Open Thread – Saturday, 23 July 2022

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  1. mh says:

    Greg Reese from last month

    The End of Oil & Gas in Biden’s America

    https://banned.video/watch?id=62ad2ea9e80dab2bf0a5437f


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  2. Mak Siccar says:

    Good moaning one and all.


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  3. Cardimona says:

    johanna says:
    July 22, 2022 at 5:49 pm
    Paul Krugman, pet ‘economist’ of the Left, always wrong about everything:

    Johanna, Krugman is a WEF “Global Leader of Tomorrow”, class of ’95.
    Everything he says is globalist agitprop.


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  4. Steve trickler says:

    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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  5. mh says:

    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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  6. Admin Admin says:

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  7. mh says:

    “Who controls the food supply, controls the people”

    —- Henry Kissinger.

    ***

    U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNlsmAqmM0E


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  8. johanna johanna says:

    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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  9. mh says:

    Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to Steve Bannon’s conviction and voices his concerns over the practices of the January 6 committee on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfU152awvw


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  10. johanna johanna says:

    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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  11. Cardimona says:

    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.
    ….

    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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  12. Cardimona says:

    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.

    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?”

    “Reading can boost thinking skills” (CP, 22/7). Sure, but as Thomas Fuller said 362 years ago, “If you don’t read the newspaper you’re uninformed. If you do read it, you’re misinformed.” 215 years ago Thomas Jefferson said, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. … I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them.”

    Unsurprisingly, their desperate bid to project credibility meant they didn’t give it ink.


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  13. Cardimona says:

    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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  14. Arky says:

    You can visit whatever websites you want to – but please do not carry over battles from other blogs here and turn this one into a garbage pit. If you disagree with what someone is saying on another site, deal with it there. Or elsewhere. But not here.

    ..
    Fair enough and agreed.


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  15. Steve trickler says:

    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.

    *********

    Mr. Mister – Broken Wings


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    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

    Sky News Reporter Holly Edwards-Smith says travellers arriving in Australia from Bali will be “compelled” to use foot mats for shoe sanitisation to help keep foot and mouth disease out of the country.

    Australian Border Force officials have been granted increased biosecurity powers at airports to ensure the disease does not reach Australia and “wreak havoc” on the livestock sector.


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    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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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    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?

    1/
    The doctor who was consulted is obviously pro-abort. She turned what should be a private doctor-patient consult into something public.

    What the Dems didn’t say is that the perp is an illegal alien.

    2/
    When a journo knocked on the family door, the mother refused to open the door and defended the rapist (Gerson Fuentes)

    The mother of the Ohio 10/y rape victim tells Telemundo’s @MariaVargasPion that the child “is fine”, and “everything they say about (Gerson Flores) is a lie.”

    Why is the mother defending the rapist?

    3/

    Rape Victim’s Mom Is in Domestic Relationship with Rapist

    a local source confirmed to Telemundo that the mother is in a domestic relationship with Fuentes… “He’s her partner. And he is the father of the child she is carrying in her womb right now.” Vargas-Pion clarified, “So the woman is pregnant,” which Torres affirmed.


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    Novak

    If the US Open doesn’t want you …..


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    Really, really sad (No, no, not really)

    1/
    Investment Giant BlackRock Loses $1.7 Trillion In Six Months

    BlackRock lost $1.7 trillion of its clients’ money since the beginning of the year — the largest sum ever lost by a single firm over a six-month period, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg analyst Marc Rubenstein.

    Among BlackRock’s largest holdings are technology companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)…..

    2/

    Twitter Misses Earnings Expectations, Blames Elon Musk

    Twitter reported earnings for the second quarter on Friday missing analyst estimates on revenue, earnings, and user growth. The company blamed ad industry headwinds and “uncertainty” linked to Elon Musk and his revoked buyout offer.


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  21. mh says:

    13 minutes of gold

    Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis tells ‘The Ingraham Angle’ why figures like Illinois Gov. Pritzker, California Gov. Newsom are upset at ingress to Sunshine State. #ingrahamangle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MkOw1URMJE


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  22. Steve trickler says:

    It is time to go cook some chips! Snack food. We have a sh*t of potatoes to get through.


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  23. Steve trickler says:

    Sh*t load…


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  24. Shy Ted says:

    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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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis tells ‘The Ingraham Angle’ why figures like Illinois Gov. Pritzker, California Gov. Newsom are upset at ingress to Sunshine State.

    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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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Alex Berenson

    The price of fear

    First-person stories of the damage from two years of public health hysteria and useless rules (Vol. 1)


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  27. Arky says:

    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.

    ..
    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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  28. Arky says:

    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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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    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.

    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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  30. Arky says:

    Trump and DeSantis have different personalities.
    Trump has an ego that needs to be fed.

    ..
    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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  31. Arky says:

    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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  32. Arky says:

    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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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    Just spotted this meme.

    Due to the policies of the state governor?


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  34. Arky says:

    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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