Open Thread – Saturday, 11 December 2021

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  1. mh says:

    Jussie Smollett FULL Interview on alleged attack | ABC News Exclusive

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLx5OY21Bk


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  2. mh says:

    From 2 days ago

    Senator Hanson Addresses Another Huge Crowd In Warwick At Anti-Jab Mandate Event

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyklPSAhna0


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  3. Steve trickler says:

    These blokes are champions.

    ***

    Adventures with Purpose:

    John Zarkowski, 72, a Veteran of the Marine Corps who served his country in Vietnam, went missing after he was last seen driving his Chevy Tahoe at 4:30 A.M. September 3rd, 2021.

    This missing person documentary brings you alongside Adventures With Purpose’s search on September 21st, 2021, following the clues John left behind, leading to the discovery of where John and his SUV had gone missing in the Missouri River 2-weeks earlier, before being found and recovered by AWP.

    SOLVED: Missing 72-year-old Marine Veteran Found Underwater in SUV (John Zarkowski)

    1:27:05


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  4. egg_ says:

    “Tonight we go on a journey, a journey into sound…”

    One that may interest Trickler.

    IIRC a theme tune popular on Voice of America shortwave radio in the 70s (an outro for their Current Affairs bulletins?) was the third movement of contemporary US composer Ernest Bloch’s “Suite Modale for flute and string orchestra” (c. 1956).

    They may have used this recording by Kiwi flautist Alexa Still and the NZSO from 1957.

    III. Allegro giocoso starts at c. the 5 min mark:

    Ernest Bloch : Suite Modale for flute and string orchestra B. 95 (1957)

    Alexa Still is still playing and teaching to this day and has a YT channel.


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  5. egg_ says:

    I note that on the album cover Alexa is depicted as playing on the beach with a view to the distant mountains.

    A user comment on a modern recording by the Israel Camerata Jerusalem Orchestra:

    Bloch wrote this while living at Agate Beach, Oregon. He looked west out over the Pacific Ocean. Finally, at age 76, he had some Peace (Pacific) and his own home. Of course he was OLD, and this has deep Nostalgia. Overall?—-satisfied with his life, I’d say. Perhaps he was still able to romp with his grandchildren on the sand. (2nd and 3rd movements.) He had to know that he wouldn’t see them grow fully into adults.
    Very fine performance!



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  6. Steve trickler says:

    Cheers, Egg. I had to look and found this visual. Always on the music hunt. 👍

    Suite Modale by Ernest Bloch


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  7. Cardimona says:

    Firstborn’s column…

    *******

    “Greens on mission to erase women from law” – via Townsville Bulletin

    In the final sitting week of the year, the Greens sought to cancel the word “woman” from new laws, to appease 0.06 per cent of the birthing population who identify as men.

    Seeking to “omit the word woman” and insert “pregnant person” 23 times, Greens MP Abigail Boyd also sought to “resist the creep towards foetal personhood”.

    Revealing their legislative skill-set ends at the copy-paste shortcut on a keyboard, the Greens even sought to cancel women from a bill that by its very nature requires the XX chromosome to be relevant – Zoe’s Law – which means offenders whose criminal acts cause the loss of an unborn child face longer sentences.

    After at least four attempts at similar reforms in the past, the law creates two offences, each adding up to three years to sentences for crimes that result in the loss of a foetus, recognising the loss of an unborn child as a unique injury to a pregnant woman.

    So how do the Greens pretend to care about women when they want to wipe womanhood from legislation? There are plenty of other issues where Ms Boyd recognises the reality of chromosomes, anatomy and assigned sex, including on the number of incarcerated Indigenous women, underreported sexual assaults on women, and the pay inequality between women’s and men’s professional sports.

    It’s just pregnancy where women must be omitted.

    Who would have thought out of all political parties, it would be the Greens Greens MP Abigail Boyd purporting possibly one of the grossest acts of misogyny ever seen in public life? A gender-non-conforming party wouldn’t use slurs like “close your legs”, but that’s exactly what Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe said to Senator Hollie Hughes last week.

    A gender-non-conforming party wouldn’t support violence against women, such as the anti-coal protesters in Queensland abusing and chasing down female workers on remote land, calling one “a f***ing dumb slut”.

    Of the 35,000 people who gave birth in 2019, only 22 identified as male. How misogynistic does a party need to be to wipe the childbirth and delivery efforts of 34,978 women, for the sake of 22 people who only got pregnant thanks to a uterus and ovary? With Greens leader Adam Bandt publicly seeking a “power-sharing” arrangement with Labor, there’s a very real threat that these fringe ideologies could be mandated under Australian law.

    It’s not hard to see how damaging it would be for women if non-gendered terms replace biological sex data that governments need to fund things unique to women – like physiotherapy for pelvic floor damage in pregnancy and childbirth, or ovarian cancer, which kills three Aussie women every day.

    The party that claims to champion women and calls for gender targets wipes women from the same framework that gave them the right to be in parliament in the first place.

    Women are four times more likely to experience sexual violence and we pay more in private health premiums than men.

    From the provision of natal-care spaces, to services for menopause, female data is vital for government services.

    Either the Greens want more women in power, or they want to cancel them from the political process by removing them from laws intended to provide justice to pregnant women and their unborn children.

    Equality for women relies on legislation that recognises biological sexual differences.

    That’s how we got the right to vote and own property.

    When Dame Enid Lyons first entered the House of Representatives in 1943, men feared women in government. They thought we were “better with a broom”.

    Dame Lyons was the first to speak up for female welfare where, during the war, “roughly, a man receives twice as much as a woman”. As Dame Lyons said: “Is it really proposed … to bribe women into matrimony, or to starve them into submission?”

    Politicians should know the difference between discriminating against gender identity and discriminating against sex.

    Sex is assigned at birth. It’s either male or female. Gender is society’s set of expectations about how they should act.

    A person who identifies as a man or is gender nonconforming still has ovaries and uterus of their assigned sex of a female, which allows them to get pregnant and give birth.

    Gender is a construct, and all power to anyone who rejects gender norms. But how do we swing that to argue that gender identity is so important that we should rewrite the law to say that men are birthgivers? The human anatomy that allows that to happen is that of a woman.

    Once we were women, and now we are dehumanised in order to be more humane to those who identify as men.

    Now we are chest-feeders, bleeders, uterus-bearers, cervix owners and “bodies with vaginas” – reduced to mere misogynistic symbols, as if the feminine experience is a perfumed, glossy-lipped, worshipped wonder and not a bloody, messy waterbreaking, breast-leaking, pelvic-floor weakening, life-giving glory.

    The reason language matters is because words are too important to mince.

    The sexual abuse of a minor is the sexual abuse of a child.

    Non-consensual sex is rape.

    And a pregnant person is a woman.


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  8. struth says:

    Ah, socialism just sat me on me arse again, …….Both of these jobs gone again.
    Will have a lot more time to annoy people now.
    Congratulations to Cardimona on winning preselection for the UAP in his electorate of Kennedy.
    I have been short listed in my electorate, but hope fading fast………


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    With all the sh*t going down, these songs take on a whole new meaning.

    Men At Work – Overkill (Video Version)


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  10. Delta A says:

    Excellent column, Cardi.


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  11. mh says:

    ‘Congratulations to Cardimona on winning preselection for the UAP in his electorate of Kennedy.’

    ***

    Katter vs Cardimona.
    Cardi will be almost famous when he is swept to victory.


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  12. egg_ says:

    I do not want them to change tack; that would save them. On the contrary, they are my enemies so I want them destroyed. And the very best way is for them to destroy themselves by their own actions.

    Hear! Hear!

    Looks like our Glad is letting Scummo fall on his own sword after he thoroughly destroyed her well deserved “Gold standard” in her response to the Coof, to suit his own personal political agenda; vs Stairmaster Dan’s dog’s breakfast of “COVID Zero”.

    Karmic.


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  13. mh says:

    Russell Brand

    Err, Trevor Noah “Anti-Vax”?! Can’t We Question Big Pharma??!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etPXtIRV-II


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  14. egg_ says:

    IIRC a theme tune popular on Voice of America shortwave radio in the 70s (an outro for their Current Affairs bulletins?)

    Short wave radio was kind of the Intarwebs of their day.

    Hilversum Holland had a good pop music program in the day, featuring Euro and other artists IIRC – kinda the equivalent of modern Eurovision with its querky, odd ESL style of presentation.


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  15. mh says:

    Kerry Chant concerned about rising cases in the fully vaxxed.

    https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1469174310635925508?s=20


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  16. egg_ says:

    The Happy Station Show was one of the world’s longest-running international radio programmes, having originated in 1928 on shortwave radio and airing its final edition on 27 December 2020.[1] The original show followed a format of light entertainment, special guests, music, and information about Dutch life. Later, the show pioneered international call-in shows, in both the English and Spanish versions, during the 1970s. Happy Station was PCJJ and then Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s most popular programme, claiming an audience of as high as 100 million in the 1930s[2] and 25 million in the 1970s.[3]

    Happy Station’s run was interrupted twice — from 1940 until 1946 due to World War II and again from 1995 when it was cancelled until its revival in 2009.[4] The revived programme was not affiliated with Radio Netherlands Worldwide or RNW Media.”
    …..
    User “Telstar” from vintage radio:
    “In the 1980’s I used to listen to Hilversum III from Holland when they had shows that featured pop music, and also BRT (Belgium). These programmes did not have continuous all day music, but I discovered many interesting records (rock and pop) from these countries.
    Radio Ten Gold (from Holland) was the best. It is a shame that this station is now no longer on medium wave. Probably it became more popular than the BBC, and that was not allowed at that time?”
    …..
    “Tom Meijer took over and hosted the English and Spanish versions from January 1970 until his own retirement in 1993. Born Thomas Hendrik Meijer on November 16, 1938, he was known as “Tom Meyer” by international audiences.[19]

    Meijer studied to be a pharmacist. before switching to law, but found he preferred music and theatre. He became a semi-professional touring performer for two years, appearing occasionally on television and radio while holding down a job in international marketing.[19]

    Meijer hosted English and Spanish versions of the show for 15 hours on Sundays as it was broadcast to different areas around the globe. Under his tutelage, the show pioneered live international phone-in shows. However, its format remained largely musically based, Meijer’s musical tastes were more contemporary than Startz’s and tended to be in the easy listening genre, with Meijer himself sometimes performing songs. World music would also be played. Meijer also encouraged listener interaction with the show, with a mailbag segment and a listener birthday feature, the Birthday Book, where he would wish read out the names of listeners whose birthdays coincided with that week’s airdate and wish them a happy birthday. There were “No more “cuppa’s”, no more animal farm or Sousa marches, but live shows from outside locations; travel stories with sound effects, recorded on the spot by Meyer; the famous “birthday-book”; dramatized Easter Egg Hunts; and to top it all: live inter-continental telephone call-in shows”[20] The show also ran a pen pal club encouraging listeners across the world to write each other.[19]”


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  17. mh says:

    ‘Dr. Vladimir Zelenko ZStackLife.com/alex joins The Alex Jones Show to break down how the spike protein from the COVID-19 vaccine causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.’


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  18. mh says:

    Michael Nesmith, brown bread.


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  19. Shy Ted says:

    Making my own Christmas cards this year – cover


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  20. Shy Ted says:

    And the Times’ Athlete of the Year….. didn’t participate


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  21. Shy Ted says:

    Struth knocking it out of the park this morning over at Freedom
    Will this cause any of our overlords to change their ways? Answers must be no longer than 2 letters


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  22. mh says:

    GQ Magazine
    @GQMagazine
    · Jan 30, 2019
    The racist, homophobic attack on Jussie Smollett is far-right America’s endgame http://gq.mn/KFQxGUL


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  23. mh says:

    The Age

    ‘Babies are more likely to be born prematurely on hot days, new research has found, prompting calls for actions to mitigate the effects of climate change.’


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:

    Disclose.tv

    Seven triple-vaccinated Germans become infected with #Omicron in South Africa. 6 of the 7 had the Pfizer/BioNTech “booster” dose (Tagesspiegel)



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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    Cardimona, congratulations on the first step of winning UAP preselection.

    struth, I hope you get preselected in your electorate. How many on the short-list?


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Kerry Chant concerned about rising cases in the fully vaxxed.

    I am glad that there have been restrictions so non-injected have not been able to travel or get into pubs and clubs.

    The rising Covid cases are caused by the jabbed. They thought taking the jabs meant they could go back to their normal partying life. Now Dr Chanting says if they have the slightest symptom they should stay away. Good luck with that.

    The cases are not in the supermarkets that the non-injected second class citizens are permitted to enter.

    Now there is proof that Omicron has been transmitted between the jabbed, has been brought into the country by the jabbed, and if there is a spread it will be due to the jabbed.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Struth knocking it out of the park this morning over at Freedom
    Will this cause any of our overlords to change their ways? Answers must be no longer than 2 letters

    Shy Ted/struth,

    I have spent the better part of the past hour trying to make sense of what has been posted (FWC Decision and Video)

    Jennifer Kimber lost her appeal to the full bench. The majority upheld the decision.

    The video is titled:
    YUGE!! Aussie Court Rules Mandatory Jabs Violate Free and Informed Consent and therefore break the law.

    Tanya Davies is reading from the Dissenting Opinion. The dissent makes very important points that can be used in future cases, but the court majority is in favour of the mandatory jabs. There is some misinformation via the video and its title.

    Ms Kimber lost her case of unfair dismissal.

    There is a better explanation of the case here.


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  28. mh says:

    George Christensen:

    The other attack point was that I even went on Infowars and spoke to Alex Jones at all. To that charge, let me quote conservative activist Candace Owens (from a post to her Facebook page this week): “Everybody knows that you’re not allowed to talk to Alex Jones… which is exactly why I decided to speak with Alex Jones… I don’t follow rules established by authoritarian cowards.” Amen to that.


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    Oh really?

    ****

    WION:

    The British Parliament is ‘rotting with drug abuse’. Cocaine traces have been found at multiple locations inside the parliament. Instead of holding MPs to account, UK PM Boris Johnson has launched a #WarOnDrugs to pin the blame on ‘drug gangs’. Palki Sharma explains.

    Gravitas: The British Parliament is ‘rotting with drug abuse’


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    What are we up for this week?

    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #74


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  31. Steve trickler says:

    Del Bigtree:

    Thanks to the legal action of Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, the FDA has been forced to release Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trial data. Despite just 12k of some 451,000 pages have been released, already these documents reveal previously undisclosed reported injuries and deaths.

    NEW PFIZER DOCS REVEAL UNSEEN HARMS


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    No doubt about the harm

    Covid-19 Vaccine Manufacturers Can Harm You With Near Complete Impunity

    Imagine that in order to keep your job, the government requires you to take a pill that only protects you, and not others, and if you are harmed by that pill, you can’t sue the company that makes and sells the pill. Seems dystopian? Well, it is. But it is exactly what is occurring with Covid-19 vaccines.



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  33. Steve trickler says:

    Rukshan, is clearly being throttled on sussietube.


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  34. egg_ says:

    Is it confirmation that your career has tanked when you’re a guest on SBS Celebrity Letters and Numbers, their PC remake of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, also shown on SBS?


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Security experts scramble to fix ‘worst possible’ computer bug, known as Log4Shell, on MILLIONS of servers

    Security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst computer vulnerabilities discovered in years, a critical flaw in open-source code widely used across industry and government in cloud services and enterprise software.

    “I’d be hard-pressed to think of a company that’s not at risk,” said Joe Sullivan, chief security officer for Cloudflare, whose online infrastructure protects websites from malicious actors.

    Untold millions of servers have it installed, and experts said the fallout would not be known for several days.



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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    Onya, Mum!

    Great mother-daughter musical duo.


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:

    2/

    Loituma Ieva’s Polka w/ Lyrics

    “Ievan Polkka” or “Ievan Polokka”, (Savo Finnish for “Eva’s Polka”) is a popular Finnish song with lyrics written in the early 1930s by Eino Kettunen to a traditional Finnish polka tune.



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  38. mh says:

    Great stuff from Our Pauline. The crowds are huge.
    I doubt the Redlands has seen political meetings like this ever.

    Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
    33.8K subscribers
    SUBSCRIBE
    I want to say thank you to the organisers of the ONE Redlands – We Stand Together: Jab Mandate Response Meeting for inviting me to speak.

    It was a great turnout and seeing so many Queenslanders turn up to support ending these coercive, bullying jab mandates fills you with hope!

    The media continues to ignore the huge groundswell of support we are building but if we keep turning up and we keep making our voices heard we will make a difference!

    If anyone is interested in supporting One Nation’s efforts to overturn these un-Australian mandates visit the link below.

    SUPPORT: https://www.onenation.org.au/support

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbeo5K1M8x8


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  39. V I Lenin says:

    Just reading , the the Afghan intervention cost US taxpayers $14trillion in the ten years it lasted , of that money $7trillion ended up in the pockets of wealthy US companies .
    Could the Ukraine “concern” be a plan to commence milking the US taxpayers again ?
    US presence in Ukraine is the equivelent of Russian presence in Cuba , totally unacceptable .


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  40. mh says:

    I like this guy on GBNews.
    Ok, he has a silly haircut, but his monologues cut through:

    Mark Dolan: Labour and the Tories are in a coalition, and it’s the coalition from hell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxlUHQV_OQ4


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  41. Steve trickler says:

    V I Lenin says:
    December 11, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    Back, are you?


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  42. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Heading to Melbourne tomorrow to have a looksee at the protest. Looking forward to it


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  43. mh says:

    God bless Tucker

    Senator Alex Antic
    Yesterday at 12:51 ·
    Great to join Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News to talk about bureaucratic overreach in Australia, the lessons for the United States and how I remain detained against my will in a “medi hotel” despite 4 negative COVID tests.
    Watch below:-

    https://www.facebook.com/SenatorAntic


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  44. mh says:

    The Sun

    TORY MUTINY Five new Tory MPs have demanded scandal-hit Boris Johnson QUITS over Partygate

    ***

    These Tory MPs should watch Mark Dolan above, then understand the real reasons Boris should quit.
    It’s a Covid shit-show.


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  45. Cold-Hands Cold-Hands says:

    Hoping I’m logged in- got some weird dialogue screen rather than a confirnation.

    This weeks WiP, the Smoldering Smollett Edition.


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  46. Cold-Hands Cold-Hands says:

    Tanya Davies is reading from the Dissenting Opinion. The dissent makes very important points that can be used in future cases, but the court majority is in favour of the mandatory jabs.

    Further to that dissenting opinion. The Commissioner who delivered it has agreed to recuse herself from further cases of this nature. Following a complaint, Fair Work Deputy President Lyndall Dean has been directed by the President of FWA to a) undergo mandatory re-education (“training”).
    b) has been excluded from the full panel (of FWA) until she has been completed that training.
    & c) “agreed” not to judge disputes related to future workplace vaccinations on “grounds of bias”.

    So this fix is in; Fair Work Deputy President Lyndall Dean has been effectively nobbled.


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  47. Barking Toad says:

    WIP – gotta chortle at the Keith/Willie one!

    Thanks Cold-Hands


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  48. mh says:

    Latest Russell Brand

    Australian Covid Quarantine Camps: Is THIS The Future??

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBHkd3sXxT8

    ***

    No comedy in this one.


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  49. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP
    @CraigKellyMP
    ·
    1h
    GOOD MORNING NEWCASTLE.

    See you all soon for a big Sunday.

    Standing up for our Freedom.

    Standing up for our Human Rights.

    Sending a message to Perrottet that we say NO to his tyranny, medical apartheid & Human Rights abuses.

    UNITED WE STAND


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  50. mh says:

    December 11, 2021 at 9:51 pm
    Heading to Melbourne tomorrow to have a looksee at the protest. Looking forward to it

    ***

    Make sure you file a report here Black Ball on the Melbourne CBD protests.


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  51. cohenite says:

    Sunday’s Lame Pics from Mark A:

    https://imgur.com/a/KJJwFOG


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  52. mh says:

    ‘Joe Biden snubbed the Army-Navy football game on Saturday, opting instead to remain in his home state of Delaware.

    The internet couldn’t help but notice Biden’s absence at the Army-Navy game at the MetLife Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey, which has been customarily attended by former U.S. presidents.’


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  53. mh says:

    Fox News

    ‘CNN producer, former Chris Cuomo staffer arrested for allegedly inducing minors for sex’


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  54. Shy Ted says:

    Morning all. 2 things –

    kaysee says: December 11, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    My bad. guess I was just being optimistic that somebody was actually on our side.

    egg_ says: December 11, 2021 at 7:41 pm
    Is it confirmation that your career has tanked when you’re a guest on SBS Celebrity Letters and Numbers, their PC remake of 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown, also shown on SBS?

    Funny but I’ve been meaning to make a comment about that for a few days. If you haven’t seen the ad on SBS you really should. It’s just awful. Such an awful ad really deserves a viewing. It’s got letters. It’s got numbers. And dull people you’ve never heard of. Try and grab a few minutes and support my proposal to the people running Gitmo that enforced viewing would bring better results than waterboarding.


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  55. Shy Ted says:

    And in daily WTF? news
    Doctor Whocares Just the first paragraph.
    ABC, ALP, Greens staff have collective orgasm
    Read teh comments, too. Such as –

    Australian men are the most depraved perverts in the entire world and are hated wherever they travel to. That is NOT the fault of Australian women. Get back under your rock.

    And the ?chap who wrote it


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  56. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    In Melbourne now. Still on bus to our destination. What a ghastly joint it is.


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  57. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    At Parliament House now. Looks a smaller crowd than other weeks


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  58. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Demography suggests a lot of people 50 plus. Heaps of rozzers. And some amazingly gorgeous women


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  59. egg_ says:

    TORY MUTINY Five new Tory MPs have demanded scandal-hit Boris Johnson QUITS over Partygate

    Boris must be in danger when the above is even trending on your MS News ticker at the bottom of your Windows 10 screen.

    Boris Zero?


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  60. egg_ says:

    Funny but I’ve been meaning to make a comment about that for a few days. If you haven’t seen the ad on SBS you really should. It’s just awful. Such an awful ad really deserves a viewing. It’s got letters. It’s got numbers. And dull people you’ve never heard of. Try and grab a few minutes and support my proposal to the people running Gitmo that enforced viewing would bring better results than waterboarding.

    Looks like they’re trying to spice it up with some “edgy” banter, trying to mimic 8 out of 10 Cats wit:
    When choosing letters: “I love the “d” (dick)*” from Nina Oyama gets by without comment, but Matt Okine’s “masturmate” as an example of a self-love portmanteau gets outed as gross.
    Their host, Michael Hing, has some odd sensibilities.

    *Big white ones?

    Being on SBS, shouldn’t it be ESL Letters and Numbers with Uncle Roger?


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  61. mh says:

    The Herald Sun

    Protesters cause weekend CBD chaos again
    “Freedom” protesters have been urged to bring children to their latest rally, which is set to wreak chaos around Melbourne CBD. Protesters cause weekend CBD chaos again
    “Freedom” protesters have been urged to bring children to their latest rally, which is set to wreak chaos around Melbourne CBD.

    ***

    Boo Hoo
    The same idiot Murdoch rag that said nothing for 18 months when Melbourne was a ghost town.


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  62. egg_ says:

    Rona wasn’t bothered by the mid-plague BLM protesters in Melbournibad?


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  63. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    What has struck me is the different flags. Croatian, Italian, Ethiopian and even the Iraqi flag.


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  64. kaysee kaysee says:

    Following a complaint, Fair Work Deputy President Lyndall Dean has been directed by the President of FWA to a) undergo mandatory re-education (“training”).
    b) has been excluded from the full panel (of FWA) until she has been completed that training.
    & c) “agreed” not to judge disputes related to future workplace vaccinations on “grounds of bias”.

    This is what happens when you do not follow orders that come from the powers that be. The dissenting opinion in the Kimber case along with a response to a social media post got Ms Dean into trouble.

    When asked by Labor senators about the post on social media, Acting Attorney-General Amanda Stoker said she disagreed with it.

    Stoker is supposed to be a Conservative.

    Nothing will change until the government changes and the clean-out begins.


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  65. kaysee kaysee says:

    What has struck me is the different flags. Croatian, Italian, Ethiopian and even the Iraqi flag.

    Countries that have experienced the loss of their freedoms understand what that loss means. They do not want to go through that again.


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  66. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Liberal Democrats should have picked a better name for their party. The “Liberal” part of their name can cause some confusion for those not well-versed with the different political parties.

    John Ruddick

    Here’s a message for the millions of good Australians who have always voted for the Liberal Party … and why they should now consider the Liberal Democrats.



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  67. kaysee kaysee says:

    I am not a sports-watcher, so those who are can answer this:
    How often in the past did athletes (who are fit and strong) develop chest pains on the sports field?

    Victor Lindelof in unexplained Manchester United medical issue

    Lindelof removes himself from the pitch, seemingly complaining about ‘chest pains’



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  68. mh says:

    ‘David de Gea has spoken of his fears after Manchester United team-mate Victor Lindelof left the pitch with breathing difficulties during Saturday’s 1-0 win over Norwich.

    The Spain goalkeeper said the incident brought back memories of Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen’s cardiac arrest on the pitch during Euro 2020 and also the collapse of Barcelona forward Sergio Aguero in October.

    “As soon as it was like difficult breathing and feeling strange, the game doesn’t matter,” De Gea said.

    Speaking to Sky Sports, he added: “First of all is life. Football doesn’t matter.

    “We saw some players who are feeling a bit, I don’t know what was going on, but Victor was feeling his breathing.

    “We saw already Eriksen, Aguero … so it is sometimes a bit difficult to see your player acting like this. I hope he is completely fine.”

    ***

    It’s as if the players have done something different in 2021 that is causing this.

    🤔


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  69. mh says:

    ‘French tennis ace Pierre-Hugues Herbert has become the first unvaccinated tennis player to announce his withdrawal from next month’s Australian Open.

    Herbert won the men’s doubles title at the tournament two years ago along with countryman Nicolas Mahut and is ranked eighth in the world in doubles. The pair won the 2021 French Open and were considered one of the favorites for this year’s Australian Open doubles title.’


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  70. mh says:

    ‘Ironman and soap star headline anti-mandate protest

    School teachers are among thousands to attend another anti-mandate rally at the Queensland-NSW border ahead of the state’s border reopening on Monday.’


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  71. mh says:

    ‘A man was vaccinated against Covid-19 up to 10 times in one day on behalf of other people, prompting an investigation by the Ministry of Health.

    It is believed the man, who is understood to have visited several vaccination centres, was paid for the jabs.

    In response to questions from Stuff, Astrid Koornneef, the Ministry of Health’s Covid-19 vaccine and immunisation programme group manager, said the ministry was “aware of the issue”.


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  72. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Sky – Tonight

    On Sunday (Dec. 12), five planets, two large asteroids, and the Moon will align in the night sky. Visible around the world.


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  73. kaysee kaysee says:

    US: Middlebury College letter to students

    As of 5:30 p.m. today, we received confirmation of 34 new cases of COVID-19 on campus, for a total of 49 active student cases and one active employee case. Contact tracing is underway, and anyone who is determined to be a close contact

    While many of the new cases we have identified appear to be connected, occurring in clusters among people who socialize together, …………….

    With more than 99 percent of students fully vaccinated and many already receiving booster doses, the risk of adverse health outcomes from the Delta variant is low. Rising student cases that require isolation, ongoing transmission, and the few days remaining in the semester warrant the change to remote instruction.



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  74. kaysee kaysee says:

    The same college

    COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements

    All those detailed rules and regulations and over 99 percent students fully vaccinated, why is life not returning to normal? All should be safe and well.


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  75. egg_ says:

    Good doco on SBS with an attractive lady admiring Big Ben’s big clock and big swinging bells, anticipating when he begins hammering his bells.


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  76. kaysee kaysee says:

    Language Warning (Anger justified)

    Alan Roberts

    The @MakeAWish is making dying kids get the jab to grant their wishes? You all have lost your minds! This is what it looks like to see people actually fall into a cult mentality. The crimes against the world but especially children in the last 2 years is what evil looks like.



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  77. kaysee kaysee says:

    From the Make-A-Wish Foundation statement

    Our decision to lift restrictions on wishes involving air travel and large gatherings for children and families who are vaccinated is the first step of our phased reemergence plan and is based on advice from pediatricians and other medical professionals on our National Medical Advisory Council, as well as guidance from public health organizations like the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics. We look forward to the day when we can lift all pandemic-related restrictions.



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