Marianne Faithfull famously sung that at the age of thirty-seven, Lucy Jordan realised she'd never ride through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair. It’s taken me a lot longer, being more than twice that age, but I’m on the same page. I used to care a bit, but I don’t give a rat’s arse anymore (No offence intended Esra).
When you think about it, we are all so insignificant in the whole scheme of things, any achievement, no matter how great and earth-shattering it may seem at the time, is illusory. You only have to ponder that it takes 200,000 years for light from a distant star travelling at the speed of light, which is about 300,000 kilometres per second, to cross our galaxy, and there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. The magnitude of it all is too large to grasp.
How many of us are thinking of making a run for the hills?
Or, as the Americans would say, about to get a fast stage out of Dodge. Will we be forced to ask ourselves what we will do? Try to hide, or stand and fight?
This Lockdown and removal of our Liberty sure happened fast, and that was one hell of an alarm bell for me.
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I just read the Manic Festo of the Monster Raving Loony Party in Britain and to be honest it was more sensible than the Greens manifesto.
The biggest difference between the Loony Party and the Greens however is that the Loony Party do not take themselves seriously.
They actually promise that, if elected, they won’t implement any of their policies.
The Greens on the other hand don’t even get elected but expect to have their policies implemented because they are masters of manipulation, emotional blackmail and media infiltration.
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We have so many Veterans taking their own lives and disappearing into a sea of despair, that I have to wonder if there is an answer that is right in front of our noses?
On the 13th of March each year, we mark World K9 Day. The day that the world is supposed to celebrate the gift of loyalty and dedication that our four-legged friends have given to our Military men and women. Our canine friends have fought beside us and stood beside us and comforted us in times of trouble and we are increasingly, as a species, forgetting their dedication and love and consigning them into the same bin that we place our unborn children.
We are reading more and more stories of heartbroken and dispirited Veterans who are taking their own lives.
“If you aren’t destroying your enemies, it’s because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
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It seems that the townies have lost the plot and it's time for the boys from the scrub in the outback towns to come in and sort this mess out.
It is a fiasco.
I think the people in the cities have taken control over a situation that they do not understand. Let's face it, if we keep this rubbish up, we won't have a country.
Read more: The boys from the Bush need to come to Town and sort the Mess out
I confess. I'm a Man.
My sins are many.
I'm male, white, and heterosexual and I love my wife and kids. I vote conservative. I have no tattoos. No beard. I go to church on important days.
I'm just an ordinary bloke doing what most blokes do every day. Work and do what comes naturally. Just be a man. Just being myself.
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Files reveal how the specter of Moscow's supposed underhand ways was used to subjugate the platform to the US Democratic Party
In a pair of blockbuster #TwitterFiles threads, this week, journalist Matt Taibbi has blown open, even wider, the media giant's concerning collusion with the US national security state. The former Rolling Stone writer exposed how political pressure from the US Democratic Party very effectively forced the company to endorse the lie that its platform was extensively weaponized by Russia, with hugely significant consequences.
The post-Cold War world had long been crumbling, and after 2022, it’s finally gone
The year 2022 has come to an end. It has been a year which has significant consequences for the future of global geopolitics, and will be remembered as such in the history books.
Specifically, it marked the closing of three decades of American unipolarity, which had begun with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and forced through a new multipolar world consisting of numerous competing great powers.
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Governments around the world are reporting excess deaths in 2021 and 2022. These excess deaths are astronomical compared to 2020, when an alleged pandemic was taking place. Between the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Europe, there have been a staggering 1.8 million excess deaths since the launch of the “lifesaving” covid-19 vaccine. How can public health officials continue to call the covid-19 vaccines “lifesaving” when excess deaths continue to spike year after year?
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