Open Thread – September 2023

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  1. Shy Ted says:

    The Voice may not be enough –

    MINING GIANT SORRY OVER SACRED SITE.
    A mining giant has apologised after damaging another site sacred to Indigenous Australians in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
    Rio Tinto has halted work and confirmed it is working with traditional owners after a blast caused damage to an ancient rock shelter near the iron ore Nammuldi mine in the Hamersley Ranges last month.
    Monitoring identified a large rock and a scrub tree had fallen from the rock shelter.

    How can they ever recover from a fallen rock and scrub tree?


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  2. kaysee kaysee says:

    Rio Tinto has halted work and confirmed it is working with traditional owners after a blast caused damage to an ancient rock shelter near the iron ore Nammuldi mine in the Hamersley Ranges last month.

    I heard the story on the news this morning and was wondering about how this support from Rio Tinto is working out. Maybe another million or two will help?

    From the Rio Tinto website

    Recognition through a Voice

    We support the principle of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples having a greater say in matters that affect them, and we advocate for the rights and heritage of Indigenous peoples on whose land we live and work. In this spirit, we welcome the additional lens that a Voice would bring to Government decision makers as they consider all important matters before them. We are donating A$2 million in support of the “Yes23” campaign.


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  3. kaysee kaysee says:

    You don’t have to like Russell Brand and it is not whether he is guilty or innocent. Sane people are stepping forward to question the agenda.

    1/
    Rose McGowan

    She slams media manipulation of anonymous allegations against Russell Brand.

    What is the true narrative they’re pushing and who really loses?

    “You have to go on the record.”

    2/
    Steven Steele

    Many years ago I met a young woman at a bar I was DJing at. She was very persistent and had asked me a number of times to hang out after my gig before I accepted…..


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:

    🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕 ┈┈┈┈ 🎕

    For this Sunday….

    Truck owners not afraid to bear witness to their faith.

    Ūnus
    .

    Duo
    .

    Trēs
    .


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  5. Old bloke says:

    Regarding that German tank(s) destroyed by the Russians, there are conflicting reports. That link I posted above talks about a German made and crewed tank (singular) in Zaporizhia Oblast (southern Ukraine) whereas another report points to tanks (plural) on the northern front.

    That report also says that, not only was (it/they) crewed by serving German soldiers, the tank(s) was still owned by the German army.

    Maybe there are multiple units of the German Army serving in the German made tanks?

    What have you done Scholz, no cheap Russian gas for you when this Ukro/Russ squabble ends.

    The Fall | Zelensky Promised Investors Three Cities By The End Of 2023. Military Summary 2023.09.23 – from about the 28 minute mark.


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  6. mh says:

    kaysee says:
    September 24, 2023 at 7:52 pm
    You don’t have to like Russell Brand and it is not whether he is guilty or innocent. Sane people are stepping forward to question the agenda.

    The Left and the MSM never had a problem with the behaviour below. Until now. 🤔 I wonder what changed? Oh yes, Brand started roaming from the reservation and questioning the narrative

    Russell Brand Picking Up Girls
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Ld92qNFoM


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  7. mh says:

    Back in 2009, the Australian MSM – Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek in this instance – thought this was the right thing to do for Russ.

    Russell Brand picks up eight girls at once

    NOVA FM

    Back in 2009, before Katy Perry, Russell Brand came into the Nova FM studios for an interview with Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek, who had organised for eight single girls to be hanging around the studio, pretending to be working. He wanted them all… “am I allowed these girls?” “Gareth, get another bus!”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LH5GHw5xYM


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  8. Siltstone says:

    Majority foreign-owned Rio Tinto has a public position that we “… do not get involved in political matters” (The Way We Work). They do this my campaigning and funding a move to change the Australian Constitution. Liars and hypocrites.


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  9. mh says:

    Another inappropriate video:

    Trump Speed Dating – Gilly and Keeves

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


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  10. mh says:

    Australia says no to Apartheid

    Newspoll: voice support slips again to 36pc

    Support for the voice hits new low ahead of the October 14 referendum with only slightly more than a third of voters now saying they will vote Yes


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  11. Shy Ted says:

    Much as I am loathe to watch anything Ch10, this


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  12. Shy Ted says:

    Couldn’t happen here
    Oh, wait

    Smartmatic has been used in Australia since at least 2014.

    More to come
    And please stop with all the Natasha Fyles cream pie and facial jokes.


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  13. Interested observer says:

    I have always considered Russell Brand to be a loathsome braggart and have no interest in his reported conversion to conservative viewpoints. However when the media has to interview 100 women he dated in order to find 4 complainants, I wonder at the lack of self protection by the groupies and their families – in particular the 16 year old going to a solo date.

    From Powerline


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  14. Destroyer D69 says:

    Quote from the “Terms of Reference”of the Covid 19 Inquiry. “The Inquiry will consider the findings of previous relevant inquiries and reviews and identify knowledge gaps for further investigation. It will also consider the global experience and lessons learnt from other countries in order to improve response measures in the event of future global pandemics.

    The following areas are not in scope for the Inquiry:

    Actions taken unilaterally by state and territory governments.
    International programs and activities assisting foreign countries.” Classic Yes Minister!!!!


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  15. mh says:

    Fitzy – I WAS WRONG

    It took the most gutting defeat in Wallabies history to realise I was wrong about Eddie

    All of us who thought the Eddie Jones experiment would work wonders for Australian rugby have been proven wrong. The magic has gone.

    Peter FitzSimons
    Columnist and author


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  16. mh says:

    Another Voice poll, another blow for Albo

    AFR

    … The latest AFR/Freshwater Strategy poll shows Labor’s primary vote is back at the election-day level of 33 per cent, and its two-party preferred vote of 51 per cent is slightly lower than at the election.

    With less than three weeks until the referendum, support for the Voice is 33 per cent, while the No vote has reached 50 per cent and 17 per cent are undecided. If the undecideds are excluded, the No vote is 60 per cent and the Yes vote 40 per cent.

    Among those who have switched their vote from Yes to No over the past five months, the most commonly cited reason is the Voice has served as a distraction from the top two issues of voter concern – the cost of living and the cost of housing.


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  17. mh says:

    Trial by media continues tonight on CH9

    Russell Brand: In Plain Sight
    8:43PM – 10:15PM
    CC
    Russell Brand: In Plain Sight is an investigation of Russell Brand’s treatment of women.


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  18. mh says:

    Russia’s Lavrov Describes Western World as “Empire of Lies”

    1 day ago — “As Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, the West is truly an ’empire of lies’,” the top Russian diplomat continued.

    I think Lavrov is correct

    Britain’s Black History Hoax (e.g. Stonehenge was NOT Built by Black People)

    The New Culture Forum
    195K subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMtFWbuDNo0


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  19. Old bloke says:

    There has been another big protest rally in Canada, this time about gender identification teaching in schools. The Moslems, Sikhs, Jews and Hindus made up a significant proportion of the crowd alongside all denominations of the Christians.

    If Trudeau has lost the migrant vote then he’s toast.

    “This is the END of Trudeau in Canada!” | Redacted with Clayton Morris – 10 mins.


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  20. mh says:

    CNBC

    Poland tries to ease tensions with Ukraine

    Poland’s president appeared to soften Warsaw’s recent rhetoric toward Ukraine after tensions rose in recent weeks between the allies and neighbors, particularly over grain imports.

    “We need to get our emotions under control, because let’s remember who will benefit most if the paths of Poland and Ukraine diverge. The consequences could be tragic,” Polish President Andrzej Duda told a Polish newspaper Sunday.

    Duda’s comments come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to suggest, when addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week in New York, that some of Ukraine’s allies had feigned solidarity with Kyiv.

    That comment appeared to prompt Poland’s prime minister to state that Poland would no longer supply Kyiv with weapons, escalating tensions further. …

    … In an interview with a Polish newspaper on Sunday, Duda noted that Zelenskyy’s comments at the U.N. General Assembly could have been down to stress.

    “Let’s not forget that Zelenskyy is under enormous pressure,” he told Polish newspaper Super Express. “He is sending people to the front, often to their deaths.”


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  21. Old bloke says:

    Still in Canada, George Galloway has a few words to say about the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for a Ukrainian war criminal.

    He also politely reminds King Charles of the limitations of his role as a constitutional monarch.

    Infamy, they’ve all got it infamy. But Trudeau can’t escape | MOATS with George Galloway Ep 276 – 19 minutes.


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  22. mh says:

    Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
    @CanadianFSWC
    FSWC is appalled that Canada’s Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran who served in a Nazi military unit during the Second World War implicated in the mass murder of Jews and others.

    An apology and explanation is owed.

    ***

    The ADL won’t be too bothered.
    They can very selective!


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  23. mh says:

    More commentary on Trudeau honouring the Waffen-SS

    LILLEY UNLEASHED: Trudeau’s habit of using ‘Nazi’ label, just took a big hit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b_rLZwndTQ


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  24. mh says:

    ‘Slava Ukraini’? How Canada feted a WW2 Nazi veteran and unleashed an international scandal

    https://www.rt.com/news/583518-canada-celebrates-nazi-veteran/


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  25. Shy Ted says:

    Oliver! 4:50PM – 7:30PM SBS World Movies

    In this Academy Award-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, nine-year-old orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets. When Oliver’s intended mark, Mr Brownlow, takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin’s henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking. Stars Mark Lester, Ron Moody and Oliver Reed.

    MUSICAL | UK | 1968

    “Please sir, I want some more”.
    Remember that phrase, you’re going to need it.

    In this life one thing counts
    In the bank, large amounts
    I’m afraid these don’t grow on trees,
    You’ve got to raise a levy, send foreign aid, donate to the Clinton Foundation, inside trade, put your mates on superannuation boards or two
    You’ve got to raise a levy, send foreign aid, donate to the Clinton Foundation, inside trade, put your mates on superannuation boards or two

    Updated fro the times.


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  26. Shy Ted says:

    ABC wireless reduced to interviewing university stoners to get support for the voice.
    Disappointed we’ve only got one WEF


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  27. Shy Ted says:

    Would you buy a house from this woman?

    Woman charged with aggravated assault after Fyles pied at markets identified
    UPDATED: The woman charged over Chief Minister Natasha Fyles being hit in the face by what’s believed to be a cream-covered crepe on Sunday morning has been identified as a Darwin real estate agent.

    Yes, yes I would.


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  28. Old bloke says:

    Some background on how the Ukrainian nazis ended up in Canada.

    Ukrainian SS In Britain – Postwar SS-Galizien Division Refugees – Mark Felton – 14 minutes.


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  29. mh says:

    The incident put Poland and Russia, two countries that have opposing views on the nature of the Ukraine conflict, on the same side.

    Witold Dzielski, the Polish ambassador in Ottawa, has said that the SS unit was “responsible for murdering thousands of Poles & Jews” and that Waraw will “never agree on whitewashing such villains” despite its support for Kiev.

    His Russian counterpart, Oleg Stepanov, blasted the Trudeau government as “essentially the epitome of neo-liberal fascism.”


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  30. JohnJJJ says:

    Never mind the war, Kahmal has driven the YEZ odds up from 4 to 1 to 5.25 to 1. Damn there goes my arbitrage. Well I’ll just have to follow Koala Kuala Kandiah Kamalesvaran the Krooner more closely. I wonder if any of the Teals want to bet.


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  31. mh says:

    Lockdown King Dan Andrews resigns with immediate effect.

    I guess he loved Victorians for so long that he had to say no more love, I’m exhausted.


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  32. mh says:

    The Legacy of Dan

    Tucker Carlson interviewing Gideon Rozner about the police state we are living under in Victoria

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_QQ1fZhsE


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    There needs to be a global Nuremberg 2.0
    Will there be a leader brave enough to start it up?

    From medical professionals and scientists.
    There will be 10000s of stories like these.

    1/
    Mike Donio

    I didn’t just lose my job.

    I lost my entire career, 20 years worth of hard work…..

    2/
    Dr Simon Goddek

    Until three years ago, I had not experienced loneliness, a feeling that became all too familiar when I faced the consequences of speaking up against the COVlD scam…..

    3/
    Sophie Afloat

    What have I lost because of this jab?My fiancé, he passed after his first jab due to a brain clot at just 36. I lost my beloved nursing job because of the abuse I received for my vaccine stance. I lost my family and friends for speaking out against this cocktail of TOXIC SH*TE!


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  34. kaysee kaysee says:

    The D*ktator’s exit
    Two comments from the Sky News site.

    1/
    Maree
    Welcome back Victoria, we understand you may be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and Australias health care providers are on stand by to help you through this difficult time…

    2/
    Rabaducci
    All we need now is John Pesutto to resign and Victoria can start its rebuild from both ends of the political spectrum. Please John follow suit NOW.


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  35. mh says:

    Good work from Al Jizz

    Canadian Parliament gives WWII Nazi standing ovation | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

    Al Jazeera English
    11M subscribers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7sFxJbcYvg


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    ADL? Greenblatt?

    Hello? Anyone there?

    1/
    Libs of TikTok-1

    The @ADL and their CEO @JGreenblattADL have not put out a single tweet or statement yet about the Canadian Parliament, Justin Trudeau, and Zelensky honoring and cheering for an actual Nazi SS officer

    2/
    Libs of TikTok-2

    Still no word from the @ADL or @JGreenblattADL about this. Isn’t this what the ADL was actually created for? 🤔


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  37. mh says:

    Indian media not letting an opportunity go to waste

    Gravitas: After Khalistan row, Trudeau embarrassed as Canadian parliament honours Nazi war veteran

    WION

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0n3QlrxFhA


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  38. mh says:

    Pierre Poilievre
    @PierrePoilievre
    It has come out today that Justin Trudeau personally met with and honoured a veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (a Nazi division).

    Liberals then arranged for this Nazi veteran to be recognized on the floor of the House of Commons during the visit of the Ukrainian President.

    This is an appalling error in judgement on the part of Justin Trudeau, whose personal protocol office is responsible for arranging and vetting all guests and programming for state visits of this kind.

    No parliamentarians (other than Justin Trudeau) had the opportunity to vet this individual’s past before he was introduced and honoured on the floor of the House of Commons. Without warning or context, it was impossible for any parliamentarian in the room (other than Mr. Trudeau) to know of this dark past.

    Mr. Trudeau must personally apologize and avoid passing the blame to others as he always does.


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  39. mh says: