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Guest post: Cassie of Sydney – The Tree of Lies
Overnight Johanna kindly posted this. Thank you. I’ve decided to respond with a post…..which I hope enlightens people. PITTSBURGH, PA – OCTOBER 31: Mourners visit the memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 31, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh’s…
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Guest post: Vikki Campion – Beating around the bush
ABC talkfest Q&A sank to an audience of 96,300 regional viewers a few weeks ago. That means of the eight million regional Australians, just over 1.2 per cent are tuning in. ABC championing Annandale, Brunswick and Canberra and not Atherton, Bourke, and Corryong is why Q&A in the bush rates beneath Bluey, Peter Rabbit and…
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Open Thread – Weekend 3 Sept 2021
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Guest Post: Augusto Zimmermann – The Unconstitutionality of Western Australia’s vaccine passport restrictions
In Western Australia, any resident who now leaves the State for New South Wales and is seeking to return “can apply to do so on compassionate grounds, subject to the following conditions … Have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine…”, an August 19th Facebook post from Premier Mark McGowan reads. Section 51(xxiiiA)…
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A montyean future
Monty writes: db comes from a different angle. I am fascinated with how he manages to combine strong religious views with his obsession with “the Cathedral”, a concept borrowed from racist blogger Curtis “Moldbug” Yarvin. The Cathedral appears to be a phrase used in a similarly conspiracist manner to “Deep State”, with a broader application…
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Guest Post: Cassie of Sydney -Gay Wars & Biological Denial
Last weekend, at a Manchester UK “Pride Parade”, an ordinary gay man…yes a gay man…was heckled, abused and screamed at, called a bigot and transphobe and required police protection to escort him away from the parade. You might ask what his heinous crime was to elicit such outrage and hostility, well you see this ordinary…
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A Conservative Hero?
monty writes: Lt. Michael Byrd of the Capitol Police is a conservative hero, but in the strictly small-c sense. People who identify with the Conservative movement in America tend to hate him, because his action did more than anyone else to stop an insurrection which would have installed Conservative politicians in a coup. What Byrd…
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Guest post: C.L. – Charlie’s Good Tonight
CELEBRITY demises don’t move me for an obvious reason: I didn’t know the celebrities. Naturally, I emphathise with the bereaved but, alas, lack Bill Clinton’s gift of feeling their pain. The sad news of Rolling Stone Charlie Watts’ death in London on Tuesday was slightly different. For a start, the drummer Keith Richards has described…