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Over the last couple of days I have referenced the German Christmas market killings and wondered what the motive was.
Old Ozzie summed up the options well, yesterday
“Based upon this information, there are three possible scenarios:
(1) The guy is a former Muslim who hates Germany for being complicit with Islam, so he decided to slaughter innocent people at a Christian-oriented Christmas market;
(2) the guy is a complete lunatic; and
(3) the guy is a Muslim who has played a Taqiyya game for almost two decades as a Muslim sleeper agent in Germany.”
As regards 3) this is also a trick of communism to lull people into a sense of false security. To 2) I would add, Drugs. He could have gone mad or been on drugs or both.
As for 1) killing Christians at a Christmas fair when you are so anti Mu*lim and Far right seems counter intuitive.
To do this baffling deed surely your mind must be messed up, which then inches us to 2) but I think a lot more is yet to come out
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14218751/german-christmas-market-attacker-charged-murder-multiple-attempted.html
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A more likely option is that he had a beef with the market people or some such.
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That would have to be a whole herd of beef in order to react in that manner.
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This is an interesting one
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/21/majority-of-brits-receive-more-in-benefits-than-they-pay-in-taxes/
Looking at the data this sort of headline could be produced about many western economies as we are all mostly living far beyond our means.
When it appears to be incorrect-as with the US-we then need to factor in their enormous deficit to see that they too are living beyond their means but as a reserve currency have some leeway.
This interesting link compares virtually all economies for a wide variety of factors from debt to tax and GDP
The US gdp per head is some 30% better than ours in the UK. Most of the developed European economies are in the same boat and the gap widens each year.
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/uk/usa
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The chart indicates I, a U. S. citizen, am in arrears to the tune of $98,204; 2X that of a Brit. In practical terms, that will never be paid. My question is whether spending is increasing faster than border crossings? With lots of new folks, my share ought to be going down.
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lets hope that this study from Australia is complete nonsense
https://slaynews.com/news/bird-flu-kill-90-pregnant-women-unborn-babies-study-warns/
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“Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process”. A nice 25 minutes long film that shows how log houses were built in the past. English subtitles.
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More Get Woke, Go Broke.
Video about how Elon Musk has officially moved SpaceX headquarters from California to Starbase in the free state of Texas. He has previously moved Tesla as well.
https://youtu.be/4ZeJHpbcwr8
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The Science on human origins is certainly not “settled”, science never is despite constant pronouncements from the Left to the contrary.
These days it’s not considered PC or woke to discuss human origins or ancient human migration patterns, especially when it conflicts with official narratives such as, for example, there only ever being one ancient human migration of people to Australia.
Nevertheless, inquiring minds understand that there is plenty of uncertainty about human origins and ancient human migration patterns and the following video discusses the pure “out of Africa” theory and its possible invalidity.
https://youtu.be/UIIXmmTjeYY
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Donald Trump suggests to retake control of the Panama Canal, something they mostly built and paid for, because Panama is charging extortionate fees to US ships.
Good idea.
Styxhexenhammer discusses:
https://youtu.be/S4qxavgdQP8
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Excellent news. Because we’ve seen how WHO handles “emergencies”. In future, let any genuine emergencies be handled by people who know what they’re doing
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I’m Sicktoria, Australia, if Persutto stays he will lose the next unlosable election.
I am not convinced that the Liberal “leadership” actually want to win Government. The “leaders” have comfortable, well paid jobs with excellent retirement benefits, don’t do much, don’t believe in anything and get invited to lots of cocktail parties and other social functions. Why do the hard work of winning an election?
In any case, there is very little difference in beliefs of either Uniparty faction.
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Who can we vote for?
Senator Rennick has just founded another conservative party (People First), thereby fragmenting the conservative vote even further!
Now we have:
People First
Family First
Australia First
Lib Dems
One Nation
Hunters and Fishers
United Australia
What hope is there?
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Those conservative parties need to unify under one banner because we need a conservative alternative to the Lib/Lab/Green Uniparty under which we effectively have a one party state.
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In Melbournistan right now its a “balmy” 11C according to the official temperature.
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In Ellensburg it is 1C, snow on the ground and dense fog. It is either winter or CO2. As I get older moving to a place of better weather is more appealing.
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Monday film.
Metropolis (1927)
Restored to close to original form with missing footage found in Argentina in 2008.
https://youtu.be/X-S5v4UwhAE
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