Open Thread – September 2023

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  1. kaysee kaysee says:

    1/
    Flashback BBC

    Flashback to When Novak Djokovic Told the Propaganda Machine He Would Not Bend the Knee

    “The principles of decision making on my body are more important than any title or anything else

    BBC interviewer: Why, Novak, Why?
    Novak should have replied:
    You won’t understand. You are brainwashed.
    You are part of the problem.

    .

    2/
    This weekend – US Open

    The Moderna “Shot of the Day,” featuring @DjokerNole.
    Reality is more absurd than anything a writer could come up with.

    The irony.
    Oh, the irony.

    A comment:
    Unlike Moderna’s shots, Novak’s shots actually work. And don’t cause myocarditis.


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  2. kaysee kaysee says:

    This man is from the British Labour Party, right?

    Leaving India Sunak announces that UK will provide $2 BILLION to the ‘Green Climate Fund’ in order to help the poorest countries around the world handle the impact of ‘climate change’.

    Do you recall voting for this or Sunak for that matter?

    The GOP in the US can nominate a similar guy, to make a similar trip, to the same country, to also help with the ‘Green Climate Fund’.


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  3. mh says:

    The Moderna Shot Of The Day

    OMG. Beyond irony. It’s sick.

    The GOAT was banned from entering the USA for nearly two years due to his refusal to take US Big Pharma shots.


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  4. mh says:

    The collapse of WTC 7 is the first known instance of a tall building brought down primarily by uncontrolled fires.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRpCwKRnL1M


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  5. mh says:

    Justin Baragona
    @justinbaragona
    Greg Gutfeld: “I know mass shootings are bad, BUT…”

    He then asks for “permission to go Alex Jones” — and he does indeed go Alex Jones.

    https://x.com/justinbaragona/status/1701347155875639323?s=20

    ***

    Gutfeld is right.
    And so is Alex Jones.


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  6. Adam D says:

    Mining magnate Clive Palmer and United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet have launched a Federal Court bid to force the Australian Electoral Commission to count crosses on Voice referendum ballot papers as a vote against the proposal.

    The urgent court challenge comes just five weeks before the historic Voice to parliament referendum on October 14.

    We really need to discuss mandatory voting and voting in general if writing a 2 or 3 letter word is too difficult. This country has big problems…


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  7. Shy Ted says:

    In proper soccer, international friendly, England beat Scotland 3 goals to 1. Ah, but a wymmins at the ABC wireless says “3 points to 1”. She was the sports reporter. Extra knowledge of sports, you see.
    And in people of no description news


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  8. JohnJJJ says:

    Getting worse for PaedJoe

    I’ve just struggled through a John Houston film the Kremlin Letter (currently free on yousetube). It is about the intelligence service and written by an ex member. The fundamental job of all the intelligence agencies is to find (or fabricate) some deep dirt on everyone and use that as power. This completely fits with Biden, Epstein, Robert Maxwell and the rest and why they are so infuriated with Trump. I sort of knew this, but the film truly exposes their MO. I now wonder about our politicians and public service czars.


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  9. mh says:

    We really need to discuss mandatory voting and voting in general if writing a 2 or 3 letter word is too difficult. This country has big problems…

    I’m writing ‘Nope’.
    That means I have written No – with two more letters added on.


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  10. Mak Siccar says:

    IMHO.

    For referenda, accept only either ‘yes’ or ‘no’, nothing else, as per the legislation.

    For elections, optional preferential voting (number as few or as many as one wishes) should be permitted. (The Uniparty will never allow this, of course!)

    In both cases, it is not compulsory to vote per se. One only gets fined for not having one’s name crossed off the roll and, once this is done, one can eat one’s ballot paper or tear it up and throw it in the bin, if one wants.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Russian Ships Damaged in Ukrainian Strike on Annexed Crimea

    A Ukrainian cruise missile and seaborne drone attack on a shipyard in annexed Crimea damaged two Russian warships that had been undergoing repairs, Russian and Ukrainian military officials said Wednesday.

    The overnight attack targeted a shipyard in the port city of Sevastopol, home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, causing a blaze that injured at least 24 people, according to Kremlin-backed officials in Crimea.


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    Two Unvaccinated Canadians, Denied Organ Transplants, Have Died

    Two Canadians have died in recent months after being refused organ transplants due to their COVID-19 vaccination status.

    Garnet Harper, 35, from Ontario, passed away on May 22 of this year from a stroke induced by kidney failure, leaving behind his wife and five children. More recently, 58-year-old grandmother Sheila Annette Lewis of Alberta died on August 24 from a terminal condition requiring a transplant.


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  13. mh says:

    Two Unvaccinated Canadians, Denied Organ Transplants, Have Died

    No forced vaccinations say the western politicians.


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    The Truth–Telling is in progress.

    1/
    Marcia Langton saying ‘hard No voters’ are ‘spewing racism’

    NO voters are stupid, racist, chicken littles ….
    So are social workers, police …

    2/
    Mark Dreyfus confirms:
    The Voice is Step 1
    (I was about to add link here ….but Ted has posted above.)

    3/
    Now we know what it is all about.
    It is a global movement.
    What First Nations Peoples really want.


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  15. mh says:

    NO voters are stupid, racist, chicken littles …

    I suspect the Aboriginal vote may not even reach a Yes majority.

    The aboriginal vote will be corporatised if The Voice gets up.

    Vote no like Anthony ‘The Man’ Mundine.


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  16. Old bloke says:

    We really need to discuss mandatory voting and voting in general if writing a 2 or 3 letter word is too difficult. This country has big problems…

    The problem is that the AEC have announced that a tick mark will be accepted as a Yes vote, but a cross mark won’t be accepted as a No vote, it will just be an invalid vote.


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  17. mh says:

    Andrew Bolt slams Linda Burney’s ‘pathetic’ Question Time response

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6A5Uc1K5pw


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  18. mh says:

    13 Sept 2023
    Sky News host Sharri Markson has revealed new footage of Professor Marcia Langton claiming the Voice to Parliament will tackle racism if the Yes campaign succeeds.

    “If we succeed, big if, I think high on the agenda of the regional and national Voice priorities should be anti-racism strategies,” Ms Langton said.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5Qt96vY2A


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  19. shatterzzz says:

    The problem is that the AEC have announced that a tick mark will be accepted as a Yes vote, but a cross mark won’t be accepted as a No vote, it will just be an invalid vote.

    Should be YES or NO .. anything else invalid or accept
    tick/YES .. x/NO, as well!


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  20. Shy Ted says:

    That Nationals MP in the Bolt vid – 250+ languages. What a crock. Nobody anywhere speaks the native Aboriginal language. The oldest in the community speak English and nothing else. Successive generations, increasingly damaged by the effects of alcohol and related health problems at birth, speak what many call pidgin but what I thought was merely a dialect based on limited vocabulary. There were simply no words in Abstralia for the modern world and even the most isolated and remote communities are modern little towns with houses, electricity, stores, transport, the lot. Having said that Bolt is right and parliamentarians are just pretending to have respect for Burney.


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  21. Old bloke says:

    According to Clayton Morris, Ireland has agreed to round up military aged Ukrainian refugees and send them back to the meat grinder.

    “Ukraine’s counter offensive has been a total failure” Col. Douglas MacGregor | Redacted News – 17 minutes.

    The most famous Ukrainian draft-dodger was Zelensky himself. He was drafted in 2014 and told to report to the enlistment centre, he packed his bags and went to Russia. He was working on some Russian doctors and nurses TV drama in Moscow for a while before he went to the USA.


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  22. mh says:

    Ireland has agreed to round up military aged Ukrainian refugees and send them back to the meat grinder.

    File under ‘Things that will never happen’.


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  23. mh says:

    During remarks Tuesday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Putin weighed in on the Democrats’ prosecutions of Trump, who’s the Republican frontrunner, leading up to the 2024 election, and how they relate to the West’s war against Russia in Ukraine.

    “As far as the persecution of Trump, for us, given the current circumstances, what’s happening is a good thing,” Putin began.

    “Because it’s showing the rotten core of the American political system, which isn’t in a position to teach others about democracy.”

    “Everything that’s happening to Trump is the political persecution of a political rival. That’s what it is,” he continued.

    “And it’s being done right in front of the eyes of the American public and the whole world. They have exposed their domestic problems.”

    “And since they are trying to fight us, this is a good thing because it reveals the true face of our opponents,” he added.


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  24. Shy Ted says:

    Excellent speech by Jacinta Price at the Nat Press Club but what did you notice? Normally there are a gaggle of unkempt journos, tables as though wining and dining, ABC prominent. No tables or unkempt journos for Jacinta. Neatly lined chairs, Nationals MPs and Michaela Cash, Jacinta’ family, all very respectful. Journos questions all very “how can things possibly improve without a Voice?” types which she handled with aplomb but they were nobody reporters rather than the usual swampies. How very disrespectful which is what you would expect. Will watch for what the swamp reports. Sadly no idea how to fix the problems.


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  25. mh says:

    Headline at The Age

    OPINION
    If we vote No, it might be our nation’s day of greatest shame

    lol


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    Woe to those who call evil good
    and good evil,
    who put darkness for light
    and light for darkness,
    who put bitter for sweet
    and sweet for bitter!

    Isaiah 5:20

    A man, who, as a priest, 50 years ago sexually abused a teenage boy, rose through the ranks to become a Cardinal in the Catholic Church. He was defrocked in 2019 following a Vatican investigation which found him guilty of sexually assaulting several victims.

    In his criminal case, a judge ruled last month that this 93-year-old former Roman Catholic Cardinal is not competent to stand trial after both prosecutors and defense attorneys determined he suffers from dementia, and dismissed charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy in Massachusetts decades ago.

    McCarrick is guilty of sexually abusing minors. To decide that the charges can be dismissed because he has memory gaps is not justice for the victims. His rights do not matter. Why does his competence taken precedence over the trauma suffered by his victims?

    He probably has friends in high places – the earthly ones.
    Woe to those who call evil good by deciding that his mental state matters and he can be let off on grounds of not being competent to stand trial.

    From the comments:
    – This man represents the very worst corruption in the Church and the state. Sickening the victims get no justice in this life.

    – McCarrick will soon face the Just Judge…be sure that he will be held accountable.

    ………………..

    On the other hand,
    Woe to those who call good evil

    Also in the Catholic Church
    The future of a good and faithful bishop – Bishop Joseph Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, Texas – is being discussed in the Vatican, and he may be asked to resign.

    Why? Because under the current regime at the Vatican, if you are a good Catholic shepherd who upholds the teachings of the Church, you are deemed bad. Now, if you fly a Pride flag in your church, are pro-Covid vaxx, support Net Zero, abortion and the rest of the NWO agenda you will get a promotion.

    Biden in America, Bergoglio in the Vatican.
    Both call themselves Catholics.

    Who is pulling their strings?


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Marcia Langton has been very helpful to the NO campaign. She has done a great service by helping soft and undecided voters make up their minds.

    People living in areas like the western suburbs of Sydney will be glad to know that they are stupid and racist.

    Dai Le
    Australia is ‘not a racist country’

    Independent MP Dai Le has become emotional while talking to Sky News Australia about how her late mother was given a “start in life” when her family came to Australia.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    Came across this post on twitter.

    Joanne and I are celebrating the gift of 37 years of marriage today. I no longer think it is a phony cliche to gaze at your wife and think she is more beautiful than ever, love her more than ever, and are more excited about the adventure ahead. Happy Anniversary, Sweetheart.

    A response from a poster :

    On our 48th wedding anniversary my husband toasted me at our celebration party: “I love the woman I am married to today more than the girl I married 48 years ago.” That the loveliest thing a husband could ever say. Congratulations you are both are what marriage is meant to be.


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  29. mh says:

    Voice referendum a ‘plan to take from’ aboriginal people’s voice: Clive Palmer

    Sky News Australia

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

    ***

    12 Apr 2023
    United Australia Party’s Clive Palmer says the Voice to Parliament is a “plan to take” from “aboriginal people” their voice and participation in society.

    “We can’t stop racism but we can stop the government from legislating against it,” Mr Palmer told Sky News host Paul Murray.

    “I’m worried about our Indigenous brothers and sisters who have been looked after by committees for years.”


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  30. mh says:

    CNBC

    The European Central Bank on Thursday announced a 10th consecutive hike in its main interest rate, as the fight against inflation took precedence over a weakening economy.

    Rate raises have now hauled the central bank’s main deposit facility from -0.5% in June 2022 to a record 4%. A key reason for the hike Thursday appeared to be upward revisions in newly-published staff macroeconomic projections for the euro area, which see inflation averaging at 5.6% this year, 3.2% next year and 2.1% in 2025. However, it also indicated that further hikes may be off the table for now.


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  31. Shy Ted says:

    Winner
    Running a close second –

    Mr Mick Mundy of Cooktown has gone to court to have the word “blacklisted” banned.
    Required to state his case, Mick said: “This racist word is demoralising for the blacks of this country! How can you put people on a list just because they’re black, Why not put whites on a list also?”.
    The judge, Bernadette Callaghan, after looking pained, then said:
    “Whites are on a separate list; they are called ‘Tax Payers’!”


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  32. mh says:

    Bowled him!

    Cricket legend Stuart MacGill has been charged over a $300,000 cocaine deal that police allege he facilitated

    ‘Legend’ is a bit strong.

    Warnie has legend status, MacGill doesn’t.


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  33. mh says:

    Meghan finally understanding how to be a good Royal

    British royal holds hands with neo-Nazi veteran

    https://www.rt.com/news/582987-british-royal-ukrainian-neo-nazi/


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  34. Shy Ted says:

    Just this past few months
    1
    2
    Where does the money go?


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  35. Old bloke says:

    What is Senator Rennick trying to get to with his interest in genetic sequences? Why is the genetic structure of a virus patented?

    Why is the gene sequence used in Covid tests “Commercial in confidence”? – Senate 11.09.23


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  36. mh says:

    The Jews don’t run America. No, no, no.

    From the appalling WashPo

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to fly to the heart of Silicon Valley on Monday to meet with X owner Elon Musk in an effort to help ease an escalating crisis over antisemitism on the struggling social media platform.

    The meeting is the latest step in a campaign by Musk’s Jewish friends and allies, and executives of his social media company, to stave off the mounting controversy, according to five people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share behind-the-scenes conversations.

    This summer, Netanyahu smoothed things over in a conversation with Musk after the X owner repeated antisemitic tropes about Jewish financier George Soros. Netanyahu’s government minister tasked with fighting antisemitism made of point of saying that Musk’s comments were not antisemitic, despite widespread outcry in Israel.


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  37. mh says:

    Brave Roosters performance tonight.

    Roosters ahead with 3 minutes to go, but Storm got the try to end their season.


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  38. Shy Ted says:

    Oh noes, the ABC tells us there are outbreaks of both Marburg and Nipa viruses. This is it folks. Only 2 vaccines can save us.


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  39. Shy Ted says:

    Tasman indigenous festival a success: Tarrakana Tiringana festival, the photo says it all, 5 white sycophants looking on in awe as a white man dressed in his abo costume culturally appropriate abo culture.
    Wags say –

    The sticks don’t have any dot painting. Must be the cheap ones. Neatly sawn by the 60,000 year old bench saw. What a Wally.

    They remind me of people driving past in their electric cars, they look so sanctimonious and virtuous and well…..elite.


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  40. Shy Ted says:

    My bad, Hendra, not Marburg
    Qld to the rescue – what could possibly go wrong?

    Unfolding medical crisis: Qld answers SOS amid outbreak of deadly virus
    WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Queensland is u