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@colonelhogans Predominantly British Nationalists

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@JohnnyNewtz @7f9bddb86ebe457 In saying that, you're probably right😀

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I give up. What is Geelong with the white tops?

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@JohnnyNewtz @7f9bddb86ebe457 Seriously?😵‍💫

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@7f9bddb86ebe457 Surely its not a heritage top?

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But ON will not change any of these so-called backroom deals

[Charles Joseph Harvey @CharlesJHarvey]

@AlboMP needs to heed the threat of One Nation, he might think he can fool the people with back room deals, looking after vested interests, doing as Israel and US want. It’s these actions that are pissing off Australians. À vote for ON is a vote to destroy the sellout duopoly.

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@Swayn Same, same!

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2 out and out champions!

[Richmond FC 🐯 @Richmond_FC]

4️⃣ + 4️⃣ = GRE8T 🤩

Seven premierships between them! Dustin Martin visited Richmond Immortal Royce Hart during his trip to Tassie 🥰

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@gazza49mp 2 of the greatest finals players, i would have KB as well!😀💛🖤

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@RodChapple Yep. Got 1 in Rezza

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@MarkDiStef Like the CPA preferenced Labor in the past?

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

Yes I've noticed it and not surprised 🙄 well done Albo

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@hasumpstuffedup @radamson15 Those 2 plays just then were as bad as it gets

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where the media insisted negative gearing didn’t increase house prices but now house prices are falling the media are insisting it’s because the Labor government stopped … negative gearing?

#NewsCorpse

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The UK believe 20% of population is black (3%); 15% is Muslim (4%); 5% transgender (0.6%); 15% gay and lesbian (1.8%); 20% of the country is vegan or vegetarian (4%)

Misinformation from the Media

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@SydMagpiespres @gazza49mp Bit rich coming from Crows supporters

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@gazza49mp Didn't Dimma have run in at Adelaide oval?

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@RightisRight___ Superannuation is not a tax. It's a condition of employment

[Paul Kniest @paulkniest]

@lesstenny Dave enjoyed a period of success.
His accountant told him he should invest his unexpected gains in houses and use negative gearing .
He did.
He’s now a wealthy property owner.
He now thinks he’s a business genius.
But, he’s forgotten he once relied on government welfare.