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Open Thread – Saturday, 17 September 2022
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Mr. Perrotet is rong.
This is at least two years too late for the move to be called a commonsense approach.
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Cracking boobs!
On centenaries
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Eyrie says:
September 19, 2022 at 7:40 pm
No control inputs at all. I reckon a medical episode.
Could be G-LOC Steve. They were going around the pylon. Pull the G on suddenly and you don’t have time to do the anti G thing and the G suit may not be quick enough. Assuming they wear G suits at Reno.
Friend of mine died in a Pitts at Beverley WA in late 1980. Pulled into a low level loop suddenly and only went about 3/4 of the way around. Likely G LOC. (G-LOC – G induced Loss Of Consciousness). Blood suddenly runs into lower part of body, leaving brain starved.
That plane was not pulling heavy G’s.
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Maybe they’re just married…
Now that’s teaching!
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Peter Schiff with his usual rosy forecast of the US economy:
🔴 FedEx Proves the Fed Can’t Deliver a Soft Landing – Ep 841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ZKgXmhASI
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Dow futures tonight indicating the losses to continue.
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Jimmy Rees:
Meanwhile In Australia *PART 54* 😬
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Justin Castro in the UK paying his respects
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Anyone thinking the body of the Queen was in that box being paraded the countryside is well and truly f&cked in the head.
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The Death of Superman PART 1 [Ultimate edition] | Batman v Superman
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The Death of Superman PART 2 [Ultimate edition] | Batman v Superman
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People trapped in the concrete got rescued. All good.
7+ for sure.
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Disaster Compilations
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse and triggering tsunami warnings.
The quake hit the Chishang township in rural southeastern Taiwan and had a depth of 10 kilometers.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for Miyako island in the East China Sea, but the agency later removed the warning. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) had also warned of tsunami waves along nearby coastlines.
Photos showed collapsed buildings in southern Taiwan following the powerful earthquake. The USGS initially registered it at 7.2, before downgrading it to 6.9.
Four people were rescued after being trapped under the rubble of one building, the island’s official Central News Agency (CNA) reported.
About 20 passengers were evacuated after a train derailed in the area, but there were no casualties from the incident, the Taiwan Railway Administration said.
Kolas Yotaka, a former presidential spokeswoman who is running for local elections in Hualien county, said that damages were also reported at a local school.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen activated the island’s Central Emergency Operation Center following the quake. Taiwanese residents have been asked to stay alert to avoid potential aftershocks, Tsai said in a recorded statement.
About 110 soldiers have also been deployed in Hualien county, along the island’s eastern coast, to assist with disaster relief efforts, Taiwan’s defense ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang said.
a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTfjzbZT2Y”>M6.9 Earthquake Hits Taiwan – Sept. 18, 2022 台湾地震
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Mark Dice:
A Women’s Only Bohemian Gr𝗈ve? – Yes, It’s Real
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People on sussietube whinging about the attention he gets.
Cash is fine. If he wants out he’ll walk.
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Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 25
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Regarding the jet crash: They had just gone around the pylon. Involves rolling into steep bank and pulling G. I’d say the higher jet is still pulling at least 4G based on the bank angle. Peak may have been higher and t’s not just the G but how quickly it comes on.
If you are fit, with low blood pressure the problem is worse.
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Another big EQ- Mexico.
Dutchsinse:
9/19/2022 — LARGE M7.6 Earthquake + Tsunami threat in Mexico — East Pacific Moves as expected
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Government is doing everything possible to stuff the economy, and doing nothing to fix it.
It’s about time we recognised they are trying to crush us deliberately.
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Eyrie says:
September 20, 2022 at 7:08 am
Regarding the jet crash: They had just gone around the pylon. Involves rolling into steep bank and pulling G. I’d say the higher jet is still pulling at least 4G based on the bank angle. Peak may have been higher and t’s not just the G but how quickly it comes on.
If you are fit, with low blood pressure the problem is worse.
Good call, Eyrie.
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blancolirio:
L-29 Crash Reno National Championship Air Races 18 Sept 2022
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Serious question:
Do people on here identify as libertarians or as might more accurately be said, effeminate weirdos?
I copped a bullseye in this political compass, dead centre. I’m officially not anything politically:
If you have not done one of these lately, see if the last 2.5 years has changed your view politically.
https://politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=0.63&soc=0.0
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Arky says:
September 20, 2022 at 10:19 am
One square down and on the second square in the purple from the bullseye.
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Pelosi in Armenia, why? All mapped out:
“This chapter describes six possible U.S. moves in the current geopolitical competition: providing lethal arms to Ukraine, resuming support to the Syrian rebels, promoting regime change in Belarus, exploiting Armenian and Azeri tensions, intensifying attention to Central Asia, and isolating Transnistria (a Russian-occupied enclave within Moldova).” from 2019 RAND Corporation publication “Extending Russia”.
Just in case you would like to “Support RAND, Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at http://www.rand.org/giving/contribute“. You gotta hand it to the Yanks.
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Communist.
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Arky says:
September 20, 2022 at 10:19 am
Right on the border for authoritarian/libertarian, somewhat to the right economically.
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I’m two squares to the right of center and in the center for Authoritarian/libertarian.
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Feeling lonely and in need of companionship?
Here’s robot Ameca to help you.
How reassuring. She/it tells us:
There’s no need to worry. Robots will never take over the world. We’re here to help and serve humans, not replace them.
Will robots take over the world?
Ameca conversation using GPT 3
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New World Order or Conspiracy theories?
1/
The vaxx
2/
RFID chip
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Metaverse is God
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Steve, are you referring to the funeral procession that left Westminster Abbey and moved through the city streets of London?
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1.5 x 1.5 squares from the bull in the blue
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One box to the left of centre, I must be a commo too.
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Thanks for the Blancolirio link, Steve. I had not seen it.
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Most passengers are not using them anyway.
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Courier Paywall
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There’s a lizard in there.
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Gonzalo Lira is on a US government hit-list. He shows the Ukraine web page where he’s on the death list, it has an office in Langley, Virginia.
What other organisation is headquartered in Langley, Virginia?
Gonzalo Lira: Notes On Being Unpersoned (I’m On The Myrotvorets Hit List & US Gov Wants Me Dead)
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Bob toon (Queen)
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Climate and Green Energy
1/
Lockdowns
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Green Energy
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Reiner Fuellmich
He explains the NWO and where we are headed ….
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Neil Oliver
….vampires are coming for us!
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Here’s a good question:
If the world goes over to a blockchain type digicurrency, how does the big guy get his 10%?
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert
Dennis
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Blondie
Family circus
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If there is a global system of digital currency, the big guys will have a plan in place for 100%.
The plebs, on the other hand, will own zilch and be thrilled about it.
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That affluent island with Atlantic Ocean views ……
One
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Two
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Three
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Garrison
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#foxnews #hannity
DeSantis responds to criminal investigation after he flew migrants to Martha’s Vineyard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Twaby1QYg
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Same. I think that makes me slightly Libertarian Right Wing. Which is an improvement on the last “wonder of me” test which had me as an AnarchoCapitalist.
Which makes sense as I have a reasonable regard for the way the Venetians ran their little sphere of influence.
But I think the Queen’s body was in there. No lizards. 😊
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I’m at a loss as to where else the body of the queen would be.
In the circumstances giving as many people as possible the opportunity to pay final respects was the right thing to do.
At least it wasn’t like Brezhnev, “all dressed up and no place to go”
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Steve Trickler, G-LOC incidents:
From Wikipedia
On 10 October 1984, GG1001 crashed in South Korea on a demonstration flight, killing Northrop pilot Darrell Cornell. An investigation cleared the F-20 of mechanical or design faults; it concluded Cornell had blacked out due to excessive g-forces.[43] GI1001 crashed in May 1985 at Goose Bay, Labrador, killing Northrop pilot Dave Barnes. Again the crash was blamed on G-LOC; Barnes had been practicing his aerobatic routine for the Paris Air Show.[44]
Also:
Less than two months after first taking flight, the Hawk 200 demonstrator was lost in a fatal accident at Dunsfold Aerodrome, killing BAe test pilot Jim Hawkins; Hawkins is alleged to have either become disoriented or to have fallen unconscious, due to g-LOC (g induced loss of consciousness), while executing high-g manoeuvres to explore the aircraft’s agility.[citation needed]
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‘Dr. Doom’ foresees potential 40pc drop in S&P 500
Economist Nouriel Roubini, who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis, sees a “long and ugly” recession in the US and globally occurring at the end of 2022 that could last all of 2023 and a sharp correction in the S&P 500.
“Even in a plain vanilla recession, the S&P 500 can fall by 30 per cent,” said Roubini, chairman and chief executive officer of Roubini Macro Associates, in an interview this week. In “a real hard landing”, which he expects, it could fall 40 per cent.
Roubini whose prescience on the housing bubble crash of 2007 to 2008 earned him the nickname Dr. Doom, said that those expecting a shallow US recession should be looking at the large debt ratios of corporations and governments.
As rates rise and debt servicing costs increase, “many zombie institutions, zombie households, corporates, banks, shadow banks and zombie countries are going to die”, he said. “So we’ll see who’s swimming naked.”
Roubini, who has warned that global debt levels will drag down markets, said that achieving a 2 per cent inflation rate without a hard landing is going to be “mission impossible” for the Federal Reserve. He expects a 75 basis points rate hike at the current meeting and 50 basis points in both November and December. That would lead the Fed funds rate by year’s end to be between 4 per cent and 4.25 per cent.
However, persistent inflation, especially in wages and the service sector, will mean the Fed will “probably have no choice” but to hike more, he said, with funds rates going toward 5 per cent…
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CNBC headline
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I can’t see what the problem is, noses are made of cartilage, not meat.
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kaysee says:
September 20, 2022 at 2:57 pm
I can’t find the clip I was watching but it was being alluded that there one was coffin for the public to see and another with her in it behind scenes. The worry was about security and something bad happening.
It made sense and still does. We’ll never know though.
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Fascinating if true and no reason to doubt it at this time. Subjecting seeds, fern spores, fish eggs etc to electric fields.
Look what happened.
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Bogdan’s World:
The video has really bad quality, because it was copied from an old VHS tape. I found an excerpt of the report in a slightly better quality, on a later info-show were the son of the portrayed scientist is interviewed 20 years later. I cut between the footage for a slight upgrade in image quality.
This old documentary made its rounds in the german speaking world a while ago. I am not sure if it did in the english speaking community. That’s why I decided to translate it to english the best I could. The documentary or report was aired 1992, but from all possible places, the “sensation” was first presented in a swiss entertainment show in 1988.
The Primeval Code – Genetic Manipulation Using Electric Fields
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Eyrie says:
September 21, 2022 at 7:19 am
What do you reckon about mandatory g-suits at Reno?
It’s probably a good idea.
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Avi:
Dan Andrews’ hand-picked parliamentary secretary, Nick Staikos, caught MOCKING Australian military veterans marching in uniform to protest restrictions on freedom.
Dan’s COWARD MP hides behind staffer
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FMD, It’s Nat Press Club day. Meant to be about melanoma, presented by 2 pasty gingers who wouldn’t know what the sun was. Then some other white bint from overseas banging on about racism and her white privilege. Only caught a few excruciating minutes but they’re ending with “we want mandates” to make people wear big hats and long sleeves, even the cricketers, time spent on the beach, mandatory sun screens available free at the SLS club and so on. These fuckers are mad. They’ve got $10mill of our money to play with and plan a mass advertising campaign for starters. How are they going to fit it in between bears in chains, koalas, abandoned dogs and the famine in Yemen? I know, just cancel the programs.
As an aside, there’s a theory going round facebook that tomorrow, the day of mourning, businesses closed etc will run through anything up to 10 days. Who knows but I’m going out to get a bit of cash.
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Victim-hood and Activism
Who are the victims?
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Student pushes back against CRT
b/
UC Berkeley
c/
Aborigines
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The ones playing the victim card could learn from this.
How to stop bullying
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I have not followed the media broadcasts following the death of QEII. But I watched the funeral coverage beginning around 7 pm AEST to around 11 pm via the BBC version, on YouTube.
So my question was specific to checking on this time frame.
It was a live coverage, probably watched by billions around the world. There was a procession from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey. The pall bearers carried the coffin into the church for the funeral service. Then, they carried the coffin out of the church and in procession through the streets of central London. Was this the fake coffin for the public?
A worry about security related to Elizabeth’s body and the coffin? British security services unable to manage this? An operation that has been in the planning for decades?
In the same country where most of the world’s leaders, dignitaries and royalty had flown in for the funeral? In Westminster Abbey, where all these hotshots were arriving, over a few hours, to attend the funeral? One church holding all these VIPs. This would have been the security nightmare for law enforcement.
I’ll get back with a longer comment (my analysis) on the Queen and the two opposing sides that have emerged, since her death. Later, in a few weeks, after all the mourning and media commentary settles down.
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The Perrotet conservative regime
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Link no work Kaycee.
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Which link?
I’ve tested all. No problems at my end.
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From a TikTokker:
I was just offered $400 to make an anti Trump video
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Updates to The Mock.
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Steve, probably. I don’t know if the L29 is fitted for G suits though. I think they use engine bleed air to inflate the suit. I guess you could have a nitrogen bottle.
Mind you the Unlimiteds likely have the same problem. They aren’t that much slower than the jets and likely pull the same G’s.
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The US mid-term election is under 2 months away.
And, just like that, just in time ….
there’s a brand new COVID variant making headway in the U.S.
Are the mail-in ballots ready for mailing out?
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Eyrie says:
September 21, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Steve, probably. I don’t know if the L29 is fitted for G suits though. I think they use engine bleed air to inflate the suit. I guess you could have a nitrogen bottle.
Mind you the Unlimiteds likely have the same problem. They aren’t that much slower than the jets and likely pull the same G’s.
Just did skim of the 7:38:00 coverage. When it comes to the props Dreadnought was in the 440-450+ mph range….and it sounds bloody marvelous. They all do.
Unlimited starts around 2:37:00.
2022 Stihl National Championship Air Races Live Stream – Saturday 09/17/2022
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Chris Bowen – Minister of Stupid.
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GTV last Stand:
Chris Bowen has never worked a real job that’s why he doesn’t understand electric work vehicles just don’t stack up.
MINISTER OF STUPID
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For what it’s worth, in a Roy Morgan SMS poll of 1012 respondents taken following the death of QEII, support for the Monarchy has increased by 5% compared with a poll taken in 2012. Most of the swing was due to increased support from ALP voters (up 18%). Given the wave of sentiment accompanying the Royal funeral & accompanying proceedings would explain this uptick, I suspect this increased support will not be particularly durable.
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George Galloway
#UkraineRussiaWar
FULL INTERVIEW: Gonzalo Lira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq0bjSQc7Ic
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Paywallian
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The poll was last week.
I think the funeral broadcast this week would further increase the support for the monarchy.
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Andrew Tate On Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZrwHLfWYIw
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Western “feminists” are only “brave” when they are in a safe space – that is in western countries. Western men are bad and hijabs are a choice.
Protesting women take off hijabs after 22-year-old arrested for dress code violation dies
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What is Putin’s plan?
There was a tweet earlier today saying:
Then the update:
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert
Dennis
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Blondie
Family circus
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This is devastating. The Maldives are screwed.
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Tony Heller:
Maldives Climate Crisis
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Michael Lucarelli, classical guitar
Malagueña
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This mother is on the squirt and tells it like it is.😂
She is not wrong.
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Sonny Fazio:
Reacting to Gen-Z can’t answer the most basic questions with my Mom. Just when you think society can’t get any dumber, they always prove us wrong. Let’s dive into it, getting me and my Mom’s takes on it all…
Mom REACTS To Gen-Z Can’t Answer The Most Basic Questions: HUMILIATING
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Grandma shares her thoughts on Tate.
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Sonny Fazio:
Reacting to Andrew Tate’s craziest takes with my Grandma. We all know my Mom has become a fan, but what does her mom think of it? Let’s dive into it, getting me and my Grandma’s takes on it all…
Grandma REACTS To Andrew Tate’s CRAZIEST Takes
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Latest environmental bullshit:
1) ‘Crippling’ energy bills force Europe’s factories to go dark
The New York Times, 19 September 2022
2) German industry suffers worst energy shock since 1949
The Daily Telegraph, 20 September 2022
3) The Net Zero policies that should be torn up to save your wealth
The Sunday Telegraph, 18 September 2022
4) Energy crisis sparks global coal rush
Reuters, 20 September 2022
5) China doubles down on coal as energy crunch bites
The Business Times, 18 September 2022
6) Mark P. Mills: Europe is losing the energy war
City Journal, 18 September 2022
7) Joel Kotkin: Environmentalism is a fundamentalist religion
Newsweek, 19 September 2022
8) Steven Koonin: Don’t believe the hype about Antarctica’s melting glaciers
The Wall Street Journal, 19 September 2022
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This blog is rocking.
Good to see.
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I used to wake up most mornings with a post forming in my head, and go to the computer and pour it all out, edit it and post it.
Lately, not much comes to me. I think it is because there is so much occurring in the world now, so rapidly, that I’m too busy processing for my mind to organise it into something coherent by morning.
I suspect that is the reason we are seeing quite a bit of disordered thinking around the blogosphere at the moment. Too much to process.
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A couple of years ago we might have been saying ‘this will all end in tears’.
We now witness the bitter harvest from what has been sown.
The green energy disaster.
The credit bubble economies beginning to pop.
Central Bankers telling us they will fix something (that they broke), but we never reach the point where it’s fixed.
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Nigel Farage joins Chris Kenny
UK may ‘go back to pre-industrial revolution’ times as energy crisis worsens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWnO5Y0bC6o
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Dice’s take on the story known to most.
Meet Transgender High School Shop Teacher – (Not a Joke – Not Photoshopped or Clickbait)
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Inflation (that they moronically predicted as transitory) and war in Europe are the things I’m struggling to make order out of MH.
Despite repeating for years to everyone “They’ll have to inflate all this debt away”. Seeing a prediction come true doesn’t make it any easier to figure out what to do when it’s as shitty situation as this.
There’s this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6xVu9IHOxo
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Andrew Bolt tonight with the most excellent Victor Hansen Davis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hw4ltbFoGg
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It’s not that sort of blog.
But who am I to say.
Night all.
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CNN’s Don Lemon asks Royal Commentator Hilary Fordwich about the need to pay reparations [for slavery]- and immediately regrets it.
(From Tom S. Elliot on Twitter).
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It is a mystery how a dunce like Don Lemon could be paid a lot of money to talk on TV. The guy is as dumb as a box of rocks, and if he did go to college he didn’t learn a thing.
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The US Space Force has a song:
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/857934/us-space-force-reveals-official-song
Not as good as this one though, for what they do. Leslie Fish’s “Sentries”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnJfyckomo
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Forgot to bring you the highlights of the women’ sports.
The latest from big pharma
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Here is Col. Doug Macgregor discussing the latest in the Ukraine. A different view to Victor Davis Hansen.
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Good summary from the Colonel at this point on who is running America
https://youtu.be/ueVccOhQ7C8?t=1089
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US markets tanked upon the news
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There was a Health Ranger Report podcast a few days ago with Gonzalo talking about the economic annihilation of Europe and other topics. It was a very lengthy and interesting conversation which was split into two segments due to its length.
Part 1. Situation Update, Sep 16, 2022 – The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe – Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams (1:09:35)
Part 2. Situation Update, Sep 16, 2022 – The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe – Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams (1:34:09)
Gonzalo needs a haircut, there must be some barber shops still open in Kharkov.
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Pirate grammar na zi
Wisdom
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