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"Think of the foreclosures!"

The Fidelity Fiduciary Bank song, from Mary Poppins, as sung by Dick Van Dyke, as the bank chairman:

If you invest your tuppence

Wisely in the bank

Safe and sound

Soon that tuppence safely invested in the bank

Will compound

And you'll achieve that sense of conquest

As your affluence expands

In the hands

Of the directors

Who invest as propriety demands

You see, Michael, you'll be part of...

Railways through Africa

Dams across the Nile

Fleets of ocean greyhounds

Majestic self-amortizing canals

Plantations of ripening tea

All from

Tuppence prudently, thriftily, frugally

Invested in the...

To be specific

In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs

Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

When you deposit tuppence in a bank account

Soon you'll see

That it blooms into credit of a generous amount

Semiannually

And you'll achieve that sense of stature

As your influence expands

To the high financial strata

That established credit now commands

You can purchase first and second trust deeds

Think of the foreclosures!

Bonds, chattels, dividends, shares

Bankruptcies

Debtor sales

Opportunities

All manner of private enterprise

Shipyards

The mercantile

Collieries

Tanneries

Corporations

Amalgamations

Banks!

You see, Michael? All for the lack of...

Tuppence

Patiently, cautiously, trustingly invested in the...

To be specific

In the Dawes, Tomes, Mousley, Grubbs

Fidelity Fiduciary Bank

https://youtu.be/_cerBB6nVHM?si=gxtsg8-ORHGqwr2Z

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there's a whole trend of Mary Poppins parody (not for the faint hearted) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EP53CqFipU

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I didn't know, thanks. I won't look to avoid having to unsee it. Maybe they realize the hidden power of an old thing like this from 1964 (a year after the JFK assassination) and they have to try to denigrate it.

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at first I was shocked, but I can sort of understand the slapstick effect.

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A reader linked your interview with Peter Duke in the comments of my last post. I watched the entire interview last night.

While I found the information about all of the questionable Berggruen links fascinating, Peter Dukes comments about El Niño being responsible for the Santa Ana winds were absurd. His disdain about the possibility that DEW's were involved was also ill conceived. If he had bothered to get out of his car and exercise some critical thinking and powers of observation, he would have saved himself the error of referring to the metal slag running from the melted car as "plastic". If he had used some powers of observation he might have also noticed that the power poles were burned in half at the point where the wires were attached.

It's hard for me to understand how someone so intelligent can miss so much.

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/a-forensics-examination-of-video

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/detailed-forensic-evidence-supporting

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/was-the-la-fire-santa-ana-wind-geoengineered

Much more here -

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/a-compendium-of-sources-of-information

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C’mon.! The guy just lost his Fucking house and you are splitting hairs on how he observes such shocking phenomena? Why does any of this matter?

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Because he is otherwise credible, he needs to be more careful about spreading lies about what happened because people will pick up on that and spread them further.

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Peter Duke! Fascinating accounts from a real person on the ground. Great insights . And the man has now become a great new source of intrigues - cheers.

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