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Open Thread – Saturday, 26 February 2022
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Back in the day when I was discovering something other than beer was quite nice I came across a sparkling from the Killawarra brand. Cheap end but after a bottle I used to have the most vivid dreams. Recently friends have been trying to educate my palate on wines, which I don’t, as a rule, like. But I bought them and so they have to be drunk. One particularly unpleasant red (my palate, everybody else likes it) has been a bit hard to get down, maybe a glass or 2 over the evening. the vivid dreams are back. Last night in my dream I rewrote the words to the Brady Bunch dream tune. Funny but I’ve never watched an episode though I know the first few lines of the tune. Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016. Pen and paper on the bedside table tonight as I’ve already forgotten the most excellent new lyrics.
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January 10, 2016
Interview with Klaus Schwab
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Also during the week I thought I’d become a Guinness world record holder. I play a bit of scrabble with a group, varying standards and when only the guns remain we get some pretty decent scores. One was 844 in total. Someone DDGed world record scrabble score – 850. This week, playing vs the droid on the tablet, thought it beat me, 854. Astonishing games when you get up there, all the triples, big tiles hitting triples across and down. Thought I’d better check, even register, the new record. Sadly, 850 was the score of just one person in that game. Board total 1320. It’s enough to drive me to drink. But not that Sussex Ridge Hunter Valley shiraz 2016 muck.
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Hmmm… let’s revisit that tomorrow.
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The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is like the Covid pandemic of two years ago.
Watch and wait. The facts will emerge and there will be a clearer picture.
The Aussie Cossack has been doing good work as a freedom fighter and exposing the police and government, but I think he lacks discretion, sometimes.
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Crisis Magazine:
Understanding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
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Don Surber:
How’d impeaching Trump work out, Zelensky?
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All good, but ….
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Can they use her as a sandbag?
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Couch-sandbags-R-Us
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Cardimona, are you on the Catallaxy premises, now?
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I don’t have the adjectives to describe this man. It is not just a pleasure to listen to him speak, but his talks are excellent. And like the others, this opinion piece is a feast for the intellect in substance, as well as in the crafting of the words.
Neil Oliver:
We watch Russia – but we must watch what our leaders are up to here in the West
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egg_, I watched that a few days ago, but halfway through, I gave up.
He says he doesn’t buy the Great Reset agenda. That may be because he doesn’t get it.
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Tend to agree with this.
The amount of water the Wivenhoe has held back is incredible.
Don’t think the dam operators will be able to hold on much longer though before upping the release.
The rain is returning to the catchment, adding to the heavy inflows.
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Mama Bear checking up on her baby son 🙂
Reporter reflects on now-viral moment with mom
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ScumMo now speaking in Brisbane.
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It’s amazing how academics can make a great analysis – viz: “Schwab is a Central Planner, i.e. Socialist”, yet have NFI how to deal with matters “going forward”.
Presumably, Academics’ partners are left to run the household day-to-day?
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Great. Just what the world needs: millions of some of the worst dressed refugees since the Irish went looking for more spuds.
Forget stingers and javelins. Send these people pants that aren’t trackies.
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Very worrying indeed, mh.
Unfortunately, most of the news services (apart from QLD) are too busy hypothesizing on Russia/Ukraine to worry about the imminent danger to many Queenslanders.
Everything ’tis forgot: the dictatorship in Canada, the uniparty in Australia which oppresses its citizens with lockdowns, mandates and inhumane punishments for those who simply want control over their own bodies.
Then our PM proclaims to the world that he supports Ukraine because he stands for freedom!
Really, PM? You trashed your own countrymans’ freedom. You supported little-Hitler premiers when they imposed life and career destroying mandates. You saw innocent Australians smashed to the ground by vicious cops, old ladies capsicum sprayed and young, pregnant mums in their pyjamas arrested in front of their children.
And you said nothing.
But thank God for Ukraine and the Queensland floods. Now you can be nice Scomo again, worried sick about his fellow man and spouting all those platitudes you didn’t even think of during the wickedness of Covid scam.
Cutting a long and heartfelt rant shortish: I wish you all the best, Queenslanders. Stay safe. And when our PM waltzes in with his money and his poli-babble, remember that he’s been happy to condemn you – and every other Aussie – to two years of misery.
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Very excitable Indian TV channel live English coverage of the war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyeyoqwXm5o
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This is the stage when a good dose of skepticism regarding any “news” item on the Russia-Ukraine conflict is required. Until any story is confirmed by multiple reliable sources, it may need to be filed under fiction.
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Aircraft
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Molotov cocktails
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Snake Island
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Mother of ‘trans’ child poses as teen to find out how Trevor Project grooms kids into transitioning
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Break time
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Unchained Melody
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Magician REVEALS trick and still fools Penn & Teller!!!
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Here now, Kaysee – catching up on the news after a busy day campaigning.
What’s happening?
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I read your Column that was posted in the People’s News. Are you interested in having that put up on the blog main page, as a post?
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If you reckon it meets standards, Kaysee.
Preaching to the converted here, I know, but every little bit helps.
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If there’s anyone from this blog in your electorate, I’m sure they’ll vote for you. As you say, it is preaching to the converted.
But, just in case there is anyone passing through the site, it could help.
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If you want to go ahead, I could use what you have posted in your comment. I need a title. Also do you want it under your Cat name? That would be a bit awkward.
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The second option is if you want to write a separate post for this blog. In that case, you’ll have to send it to Adam/Admin to get it posted.
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The media’s sudden love for Ukrainians is about painting Putin as a Hitler who is friends with another person they call Hitler, that is Trump.
The history and intricacies of the situation they are not interested in and we won’t hear it.
It’s about hating Trump who defeated Ms Clinton and making the pervert Biden look a bit better for the midterms. (in my opinion).
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Here’s hoping the dam engineers have read the right manual this time and not believed in the Flannery person that it would never rain again and so let the dams fill up till they explode and cause death and destruction.
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Thanks, Kaysee – at the moment I’m particularly time-poor.
You know my IRL name, so, yeah, post it under that and maybe use a title such as “Truth-bombs from FNQ” – thank you!
In other news, briefly, over the past two weeks, I
– drove down to Canberra for the Freedom Rally
– got delayed/had to backtrack due to a flood on the Muttaburra Rd
– arrived as the rally was winding down (thus avoiding being nuked by FedPol’s “Active Denial System” (95 GHz microwave weapon))
– visited the protester camps, learned of the ‘Antifa’ attacks on them
– stayed with VC and BJ and the grandies
– had long chats with BJ, Matt C, George C, and Llew O’Brien
– walked through parliament house – twice – unmasked
– discovered Canberrans to be deep in the mass formation psychosis
– triggered plenty of Canberra locals
– displayed 3m x 1.5m “Vote 1 UAP” billboards on my tandem trailer for the whole 6,000km
– brought our 26yo last-born (son) home with me from Queanbeyan, where the Canberra lunacy was getting to him.
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Anyway, here’s some memes.
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Candy, the dam operators may have done a good job this time. We shall see.
They seem to be confident of using a large percentage of the flood mitigation space while having controlled releases.
Last week Wivenhoe was at 57% I believe, which is a different scenario to 2011. Although we still have to look at what the operators have been doing with Somerset dam which feeds into Wivenhoe.
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I hope you are right, mh. It seems a little precarious though and the rain is pelting down here again right now.
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This just dropped.
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Johnny FD.
The morning of Friday, February 24th, 2022 will be one printed in History Books as the day that Russia dropped missiles and started their invasion to the capital city of Kyiv, Ukraine. Today was the day we all needed to decide if we should prepare food to shelter in place with @bald and bankrupt or to try and escape to Lviv or even the Polish border. In this video, I show you both options, neither of them good.
STAY AND SHELTER OR LEAVE: UKRAINE 🇺🇦
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Brisbane will still be underwater tomorrow morning. But imagine what today would have been like if the water had been released at high rates on Friday and Saturday.
Large parts of Logan will be underwater tomorrow, too.
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I’ve seen that much crap posted of late, that I have to say this Ghost of Kiev Pilot comes across as 100% bullsh*t. Call it a hunch.
I could be wrong though?….nah.
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Bald and Bankrupt:
🇺🇦 A week now seems a lifetime ago in terms of the rapidly changing events in Ukraine. I arrived in the country thinking to myself ‘Putin isn’t mad enough to invade because the Ukrainian people will fight to the death for their country. It will be like Stalingrad.’ And yet I was completely wrong to underestimate his insanity. Now as I write this the people who I met in this video are living under bombs and bullets. Unbelievable how much suffering Ukrain e has gone through in its history.
I could write so much but I will leave that until my next video. In the meantime I wish the people of Ukraine well and hope for their safety in this terrible war 🇺🇦Solo Along The Ukrainian-Russian Border ( One Day Before Invasion )
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People who think this war looks “weird” on the tele need to understand that in this feminised world there aren’t any real war correspondents anymore.
Instead, we have chicks interviewing other chicks and chick politician making chick announcements and channels repeating the same days old footage because no one has the balls to go to the front and film anything.
Journalism is dead.
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Arky meant to say Sheliah’s not “chicks”. He stands corrected.
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Nice camera work. It is very hard to get bored of this.
2022 Blue Angels & Thunderbirds! (February 25th)
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Have fun before bed and enjoy your breakfast in the morning.
Threads (1984) film – less in 5 minutes
5:30.
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Steve Trickler: Yep 100% I reckon.
Via Paul Joseph Watson’s twiiter
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1497660762260754438
Looks like an F-16 to me, not a Mig 29
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Historically when there were more Queens as heads of State in Europe, there were more wars – they’d gang up on another State.
Sound familiar?
As 9/11 occurred, the sole outraged caller to Wendy Harmer and Moonie that morning baying for blood as retribution was a woman (i.e. pious outrage, but no skin in the game).
Journo virtue signalling doesn’t match reality.
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Ukraine & Russia to Begin Peace Talks
Brian Craig
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Kerry Chunt’s NSW Rona “Zigzag”:
25th Feb 2022:
Masks off (again)
December 2021:
Masks back on again (Moronic variant)
November 2021:
Masks off – “living with Rona”
Yawn.
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ScumMo doing the important stuff
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“When the FACTS change, I change my opinion”.
FACTS DON’T CHANGE, RETARD.
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Zaphod Bumblebot
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California Petrol prices recently broke the $6 mark.
Sydney fuel has been almost $2/litre for Regular Unleaded for over a week.
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Q. How do you get 5 opinions on the Economy?
A. Lock 4 Economists in a room together.
I.e. guesswork.
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There won’t be any film of any air to air combat over Ukraine.
Anyone putting together a piece on the “Ghost” will have had to use other footage. As every piece requires visuals, of course it won’t be actual footage, and they’ll use any old film.
You’ll have to use other means to verify or dismiss that story.
Could be utter bullshit, could have some underlying reality.
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Will the BBC be reporting towers falling 20 minutes ahead of schedule, again?
The relevant Producer and Reporter could not be found for comment.
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New paper dealing with the core AGW issue of what caused the undisputed increase in CO2 concentration over the last 200 years. From the Abstract:
Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming.
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Looks like the Wivenhoe Dam operation has been textbook, and it’s done it’s job.
However, there needs to be more communication from SEQwater on the dam operations. It’s too hard to find out what is going on in real time at Wivenhoe. There isn’t even a functioning webcam.
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IIRC, as posted prior, a dam near Tamworth has 130% capacity and was a tad over its 100% capacity quite a while ago.
Yet in 2016 four Tamworth Council water supply bores near Kootingal were closed as they were over WHO radiation limits. No two-headed frogs in the vicinity?
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I’ll bet that was deep-sixed.
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2015/2016 Uranium – Bendemeer (New South Wales)
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/water/Documents/nswhuep-minutes-071016.pdf
Uranium concentrations have been elevated above ADWG in bore 5 in Kootingal/Moonbi and in Airlie Rd bore in Bendemeer
•There is limited scientific data on the health effects of uranium and studies are mostly about
inhalation and/or occupational exposure and cross-sectional studies of communities with elevated uranium levels in drinking water
•Epidemiological evidence suggests renal proximal tubular damage by the presence of biomarkers may occur at levels above 0.1 mg/L and there is little information on chronic long term exposure
•For the Kootingal/Moonbi community Uranium concentration in the reticulated
water tested over 2015 and 2016 range from 0.022 mg/L up to 0.043 mg/L.
For the Bendemeer community, the affected bore was commissioned in 2014 and has provided only up to 20% of the drinking water supply since 2015. Exposure to water from this bore was not considered a concern due to the part contribution and shorter exposure time.
• There is no clear dose response identified in the 7 studies examined
•There is no clinical or histological evidence of kidney disease in the affected
populations at various levels of exposure in the studies examined
•Community testing would provide limited to no benefit due to lack of specificity in biomarkers
Uranium (Information Sourced From 2011 Australian Drinking Water Guidelines)
“Based on health considerations, the concentration of uranium in drinking water should not exceed 0.017 mg/L.”
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Most channels idea of reporting on this war seems to consist of:
1. Clips of speeches at the UN by some bald bloke.
2. Clips of speeches by some mutton dressed as lamb Euro chick at some European forum.
3. Testosterone free blokes in a studio interviewing each other.
4. Snazzy promo mashups of days old clips with dramatic music.
5. That black US chick’s speech at the UN. Over and over again.
6. German PM being clapped while saying they’re going to spend actual money on defending themselves. Good one, Hans.
7. Clip of that chick sweeping up glass in her apartment.
8. Some chick interviewing chick refos at the border.
9. Chicks at various world capitals with weepy eyes demonstrating against Putin while holding flowers/ teddy bears/ signs.
10. Weedy looking Ukrainian civilians going to pick up their first ever rifle at the police station.
11. No actual combat footage.
One “expert” they were interviewing from the studio looked about 17 and was in his bedroom with super hero movie posters on the wall in the background. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Everything Is a Lie ReeEEeE Stream 02-27-22
Salty Craker
LIVE
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As if there aren’t enough bad jokes giving commentary to us on a daily basis
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If we are drafted to fight
Check the gun they’ve given you
Send us a wish you were here postcard from Ukraine
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More Simpsons prescience
So they packed up their bags and moved to…”
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Sums it up in one toon.
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Now LIVE on Rumble:
https://rumble.com/vw1cdg-everything-is-a-lie-reeeeee-stream-02-27-22.html
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THE ERRORS of GLOBALISM: Russia, Ukraine, and the Suicide of the West
TheRemnantVideo
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I guess this is why the chunks are going to rule the world:
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/46513808642891517/
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List of green idiocies revealed by Putin:
https://mailchi.mp/9e148cba795d/putins-war-on-ukraine-changes-everything-187350?e=170323d89f
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Cheers, egg. Salty is running amok.
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This could be more BS. Will wait and see.
The Only Antonov 225 Has Been Confirmed As Destroyed
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Destruction of Antonov 225 is mentioned on Wikipedia, with this as the reference: https://www.airlineratings.com/news/225-destroyed-russian-forces-gostomel/
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cohenite says:
February 28, 2022 at 1:58 pm
List of green idiocies revealed by Putin
“Rupert Darwall: Standing up to Putin means ditching Net-Zero
Real Clear Energy, 24 February 2022”
LMFAO!
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egg, I rather think that claiming that ‘facts don’t change’ followed by a comment about changing petrol prices rather undermines your original point.
Facts exist in space and time, therefore they do change in the sense that space and time change.
Last year’s petrol price is a fact, and so is this year’s.
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Received an eBay phishing phone call (disputed $199.xx purchase) from a mobile no. this arvo – the bot said to press 1 to dispute a purchase – which I did – and got a call centre in India to which a female answered “eBay…”, natch.
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Oh, and can I join calli and several others at both the other Cat and here in saying that we are in the midle of a propaganda blitz by both sides and nothing should be taken at face value.
TBH, I don’t give a rat’s about the Ukraine. It has zero strategic or economic or any other significance to Australia. Every nation’s politicians (including ours) are huffing and puffing and taking sides because they want to sit at the big kids’ table, like in kindy.
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The thought occurred to me re metrics such as temperature.
This is how Lefties are winning the Information War – we “modelled” XYZ, as if it is a fact, when it is merely Deep Thought running some retard’s code.
Oxford “modelled” the Rona plague, didn’t they?
Weather, petrol prices, etc. are relative, not absolutes.
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WetFartallaxy blowhards gotta blowhard.
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BoN says he was a Warmy, until he woke up.
Says it all.
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TOP 40 Songs of 2021 2022 (Best Hit Music Playlist) on Spotify
Sky Music PE
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It has every significance, in that Xi will be watching and calculating when to go on Taiwan depending on how badly this adventure bites Putin.
If we want this region to remain calm, and those sea lanes open, you’ll be hoping Putin has treaded on his todge, hard.
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Singapore is the head of our Regional crude oil market, as myself and later Tel had to update JC on old Cat.
The Singapore Benchmark: how Australia prices fuel | Bulk Fuel Australia
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The ChiComs will have shared plenty of Biden administration material with Vladimir.
Laughs all round.
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Salty reckons that the Ukraine issue is being used by the Left to take Fauci’s Frankenvax backpedalling off the front pages.
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Arky, that is drawing a long bow, and anyhow not one we should buy into.
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Peter Schiff joins Mark Steyn on GB News
Peter Schiff on the economic ramifications of sanctioning Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRlYM2apwbU
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For me personally, and my family in Taiwan, it’s number one concern.
CCP will be looking very closely and learning whatever the lesson is.
I want the lesson to be: Don’t do it.
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3:50 break from global events.
Composed by John Williams
Performed by Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Antony Hermus
The Rebellion is Reborn – STAR WARS // Danish National Symphony Orchestra (LIVE)
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Russia Is too Big to Be Sanctioned on Energy: FGE’s Fesharaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-xriO_COs
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Islam powers on:
Afghanistan: Muslims murder eight polio workers
Asked if Biden would ‘welcome’ Iranian oil after nuke deal, Psaki says ‘we’ll talk…if we get to that point’
India: Muslim rapes the daughter of Hindu priest in revenge after being released from jail
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
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Excellent edit. 👏👏
Things you find when you dig on sussietube.
David Bowie: Songs In Movies
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Fossil Fuels Rulz!
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Johnny FD and Bald:
As the situation in the capital city of Kyiv was getting more and more dangerous, we made the tough decision to leave and try and make it west. Our original plan was to go to Lviv to join our friends, but during the trip, we got word that even there was being attacked by air raids. But first, we’d have to make it on the train. Here’s the journey with myself and @bald and bankrupt as we attempt to cross from Eastern Ukraine, to the West by train.
ESCAPING WAR: GOING WEST 🇺🇦
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A lot of people are MSM centric. F*ck off and settle down….meanwhile.
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Bald:
Leaving Kyiv On A Refugee Train 🇺🇦
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Always ask for the batch number with every injection, if you are inclined to trust them.
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Russell Brand
#TheGreatReset #DigitalID #VaccinePassports
So They DO Run The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8TBPSTuiM
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Russia Is too Big to Be Sanctioned on Energy
Fossil Fuels Rulz!
The real issue is swine like biden and the eurotrash have gone green while becoming dependent on Russia, Iran and China to provide oil and gas which they could be self-sufficient in if they weren’t green:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/25/biden-going-easy-russia-energy-00011822
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cohenite says:
March 1, 2022 at 10:26 am
The real issue is swine like biden and the eurotrash have gone green while becoming dependent on Russia, Iran and China to provide oil and gas which they could be self-sufficient in if they weren’t green:
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It’s the same with us Cohenite, we’re sitting on oil reserves equal to Saudi Arabia and we can’t get it out of the ground. We should be an energy exporter, not dependent on overseas suppliers.
https://www.thesized.com/trillions-of-dollars-oil-australia-outback/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YiKgTTKWo
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