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- The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
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* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
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Category Archives: Australia
A Sunday Chat With Donovan Worland, Charlottesville, Aussie Singer Nick Cave (7-11-21)
00:00 Donovan Worland’s channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/donworland 01:00 Donovan has a white father, black mother 02:00 Donovan on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/donworland 03:00 Donovan’s Twitter account, https://twitter.com/don_arete 04:00 Donovan on Minds, https://social.quodverum.com/@Donovan 12:00 Oriental medicine 18:50 Oregon vs California 22:00 Donovan feels more comfortable … Continue reading
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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by David Hackett Fischer: * When one compares these many accounts, one notices that the same language of description tends to occur. Karl Popper described New Zealanders as “decent, friendly and well-disposed.” … Continue reading
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Aussie Mustache vs Luke Ford + Stunning GDL Admission!
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Australian Talk Radio
From the 2006 book, More Than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World:
On Air
Australian media personality Mike Carlton writes in his 2018 autobiography about his six decade career: * One Monday morning we discovered another new body in the reporters’ room, a scrawny man in his mid-twenties sitting silently at a desk and … Continue reading
SMH: Neo-Nazis go bush: Grampians gathering highlights rise of Australia’s far right
In his 2017 book Making Sense of the Alt Right, academic George Hawley wrote: “I am not implying that the Alt-Right is a terrorist movement. At the time of this writing, I am aware of no acts of physical violence … Continue reading
Explaining Conspiracy Theories About Bullied 9-Year-Old Quaden Bayles (1-31-21)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/cameronwilson/quaden-bayles-conspiracy-viral-bullying-dwarfism-age https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53673934 Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130046 https://thelogicalindian.com/fact-check/australia-quaden-bayles-bullying-go-fund-me-19903 Marjorie Taylor Greene touts Trump call amid growing backlash https://www.abc.net.au/austory/about-a-boy/12803110: Quaden Bayles is a nine-year-old boy with dwarfism who just wants to fit … Continue reading
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Australia First With Dia Beltran (12-31-20)
Dia Beltran’s Bitchute channel: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/rtlvmAe2AsDj/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGN_ySXz80uMHMEkGjKzh1g Dia Beltran’s doco on race: https://www.bitchute.com/video/1HXWZrZ1rwel/ Follow me (Dia) on Telegram: https://t.me/diabeltran (Private) Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dialatina Follow me on Gab: https://gab.ai/dia_latina Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dia_Latina?lang=en Subscribe to me on Minds: … Continue reading
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Claiming To Be Abo To Get Ahead In Australia
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Andrew Bolt (who you can think of as Australia’s Tucker Carlson) was sued under our anti-discrimination laws because of an opinion piece he wrote that criticised fair-skinned Aborigines for hogging the bulk of Aboriginal-only government … Continue reading
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The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
Chloe Hooper writes in this 2020 Australian true-crime book: * The arsonist had had no need to set kindling amongst the blue gums. Each tree had made its own pyre. Every summer they dropped their bark and branches and leaves, … Continue reading
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