Open Thread – Saturday, 27 May 2023

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  1. Shy Ted says:

    Well done that man
    Only need to watch 1/3


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  2. Shy Ted says:

    Every interview wwith Richard Marles includes his fave phrase “there’s an international rules based order”. Albo too


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  3. Admin Admin says:

    EofT

    Your comments from yesterday ended up in Spam.
    I can’t see any reason for that.

    They are now on the thread.


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  4. EofT says:

    Dear Admin,
    Thank you. I tried twice, so I’m sorry about the double up.


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  5. mh says:

    David Martin Exposes Timeline of Biggest Democide in Recorded History

    https://www.banned.video/watch?id=6471236b1cd98dc354c67c96


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  6. kaysee kaysee says:

    DeSantis Prez Campaign Launch

    1/
    Was the launch of the DeSantis presidential campaign on Twitter sabotage by lefties?

    Foad Dabiri, Twitter’s Head of Engineering, announced his resignation from Elon Musk’s company on Thursday, a day after the platform’s attempt launch Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign was marred by technical difficulties.

    2/
    DeSantis Campaign Says It Raised $8.2 Million in First 24 Hours

    The $8.2 million brought in by Mr. DeSantis far outpaces how Mr. Trump began his 2024 fund-raising in late 2022. Mr. Trump had raised about $9.5 million in the six weeks after he announced his campaign in mid-November.


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  7. The Sheriff says:

    DeSantis will piss all that Wall St money up against the wall and still lose to Trump


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  8. kaysee kaysee says:

    There are everyday news stories and there are the major stories. We form opinions on them; whether it is about police tasering an elderly woman or something a politician does or the bigger ones like how one will vote on the Voice or whether global warming is a real crisis.

    How do we form these opinions? Is it based on what those in our circle of family or friends say? What MSM tells us? Or do we dig in and do our research on it?

    One such issue is abortion. Here is an interview with two young women.

    These women considered themselves pro-abortion up till birth without even knowing how abortions are performed. After watching an abortion procedure, their minds changed.

    If they could be taken away for a short period and given more evidence, it may be possible to completely unbrainwash them.


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:

    DeSantis will piss all that Wall St money up against the wall and still lose to Trump

    You want to bet on that? 🙂


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:

    Two connected stories in the same week (May 2023) about two events in the same year (2020).

    1/
    George Floyd full autopsy
    Details in link.

    George Floyd full autopsy released. Says “no life threatening injuries identified” and reveals high levels of multiple additional toxic drugs on top of the Fentanyl that was initially reported.

    2/
    Black Lives Matter Faces Bankruptcy
    After Plunging $8.5M Into Debt in 2022

    In a concerning development to come almost four years after the BLM Global Network Foundation formally emerged in November 2020, the organization is now nearly $9 million in the red.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    In California, the LA Dodgers are dodging the issue and trying to please both sides:
    Satan and God.

    They invited an anti-Catholic drag group, then after a backlash disinvited the group, then they decided their real gods are qwertys and so reinvited them.

    Today they have posted:

    Join us at Dodger Stadium on 7/30 for Christian Faith and Family Day. Stay after the game to celebrate and be part of a day of worship. Stay tuned for more details.

    It is time for fans of the game, Catholics especially, but conservatives too, to do a Bud Lighter. Boycott the LA Dodgers. It is the only way they will learn.


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  12. mh says:

    What’s Causing The Excess Cardiovascular Deaths?

    The Jimmy Dore Show

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vAyoSUxN2Q


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  13. mh says:

    A teenager was rushed to hospital after reports he was unresponsive on the field during an under-18s country football game in Victoria.

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    Raiders-Rabbitohs come together as Canberra star suffers seizure

    There was an immediate hush around Accor Stadium, as players formed a protective circle around Corey Harawira-Naera after appearing to have a seizure following an innocuous head knock.


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  14. mh says:

    Update. Sad news.

    A teenager has died after becoming unresponsive during an Under 18s football match in central Victoria.

    An Ambulance Victoria spokesman confirmed that paramedics were called to the Kyneton Football Netball Club at about 12.20 pm on Saturday following reports a 17-year-old boy from Castlemaine was unresponsive on the field.


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  15. mh says:

    New Yorkers finally get it right

    AOC shouted down during chaotic NYC town hall: ‘You’re a piece of s–t!’

    https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-shouted-down-during-chaotic-nyc-town-hall/


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  16. Old bloke says:

    Poor old Justine Castro, he can’t walk down a street in Canada without being surrounded by an army of police.

    BREAKING: Canada on The Brink of Revolution!


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    Pentecost Sunday

    If you are celebrating, Happy Feast of Pentecost.

    Ūnus
    .

    Duo
    .

    Trēs
    Spirit and Grace

    .


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver:

    …if you control the land & the food production you control the people!

    …there’s nothing green about the green revolution it’s a GREED revolution… they’re saying Americans will have to eat differently if they want to rein in climate change… Bill Gates buying masses of farmland in the US… foods Patented for profit… history has seen it all before, the enclosure acts stealing people’s rights over the land…we can’t continue to turn a blind eye to fewer and fewer incredibly rich and powerful people having more and more power over the billions of the population…


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:

    On Target

    1/
    The boycott has begun

    Target has posted a $9 billion loss in market cap in just a week after they faced backlash for their “Pride” gear which included tuck friendly swimsuits and other gender related products.

    2/
    Target is lying to you.

    3/
    Target partners with org pushing for kids’ genders
    to be secretly changed in schools without parental consent


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  20. kaysee kaysee says:

    4/
    The meme explains it.

    5/
    In response to the comment from The Sheriff in the Trans post.

    We need to publish list of the activists – the pro-NWO shills- to be boycotted as well as a list of those to be supported.

    Here is a list for the US alternatives.

    How to Avoid Shopping at Target:
    Non-Woke Companies to Support


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    Advice from Christine Anderson

    “Speak up!..stop complying & start rebelling.”In order to deal with this unfree world,to defy this unfree world,I have decided to become so free that my very existence is an act of rebellion. And that’s what we all need to do.”


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  22. Old bloke says:

    There must be a lot of cheap cocaine floating around in Port Moresby at the moment. The local Mercedes agent would be selling a lot of new cars to the local coppers.

    Discrepancy with $141 million of cocaine recovered, bound for Far North Qld in 2020


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  23. mh says:

    The Age

    The Castlemaine Football Netball Club says its community is struggling to comprehend the “unfathomable” death of under-18 player Dallas Keogh-Frankling in Kyneton on Saturday.

    Keogh-Frankling, 17, was tackled to the ground in the final quarter of his club’s game against Kyneton, and is believed to have landed heavily on his chest area and continued playing for a time before leaving the field.

    His condition worsened after the game finished, and an ambulance was called about 12.20pm to take him to Kyneton Base Hospital. He was in a critical condition and died before he could be stabilised to travel to Melbourne for further treatment.


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  24. Shy Ted says:

    Meanwhile at the movies The Little Mermaid


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  25. Interested observer says:

    Mark McGowan stands down from politics.

    From behind the paywall
    WA Premier Mark McGowan said he wanted to give his replacement enough time before the next election.

    “I wanted to give my successor, whoever that is, the opportunity to cement themselves and create their own way and their own agenda and enough time to bid themselves in,” he said.

    “I have basically been in public life in one way or another for 30 years, so it has been the vast majority of my working life. And anyone who does the same job for 30 years … may get tired and maybe look to the future.

    He said the decision to resign came a few months ago, ahead of the state budget.

    The outgoing state Labor leader said he is just “a phone call away” to the next Premier.

    “If you want my assistance or advice, they can ring me.”


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  26. mh says:

    He has to do what the UK cops refuse

    Just Stop Oil protester thrown to ground by enraged motorist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xEbGt8z9mc


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  27. mh says:

    Cops become part of the protest

    Angry scenes on London Bridge as motorists challenge Just Stop Oil Protesters blocking traffic

    The Sun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaZ9aSxcgnw

    ***

    These same protestors will be cheering on Sunak sending depleted uranium shells to Ukraine.


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  28. mh says:

    Oops, that second link was supposed to be this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7EeDoq5vuY


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  29. Cardimona says:

    The outgoing state Labor leader said he is just “a phone call away” to the next Premier.

    “If you want my assistance or advice, they can ring me.”

    Sounds like one globalist stooge is being swapped out for another, slightly more tyrannical one.


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  30. Cold-Hands says:

    John Hinderaker at Powerline has found further evidence that AI’s make things up.

    Some lawyers in New York relied on AI, in the form of ChatGPT, to help them write a brief opposing a motion to dismiss based on the statute of limitations. Chat GPT made up cases, complete with quotes and citations, to support the lawyers’ position. The presiding judge was not amused:

    The Court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance. A submission filed by plaintiff’s counsel in opposition to a motion to dismiss is replete with citations to non-existent cases.
    ***
    The Court begins with a more complete description of what is meant by a nonexistent or bogus opinion. In support of his position that there was tolling of the statute of limitation under the Montreal Convention by reason of a bankruptcy stay, the plaintiff’s submission leads off with a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, Varghese v China South Airlines Ltd, 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019). Plaintiff’s counsel, in response to the Court’s Order, filed a copy of the decision, or at least an excerpt therefrom.

    The Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in response to this Court’s inquiry, has confirmed that there has been no such case before the Eleventh Circuit with a party named Vargese or Varghese at any time since 2010, i.e., the commencement of that Court’s present ECF system. He further states that the docket number appearing on the “opinion” furnished by plaintiff’s counsel, Docket No. 18-13694, is for a case captioned George Cornea v. U.S. Attorney General, et al. Neither Westlaw nor Lexis has the case, and the case found at 925 F.3d 1339 is A.D. v Azar, 925 F.3d 1291 (D.C. Cir 2019). The bogus “Varghese” decision contains internal citations and quotes, which, in turn, are non-existent….

    ChatGPT came up with five other non-existent cases.

    The lawyers are being asked to “show cause” why they shouldn’t be sanctioned.


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  31. Cold-Hands says:

    Tomorrow (May 30th) was to have been the final day open for Toronto’s Anti-Capitalist cafe, but all the publicity seems to have granted it https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/05/22/torontos-anarchist-cafe-closing-or-is-it-n552684.

    A cafe in Toronto set up by a self-described anarchist progressive announced that, sadly, it would be forced to close after just a year in existence.

    It turns out an “anti-capitalist” coffee shop in Toronto that let customers pay whatever they could afford couldn’t turn a profit.

    The Anarchist Cafe, which opened in April 2022, was touted as an “anti-capitalist, anti-colonial cafe, shop and radical community space on stolen land.”…

    “Connecting with so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, ‘anarcho-capitalists’ and ‘Libertarians’), fulfilling the dream of most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class-traitors (pigs and military), and experimenting with living and working in ways that don’t enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism,” he wrote in the bittersweet message.

    The good news is that the owner, Gabriel Sims-Fewer, was the cafe’s only employee so no one else would be losing a job. He blamed the closure on a lack of generational wealth after a quiet winter but plenty of people had fun with the idea that maybe his ideology had something to do with his inability to keep the doors open.

    The Anarchist, which described itself as “an anti-capitalist café, shop and radical community space on stolen land at 190 Jarvis,” is shuttering its java zealotry on May 30.

    Hopefully, customers do not loot the remaining pastries and torch the place…

    Sims-Fewer concluded his charming farewell with: “F-k the rich. F-k the police. F-k the state. F-k the colonial death camp we call ‘Canada.’”

    No word if he will apply for unemployment benefits from said death camp.

    There were also some pretty harsh comments left on his Instagram page where he made the announcement. My favorite response read, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

    Anyway, a few days ago Sims-Fewer announced a sudden reversal of fortune. He’d secured a windfall of donations thanks to all the publicity he got about the closure.

    Given that the only reason he survived 12 months was that the owner of the premises gave him 6 months of free rent, it seems unlikely that the doors will stay open much longer despite the recent donations.


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  32. Cold-Hands says:

    granted it *a stay of execution.

    (I failed to finish off the link before posting).


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  33. mh says:

    French Open: Ukrainian player loses to Belarusian, then gets booed by French crowd for not shaking hands with her opponent. The Ukranian then gets booed again when she exits.

    @KyivPost
    🎾Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostiuk refused to shake hands with her opponent after her match with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the first round of the #FrenchOpen. Part of the audience greeted the act with applause, and part of them booed, Tribuna reported.

    https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1662845668036157446?s=20


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  34. Shy Ted says:

    Oh noes, we’re all gonna die –

    One Of Australia’s Two Active Volcanoes Is Erupting

    Maybe not
    4100kms SW of Perth


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  35. Old bloke says:

    Sounds like one globalist stooge is being swapped out for another, slightly more tyrannical one.

    McGowan was supportive about the state’s trade relationship with China given the importance of China’s iron ore purchases to the state’s treasury.

    Whoever controls these appointments will want a more anti-China leader appointed.


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  36. JohnJJJ says:

    https://youtu.be/6Xaact2P55w?t=62
    Yesterday the Russians hit the Starokostiantyni Airbase in Western Ukraine. Five Storm Shadow launching aircraft were destroyed including warehouses with British Missiles. According to Military Summary, this was a result of a PR note online promoting the meeting of Ben Wallace (UK) and Ukraine Ministry of Defence bragging that the aircraft can now carry these missiles. It showed their location.


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  37. Old bloke says:

    Brian Berletic and Danny Haiphong discussing the future of AUKUS once the meddling in China develops into a shooting war.

    Brian Berletic: China will DESTROY AUKUS in Taiwan and the Pacific – 16 minutes.

    Brian in a previous video expressed concern about his fate, was he to be “Gonzalo-ed” now that the US backed opposition has formed government in Thailand. The US wants to stop the development of China’s high speed railway connection to Singapore and the Thai component is presently under construction.

    One commentator allayed Brian’s fear of being held in a Thai gaol as that wasn’t the Thai way of dealing with political opponents, in Thailand such people are removed by a gunshot to the head from a passing motorcyclist. Brian’s shiny dome would be easily recognised even in a large crowd.

    There was a war gaming exercise held recently by the CSIS regarding America’s upcoming war with China. The experts agreed that RAAF Darwin and RAAF Tindal would be taken out early in the show, along with American airbases in the Phillipines, Japan and Guam. I read recently that RAAF Tindal’s runway is being widened and lengthened to almost 3.5 kilometres, what sort of aircraft need such long runways?


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