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Hello everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend.
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We have a holiday in Qld celebrating the great socialist May Day so it’s a long weekend.
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It could be socialist or it could be this
Most of those workers had little knowledge of socialism but they had a great deal of first hand experience of terrible pay and conditions.
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Indeed that is true. But everyone shared that experience in the era before machines. Imagine how much it would cost to do anything when labour was so intensive. How could people be paid high wages? Then machines came along and factory work and the continuation of low wages combined with those working conditions shocked society, and gave rise to the terrible ideas of marxism, then fascism.
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Clocking in?
Good weekend?
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Hmmm… as it is a Socialist long weekend.
And they love to protest and march.
Did they celebrate the event, by organising and attending a long march through the institutions?
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The traditional May day with maypole celebrations long predate the Political version
https://www.learnreligions.com/history-of-the-maypole-2561629
Some places still erect the poles and carry out the tradition which used to be very widespread in Europe
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Defamation case involving ChatGPT.
https://longtonlegal.com/article/ai-is-taking-over-the-word-and-defaming-us-in-the-process.html
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Ah, but who is accountable?
Politicians and the rest of the woke rabble will love this AI !! They’re all off the hook, after all you can’t lock up or otherwise punish a computer can you, & finding & convicting those responsible for the BS in BS out process will be impossible.
So anything & anyone is now fair game!
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A long read, but worth it. Much focus on iatrogenic death. ToM
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
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In that item, there is a claim that CDC quietly removed from the CDC website the following:
The mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body.
Our cells break down mRNA from these vaccines and get rid of it within a few days after vaccination.
Scientists estimate that the spike protein, like other proteins our bodies create, may stay in the body up to a few weeks.
I checked. The claim is true.
CDC now
Wayback Machine
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Mike, this is very similar to the information released under FOI from our TGA where it showed that they knew the dangers of the lipid nanoparticles reaching every organ of the body and yet we were told it wouldn’t leave the injection site and they still released the injection. This is John Campbell discussing same. 17 mins. ToM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVNFFtmb9gA
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You are so right, Tides of Mudgee.
I agree. This is a good read. Anyone who doesn’t know of this should check it out. I didn’t understand how the Spanish Flu pandemic was made so mush worse because people being killed by an overdose of aspirin was blamed on the Spanish flu.
The same thing happened with covid 19.
Deaths caused by the ventilators in ICU made people think COVID was a dangerous disease. People were so frightened of covid, they did not care for their family members and so people died because they didn’t get basic nursing care.
The fear killed people.
Please, look at this.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
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I guess it is important to the intelligentsia, for the purpose of remaining The Intelligentsia, that they produce copious screeds explaining what ‘went wrong’.
“We panicked”.
“We were facing something new and unknown.”
Bollocks.
Every step they took was contrary to ‘public health’ and purposed to create a social system of compliance.
There is so much evidence that this ‘event’ was being prepared prior to 21019, that I don’t even feel motivated to provide a ‘link’ to support my assertion.
See any interview with RFK Jr., before the internationally orchestrated character assassination swings into full force.
And pray it’s just character.
Will provide this link of Brit MP kicked out of the Conservative Party for vax criticism, and was told he was going against “the most powerful vested interest in the world and all the risk that that entails.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OvWEep7VooA8/
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Chris Mitchell in the Media section of today’s Oz maintains the official Murdoch line espoused by Andrew Bolt on Sky last week with respect to Tucker Carlson. In essence, TC was dumped because he was no more than an opinion maker who was gravely mistaken about the 2020 election and was thus soiled by the Dominion lawsuit. The fact that Carlson backed up his opinion pieces with demonstrable proof including credible human sources is ignored. The fact that Carlson spoke truth to Big Pharma, Big Defence Industry, Big Swamp and more is ignored.
The scales continue to fall from my eyes at an accelerating rate.
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Well Fox, let him go then and stop putzing around if you think he is so toxic.
Its funny, when Carlsons short Twitter video went into the 10’s of millions of views, I did a quick sort of videos on the FoxNews Youtube channel. Their top video had “only” 9 million views. It was one of Carlsons also.
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Victor Davis Hanson comments about the case.
Erudite, as usual.
https://youtu.be/2SiaaCznZKE (9 mins)
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Did I post this?
https://boingboing.net/2023/04/28/watch-man-with-lint-roller-scan-people-walking-into-a-building.html
Baaaaa baaaaa baaaaa 😁
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That was supposed to be for #5…
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President Biden bragged at the recent annual White House press dinner that he had achieved Tucker Carlson’s removal from Fox and had ensured that Carlson was “finished” in the industry.
Rupert was made an offer he couldn’t refuse by one of the President’s weaponised agencies.
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I am seeing lots of people in Vicdanistan wearing masks again.
Is this an Australia-wide or world-wide phenomenon?
I guess the people have been sufficiently dumbed-down by now that they’ll believe just about anything. A very dangerous way to be.
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Maybe they have a cold and don’t want to spread it?
Thank them.
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I haven’t noticed it happening here in QLD, even though recent weeks have seen a big jump in respiratory infections of some kind. Even when we visited a nearby hospital, very few people (including the staff) were masked.
Ironically, it all started with a visit to A&E, the only place where there were a lot of people masked, having rocked up with the lurgy. They sat around in their scruffs and pyjamas, coughing and spluttering into their face nappies. The ironic part is, despite all the masks, we all (me, wife, daughter) caught it too.
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It’s still “strongly recommended” to wear masks on public transport in Paris (as the regular announcements say). I think a vaccination certificate is required to visit hospitals or nursing homes.
As a rough estimate, I would say 5-10%-ish of people on the metro (at least on the lines I use often) wear masks in some manner. It’s about the same elsewhere in shops. I haven’t seen anyone wearing masks in cafes/restaurants any longer. Paramedics wear them. Firemen wear them when they don’t need fire-fighting gear (i.e. if they are present to support or do the job of the paramedics).
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This morning on the train into Melbourne town there were 5 people variously snorting, sneezing, hacking, sniffling, gurgling and blowing.
The winter bugs have begun, it seems.
The Pavlovian weaklings put on their masks to protect themselves.
The strong amongst us relish the chance to train and strengthen our infinitely powerful immune systems on this year’s emerging novelties.
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We got back to central Victoria from a trip to NQ last week, via Sydney, Surfers, and Toowoomba.
I don’t recall seeing a single mask at all until we crossed back into Victoria and saw a solo driver on a country road wearing mask, a man wearing a mask while walking across a road bridge miles from anywhere with nobody else in sight, and the odd person or few in a supermarket furtively hiding behind masks. Victorians have Stockholm syndrome. Also didn’t see abandoned shops interstate like we have here in Victoria.
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If you can’t trust the police, who can you trust?
In Victoria, police falsified DNA evidence in a case. Maybe in multiple cases.
In Australia, there is now no government authority who can be trusted.
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Trust the police at your peril.
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What are your thoughts on C.P. Snow’s famous 1959 lecture “The Two Cultures”?
Personally, I don’t think it’s as profound as most people think it is.
It goes without saying that people from the humanities and sciences will see things differently.
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Will see things differently!
Everything will have unicorns in misty fertile fields ……..
Have I got it?
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The fascists finally release a whistleblower
‘In early 2020, Fang Bin and other citizen journalists embarrassed the Chinese government by posting details of the pandemic on the internet and social media. Chinese officials faced backlash for failing to control the outbreak, according to AP.
‘In Bin’s last post three years ago on Twitter was a video of a paper reading, “All citizens resist, hand power back to the people.” (Silive)
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The huge problem with ChatGPT
https://youtu.be/l7tWoPk25yU
It’s a simple but effective demonstration that what the masses perceive as AI, isn’t, as I’ve said before.
True AI, at least in the public arena, is 15 years away, ignoring the potential “ghost in the machine” ignition spark, but the sentience-enabling tech will continue to advance in the interim.
It seems that the fad factor is starting to wear off too as there’s growing backlash against such pseudo-AI products being integrated into consumer grade tech…
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Business Wire 8-09-2020
‘Biopharma Leaders Unite to Stand with Science’
Nine CEOs sign historic pledge to continue to make the safety and well-being of vaccinated individuals the top priority in development of the first COVID-19 vaccines —
All nine CEOs signed the following pledge:
We, the undersigned biopharmaceutical companies, want to make clear our on-going commitment to developing and testing potential vaccines for COVID-19 in accordance with high ethical standards and sound scientific principles.
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That’s rather reminiscent of when tobacco company executives testified in US Congress that “nicotine is not addictive”.
https://youtu.be/e_ZDQKq2F08
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In 2012, Pfizer paid $1.2 billion to settle claims by nearly 10,000 women that its hormone replacement therapy drug, Prempro, caused breast cancer. The Prempro settlements came after six years of trials.
Several plaintiffs were awarded tens of millions of dollars, including punitive damages for the drug maker’s actions in withholding information about the risk of breast cancer from Prempro.
In 2013, Pfizer agreed to pay $55 million to settle criminal charges of failing to warn patients and doctors about the risks of kidney disease, kidney injury, kidney failure and acute interstitial nephritis caused by its proton pump inhibitor, Protonix.
In 2016, Pfizer was fined a record £84.2 million for overcharging the National Health Service for its anti-epilepsy drug, Phenytoin, by 2,600% (from £2.83 to £67.50 a capsule), increasing the cost to U.K. taxpayers from £2 million in 2012 to about £50 million in 2013.
etc…
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Brits Forced to Live in Darkness and Cold
On March 10, the Scottish trade magazine Scottish Housing News published a frightening report from Scotland’s largest builder, Barratt Developments Scotland. It shows that 51 percent, a majority of Scots, could not afford to heat or light their homes. They were forced to live in chilly homes with the lights off, as they otherwise could not afford to pay for electricity.
Reported cases of mold-damaged homes in Scotland have increased by 25 percent since 2021.
Thousands are feared to die as a result of these conditions. Already last winter, over 7,400 Brits died as a result of cold homes. But since last winter, electricity prices have doubled, so the figure is believed to be significantly higher this winter. In December 2022 alone, 1,047 Brits, mostly elderly, died as a result of cold and damp air in their homes. This is 36 percent more than in December 2021, indicating that over 10,000 Brits are likely to die this winter due to cold in their homes… or rather, poverty, not being able to afford electricity.
The survey shows that many are now forced to resort to tricks that their grandparents once used to keep warm during the winter with simple means, such as wearing long johns or sealing door gaps. It emerged that 58 percent, again a majority of respondents, now routinely wear thermal underwear at home to cope with the cold in their homes. 40 percent cover gaps under doors and 41 percent have hung up thick curtains over both doors and windows. People warm themselves under blankets and with tea lights. A quarter use electric heated blankets in bed, instead of heating the bedroom. 57 percent of respondents have turned off radiators in rooms they rarely or never use, and it appears they are forced to live in a smaller part of their homes.
It is worth remembering that Scotland has boasted about being the best in the UK at transitioning its energy production to “green energy,” especially with numerous wind turbines. In 2019, mainstream media had headlines such as “Why is Scotland leading in renewable energy?” (ITV News). Now, reality has caught up. Wind turbines notoriously perform poorly during winter, so poorly that they often consume energy instead of producing it. This is because they need to be heated to prevent freezing during the winter, using energy from the regular power grid or diesel generators. Advocates of “green energy” and power companies are silent about this.
https://freewestmedia.com/2023/04/29/brits-forced-to-live-in-darkness-and-cold/
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People have cut back on heating but there has been a lot of help from the Govt. We are still in profit with our fuel bills what with the various amounts from the Govt and cutting back a little. There have been long calm periods so wind turbines haven’t always been effective and solar is at a premium through the winter. The greens don’t seem to realise you don’t get any solar power during the long winter days
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Well I have seen very little complaining about high energy prices in the UK. I am usually highly cynical of people’s apathy but even I was expecting a rise out of the public on this issue. But nope. They seem to take it on the chin and keep watching sports. Even political pundits have said next to nothing.
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If the veterans of World Wars I and II had known in advance about this, would they have bothered with enlisting?
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Irony: German Bundestag Admits Conversion To Heat Pump Systems For Its Own Buildings Not Possible!
Critical website Pleiteticker.de reports on how the buildings of the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) will not be able to convert over to heat pumps without comprehensive renovations that would run well into the millions.
Currently the Bundestag is predominantly heated with oil and gas or bio-diesel, According to an answer by the Bundestag administration to a question by FDP member of parliament Torsten Herbst: In 2022, almost 2.7 million liters of biodiesel were consumed, as well as about 1.1 million cubic meters of natural gas,” it says.
While the government demands citizens switch, Bundestag is unable to!
Recall how the government plans to force Germans to ditch gas and oil heating systems and install heat pumps in their place, beginning next year already – a costly endeavor. The irony, however, is that it has been revealed that for the Bundestag, the very heart of the German legislature, “a conversion to electric heating systems is currently not possible,” reports Pleiteticker. “The heating systems of the German Bundestag are not suitable for the heat pump systems available today due to the required inflow temperatures of up to 110 °C.”
https://notrickszone.com/2023/04/28/irony-german-bundestag-admits-conversion-to-heat-pump-systems-for-its-own-buildings-not-possible/
110°C inflow temps?
That’s a lot of hot air in parliament! 😉
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The pigs said “We don’t want to eat all the apples but it is necessary if we are to lead you all to a glorious future..”
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Australians targeted as cyber criminals hack into myGov accounts
Cyber criminals are gaining access to myGov accounts, apply for credit cards and to make false claims for tax refunds.
Sharon told Neil Mitchell her ordeal started in 2020, and last year the hackers attempted to claim $47,000 from the Australian Tax Office in her name.
“I’m still battling scammers and fraud,” she told Neil Mitchell.
https://www.3aw.com.au/australians-targeted-as-cyber-criminals-hack-into-mygov-accounts/
Have as few accounts as possible…
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I’m still not convinced about password management software for handling everything. In principle it’s very convenient, and some versions allow the user to set complex and long passwords that couldn’t be guessed, and would take ages to crack via brute-force, but something seems… not quite right with it, unless it is my imagination.
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Monday Darwin award first prize winner
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1652545058741035008/
This nonsense has been around for years but is experiencing a resurgence of late.
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Madness is a common thread throughout history. Difference now is the political activists being so willing to embrace it as compassion.
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How Washington DC works
“Sunday Talks, NBC’s Gleeful Chuck Todd Promotes the Big Trap
April 30, 2023 | Sundance | 56 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/30/sunday-talks-nbcs-gleeful-chuck-todd-promotes-the-big-trap/
Probably a form guide to Canberra too
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Conditions for La Niña are being created in the atmosphere. We will now see an increase in SOI.
https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/soi/
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/webAnims/tpw_nrl_colors/spac/mimictpw_spac_latest.gif
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A check look site
https://weather.gc.ca/saisons/animation_e.html?id=year&bc=sea
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You can watch in real time how fast the average temperature is dropping in the Southern Hemisphere and Antarctica.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/input/gfs_world-wt2_t2anom_d1.png
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Well Lidell is dead and the lights are still on. Seems we didn’t need the old girl after all. May as well blow up the rest of them.
That article by Jo the other day was a good one. I remember the day I realised energy companies dont’care about cheap electricity, they just want to sell energy to you, it is irrelevant to them the quality of the product. It was a very depressing thought.
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More voice
“Tony Abbott magnificent on Albanese’s racist Vanity Voice”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/tony-abbott-magnificent-on-albaneses-racist-vanity-voice.html
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More covid
“Risk assessment expert slams Canada’s Covid response at National Citizens’ Inquiry”
https://tnc.news/2023/04/30/risk-assessment-expert-nci/
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Gaia keeping the beer cold
https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1652704509422870528
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I notice spot prices for electricity today have been volatile for NSW and SA .
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AEMO has the power from Tassie to Vic in orange (or red). Does that mean it is supplying most of what it can?
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I think it means thats what they have set to max to be at that point in time. Its not always max of the interconnector itself, but max supply target.
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I don’t know if you noticed that I’m writing about La Niña’s conditions in the atmosphere.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-155.60,1.28,562
You can watch in real time how fast the average temperature is dropping in the Southern Hemisphere and Antarctica.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/todays-weather/input/gfs_world-wt2_t2anom_d1.png
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The waters around Western Australia and the southern areas are certainly becoming cooler. Doesn’t appear to have altered the WA land temperatures though.
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“A couple of hours after Liddell [Power Station] Closed, AEMO … Issued a Market Notice”
Essay by Eric Worrall
Life without coal? Within hours of the final closure of Liddell Coal Plant permanently removing 10% of New South Wales’ baseload power, an electricity reserve shortfall notice was issued.
Hilights from the video;
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/30/a-couple-of-hours-after-liddell-power-station-closed-aemo-issued-a-market-notice/
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Not with a bang but a lawsuit. Is this the way the vaccines end?
“So far there have been 986 deaths and over 138,000 adverse events that have been reported to the TGA following Covid vaccines. That dwarfs the reports of death for all flu vaccines since records began in 1971 – only 28 deaths and 3,924 adverse events.”
Spectator-Australia, 29 April 2023
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/not-with-a-bang-but-a-lawsuit/
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https://twitter.com/LetsGoBrando45/status/1653101006991892480
Study just released shows that #Covid19 is literally identical to the flu. 🤔🤔🤔 Does it make you wonder where the flu went during Covid? Does it also make you question why they locked down the whole world for the flu? It should & much more… These people genuinely believe we’re stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZOMI_oFno
New study suggests long COVID is identical to the flu – if vaccinated | 9 News Australia
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“These people genuinely believe we’re stupid.” and at an overall population level they are probably right. Here we are in 2023 and there have been no consequences and probably wont be. Just down playing and avoidance and denial. Just some noise on the margins but that can be dealt with. People voted Andrews back FFS.
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The next problem for the TGA?
“CBD Oil Stops Viruses & Covid”
https://youtu.be/Bz4fn2QFO_A
Via https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/05/01/cbd-oil-stops-viruses-covid/
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More from the banking world –
“JPMorgan Chase Acquires First Republic Bank with FDIC Backstopping Deal While Ignoring Current Banking Laws
May 1, 2023 | Sundance | 207 Comments
The topline story from the announcement by JPMorgan Chase [SEE HERE] there are no banking rules/laws in the Biden Fed/Treasury system.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/05/01/jpmorgan-chase-acquires-first-republic-bank-with-fdic-backstopping-deal-while-ignoring-current-banking-laws/
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“Gradually and then suddenly
The title of this article is a quotation from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises”.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/05/gradually-and-then-suddenly.html
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FWIW
“SITREP 5/1/23: Massive Missile Strikes Rock Ukraine”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5123-massive-missile-strikes
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“Scientists identify antivirals that could combat emerging infectious diseases”
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-scientists-antivirals-combat-emerging-infectious.html
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Hi Jo – FYI
“The Biden Cabal has just released a major announcement:
Today, we are announcing that the Administration will end the COVID-19 vaccine requirements for Federal employees, Federal contractors, and international air travelers at the end of the day on May 11, the same day that the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Additionally, HHS and DHS announced today that they will start the process to end their vaccination requirements for Head Start educators, CMS-certified healthcare facilities, and certain noncitizens at the land border. In the coming days, further details related to ending these requirements will be provided.”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/05/01/but-what-about-the-science-what-about-the-children/
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Oops! Maybe too soon –
In comments there now
“As I understand it, there is still a stringent requirement to show proof of “vaccination” when traveling by air to the US. This negates the ground requirement (which wasn’t enforced on selective groups).”
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you need to show proof of the covid vax to get on a boat from Adelaide to Kangaroo island (not the ferry but a cruise)
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Transableism is the new thing now days, when will this oneupmanship end.
It brings new meaning to “its all fun and games until someone loses an eye” LOL
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NSW are currently 1.8GW in the red 🙂
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““Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell ”
From “Econ 101, a Fable”
https://kunstler.com/clusterf*-nation/econ-101-a-fable/
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“Canadian folk music icon Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991
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