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Greg Reese from last month
The End of Oil & Gas in Biden’s America
https://banned.video/watch?id=62ad2ea9e80dab2bf0a5437f
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Good moaning one and all.
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Fleccas Talks:
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #106
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Split Enz:
Split Enz – I Hope I Never (Official Video)
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Johanna, Krugman is a WEF “Global Leader of Tomorrow”, class of ’95.
Everything he says is globalist agitprop.
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Pat, is in fine form.
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Pat Benatar – Love Is A Battlefield (Official Music Video)
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Del Bigtree:
We the UNvaccinated have been persecuted since this whole nightmare started but we are the control group now! Many of us have lost friends, family and our jobs because of the LIES yet we are still alive, not sick and we are NOT filling the hospitals nor are we dying, the vaccinated are…
💉❤️ Del Bigtree ~ The UNvaccinated Will Be Vindicated! We Are the Control Group! This is HUGE, Please Share!
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This is who Morrison/Hunt listened to.
Now Morrison is in church – not repenting, but in denial
Klaus Schwab: “Nobody Will Be Safe if Not Everybody is Vaccinated”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnajJ5N3Ifw
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Abuse of other commenters is not okay. Wanting them to face a calamity is not okay. Advocating violence is not okay. In the case of public figures, it would be good to be careful to draw the line on how far one goes. We can be very angry, very upset and very critical about them and their actions but also be cautious about what we say on a blog.
If someone is breaking the rules here, speak up and let them know. Or click the Report comment link. We need to work together if we want this blog to run well.
I have allowed the blog to run with minimum moderation. I do not want to have to censor what you can say and can’t say. I do not want to have to go through every comment and edit the ones that are abusive or do not meet the standards of this blog. I do not want to place commenters in moderation or even block them from this site. But I will have to do all of the above, if the rules are not followed.
If you want to enjoy free speech on this blog, try self-moderation and some restraint in what you post.
This has been repeated often enough. The blog has rules which are enforced. I hope from now onwards, commenters will keep the rules in mind.
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“Who controls the food supply, controls the people”
—- Henry Kissinger.
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U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlsmAqmM0E
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Grrr!
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Ted, they never give up, do they?
Every problem is used as an excuse to increase the scope of surveillance. Doesn’t matter what the ‘problem’ is, they always say that we need to keep more tabs on the population to solve it.
In every case, the existing mechanisms for addressing the ‘problem’ are not being used or are misused.
We just have to keep fighting back – the attraction to tyranny seems to be hardwired into certain sections of humanity.
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mh, the trouble with all this breast-beating is that it implies that there was a Golden Age in the US where journalists told the truth and politicians were honest.
Anyone with a cursory knowledge of US history knows that this is far from the reality.
Still, at least some are trying.
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I’m slowly getting back into full-length LTEs, team – even getting some ink under a nom de plume in my region’s Mudrock daily (shh!).
This one is for a local weekly which likes op-ed length LTEs.
Due to be published in early August.
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Most of us have probably seen the 2018 video of Nicole Kidman eating a “four course meal of delicious bugs” – some of them still wriggling. Live hornworms (“moist and chewy”), live mealworms (“fruity taste”), crickets (“awesome, nutty”), and fried grasshoppers (“amazing”). Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie have also promoted eating insects, with Jolie famously chowing down on a defanged tarantula. Yuck.
That’s what the globalists, that cabal of uber-wealthy conspirators who meet in plain sight when they all fly their private jets to Davos, have in store for us all.
At the globalists’ 2022 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting there were several hundred “carbon-spewing” private jets parked on a nearby Swiss air force base. They disregarded their own emissions but decided we must eat bugs, instead of the delicious steaks humans have eaten for several hundred thousand years, to save the “climate” from cow farts.
Cow farts include methane (CH4), a rare and reactive gas that quickly oxidizes in the presence of oxygen into H2O and CO2. Even if it was able to build up in the atmosphere, its capacity to absorb and re-emit infrared is miniscule and is entirely occluded by H2O (water vapour).
Methane-induced catastrophic global warming is as mythical as carbon dioxide-induced global warming. Basic physics proves it just does not and cannot happen. It’s just another globalist psy-op (psychological operation) they inflict on us in their bid to gain control of all the world’s nations.
My favourite journalist, the late Henry L. Mencken, said, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Imaginary menaces are exactly what we’re force-fed by the globalists’ media. The entire corporate media is now controlled by six globalist-owned companies and it spreads misinformation and disinformation globally and continually.
The Express’ editor, Robyn Holmes, is my second favourite journalist, because unlike the Murdoch dailies, she allows free speech in her Letters column. Thank goodness we still have some pockets of independent media.
But back to the WEF.
Unelected WEF boss Klaus Schwab is on video saying, “What we are very proud of now is a young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, um, (and the) president of Brazil, of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the Cabinets. So yesterday I was in a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau, and I know that half of this Cabinet or even more of, uh, half of his Cabinet are for our, actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.”
And yes, we have Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum in our government. Senator Hanson-Young is one. Pandemic-era Health Minister Greg Hunt was another. Senator Andrew Bragg was in the 2021 intake.
To gain control of the world, the WEF and its minions intend to destroy the food and fuel modern societies rely on, that you rely on. They’ve already done it in Sri Lanka and they’re trying very hard in some EU countries at present. Of course, the corrupt corporate media doesn’t show us the enormous farmer-led protests in the Netherlands, Germany, and France, but you can find them online if you use Brave as your internet browser (Google blocks it, too).
If you don’t want to eat bugs, live in a pod, own nothing, and be constantly tracked and electronically controlled by Big Brother globalist world government you need to be aware that this is real and it’s happening right now.
(Ten links, but only three included herewith…)
Nicole Kidman eats bugs (2018) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Methane – https://realclimatescience.com/2019/01/the-methane-big-lie/
Klaus Schwab – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tItp_2lGKqU
[Since you posted a comment and let me know about it, I was able to check. It went into Spam – I know not why either 🙂 – Admin ]
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Spot on, Johanna.
Here’s a TTE I sent to the local Mudrock daily yesterday in response to their yarn about “newpapers are good, mmmkay?”
Unsurprisingly, their desperate bid to project credibility meant they didn’t give it ink.
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Adam Admin
I posted an op-ed-length LTE with three links and it went to moderation.
I know not why – I humbly agolopies for the inconvenience, dear sir.
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This takes me back to a school excursion in primary school. We slept at the Northam town hall. This was played before bed….then our teachers hit the piss in the kitchen. A few sore heads the next day.
True story.
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Mr. Mister – Broken Wings
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Why has the government not already closed the borders to Indonesia for a temporary period – say a few weeks? During this time they could work out the best and safest strategy to follow that would keep our livestock free from FMD.
Get all the necessary testing equipment and rules in place and then open up the borders again. There’s billions of dollars at stake here.
Biosecurity powers invoked at airports
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Comedian Bill Burr includes abortion in his latest Netflix special, Live at Red Rock.
The – My body, My choicers – are not happy.
(Language warning)
Abortion Analogy
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The Cars – Drive (Official Music Video)
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Steve Bannon talks to Tucker Carlson on ‘guilty’ verdict
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Weeks after Roe v Wade, the Dems had this story about a 10 year old rape victim in Ohio who was unable to get an abortion and had to travel interstate.
What’s the real story?
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What the Dems didn’t say is that the perp is an illegal alien.
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When a journo knocked on the family door, the mother refused to open the door and defended the rapist (Gerson Fuentes)
Why is the mother defending the rapist?
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Rape Victim’s Mom Is in Domestic Relationship with Rapist
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Novak
If the US Open doesn’t want you …..
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Katie:
Katie’s Arms LIVE from Insta. 22.07.22
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Really, really sad (No, no, not really)
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Investment Giant BlackRock Loses $1.7 Trillion In Six Months
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Twitter Misses Earnings Expectations, Blames Elon Musk
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New Zealand
Freedom Rally, today
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
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13 minutes of gold
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It is time to go cook some chips! Snack food. We have a sh*t of potatoes to get through.
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Sh*t load…
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Dido:
Dido – White Flag (Official Video)
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Continuing the tennis theme, Novax may not be able to go to the US Open but Yesvax Nadal can
Must be that tummy muscle he pulled against Kyrgios. Poor sod.
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For you naughty Cats
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This is why there are many turning to DeSantis as a better option.
He is tough on issues and speaks sense, but he doesn’t have the Trump-drama.
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Alex Berenson
The price of fear
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By 2030 etc
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5-minute Dessert
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Mr.Chicken (cover)
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KC, wait until the media whoredom gets to work on him.
They don’t start in earnest until he is the actual candidate.
Remember, the media stoked Trump’s campaign and were neutral during the 2016 primaries.
Then once Trump won: holy sh*t, they unleashed hell.
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Here is the bastards game plan:
1. Pump up any Republican candidate who you think will be an easy mark / pushover.
2. If he wins the primaries act all pretend even handed in the campaign while reporting matter of factly a bunch of rumours and crap to try to tilt the result against him.
3. When your chosen sap actually wins and begins to show some backbone, pull out the weirdos, whores and liars to smear him.
4. If he fights back call for his assassination.
5. State that his responses to all this makes him unfit for office and begin the calls for impeachment.
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Trump and DeSantis have different personalities.
Trump has an ego that needs to be fed.
DeSantis seems to have a confidence in himself.
Who really knows? Time will tell.
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Vandana Shiva
Food security1
Food security2
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Remember how they got at Brett Kavanaugh?
They broke the man. He cried and wasn’t the same after.
You can’t imagine what being the victim of a full time smear campaign does to personality.
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Remember how our lot got at Abbott so badly that the man was speechless and racked with impotent rage at the “sh*t happens” moment?
How everyone who they disagree with becomes “controversial”?
Remember how they tee’d Hansen up for years of fun making and misrepresentation? How they even got that Pauline Pantsdown fellow on board to mock and disparage her?
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Of course now it’s beyond smear campaigns. Now they get a mob of angry mental defectives to appear outside your abode.
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Just spotted this meme.
Due to the policies of the state governor?
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They didn’t just go after Trump and his character,
They went after his businesses, his family and every single appointee he made. With everything they had.
The media, the FBI, Obama’s IRS.
They paid for prostitutes to make up stories. They planted dossiers with foreign secret services.
They investigated people and charged them for lying during informal interviews if they stumbled or accidentally contradicted themselves as innocent people often do.
They leaked phone calls between Trump and foreign leaders. The omitted to report on anything that might exonerate him or put Biden in a bad light.
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Most recently they went after the owner of the computer shop who had the misfortune to have Hunter Biden drop off his laptop from hell.
The poor bloke is vision impaired, but they began sending threatening weirdos into his shop and he had to shut down his business.
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4 Corners on a Saturday night?
It’s a comedy.
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We shouldn’t look at the past with rose tinted glasses.
The game has probably always been played this hard.
But we are seeing more of what goes on.
It’s ugly stuff and you would have to ask yourself what type of people ordinarily come out on top in these sorts of contests.
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Peanuts and Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert and Dennis
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Moby:
Moby – Porcelain
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Daisy Johnson.
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Daisy Johnson || Rise (AoS)
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Strap in and enjoy the ride:
141 MPH Zero Visibility , Robin Shute Winning Pikes Peak Run 2022 Raw Onboard
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Entertaining match tonight from Perth – Man United 2 Aston Villa 2.
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A bloke walking his dog.
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Cash:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Laguna Beach 2
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I think I am now close to sadly declaring that almost 100% in my experience that those choosing the mRNA vaccines rather than to hold out, involves such great mental distortion that they are subsequently lost to me.
I was able to avoid this in my marriage by taking a strict stance that my dear spouse must do her own diligent research, make her own decision with no regard for my own opinion and that whatever she decided to do we would subsequently find a way to make it work.
She choose to wait, under tremendous and continuous pressure from her work, for the NovaVax. She will refuse boosters, and has suffered some health consequences, which she is managing.
We have lost friendships to these vaccines.
In particular, our daughter’s best friend.
A medical family, I had long phone conversations in January 2020 where I predicted that the schools would close that year, and that I would be keeping my daughter away from school at the start of term one until we understood what this new virus was. Which we did. By the time the schools closed, exactly as I had predicted, I had researched the Covid data and decided that as children were of very little risk that the school closures were a mistake, and began saying so.
By the start of this year these people were still keen mask wearers and vaxxers, despite going on this whole journey with us right from the start of it all.
I do not know what the psychological explanation is for this phenomenon, I have been tempted to think that as the common element in all these broken relationships is me, that it is because I am just a f…wit.
But that can’t be it, because if I’m a f…wit, I was just as much a f…wit before Covid, when I still had these friends.
No, it is more likely the act of giving in to the jab creates a tension.
Sadly.
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The friends, not us. I’m not a doctor, just a bum with time on his hands.
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Time to go to bed. Sleep well!
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Sir Tony Blair
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This week’s WiP has AOC’s ‘arrest’ in the cross hairs… The Week in Pictures: bondage fantasy edition
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US records first two CHILD monkeypox cases: California toddler and an infant in D.C. were likely infected by ‘household contacts’ and both had contact with gay or bisexual men, CDC chief says
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11040679/Two-children-test-positive-monkeypox-CDC-confirms.html.
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The Pope is a globalist wanker.
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Mike Martins:
Pope Francis is asking young people to eat less meat in a bid to take better care of the environment.
In a letter to participants at the EU Youth Conference in Prague this week, the Pope urged that we “break this self-destructive trend” of consumerism and prioritise sustainability.
“It is urgent to reduce consumption not only of fossil fuels but also of many superfluous things; and also, in certain areas of the world, it is convenient to consume less meat, this can also help save the environment,” he wrote.
The Pope is clearly worried about climate change
The latest green pledge follows the Pope’s publication of ‘Laudato si’ in 2015, his second encyclical (letter) which laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take “swift and unified global action.”
He lays the foundations for what he calls “integral ecology” in the encyclical. This earned him the title of Person of the Year by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) the same year.
In October 2021, Pope Francis and religious leaders called for action on climate change at the UN COP26 conference. Although the 84-year-old could not attend the conference, he made his dedication to tackling the climate crisis clear.
Then in November, he made another speech telling us all to protect the environment as “everything around us seems to be collapsing”. The Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica was filled to the brim with hundreds of young people who came to listen.
“Be free and authentic, be the critical conscience of society,” Francis said.
Is the Pope vegan?
The Pope himself is not a vegetarian, but favours a very simple diet, according to a much-quoted article in USA Today.
The article from 2013 reports that one of his favourite meals is the raw vegetable dish ‘bagna cauda’, which is made from garlic and anchovies. He has not said any more about his diet since then, but that hasn’t stopped the speculation.
Our Meat is Under Attack Pope tells young people eating meat is part of a ‘self-destructive trend’ !
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Doc Ruby:
On today’s Dr. Jane Ruby Show, Dr Jane uncovers the ploy behind Joe Biden’s purported Covid scam infection and how the White House is playing out this Marxist takeover all in preparation for the digital passport gleefully introduced by EU president Ursula von der Leyen and in the 2nd segment Dr. Jane reviews all of UK physician Dr. Van Welbergen’s unjabbed blood slides; the show wraps with a discussion on medical prepping for supply chain disruptions, grid manipulation and other communist shenanigans. Are you prepared to keep yourself and your family safe and healthy? This is the Dr. Jane Ruby Show and you’re about to enter Truth In Medicine.
Biden Has Covid and White House Theater
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Monkeypoxing Emergency
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Gay Men With Monkeypox Share Their Stories
Whose fault is it?
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Innocent victims
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A report by the Tony Blair Institute has recommended the adoption of digital IDs to help solve the problem of illegal immigration in the UK.
mh – only if its the illegals getting the ID
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Jaw-dropping.
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List of painters in compilation: Nikolay Dubovskoy, Ivan Endogurov, Igor Grabar, Lev Kamenev, Valerian Kamenev, Vladimir Kazantsev, Alexander Kiselev, Yuliy Klever, Mikhail Clodt, Gavriil Kondratenko, Konstantin Kryzhickiiy, Arhip Kuindzhi, Isaac Levitan, Arseniy Mesherskiy, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Ilya Ostroukhov, Oksana Pavlova, Vasily Polenov, Vilgelm Purvit, Arkady Rylov, Alexei Savrasov, Andreiy Shilder, Ivan Shishkin & Rufin Sudkovsky.
The Great Russian Landscape Painters
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Anti-Woke Comic Book Rakes in Nearly $3 Million in Days
Defying the Cancel Culture Left
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Arky, those who are regular commenters on this blog are the ones who have done their research for 2+ years. They have not swallowed the hoax. I am thankful for this blog. It has given some of us a place where we can come together and know that we are not alone.
Sometimes, I feel like I am talking to myself as I sit here and keep posting continuous comments, sharing what I have learnt from my research. But clearly, there are others here as well, and I also have the opportunity to learn from their research, opinions and experiences.
Do not despair, Arky. You are not alone. You may have lost those you thought were your friends. It is the goal of the globalists to control us and they have tried fear (virus, war, another virus, global warming, more viruses ….). The fear has worked on some; they are trying to use other tactics on the rest of us. If we surrender, they have won.
The solution is to not give in. To keep trying to educate others; if they don’t want to learn, it is their loss. To stay united with those who understand this Great Reset plan. To not give in to the dejection by making time to have some fun as well. That is why we have here a variety of topics ranging from very serious to very funny.
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It also has Brandon’s signpost, so it needed to be included in The Mock.
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Sorry, mh. Double-post.
Didn’t see your Daily Mail link on the children with monkeypox.
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🤣 He’s up there with Kaitlin Bennet when it comes to triggering the lefty mobs.
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Alex Stein:
Chillen with the protestors in Tampa, Florida
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Men who have sex with men comprise the vast majority of monkeypox cases in this unprecedented outbreak. Eighteen of them talked to NBC News about their experiences
We went through the same BS with AIDS. If one rams it up the fundament, then one tears the muscle, this allow the cornucopia of viruses entry to the blood system directly. But what about the spread to women in Africa? Using the dark tunnel of farts is the favourite contraceptive in many cultures. That is it.
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Since you brought up the topic of AIDS ….
Here’s what this genius doctor said 23 years ago.
Fauci, February 1999…
On AIDS vaccine
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This woke, hypocrite Greenie wants to ban the word “mother” but calls himself a “dad” in his bio.
Non-birthing parent Adam Bandt angers mothers
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The world would be rid of syphilis if the rough riders stopped their preversions. That’s an empirical fact
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Neil Oliver
The elite that has taken almost all the money is now after everything else as well
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I am Spartacus. I mean, a f…wit, too. There’s simply not talking to people. I think a combination of these with denial at the top. I’m not too surprised actually. For years we’ve been bombarded with black is white, right is wrong and up is down. Despite it being nonsense the messaging is total. Only the other day I met someone who thinks the masked singer bullsh*t TV show is real and a celebrity is really singing through the massive mask. Same with MAFS and all the other unwatchable reality shows.
If there’s anything positive to see it’s Blackrock losing $1.5 trillion in value in the last 6 months. Cos that’s where the mega-rich have got their money. That and a bunch of nation’ leaders being ousted.
I’m going to dance on the graves of a lot of our pollies, journos and influencers. Maybe not the pollies cos most of them got saline.
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Amazing Grace Bagpipes
The Snake Charmer ft. Barcelona Pipe Band
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When Albert Einstein was making the rounds of the speaker’s circuit, he usually found himself eagerly longing to get back to his laboratory work. One night as they were driving to yet another rubber-chicken dinner, Einstein mentioned to his chauffeur (a man who somewhat resembled Einstein in looks & manner) that he was tired of speechmaking.
“I have an idea, boss,” his chauffeur said. “I’ve heard you give this speech so many times. I’ll bet I could give it for you.”
Einstein laughed loudly and said, “Why not? Let’s do it!”
When they arrived at the dinner, Einstein donned the chauffeur’s cap and jacket and sat in the back of the room. The chauffeur gave a beautiful rendition of Einstein’s speech and even answered a few questions expertly.
Then a supremely pompous professor asked an extremely esoteric question about anti-matter formation, digressing here and there to let everyone in the audience know that he was nobody’s fool.
Without missing a beat, the chauffeur fixed the professor with a steely stare and said, “Sir, the answer to that question is so simple that I will let my chauffeur, who is sitting in the back, answer it for me.”
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The Tigers have been the losers in some very unfortunate endings to NRL games over the years, but that one today must take the take. I won’t even describe it.
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Take the cake
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Peanuts and Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert and Dennis
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Here’s Brian
Russian Ops in Ukraine (July 21, 2022) – Pentagon Prefers Fiction Over Facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdatUe4g_4I
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The boys are back in town
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I missed this from 6 July.
As usual, the Colonel not following the narrative
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Piers Akerman:
‘Parliament resumes this week but the gloss has already gone off the new Labor government. Having gone to the election with policies based on wishful thinking and little else, it finds itself unprepared for the realities of office.
Much has been made of the foreign forays Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have made but, in fact, little has actually been achieved.
The hug demanded of the newly huggable Albanese by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Mannaseh Sogavare didn’t disguise the fact that the Pacific Islands Forum meeting was regarded as a failure because the sprawling island of Kiribati (mispronounced by our Albo) was a no-show.’
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‘Nor did that hug stop the Chinese building a port in the Solomons.
Wong’s joyous reception in her Kota Kinabalu hometown in Sabah, Malaysia, and her ability to speak Indonesian when in Jakarta, didn’t stop her host Joko Widodo inviting the barbaric Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to the G20 meeting in Bali in November, nor dissuade him from meeting China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week and becoming the first foreign leader to meet the Chinese Communist Party’s chief since the Beijing Winter Games in February.
Domestically, Labor has found itself up the same flooding creek that seemingly stranded former prime minister Scott Morrison but this time the ABC and Nine Media are not blaming the Prime Minister for the deluge.
For, despite their pre-election claims to the contrary, neither Albanese or his Energy and Climate Minister Chris Bowen can actually do anything that will change the global climate. Nor can any of the newly elected teals, whose presence in the House will remain a scathing reflection on the intelligence of their supporters in those wealthy electorates that fell for their snake oil.
Being foremost among those who claim to unswervingly believe in “the science” whether it relates to Covid or climate change, they wilfully chose to ignore the words of former chief scientist Alan Finkel, who told a senate committee in 2018 that if the world’s carbon emissions were reduced by 1.3 per cent (Australia’s contribution) the effect on the changing world climate would be “virtually nothing”.
This is not to say Dr Finkel is against us reducing emissions, far from it. Many scientists would cripple the economy, encourage more handouts for an increase in unreliable renewable energy schemes and undependable battery storage.’
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‘To meet the unrealistic 43 per cent emission reduction target Albanese wishes to mandate through the parliament, Australians will see further increases in the cost of electricity even as the supply becomes less certain with the closure of two of NSW’s coal-fired power stations. There will also have to be a considerable livestock cull, not the feral cats and dogs that will each year ravage threatened native species, but sheep and cattle, animals we eat and whose meat we export.
In Ireland there are some 6.5 million cattle and it has been estimated that 1.3 million – about 20 per cent of the herd – would be need to be culled for that country to meet its ambitious emissions reduction target.
We have a national herd of 28 million, even if we had to cull just half of Ireland’s number, we’re talking 2.8 million from a herd that is still recovering from the drought.
India has approximately 305 million cattle (the majority of which are sacred and not scared at all) but does anyone think that any will be sacrificed to placate the climate change cultists?’
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‘Dr Finkel is correct but meaningless gestures carry more weight with Labor, the Greens and the teals than reality.
Plus, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek now wants to add to the gesture politics by locking up 30 per cent of the land mass – removing land from food production and there are the vast hectares that are being covered by short-lived and largely ineffectual solar panels. The Albanese government’s domestic agenda shows just how out of touch it is with the concerns of the public. It can’t reduce the cost of electricity as it promised.
Its determination to insert a racist clause in the Constitution without any details being provided to the public is fatally flawed and its climate policy is out of step with the rest of the world.
Australia is the only nation in the OECD which has no nuclear component in its power supply mix – and there has been no discussion on lifting the ban on including safe nuclear energy.
State and federal relations need to be sorted out urgently.
Tax reform is long overdue and industrial relations reform is essential.
Foot and mouth disease poses a major threat but no greater than the government’s own foot in mouth problem.
Albanese is no Bob Hawke but at least he could make an effort to address the really important issues rather than waste his term appeasing rapacious pressure groups who don’t have the national interest at heart.’
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I won’t link, but here is Big Green Al
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PJW
It’s back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTPM6IfdgWc
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