Open Thread – Saturday, 13 May 2023

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  1. kaysee kaysee says:
    May 17, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    BULLSEYE! Russian Hypersonic Missile KINZHAL Destroyed the U.S. PATRIOT System in the Center of Kyiv – Borzzikman – 2 minutes.

    Instead of dealing with its real debt crisis, the US is provoking Russia. It is now turning into a retaliation missile fire.

    A month ago, the question was:
    Does Russia have hypersonic nuclear missiles?
    (YouTube Shorts)

    “Most of them are dead!”- Ukraine’s army DECIMATED says Col. MacGregor | Redacted w Clayton Morris – watch from the 8 minute mark.

    Col. MacGregor is talking about cuts to US Defence to reduce spending. It is not lunatics who are running the asylum. It is a bunch of big crooks.


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  2. kaysee kaysee says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    Windows Updates locked my system; I couldn’t repair the necessary system files because of a pending update, & I couldn’t rollback the update because it hadn’t completed installing.

    When Windows starts on its updates process, it can be a real pain. If you are in the middle of something, it slows your work down. At times it seems as if something is wrong and you have to do something, but if you “intervene” it could get worse.

    There is an option on How to prevent windows from automatically installing updates. I followed the instructions and set it up but then each time I logged into my computer, there would be some error message and I couldn’t get in. Finally, I just removed that option.

    Thanks for sharing the cartoons whenever you are able to post them.

    Cold-Hands, are you still locked out of Twitter?


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  3. kaysee kaysee says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:10 pm

    People-power. A crowd-funded project in the UK.

    Dr Tess Lawrie

    The World Council for Health officially puts British MPs on notice that it is not acceptable to transfer any decision-making powers reserved for democratic institutions to an unelected, unaccountable supranational body like the WHO….

    MPs can no longer say they did not know. This effort is crowd funded. It is democracy in action. We thank @ABridgen for his tremendous support.

    Summary of the Policy brief
    Rejecting monopoly power over global public health


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    Voice support slides again as debate rages over model

    Support for the Indigenous Voice has tumbled from 58 to 53 per cent over the past month in the crucial “yes or no” question that will decide a referendum on the issue later this year, deepening the risk of defeat after furious disputes on the change.

    The article is in the Sydney Morning Herald but the top rated comment summarises the problem in a few sentences.

    Australians are finally beginning to understand two things. 1. The voice is purely symbolic with respect to improving indigenous lives, it will however provide a small cadre of indigenous elites a huge amount of power over all Australians. 2. The voice will result in a huge and expensive bureaucracy and will hand power over the nations governance to a tiny minority of the population.

    If the tumble continues, it is a sign that Australia is not lost.
    Not Yet.


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  5. kaysee kaysee says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:26 pm

    They call the murder of babies: pro-choice. And yet the couples who want babies have to make harder choices and face heart breaks.

    The doctors recommended an abortion which she refused.
    1/
    Nicole LeBlanc
    Dec 14, 2022

    This is not how I would imagine I would announce this. But I’m pregnant with twins. My twins are conjoined and share 1 heart and vital organs. There is a very high chance of miscarriage and there is nothing that can be done except wait. Please pray for me

    2/
    Pregnant Nicole

    3/
    May 17, 2023

    Hello everyone- this is Nicole’s younger sister, Mia. I’m writing on behalf of her and Austin to inform everyone that the babies were born baptized and confirmed. They breathed until their last breath and are now in the arms of Our Lord, for those praying for us, thank you


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  7. EofT says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    ” Streamed live on May 16, 2023
    Join Martin North for a live discussion with Leith van Onselen, Chief Economist at Nucleus Wealth and Co-founder of Macrobusiness. Given the population growth now projected in the latest budget, Leith has pivoted on home prices, so we explore these dynamics.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DxR9F4l20g


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  8. mh says:
    May 17, 2023 at 8:59 pm

    EofT says:
    May 17, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    And the edited version

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiSj1_nx1kk


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  9. mh says:
    May 17, 2023 at 9:02 pm

    I got sucked in by the headline and got information overload

    Yahki Awakened On Estrogen Causing Penis Shrinkage And Breast In Men And Fibroids In Women Pt.2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2LRR0w1bY


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  10. Cold-Hands says:
    May 17, 2023 at 10:28 pm

    Cold-Hands, are you still locked out of Twitter

    Despite promises of an amnesty, my account is still suspended.


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  11. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 6:41 am

    Peace Talks Are A Bad Thing! Says Dem Senator Jacky Rosen

    The Jimmy Dore Show
    1.19M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AICup-mohFs


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  12. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 7:23 am

    Elon Musk Slaughters CNBC Reporter in Live Interview!!!

    Dr. Steve Turley

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3vYplvo4hk


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  13. Shy Ted says:
    May 18, 2023 at 10:11 am

    Just read the first sentence in the middle, from Durham’ report
    Downer under Turnbull? The MSM are strangely incurious.


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  14. Shy Ted says:
    May 18, 2023 at 10:50 am

    They’ll ignore you peasants, of course, but 56% saying little or no immigration. Bump that number up.


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  17. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    @hmcrem
    Happiest place on Earth. #Disneyworld
    Disney World brawl: Disagreement between families over picture leads to fight.

    https://twitter.com/hmcrem/status/1658643002607259650?s=20


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  18. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    NSW Police are investigating after officers allegedly Tasered a 95-year-old woman in the back and chest at a regional aged care facility in the state’s south. She is now clinging to life in hospital.


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  19. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 5:29 pm

    PJW on the Musk interview with CNBC’s David Faber, who cannot understand why Musk is daring to challenge the Regime with a tweet

    He just can’t understand it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm60Y4Xfms4


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  20. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 10:24 pm

    RT

    Moscow’s permanent representative at the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has alerted the UN Security Council over recent “Russophobic” remarks by top Ukrainian officials and particularly by Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) chief General Kirill Budanov.

    In a letter to the incumbent President of the UN Security Council, Swiss permanent representative Pascale Baeriswyl, seen by RT, Nebenzia condemned the “unacceptable statements” by Budanov, as well as a recent “survey” conducted by the Ukrainian News Agency UNIAN.

    In a recent interview, Budanov declared: “We’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.” UNIAN, for its part, has run a controversial poll on its official Telegram channel “with the main question about who should be the next after Daria Dugina, Vladlen Tatarsky (both killed in terrorist attacks) and Zakhar Prilepin (injured in terrorist attacks),” Nebenzia’s letter relates. All the Russian public figures listed are believed to have been targeted in attacks orchestrated by Kiev’s intelligence services.

    “These manifestations of hate speech, Russophobia, incitement to violence on the basis of nationality are, at a minimum, a flagrant violation of the rules of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination,” Nebenzia pointed out, asking the UN Security Council president to circulate the letter within the body as an official document.

    While the letter itself was dated May 10, since then Ukrainian officials have made more hostile remarks. Budanov himself, for instance, claimed responsibility for assassinating multiple high-profile Russian public figures. Refusing to provide any exact names, the spy boss claimed on Tuesday that “we have already gotten many, including public and media personalities.”

    The admission garnered condemnation in Moscow, with Russia’s foreign-ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova branding it clear evidence of state-level terrorism waged by Kiev. “Terrorists. Those who provide excuses for the Kiev regime and sponsor it are accomplices of terrorists. Will the UN not notice that again?” she wrote on Telegram.


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  21. mh says:
    May 18, 2023 at 10:27 pm

    RT

    Moscow’s permanent representative at the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has alerted the UN Security Council over recent “Russophobic” remarks by top Ukrainian officials and particularly by Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) chief General Kirill Budanov.

    In a letter to the incumbent President of the UN Security Council, Swiss permanent representative Pascale Baeriswyl, seen by RT, Nebenzia condemned the “unacceptable statements” by Budanov, as well as a recent “survey” conducted by the Ukrainian News Agency UNIAN.

    In a recent interview, Budanov declared: “We’ve been killing Russians and we will keep killing Russians anywhere on the face of this world until the complete victory of Ukraine.” UNIAN, for its part, has run a controversial poll on its official Telegram channel “with the main question about who should be the next after Daria Dugina, Vladlen Tatarsky (both killed in terrorist attacks) and Zakhar Prilepin (injured in terrorist attacks),” Nebenzia’s letter relates. All the Russian public figures listed are believed to have been targeted in attacks orchestrated by Kiev’s intelligence services.

    “These manifestations of hate speech, Russophobia, incitement to violence on the basis of nationality are, at a minimum, a flagrant violation of the rules of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination,” Nebenzia pointed out, asking the UN Security Council president to circulate the letter within the body as an official document.

    While the letter itself was dated May 10, since then Ukrainian officials have made more hostile remarks. Budanov himself, for instance, claimed responsibility for assassinating multiple high-profile Russian public figures. Refusing to provide any exact names, the spy boss claimed on Tuesday that “we have already gotten many, including public and media personalities.”

    The admission garnered condemnation in Moscow, with Russia’s foreign-ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova branding it clear evidence of state-level terrorism waged by Kiev. “Terrorists. Those who provide excuses for the Kiev regime and sponsor it are accomplices of terrorists. Will the UN not notice that again?” she wrote on Telegram.


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  27. Old bloke says:
    May 19, 2023 at 11:31 am

    India has been threatened with sanctions so stock up on curry powder before the embargo is put in place. How will sanctions against India work when so many large western corporations use India for call centres and IT support?

    Borrell warns India. CNN, Patriot damaged. Elensky, Kinzhal 6 for 6. Hersh, Poland wants peace. U/1


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  29. johanna johanna says:
    May 19, 2023 at 11:40 am

    Welcome back Ted – missed your jokes!


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  30. Destroyer D69 says:
    May 19, 2023 at 11:58 am

    Windows Updates locked my system; My solution…. Disconnect the modem. turn off computer and restart BUT, do not under any circumstances start or turn off computer while connected to the net (I unplug the modem before shutting down and do not reconnect untill after firefox is up and running) Whenever windows locked my system to force an restart and upgrade this action is repeated.Windows does not even try any more.


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  31. Interested observer says:
    May 19, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Awww, Stan Grant has hurt feelings..from behind the paywall

    Stan Grant, the high-profile host of ABC chat show Q+A, is stepping down from his on-air role, citing “relentless” racial abuse as the primary reason for his departure, while expressing “disappointment” in the lack of public support offered to him by the national broadcaster.

    In a lengthy reflection posted on the ABC website on Friday afternoon, Grant said he will “walk away” from his Q+A hosting duties after Monday’s program for an indefinite period.

    Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man, said the fallout from the ABC’s heavily-criticised coverage of the coronation earlier this month had left him “dispirited”.

    Grant was part of a panel of guests that, just prior to the coronation of King Charles III on May 6, canvassed the impact of colonisation and the monarchy on Indigenous Australians.

    The ABC was swamped with more than 1000 complaints about the coverage.

    “I am writing this because no one at the ABC — whose producers invited me onto their coronation coverage as a guest — has uttered one word of public support. Not one ABC executive has publicly refuted the lies written or spoken about me. I don’t hold any individual responsible; this is an institutional failure,” Grant said.

    The ABC’s panel during King Charles III’s coronation including co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement Craig Foster, Liberal MP Julian Lesser, presenters Jeremy Fernandez and Julia Baird and Q+A host Stan Grant on May 6, 2023.
    The ABC’s panel during King Charles III’s coronation including co-chair of the Australian Republic Movement Craig Foster, Liberal MP Julian Lesser, presenters Jeremy Fernandez and Julia Baird and Q+A host Stan Grant on May 6, 2023.

    “Sadly, it seems there is no place in the media for love, kindness, goodness or God. There is no place in the media for respect. I am sorry that some monarchists were offended at our coverage. That was never my intent. I thought I used words of love. Clearly, I failed. I have to accept I am part of the problem. I am part of the media that fails the Australian people every day.”

    During the panel discussion on the evening of the coronation, Grant said there was immense pain felt by First Nations peoples because of colonisation by the British Empire.

    “Let’s not imagine that we can just look at this ceremony tonight and see this as something that is distant, that is just ceremonial and doesn’t hold weight,” he said during the broadcast.

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    “It is scars, it is broken bones and it is too many damaged souls and we need to heal.”

    In his column on the ABC website on Friday, Grant said he and his family are “regularly racially mocked or abused” on social media, “and I have had enough”.

    “Barely a week goes by when I am not racially targeted. My wife is targeted with abuse for being married to a Wiradjuri man. I don’t even read it, yet I can’t escape it. People stop me in the street to tell me how vile it is. They tell me how sorry they are,” he said.

    “Although I try to shield myself from it, the fact it is out there poisons the air I breathe.”

    Earlier this year, Grant said, the ABC lodged an official complaint with Twitter about the racial abuse directed at the Q+A host.

    On Friday afternoon, after Grant’s column was published, the ABC’s director of news, Justin Stevens, released a statement: “Over many months, but particularly in recent days, Stan Grant has been subject to grotesque racist abuse, including threats to his safety. This has become particularly virulent since he appeared as part of the ABC’s Coronation coverage.

    “It is abhorrent and unacceptable.

    “Stan is one of Australia’s best and most respected journalists and broadcasters. The ABC stands by him and condemns the attacks directed towards him. The ABC has and will continue to refer any threats to police.”

    Mr Stevens defended the broadcaster’s coronation coverage, though he said it was “regrettable” that “some viewers” had been upset by the timing of the panel discussion about the role of the monarchy in Australia in the context of Indigenous history.

    “The responsibility for the coverage lies with ABC News management, not with Stan Grant. “Yet it is he who has borne the brunt of a tirade of criticism, particularly in the usual sections of the media that target the ABC.

    “Reporting on his contribution to the panel discussion has been unfair, inaccurate and irresponsible.

    “It has contributed to fuelling horrendous personal and racial abuse. Any complaints, criticism – or vitriol – regarding the coverage should be directed to me, not to him.”

    The Australian has sought further comment from the ABC.


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  32. Interested observer says:
    May 19, 2023 at 5:09 pm

    Grant, a Wiradjuri, Gurrawin and Dharawal man,

    What I find is curious is that everybody of Aboriginal descent seems to belong to three separate tribes but never acknowledge any non-Aboriginal ancestry.


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  33. mh says:
    May 19, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    sTan Grant should have been immediately stood down by the national broadcaster following this amateurish debacle a year ago:

    ABC’s Q+A has sunk to a new low, a week after host Stan Grant controversially kicked out a pro-Russian audience member.

    https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/abcs-qa-sinks-to-lowest-ever-ratings/news-story/d264c674cb12ba9b2a87b145e9bfe14b


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  34. mh says:
    May 19, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    A 95-year-old woman armed with a steak knife was approaching police “slowly” and using a walking frame when she was Tasered at a nursing home in the state’s south, senior police have revealed.

    Marvellous.


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  35. Old bloke says:
    May 19, 2023 at 8:02 pm

    A 95-year-old woman armed with a steak knife was approaching police “slowly” and using a walking frame when she was Tasered at a nursing home in the state’s south, senior police have revealed.

    That reminds me, Senator Dianne Feinstein was wheeled back into the US Senate a couple of days ago and she was asking people around her where she was.

    I don’t know if she was brandishing a steak knife though.


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  36. Nelson_Kidd-Players says:
    May 19, 2023 at 9:10 pm

    That’s fine, Old Bloke. As long as the implants make her say “Aye!” or raise her hand at the correct moments, it’s all good. /Demonrat


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