden Administration to choose either individual for the one to one swap.

    No doubt so they could show how morally bankrupt the west has become


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  24. Steve trickler says:

    Have a squiz.

    **********

    Kurt Caz:

    First day out back in the motherland, things take a turn.

    Escaping The Zombies of Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪


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  25. Cold-Hands says:

    Owing to some technical problems, Powerline’s Week in Pictures was late today. Here is The Week in Pictures: Twits Everywhere Edition


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  26. JohnJJJ says:

    Vic Bout, da merchant of death no less, seems interesting, despite the Hollywood depictions. RT has a summary interview. Seems his hobby is languages including speaking Zulu, Arabic, Xhosa, Portuguese and Farsi. And he was swapped for a ball bouncer. What a world we live in.


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  27. mh says:

    England out of WC losing 2 – 1

    The penalty nightmare continues for England, with Harry Kane blasting over the bar.


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  28. mh says:

    Courier Paywall

    ‘Failed at every level’: Fears of cover-up as quarantine suicide inquest reveals blunders

    An army officer has sensationally accused Queensland Health of pressuring her to give false evidence to a coroner’s investigation into the hotel quarantine suicide of a childhood friend of Annastacia Palaszczuk


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  29. mh says:

    Ari Emanuel: Blacks Must Reject The Politics of Division and Unite With Jews Against Whites

    Chris Menahan
    InformationLiberation
    Dec. 10, 2022

    https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63496


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  30. mh says:

    Russian Media LAUGHS AT USA For Brittney Griner Prisoner Swap!

    Anthony Brian Logan
    972K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTczfvH-AYs


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  31. Shy Ted says:

    Keep it up, Perry. I think it must be very hard for cartoonists to do simple and naive cartoons every day just because of the world we live in. Same for other posters, keep it up. If you compare this to another blog of a similar name, while it has many more posters it’s just wall to wall, floor to ceiling Convid every day. 3 years of it! Despite everything having been proved many times to be a lie. We mustn’t get like that.
    For my own little part I’m having great difficulty finding memes and such that aren’t part of the narrative now.
    Mind you, sometimes there’s one I wouldn’t normally post but it’s just so ridiculous that. What would you do if you were this old bloke?


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  32. johanna johanna says:

    Ted at 10.23 – yikes!

    Can I add that your guest posts are great value, and unlike those seen elsewhere.


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  33. Old bloke says:

    It’s miraculous that the nation of Vietnam even exists because for over 1000 years mightier neighbours have been trying to invade and subjugate it, be that the Mongols, Chinese, French or USA. Yet the Vietnamese held on and defended their land thanks to leaders like Ho Chi Minh.

    That’s a rather simplistic take on the situation, Vietnam is a recent invention and it certainly isn’t 1,000 years old.

    French colonists created French Indo-China out of five separate countries, these were Cambodia, Laos, Tonkin, Annam and Cochin. The French gave independence to Laos and Cambodia and retained control of the other three countries, to which it gave the name Vietnam.

    Those three countries fought for their independence from France and eventually won, but the southern countries, Annam (capital Hue) and Cochin (capital Saigon) wanted their full independence and didn’t want to be ruled by Tonkin (capital Hanoi).

    One of the reasons that the North Vietnamese won that war was because the southern countries continued to use the French name, i.e., South Vietnam, instead of reasserting themselves as Cochin and Annam. To the western viewer, the Vietnam War appeared to be a civil-war rather than a war of conquest by Tonkin of its neighbours, and as a civil war rather than an external conquest, support for the war diminished in the West.


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  34. Old bloke says:

    With the Minsk Agreements between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine would recognise Russia’s rights to Crimea and Russia would recognise Ukraine’s sovereignty over the Donbas and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine (formerly parts of Russia which Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, gave away to Ukraine.)

    The agreements also required that Ukraine would stop killing its Russian ethnic population in Luhansk, Donbas, and other formerly Russian cities and regions like Kharkiv, Kherson, and Odessa.

    Since 2014 the Ukrainians have been indiscriminately attacking the predominately Russian cities in Ukraine to draw Russia into a war which erupted in February.

    When the war began in February, the EU froze Russian assets in Europe which included around $300 Billion in foreign reserves held in European banks. The EU now wants to seize rather than just freeze these assets but it can’t do so under international law. The EU and its member states are now going to declare the Russian Federation as a terrorist organisation which will allow it to take those frozen assets, but who is really the terrorist organisation?

    Indiscriminate shelling and rocket fire into civilian population centres is a terrorist act, yet the EU will declare the Russians as the terrorists.

    Ukraine Fires Rockets On Center Donetsk Killing Many (Civilians Under fire)


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  35. Shy Ted says:

    Old but cropping up again. All those famous types being outed for their proclivities
    Young Tony
    Older Tony
    Tony at the top


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    A Credible Conservative Warrior Emerges to Lead the RNC

    There have been several interesting suggestions for RNC chairman. Lee Zeldin, the candidate for governor in New York who made a strong showing by going on the offense against far-left Democrats; Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder who has become an election fraud crusader following the 2020 presidential fraud; and Scott Presler, the grassroots community organizer who has registered thousands of Republicans on the ground around the country.

    But one stands out above the rest: conservative civil rights attorney and California RNC committeewoman Harmeet K. Dhillon.

    Dhillon’s record makes her uniquely qualified for the position. She is intimately aware of crucial America First issues and has her finger on the pulse of the movement. There is a wide variety of high-profile cases that Dhillon’s firm has taken on that have national ramifications for defending constitutional freedom.


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:

    Brazilian Election

    1/
    Brazilian Congressman Breaks Down Election Fraud Claims

    Congressman Luiz Philippe breaks down the latest happening in Brazil between Lula da Silva and President Jair Bolsonaro.

    2/
    Bolsonaro breaks the silence and warns.
    “Everything will work out in due time”

    3/
    There are a number of tweets here in Portuguese.
    If anyone is willing to go through each tweet – with the Google translate available below the tweet (assuming one can trust the translation), it may have more info.


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  38. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Twitter Blacklisting of Jay Bhattacharya

    This week Twitter released a set of internal emails and documents from before Elon Musk’s takeover of the company in October. One of the revelations was that Dr. Bhattacharya, among many others, had been censored and shadow-banned (tweets hidden in various ways) by Twitter.

    Screenshots from an internal Twitter content-moderation system showed that his account was tagged with a label of “Trends Blacklist,” which ensured that his tweets would never make it to the algorithmic trending topics on Twitter’s front page.


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:

    If you’ve already had your 5 Covid vaxxes plus your 17th booster shot,
    you will be eagerly looking forward to this.

    WEF – Universal mRNA flu vaccine

    Source: World Economic Forum (Youtube)


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  40. Steve trickler says:

    Heated debate.

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

    Doc Coleman:

    Vernon gets cross on live TV in 1993 and says the ‘F’ word.

    Prozac – Live TV Debate (1993)


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:

    And a little bit of this and that.

    Moja
    .

    Mbili
    .

    Tatu
    .


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:

    Victor Bout interview

    International arms dealer Victor Bout has given his first interview after being released from US custody

    The interviewer is Maria Butina, who was also formerly imprisoned in the US as an unregistered foreign agent


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:

    👼 Advent: Third Sunday 👼

    Veni, Veni, Emmanuel

    This Advent carol is sung here in Traditional Latin.

    In this video, the CC (Subtitles/Captions) are ON by default, I think. However, if they are not, and you are in a meditative mood or want the English translation, then just click the CC link in the video.


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  44. mh says:

    Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz says

    Jon Stewart: “Jews and blacks should get together and get whitey”

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

    ***

    Strange thing is the Jews cancelled Kyrie Irving for simply tweeting a link to a doco From Hebrews to Negros available on Amazon.


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  45. mh says:

    Football’s not coming home.

    And they can’t afford to heat the house.

    But who doesn’t love snow

    SNOWED IN UK weather forecast: Travel chaos with trains delayed and crashes on motorways as snow covers Britain in -10C chill

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20715967/uk-weather-forecast-four-inches-of-snow/


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  46. mh says:

    Down to the last Ukranian

    Breitbart

    McCaul Calls for More Arms to Ukraine to Destroy Russian Military

    Incoming House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) called for arms to Ukraine to help destroy the Russian military as public officials have increasingly warned about the prospect of a “major war” between the West and Russia.

    CBS News asked McCaul about House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) claim that a House Republican majority would not send a “blank check” to Ukraine.

    McCaul did not speak to any limitations on aid to Ukraine; instead, the Texas Republican spoke about how arming Ukraine is doing well to destroy the Russian military.

    “I support Ukraine. I think going with the amount of investment we’ve had is very small relative to destroying the Russian military. And that’s what we’ve done without one American soldier being attacked, killed, or in country. To me, that’s a pretty good investment,” McCaul said in a Friday interview with CBS News.


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  47. mh says:

    It’s starting to look a lot like Labor

    The Age

    As a factional feud erupts in Victorian Labor, plumbers’ union secretary and right-wing powerbroker Earl Setches is accused of repeatedly headbutting a union rival at a Christmas party.


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  48. Steve trickler says:

    Premiered on 11 Dec 2020.

    This is the winning video of the #EnterTheWorldOfHansZimmer contest by Shahrzad Mazloumsaki for the composition Inception: Time – Orchestra Version by Hans Zimmer.

    Hans Zimmer – Inception: Time – Orchestra Version


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  49. Shy Ted says:

    It’s not funny but it really is. Click “view”
    Competition you can’t win


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  50. mh says:

    “I support Ukraine. I think going with the amount of investment we’ve had is very small relative to destroying the Russian military. And that’s what we’ve done without one American soldier being attacked, killed, or in country. To me, that’s a pretty good investment,” McCaul said in a Friday interview with CBS News.

    Who cannot be reminded of this:

    “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”
    — Henry Kissinger


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  51. Old bloke says:

    This German ‘coup’ plot sounds like a German January 6th setup. The ‘plotters’ appear to be a small group of old blokes who have no influence over anything, they are not the Baader-Meinholf gang reincarnated.

    I think it’s part of the German Government’s plan to ban the AfD Party, one of the coup group had some prior association with the AfD so the government can use that association to ban the party.

    The AfD Party has been growing in popularity; they are opposed to mass immigration, the compulsory vaxx program, and are opposed to Germany’s support for the Ukraine regime. The pain from the deindustrialisation of Germany would probably give the AfD the majority vote, the Germans don’t want to return to horse drawn vehicles and cold cabbage soup every night for dinner, so the AfD must be banned now.


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  52. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver
    the Green Agenda – that’s ‘NOT GREEN’

    We aren’t allowed the energy available from a century of gas beneath our feet here in Britain – because it’s not Green. But we’re paying top dollar for nine billion cubic litres – twice as much as last year’s order – of gas fracked out of the ground in the US.


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  53. kaysee kaysee says:

    Robby Starbuck

    Navy SEAL Chris Beck came out in 2013 as transgender. @andersoncooper did a special on @cnn about it. His story was used as propaganda to allow trans people in the military and to popularize the issue. Now Chris is ready to expose the truth.

    Full story here.
    Trans Navy SEAL Detransitions, Warns Young People & Exposes The VA!
    This is the Real Story of Chris Beck!


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  54. kaysee kaysee says:

    Great Reset:
    UK Prepares to Introduce a ‘Digital Pound’ Central Bank Digital Currency

    The de facto head of His Majesty’s Treasury announced this week that the Bank of England has begun consultations on implementing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) that could usher in the globalist vision of a cashless society in which all transactions are traceable by the government.

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt revealed that, as a part of his ‘Edinburgh Reforms’ of Britain’s financial services, the Bank of England will begin consultations on the design of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which would act as a digital version of the pound sterling….

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who was essentially endorsed by Chinese state media in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as PM — which he lost — and who married into the multi-billion Infosys tech dynasty in India, has been at the forefront of pushing for the introduction of a CBDC in Britain.

    Central Bank Digital Currencies are also heavily supported by the globalist Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF), which listed it among the technologies that will “change the world by 2027“.


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  55. Steve trickler says:

    The clip comes with a great tune.

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    Tony Heller:

    12 Dec 2022
    In 2018 Newsweek said sea level might rise by 30 feet in the next eighty years, and that it is Marco Rubio’s fault. If Newsweek were correct, sea level would be up eighteen inches since they wrote the article.

    Miami Drowning


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  56. Steve trickler says:

    Tony Heller:

    “A genuine expert can always foretell a thing that is 500 years away easier than he can a thing that’s only 500 seconds off.”

    – Mark Twain

    Your Tax Dollars At Work


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  57. Steve trickler says:

    Marcel Irnie:

    France had its first of many power outtages amd the Woke government created an app called ECOWATTS as a solution to warn Frace residents of future power outtages coming.

    France Lost Power & Restarts Coal Plant – New Power Outtage App ECOWATTS is Woke Solution 😳


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  58. mh says:

    Jacinda Ardern is preparing to strip out unpopular parts of her government’s agenda and cut spending, but denies an ugly byelection loss suggests New Zealanders are ready to turn on her government.

    Labour were 16-point losers in the weekend’s byelection in Hamilton West, an electorate with a long-standing record of reflecting the national mood.

    I expect the Opposition is WEF anyway.

    It’s just that Jacinda is world champion fellator of Klaus.


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  59. Shy Ted says:

    The movie 1984 was on last week, just watched it. We’re well on the way. Gonna need bigger pitchforks.


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  60. Cold-Hands says:

    One of the Upper House cross benchers who sold Victorians out to Dan has got her comeuppance.

    Reason Party leader Fiona Patten has conceded defeat in her bid to retain a seat in Victoria’s upper house in the state’s election.

    In a statement, Ms Patten described the result as “disappointing” but said it was a privilege to serve two terms in parliament.

    “I would like to thank the voters for giving me an extraordinary eight years as a lawmaker. I tried every day to make things a little better and fairer,” she said.

    “I was honoured to be welcomed to so many parts of so many communities.”

    Key points:
    Fiona Patten was seeking re-election for a third term in Victoria’s Legislative Council
    Ms Patten was first elected to the upper house in 2014
    Former Labor MP Adem Somyurek is set to win a seat in the upper house after switching to the Democratic Labour Party
    Ms Patten was seeking re-election in the Northern Metropolitan Region but has not gained enough votes to retain her seat.


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  61. Cold-Hands says:

    Forgot to include the link.


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