Open Thread – Saturday, 14 January 2023

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  1. mh says:

    Neil Oliver

    What’s going on with excess deaths?

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


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  2. Eyrie says:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

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


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  8. Shy Ted says:

    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:

    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:

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


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    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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  24. mh says:

    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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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    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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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    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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  27. Shy Ted says:

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


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  28. Entropy says:

    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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  29. Cold-Hands says:

    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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  30. Cold-Hands says:

    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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  31. mh says:

    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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  32. mh says:

    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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  33. Steve trickler says:

    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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  34. mh says:

    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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  35. mh says:

    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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  36. Shy Ted says:

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


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  37. Shy Ted says:

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


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  38. Shy Ted says:

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


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  39. Shy Ted says:

    WTF?!
    Sorry, they’re only shoes


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  40. Steve trickler says:

    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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