Open Thread – Saturday, 17 December 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:05 pm

    I thought my vision was going wonky due to screen time. Big tumor in my brain.

    Fun times ahead.


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  2. mh says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    For real, Steve?

    Sorry to hear that.


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  3. Old bloke says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:18 pm

    Yet, no country came close to the travel reluctance shown in Japan, where some 35% of respondents said they don’t intend to travel again.

    Australia 9%

    I’m in the 9% due to circumstances rather than choice. I won’t take the clot-shot and I think I’m still banned from air travel (?) because of that.


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  4. Old bloke says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:20 pm

    Sorry to hear that Steve, when will you be going for surgery?


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  5. Steve trickler says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:21 pm

    mh says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    Shit scared, dude.


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  6. Steve trickler says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:25 pm

    Old bloke says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:20 pm

    We find out tomorrow.
    Until then, let’s have some fun.


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  8. Cold-Hands says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:53 pm

    Happy birthday, Delta. Have a good one.


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  9. Cold-Hands says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Sorry to hear about the tumour, Steve. Fingers crossed that it’s benign.


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  11. PerryJ says:
    December 19, 2022 at 7:08 pm

    Steve, sorry to hear the news.
    As Cold-Hands says, fingers crossed.


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  19. mh says:
    December 19, 2022 at 9:16 pm

    The new way

    Mother ‘shocked’ after energy company installs prepayment meter while she’s out

    Channel 4 News
    2.4M subscribers


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  21. Steve trickler says:
    December 19, 2022 at 10:12 pm

    Electromagnetics to the head and body? Most are clueless on the subject.

    4/29/2022 — Secret Super Weapons That Drive Disarmament Negotiations – Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden


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  22. mh says:
    December 19, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    More Colonel

    Further 18 videos at the link

    103,654 views 18 Dec 2022
    Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor (19) – Your home for analysis of breaking news and in-depth discussion of current geopolitical events in the United states and the world.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDK2w9ZnYYk


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  23. mh says:
    December 19, 2022 at 11:18 pm

    A quickie

    Why Abandoning Captured Ukrainian Territory May Be Putin’s Masterstroke l John Mearsheimer Explains

    CRUX
    1.65M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3xP1OTfSvk


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  25. win says:
    December 20, 2022 at 5:16 am

    Thinking of Steve and wishinh him well.


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  27. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 7:33 am

    Don’t Epstein me bro

    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sent back to a Bahamas jail Monday after a reported plan for him to waive his extradition to the U.S. stalled.

    Reports over the weekend indicated that Bankman-Fried would consent to extradition, but the former crypto billionaire told a different story Monday, demanding to see a copy of his federal indictment before agreeing to return to the U.S. He will return to Fox Hill jail rather than surrendering himself to U.S. custody.


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  28. Delta A says:
    December 20, 2022 at 9:51 am

    Shocking news, Steve.

    Here’s hoping for the best possible news today.


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  29. Delta A says:
    December 20, 2022 at 9:53 am

    Cold-Hands says:
    December 19, 2022 at 6:53 pm

    Thank you, Cold-Hands.I had a fabulous day with family.


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  30. rosie says:
    December 20, 2022 at 10:16 am

    Best wishes for successful treatment and recovery Steve, a close family member had one that developed as a secondary cancer removed last year then treatmentfor a bunch of little ones, still ongoing.
    Its not fun at all.


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  31. Eyrie says:
    December 20, 2022 at 11:10 am

    Best wishes, Steve.


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  32. johanna johanna says:
    December 20, 2022 at 11:30 am

    Unhelpful, to say the least, ‘rosie.’


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  33. rosie says:
    December 20, 2022 at 11:39 am

    Why would you bother making that comment ‘Johanna’?
    I was trying to be sympathetic,something you obviously cannot comprehend.
    It isn’t easy, that’s a fact.


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  34. calli says:
    December 20, 2022 at 12:18 pm

    For Steve. My daughter, a survivor, loved this stuff. Be brave.


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  35. Old bloke says:
    December 20, 2022 at 12:21 pm

    The western world is drowning in lies, lies from government, lies from the media, and lies from academia. Lying is so pervasive it’s unescapable, it permeates everything in our society.

    I watched two short videos this morning where lies from the governments, media and academia were the main takeaway.

    The first one was from Brian Berletic (The New Atlas) where he critiques an article in the Forbes magazine about the de-radicalisation of segments of the Ukrainian Army which is an outright lie –

    Western Media Whitewashing Extremism in Ukraine

    The second video was from Gonzalo Lira who was talking about the report which suggests that unvaxxed people are having more motor vehicle accidents than the vaxxed and he cites a recent video from Dr. John Campbell which shows what a monstrous lie this is –

    2022.12.19 Traffic Deaths and The Medication

    Gonzalo concluded by saying that the western world is now in the same situation as the Soviet Union was just before its downfall, it’s held together by lies and incompetence in its political class.


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  36. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    They will love him

    After months of denying any interest in the role, former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd has been appointed as Australia’s next ambassador to the United States.


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    40% of students at liberal arts colleges now identify as LGBTQ, study finds

    The report, titled “Diverse and Divided: A Political Demography of American Elite Students,” stated:

    Liberal arts colleges are the least politically diverse. Many have almost no conservatives, and thus very low viewpoint diversity. But they have high sexual diversity, at nearly 40 percent LGBT.


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  38. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 2:14 pm

    NYT Publishes Crossword Resembling Swastika

    Donald Trump Jr.

    Disgusting! Only the New York Times would get Chanukah going with this is the crossword puzzle. Imagine what they would do to someone who did this and was not ideologically aligned with them? I’ll give them the same benefit of the doubt they would give those people… EXACTLY ZERO


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    Re that Trump exercise

    According to “Covid and Coffee Newsletter” he has just found a way around campaign funding regulations as “buyers got something of value”

    This is the question that all “buyers” – Conservative and centre-right – should ask themselves:
    What is it they really want? What is it they value?
    What is their main criteria when they are supporting a candidate?

    a/ To look back:
    Do they desire revenge for the stealing of the 2020 and mid-term elections?

    Or

    b/To look ahead:
    Do they (Americans) want a better country and (the rest of those who live elsewhere) a better world for the next generation? Where there is peace and freedom? Equality and justice? Being evaluated on merit and content of character not colour of skin or sex or whatever else?


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  40. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 2:51 pm

    Steve………

    Keeping you in my prayers.


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  41. Cardimona says:
    December 20, 2022 at 5:18 pm

    Fingers crossed for you, Steve.


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  42. Shy Ted says:
    December 20, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    Fingers Xed, Steve. If you need a new brain, get a politician’. Never been used.
    I’m not a fan of graffiti but I could be persuaded


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  44. Shy Ted says:
    December 20, 2022 at 6:41 pm

    Not all toons need to be funny. An honest one
    By 2030 you will own nothing and be happy. Well, some will
    It’s the build, back, better catchphrase you’ve go to watch out for


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  45. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 6:50 pm

    Chris Frantz

    This is the craziest tweet on this site.

    OpenAI engineer calculates the cost to build a Google killer and comes to $50m for the em-bedding.

    $50m for a ChatGPT that knows everything that’s on the internet, almost instantly.

    Unbelievable.

    This is a very real existential threat for Google.


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  46. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    We saw plenty of this in 2020. Big cases, evidence, going to win.
    Will this be the same?

    Kari Lake:

    Earlier

    “They have built a house of cards here in Maricopa County. I think they’re all wondering what I’m gonna do. I’ll tell you what, I’m not just gonna knock that house of cards over. We’re going to burn it to the ground.”

    Now

    BREAKING: Our Election Case is going to trial. Katie Hobbs attempt to have our case thrown out FAILED. She will have to take the stand & testify.

    Buckle up, America.
    This is far from over.


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  47. Shy Ted says:
    December 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm

    Apparently 13,000,000,000 vaxxes have been given. If 1 vax was made every second it would take 32 years to make 1,000,000,000 doses. So a quick back of the envelope calc – in 2 years they would have to make 208 every second. Plus vials, labels, caps, packaging, syringes, alcohol swabs and on and on. You’d need at least 40 biolabs in the Ukraine to achieve that.
    In Oz, 64,382,557 Total doses administered. 137,141 Total adverse event reports. Phelps says her AE report wasn’t acknowledged!


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  55. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 20, 2022 at 7:31 pm

    The first one was from Brian Berletic (The New Atlas) where he critiques an article in the Forbes magazine about the de-radicalisation of segments of the Ukrainian Army which is an outright lie –

    Western Media Whitewashing Extremism in Ukraine

    If the war has continued for ten months, the fault lies with NATO and the western media. They have led Zelensky to believe that he can win the war, on whatever terms he wants. The propaganda is harmful not just to Ukraine and Russia but to the world, as well.

    Kissinger is part of the WEF cabal but even he has called for peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. And this is Ukraine’s response.

    Kyiv slams Kissinger over call to negotiate with Russia for peace


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  56. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 7:40 pm

    19 Dec 2022
    “INTERVIEW: People in the #Donbas have been shelled and killed since 2014. And they can’t be part of #Ukraine any more. #Ukraine is indiscriminately attacking what it claims are its own people #JohnnyMiller

    George Galloway

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3re9sfS_dtE


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  57. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps says she and her partner experienced vaccine injury, calling for tests for long COVID and vaccine injuries as well as more research on the long-term harms of the coronavirus and immunisation side effects.…

    In a submission to an ongoing parliamentary inquiry on long COVID Phelps said she and her wife had both been injured after receiving COVID vaccinations.

    She said her wife, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, suffered long-term symptoms including ongoing nerve pain and fatigue following her first injection, while Phelps herself experienced symptoms including breathlessness and irregular blood pressure following her second shot…


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  58. Shy Ted says:
    December 20, 2022 at 9:40 pm

    Rachel Levine hears Kevin07 is heading to Murrica.
    She did the makeup himself. Believe it or not it’s not a Photoshop.


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  59. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    From media archives

    WikiLeaks’ recent dump of hacked emails uncovered Mr Rudd sent two emails to Mr Podesta wanting to organise meetings in the US.

    Mr Podesta did not reply.

    The first email sent on December 14, 2015, came just before Mr Rudd’s infamous December 23 meeting with Malcolm Turnbull in the Australian prime minister’s Sydney office to discuss support for the UN secretary-general job.

    “Hi John,” Mr Rudd wrote in an email to Mr Podesta on December 14, according to WikiLeaks.
    “I’m in DC tomorrow if by any chance you are there for a quick catch up.

    “Alternatively in NYC (New York City) Wednesday or Thursday.
    “I would appreciate a short chat before Christmas.
    “Go well.”
    The email was signed with a simple “K”.

    Mr Rudd had claimed Mr Turnbull, at that December 23 Sydney meeting, stated his support “for my candidature” for the UN’s top job.

    According to the WikiLeaks’ email dump, Mr Rudd reached out again to Mr Podesta on February 26.

    Mr Rudd’s senior executive associate at the Asia Society Policy Institute, Sarah Marten, wrote an email on February 26 seeking meetings with Mr Podesta on March 1 or March 4, according to WikiLeaks.

    “Mr Rudd will be in DC next week and was hoping to find some time to meet with you,” the email states.


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  60. mh says:
    December 20, 2022 at 9:58 pm

    George of the bungle

    Kevin Rudd is the right choice for US ambassador

    The Biden administration chose one of America’s most admired public figures, Caroline Kennedy, to be its ambassador in Canberra. Australia has returned the compliment.

    George Brandis
    Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general


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  61. Cold-Hands says:
    December 20, 2022 at 11:59 pm

    Australia has returned the compliment.

    He couldn’t very well tell the truth without insulting our most important ally.


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  62. mh says:
    December 21, 2022 at 7:34 am

    Peter Schiff and Jay Martin discuss the economy, inflation, jobs, crypto, Bitcoin, Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, Binance, stocks, investing, and gold.

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


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  63. Shy Ted says:
    December 21, 2022 at 9:44 am

    Maybe Pedosta & Rudd were going to talk about the climate. Or their shared love of art.

    Didn’t Hillary look young the other day?


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  64. Shy Ted says:
    December 21, 2022 at 10:06 am

    Prog on their ABC the other, interview with outgoing ASIO boss, including what he looks for in a spy. Apart from the fact that he was never going to spill any beans of interest, what does he look for in a spook? Why, diversity of course. They observe people for a period of time to see if they have the qualities.


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  65. mh says:
    December 21, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    James Whale then

    ‘I’m really excited about the fact that I can get another jab fairly soon, so all you anti-vaxxers, all you idiots, all you nutters who go on trolling me, you know what you can do? You can get the vaccine.’

    James Whale now

    James Whale
    @THEJamesWhale
    ·
    Sorry to say guys, a lot of people asking how my blood transfusions went. Unfortunately they didn’t do the trick. Apparently I have lungs full of blood clots so they’re keeping me in to clear them out and hopefully it won’t take too long. XXX
    6:46 AM · Dec 20, 2022


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  66. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 1:09 pm

    Thanks for the kind words, people.


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  67. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 1:12 pm

    Check this out.

    ***********

    Tony Heller:

    An interesting X-Files episode, presented as fiction at the time.

    “What’s Wrong With The Science?”


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  68. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:03 pm

    Follow-up from this Kari Lake story.

    JUST IN:

    Confirmed with AZSOS: @KariLake lawyers have withdrawn their subpoena of @SecretaryHobbs . She will not be testifying at tomorrow’s hearing.

    So much of noise about the certainty of victory and the proof.
    Then it all fizzles out.


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  69. mh says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:18 pm

    Didn’t see this coming

    Kabul: Afghanistan’s Taliban-run Afghan higher education ministry says female students will not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice, drawing strong condemnation from the United States, Britain and the United Nations.

    A letter, confirmed by a spokesperson for the higher education ministry, instructed Afghan public and private universities to suspend access to female students immediately, in accordance with a cabinet decision.

    Penny Wong needs to go over there and get this reversed.


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  70. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:19 pm

    MAGA Conservatives? Or different shades of Commies?
    Take a look at those present at the gala. Includes Kari Lake who, during the mid-term campaign, talked about God and Christianity.

    Trump hosts gala for homosexual Republicans at Mar-a-Lago after Biden signs same-sex ‘marriage’ law

    Just two days after Joe Biden signed the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act” [RMA] into law, LGBT Republicans celebrated its enactment at a gala event at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort home, hosted by the former president himself.

    ‘We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,’ said Trump at a gala with the Log Cabin Republicans and a slate of pro-homosexual RINO speakers.

    This opinion piece from Archbishop Viganò:

    Trump’s endorsement of LGBTQ Republicans is a grave mistake

    The Democratic Party is totally anti-Christian and obstinately determined to implement the globalist agenda of the New World Order. On the other hand, the Republican Party is recklessly pursuing a minority of voters who are indulging in lifestyles that are contrary to the Commandments and to the common good.


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  71. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:25 pm

    Celine Dion was disabled from a KNOWN SIDE EFFECT of the COVID vaccine (99.6% certainty)

    Celine Dion finally revealed she has stiff person syndrome, which is so rare, it’s only found in 1 in a million people. Did she just get unlucky? Nope. She got vaccinated.

    My calculations, shown below, estimate that there is 99.6% chance it was the COVID vaccine which caused her injury.


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  72. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:31 pm

    📰

    Real News? Fake News? NWO News? Tweeter News?

    Moja
    .

    Mbili
    .

    Tatu
    .


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  73. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    The theatrics are over blown, but Spader is a JET. ( Just Extremely Talented ).

    Raymond Reddington surrenders himself to the FBI | The Blacklist (Season 1, Episode 1)


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  74. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    ..Overblown.


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  75. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 6:22 pm

    60,270 views 24 Jun 2015
    Baraka is a 1992 non-narrative documentary film directed by Ron Fricke. The film is often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio for which Fricke was cinematographer. Baraka was the first film in over twenty years to be photographed in the 70mm Todd-AO format, and the first film ever to be restored and scanned at 8K resolution.

    Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a kaleidoscopic compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period.
    The film is Ron Fricke’s follow-up to Godfrey Reggio’s similar non-verbal documentary film Koyaanisqatsi. Fricke was cinematographer and collaborator on Reggio’s film, and for Baraka he struck out on his own to polish and expand the photographic techniques used on Koyaanisqatsi. Shot in 70mm, it includes a mixture of photographic styles including slow motion and time-lapse. To execute the film’s time-lapse sequences, Fricke had a special camera built that combined time-lapse photography with perfectly controlled movements.
    Locations featured include the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the Ryoan temple in Kyoto, Lake Natron in Tanzania, burning oil fields in Kuwait, the smouldering precipice of an active volcano, a busy subway terminal, tribal celebrations of the Masai in Kenya, and chanting monks in the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery.
    The film features a number of long tracking shots through various settings, including Auschwitz and Tuol Sleng, over photos of the people involved, past skulls stacked in a room, to a spread of bones. It suggests a universal cultural perspective: a shot of an elaborate tattoo on a bathing Japanese yakuza precedes a view of tribal paint.

    Baraka – A World Beyond Words (shot in 24 countries on six continents) – Trailer


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  76. Cold-Hands says:
    December 21, 2022 at 6:38 pm

    Get #Woke, go broke…

    Netflix unveiled its new, lower-priced plan with commercials just last month and it already is running into trouble, with the left-wing streamer reportedly failing to make viewership targets. As a result, Netflix has found itself in the embarrassing position of giving money back to advertisers.

    The development is a potentially serious one for Netflix, which is counting on advertising revenue to lift its financial fortunes after a rough year that saw the streamer bleed subscribers for an unprecedented two consecutive quarters.

    Shares of Netflix are down more than 50 percent so far this year.

    On Thursday, Digiday reported Netflix is falling short of ad-supported viewership guarantees made to advertisers and is allowing advertisers to take their money back for ads that have yet to run. The specific shortfall amounts vary but in some cases, Netflix has only delivered roughly 80 percent of the expected audience, according to five agency executives who spoke to the outlet.


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  77. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 6:42 pm

    King Charles Can’t Refute Meghan’s ‘Racism’ Charges Because He Is A Self-Flagellating Globalist

    Britain’s new king is the poster boy for the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Great Reset,” a thinly-veiled effort to replace the autonomy and quality of life that Western industrial advances have helped produce with self-destructive globalism.


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  78. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 6:48 pm

    ACMA, as independent regulator, should have ruled for the shutting down of Always Biased Cabal. That would have been the correct finding following their investigation.

    ‘Crying like a bunch of sooks’:
    Senator mocks ABC for its attack on broadcasting regulator ACMA

    The ABC has launched an extraordinary attack on the independent broadcasting regulator ACMA after being hit with multiple code breaches for misleading viewers in a discredited Four Corners program.

    Media regulator ACMA ruled this morning that the ABC misled its viewers and breached its own code in a scathing 60-page investigation into the Four Corners report “Fox and the Big Lie”, which was hosted by its star reporter Sarah Ferguson.


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  86. kaysee kaysee says:
    December 21, 2022 at 7:24 pm

    He is visiting in person. He may be able to make a quick trip to New York for some shopping.

    Zelensky to Deliver Remarks in Person to Congress on Wednesday After Lawmakers Pave Way for a Another $45 Billion to His War Efforts

    Ukrainian President is expected to speak to Congress on Wednesday night in Washington DC.

    This comes as the US Congress is ready to donate another $45 billion to the Ukrainian War efforts.


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  88. mh says:
    December 21, 2022 at 7:34 pm

    From last month

    Members of the European Parliament, Mick Wallace and Clare Daly, visited Lahore this November and spoke about the European left and the war in Ukraine at the Research and Publications Centre.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ6KmDnv1Nk


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  89. Cold-Hands says:
    December 21, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    Meanwhile, in recent Feminist news:

    A woman in Norway is facing criminal charges and a possible prison sentence of up to three years for stating that men can not be lesbians. Tonje Gjevjon, a lesbian artist, was notified on November 17 that she was under police investigation for hate speech over a statement she posted to Facebook.

    In her post, Gjevjon railed against trans-identified males who call themselves “lesbians,” and condemned trans activists who seek to criminalize women who oppose gender ideology.

    “It’s just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant,” Gjevjon wrote, “Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”

    Just goes to show who’s on top of the victimhood poker hierarchy…


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  90. mh says:
    December 21, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    Russell Brand

    The Covid Redemption with Tim Robbins

    Here is my conversation with Tim Robbins, who has won an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards during his career. He explains his awakening during the pandemic & how somethings didn’t seem right to him…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMdOesJo4h8


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  91. Old bloke says:
    December 21, 2022 at 8:14 pm

    Kissinger is part of the WEF cabal but even he has called for peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow. And this is Ukraine’s response.

    Kissinger was previously on the Ukrainian kill list website ‘Myrotvorets’ for suggesting a peaceful solution, as are many others including children (great country we’re supporting there!)

    Russia won’t enter into any peace talks nor negotiations as they have learned they can’t trust the West. They agreed to the Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 deals, and another deal in March this year in Istanbul, and Merkel has let the Russians know that the West isn’t trustworthy, Minsk was a fraud to allow the Ukrainians time to build up their army.

    Europe is rooted, and they did it to themselves. No more cheap Russian gas and oil, Europe will lose its manufacturing industry and the businesses and jobs will go elsewhere. Russia won’t start the gas flowing to northern Europe again even if the EU lifts its sanctions, Russia won’t forgive them for their duplicity.

    Just to add a cherry to the top of the sh*tcake, the EU have announced a carbon tax on energy consumed. The Europeans will have to pay dearly for their energy (American LPG costs 4 time the US price), and then they have to pay a tax on the exorbitantly priced energy imports.

    Stupidity on stilts, there’s going to be upheaval in Europe.


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  93. Old bloke says:
    December 21, 2022 at 8:21 pm

    I forgot to add, the Kissinger plan called for the complete Russian withdrawal from all of its occupied territory before a plebiscite is held to determine the fate of the contested territories.

    There’s no trust after Merkel announced that the Minsk accords were fraudulent, Russia won’t trust the West to run a proper plebiscite so you can forget Kissinger’s plan.


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  94. Steve trickler says:
    December 21, 2022 at 9:46 pm

    Spot the amount of mobile phones in the crowd.

    Pink Floyd – One Of These Days (PULSE Restored & Re-Edited)


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  96. Cold-Hands says:
    December 21, 2022 at 10:39 pm

    James Whale
    @THEJamesWhale
    ·
    Sorry to say guys, a lot of people asking how my blood transfusions went. Unfortunately they didn’t do the trick. Apparently I have lungs full of blood clots so they’re keeping me in to clear them out and hopefully it won’t take too long. XXX
    6:46 AM · Dec 20, 2022

    While the vaxx probably hasn’t helped, Whale was diagnosed with spine, brain and kidney cancer in 2020 (after previously having kidney cancer in 2000).


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  99. mh says:
    December 22, 2022 at 7:20 am

    Kevin McCarthy breaks with McConnell, will oppose $1.7T omnibus bill


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  100. mh says:
    December 22, 2022 at 8:23 am

    Fox News

    Omnibus bill earmarks $750K for trans group that wants to inject LGBTQ ‘discourse’ in elementary schools

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/omnibus-bill-earmarks-750k-trans-group-wants-inject-lgbtq-discourse-elementary-schools

    ***

    I doubt there will be any opposition from Trump.


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