Open Thread – Saturday, 22 October 2022

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  1. shatterzzz says:

    3 days of deliberations on a case with no evidence (Drunkney Hoggins).

    being Canberra I’d assume the jury is stacked with APS folk .. they are on full pay plus court days allowance(s), meals & transport so why not spin it out ..!


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  2. mh says:

    Look at the gormless dumbkopfs watching this take place:

    Letzte Generation
    @AufstandLastGen
    We make this #Monet the stage and the public the audience.

    If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes or #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all:

    Then we’ll give you #MashedPotatoes on a painting!

    https://twitter.com/AufstandLastGen/status/1584185689541054464?s=20&t=HhMIiR2z0XkkPuvKSUyU1w


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  3. Shy Ted says:

    Four Corners How Many More? 8:33PM – 9:19PM
    Aboriginal women are among the most victimised groups in the world, murdered up to 12 times the national average. A special investigation into Australia’s murdered and missing Indigenous women.

    36 minutes in and they haven’t mentioned Aboriginal men yet.


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  4. Shy Ted says:

    Police and racism to blame.


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  5. mh says:

    George Galloway and his mates getting to grips with The Great Reset

    Dr Nial McCrae
    Officer for the Workers of England Trade Union.

    … the startling realisation is that the British government and other Western governments want us to suffer, it’s not just collateral damage of Net Zero, impoverishment is the purpose.
    They want elderly to freeze in their homes this winter, they want driving to be unaffordable, they want families to struggle to put food on the table.

    This is a great reset in action and it’s about getting total control of resources.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI8D-kQR9FA


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  6. mh says:

    If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

    —- Henry A. Kissinger


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  7. mh says:

    You shall have a Rishi…

    Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s 57th prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the race to succeed Liz Truss. Sunak, 42, will be declared leader of the Conservative Party after becoming the only candidate to officially win the backing of 100 Tory MPs. He was endorsed by a string of cabinet ministers who had previously backed Boris Johnson.


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  8. mh says:

    Logan

    Wife pours hot oil over husband‘s face after 9am chicken fry-up

    A furious Logan wife was frying chicken when she decided to take the hot oil and pour it over her husband‘s face as he lay in bed.


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  9. Shy Ted says:

    MSM print & screen seems wall to wall bad Gina. I think it’s good. Might embolden a few more dumbarse, overpaid, precious sporting and other celebs to speak up on left wing causes and upset their sponsors. And pay the same price.
    Boss dies
    The harmy


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  10. Shy Ted says:

    There’s a book about Lang Hancock
    It’s interesting. A true battler and bushy. Details very well his battles with WA gummint and the endless roadblocks they put in his way. In the end there was a partnership with Rio and, infamously, some lawyer never put a sunset clause on the royalties to Hancock so they just kept coming and that’s how he hit the really big time. Gina was the child who revelled in the outback mining experience and was the natural heiress. Used to be in the local library. You won’t find it there these days.


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  11. Cold-Hands says:

    The UK’s NHS has drastically changed its approach to Gender Dysphoria Presumably, they’ve be driven to this by fear of damages claims arising from ‘transitioning’, even though the Keira Bell decision was overturned on appeal:

    Most children who believe that they are transgender are just going through a “phase”, the NHS has said, as it warns that doctors should not encourage them to change their names and pronouns.

    NHS England has announced plans for tightening controls on the treatment of under 18s questioning their gender, including a ban on prescribing puberty blockers outside of strict clinical trials.
    […]
    NHS England says that the interim Cass Report has advised that even social transition, such as changing a young person’s name and pronouns or the way that they dress, is not a “neutral act” that could have “significant effects” in terms of “psychological functioning”.


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  12. mh says:

    Marco Rubio
    @marcorubio

    US Senate candidate, FL
    Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida

    He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery

    https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1584564895605198849?s=20&t=bNoPW0cbgxiMBhh0lfHbAA


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  13. mh says:

    I’m no fan of the ChiComs, but I suspect the western media reports on the footage of Hu Jintao are way off.

    Xi Jinping elected for third term, and what happened to Hu Jintao?!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hrMiLqO-A


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  14. Steve trickler says:

    Vic-Pol being wankers, yet again. Kudos to the ladies for filming and asking all the right questions.

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    Rebel News:

    The reputation of Victoria Police continues to take a hammering as angry citizens film interactions with officers to show their bullying tactics.

    Lying cops caught on camera as reputation plummets


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  15. mh says:

    Courier Paywall

    Brutal SEQ weather warning: ‘It will hit like a tonne of bricks’

    South East Queensland is being warned of a weather event that will “hit like a tonne of bricks” after a supercell hailstorm smashed in central regions on Monday.

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    Currently no warnings on the BoM site for an event that will “hit like a tonne of bricks”.


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  16. Cold-Hands says:

    Jury still unable to reach an unanimous verdict in the Drunkney Hoggins case. The judge has sent them back to continue their deliberations. Mistrial increasingly likely. The process is the punishment…


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  17. johanna johanna says:

    Steve, thanks for Rebel News link.

    I hope these ladies lodge a formal complaint. VicPolizat apparently don’t have much to do, crime must be pretty much over.

    Pulled over for no reason, and the driver was clearly neither drunk nor affected by drugs, but they put her through the wringer anyway.

    Grrr!


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  18. Steve trickler says:

    I’ve been following this bloke since Nord Stream got taken out. He tracks military aircraft movements, troop positions etc and provides analysis on what could be in the works. It is not looking good at all…we watch and wait.

    It goes for 41 minutes so you might want to skim though it, just to get the gist of it all.

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    Monkey Werx:

    SITREP 10.24.22 – Mission Overwatch


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  19. Cold-Hands says:

    More about the change to the NHS approach to transgenderism, this time outside the Telegraph paywall.

    Children who believe they are trans are probably just going through a short-lived phase, the NHS has told doctors.

    The health service last week issued draft guidance on treating children and young people with gender dysphoria — those who feel their gender is different from their sex.

    Doctors should be open to ‘exploring all developmentally appropriate options’ with youngsters who believe they are trans but be ‘mindful that this may be a transient phase’, it states.

    At least 15 children under the age of four were directed to the NHS’s transgender health service in England in the past two years.

    A similar number of five-year-olds were referred between 2021-2022 to the highly-controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock clinic, the country’s only gender identity service for children.

    NHS documents state that, in total, over 5,000 children were referred to Tavistock’s service in the past two years, over concerns they were suffering from their gender identity not matching their biological sex.

    Only half of referrals were for children aged 15-plus.

    The NHS data, unveiled among some new guidelines for how to treat children with gender dysphoria, only concerns referrals to the GIDS at Tavistock.

    Not all of the patients would have been taken on for actual treatment, which can include puberty blockers and hormones that help change their bodies to align more with their gender identity.

    It is not known how many of the children aged five or under referred to GIDS went on to become patients. Any that did are unlikely to have been prescribed medication.

    But the figure is likely to cast even more questions over how children questioning their gender are directed to NHS care in England.

    NHS England is cracking down on how children are referred to gender identity care in the future, in the wake of the Tavistock chaos which saw its GIDS service ruled unsafe following a review.

    The guidance sets out that medics should carefully consider encouraging prepubescent children to socially transition due to the mental health risks they face in their teenage years.

    ‘The clinical approach has to be mindful of the risks of an inappropriate gender transition and the difficulties that the child may experience in returning to the original gender role upon entering puberty if the gender incongruence does not persist into adolescence,’ the guidance reads.

    Even for older children, those already in their adolescence, social transitioning should only be considered a last resort in severe cases, the NHS suggests.

    ‘Social transition should only be considered where the approach is necessary for the alleviation of, or prevention of, clinically significant distress or significant impairment in social functioning and the young person is able to fully comprehend the implications of affirming a social transition,’ the draft reads.

    Stella O’Malley, psychotherapist and director of campaign group Genspect, said medics needed to take heed of warnings over social transitioning.

    She said: ‘Professionals working with children need to reflect on that and make sure they aren’t inadvertently causing harm by providing short term relief that leads to long term distress.

    […]

    The NHS England draft guidelines are part of the health service’s plan to close the highly-controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock clinic, the country’s only gender identity service for children.

    GIDS is scheduled to shut its doors in the spring after a review ruled that the service was unsafe.

    It found that other mental health issues were ‘overshadowed’ in favour of gender identity treatment, prompting accusations that staff rushed children onto powerful drugs.


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  20. Steve trickler says:

    johanna says:
    October 25, 2022 at 4:53 pm

    Always film them.


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  21. mh says:

    She’s back

    Williams drops tennis comeback bombshell

    Serena Williams has stunned the tennis world by declaring her career isn’t over less than two months after an emotional send-off at the US Open.


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  22. Cold-Hands says:

    Serena Williams has stunned the tennis world by declaring her career isn’t over less than two months after an emotional send-off at the US Open.

    Given how she was comfortably beaten during her last farewell tournament, isn’t she just asking for another humiliation?


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  23. mh says:

    Beaten by an Aussie while chasing the grand slam record of an Aussie.


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  24. mh says:

    Is this a proper budget tonight, or the mini-budget of a new government?

    More suicidal green schemes, I’m guessing.


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  26. Steve trickler says:

    Reverend Simon Sideways:

    Rishi Sunak is one of the worst person for the job as Prime Minister but not for the reasons you think I’m going to say

    Was he really the BEST they could find to lead


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  27. mh says:

    Jim Chalmers has warned of 56pc energy price hikes, a freeze in real wages and spiralling debt and NDIS costs as he lay the ground for deeper cuts in future budgets.

    Great! 🎉 🎈


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  28. Steve trickler says:

    When you have a spare 15 minutes, do check out this short film – MIRAGE.👍

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    Omeleto:

    An old hunter lives in a home near the mountains, far from any town, village or city. His wife lies dying in their bed, kept alive on a respirator. He has a difficult time accepting the situation, refusing to accept her imminent passing.

    One day, out in the woods, he encounters a dark presence, one that stalks him in the isolated forest. When it asserts itself, the hunter has no place to hide from its darkness — or from the difficult emotions he’s avoiding.

    Written and directed by Sil van der Woerd, this short drama has no dialogue or much background information. And yet with thoughtful and precise narrative economy and impressive visuals, it communicates great depth and weaves fantastic suspense in telling the story of a man confronting the depth of his grief and sorrow.

    Shot with muted yet coolly beautiful colors and beautifully composed framings, the film has a pristine, impeccable approach to its image-making and storytelling, one that belies its main character’s emotional distance. But as it goes deeper into the old hunter’s emotional landscape, it also takes on the visual language of horror and fantasy (along with impressive special effects), ramping up the suspense and tension of what has been a quiet, more internal story so far.

    While the hunter grapples with his fears — in this case, fear of his wife’s death and the pain of losing her — this isn’t an average horror film, full of dread and terror. Instead, the cinematic language of fantasy and horror is co-opted to make the hunter’s emotional terrain allegorical, through the guise of a shapeshifting presence of shadows, smoke and darkness that threatens to overwhelm and consume him. Allegory can often be very stately and perhaps distant, but here it is visceral, bringing to pulse-pounding life the process of being subsumed by grief and suffering. Actor Bosco Hogan’s performance also adds a deeply felt element to a man who must bid his wife goodbye. With no words, his very bearing manages to convey immense emotion: sadness, grief and, eventually, love.

    It’s this love that makes the ending of “Mirage” all the more heart-wrenching and poignant in its restraint because it is the depth of the man’s love that is the reason why his grief is so painful and even terrifying. As painful as grief and loss are, the sadness only becomes bearable when we remember the love it emerges from — a love that the film’s final images give reverence to, with simplicity and humble beauty.

    A hunter can’t accept his wife dying. Then he encounters a dark presence in the woods. | Mirage


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    Quick.

    Check out the BOM National Radar Loop. Pay particular attention to the Greevale, Emarald , Taroom radar sites…and others. See the big blobs of cloud appear right near them. Like a switch has been flicked.

    Dutchsine has been pointing this out for years in the United States.

    Weather modification in full swing using radar sites. We also see some visible beams captured. Some may say they just are artifacts and fair enough. I postulate EMP pulses.

    Link.


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  30. Steve trickler says:

    …EM pulses.


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  31. mh says:

    Heart attack death of Megyn Kelly sister

    Journalist and podcaster Megyn Kelly revealed that her sister, Suzanne Crossley, died of a heart attack last Friday at the age of 58.

    In an emotional tribute to her sister, Kelly said Crossley had suffered from deteriorating health and died suddenly and unexpectedly.


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  32. Cold-Hands says:

    died suddenly and unexpectedly.

    Sadly, the new normal.


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  33. mh says:

    I put ‘died suddenly’ into a google search and got:

    A radio presenter who died while on air has been described as “a warm, caring, fun guy” who was loved dearly by those who knew him.

    Tim Gough, 55, died from a suspected heart attack at his home in Lackford, Suffolk, while presenting GenX Radio’s Monday breakfast show earlier.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-63377458

    And

    A ‘fit and healthy’ 21-year-old man collapsed and died suddenly in a “unstaffed” 24 hour gym – as paramedics struggled to access the venue, an inquest heard.

    Henry Best had just completed a workout with his girlfriend Holly Jones at PureGym when he complained of feeling faint and suddenly collapsed. Despite his girlfriend’s ‘effective CPR’ and paramedics deploying a defibrillator, he was pronounced dead at the Harbourside gym on Millennium Square, Bristol, a short while later.

    https://www.bristolworld.com/news/student-collapsed-and-died-in-puregym-after-work-out-with-devastated-girlfriend-inquest-3891548


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  34. Steve trickler says:

    Great work.

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    Adventures with Purpose:

    We found Donnie Messier’s Red 1997 Ford F-150 pickup truck submerged and buried in the Winooski River near Waterbury, VT.

    Coming into this case with a fresh set of eyes and new information from local volunteer and Navy Seal trainer William McIntosh – AWP team members Nick Rinn and guest “Down Under” Dan Prichard revisit Donnie Messier’s 16 year old case after a 2021 search effort made by AWP founder Jared Leisek and team lead Doug Bishop.

    How We SOLVED a Cold Case AFTER 16-YEARS (Donnie Messier)


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  35. mh says:

    Adidas ends partnership with Ye over antisemitic remarks

    Ye’s remarks drew widespread criticism from Jewish groups, celebrities and others on social media who said adidas was acting too slowly.

    All this is doing is confirming what Kanye has been saying.
    His argument was that black artists are controlled.


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  36. johanna johanna says: