Open Thread – Tues 25 April 2023
2,362 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 25 April 2023”
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Another job offer…
Former Fox News talent Megyn Kelly told her podcast audience on Monday that Carlson could look forward to “blue, blue skies ahead,” adding, “He’s got a bright future. A more joyous, brighter, and more lucrative future.”
Her guest, former Fox News talent Glenn Beck, who knows all about starting his own digital information fortress, agreed that Carlson would be much happier out on his own. In fact, he said he’d been planning for Carlson’s ouster at Fox News and had prepared a job offer for him.
“We’ve been preparing an offer for him for a few days just to be ready in case. It’s looked dicey for a while. We hope to present him an offer at The Blaze. He wouldn’t miss a step. He’d just take it and go. I mean, I think Tucker will do very very well for himself.”
Nice work, Fox persons.
Fox News ‘Is Dead,’ and Tucker Carlson Is Already Living Large With a Job Offer (25 Apr)
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Once upon a time, journalists were our truth-tellers.
Correct, or at least they were “curious”, and by being curious they often stumbled upon the truth, which then made for good solid and sometimes sensational journalism. But no longer. Journalists now, particularly those who’ve been churned out by universities, aren’t interested in being curious, they’re simply interested in being mouthpieces for progressive causes. There are many undiscovered curious stories out there, such as the climate scam, the 2020 election, Ukraine, Covid, Pell, Porter, and so on. A curious journalist investigating any of these would unearth a treasure trove of malfeasance and wrongdoing, but very few are interested, because none of this accords with their far-left neo Marxist progressive narrative, which they dare not step out of.
Trish Wood is a retired Canadian journalist who once worked for major Canadian and US media outlets. She now runs the excellent (and highly recommended) Trish Wood Is Critical Podcast. She said something interesting a year or so ago about why journalism is now so partisan, so lacking in curiosity, and so shallow. One reason is that journalists once upon a time almost always came from the working or middle class, they were curious, eager and hungry for stories. Nowadays, journalism is the province of the spoilt and the privileged, most who’ve grown up in affluence, who’ve attended private or selective schools, who then go on to study media at university where they become further inculcated with fetid far-left progressivism and then they leave university as indoctrinated zombie activists lacking any curiosity about the world around them, and so all they do as journalists is to push the latest progressive cause. And when seismic events such as Brexit, November 2016, May 2019 happen, they are gobsmacked, bewildered and mystified.
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Calli, I hope you’re right and that Christianity emerges strengthened by fire. Not that I believe in it, but I can see its moral standards are way ahead of the human average. Yes, idolatry is much more common. I too liked Tucker’s cracks about Episcopalians. He’s quite smart for a journalist.
It really is a war between religions. The newer one is vile.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with the fictional computer of the same name in the movie Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Colossus computer
Colossus.jpg
A Colossus Mark 2 computer being operated by Wrens[a] The slanted control panel on the left was used to set the “pin” (or “cam”) patterns of the Lorenz. The “bedstead” paper tape transport is on the right.
Developer Tommy Flowers, assisted by Sidney Broadhurst, William Chandler and for the Mark 2 machines, Allen Coombs
Manufacturer Post Office Research Station
Type Special-purpose electronic digital programmable computer
Generation First-generation computer
Release date
Mk 1: December 1943
Mk 2: 1 June 1944
Discontinued 1960
Units shipped 12
Media
Electric typewriter output
Programmed using switches and plug panels
CPU Custom circuits using thermionic valves and thyratrons. A total of 1,600 in Mk 1 and 2,400 in Mk 2. Also relays and stepping switches
Memory None (no RAM)
Display Indicator lamp panel
Input Paper tape of up to 20,000 × 5-bit characters in a continuous loop
Power 8.5 kW[b]
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945[1 -
I hope you’re right and that Christianity emerges strengthened by fire
This sounds dangerously close to Spinal Tap and “our appeal is becoming more selective“.
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H B Bearsays:
April 26, 2023 at 10:51 am
He he. Not much love for the pharmacists over proposed changes to script arrangements. Cried wolf once to often. The big bad wolf (Colesworths) is coming.
yer
killed the golden goose
went for single scrips because med changes mean wasted drergs
and ker-ching more dispensing fees
i reckon they could distribute 93.1 pussent of all drergs out of a dispensing machine using medicare card
mongs
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DrB – If you read the Bible you’ll find one theme repeated often: that a remnant will be saved.
This was the problem for the Pilgrim Fathers. They were all Christians. Their kids all acted like Christians under the social system that was in operation. But the next generation started to throw off that social pressure, and the braver dissidents broke with the theology. By the fourth or fifth generation the colonies had returned to the normal state of any society, with some real Christians, some agnostics, some disengaged people and some true atheists.
In short it’s quite clear from the Bible that Christians should expect to be a persecuted minority. We’re better off in Australia as the persecution isn’t much so far. Places like Nigeria are a different story. On the other hand the last several centuries show that the most successful and free countries are the ones who were most strongly of a Christian character. You can choose or otherwise to believe whether God blessed those nations.
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Eyriesays:
April 26, 2023 at 11:02 am
For those interested, look up “analog computers” and “Norden bombsight”. You can make mechanical, electric or electro-mechanical analog computers. Also using air or a liquid.I met a bloke in the 1970s, who was working on fluidics as a technique for control systems. Never heard of him again.
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This sounds dangerously close to Spinal Tap and “our appeal is becoming more selective“.
Well, yes. That’s the point. The appeal of Christianity has become very selective; the Pope and Bishop of Canterbury have given up on it for a start. They’ve gone over to neo-Marxist wokery.
They’re destined for the purefying fire. I hope.
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EU Leaders Pay The Price For Blindly Following Biden’s Strategy
Domestic strife endemic as inflation bites.
TIPPINSIGHTS EDITORIAL BOARD
For over 12 months, the leaders of the European Union have blindly followed President Biden’s strategy of isolating Russia. Eager to please Washington, EU leaders have one-upped each other in bold public comments, criticizing Russia, China, and any other country that dares to deviate from the E.U. narrative.
Each comment got them likes, retweets, and media attention, the kind that politicians covet.
But isolating Russia and trade with the world’s largest country rich in natural resources has severely cost European families.
By helping Washington prolong the war, the E.U. has caught itself in a death spiral of extremely high inflation, tight money under astronomically-high interest rates, and wages not rising fast enough.
Ordinary E.U. citizens who are losing patience with governments’ inaction to help are taking to the streets, and it has not been a pretty sight.
Among the first to warn that an extended war was not in Europe’s best interests was Victor Orban, the four-time elected Hungarian leader. At the CPAC in Dallas last August, Orban said, “Without American-Russian talks, there will never be peace in Ukraine. More and more people will die and suffer, and our economies will come to the brink of collapse.”
The Biden administration, which does not like Orban and disinvited him from a recent conference on democracy, ignored his warnings and pushed the E.U. further into war.
The administration engineered the Russian oil-price cap scheme on the sanctions front while continuing to pressure the E.U. to extend financial penalties on Russian entities. While the actions had the intended effect of further isolating Russia, they came at a severe cost to the average E.U. voter.
Two months after Orban’s speech, Romanian citizens kicked off the first of many public protests complaining about the rising cost of living. Three weeks later, Belgian trade union confederations led strikes to challenge the impact of inflation on purchasing power.
But no strike action received as much attention as the U.K. strikes of February 2. Nearly half a million teachers, civil servants, train drivers, and others struck work in the United Kingdom to demand above-inflation pay rises. According to the BBC, the government responded with a pay package that included a £1,000 one-off payment this year and a 4.3% pay rise for most staff next year. Nearly 87% of union members rejected the offer calling it “insulting.” Now, members of the National Education Union in England have announced strikes on April 27 and May 2. In Northern Ireland, five teaching unions will strike on April 26.
Across the English Channel in Germany, passenger trains ground to a halt on Friday as workers joined a nationwide strike call to demand pay rises for railway staff. The action coincided with similar walkouts at several major German airports starting Thursday. All bus lines, regional rail, and city tram services stopped operating, crippling German life. Reuters reported that Germany’s Verdi union called for a one-day strike of air security staff at Berlin airport on Monday, April 24, which prompted the airport to cancel all passenger departures for the day.
But, on Sunday morning, at the 11th hour, the AP reported that German government officials and labor unions reached a pay deal for more than 2.5 million public-sector workers, ending a lengthy dispute and heading off the possibility of disruptive all-out strikes. [DW reports that the Berlin strike is still on and all flights will be canceled on Monday]. The settlement was not cheap: a one-time tax-free bonus of $3,300 per employee to be paid in regular installments, plus a 5.5% salary increase next March.
Meanwhile, the Royal College of Nurses in the U.K. announced a strike from April 30 to May 2 after its union rejected the government’s pay hike proposal. Steve Barclay, the Health and Social Care secretary, immediately filed a case in court requesting a decision to brand the nurses’ strike as illegal. That’s right. Sue the very workers whose votes you seek in the next election.
To the leaders of the pro-war movement, from Washington to Kyiv to London to Berlin, labor strikes send an uncomfortable message that there is a limit to how much pain families can endure supporting Ukraine.
As the Fed is expected to tighten the supply of money further with another increase in interest rates during the May FOMC meeting, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England would be forced to follow suit, worsening the economic conditions of the average European worker.
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Haha, this is a fine example of edumacation in its natural environment.
Oxford ‘Cancels’ England’s Patron Saint George to Appease Islam (23 Apr)
A decision by an Oxford university college not to celebrate St George’s Day with a formal dinner has been branded ‘barking mad.’ Magdalen College has decided against continuing an annual pre-pandemic banquet celebrating the English saint that drew together Oxford students, dons and fellows. Instead, the only occasion the college will observe on the day is Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic festival marking the end of Ramadan. The college will hold a formal dinner marking Eid on April 23, honouring a request made by its Muslim students. An email from college vice president Professor Nick Stargardt … outlines plans for a ‘festive dinner’ celebrating the occasion. The invitation, sent to hundreds of students and their lecturers, adds the meal will ‘follow Muslim customs.’ Cooks will prepare a halal meat dish with no alcohol served to diners.
The reason why it is so funny is that St George is also a prophet of Islam.
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The appeal of Christianity has become very selective; the Pope and Bishop of Canterbury have given up on it for a start.
Leaders of the majority of the world’s Anglicans last month declared that, due to his departure from orthodox Christian teaching, they no longer recognise the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
25 APR 2023
Today’s videos of interest:The first is a very revealing look at just how panicked the elites are becoming vis a vis the global dedollarization movement.
They are beginning to verbalize their fears, which necessarily results in their further verbalizing some dark unspoken truths about the devious mechanisms of their global control.
In this case, Rubio whines that poor America will soon be prevented from ‘sanctioning’ anyone it chooses, due to the fact that the Resistance Axis is creating an entirely ‘parallel economy’ with their own national currencies.
This puts into perspective, and confirms once and for all, the idea—once dismissed as ‘conspiracy theory’—that the U.S. in fact seeks to actively destroy any nation or entity which challenges the dollar supremacy of its ‘privilege exorbitante’. We saw in the Wikileaks how Hillary Clinton’s aide, Sidney Blumenthal wrote:
Blumenthal pointed out the purpose of Qaddafi’s precious metal: “This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).”
Just two weeks before Blumenthal sent the Gaddafi-gold memo, Clinton met with Sarkozy in France, where the president pressed her to back an air campaign in Libya. At the time, in justifying his enthusiasm for military intervention, Sarkozy said publicly that France had “decided to assume its role before history” to ward off a “killing spree.” The French military, he said, was determined to defend any Libyans who wanted “liberate themselves from servitude.”
It’s very eye-opening how these things are now being plainly stated. I’ve said multiple times recently how in the terminal end times of the regime, desperation and sheer urgency mandates the throwing of caution to the wind and the speaking of things out in the open which previously would have been consigned exclusively to top secret clearance briefs.
Rubio spells it out very clearly and explicitly: the coming global confrontations are all about the U.S. Empire’s desperate last-haul measure to protect its dollar hegemony, which is the only remaining leverage that U.S. has left in the world at all.
As a flagging military power, entrenched on its own faraway world-island, U.S. no longer has the ability to project its might in a way that could deter Great Powers, or even regional ones. The dollar remains the sole instrument of the U.S.’s global dominance, but it is a privilege the American ruling class has abused to such a flagrant extent as to have extinguished its carrying power. Now, they are panicking, and openly admitting it.
“They’re going to trade in their own currencies, get right around the dollar,” cries bat-eared boy Rubio. “They’re creating a secondary economy in the world, totally independent of the United States,”
he stammers. And the kicker: “We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years, because there’ll be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar, that we won’t have the ability to sanction them!”
Cue the horror! Rue the day that the benevolent, altruistic U.S. loses its ability to sanction half the world!
It’s interesting that Rubio gives it five years, as an article just from yesterday similarly saw the five year mark as the limit of the dollar’s reign:
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On the other hand the last several centuries show that the most successful and free countries are the ones who were most strongly of a Christian character. You can choose or otherwise to believe whether God blessed those nations.
I believe that the universe at large prefers some theories to others, and in particular, some social Frameworks work better than others. And yes, the evidence at present suggests Christian ideas work better than the alternatives. I can understand enough of the sociodynamics to see why. It’s hard to see Science or the value of free speech arising in any other culture.
This is one reason I consider neo-Marxist wokery to be a vile religion. It favours the worst and most destructive aspects of human nature.
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The second video is a brief rewind and poignant look at Zelensky’s rise to power.
I merely wanted to use the video as opportunity to recall the outrageous fact that Zelensky, at the funding of oligarch Kolomoisky, founded a production company (Kvartal 95) which produced a show titled Servant of the People, in which he played lead role as…the president of Ukraine.
But then, reality being more twisted than fiction, he launched his own political party called ‘Servant of the People’, riding on the wave of the show’s popularity. And with this party, he won the presidency of Ukraine, on a platform of pacifism, ending the war in Donbass, measured rapprochement with Russia (at least in regards to openness to talks with Putin, etc.), amongst other things (a cruel joke in hindsight).
I still can’t wrap my head around it: it’s everything of the holographic, illusory ‘simulacra-simulation’ level stagecraft which has long haunted our worst expectations about politics, particularly of the Ukrainian variety. To blur the lines even further, Zelensky even ran billboards of ‘Servant of the People’ throughout the country, bypassing certain legal-political loopholes, and covertly funding them with his production company rather than campaign donations, which he claimed were actually ‘advertisements for the show’, but were in fact ingeniously playing double for political ads. It allowed him to basically combine the show and political campaign’s advertising into one and the same mirror campaign.
It’s just another axiomatic testament to the fine knife’s edge that power and illusion occupy together in this world, and how gullible, impressionable, and hypnotically suggestible the garden variety masses can be. The entire Ukrainian presidency is a TV Truman Show spectacle and hoax in one, funded by unctuous billionaires and CIA dark money.
In truth, there are even more surreal parallels between Zelensky’s ‘Servant of the People’ show and his ‘Servant of the People’ political party and later presidential life. But it’s point enough to bring a general attention to the lurid charade without getting lost in the weeds.
The last two videos I’ll leave you with are of the self-explanatory variety. Two candidly raw portraits of life behind the lines for Ukrainian soldiers; one tragic, the other a revealing interview with an AFU POW.
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Logic.
Trans Activist Threatens Gun Violence If Denied Woman’s Bathroom (25 Apr)
Pennsylvania school board closes ALL locker rooms amid controversy over trans student (25 Apr)
Logically if there are no women’s bathrooms then trannies can’t be in them. The schoolyard might get a bit smelly after a while, admittedly.
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Good. He’s no longer a Christian, and others can see it.
I wouldn’t mind if his lapses were theoretical. If he had doubts about the resurrection or the divinity of Jesus, even if he were an atheist, I could tolerate him. At least if he admitted it. It would show some integrity. But giving up on biblical morality is unforgivable.
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Cassie of Sydney:
There are many undiscovered curious stories out there, such as the climate scam, the 2020 election, Ukraine, Covid, Pell, Porter, and so on. A curious journalist investigating any of these would unearth a treasure trove of malfeasance and wrongdoing, but very few are interested, because none of this accords with their far-left neo Marxist progressive narrative, which they dare not step out of.
It just shows how many people will piss on Australia for a quid, utterly impervious to the fact they are pissing on their own prospects for the future.
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She said, alone, speaking into a microphone wearing pyjamas in her basement.
Haha, Monty, you should reread my various comments about Megyn! after she went to NBC. They might be on the old Cat though.
Nonetheless the $20 million per year Carlson was getting seems likely to be beat, one way or another. A lot of people look at Tucker and see a lot of eyeballs.
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Nonetheless the $20 million per year Carlson was getting seems likely to be beat, one way or another. A lot of people look at Tucker and see a lot of eyeballs.
The downside from the huckster pov is that Tucker tends to appeal to the sceptics rather than the gullible. To the huckster, eyeballs ain’t eyeballs. He wants those eyeballs in front of a credulous brain, they’re much more likely to buy the advertisement.
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Indeed, since the Great Reset, in the broadcast world there have been a few rolled gold souls who have had their wits about them from the start, and backed it up sensibly too- Carson, Dice, Crowder, Eugyppius, Sarkon of Akkad, Devine.
There have been late converts who might be shy in looking back- Stefanovic, Musk, Kelly- I still welcome them to the fold.
But the carpetbaggers, like Russell Brand, leave me cold. They have a lean and hungry look, like they continue to hedge bets and kneel for the powerful… they are not to be trusted. -
m0ntysays:
April 26, 2023 at 12:28 pm
Former Fox News talent Megyn Kelly told her podcast audience on Monday that Carlson could look forward to “blue, blue skies ahead,” adding, “He’s got a bright future. A more joyous, brighter, and more lucrative future.”She said, alone, speaking into a microphone wearing pyjamas in her basement.
Meeeeeooowwww!
Rather silly for you of all people to criticise someone for “speaking into a microphone wearing pyjamas in her basement”, when you spent a couple of years typing into a computer wearing pyjamas in your basement
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Inflation lifted seven per cent annually in the March quarter, but consumer prices as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics are growing more slowly than in the December quarter when a 7.8 per cent yearly increase was recorded.
Quarterly inflation growth rose 1.4 per cent in the March quarter, which ABS head of price statistics Michelle Marquardt said was the lowest quarterly rise since December 2021.
Isn’t this like an annualised inflation rate of 5.7% which is still quite high?
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“Computers in 1943?”
Yes – though not the programmable digital ones that immediately spring to mind these days.
Rather, purpose built (only one program!) analog computers.Think of older “hydraulic” controlled automatic gearboxes – the analog computer determines which gear to select by balancing a speed signal and a driver demand signal; when speed exceeds the specified amount for the specified driver demand, the gearbox shifts up a gear; when the driver demand exceeds the speed signal by the specified amount, the gearbox shifts down a gear; the specified amounts change depending on which gear is currently selected. All done with bleed valves, bobbin valves and hydraulic pressure from a pump.
Oddly enough, the issue with an analog computer is typically that it is too fast and needs to be slowed down, whereas a digital computer always needs more speed! Of course, if you are a clever design engineer with a limited compute/power/space/dollar budget, you can simulate an analog computer using “fuzzy logic” and get the job done for less than a fully digital solution would require, but that’s a conversation for another day.
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Just a thought — much could be achieved from state-sponsored (fee-free) boarding schools in the NT.
It won’t happen – because ‘stolen’.
I’m in two mind sabout this.
Otoh, the cycle of abuse and criminality must be broken.
But do we trust the state, the NT in this instance, to look after such children?
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Zatara says:
April 26, 2023 at 1:11 pmBlackrock holds a significant stake in both Fox and Dominion.
So essentially they sued themselves for whatever reason.Would love to have been sitting in the board meeting where that decision was made.
Or be in the shareholders meeting when they explain it.Having a conflict of interest and, in keeping with the usual governance by-laws, the Blackrock rep would have absented him-herself from the meeting when the decision was being voted on.
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Video:
You could say this Orthodox priest in Greece doesn’t have much time for Jehovah’s Witnesses:
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“Computers in 1943?”
I am a civilian who has never worked in defence and I know that battleships constructed pre war had fire direction computers.
Ed Mong is trying so hard to be a caricature of libertarians and conservatives he’s only taking the piss of a smug, ill read left wing LARPer. He’s snark is so lame it is all backfiring now, a 100% failure rate.
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Inflation lifted seven per cent annually in the March quarter, but consumer prices as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics are growing more slowly than in the December quarter when a 7.8 per cent yearly increase was recorded.
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Crowder has gone nuts from his divorce (going back to 2021).
Why bring up his kids as blameless? Of course they are. He needs a well earned break.
Still SIMPing for his soon to be ex wife. She tore his heart out. She left. “I still love her as the mother of my children.”
All she deserves is respect. You can’t love someone who left you for no reason other than “do what thou wilt”. As he says, no abuse or violence from either side.
“I chose poorly”
Wasn’t she a virgin until marriage, church going?
You’re still getting on a plane with a chance of a bomb going off. You might say COVID overreach put the pressure on (being in 2021) but really, “I’m not happy!”….”awful divorce, I still love her….”
bruh
His comments about being “extorted” are bizarre.
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Old Ozzie:
To the leaders of the pro-war movement, from Washington to Kyiv to London to Berlin, labor strikes send an uncomfortable message that there is a limit to how much pain families can endure supporting Ukraine.
Perhaps – and here’s a stunning thought – if the families stopped voting for the idiot politicians who bring in these nation killing policies, then they might just NOT get nation killing policies?
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Hope that the Fr appreciates that freedom for him to practice, should also mean freedom for JW to hand out literature on street corners. Is Greek Orthodox the Established religion of Greece. It’s fair to say they don’t like anyone else on their patch.
Having said that, the JWs are persistent and annoying folks. Arguing with them about the Bible is like arguing with Socialist Alliance.
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The article said they prefer to be at school or juvenile detention.
Yeah, and anything on the Internet under an MSM byline has to be the 100% truth, right?
Ie not at home.
Kids like to go for a wander, they go home when they’re hungry.
Poor kids.
They’ll be right.
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Hope that the Fr appreciates that freedom for him to practice, should also mean freedom for JW to hand out literature on street corners.
This is Marxism.
Jehovahs Witnesses aren’t Christian, why should they have the right to poll and record anyone’s beliefs by going door to door?
Some treat the JW as a joke, some see it as anticivilisation.
That priest is one of the latter.
Is Greek Orthodox the Established religion of Greece. It’s fair to say they don’t like anyone else on their patch.
It sorta goes with the territory.
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Blackrock holds a significant stake in both Fox and Dominion.
So essentially they sued themselves for whatever reason.Would love to have been sitting in the board meeting where that decision was made.
Or be in the shareholders meeting when they explain it.if one was an unscrupulous shitheel one might almost run a scam whereby its possible to use Lawfare against companies you hold board interests in then as stock rises and falls according to decisions you influence (because god knows no-one would collude) you make a killing on the stockmarket or increase your shareholdings accordingly.
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Ed Casesays:
April 26, 2023 at 9:32 am
The B-29 had remotely operated turrets driven by a computerised fire control system.
Computers in 1943?Well – Leibniz did a mechanical calculater in 1672, Babbage’s difference engine was 1820, and analog tide predicting computers were circa 1870’s.. that’s three examples for you, numbnuts.
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The kids go for a wander, then break in/shoplift etc BECAUSE they are hungry and not being fed at home <
Break in to a hairdressers salon looking for food?
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It isn’t currently illegal in Israel for Christians to preach. The government considered such measures to curb proselytization but last I heard they’ve been kiboshed.
Historically, the only success evangelical and protestant churches had in the Holy Land was with other Christians, taking them away from the native Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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Mr Rudd recently conceded that he is unable to continue with his ‘Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission’ duties as he became Australian Ambassador to the United States, with a spokesperson telling SkyNews.com.au that his ongoing involvement with the lobby group “would be incompatible with his future role as ambassador,” and that he “is confident that ‘Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission’ will thrive under a new chair as it continues the campaign against concentration of media ownership.”
Mr Rudd handed over responsibility of the activist lobby group to another former prime minister and one-time fierce political rival, Malcolm Turnbull, shortly before becoming Ambassador.
So fierce he handed over one of his pet projects to Turncoat.
Ermagerd! The claw, the claw, you’re afraid of the claw! So fierce! LOL.These politicians of all stripes use their opposition to centralised ownership as a diversionary tactic from their constant attempts to attain centralised control of The Message. A diversity of ownership will not mean much if nobody can say anything the politicians don’t like. Remind me again how there’s no such thing as “the uniparty”.
I’m sure there is a word for the government obtaining directorial control without legal ownership.
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He admits that, does he. How about admitting that what he endorsed and pushed for mandating actually did more harm than good, other than for Big Pharma, of course. It did them the world of good.
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Loya’s 22-minute address asked members to commit to four agreements, to: 1) Look to Jesus as a model of what we are called to become; 2) Act like we are one body, where we celebrate one another, 3) Be patient with others, ourselves, and God; and 4) Agree to die.
Shouldn’t he then resign, turn the utilities and lightsoff, lock the church and walk away and let the mortgagors take the building back after he mails them the keys?
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discovered objects could be traded for other objects.
In this case for food,
Oh, the kids go down to Harry’s cafe de kerb and trade a pair of scissors for 2 Dogs Eyes?
Dickhead.
… assuming the little shits werent breaking in because they were bored or looking for car keys etc.
You said they were hungry 5 minutes ago?
Why don ‘t you just admit the truth?
#1. You hate Indigenous kids
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You could say this Orthodox priest in Greece doesn’t have much time for Jehovah’s Witnesses:
Good for him.
I mentioned I saw some near the bus station in Fatima.
I bet they descend on World Youth Day in Portugal like a pack of wolves.
I used to work with a JW and Iirc doing this proletizing work is compulsory, they have to submit monthly report cards on their ‘publishing’ activities. -
Zatara:
Would love to have been sitting in the board meeting where that decision was made.
Or be in the shareholders meeting when they explain it.It’s not about shareholders, Zatara – it’s about weakening the enemy, and removing pieces from the chess board.
Tucker is a Knight – a valuable piece.
I think that if Focks is going for a sale, it will get a pretty damn good price as removing it leaves the Right with bugger all on the field – so the bidding will be fairly intense and not visible.
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