Into the Silent Sea is used with permission from Andrej Landin.
In the midst of the Cold War in the 1960s, a cosmonaut named Alexander orbits in space, adrift around the earth in his space capsule. He has lost all navigation and communication systems, and he will soon lose his life-support systems.
Alexander soon discovers an Italian radio frequency where a Sicilian radio engineer named Alvaro is working the night shift. The two men form an intense bond as they work through the night and Alexander reckons with the journey that led to the space capsule in the first place.
But as Alexander drifts away, the newfound friendship between the men may not last the night, and help Alexander find his way home.
Writer-director Andrej Landin takes a meditative, thoughtful tone in his sci-fi short about the mythic “lost cosmonauts” that were a supposed casualty of the so-called “space race” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first to send a human in space.
The story has the plot points and development of a thriller, with its elements of space travel and potential disaster. But the beautifully considered craftsmanship and pacing are steady, introspective and measured, with an emphasis on emotional resonance. The images have an elegiac power, full of natural beauty, light and texture, emphasizing just how rich life on earth can be.
Alexander’s memories of his training — and a particular love affair with a fellow trainee named Tanya — suffuse the film throughout via flashbacks, bathed in the golden hues of warmth and contentment. It can be hard for shorts to integrate flashbacks into the storytelling, but these memories form the sociopolitical context of the story, as well as the emotional core of the film — and give viewers a palpable sense of loss once we realize just what Alexander is losing as he floats in space.
Through the understated dialogue and the equally subtle, resonant performances that bring it to life, Alexander’s bond with Alvaro forms his final, last attachment — one that helps him come to terms with his fate, appreciate the richness of the life he has to leave behind and find meaning in the sacrifice that he made before he left earth.
“Into the Silent Sea” falls into a rich tradition of sci-fi films that use the vacuum of space and the unthinkable breadth of the cosmos as rich metaphors for the human condition, in all its ultimate helplessness and solitude. It takes its time to tell its story and develop its characters, but the result is a moving, emotionally immersive cinematic experience that tells an unusually full and complete story, with an ending that is bittersweet in its wisdom. As Alexander says, “We live as we dream… alone.” But we do carry the richness of memories and love within us, providing some comfort in our final journeys.
Stocks tumbled Friday to cap a brutal week for financial markets, as surging interest rates and foreign currency turmoil heightened fears of a global recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 486.27 points, or 1.62%, to 29,590.41. The S&P 500 slid 1.72% to 3,693.23, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.8% to 10,867.93.
The Dow notched a new low for the year and closed below 30,000 for the first time since June 17. The 30-stock index ended the day 19.9% below an intraday record, flirting with bear market territory. At one point, the Dow was down more than 826 points.
The major averages capped their fifth negative week in six, with the Dow giving up 4%. The S&P and Nasdaq shed 4.65% and 5.07%, respectively. It marked the fourth negative session in a row for stocks, as the Fed on Wednesday enacted another super-sized rate hike of 75 basis points and indicated it would do another at its November meeting.
Welcome Custard. Glad you’ve seen the light.
Some of us love Trump.
Some say Q is actually the Queen. Q is not QAnon.
We’re meant to be watching the events of 21-25 September, not just 24th. I haven’t seen anything earth shattering.
24th today, end of the world. Apparently. Nearly was for me. Morning walk with strangely incurious hound. Came within 6′ of stepping on a croc. My guess is it was 8′ as it slowly made it’ way out of a tiny creek 2′ wide (how did it even turn round?). Walked on a bit, 2 pairs of abandoned thongs and a bicycle, right at the water’ edge. It’s where the kids go to smoke dope.
AnAl is a dim bulb. $5 if anyone can post anything he’s ever said that was a considered thought.
We do not love Optus. Or Telstra. Or banks. When cartoonists don’t cartoon
Is that what they meant by 10 days of darkness. Zanetti misheard, thought they said shades?
Everybody, rest easy. According to today’s Murdoch rag, Penny Wong has it all sorted: Wong tells China to rein in Putin over Ukraine
Penny Wong will put China on notice that it must use its ‘no limits’ partnership with Russia to force an end to its war.
Take that, evil empires.
You will be able to resurrect your teaching career, Arky.
Giant fake tits.
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I was privileged to teach at a time when good, decent knock- about working class youngsters could have a proper laugh and it was very, very enjoyable, I thought I would happily teach into my old age.
So, so, SO glad to be out of it now.
firefights in a heavily wooded area can be
Fun fact: I met a yank who made his fortune exporting timber to Europe after WW2. All the forests in Europe had trees full of shrapnel and bullets. The metal destroys the saw blade – they shatter – a danger in itself. Gotta hand it to the yanks.
Modern intelligence tests often focus on abilities such as mathematical skills, memory, spatial perception, and language abilities. The capacity to see relationships, solve problems, and remember information are important components of intelligence, so these are often the skills on which IQ tests focus.-(verywellmind.com)
Now what’s missing from this description? How about the ability to reason? How about the ability to figure out what is total nonsense and check out who’s spouting that nonsense? How about the ability to recognize that the media and certain politicians on both side of the aisles are self-serving and unconcerned about your best interests unless it lines their own pockets?
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The teaching of “turning the other cheek” is often misinterpreted as meaning inaction and pacificism on the part of Christians who are on the receiving end.
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There was some discussion on last week’s Open Thread about libraries and books.
In keeping with the times,
Oxford University Press has rebranded its logo
There was a prohibition in Canberra imposed by a former Federal Minister, can’t remember his name but he was an American who pretended he was a Canadian.
Fair Work Australia has determined that Covid-19 injections cannot be administered if the recipient says that they are under threat of dismissal for not having it.
Fair Work Australia has determined that Covid-19 injections cannot be administered if the recipient says that they are under threat of dismissal for not having it.
This is by Global Law. Is it retrospective?
There will be those who took the jab last year out of fear of losing their job. Fair Work Australia will have to deal with thousands of cases where people will be saying I didn’t want to but had to ….
EU v. ITALY – Ursula threatens citizens of Italy We will see the result of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have tools, as in the case of Poland and Hungary.” Translation: we have ways of making you do as we tell you!
Naples calls, Rome responds. People burn gas and energy bills: “We don’t pay! In Italy nobody has to pay their bills anymore!” Attention, those in the video are not photocopies, they are the original bills. Patience in Italy is dead, the endurance limit has been reached.
India
For the public good and emergency reasons, brought to you by the government of India
The #NewWorldOrder of #India. It has finally come down to this: the complete seizing of privacy rights. The Indian govt. moves in the direction of a complete dictatorship to create a #HinduRashtra that shall rule in alliance with #Israel to form the one eyed man’s #paxjudaica
Old bloke says:
September 24, 2022 at 5:16 pm
Fair Work Australia has determined that Covid-19 injections cannot be administered if the recipient says that they are under threat of dismissal for not having it.
..
You really have to wonder at the sickening levels of compliance in humans when people go to the doctor and say “I don’t want this injection but if I don’t have it I’m going to lose my livelihood” and the person who is sworn to “first do no harm” shrugs their shoulders and bloody well injects it anyway.
Rumors are swirling across the internet of a military coup in China and that Xi Jinping is under arrest after CCP seniors removed him as head of the PLA. Is the massive cancellation of flights in China just a military exercise, or is there something more to it?
How many people around the world with Ukrainian flags on their social media accounts know the name of the Yemini president? Would they recognise him in a photo? Can they identify the flag of Yemen? Would the media fare any better?
Here are a few clues. His name does not have the initials V or Z. He does not wear a green/brown t-short and waltz around the online world with a begging bowl.
Why should we have any interest in Yemen?
The country is home to an eight-year-old civil war and arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As many as 20 million people in that country are facing famine.
Innocent Ukraine invaded by bad Russia 9 months ago. Big deal.
Yemen invaded by Shiite Houthi militias (who are supported by Iran) 8 years ago. Not important.
The Yemeni people should identify as Ukrainian. Say the invaders are being supported by Putin. And their president should buy himself some t-shirts.
Composed by Hans Zimmer
MIDI Programmed and Arranged by Ashton Gleckman
All organ sounds from the new Royal Albert Hall Organ library, recorded at the historic hall in London by James Everingham. Available now: https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com/
Suite programmed by ear in Logic Pro X based on the original soundtrack recordings. Virtual instruments from Spitfire Audio, Orchestral Tools, and 8Dio
Do you remember that dreadful scold Tracy Spicer? Newsreader, SJW and leader of the charge in reporting drunken encounters as dubious sexual assaults? Front and centre in the get vaxxed propaganda? Well, she’s not standing for much now
I’ll bet some folk in TV fantasy land are putting 2 and 2 together.
Massive salary vs blowing the whistle. Decisions, decisions.
Omeleto:
Into the Silent Sea is used with permission from Andrej Landin.
In the midst of the Cold War in the 1960s, a cosmonaut named Alexander orbits in space, adrift around the earth in his space capsule. He has lost all navigation and communication systems, and he will soon lose his life-support systems.
Alexander soon discovers an Italian radio frequency where a Sicilian radio engineer named Alvaro is working the night shift. The two men form an intense bond as they work through the night and Alexander reckons with the journey that led to the space capsule in the first place.
But as Alexander drifts away, the newfound friendship between the men may not last the night, and help Alexander find his way home.
Writer-director Andrej Landin takes a meditative, thoughtful tone in his sci-fi short about the mythic “lost cosmonauts” that were a supposed casualty of the so-called “space race” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first to send a human in space.
The story has the plot points and development of a thriller, with its elements of space travel and potential disaster. But the beautifully considered craftsmanship and pacing are steady, introspective and measured, with an emphasis on emotional resonance. The images have an elegiac power, full of natural beauty, light and texture, emphasizing just how rich life on earth can be.
Alexander’s memories of his training — and a particular love affair with a fellow trainee named Tanya — suffuse the film throughout via flashbacks, bathed in the golden hues of warmth and contentment. It can be hard for shorts to integrate flashbacks into the storytelling, but these memories form the sociopolitical context of the story, as well as the emotional core of the film — and give viewers a palpable sense of loss once we realize just what Alexander is losing as he floats in space.
Through the understated dialogue and the equally subtle, resonant performances that bring it to life, Alexander’s bond with Alvaro forms his final, last attachment — one that helps him come to terms with his fate, appreciate the richness of the life he has to leave behind and find meaning in the sacrifice that he made before he left earth.
“Into the Silent Sea” falls into a rich tradition of sci-fi films that use the vacuum of space and the unthinkable breadth of the cosmos as rich metaphors for the human condition, in all its ultimate helplessness and solitude. It takes its time to tell its story and develop its characters, but the result is a moving, emotionally immersive cinematic experience that tells an unusually full and complete story, with an ending that is bittersweet in its wisdom. As Alexander says, “We live as we dream… alone.” But we do carry the richness of memories and love within us, providing some comfort in our final journeys.
A Soviet cosmonaut who is stranded in space discovers a voice in the distance. | Into the Silent Sea
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These dogs are in their element.
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House Dogs vs Street Rats! #2
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CNBC
Stocks tumbled Friday to cap a brutal week for financial markets, as surging interest rates and foreign currency turmoil heightened fears of a global recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 486.27 points, or 1.62%, to 29,590.41. The S&P 500 slid 1.72% to 3,693.23, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.8% to 10,867.93.
The Dow notched a new low for the year and closed below 30,000 for the first time since June 17. The 30-stock index ended the day 19.9% below an intraday record, flirting with bear market territory. At one point, the Dow was down more than 826 points.
The major averages capped their fifth negative week in six, with the Dow giving up 4%. The S&P and Nasdaq shed 4.65% and 5.07%, respectively. It marked the fourth negative session in a row for stocks, as the Fed on Wednesday enacted another super-sized rate hike of 75 basis points and indicated it would do another at its November meeting.
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Peter Schiff
🔴 Powell Still Hopes to Do the Impossible – Ep 842
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdonIMhE5wc
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Everyone has an opinion
LMAO
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Welcome Custard. Glad you’ve seen the light.
Some of us love Trump.
Some say Q is actually the Queen. Q is not QAnon.
We’re meant to be watching the events of 21-25 September, not just 24th. I haven’t seen anything earth shattering.
24th today, end of the world. Apparently. Nearly was for me. Morning walk with strangely incurious hound. Came within 6′ of stepping on a croc. My guess is it was 8′ as it slowly made it’ way out of a tiny creek 2′ wide (how did it even turn round?). Walked on a bit, 2 pairs of abandoned thongs and a bicycle, right at the water’ edge. It’s where the kids go to smoke dope.
AnAl is a dim bulb. $5 if anyone can post anything he’s ever said that was a considered thought.
We do not love Optus. Or Telstra. Or banks.
When cartoonists don’t cartoon
Is that what they meant by 10 days of darkness. Zanetti misheard, thought they said shades?
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Rivers
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Dick Wright
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Heller
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BBC Prince Andrew interview – the best bits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw_1lF9qv_Q
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Nemo
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Nemo
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McCoy
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And finally, all the cartoonists, find your own one.
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Via Funker530
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Everybody, rest easy. According to today’s Murdoch rag, Penny Wong has it all sorted:
Wong tells China to rein in Putin over Ukraine
Penny Wong will put China on notice that it must use its ‘no limits’ partnership with Russia to force an end to its war.
Take that, evil empires.
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The China Show.
(Formerly ADV China)
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Jimmy Dore:
Teacher With Giant Fake Breasts DEFENDED By School Board
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Maverick of Wall Street
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Assessed Control of Terrain in Ukraineas of September 23, 2022, 3:00 PM ET
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You will be able to resurrect your teaching career, Arky.
Giant fake tits.
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I was privileged to teach at a time when good, decent knock- about working class youngsters could have a proper laugh and it was very, very enjoyable, I thought I would happily teach into my old age.
So, so, SO glad to be out of it now.
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… and the way I let the diet and exercise go during the lock downs, I don’t need the fake boobies. I have a set already.
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firefights in a heavily wooded area can be
Fun fact: I met a yank who made his fortune exporting timber to Europe after WW2. All the forests in Europe had trees full of shrapnel and bullets. The metal destroys the saw blade – they shatter – a danger in itself. Gotta hand it to the yanks.
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American Thinker
Are You Really that Smart If You Can’t Recognize B.S.?
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The teaching of “turning the other cheek” is often misinterpreted as meaning inaction and pacificism on the part of Christians who are on the receiving end.
This is in France
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For being faithful to one’s Christian beliefs
In what once used to be Catholic-Ireland
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Lest it all seem too depressing ….
Shared by a mother on FB
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There was some discussion on last week’s Open Thread about libraries and books.
In keeping with the times,
Oxford University Press has rebranded its logo
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On the streets of Amsterdam,
this poster
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And in The Mock …
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French Catholics pray while a migrant plays loud music to purposely disturb them. The Alpha in the prayer group has had enough.
Gold, kaysee.
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This comes with a great song.
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Tony Heller:
This week in 1926, Miami was largely destroyed by a hurricane in America’s (inflation adjusted) most expensive natural disaster.
Miami Wasteland
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Hi Steve.
Tangerine Dream – Rubycon 1975 (34 mins).
A masterpiece. I liked their later albums, but this was The One.
Was lucky enough to hear it performed live in a small venue in Canberra. Unforgettable.
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The pub at the back of Hotel Canberra?
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It was the Albert Hall. But, if you are real, tell me where The Wellington was. 🙂
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Was that the hotel on Canberra Avenue heading out to Manuka / Kingston way?
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Legend has it that it was the only pub in Canberra for may years.
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may years = many years.
There was a prohibition in Canberra imposed by a former Federal Minister, can’t remember his name but he was an American who pretended he was a Canadian.
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Fair Work Australia has determined that Covid-19 injections cannot be administered if the recipient says that they are under threat of dismissal for not having it.
INCREDIBLE BREAKING NEWS !!! AUSTRALIAN TRIBUNAL NOW DECLARES SACKING THREAT ‘AUTOMATICALLY PROHIBITS’ C-19 INJECTIONS!!!
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September 24, 2022 at 4:09 pm
G’day. That was the year of my birth.
I’ve only been listening to them in recent years. I posted this on Doomies a while back. I know you’ve heard this bloke.
He does excellent covers. The sound quality is superb.
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Tangerine Dream – The Dream Is Always The Same (State Azure Cover) // Eurorack + DAW
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From a couple of months back.
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Reverend Simon Sideways:
This is how the weather should be reported!!!!!
A proper weather report for MEN (bad language)
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This is by Global Law. Is it retrospective?
There will be those who took the jab last year out of fear of losing their job. Fair Work Australia will have to deal with thousands of cases where people will be saying I didn’t want to but had to ….
Coming up soon …
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NWO
EU vs Italy
a/WEFer Ursula
b/Energy bills
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c/ The govt of India
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You really have to wonder at the sickening levels of compliance in humans when people go to the doctor and say “I don’t want this injection but if I don’t have it I’m going to lose my livelihood” and the person who is sworn to “first do no harm” shrugs their shoulders and bloody well injects it anyway.
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There’s all kinds of info swirling around cyberspace. Not easy to verify it all. Fact, fiction, real, fake ……..??!!!
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Rumours
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Is Xi Jinping Under Arrest After Military Coup?
Three Senior Anti-Xi Officials Sentenced to Death
If you don’t want to watch the entire video, jump to the summary at 24:45.
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How many people around the world with Ukrainian flags on their social media accounts know the name of the Yemini president? Would they recognise him in a photo? Can they identify the flag of Yemen? Would the media fare any better?
Here are a few clues. His name does not have the initials V or Z. He does not wear a green/brown t-short and waltz around the online world with a begging bowl.
Why should we have any interest in Yemen?
The country is home to an eight-year-old civil war and arguably the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As many as 20 million people in that country are facing famine.
Innocent Ukraine invaded by bad Russia 9 months ago. Big deal.
Yemen invaded by Shiite Houthi militias (who are supported by Iran) 8 years ago. Not important.
The Yemeni people should identify as Ukrainian. Say the invaders are being supported by Putin. And their president should buy himself some t-shirts.
Yemen at U.N.:
Iran Fueling a War Leading 20 Million to Famine
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Peanuts
Beetle Bailey
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Dilbert
Dennis
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Blondie
Family circus
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A visual and audio treat.
You may have already seen it.
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Composed by Hans Zimmer
MIDI Programmed and Arranged by Ashton Gleckman
All organ sounds from the new Royal Albert Hall Organ library, recorded at the historic hall in London by James Everingham. Available now: https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com/
Suite programmed by ear in Logic Pro X based on the original soundtrack recordings. Virtual instruments from Spitfire Audio, Orchestral Tools, and 8Dio
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar (Royal Albert Hall Organ)
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Riverdance
the final performance
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Global
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Warming
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Do you remember that dreadful scold Tracy Spicer? Newsreader, SJW and leader of the charge in reporting drunken encounters as dubious sexual assaults? Front and centre in the get vaxxed propaganda?
Well, she’s not standing for much now
I’ll bet some folk in TV fantasy land are putting 2 and 2 together.
Massive salary vs blowing the whistle. Decisions, decisions.
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Bunnies 12 nil up against the Panthers.
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… Not for long.
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