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Good morning one and all.
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CNBC
The yenta from Brooklyn is monitoring this development
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Lidia Thorpe – “I’m nobody’s little black girl.”
True that.
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You get the idea in the first minute
2 year movie with more to come
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I hope they’re just having a laugh
Close to the truth
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Joe Biggs Live From Prison: An Urgent Message On The State Of Our Freedoms
https://banned.video/watch?id=640b81c1e8a84c4db2a5cf23
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I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning
AC on the left with now deceased bro on right. AC on right with remarkably similar looking person (who has no children) on left
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Klaus shows you how nice ze bugs are
Finding a woman you don’t want in the supermarket
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Pauline Hanson
The story
Greens leader Adam Bandt has a super account with HESTA,
who invest in fossil fuel
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Worldwide COVID litigation lawyer directory
Steve Kirsch
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Once upon a time, when we were kids, we liked to be taken into a world of make-believe beautifuls and handsomes.
Sensitivity readers find fairy tales problematic
after reexamining Ladybird’s books
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Revealed in this suspense thriller novel ….
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….How Kevin McCarthy found a spine
The 20 holdouts
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….This used to be a Christian church
In Australia
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…. Due to Global Warming
It snows in Saudi Arabia
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There are some very cruel organisations in the world.
A few months ago, it was FIFA. Now, it is the Oscars.
It is a bit strange though, that the woke hypocrites in Hollywood are not supporting one of their own. Maybe it is envy. While they are mere multi-millionaires, and have to go to various locations, wear some costumes and do some acting, Zele is getting billions/trillions just by wearing a brown/green shirt and whinging on the telly.
Oscars Reject Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Bid
to Appear on Telecast
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Moja
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Mbili
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Tatu
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More stuff coming out about Morrison acting like a dictator. Not only did he take over key Ministeries, he told nobody about AUKUS until it was a done deal.
Now, he may have been right about leaks, but did he ever do anything to address that problem? Nope, let’s just run my pet project like I am Kim Il Jung.
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Ha ha, Modi tells Albo to stop the Injun assaults in Melbourne. Perhaps all the skilled migrants working in Dominos, servos etc should go back home to safety.
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More stuff coming out about Morrison acting like a dictator. Not only did he take over key Ministeries, he told nobody about AUKUS until it was a done deal.
Naaah!..he, probably, told all those “executives” he promoted to AUKUS/Defence from CentreLink/ROBODEBT but none of them can recall the details! .. LOL!
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Melbourne had this problem a few years ago, Indian students being abused on trams and other similar stories. What wasn’t reported at the time though is that it wasn’t the Anglo locals who were causing the abuse, but other immigrant groups who held different religious views to the Hindus.
“Go home” they said, “this is our country.”
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The Oscars Committee probably couldn’t afford Zelensky’s appearance fee.
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ABC Noos. FNQ town of Burketown being evacuated due to unprecedented flooding. Long term locals say they haven’t seen floods this high since the 1970’s.
I rest my case.
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Silicon Valley Bank went woke.
And they also went broke.
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Jim Cramer touted SVB one month before crash
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6322331151112
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Splitting traffic at 299 km/h…
FMD, the slipstream would’ve had the cars rocking on their suspensions and the first the drivers would’ve seen of the bike was it disappearing over the horizon…
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Steve, as a fire commander doing initial size-ups at house fires, inwards opening doors barely slowed me down.
Mind you, I have constant pain in both shoulders these days…
Outwards opening security doors sometimes took a few seconds with a Halligan tool.
Home-made solid-bar security grills took slightly longer with a two-stroke disc-cutter.
Depending on the fire’s location, and if no windows where suitable, I’d sometimes task a crew with grabbing a “master key”, a ten-pound sledgie, and going in through a wall.
Houses are way more fragile than people realise.
They’re programmed to believe they’re stronger than they really are.
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That’s why Barnaby was imprisoned in DC, for sniffing, when he went there for AUKUS purposes – frozen out on ScoMao’s advice.
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Cardi, I used to know a bloke who was a professional firefighter in Perth. His advice was to deal with a house fire yourself with your garden hose, you’ve generally got time. This was Perth so the vast majority of houses are double brick. Other materials may be different.
He said if you call the fire brigade the place will suffer more damage as 1) they will break down doors, even if they are unlocked.
2)They trample everything with their great big boots, 3)water damage much of the rest then leave.
The fire will be out though and they guarantee to save the block of land.
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Clear and concise economic commentary
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Makes sense.
Still got to fact check it.
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Absolutely recommended – unless it’s an electrical appliance that ignited and the power is still on…
There’s a lot to be said for small dry powder extinguishers.
In the context of forced entry, bricks and blocks are brittle and far easier to go through with a well-swung sledgie than most people realise.
The house’s structural materials have little influence on propagation or rate of spread.
It’s a common fallacy that brick and block houses are less likely to burn down – it’s the contents that feed the flames.
If the initial response isn’t quick enough, the heat from a contents fire will destroy the mortar bonds in brickwork and blockwork.
I can’t speak for WA, Eyrie, but those old-school behaviours we’re being trained out of the firies in Qld, led by us fire investigators who preferred having everything left undisturbed so we could get forensic.
Doors – “try before you pry”
Trampling – “avoid secondary damage”
Water – “fine spray, targeted accurately”
The old “surround and drown” footpath firemen have mostly aged out of service now, in Queensland anyway.
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From the NT, leftie gets cancelled
Lessbian, played AFL which nobody watched, promoted to very senior position with dubious qualifications, commits crime due to incompetence and political leanings, strong evidence, trial mysteriously abandoned, has token gesture cancelled as punishment, canned for saying what everybody in the NT says.
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Use
after chewing
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Apologies for failing to post the daily cartoons. Hopefully ISP/NBN problems are at an end and normal service can resume.
Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: DEM-OLITION DERBY EDITION.
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No need to apologise Coldie. I’m sure I am not alone in appreciating what you do, and if it doesn’t happen – meh. 🙂
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Cardi, a long time ago I heard a couple of stories about airport firefighters (they usually rank highly in State Volleyball as most of the time there is not much to do). One was at Jandakot where a bloke had trouble with the landing gear on a Cessna 337 push pull twin. IIRC he shut down the rear engine with the prop horizontal, managed to do the same with the front on short final for the grass underrun and got it stopped still on the grass. No damage beyond a few scratches…. until an over zealous firefighter who mistook the pilot carefully shutting down everything for “he’s trapped” and put an axe through the door.
The other was an Avon Sabre that landed at Woomera long time ago. He’d declared some sort of emergency but got the thing stopped on the runway, slid back the canopy only to have the cockpit filled with foam. Fortunately he had not taken off the oxygen mask.
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Cardi, glad to hear those behaviours are being trained out. The advice was given to me nearly 50 years ago.
Of course the old BCF extinguishers were great as they didn’t do residual damage but they make Gaia cry.
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Just finished watching that ABC doco Brazen Hussies about the history of feminism in Oz. Just one question – why did they only interview bitter old lessbians with cat hair on their clothes?
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Family Circus
Spooner
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No clunkers
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Eyrie, airport firefighters spend their whole lives training for an incident they hope they’ll never get.
Indeed, the large majority of them never do see any calls beyond airport building fire alarm activations and small grassfires.
Urban firefighting could have very long spells of intense boredom, which drove me nuts, so it must have been horrifically boring at the airport.
When larger aircraft contacted the tower with issues, us urban crews were responded to wait alongside the airport crews on the apron.
So, even when they thought they were going to get a job, they needed us to be there.
That was cool by us, I once got to drive our Freightliner telescopic aerial pumper flat out down the main Cairns runway chasing a ~50-seat plane with some sort of issue as it landed.
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It makes my cringe now, Eyrie, to recall the number of times I ignorantly repeated the manufactured lie that “each kilogram of bromochlorodifluoromethane destroys a cubic kilometre of ozone”.
It also makes me angry that I was told such a lie in my training by people who must have known it was a lie and that the Montreal Protocol was just a training run for the Great CO2 Fiction.
How could they ban BCF extinguishers without ever acknowledging the infinitely greater contribution of volcanic halocarbons?
Or that ozone cycles naturally in line with solar inputs?
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Newsweek: Opinion
America’s COVID Response Was Based on Lies
Scott W. Atlas , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
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Q&A Tour
Should Trans Women Be LEGALLY Treated as Women
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Do the maths.
Just 3 months to go before the end of the world.
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The deadly sins.
Even the horses fear them.
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Booster shots
8th COVID booster available now.
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The German Synod and the new Protesting Reformation.
A Gay, Woke Church.
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96% of delegates and 38 German bishops voted today
at the German Synod
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Why in Germany?
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Hooray.
And from the new un-Catholic Church, here’s what we get.
Rapping Priest.
If only we had a Pope who was Catholic.
Perhaps it is time for a repeat of Matthew 21:12-13.
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Cold-Hands,
Other forces (like the internet connections) may conspire to disrupt the Cat-toons transmissions, but we’re glad to have them when they appear. 🙂
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Updates to The Mock.
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China has brokered a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran, both nations will establish diplomatic relations with each other and both have applied to join the BRICS alliance. This has huge ramifications in the mid-east, bring an end to the Yemeni war for example, but the international ramifications are more important.
Iran, Saudi Arabia and Russia are the world’s three top oil producing nations. The US cannot place sanctions on all of them without bringing the western world to a complete standstill.
It might be the best time to buy one of those electric vehicles, it’s either that or buy a horse.
China, Iran, KSA diplomatic win. Elensky upset with media. Minerva tanker did it. Muscovy. U/1
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Hopefully it will cool things down
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The US and the western world are busy brokering far more important deals. Getting as woke as they possibly can. Followed by broke. And useless. While China and Russia prepare to take over the reins of the world.
Russia by itself wouldn’t be a great worry, but China holding the whip will be the Great Communist Reset.
A preview.
Start checking your social scores.
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Russia should have been a welcome friend of the West, instead the fv$@wits that run America stuffed everything up with their delusional attempt to annihilate Russia.
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Russia should have been a welcome friend of the West, instead the fv$@wits that run America stuffed everything up with their delusional attempt to annihilate Russia.
Correct and maybe now we see why the Wussia, Wussia, Wussia! after 2016. The Deep State may have been afraid Trump was going to sit down with Vlad and stop the scams and killing in eastern Ukraine.
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Still banned.
[You were given several warnings about the consequences of repeated breaking of rules.
After being blocked, you posted an “apology” of two sentences. Does the word “apologise” for “harsh words” make something an apology? And then you added a non-apology as the second sentence?
Do you even understand why you have been blocked?
Since last year, you have verbally abused a commenter on this blog.
Besides that, I have also suggested commenters self-moderate their comments and not break the rules, including use of certain swear words.
The conditions of being let out of moderation were made clear. An apology is not just some meaningless words. A person understands the offence caused and makes a sincere apology to those to whom it has to be made. – Admin]
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I used to go to the movies. Not anymore. So each evening friends and I watch The Duran and Robert Barnes (if around), plus the usual smattering of Scott Ritter, Col. McGreggor and New Atlas and Tucker. From Barnes (on locals and FreeForm Friday) I get ideas for movies to watch e.g. L’Assault, the first two episodes of Tulsa King…
Now we’ve had films from other counties (all accessed through a ruskie website) such as Iran, Russia (e.g. the fabulous “The White Tiger” . And we have done what we call week festivals: Le Carre films, Hemingway, Audrey Hepburn films, James Cagney, American film noir…
Any other ideas or films?
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Lightning + golf course doesn’t normally end well
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I like your idea of gathering with friends to watch both these areas:
– serious: political, current issues
– entertainment: films.
It is not just sitting together with friends and being couch potatoes watching something on the screen – which is fun in itself – but being able to watch it critically and then discuss and share opinions.
Far better than going to the movies. I think it is a wonderful idea. Intelligent viewing with the popcorn. If I think of any suggestions, I’ll let you know.
When I read your comment, it reminded me of a blog Post that I am currently writing. I will let you know when I post it and also the reason why I connected it to your comment.
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The election of Nicola Sturgeon’s successor is going to be a reflection of the times we live in. It is a choice between a practising Christian and a practising Muslim. The deciding issue will not be who has better leadership skills for Scotland, but who supports qwertyism.
And guess who is not popular.
Pray for Kate Forbes
A related article, linked to the one above is:
The crucifixion of Kate Forbes
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Dutch Farmer Rebellion
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OMG. Joining the other Ch10 twats, Christopher Pyne is going to appear on Would I Lie To You.
He’s lying. He’s lied to us all his working life. Mincing poodle is a compliment.
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The Great Gatsby
Young and Beautiful
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Un
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Deux
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Trois
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I remember Yeltsin’s famous lament “The cold war is over, but all we now have is a cold peace”. Even Putin played nice, he saw Russia as another European nation and all he wanted was to bring Russia into Europe.
The Europeans though didn’t want a relationship, and the Powers That Be wanted to dismember and divide Russia into five separate and easily managed compliant nation states. Babylon wanted to expand its near world-wide hegemony, and Russia stood as a likely peer nation capable of challenging Babylon’s hegemony, and Russia had to be defeated so that Babylon could then exert pressure on a rising power in China by way of sharing a long land border.
Even if the Ukrainian conflict was to end tomorrow, there’s no way that Russia would trust Europe and the West generally again. Trust has been broken and this won’t change in this generation.
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Airline corner
Fly United. Yay!!!
A comment on turbulence
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Fettermnab corner
Anyone seen John?
There he is
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Fetterman
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Garrison
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Interesting developments in the Arab (Persian?) Gulf.
Over the last 40 years the UAE ( Dubai in particular) was the bank of choice when there was a war – such as in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. The rich Arabs transferred their wealth to Dubai banks or developed buildings – hence the building boom.
Now Russian money is moving in. No one now will park their wealth in Swiss banks as they have given up their neutrality. So the Emirates are in business big time. Also the UAE transfers Russian oil and is a major trade hub for Russian exports. Chinese wealth may be next.
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Russia Unleashes MASSIVE Retaliatory Strike On Ukraine
iEarlGrey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx2ow_2tIVo
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Trump’s fault lol
The Age
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It’s the US version of ‘what was Tony Abbott’s role in this?’ which was invariably attached to everything from bad weather to bad behaviour from some section of the community.
They tried to blame Trump for the Palestine rail disaster as well, until even the NYT was forced to admit that there is no connection whatsoever.
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert
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Dennis the Menace
Blondie
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Family Circus
Spooner
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That Bukhanka (Russian for “bread loaf”) van he drives around isn’t the most attractive of vehicles though it may be quite practical, they are four wheel drive which may be essential for the snowy and muddy roads in Russia.
Russia also produces a two wheel drive motorcycle called the Ural, it also makes no allowance for a designer’s flair. it’s all 100% utilitarian. The second drive wheel on that motorcycle is the sidecar wheel which can be engaged on non-sealed roads.
The Ural on some bush roads in south-western W.A.-
Too Old To Ride? Think Again! Mongrel Dog Productions – 37 mins.
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There is a very naff version of ‘It’s a Beautiful Morning’ circulating on FTV in an ad at present.
The original was by a bunch of young Italians from New York who had never seen a forest. Felix Cavielere and his pals formed a band called The Young Rascals, later called The Rascals. May have been a reference to a show about a bunch of young tearaways called The Little Rascals.
Their first hit was Groovin’ Same problem with linking, but easy to find.
Followed by the immortal It’s a Beautiful Morning. I can’t link it, because they have done some sort of copyright thing so that you can’t. Look it up. But, a bunch of John Travolta lookalikes in NYC who probably had never seen more nature than a city park produced this superb song.
Every time I hear that ad, grrr!
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If anyone wants to watch this so I don’t have to
It’s about deteriorating US-China relations
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Lu Kewen?
Hard Pass.
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Banking
David Sacks
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Silicon Valley Bank
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ESG
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It is the uppity white women who are the biggest enemies of women. How stupid can they be sitting there are talking about the rights of “women” while they are supporting males who are destroying women?
“I Can Identify As A Black Lesbian!”
Piers Morgan On Gender Identity
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Yay, we’re getting subs.
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Senator Babet
@senatorbabet
15 minute cities are coming. Make no mistake. We must talk about it. Like most things it can either be a good thing or just another way for the Government and the bureaucracy to make our lives worse. The 15 minute cities must be discussed. Straight after I finished this speech a Labor Party member called me a conspiracy theorist on the floor of the Senate. I won’t name him, but it’s not the first time he has come after me.
#15minutecities #babet #wef #un #globalist
https://twitter.com/senatorbabet/status/1635154394110099464?s=20
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Alex Rosen
@iFightForKids
Podcast host asks a group of girls “What is a woman?”, and none of them can answer because they’re clearly scared of the left-wing cancel mob.
This is where we are. Sad.
https://twitter.com/iFightForKids/status/1634635786015350787?s=20
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The young lady second from right clearly has the best answer.
No man would tell her she’s wrong.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on twitter:
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sorry cold hands slipped thumb.
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The yenta from Brooklyn last week
This week, bank bailout incoming!
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I received an email from an American friend yesterday about a fast approaching bank crash in the USA. He’s a bit of a worrywart who is always full of dire warnings about all sorts of things, so I take his warnings with a dose of salt.
His message was that an executive (unnamed) at the Bank of America said that all banks will fold in three days, so get your money out while you can.
I think that’s what is known as a self-fulfilling prophecy, if everyone went to their banks to withdraw all their money, then naturally all the banks would fail.
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Risk management SVB style
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Biden now addressing the nation.
Banks are safe he says.
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World leaders react
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Apparently The Oscars have been on
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Give a man a fish. Or a brick
Cunning strategy by the lady athletes
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Cashless system not going well for besieged Cairns council
I was at the supermarket yesterday and the bloke in front of me was trying to pay for his groceries somehow through his watch. I don’t know much about this technology but it didn’t work for him, he had to pay using a plastic card.
It was very amusing though, this poor bloke was all twisted and contorted trying to get his arm behind the perspex screen at the cashier’s till, I suppose that there was something there which reads whatever he had on his watch. Why would you bother with some new tech if all you got from it was a dislocated shoulder?
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And when there’s a power outage or the network goes down, all financial transactions stop. Every few months, a bank’s network seizes up, and all the retailers who use that bank for their EFTPOS transactions are unable to trade, except if the customer has cash. This will only get worse as the push for “renewables” makes the electricity supply unreliable.
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Spare a thought for the pregnant eskimos
WHat are hedgehogs really for?
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Absolute proof JK ROwling is a raceest
On ordering for ‘er indoors
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Red Necked Tanager
for a
Page turn ….
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