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Richard the Lionheart Receives Communion in Hagia Sophia, Gaspare Fossati, 1849

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feelthebern
feelthebern
January 8, 2025 7:53 pm
Rabz
January 8, 2025 7:54 pm

Oh, grate – Foghorn Liz “those evil McJews” Storer …

Turning on Sky this evening has not proven to be good for the ol’ blood pressure, Cats … 😕

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2025 7:55 pm

Farmer Gez

 January 8, 2025 7:16 pm

Bought a neat little second hand tractor in Hamilton today. Brother and nephew on the trip – put our collars up when we got near town.

A joke for anyone who knows Hamilton.

Snort, cackle.
There is definitely a squatter’s uniform.
The ladies in particular.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 8:01 pm

Interesting collaboration between between David Gilmour and Ice-T with his band, Body Count.

I said to myself, this will not work. I was wrong. The change of lyrics does not bother me, at all.

Opinions will differ. That is totally fine.

The visuals help convey the story.

BODY COUNT – Comfortably Numb (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Rabz
January 8, 2025 8:03 pm

f*ckerberg remains one of the most sinister evil weirdos to have existed in human history.

It should have been throttled at birth.

Roger
Roger
January 8, 2025 8:04 pm

Remarkably cool time we’re having here in Sydney in January. 

For weeks now the BOM’s max temp forecast for this neck of the woods, which the msm dutifully reports, has routinely been 1 degree above the actual recorded temp.

We are now more than 2% below historic average max temp for January, yet they persist with their exaggerated forecast maxima.

I suspect this caper goes back to the beginning of summer – I really must check.

Oh…and the dams are all full.

Professor Flim Flammery was unavailable for comment.

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Rabz
January 8, 2025 8:10 pm

Remarkably cool time we’re having here in Sydneystan in January

Not really, given recent weather patterns.

Fourth la Nina in a row – which the nooze imbeciles at the ALPBC finally admitted this morning through obviously gritted grinding teeth.

Unsurprisingly, their hysterical gullible gerbil worming clowns at the Bureau of Mediocrity (BoM) could not be reached for comment.

Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2025 8:10 pm

@saras76

Husband of Sunny Hostin from The View, has been arrested for alleged Federal Insurance Fraud.

This is the largest RICO case ever filed in New York.

Well well well.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2025 8:12 pm

Gez.
From memory the uniform is …
Blue and white striped shirt, collar turned up.
White pants. Moleskins in winter, linen in summer.
Sensible flat (but very expensive) shoes.
Tennis shade.

Rabz
January 8, 2025 8:16 pm

Adelaide Timbrell, ANZ senior economist

One of those economists that are wrong about everything, all the time (which hardly needs stating).

She wouldn’t be a “senior economist” at one of this country’s most hated entities otherwise.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
January 8, 2025 8:17 pm

Fact Checking now recognised by Meta as “political”.
Who knew?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 8:28 pm

John Brumble
January 8, 2025 8:11 pm

Did you listen to the lyrics? Because to me it sounded like anti-human, under-graduate sludge.

___

What type of stupid question is that. It is directed at gang culture and all the sh*t going down as a result on the streets.

Lyrics:
How did I get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don’t come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life’s supposed to be?
Human animals
We roam the earth in search of blood
Hope for humanity?
I don’t think there ever was
We’re in perpetual war and that’s the only law
Can I change it? I doubt it
So I write songs about it
I was young once but now I’ve grown old
Right in front of your eyes you’ve seen my life unfold
I had no choice as I became the underdog’s voice
A young black kid… look what the f**k I did!
When I’m gone there’ll be someone to carry on
We can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
How accepting of the bulls**t we’ve all become
This whole world is… comfortably numb

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

You’ve got a TV, a computer, so you don’t care
A roof, some clothes, some food
That’s right, it’s all there
Lock yourself in your house, try to forget about
The millions dyin’ from wars, starvation and drought
You’ve got your own problems – yes, we all do
Nobody is free from stress, not him or me or you
But still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
In the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
I don’t want no drama but I carry a gun
I don’t want no problems but they’ll probably come
So we get high to wash away the pain
Self-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
We think that we can hide away from the misery
You can close your eyes but still can plainly see
There’s nowhere to run…
You’re just comfortably numb

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

I spent half my life just trying to survive
And the other half trying to keep you all alive
For some reason I still care
I’ve done my dirt
It’s amazing that I’m still here
There’s true EVIL out there, I’ve been trying to warn you
You could meet the Devil himself, then what you gonna do?
No time to pray, no chance to run
Listen… ‘cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as ONE
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles
The thought of humans coexisting, that’s impossible
Better to stay numb, live in denial
We’re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
Too much religious beef, too much racist s**t
And if there is a God we probably make him sick

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

Rosie
Rosie
January 8, 2025 8:28 pm

I saw a mention of Wesley Huff on Catholic twitter today.
Apparently he gets the reason for the execution of Tyndale wrong.
It’s great he did the interview with Rogan but he seems to be one of many Protestant apologists who devote their time to proving Catholicism wrong.
That isnt the Great Commission.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/tyndales-heresy
Yeah yeah false doctrines mistranslations Greek words.
https://x.com/IndianaBrunner/status/1876842409708998952?t=6kdo4aBbu94Grc9nUbYosg&s=19

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 8:29 pm

John Brumble
January 8, 2025 8:11 pm
Did you listen to the lyrics? Because to me it sounded like anti-human, under-graduate sludge.
___
What type of stupid question is that. It is directed at gang culture and all the sh*t going down as a result on the streets.

Lyrics:
How did I get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don’t come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life’s supposed to be?
Human animals
We roam the earth in search of blood
Hope for humanity?
I don’t think there ever was
We’re in perpetual war and that’s the only law
Can I change it? I doubt it
So I write songs about it
I was young once but now I’ve grown old
Right in front of your eyes you’ve seen my life unfold
I had no choice as I became the underdog’s voice
A young black kid… look what the f**k I did!
When I’m gone there’ll be someone to carry on
We can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
How accepting of the bulls**t we’ve all become
This whole world is… comfortably numb

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

You’ve got a TV, a computer, so you don’t care
A roof, some clothes, some food
That’s right, it’s all there
Lock yourself in your house, try to forget about
The millions dyin’ from wars, starvation and drought
You’ve got your own problems – yes, we all do
Nobody is free from stress, not him or me or you
But still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
In the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
I don’t want no drama but I carry a gun
I don’t want no problems but they’ll probably come
So we get high to wash away the pain
Self-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
We think that we can hide away from the misery
You can close your eyes but still can plainly see
There’s nowhere to run…
You’re just comfortably numb

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

I spent half my life just trying to survive
And the other half trying to keep you all alive
For some reason I still care
I’ve done my dirt
It’s amazing that I’m still here
There’s true EVIL out there, I’ve been trying to warn you
You could meet the Devil himself, then what you gonna do?
No time to pray, no chance to run
Listen… ‘cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as ONE
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles
The thought of humans coexisting, that’s impossible
Better to stay numb, live in denial
We’re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
Too much religious beef, too much racist s**t
And if there is a God we probably make him sick

Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there? Can anybody hear me?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 8, 2025 8:42 pm

Bungonia Bee

 January 8, 2025 8:17 pm

Fact Checking now recognised by Meta as “political”.

Who knew?

Suckerberg has been told.
Drop the “content curation / fact-checking” or face the mother of all actions for denying First Amendment rights.
I think this means SS Misinfo-Disinfo is holed below the waterline and taking in water faster than Luigi the Steward can bail it out.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 8:45 pm
Rosie
Rosie
January 8, 2025 9:04 pm

A little glimpse into Huff’s view of the Biblical Canon.
https://youtu.be/W9KtENFeXjY?si=-6ND7Ir4ecTrtbAZ

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 8, 2025 9:05 pm

A snapshot into why police are so inept, so unwilling to push against anti Semitic behaviour. Hun:

A police officer will not face criminal charges over allegedly performing a Nazi salute.

Victoria Police has confirmed it has finished an investigation into the sergeant making the gesture at the Victoria Police Academy in Glen Waverley in October.

The sergeant from the People Development Command allegedly made the salute twice.

A force statement said internal investigators from professional standards command had compiled a brief of evidence over the “public performance of a Nazi gesture”.

The brief was then sent to the Office of Public Prosecutions to be assessed.

“We have since received advice from OPP that, based on the circumstances, there is no reasonable prospect of conviction,” the statement said.

“This ends the criminal component of the investigation, and the sergeant will now be subject to an internal discipline investigation.”

FMD. But God forbid old mate carrying an Israeli flag, lest he gets a tap on the shoulder from plod.
Really quite disgusting.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 8, 2025 9:20 pm

A police officer will not face criminal charges over allegedly performing a Nazi salute.

Not all that long ago in VicPlod, anyone going near that benchmark would have been immediately dragged out the back of the station by his colleagues and flogged mercilessly for giving them a bad name.

Allegedly.

Victoria Police has confirmed it has finished an investigation into the sergeant making the gesture at the Victoria Police Academy in Glen Waverley in October.

The sergeant from the People Development Command allegedly made the salute twice.

So he can’t use the ‘oh it was an accident, or a perception’ defence.

A force statement said internal investigators from professional standards command had compiled a brief of evidence over the “public performance of a Nazi gesture”.

The brief was then sent to the Office of Public Prosecutions to be assessed.

“We have since received advice from OPP that, based on the circumstances, there is no reasonable prospect of conviction,” the statement said.

Okay. This is either one of two things – a deliberately half-arsed, shit brief put up to the OPP who have to (I have heard it said) authorise these things, or it was a decent brief that got the lemon and sars from a notoriously and demonstrably risk-averse Government-funded activist legal industry.

It’s probably a bit of both – which would do nothing to reassure anyone living in Vic at present.

Goddamn shameful.

Lee
Lee
January 8, 2025 9:27 pm

@saras76

Husband of Sunny Hostin from The View, has been arrested for alleged Federal Insurance Fraud.

This is the largest RICO case ever filed in New York.

Hostin claimed that January 6th was “an atrocity” and worse than the Holocaust and World War II.

Like her colleagues on The View, she is a despicable woman.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 8, 2025 9:31 pm

Lyrics? Pink Floyd is music to put on when you’re smoking drugs.

Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 8, 2025 9:44 pm

Katy Hopkins – priceless monologue about 30 seconds long…

132andBush
132andBush
January 8, 2025 9:51 pm

Farmer Gez

 January 8, 2025 7:16 pm

Bought a neat little second hand tractor in Hamilton today. Brother and nephew on the trip – put our collars up when we got near town.

A joke for anyone who knows Hamilton.

No doubt a 10yr old machine with only 1000hrs on it, leather seat with heating/cooling for ones posterior and a hat holder?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 9:54 pm

H B Bear
January 8, 2025 9:31 pm

Lyrics? Pink Floyd is music to put on when you’re smoking drugs.

—-

I don’t smoke drugs. Alcohol plays its part.

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
January 8, 2025 10:19 pm

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1616143162630893
Never share a stage with a child.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 8, 2025 10:52 pm

WA Premier Roger Cook: we are ‘proudly independent’ from federal LaborPaul Garvey
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West Australian Labor Premier Roger Cook has declared his ­government is “proudly indep­endent” and that his focus is on ensuring re-election rather than helping Anthony Albanese shore up crucial WA seats.
In his first sit-down interview of the year, and on the eve of the Prime Minister arriving for the first of many visits to the west ahead of this year’s federal election, Mr Cook noted there were differences of approach between WA Labor and its federal counterparts on a “whole range of issues”.
The WA Premier also flagged his intention to capitalise on his state’s new-found national electoral significance by targeting federal funding for a multibillion-dollar overhaul of port infrastructure. And he stressed that his government did not take anything for granted despite holding a seemingly impregnable position ahead of the March state election.
In comments that will do little to dispel the impression that WA Labor wants to put distance between itself and a struggling federal government ahead of two elections due in as many months, Mr Cook said he would not be distracted from his own campaign.
“Unlike other premiers around the country, I’ve got an election to win myself, so that’s my focus,” Mr Cook said.
“I’m just going to make sure I focus on the eighth of March, and making sure that we communicate to the West Australian people what our plan for the future is, how we’re going to keep the economy strong, how we’re going to maintain strong growth in jobs.
“While I understand the Prime Minister has his own race to run, we are focused on our election at the moment, and that will obviously be soaking up our entire bandwidth between now and the eighth of March.”
The next federal election must be held by May 17.

Rats leaving a sinking ship?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 8, 2025 11:11 pm

Do a Hamburg/Tokyo firestorm on the bastards.

That is one way of killing the remaining hostages.

It also makes it much less likely that any more hostages will be taken. Ever.

Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2025 11:12 pm
Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
January 8, 2025 11:15 pm

Neat little second hand tractor.
Still a bit overpriced for 4000h, but an old fashioned workhorse in impeccable condition. They don’t make them like this anymore.

Indolent
Indolent
January 8, 2025 11:17 pm

@nicksortor

#BREAKING: Los Angeles fire hydrants are OUT OF WATER because the county REFUSED to refill reservoirs, per Rick Caruso

“You can’t fight a fire without water!”

The Mayor did ZERO prep despite the advanced warning of winds and fire risk.

This is EXACTLY what happened on Maui!

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
January 8, 2025 11:32 pm

The UK Sun:

RAPE SCANDAL Keir Starmer will order Labour MPs to vote against new national inquiry into Asian rape grooming gangs

Kemi Badenoch will call for a specific investigation into failings and cover-ups over Pakistani-heritage rape gangs

The Sun is a Rightwing, jingoistic, mass circulation Murdock tabloid – speaking directly to working class families.

This is a significant (and apparently planned) shift in editorial policy. Two days ago, the Sun ran a piece by Starmer, congratulating himself on his proactive anti-grooming as DPP – and was coy on Pakistani involvement.

Now hunting with the conservative media.

A few baby steps away from press control via D Notices for ‘national security reasons’.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 8, 2025 11:35 pm

At least no one is mong enough to post Idi Amin dissing Jewish people as ” proof” they are uniquely bad people!

https://x.com/HussainShafiei/status/1876793656008438013

?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 8, 2025 11:36 pm

The Doors and Black Sabbath mash up.

Thumbs up from me.

—-

The channel is below.

?????? ???????: Click on the link to find it. W-Press issues.

Black Doors Break on Through to the Paranoid Side x264

Last edited 5 hours ago by Steve Trickler
Arky
January 9, 2025 12:40 am

Malibu barbie.

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