Why do we fear ghosts and all things supernatural on Halloween in particular? The customs of Halloween go back centuries and are so deeply steeped in religion and tradition that nothing about this tradition seems strange when you understand where it comes from. Yet, I never grew up with Halloween.
I had never really considered it as part of life until the last decade or two down under. It was something that crept into our culture and became part of every year..... why?
As a child, the end of October was simply that. It was the mark of expectation that Bonfire Night was just around the corner and the promise ( or threat) of crackers down my gumboots was with me yet again.
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The Australian medical and health system has failed me and is now actively destroying the right to choose a treatment and the Doctor/Patient relationship - and what is concerning is they are now coming for you too.
My name is Tyson Illingworth, and I am an award winning, international DJ, composer, songwriter, and sound designer. The music industry and my fans know me by my artist’s name ‘TYDI’, and I have been a musician/composer for 20 years, and I’m only 35. Music is one of the most important and powerful things in my life and I am eternally grateful that I get to live my dream. I wake up every day excited about creating music for my millions of fans and clients around the world.
As we, including me, wallow in disappointment and disgust by the lack of leadership from our political and civil leaders with their weasel-worded utterances, I would like to indulge myself in writing this exposé on one aspect of Australia’s past heritage.
I hope it will inspire us, despite the despondency we are deriving from our present leaders.
For almost 1,400 years, the Muslims dominated the Holy Land and the surrounding Levant.
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Australia allocates extra funds for Ukraine - Hundreds of millions worth of arms and other military aid were included in the new budget
The Australian government has earmarked AU$213.3 million (US$136mn) in additional spending for aid to Ukraine over the next five years. The funding is part of the new federal budget revealed on Tuesday.
Most of the money is to be spent on military assistance, including Bushmaster armored vehicles and other weapon systems that Canberra wants to provide to Kiev over two years. The Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese allocated AU$185.6 million (US$118mn) for this purpose.
Like many Western conservative parties, the Tories are going through a period of deep division.
Liz Truss was finally compelled to resign as UK prime minister late last week. The radical “new era” that she had promised to usher in had lasted a mere 45 days.
Her downfall came as no surprise to observers of UK politics. Weeks ago, George Galloway told all who would listen that Truss was “as thick as mince in a bottle” – and the historian Dominic Sandbrook said she was “the least impressive person to have become prime minister in my lifetime.” So it proved to be.
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This is a bootleg of “The Real Anthony Fauci,” a full-length, two-part feature documentary based on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s runaway bestseller — “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health”. There’s no saying how long this upload will stay up.
If it gets taken down, it will be available to watch free ONLY until Oct. 28th. Register here to watch the documentary.
The film, produced by Jeff Hays, exposes Fauci’s influence on government policy, the pharmaceutical industry and medical research.
Of late, we seem to be living in a world of superlatives.
Unprecedented this, disastrous that, once in a lifetime events and the beginning of the new " normal. "
We are being brainwashed into thinking that the end of the world is nigh, unless we freeze to death and give all our money and our land to the climate gods.
It seems to me that sanity and commonsense have left the building and most people don't even realise that the real bombshell has already hit.
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The people who run things in this country don’t deserve your respect or allegiance. They are at war with you. They want you and your children dead.
Welcome to the New Age, where authority has no authority and does not deserve to act with any authority, but will act as if it does, anyway, and then lie to you about it.
Nowhere is this quandary more vivid than in the racketeering operation formerly known as medicine.
We need kids like this today.
This boy knew that he was a boy. Wanting to be a man.
He was ready and able to fight for what is right.
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The political left, with its insane push towards unsustainable ‘green’ energy, adoption of cultural lunacy (drag queens and transgenders for children) and shunning of scientific and biological facts (“there are more than two sexes“) is leading to the end of the “petrodollar” and the huge global influence of the Western-led United States in favor of a China-led economic alliance that combines growth with authoritarianism.
Earlier this week, following a two-day summit with Saudi Arabia, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that the oil-rich kingdom is likely to join the growing BRICS coalition consisting of core members Brazil, India, China, and South Africa.
Menace to tyrants, liberator of generations
In 1683, the most dangerous man in the world escaped from England to the Netherlands.
He didn’t look very formidable. He was 51 years old, lanky, and asthmatic. He had, according to one description, a “long face, large nose, full lips, and soft, melancholy eyes.”
Yet the King of England considered him one of his deadliest enemies. As the right-hand man of Charles II’s chief political opponent in the country, he was suspected of conspiring to assassinate the king.
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