Open Thread – Saturday, 19 February 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    If you wish to leave the news cycle for a bit, these clips are relaxing.

    41:35.

    Hot Tent Overnighter in Rain and Snow


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  2. mh says:

    The NSW Police Force has launched an internal investigation into the ABC’s revelations about the horseracing interests of former commissioner Mick Fuller and senior officers.

    Yesterday the ABC revealed Mr Fuller and senior police did not declare their shares in racehorses which is in potential breach of anti-corruption rules.

    They co-owned racehorses with sporting identities, media bosses and leaders of industries — including the liquor, racing, gaming and security sectors — declared “high risk” under the force’s policies.

    The horse co-owners included two businessmen who became embroiled in criminal investigations.

    One of those businessmen owned a catering company that won a $3 million contract from the NSW Police Force (NSWPF) in 2017, after Mr Fuller became commissioner.

    “The matters raised by ABC Investigations are currently under investigation by Professional Standards Command,” a NSW Police spokeswoman said in a statement…

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-18/nsw-police-investigation-following-mick-fuller-revelations/100844020


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  3. mh says:

    He Tried To Tell You

    Russell Brand
    5.01M subscribers

    As more is revealed about Hillary Clinton’s campaign and its alleged surveillance of Donald Trump, we ask, is it any wonder that trust in government and corporate media is at a near all-time low?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KhiDfqeLI


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  4. mh says:

    From the people that brought you “man flu”

    Courier Paywall

    Exhaustion, terrible headaches and guilt: What it’s really like to catch Covid

    Queensland may have reached the peak of the Omicrom wave but many locals are still being hit hard by the virus. These are some of their stories.


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  5. mh says:

    Ezra Levant 🍁🚛@ezralevant
    Trudeau bravely pepper-sprays unarmed women in the face.

    https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494801378174283777?s=20&t=FDupRsbasBfIJLVQnaI4cQ


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  6. mh says:

    Authorities also announced on Saturday Victoria’s $200 million quarantine facility, the Mickleham “centre for national resilience”, would start taking unvaccinated travellers and some COVID-positive members of the community from Monday.


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  7. Ragu says:

    and some COVID-positive members of the community from Monday.

    And getting charged for the privilege of being locked up and learnin a little resilience.

    Does anyone know if it applies to people getting off the Spirit of Tassie?

    Hmmmmmm. https://youtu.be/VScSEXRwUqQ


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  8. Old bloke says:

    Black Ball Black Ball says:
    February 19, 2022 at 10:25 am

    Gunner is just a prick

    *****************************************

    Yes, I agree with that statement, but wasn’t it was the elders in the Yirrkala community who were responsible for David Cole’s arrest?


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  9. cohenite says:

    Whacky world of islam:

    Muslim who murdered priest: ‘You take a knife, you go to a church, you make a bloodbath, you even cut off heads’

    Germany: Woman dies from 28 stab wounds, Afghan Muslim migrant husband says she committed suicide

    Austria: Woman charged with ‘bodily harm’ for stabbing Muslim migrant who tried to rape her

    Pakistan: Court frees brother who confessed to murdering his sister, a social media star, in honor killing

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/


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  10. Old bloke says:

    Doctor Lee Merritt Warns: This Is An Extinction Level Event

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/cS9RUxCMkgvh/


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  11. Shy Ted says:

    In the Canadian bunker…
    Well done that photoshopper or however they do it.


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  12. mh says:

    Craig Kelly MP
    @CraigKellyMP
    ·
    4h
    Not good enough.

    Police investigating senior Police is like Dracula investigating possible wrongdoing at the blood bank.

    We need an urgent independent Judicial Inquiry into the very serious allegations being made against current & former senior NSW Police.


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  13. mh says:

    Praise be to Apple! Masks can stay on!

    Apple update lets you unlock iPhone with face ID while wearing a mask

    Apple’s next iPhone software update will address a grumble that’s been bugging users since the COVID pandemic started: You’ll finally be able to unlock your phone without first taking off your mask.


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  14. calli says:

    Ted, I was cheeky and reposted your bunker video over at FlashCat.

    It’s just wonderful. That sequence never gets old.

    Thanks for finding it.


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    Identity politics is creating an identity crisis.
    It is not about reality but how one feelz. Factor in peer pressure, as well.

    One in Five Gen Z Adults Now Say They Are LGBTQ

    One in five Gen Z adults now identify as LGBTQ, while the number of total Americans doing the same has doubled in a decade, according to a new Gallup poll.

    However, the rise is almost entirely accounted for by far greater numbers of people identifying as bisexual or transgender, not gay or lesbian.

    “Gallup estimates from these results that within the entire U.S. adult population, 4.0 percent of Americans identify as bisexual, 1.5 percent as gay, 1 percent as lesbian and 0.7 percent as transgender,” reports the Daily Mail.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    This is not new info to those on this site. Just updates and more details.

    Funeral Directors and Embalmers Alarmed By Freakishly Large Blood Clots Clogging Veins in Vaccinated Bodies

    Board-certified funeral directors and embalmers are coming forward to tell tales of horror featuring vaccinated bodies with veins and arteries clogged with strange, rubbery, worm-like clots.

    Richard Hirschman, a funeral director and embalmer from Alabama, with over twenty years of experience in the field, has said in recent interviews that he had never seen anything like it until around the middle of 2021, after the mass injections of the experimental COVID vaccines began. He says his colleagues in the field are seeing the same thing, and the numbers are increasing.


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain, Episode 15 “Please Explain The ABC”

    Just before the 2019 election, when the role of chairman at Always Biased Cabal was vacant, Scotty picked Ita to fill the position. Short-listed candidates (must have been white males) were bypassed to please all the wymynses.

    Now, additional funding has been allocated to same unbiased corporation otherwise the employees, relatives, friends and followers of that esteemed media organisation will not vote for LNP.

    The question is: why should those who usually vote LNP now vote for politicians who do not represent their interests?


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    10 February:
    Martyn Iles

    Today was nearly the end of Christian schooling in Australia

    Martyn provides his verdict on the Religious Discrimination Bill. Just past the 6-minute mark, he gives a brief sum-up of the Libs.

    The Liberal Party is in an ideological war with itself ………….


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  19. mh says:

    Wow. Check out this video

    #FoxNews #Watters
    Canadian gelato shop owner breaks down crying after threats for donation to truckers

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


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    Those hard borders in WA working really, really well. Keeps residents very, very safe.

    Western Australia breaks COVID-19 record again with 257 infections

    Authorities warn of 10,000 cases a day in March

    Western Australia has broken its daily COVID-19 record again with 257 local infections reported on Saturday – the day after Premier Mark McGowan finally confirmed the state’s hard border would be teared down from March 3.

    The high of 257 comes as daily coronavirus cases continue to increase rapidly on the west coast, with 194 local infections on Friday, 177 on Thursday and 115 on Wednesday.

    Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson also issued a grim warning to Western Australians that the state would likely see 10,000 cases each day by the end of March.


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  21. mh says:

    Stuart MacGill charged with stalking, intimidation

    In another dramatic twist, cricketer-turned waiter will face court accused of stalking and intimidating a woman after allegedly abusing a Sydney bar owner.


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  22. Cold-Hands says:

    Powerline’s week in Pictures actually was posted on (their) Friday, so it could conceivably have been posted in the old open thread. In case it wasn’t, here’s the Week in Pictures: Bulldog Edition.


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  23. mh says:

    Justin Trudeau
    @JustinTrudeau

    Officiel du gouvernement – Canada
    While many of us are working from home, there are others who aren’t able to do that – like the truck drivers who are working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. So when you can, please #ThankATrucker for everything they’re doing and help them however you can.
    10:01 AM · Apr 1, 2020


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  24. Cold-Hands Cold-Hands says:

    And because they’re drowning in a sea of memes… The Week in Pictures: Bonus Edition


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  25. Steve trickler says:

    Great work from Mark Dice:

    Lies


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  26. Mark A says:

    Looks like that burning car transport is full of EVs. The battery fire is what is preventing extinguishing, rescue not needed crew is off ship.
    Sorry, link is in EU lingo, so I didn’t bother.
    Apparently there were 1100 Porsche, 189 Bentley and for the moment unknown numbers of Audies
    Total worth is estimated at $150 mill


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  27. Ragu says:

    Will they scuttle the ship?


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  28. mh says:

    Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says political parties must hear the concerns of anti-vaccine and anti-mandate protesters – even if they don’t agree with them – and vowed to differentiate the Nationals from their Liberal coalition partners.

    Months of protests across the country about COVID-19 health measures culminated in a crowd of more than 10,000 protesters converging on Canberra last weekend, one of the largest protests in the capital in years.

    A host of right-leaning parties including Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party and the Liberal Democrats are looking to capitalise on that disaffection, and are eyeing off winning Senate seats in the coming poll, particularly in Queensland and NSW.

    Mr Joyce, whose at-times fractious relationship with Prime Minister Scott Morrison was revealed by The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age two weeks ago, said politicians and much of the media had made a mistake by focusing on the more extreme fringes of the protest movement.

    “The worst thing you can do to any substantial group that is isolated is tell them they deserve to be isolated. Labor has taken the political tactic of, like Hillary Clinton, calling these people ‘deplorables’. That misreads these groups entirely, that’s looking at the edges, not the centre,” he said.

    In a sign that Mr Joyce will seek to win back support from conservative voters disaffected by the federal government’s handling of COVID-19 and looking to back Hanson, Palmer or the LDP, he said the Nationals would differentiate themselves from the Liberals at the coming election.

    “The Nats are a different party, on some issues there will be a variation of views or different views. No one knows the Liberal message better than Scott Morrison, no one knows the Nats message better than me”.

    “It is my job to make sure that these people are heard, but you’ve got to do it without compromising logic or selling your soul to every view they hold…”

    ***

    It’s a bit late now.
    Two years of tyranny where the Nats were silent.
    Go Clive!


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  29. mh says:

    Russell Brand

    Trudeau – Is This Your Liberal Hero?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GnClytz34


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  30. egg_ says:

    Insiders:

    Panel unanimous Scummo’s on a loser calling Albo “Chyner friendly”.


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  31. egg_ says:

    Looks like that burning car transport is full of EVs. The battery fire is what is preventing extinguishing,

    When YouTuber Sam Crac visits Insurance Salvage Yards, there’s always a burnt out Tesla (Model X) car-B-que, h/t – Tim Blair.


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  32. egg_ says:

    Scummo’s on a loser

    Unbroken record.


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  33. mh says:

    True North
    @TrueNorthCentre
    On behalf of a constituent, Conservative MP Colin Carrie asks about the World Economic Forum’s influence on Canadian politicians. He gets cut off and NDP MP Charlie Angus says Carrie is spreading “disinformation.”

    https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1495124955859668992?s=20&t=MdtmrlaPBhqij9KpWiYjcQ


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  34. Old bloke says:

    egg_ says:
    February 20, 2022 at 9:24 am

    Insiders:

    Panel unanimous Scummo’s on a loser calling Albo “Chyner friendly”.
    ***************************************************

    Looks like we have to choose between Albo’s Chinese mates or Morrison’s WEF/WHO/UN Babylon mates.

    I prefer neither.


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  35. mh says:

    Mostly good

    New Rule: Stop Kowtowing to China | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vs0cDuWQQ


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  36. egg_ says:

    Looks like Maher’s been well and truly red-pilled over the Couf.


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  37. Shy Ted says:

    Such a lot of news around this morning, seems to have been well covered. Anyway, new word for the day is an old word
    Without incriminating myself I’m surprised I’ve never come across it before. But it is 2022 where you can’t just be well-endowed


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  38. Shy Ted says:

    In sports news…
    And in health news
    I love the internet and I don’t even go looking for these things.


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