Open Thread – Saturday, 25 March 2023

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  1. Apparently Nick Mason was the only one who didn’t run; he’s assembled some pals to tour early Pink Floyd.

    Ticket prices aren’t what they used to be.


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  2. johanna johanna says:

    Wow, $400+ for premium tickets at the Enmore. Mind you, it’s a small venue and I imagine the cost of lugging all that equipment across the world and around Australia would be considerable. I’m sure the shows will sell out – the music is wonderful!


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  3. mh says:

    If the world’s inflation problem really is caused by the war in Ukraine as the western political establishment tell us, why are they not trying to get a solution?

    If we take politicians at their word, they know the weapons they are sending to Ukraine to extend the war are inflationary. More armaments for Zelensky mean higher interest rates.


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  4. mh says:

    Greetings dear truth seekers

    Why can’t the West Defeat Russia┃US disowned in Fear UK’s statement on Shells with Depleted Uranium

    BORZZIKMAN
    125K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX-bZ9AouoQ


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  5. Shy Ted says:

    What can you see in this pic of the recent protests?
    I see a gloved hand doing a soon ot be illegal nazti salute.
    I see a Victoria’ Secret model masked up.
    I see a man in a dress with a generator which I presume is to keep his tits inflated.
    I see police must be no taller than 5′ 6″
    I see our taxes being wasted.


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  6. Shy Ted says:

    En France
    Ploy perhaps?
    Gummint wants to improve productivity. Public Service solution


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  7. kaysee kaysee says:

    Vivek defines woke…

    The Left claims Republicans can’t define ‘”woke.” Well, how’s this?


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  8. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Washington Times

    Vaccines don’t work, masks don’t work:
    Everything government told us about COVID-19 was wrong

    Remember when the federal government told you masks were effective against COVID-19?
    Yeah, they’re not.

    Remember when the government told you vaccines will keep you from getting the virus?
    Yeah, they don’t.


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:

    Here’s that interview.
    The RINO Desantis being interviewed by the liberal media.

    Ron DeSantis Grilled By Piers Morgan


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:

    What Genius Looks Like

    In the year 2000, the Clay Institute of Mathematics selected seven yet-unsolved “Millennium Prize” problems as the most important in mathematics, offering a million-dollar cash prize for each correct solution. The first verified solution, which was for the Poincaré conjecture in 2006, shocked the academic world and created one of the most infamous New Yorker cartoons of the past century. None of the remaining problems have been solved––or even credibly attempted––until now.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    China’s Social Credit System

    How it works

    CHINA’S social credit system is a combination of government and business surveillance that gives citizens a “score” that can restrict the ability of individuals to take actions — such as purchasing plane/train tickets, acquiring property or taking loans — because of behaviors

    On the blacklist

    If you are on the blacklist of #socialcredit system, your face, name, I.D. No., address…will display on buses, subways, planes…for everyone to see to shame you.


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    From American Thought Leaders

    Jan Jekielek interviews Dr. Jay Bhattacharya:
    The Deadly Consequences of Censorship and the Need for COVID Commissions
    (1 hr 3 min)

    Podcast here

    Transcript here

    (Contd. next comment)


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    Two examples from the Jay Bhattacharya podcast, on how censorship works.

    1/

    It was a deeply irresponsible thing for Francis Collins to do. It was an abuse of his power. He’s the head of the National Institute of Health. He sits on top of $45 billion of federal funding.

    For instance, Stanford gets a half a billion dollars a year from the NIH. Not only does he control the money, he also controls the social status of scientists. If you don’t get NIH grants as a biomedical researcher, it puts you down the social hierarchy within the social structure of academic medicine. I would not have gotten tenure at Stanford if I had not won NIH grants.

    …….. So, you have a federal government figure abusing his power. Why? Because he couldn’t stand the idea that there were prominent scientists that disagreed with him about pandemic policy. That’s why he called for a devastating takedown of our premises.

    2/

    I got invited to visit with Elon Musk as a result of these revelations in the Twitter files. What I found out during my visit there at Twitter headquarters is that I was actually placed on the blacklist the very day I joined Twitter. Why did that happen? It’s not Twitter 1.0 on its own that decided this.

    That came about because government actors were involved at the highest levels of federal bureaucracy telling social media companies what ideas to censor and who to censor


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    NSW is set for a double whammy. A Labor state government with the Opposition Libs headed by a Marxist Greenie. So far he has been the controlling power behind the Lib Premiers. After the election, he will be the Liberal party. One big Green Uniparty to trash the state.

    A caller on radio suggested that if the voters of Hornsby vote in the Lib member they should be locked into their electorate for the next four years and not allowed to leave it.


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  15. mh says:

    Ron DeSantis Grilled By Piers Morgan

    Enjoyed the interview.
    No grilling though.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    Enjoyed the interview.

    Same here.

    I don’t agree with what he said about Russia and Putin. But the rest of the interview provided an insight into how he operates and deals with his job.

    The DDS (DeSantis Derangement Syndrome) team/Forever Trumpers are having digs on something he said.


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  17. mh says:

    Are there any good guys running in the NSW election?

    Who are we rooting for?


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    I am watching Sky News and the results here.

    The Libs don’t deserve to win. Perrottet has played up to the woke issues a number of times. Not sure why Dutton kept away from helping with the campaigning.

    Looks like it is going to be a Labor majority. Anyway, with Labor + Greens and the Greenie Keane likely to take over as Lib Opposition Leader, it looks quite bleak.


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  19. Old bloke says:

    Are there any good guys running in the NSW election?

    Mark Latham is running again for the upper house, he’s expecting a bigger vote for PH One Nation this election.

    Latham doubles down: One Nation to run in twice as many seats in NSW election


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  20. SVC SVC says:

    Dr John Campbell interviewing Senator Rennick. They were talking about a report that was released by TGA. Some lady had to fight like a bulldog with TGA to get that report released and passed to Senator Rennick. Needless to say, some of the stuff in that report is concerning. Very concerning.


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  21. johanna johanna says:

    Thanks, Coldie. Appreciated. 🙂


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  22. mh says:

    Peace In Ukraine Is “Unacceptable” Says Biden Spokesman

    The Jimmy Dore Show
    1.17M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiEBZDbAP4


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  23. Shy Ted says:

    Hope you’ve all been over to Michael Smith to see AnAl talking to the little girl. Out of the moths of babes.


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  24. Shy Ted says:

    mouths. My guess is taxpayer funded champagne and caviar. You don’t want to know what my second guess is.


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  25. Shy Ted says:

    Another day, another QPol shooting
    “Comments are moderated in advance”


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  26. mh says:

    I’m guessing Adidas know they have to sell the $billion plus of Yeezy shoes or face financial ruin

    Kanye West has made his return to Instagram, and he appears to have had a sensational epiphany following his string of anti-Semitic outbursts.

    The US rapper, 45, specifically referenced actor Jonah Hill for changing his mind, saying his character in 21 Jump Street finally changed his mind.

    “Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump street made me like Jewish people again,” West wrote on the platform alongside a poster for the 2012 film.

    “No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people.”

    “No Christian can be labelled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew,” he went on, adding, “Thank you Jonah Hill I love you.”


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  27. Never thought I’d see a chicken trying crocs as footwear, Ted.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    Mark Latham is running again for the upper house, he’s expecting a bigger vote for PH One Nation this election.

    There are the expectations before the election.
    And the reality, after.

    Teal, One Nation wave a NSW election washout

    Despite grand hopes for the Teals and One Nation to steal seats from the major parties, it became clear early on they would not overthrow as many electorates as intended


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    Some lady had to fight like a bulldog with TGA to get that report released and passed to Senator Rennick. Needless to say, some of the stuff in that report is concerning. Very concerning.

    In this case, it is a lady from Melbourne.

    Last week, I posted a link to an article about a doctor from Qld who was concerned about the vaxx injuries in her patients.


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:

    Peace In Ukraine Is “Unacceptable” Says Biden Spokesman

    Macron agrees.
    They don’t want peace. They want the war to continue even if it affects the citizens of their countries.

    1/
    January 2023
    France increases military aid to Ukraine with more tanks

    France will be sending tanks to Ukraine in an effort to expand its military aid, French President Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Wednesday.

    “The president wished to amplify this military aid,” announced the presidency after a one-hour telephone call between the two leaders, AFP reported, a week after Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s trip to Ukraine.

    2/
    March 2023

    Macron Says France Can’t Afford to Pay Pensions as Is — After Bumping Up Aid to Ukraine in January

    From @ggreenwald: France is now covered with protests and strikes because Macron said there’s no money to allow workers to retire at 62 (he used special power to raise it to 64).

    In January, Macron directed major increases in military aid to Ukraine because “the president wished to amplify this military aid.”

    “Amazing. We always have money for war — no money for the people,” retorted @jimmy_dore.


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    Trannyism

    1/
    Police in Sweden
    No real law and order problems?

    2/
    Father and son on Dr Phil

    This is so heartbreaking. Father breaks down at the sight of his “transgender” son

    3/
    Richard Dawkins:
    He gets it right on this one.

    Richard Dawkins says JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock have been “bullied” while standing up for themselves over trans issues. “As a biologist, there are two sexes and that’s all there is to it.”


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    J.K. Rowling’s Stand Against the ‘Dangerous’ Transgender Movement Is Important.
    Here’s Why.

    According to Rowling, she was aware that speaking out on the transgender movement would likely turn off some of her fans. Nonetheless, she felt compelled to do what was right regardless of the potential consequences.


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    AI chatbots compared:
    Bard vs. Bing vs. ChatGPT

    The chatbots are out in force, but which is better and for what task? We’ve compared Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Bing, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT models with a range of questions spanning common requests from holiday tips to gaming advice to mortgage calculations.


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  34. Old bloke says:

    SVC says:
    March 25, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    Dr John Campbell interviewing Senator Rennick.

    Thanks SVC, that was a very interesting link. It was unfortunate that the interview ended when it did with the Senate bell calling everyone into the Senate, the discussion about the TGA, particularly its funding by big pharma, was illuminating.

    Needless to say, some of the stuff in that report is concerning. Very concerning.

    Yes indeed it was.


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Michael Smith has a better headline with the news.

    Vandal Matt Kean screws the Liberal Party then runs away

    “Spend more time with the family” excuse is code for “I will use my spare time to undermine a nearby Federal Member of Parliament so I can get his seat”.

    Snake Kean destroyed the Liberal Party’s reputation in NSW to the point that he was among the top reasons people wouldn’t vote for them.

    He undermined and background against conservatives in the Party and did all he could to damage his internal political opponents.

    Now that he’s driven them to Opposition, he’s been given the opportunity to run for the leadership basically because there’s no-one else left.

    The snake runs and hides.

    It would have been far better if Hornsby was one of the seats that the Libs lost.


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    American Thought Leaders

    It’s All Being Covered Up’:
    Sen. Ron Johnson on Missing Batch of Fauci Emails, COVID Origins, and Silencing of the Vaccine-Injured

    Ron Johnson:

    I am not a doctor, not a medical researcher but there’s so much disinformation out there. It certainly concerns a guy like me. Why isn’t it concerning the Anthony Faucis and the Collins’ and the Walenskys and the people who replace these folks? Why isn’t it concerning our Federal health agencies? I think the answer is pretty obvious. It’s because they are thoroughly and completely captured by Big Pharma.


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:

    Matt Walsh responds to the left’s TRIGGERED reaction to traditional wives.

    This New TikTok Trend May Be Triggering To Some


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  38. Old bloke says: