Open Thread – Thursday 5 August 2021

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  1. srr says:

    Dr Piers Robinson – C0vid is a Global Propaganda Operation

    https://www.brighteon.com/364240db-1c73-4112-b15c-4e11db80814f

    Slawomir Slowianin
    Published Yesterday |
    Never before has the world witnessed such a coordinated propaganda effort, featuring near perfect streamlining of messaging and policy, as well as an Establishment launching attacks against any dissenters by deploying “fact-checkers” and using social media firms to deplatform any voices who offer an opinion which differs from the official narrative. It is nothing short of a completely global, corporatised war effort.

    Asia Pacific Today talks with Dr. Piers Robinson, an expert on the subject of propaganda, as he explains how governments, mainstream media and the pharmaceutical industry have combined forces to push forward an unprecedented global propaganda onslaught since the onset of the Covid crisis

    Dr Piers Robinson is an expert on communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war and especially the role of propaganda. He is presently Co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, Convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media and Associated Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 ‘War on Terror’. From 2016 – 2019, he was Professor and Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism at the University of Sheffield. He has also served on the boards of several academic journals. He has lectured at the NATO Defense College in Rome and briefed senior UK military commanders and diplomats, and his research interests focus on Organised Persuasive Communication and Contemporary Propaganda and his current projects include Propaganda and the Syrian conflict; Propaganda and the 9/11 Global War on Terror and Covid19.

    source:
    https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/08/05/interview-covid-19-is-a-global-propaganda-operation/64240db-1c73-4112-b15c-4e11db8


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  2. srr says:

    The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #194

    https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-194-10-08-21

    Published 10th Aug
    Harry Miller from FairCop joins Carl to discuss the purpose of activist group FairCop, the embarrassing London trans rights protest, and the woke contempt for the common man.


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  3. srr says:

    The Vortex — Identity Crisis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iPbHMzvbI

    Aug 10, 2021
    Church Militant


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  4. Cold-Hands says:

    Thanks, Tom.


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  5. Jupes/Prof Higgins:
    “Jupes.
    It isn’t just lightning.
    It’s delta variant lightning.”
    The intersexual question to ask is “Is it AC or DC?”
    Apparently it matters


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  6. ChrisM says:

    Thanks Tom and Mark A. So many people would miss a chuckle without you both.


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  7. Knuckle Dragger says:

    I don’t now how you managed to locate a Dilbert strip complete with a Furniture Shop reference, Will, and I don’t care.

    But there it is. Brilliant.


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  8. Knuckle Dragger says:

    Cassie, overnight:

    You preceded your posts with an apology. No need. Just when you think the manipulative gerro derro can’t get any worse, he goes off again and raises the bar. God only knows how many people have fallen for his schtick over the years, and what he’s squeezed out of them.

    If I may say, he picked on the wrong woman this time.

    My father always said that when you’re threatened or cornered…always remember what the Israeli air force did in 1967…launch a pre-emptive strike.

    He was right, too. Extremely courageous of you to take the course of action you did. Because it’s early in the morning and I haven’t had enough coffee yet to think of a more appropriate compliment – if you were a bloke, you’d need a wheelbarrow to cart around that pair of spuds.

    *applause*


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  9. calli says:

    My father always said that when you’re threatened or cornered…always remember what the Israeli air force did in 1967…launch a pre-emptive strike.

    Excellent work. Also, in 1967, the enemy’s planes for some reason, were grounded. “Be strong and very courageous” are not empty instructions.

    Menschette.


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  10. calli says:

    Thanks Tom. A few repeats, but at least you didn’t post your email address in the wrong field! 😀

    Compare and contrast Leak and Rowe. Rowe trundles out the same suite of bête noirs and tropes, Leak gets right to the guts of it with wit.

    Varvel for the Americans. That Obama party is a joke.


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  11. rickw says:

    If these clowns made a point of not isolating the original lab product then we know for sure that the idea of a Delta variant is purely made up lies.

    Indeed.


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  12. rickw says:

    Well done Cassie!


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  13. struth says:

    What a bunch of women….all of you carrying on about what was said in the deep dark past.
    You may not have noticed but our nation has been taken over by tyrants.
    Perspective please.


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  14. calli says:

    Perspective please.

    Quite.

    The truth, however, is important. You don’t like lies being repeated ad nauseum, and neither do I. Also, threatened doxxing is serious and creepy.

    We old chooks have to fluff out our feathers and act like eagles sometimes, even if it’s just in our imaginations.


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  15. Mark A says:

    We old chooks have to fluff out our feathers and act like eagles sometimes, even if it’s just in our imaginations.

    Would be cautious trusting that promise. 😅


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  16. Indolent says:

    This would be an amusing read, if it were not actually true –

    https://spectatorworld.com/topic/neo-feudalism-barack-obama-maskless-ball/


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  17. rosie says:

    Exactly Tim.

    And I’ll stand by thinking your comment was perceptive and amusing.


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  18. rosie says:

    Well it looks like Cassie had put the wind out of the professional blog wrecker’s sails.

    Bravo.


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  19. rosie says:

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

    Also bravo.


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  20. Ruprecht says:

    Fark, just read upstream. Can rocinante get any more loathsome ?


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  21. Indolent says:

    O.K., I’ll pay Leak!


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  22. rosie says:

    Oh and it wasn’t kosher nostra, I knew as soon as I saw the name, grigbot


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  23. rosie says:

    I think so, yes.


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  24. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Good Morning Troops

    Is the Karcher required this morning?


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  25. struth says:

    There’s a lot of loathsome going around.
    Some are actually trying to justify taking the death jab.
    For a virus government cannot prove exists.
    Maybe a better term would be pure evil.
    If you have taken the death jab suck it up.
    Don’t you dare try to normalize this.
    In trying to justify your insane hysterical choice is up to you.
    To tell lies and attempt to claim it hasn’t killed in public is an act of pure evil.


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  26. Mater says:

    Here’s some BB King in the morning – http://1735099.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-thrill-is-gone.html

    Gee, it only seems like yesterday you were celebrating the demise of this place.

    No other friends?


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  27. struth says:

    Rosie you POS.
    Those thousands of people dying of the jab are dying by similar causes.
    Heart inflammation. Blood clots specifically in the brain.
    Seizures paralysis and thousands more hospitalised……
    And because you are shitting youself because you took it you attempt publically to talk down the significant risk.
    Your behavior since Feb last year has been nothing cshort of disgusting.


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  28. min says:

    Re comments about Paul Murray commenting that the number of people on the planet and damage. As I didn’t hear the rest to put into context so don’t know if he explained more clearly . Of of course he is right . Take plastic in the oceans, the rubbish island in the Pacific , the new problem of old lithium batteries , old solar panels and wind turbines. Where is the rubbish we used to ship off to China now going? The con has been Carbon, as it is miscalled , or CO2 is not the problem but the pollution from factories , and the waste humans produce. However I suppose without base load power a lot of that rubbish could not be produced . So if you have brainwashed children start with some tough love , not allowed anything made using base load power . Think of the money you will save, however from long experience training parents how not to give into whinging kids until you say I can’t stand it and give in , again think of the cost.


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  29. lotocoti says:

    Have the Freemasons been blamed yet?


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  30. calli says:

    not allowed anything made using base load power

    Well that cuts out anything contained by or containing aluminium, steel or plastic.

    Looks like they’ll be cold, naked and hungry. And very, very bored. 😀


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  31. Roger says:

    So if you have brainwashed children start with some tough love , not allowed anything made using base load power .

    ————————

    Confiscate their mobiles, explaining that they are a luxury the planet cannot afford.


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  32. Professor Higgins says:

    Knuckle Dragger at 6:33.
    Firstly, I trust you slept well, lovely lady.
    Secondly, I agree. None of my business, but I don’t see any need to apologise. People do tyat thing all the time. “Blowing off steam” I believe is the phrase. The only wrong done in the whole episode is the threat to publish private correspondence. And, yes, a very gutsy move by Cassie and seems to have struck SS Rocinante midships.
    Standby to abandon ship!
    Dissembling old doxxers with ruptured sutures to the lifeboats first!


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  33. Professor Higgins says:

    Well that cuts out anything contained by or containing aluminium, steel or plastic.

    Don’t be silly.
    Those are just recycled and upcycled.
    No power required.


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  34. Ruprecht says:

    Rosie you POS.
    Those thousands of people dying of the jab are dying by similar causes.
    Heart inflammation. Blood clots specifically in the brain.
    Seizures paralysis and thousands more hospitalised……

    —————————————————————————————-

    Struth got a link for that ? Someone here posted a German comparison that looked at mortality rates in various age deciles both pre and during COVID. If anything they were similar.


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  35. Farmer Gez says:

    Cuomo’s resignation isn’t a victory for conservatives.
    Just another offering to the vagilantes of the victim cult.


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  36. Roger says:

    Canola prices at historic highs.

    Hope our farmers get the sunny weather they need to finish their crops off nicely and take advantage.


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  37. Professor Higgins says:

    lotocoti says:

    August 11, 2021 at 8:17 am

    Have the Freemasons been blamed yet?

    Wait your turn.
    We’re still on the Jews I think.


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  38. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    “Excellent work. Also, in 1967, the enemy’s planes for some reason, were grounded. “Be strong and very courageous” are not empty instructions.”

    Earlier in 1967, an impeccably tailored gentleman, bearing impeccable credentials from the International Federation of Air Safety, presented himself at Egyptian Air Force Headquarters in Cairo. He was seeking details of the timing of training flights, so that civilian air traffic could be routed well away from any air bases.

    The Egyptians were forthcoming. They flew “dawn patrols”, but after that, all aircraft were usually grounded for two hours for repairs and maintenance until the day’s activities began.

    Said gentleman was, indeed, from an established organization – MOSSAD – and that was how the Egyptian Air Force was “caught in the ground” in 1967…


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  39. min says:

    Exactly kids will be cold, naked and bored but won’t be full of the green nonsense . Should be the punishment for extinction rebellion etc. confiscate all their stuff . Fining them is useless take mobile phones , computers away which will cost to replace but then how do they communicate. ? All made using base load power . This is not punishment in the old way , Consequences related to the crime or bad behaviour, etc that is the way to help children become responsible and think of the consequences that is taught in parenting methods these days .


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  40. lotocoti says:

    Don’t confuse tyranny with spineless politicians
    playing to an audience happy to be infantilised.


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  41. Boambee John says:

    nearly $3 million in federal funds were spent on the University of Pittsburgh’s quest to become a “Tissue Hub” for human fetal tissue ranging from 6 to 42 weeks gestation.

    Dr Mengele still walks among us.


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  42. Dot says:

    Roger

    IIRC there’s been a major drought in Canadia.


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  43. Mark A says:

    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
    August 11, 2021 at 8:36 am

    Not disputing your version, but most of the time the simplest (Occam’s razor) explanations carry the day.

    Ie. just observe the practice flights from a mile or two away, most rigid organisations have rigid rules, and there is none more rigid than the military.


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  44. Roger says:

    Roger

    IIRC there’s been a major drought in Canadia.

    ——————–

    Yes, their yields will be down significantly, dot.


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  45. Roger says:

    Don’t confuse tyranny with spineless politicians
    playing to an audience happy to be infantilised.

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    Leading to the abandonment of rationality as decisions are made to placate the majority rather than in the interests of what is right and good, a problem with democracy foreseen by de Tocqueville.


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  46. Boambee John says:

    Arrrrrghhh! The numerical ostrich is back. Must have got bored reading his own comments at his own scrofulous blog.


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  47. egg_ says:

    The Professor does not want to be on the end of a pre-emptive strike from Crankie of Siddy.
    No sirree.

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    The p1ssweak kids’ new sock is still on training wheels?


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  48. Zippster says:

    has paul joseph watson been shadow banned by youtube?


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  49. egg_ says:

    Great contributions from the clown posse outside the OT, noted yet again, carry on being statutes for Birdie in the OT – as you were.


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  50. rosie says:

    Any actual evidence to support your rantings st ruth?

    Australian must have by now received nearly 14 millions ‘death jabs’, where is your massive death and hospitalisation spike here?

    Your local hospital must have patients dying in the carpark by now.

    And wouldn’t the msm be loving those headlines?

    It’s you that is terrified, you big blouse.


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  51. Professor Higgins says:

    egg_.
    Any thoughts on doxxing?
    Some say it’s a dog act and not to do it.
    What about you?


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  52. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    “Canola prices at historic highs.

    Hope our farmers get the sunny weather they need to finish their crops off nicely and take advantage.”

    Just over $800 a tonne – well up from the previous $600..


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  53. rosie says:

    I’m with Roger and lotocoti.


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  54. JC says:

    Rones

    Please keep to the established timetable.

    Military Tourette’s is in the afternoon. Mornings is aboriginal Tourette’s together with some minority bashing and attacking young kids.

    Evening is bignoting and lying about who you are.

    Ancestor worship can also be done in the evening.


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