Open Thread – Saturday, 14 January 2023

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  1. mh says:
    January 16, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    Neil Oliver

    What’s going on with excess deaths?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgS3W8nqUtE


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  2. Eyrie says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:04 am

    Poland trying to start another world war

    Mouthy bunch. I’m beginning to see the point of view of Germany in 1939.


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  3. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:47 am

    The New Atlas

    As West Sends More Armor to Ukraine, Why “Turning the Tide” is still Fantasy

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtmvCaI9oV4


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  4. Shy Ted says:
    January 17, 2023 at 9:20 am

    What’s your fave chocolate? Did it used to be Ferrero Rocher?
    Don’t worry, everything’s like that under a microscope.
    Much as we bleat about M-F trannies winning at sports and such we really should take more notice of the F-Ms.


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  5. Shy Ted says:
    January 17, 2023 at 10:48 am

    Senator Molan’s family said the father-of-four died after a “sudden and rapid” decline in health.

    “With profound sadness we share that, following a sudden and rapid decline in health after Christmas, Jim died peacefully on January 16 in the arms of his family,” the statement read.


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  6. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Ukrainian player Marta Kostyuk says she will not shake hands with Russian or Belarusian players as the war continues in her homeland. Meanwhile, fans were condemned for waving a Russian flag at a match between Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova and Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl.


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  7. Shy Ted says:
    January 17, 2023 at 12:53 pm

    Bill Gates pulls out of Davos but Klaus Swab opens proceedings??????? They’re playing games.


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  8. Shy Ted says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    Highlights of the first morning at the WEF
    Bye bye cars
    Bye bye who you thought you were


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  9. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    I never knew there was such a thing as gay female tennis players

    ‘One of the best decisions of the last year’: Daria Kasatkina’s relief at coming out


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  10. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    Michael Shellenberger
    @ShellenbergerMD
    ·
    WEF says its wealth is managed by an internal Investment Committee that seeks to incorporate “environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in its investment strategy to manage the foundation’s long-term strategic reserves.”

    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk
    ·
    The S in ESG stands for Satanic
    10:47 AM · Jan 16, 2023


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:42 pm

    In an article in today’s Oz (sorry I can’t find a link to it – paywalled anyway), the Ukrainian ambassador is asking for more money. Is critical of Aussies enjoying this holiday time while Ukrainians are dying. Talks about what will happen to the western world if Ukraine loses the war.

    And now this same ambassador is allowed to dictate the rules of a sports event? How is it that politicians and officials are accepting that?

    Russian flag banned at Australian Open
    after Ukrainian ambassador strongly condemned display amid ongoing war

    Australian Open officials have banned the Russian flags from the Grand Slam after public outcry over the display of the ensign on the first day of the tournament.

    Tennis Australia announced the ban on Tuesday morning after the flag was seen on the side line of a match between Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl and Russia’s Kamilla Stanislavovna on Monday. 


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:58 pm

    My humble apologies. I predicted that Miss You-knee-worse would be from the same land as Man of the War. I was wrong. But only a little bit. The winner was Miss USA. The same country helping the war to continue. But never mind that.

    The actual weeners is weemen.
    Because the contest is going to be run by weemen.

    Sadly, the loudest cheerers of the new owner-man are the women in the audience. The same feminists who years ago protested about beauty contests and women being treated like objects.
    Mindless woke herd.

    How right he is in describing himself. The organisation is going to be run by weemen. Indeed, they are wee little men.


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 2:17 pm

    kaysee, I understand it is Cockney rhyming slang. Like “china plate” for “mate”.

    Thanks, Eyrie. And Shy Ted.

    I can’t remember seeing this phrase used, even in British novels (of the past or present) or websites. There are other words used as euphemisms to replace the word “died”.

    I’ve picked this particular term because of its meaning. How does it fit in today, anywhere? East-End Cockney land or elsewhere? How would someone who has lost a family member or friend feel when their loved one is said to be “brown bread”? In the story I linked to, the widow was upset to find that term used for her husband.

    Its usage may not bother others. Just my misgivings…..


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  14. Old bloke says:
    January 17, 2023 at 2:22 pm

    Poland trying to start another world war

    This Polish Prime Minister should go first, Kaliningrad is right next door.


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 2:42 pm

    PerryJ says:
    January 16, 2023 at 7:08 pm

    Leak

    Johannes Leak needs to be careful. If, someday, he (or a member of his family) decides to get into politics or wants to join some wokerati club, the cancel culturists will find these cartoons and accuse him of having supported Nazis in his past life.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 3:16 pm

    Neil Oliver

    What’s going on with excess deaths?

    I posted the tweet in the Covid Response thread. Here is the article related to it.

    BOMBSHELL – Pandemic of the vaccinated

    UPDATE: 11/1-2023: Turns out that the people in the covid cult got very triggered by this article and the Australian data that shows how useless the mRNA shots are. Some people (including doctors!) are claiming that I ignored the fact that 97.4% of the population is vaccinated, therefore they claim it would only be natural that the majority of the hospitalized were vaccinated.


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  17. Steve trickler says:
    January 17, 2023 at 5:32 pm

    Dr. Vernon Coleman:

    Twelve things doctors know but won’t tell you

    Antidepressants don’t usually work. And yet millions of people take them.

    Any patient in hospital who has a bed sore was incompetently nursed.

    Most practising doctors stop learning when they leave medical school. So if your doctor qualified ten years ago the chances are high that his knowledge is ten years out of date. Just about everything doctors learn after qualifying is fed to them by drug companies.

    Many medical journals are bent. They allow drug companies to suppress inconvenient results and they receive huge amounts of money in drug company advertising.

    Benzodiazepine tranquillisers are far more addictive and difficult to kick than heroin or cocaine. (It is now exactly 50 years since I first revealed the truth about tranquilliser addiction and other problems. Many doctors still prescribe these wretched pills for too long.)

    The medical establishment has absolutely no interest in the welfare of patients but is interested in promoting drug company products and obtaining bigger salaries and fees for doctors.

    Doctors prescribe the same doses of drugs for 25 stone men as they do for seven stone women. That’s just stupid.

    Older patients should be given smaller doses of most drugs. But doctors don’t bother to do this. Actually, most doctors probably don’t even know they should do this.

    It is deadly dangerous to try to diagnose patients without seeing them. But these days lazy doctors do this all the time – constantly making massive, lethal errors.

    One in six patients in hospital is there because they have been made ill by doctors.

    Four out of ten patients who are given a prescription drug develop side effects – sometimes lethal ones.

    There is now no such thing as medical confidentiality. Doctors share information they are given with vast numbers of people.

    Vernon Coleman’s book Why and how doctors kill more people than cancer


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  18. Steve trickler says:
    January 17, 2023 at 5:38 pm

    Real Rukshan:

    WEF 23 at Davos in Switzerland is underway! After rumours Klaus Schwab would pull out of the first event due to health concerns didn’t materialise, the self appointed leader of the WEF opened the annual forum surrounded by the global elite, Hollywood celebrities, politicians and oligarchs.

    Davos WEF 23 Opening Recap – Klaus Schwab’s Globalist Party Gets Underway


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  19. Steve trickler says:
    January 17, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    What a f*cking joke Germany is.

    ***********

    Stew Peters Show:

    The pro-mask German government relies on fear to keep their citizens under control.
    Mask mandates are still being enforced in Germany as the government looks to make an example out of anyone who steps out of line.

    Dr. Monika Jiang joins Stew to detail her unjust prosecution and outrageous jail sentence of 2+ years.

    Dr. Jiang granted mask exemptions to her patients so they could breathe free.

    The German government is so drunk on power they are now prosecuting individuals who received mask exemptions from Dr. Jiang.

    Germany Jails Anti-Mask Doctor Tyrannical Government Makes Doctor Pay For Mask Exemptions


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  20. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:08 pm

    Another hip surgery gone bad story

    Renee Geyer, brown bread

    Acclaimed blues singer Renee Geyer has died in hospital in Melbourne following complications after hip surgery. She was performing as recently as last month and had intended to continue doing so


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    Pell’s successor: Cardinal Gerhard Müller

    Pope Francis has messed up. He doesn’t have a hotline to God

    In a quiet, book-lined study yards from the Vatican, Cardinal Gerhard Müller is calmly listing the reasons why Francis’s papacy has been a train wreck for the Catholic Church.

    According to the 75-year-old German prelate, the Pope has messed up everything from his green policy and outreach to Islam to his bid to take advice from rank-and-file Catholics. But his biggest frustration is what he describes as his decade-long shift away from talking about God.


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  22. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    Rebel News

    Climate change activist FLIPS ON the World Economic Forum, accusing them of being “wolves disguised as sheep”.


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  23. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    Powerful words from The Colonel

    Ukraine is collapsing under the weight of Russian Offensives

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5UQPjjRR-0


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  31. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    George Galloway with Gonzalo Lira

    INTERVIEW: #Ukraine is throwing in troops to face certain death defending #Bakhmut

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-BVW6ujT8


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    Can this be true or is it just wishful thinking?

    Why an absence of A-listers at Davos
    is not just deep trouble for the World Economic Forum, but for globalisation too

    There are plenty of A-list delegates coming to the forum this year, from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to US climate envoy John Kerry, not to mention the business mainstays like JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon and, of course, Bill Gates.

    But the guestlist this time around looks considerably less heavyweight than usual.

    There is no US president, no UK prime minister and even Emmanuel Macron is giving the meeting the cold shoulder – little wonder given these nations, and so many others, are battling a cost of living crisis back home.


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 17, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Around the world, there are so many bad news stories.

    For a change, some soul-food.

    1/
    The visit to the hairdresser

    2/
    The pangs of hunger


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  34. Shy Ted says:
    January 17, 2023 at 8:32 pm

    Ha ha, 7.30 Report leading with a story about exploding batteries.


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  35. Entropy says:
    January 17, 2023 at 9:09 pm

    mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm
    I never knew there was such a thing as gay female tennis players

    ‘One of the best decisions of the last year’: Daria Kasatkina’s relief at coming out

    Reminds me of a uni friend who turned up at a party and made this great big announcement/confession he was gay. Everyone just shrugged and said “tell us something we don’t know”.

    That seemed to make him upset.


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  36. Cold-Hands says:
    January 17, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    I’ve picked this particular term because of its meaning. How does it fit in today, anywhere? East-End Cockney land or elsewhere? How would someone who has lost a family member or friend feel when their loved one is said to be “brown bread”? In the story I linked to, the widow was upset to find that term used for her husband.

    “Brown Bread” is a jocular & irreverent way of saying someone has passed on. You wouldn’t use it for formal occasions or for people close to you. I feel sure it predates the 1960’s but because of its origins as a part of a ‘cryptolect’ (a secretive language), there’d be few written records of its use or frequency.


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  37. Cold-Hands says:
    January 17, 2023 at 9:48 pm

    Another hip surgery gone bad story

    Renee Geyer, brown bread

    Acclaimed blues singer Renee Geyer has died in hospital in Melbourne following complications after hip surgery. She was performing as recently as last month and had intended to continue doing so

    Speaking of ‘brown bread’ & also ‘died suddenly’, it turns out Ms Geyer also had inoperable lung cancer that was only discovered when she was in hospital.


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  39. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    The Age

    Police go unpunished after pepper-spraying and arresting photographers at anti-lockdown protest

    Victoria Police say internal investigations into the pepper-spraying and arrests of photographers at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne in 2021 have finished and no disciplinary action will be taken against the officers involved…


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  40. mh says:
    January 17, 2023 at 11:10 pm

    There is also the ‘brown bread’ joker card, not to be overplayed.

    This is a celebrity that passed away many years ago, but thrown in to snag a passing blog reader. Popular on the old Sinc Cat.

    Example

    Gene Wilder, brown bread

    ***

    Hey, Gene Wilder died in xxxx!


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  42. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 12:57 am

    Yep, I reckon most that think it’s a good idea have no knowledge about the following. It’s farcical.

    ***********

    John Stossel:

    For decades we’ve been told recycling helps the Earth. It really doesn’t.

    Even Greenpeace Says “Most Plastic Simply Cannot Be Recycled.”


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  44. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:52 am

    Anthony Brian Logan

    New COVID Variant XBB 1.5 More Likely To Infect The VACCINATED?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyHN4mLbuxk


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  45. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 8:57 am

    Greta Thunberg hauled off by police at coal protest

    Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been removed by police at a coal protest outside a western German village

    Pic


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  47. Shy Ted says:
    January 18, 2023 at 10:02 am

    I didn’t realise the damage that gas stoves had actually caused.
    Lungs
    Our poor, overworked hospital staff


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  48. Shy Ted says:
    January 18, 2023 at 10:07 am

    Criminals
    Someone’s a clever little photoshopper
    The real thing
    The photoshop


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  50. Shy Ted says:
    January 18, 2023 at 11:25 am

    If you thought MAFS, The Bachelor and others were bad I give you Mothers & Sons
    FMD


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  51. Shy Ted says:
    January 18, 2023 at 12:12 pm

    WTF?!
    Sorry, they’re only shoes


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  52. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    Get your head around this.

    *********

    Stew Peters Show:

    The power of greed is on full display as two Big Pharma companies gear up for a legal battle.
    Karen Kingston reveals the contract between Pfizer and the U.S. Government means Pfizer now owns 32 patents for the mRNA lipid nanoparticle bioweapon technology that was originally created by the federal government.
    Moderna claims Pfizer owes them billions of dollars for using licensed technology.
    And now Moderna is suing Pfizer over royalty payments from nanoparticle technologies!

    Big Pharma’s GREEDY FIGHT! Moderna SUES Pfizer Over Profits As World Dies Suddenly


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  54. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 1:32 pm

    HA! I knew it without checking out the comments first. I will not play games because no one wins a prize. That little bastard needs a proverbial kick up the arse. Do watch the clip when you have time because it’s fascinating what is going on behind the scenes.

    Bastards!

    ***********

    Steven Crowder:

    Conservative media giants are no better than Big Tech. The people you thought were fighting for you have been putting quick profits and the appeasement of their tech overlords ahead of any real conservative values. I can’t continue if this does. It’s time we put a stop to the Big Con.

    It’s time to stop…

    MarkDice
    3 hours ago
    Sounds like Crowder is talking about contract offer from the Daily Wire and thought he would join the Ben Shapiro family only to learn they’re just another cartel. Shaprio pays Facebook $130,000 per month to promote his page, by the way (this is publicly available info) so they’re obviously in bed together. (not to mention Shapiro had a secret dinner at Zuckerberg’s house a few years ago, so it’s no wonder his page is never suspended or demonetized.) Crowder is better off independent. No Sacred Cows! Take off the gloves, Steven!


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  55. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 1:44 pm

    Crikey! 🐊

    Tourists stunned as croc sighting shuts Straddie site

    Wildlife rangers are on the hunt after a crocodile was reportedly spotted on North Stradbroke Island off Brisbane.


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  56. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    A bloke walking his dog. Heartwarming moment @7:05 with the two of them making up the thumbnail.

    ***********

    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Redondo Beach 2023 (3 of 5)


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  57. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 18, 2023 at 2:11 pm

    Prostitutes flock to Davos to meet demand
    during World Economic Forum annual meeting

    The annual Davos summit is attended by prime ministers and presidents, high-ranking officials, academics, and top media and business moguls, including those belonging to the world’s richest and most controversial organizations, such as BlackRock, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Google.

    The managing director of an escort service from the village of Aargau, about a two-hour drive from Davos, told Bild on Tuesday that the demand for call girls is high at every annual WEF summit in Davos, and this year is no exception. She shared to the Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes that her escort “service,” which is legal in Switzerland, has received 11 reservations and 25 inquiries, and expects many more this week.

    The 36-year-old sex worker and writer Salome Balthus is staying at a hotel near Davos during the weeklong summit but would not tell the Daily Mail who her clients are.

    “Believe me, you don’t want to get into litigation with them,” she warned.


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  58. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 18, 2023 at 2:17 pm

    The EKGs of pilots are no longer normal
    We should be concerned. Very concerned.

    In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout…..

    This is a tacit admission from the US government that the COVID vaccine has damaged the hearts of our pilots. Not just a few pilots. A lot of pilots and a lot of damage.

    The cardiac harm of course is not limited to pilots.


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  59. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 18, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    McCarthy got the hammer at the 15th vote. So he got his wish to be a Speaker. But, he is a SINO – Speaker in name only. A group of brave patriots have turned him into their puppet – for all the right reasons.

    This is how we play the game against the system. A small group of patriots – just 20 out of the 222 GOP members in Congress – united and held out (peacefully and non-violently) till their demands were met.

    Dream Team:
    Oversight Committee Stacked with Conservative Firebrands

    The House Republican Steering Committee on Tuesday selected several conservative firebrands to serve on the Oversight Committee during the 118th Congress, including multiple members who previously had their committee assignments stripped by House Democrats during the previous Congress.

    The Steering Committee selections will have to be approved by a vote from the entire House Republican conference, which “typically approves the Steering Committee’s recommendations,” according to The Hill.

    Not sure how MTG is there. Maybe she made some deals for herself and so she supported McCarthy.

    But this is the pic of the Dream Team in the article.


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  61. kaysee kaysee says:
    January 18, 2023 at 3:14 pm

    Some of you may be aware that there are community radio stations. There is one where volunteers read articles and stories from some of the daily newspapers as well as some magazines, from here and around the world.

    This is the one I listen to – Radio 2RPH – while I am busy with some tasks and chores. I have the radio on and it lets me multi-task. I do stuff that I have to and also listen to the daily Australian newspaper: front page headline stories and some other items inside the paper. Also the Editorials.

    Monday–Friday: 11.30 am – 12.40 pm AEST
    Saturday: 12.15 – 1.30 pm

    I don’t have the time for other papers and magazines, but this gives me a roundup of the main stories in the news. If some article sounds like BS/fake, I check it later when I am able to. That is why I am able to mention here some news items, even though I don’t have the paper or online access.

    There is so much happening in the country and world and it gets hard to keep up or read everything. I don’t watch the idiot box or rely on MSM for the real news. But the radio is good because it is possible to keep doing various tasks – especially manual ones – and get information at the same time.

    Maybe, some of you want to check this and can then share here what you learn. I think this may be available on radio, only in NSW. There may be similar stations in other states. But of course it is also available online.

    How to listen to 2RPH


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  62. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 5:55 pm

    Does Sarah Hanson-Young still travel to Davos each year for the meeting?


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  63. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    Brussels failed on Russia sanctions, Hungary’s foreign minister says

    Sanctions against Russia have not brought the country’s economy to its knees or ended the war so should stop, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister for foreign affairs, told CNBC.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_0exdmvac4


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  65. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    A couple of tweets I spotted via #ZelenskyWarCriminal

    Bernadette
    @Bernade58733135
    🇺🇦 Ukrainian musician and producer Yuri Bardash said in an Interview that Zelensky is a drug addict.

    https://twitter.com/Bernade58733135/status/1615514036824588289?s=20&t=7dmxI8KP3ATipmWviQe8Ug

    ***

    Arthur Morgan
    @ArthurM40330824
    This guy is one bad batch away from OD. He is almost unrecognizable at this point.

    https://twitter.com/ArthurM40330824/status/1615202805798633474?s=20&t=7dmxI8KP3ATipmWviQe8Ug


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  66. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:04 pm

    Crazy like a fox

    Former adult film actor Ron Jeremy was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial by a Los Angeles judge Tuesday for dozens of rape and sexual assault charges.

    Jeremy, whose full name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, was not present for the hearing.

    Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Harris reviewed reports from both prosecutors and Jeremy’s defense that said the 69-year-old is in “incurable neurocognitive decline.”


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  74. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    Live: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov holds press conference to discuss foreign policy

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


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  76. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:49 pm

    Look at the arrogant bastard from CNBC just throw his cigarette butt on the ground. Hope he cops a fine…but you know he wont.

    **********

    Avi:

    Avi Yemini THREATENED by CNBC vice president in Davos


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  77. Cold-Hands says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    News from the beautiful game
    And they want equal pay!

    AFLW great Daisy Pearce calls time with ‘very full heart’ after fairytale Dees flag.

    So what does it take to be acclaimed an AFLW ‘Great’? 55 matches (between 2017 & 2022) & a premiership win. Just think if that’s all it took for the blokes…


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  78. Cold-Hands says:
    January 18, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    *Oh, she also played 200 games in the VFLW…


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  80. Cold-Hands says:
    January 18, 2023 at 8:57 pm

    As the “rebel Alliance” said at the end, they. were running out of things to ask for. The new appointees to the House Judiciary Committee include Gaetz, Biggs, Roy, Bishop, Spartz & Massie from the 20 rebels.

    While Chip Roy was the front man for the dissidents, he gave credit to the brains trust that formulated their strategy, including Russ Vought, President Trump’s White House Office of Management & Budget director and current leader of the ultra-conservative Centre for Renewing America who put forward a playbook in November.

    Vought was one of the first to publicly identify the election returns as an opportunity for his side. A smaller Republican majority made McCarthy more, not less, beholden to demands of those on his right flank. A determined voting bloc could extract concessions in exchange for their votes or scuttle his bid for speaker altogether. Less than 24 hours after the midterms, Vought tweeted that the House Freedom Caucus, a loose coalition of hardline conservatives, “was made for this moment.”

    Republicans have 222 seats in the House. McCarthy could only lose four and still become speaker. If a handful held out, Vought wrote as midterm results were still being tabulated, they could force the Republican leader’s hand and “insist on a paradigm shift.”

    A run-and-gun playbook was published online two days later. “House conservatives will not need a majority to prevail. They merely need to block & veto until they get an acceptable candidate,” he wrote in a lengthy Twitter thread, arguing that McCarthy amounted to “a peace-time leader” unfit for the current moment when the right was “in a cold civil war” and what was needed was to seize conflict “by the throat.”

    “The fundamentals present a cartel-busting vote, and all you need is a few members to go public,” Vought concluded. He tagged Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Bob Good of Virginia, and Chip Roy of Texas as members who would be willing go for the jugular. He was right.

    A senior congressional staffer involved in the struggle called Vought’s group “the earliest and most public advocate of a determined negotiating position against McCarthy” and credited them for making “an early investment that paid off in a transformative set of rules.”


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  83. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 9:47 pm

    Brovary, Ukraine: Eighteen people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior ministry officials and three children have been killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

    The regional governor said 29 people were also hurt, including 15 children, when the helicopter came down in a residential area in Brovary, on the capital’s northeastern outskirts, on Wednesday


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  84. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 10:03 pm

    Spotted this Russell Brand short on #ZelenskyWarCriminal

    The Hillary Clinton clip tells you everything about Washington neocon foreign escapades

    https://twitter.com/sleejur/status/1615658021593522176?s=20&t=HzS2GgeDejMO–pjcYRZTA


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  86. Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    Fresh and shallow EQ.

    That’ll rattle a few of those dwellings in proximity. Damage assured. It will be interesting how the nearby Khoy Combined Cycle Power Plant handled it? We wait.

    M 5.8 – Turkey-Iran border region.

    Co-ordinates to enter into Google Earth taken from the USGS.
    38.411°N 44.935°E


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  87. Old bloke says:
    January 18, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Indo has been rocking today.

    Steve, I’ve been trying to understand this bloke’s theory, please correct me if I’m wrong:

    Solar flares which hit the earth’s surface cause an earthquake at the opposite (antipodean) point on earth.

    For example, a solar flare which hits the Bermuda Islands would cause an earthquake in the Perth / Geraldton region.

    Is this his theory?


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  88. Old bloke says:
    January 18, 2023 at 11:13 pm

    Spotted this Russell Brand short on #ZelenskyWarCriminal

    There was this one too – Cocaine in the Ukraine

    Poor bloody country.


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  90. mh says:
    January 18, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    That’s hilarious, Old bloke


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  91. Steve trickler says:
    January 19, 2023 at 12:12 am

    Old bloke says:
    January 18, 2023 at 11:06 pm
    Steve trickler says:
    January 18, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Indo has been rocking today.

    Hello bloke.

    Best to hear it direct from him. This will tell you what you want to know.

    It goes for over an hour so watch it when you can. He’s on to something. That why he’s forecast hit rate is over 80%+

    Fascinating stuff.

    7/04/2019 — HOW TO FORECAST AN EARTHQUAKE — Fundamental principles


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  96. Steve trickler says:
    January 19, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    Tony Heller:

    19 Jan 2023
    The UN has been saying we only have ten years left to save the planet from global warming for almost 35 years, and the solution is global governance.

    Climate Solutions


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  97. johanna johanna says:
    January 19, 2023 at 12:39 pm

    Wowser health nannies gone wild:

    It should always be Dry January, according to new guidelines on alcohol consumption released in Canada, concluding no amount of alcohol is safe and having any more than two drinks a week is risky. 

    The report by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) marks a big shift from its previous guidelines in 2011, which recommended no more than 15 drinks for men and 10 drinks for women per week to reduce long-term health risks. 

    They’re also dramatically different to current Australian guidelines, which say healthy men and women should drink no more than 10 standard drinks a week. 

    The CCSA has also called for health warning labels that include cancer risks to be placed on alcohol containers, and there have been similar calls for the same to happen in Australia. 

    The scientific basis is … non-existent when confounding factors are included. It’s like the nonsense they peddle that if a pregnant woman has a glass of wine with dinner, she is practically dooming her child to foetal alcohol syndrome. In which case, the entire population of (non Muslim) France would have FAS.

    The concept of moderation is alien to these fanatics.


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  98. Shy Ted says:
    January 19, 2023 at 1:06 pm

    Jacinda, excellent comments.
    “Nothing left in the tank”. I think people might like to know what’s in the bank.


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  99. mh says:
    January 19, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    No amnesty for Jacinda.


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  100. mh says:
    January 19, 2023 at 2:02 pm

    Avi Yemini
    @OzraeliAvi
    🚨WE CAUGHT HIM! Watch what happened when @ezralevant and I spotted Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, on the street in Davos today.

    We finally asked him all the questions the mainstream media refuses to ask.

    https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1615768882014310400?s=20&t=pCtbyg6TmigO1zAKksRc7g


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