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Open Thread – Weekend 9 Oct 2021
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Calling Dr Cat What is the effect of tube diameter and wall stiffness on home blood pressure monitors? Quick search…
Temperatures in Palestine are increasing faster than the global average Lots of exploding bombs adding to the heat load…
Even Putin can be persuaded. With the right incentives.
They will “consult” the ones who will tell them what they want to hear.
Moar Effnik!
Aah but where does the steam roadster fit in.
Truck or steam train?
Yes!
Don’t build dams they say… use some french froggers tech…
Okay… then start dismantlement existing dams and lets have water into cities from your bullshit skience.
What say you Photias???
How’s Klaus?
Good night all.
10th Light Horse officially returns to Regimental Status tomorrow- Big parade in Langley Park.
And I will be in Bassendean, tending to another steamer.
What a weekend…
And Photias…
I guess it must be exciting to become an oligarch… but We don’t want bread and circuses…
We just want a beer with our mates and a collective BBQ with family and friends.
Is that too much for you Photias????
cheers
Best wedding I ever went to was a Greek wedding.
same night that psycho shot up Hoddle St
Opa !!
The dreaded “Tin Ponies.”
Terry McCann in Teh Paywallian. Wonder how he got this past the editors and lawyers?
unless you work in the Australian Public Service, or have been near it, I do not think the average person understands how much ordinary folk are controlled and looked down upon.
The Costello Future Fund was not set up for Australians like The Norwegian Sovereign Fund.
It is set up to provide for elite Servants.
Who is a prominent member of the NSW gliberal/national agrarian socialist abortion of a government.
Democracy as we know it in this country is a f*cking sham.
Which is why I’m still revelling under house arrest for three and a half months.
Thanks a bunch, you hitlerist numbskulls. 🙁
“Best” wedding I ever went to was with a mate to a mob of Palestinians in Parramatta, Sydney.
Long story but fkn funny as to see the NSW Labor shills grovel.
I did the modern day equivalent of the Ottoman dance but in my case bodies were more at a distance.
that would be little soros called Photias.
why is he never shown yet everyone says he controls the lnp???
is he the worm out of Dune???
seems Photias wants to control the future in his own image… Klauss.
Soros admitted he picked the gold out of the teeth of Jewish people…
What is Soros accolade Photias picking????
A perfect example of how f*cking useless the gliberals are. Mucho trumpeting by various braindead conservative meeja dunderheads* at the time – gee, wow:
“His Smugness has just set aside gazillions of taxpayers’ money to ensure our fat stupid and utterly useless collectivist corruptocrats can graze in bounteous fields for the remainder of their utterly pointless existences. What a triumph of conservatism, we tells ya!”
*e.g. Greg “I love existing in a rubbish bin” Sheridan.
Kean is the modern face of their Liberal Party of Australia.
not only that Rabz but they engineered it to ‘flog’ off Australia’s communication system to be the base of ‘their’ fund.
how great was it to get telecom shares???
and I refused to touch their dirty filth.
but the best bit I’ve recently seen was to to watch last years ‘contretemps’ between ciaFB, ciaGoogle, and whomever else telling Dutton at Home Land Services we gunna put you in chains honkey and shut off access to Australian Government Websites on FB.
I hope and pray that Dutton has the balls.
mh says:
October 10, 2021 at 12:23 am
Trump rally later today:
Trump holding Iowa rally at must-stop along road to White House
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-holding-iowa-rally-must-111629665.html
mh says:
October 10, 2021 at 12:14 am
Deuce gets it
Rob Schneider
@RobSchneider
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8h
“When Government threatens to take away an individuals right to employment, healthcare, education and the ability to enter a store to buy food, enter a hospital or travel on public transportation, there is no other word for it but tyranny.”
The American Revolution started with 50 men who signed a Declaration full well knowing they would be killed.
I believe the majority of those folk lost everything, sometimes at the hands of Victorian Police.
And I see no difference in the operation of the Australian Police to The Redcoats in the US colonies.
and fuck off and DIE you vaxxed and leave normal human folk to sit with their old folk and comfort them.
Ragu says:
October 9, 2021 at 3:34 pm
M
Singapore’s immunity trap a lesson for Australia
In the last few weeks, tents and other temporary structures have appeared at hospitals in Singapore as it grapples with a per-capita load of daily infections that is suddenly the highest in Asia.
But unlike in India or Indonesia earlier in the year, these spillover areas are not filled with desperately ill people. Rather, they are triage stations, sorting COVID-19 cases into those who can go home, those who need to be admitted, and those who need to be otherwise isolated.
The difference is vaccination. When the delta variant ripped through New Delhi and Jakarta, vaccination rates were negligible. In contrast, about eight in 10 of Singapore’s entire population are double-jabbed. That’s one of the highest rates in the world and has kept serious illness to low numbers.
But vaccinations reduce, rather than stop, infections and Singapore’s Finance Minister, Lawrence Wong, describes the country as “COVID-19 naive” because it recorded a relatively low number of COVID-19 infections before vaccinations became widespread.
It turns out the terrible waves of illness that swept through the United Kingdom and the United States last year did leave one positive – natural immunity. It’s valuable and the only way to get it is through people catching COVID-19.
As Wong put it, many countries “have reached a new COVID-stable situation where they are able to resume activities, and they have not seen any resurgence of cases. We are in a different position.”
The parallels to Australia and New Zealand are obvious, says professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.
“Pandemics end through natural selection or adaption, which is what happens when we are repeatedly exposed to a pathogen. We get used to it being in our body and thereby reducing the harmful or long-term consequences,” professor Teo says.
“Our ministers use that phrase ‘COVID-naive’ because Singapore – very much like Australia and New Zealand – has been very successful at keeping COVID-19 out of our country, so many of our people have not been exposed to the virus.”
https://archive.ph/Yhk9h
Includes a graph
mh says:
October 9, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Believe it or not, Trump looks likely to be the next president
Joe Biden is reeling from one disaster to another, the Democrats are divided and there is no other Republican even in the running. Bizarre as it may seem, all the trends point one way.
By GREG SHERIDAN
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But how do they stop the steal, Greg?
****
Paywalled –
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Bons says:
October 9, 2021 at 1:05 pm
I have been attempting to read ‘Mao’s Great Famine’ following the review by The Lotus Eaters.
It cannot be read while maintaining your sanity.
Communism must be made a criminal offense.
If we ever get Australia back again I hope the shit communist public health and education shibboleths are burnt to the ground and pissed upon by male and female.
It is a criminal offense against humanity.
It is a stink up your nostril.
And if you cannot smell it then you are a fabian/socialist/communist.
LOL
I see there is a fund in Amerika that offers zero loss and all profits.
They just track the mafia Don’s daughter Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s Investments.
Murder Inc.
Historically what Mao did was not that unusual in China. Brutal rulers who lived apart from the people and ruthlessly exploited them. How do you think the Great Wall was built? A friend told there be a lot of bones in those walls.
And be very careful what you say.
There is more than one Victoria that is a dictatorial state with bashing killer kops.
Steve trickler says:
October 8, 2021 at 11:11 pm
Well there you go. The things we learn.
Sliced bread even had government messing around with it. Unbelievable. 16:58.
THG:
Sliced bread is the standard for greatness. No one seems to ask what was the greatest thing before sliced bread, and many compete over what is the greatest thing since. But, in 1943, sliced bread was about to encounter the largest war in human history, leading many to argue that the worst thing since sliced bread was the time the government banned sliced bread. The US government ban on sliced bread in January 1943 is history that deserves to be remembered.
Sliced Bread and the Second World War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Kc6Sfla3I
can I have some of what your having???
KD et al.
I started to watch the interview of the poor benighted Victorian kopper but when she got to walking with her partner and seeing POLIZ..POLIZ everywhere I actually could not be bothered watching any more of her schtik.
So if I’m wrong laugh and kick sand in my eyes.
But, she’s the ethics chick who should have been overwatch of the Pell case investigators out of control trolling for little boys ????
You wouldn’t be able to handle it.
in fact she is the female face of the Andrews witch hunt of enemies.
I think he is fkg mad.
there are enough stories of his own side being scared.
probably not… but its nice to drink beer and eat smokes together.
that’s all
Being Chinese can’t be made criminal, promoting murderous ideologies such as Communism, can.
As to China’s long history of horrific brutality, even Terry Pratchett wrote about that in his Discworld equivalent to China, when the Barbarian Hoard realised how they maintained a nation of submissive, unquestioning slaves without any overlords, whips or chains in sight.
However that can also be a reflection of just how long & hard China’s fought to reject The Creator God of Christianity … but that’s a whole other topic, not for places like this.
Dan Andrews is a megalomaniac.
How else can you make a direct BRI agreement with China???
With having the entire Australian Government with you and not tell the Australian people.
That’s how.
The Australian Politburo now run the country.
My friend is probably wrong about the bones bit. There have been a lot of rebellions in China but then a people so long existent tend to experience that.
Is China Naturally Authoritarian?
He states many millions have been killed in construction works of various kinds. For people like us it is hard to comprehend that people would submit to that kind of regime. Perhaps we had better get used to it!
He makes an interesting point about the psychology of the Chinese. For them there is much more emphasis on shame than guilt. It relates to the collectivism-individualism spectrum. A book I am currently reading highlights how people in the West tend to be much more guilt focused.
Enjoy your drinks.
Megalomaniac is the exact description he narrator uses to describe Chinese emperors! See, get used to it!
coffee and nicotine is all
Week In Pictures.
ICYMI with Real Rukshan Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBuL56RUgxk
Oct 9, 2021
Real Rukshan
Welcome to my new end of the week online show, airing on Saturday or Sunday once a week! (That’s the plan anyway). ICYMI with Real Rukshan is a roundup of some of the news stories from Australia and around the world that I’ve been following this past week!
I think they are worth sharing, so you will find the links to the relevant stories below.
Topics covered this week:
Victoria Police Speak Out, Pfizer Undercover Investigation, Aussie Cossack Arrested & Daniel Andrews Unmasked
Who will say “shove it up your arse” Danials…
How High Does the #SlugGate Corruption Go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsYLd2Ycgzk
Oct 9, 2021
Discernable
#SlugGate and iCook is the little story that tells the bigger story.
‘That level of casual corruption, that they did to iCook Foods, speaks to what they are doing to Victoria right now’.
‘You need a head on a stick’ to prevent future corruption.
In this segment we covered Dan Andrew’s baby – Community Chef – with connections to Anthony Albanese and CHO Brett Sutton, which is unravelling in parliamentary and police inquiries right now.
There’s a dead woman, doctored evidence, lies to parliament, $800,000 missing, millions of debts cleared by the Victorian Labor Party, a ruined family business, angry whistleblowers, highly motivated ex detectives coming out of retirement…
Welcome to the latest reality TV show. It’s the Victoria Dan Andrews created, and we all now live in.
This is a segment from our special episode NOT ABOVE THE LAW with Rohan Wenn: https://youtu.be/96Yh5GZ97zQ
Photias is a Phagot feeding on Australian People.
The Cult of the NHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSuvRo4HOic
Oct 9, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Worldwide Covid Fascism is Forming Before Our Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9115KDPEiTo
Oct 9, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
Full Podcast + links: https://www.lotuseaters.com/the-podcast-of-the-lotus-eaters-237-08-10-21
Carl and Callum discuss the worldwide fascism that is being constructed before our eyes, Britain’s NHS cult followers, and how feminism has so emotionally destroyed young women they can’t see men as humans any more.
School’s Out – For the Marxists
George Orwell was Right
A Two on the cusp of 9, so watch it!
The future.
Thanks Tom
Also good for another run.
Vermont is one of the top three vaccinated states in the US & is used as an example of what vaccinated bliss looks like.
Hospitalisations this week hit a level they didn’t reach during 2020.
Since Israel & Singapore have been memory-holed, will Vermont and the other max vax US states also be memory-holed?
Infection rates are a waste of time.
Hospitalisation rates are meaningful.
18 months of masks, lockdowns, restrictions.
8 months of vaccines.
All for nothing.
When will they pay for what they did to us.
It’s a tell that these people do not want ordinary kids to learn anything real or analytical. It’s wishy-washy stuff, much of it lies. They come out of the school system without literacy or numeracy so they can’t get read alternative sources but have to watch TV for their news. Which is lock solid lefty.
Now they’re even doing it to the smart kids.
NYC: gifted and talented no more (8 Oct, via Instapundit)
You see what will happen. Even the smart kids now won’t get any stimulation or education because that would be elitist and racist. So the bright professionals of NYC are going to have useless poorly educated children too. And woke pressure on them to accept this dumbing down will be immense.
“If you get the vaccine you can still get it & you can still transmit it, but it will keep you out of hospital”.
But it’s not.
It’s not even flattening the curve.
Are you ill man, this is Australia, not America, Roper.
Bern – two two more weeks to flatten the curve. We must be up to about week 82 by now.
FTB:
The evidence I’m seeing so far is that the vaccine is causing the rise in hospitalisations and positive tests.
And the supply chain failures in the US appear to be getting worse.
If the factories are producing and the farms are growing stuff, where is it going? I can understand the choke point of China, but why the lineups of merchant vessels outside our ports?
The BBC is on a sugar high.
BBC urges staff to keep blood sugar levels high to stop racial profiling in job interviews (9 Oct)
It gets sillier and sillier the more you read of it. Maybe it’s satire but I suspect not.
In the US, 10 months of COVID with zero vaccines during 2020 resulted in less deaths than 9 months of COVID with 8 months of vaccines during 2021.
There are 3 months left.
This is why google & fb & twitter are going bonkers on the censorship.
Good comment earlier re future fund. It sounds so exciting and forward looking. It turns out to be as exciting as a retired pubes trip to Cuba
Having a field day with Australian stupidity and hypocrisy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9swmx9jF8
this Vermont Public Radio article from 6 October says 100% of people in ICU with covid are unvaccinated
Interesting article at Quadrant with another perspective on the vaxxes. John Locke features prominently.
Interesting comments too.
Thanks to the editor (!) for giving us a range of opinions.
We need a recriminations bill.
The following people have their publicly funded pension civil penaltied down zero for misbehaviour…
I can read the list whilst chomping down on a cigar. I’ll grow a thick moustache and wear a suit.
Vermont Public Radio
Yes of course they would.
The Future Fund needs to go.
It was always a sick joke, like John Howard supporting free enterprise.
Low blood sugar increases rationality.
Fatter people are generally dumber people.
Do intermittent fasting. Do ketogenic for a while.
Tell me you don’t feel a fog lift that was hindering you just a little bit.
Stupidity probably drives BMI though.
Being fat doesn’t help. Makes especially, your hormones can go out of whack.
You literally cannot think straight.
Australia number of covid deaths: 1421 (800 of which were due to Dan’s ”bungled” hotel quarantine)
Australia number of covid vax deaths: 556
TGA DAEN site
But vaccinations reduce, rather than stop, infections and Singapore’s Finance Minister, Lawrence Wong, describes the country as “COVID-19 naive” because it recorded a relatively low number of COVID-19 infections before vaccinations became widespread.
Were lockdowns really that effective in a country where people live cheek and jowl with each other? I think not. This leaves one wondering what the connection is between high vaccination rates and massive outbreaks.
I know this is not the first time this has been mentioned…
But has anyone else noticed how much of a purulent woke-scum brown-licker the Daily Telegraph has become?
Might as well read the FauxFacts rags.
RB on Australian insanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubsoMhunu-U
And, if you do pop over to Quadrant, there’s another excellent piece covering post lockdown and treatments.
Rosie – That is quite unbelievable since the NSW figures we get each day often report the split for ICU and it is never 100% unvaxed. And they don’t have the lockdowns we have, or at least I don’t think they do.
This is the most recent report I can find which mentions this, it’s from 3 Oct:
Seems clear there’s something fishy about that Vermont Public Radio report.
Oops, meant to include a link.
Gilas, they’re Laura Norder authoritarians like Ray! Hadley!
It’s getting really bad Gilas. Woke, climate screechy and denigrates “covidiots” incessantly. It’s only when you get to the opinion columns it has anything worthwhile.
Got to be due to the recent Murdoch kiddie edict. They’d take special note of the Tele I suspect, as a holdout of unwoke.
Fox is as bad:
Fox News Re-Hires Expert Who Called Arizona for Biden (8 Oct)
No mention of the latest Vik protests or the scenes outside Burwood Police Station after the Cossack’s arrest..
Just the usual “Covidiots” slandering of the intelligent citizenry resistance to the COVID clusterfuck..
Disgraceful, oleagenous cowards!
Everyone should use the Bypass Paywalls add-on when browsing News websites.
Bankruptcy of this MSM dinosaur cannot come soon enough.
Snap, Bruce.
Come on guys, the Recriminations Bill (Pension Forfeiture of Incompetent or Dishonest Public Servants) 2021 is a rad idea.
UAP, LDP, PHON need to push this.
Just remember: Sutton told the press that APS and “court wukkas” were exempt from compulsory vaccines on medical and legal advice.
Fox News Re-Hires Expert Who Called Arizona for Biden (8 Oct)
Why do people insist on wearing hair-mats that can easily be spotted from the Moon?
or perhaps it’s just true Bruce as the total number of people in hospital in Vermont, on average, is 40.
Compare and contrast the experiences of the Cossack, Avi and Andy Ngo with these journos.
Journalists in the Philippines, Russia win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize (8 Oct)
Somehow by that last sentence I doubt the increasingly woke Nobel committee means people like the Cossack.
We’re now actually and verifiably worse than Russia and the Philippines. The fall of Australia has been as rapid as anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Canada today –
Trudeau Bans the Unvaccinated from Leaving the Country and from Earning a Living
excess deaths dropped to pre pandemic levels in July then came the delta variant
No Rosie. The vaccination coverage mention in the story is similar to NSW. Yet the ICU patients here are a plausible split between the three categories – yes, only 14 of 140 fully vaxed, but that is in keeping with places like Israel. Not zero. Certainly not zero for a whole week.
Given the politics of Vermont and especially NPR, and similar public radio in the US, I smell a very ripe odour.
Why is 40 hospital beds in a population of 643,000 a problem (Vermont)?
How many of these people are very old or have comorbidities (which would see them bed ridden anyway)?
I smell a very ripe odour. Yes indeedy.
This morning’s “This Week In Pictures” was so funny and choc full of great stuff, I laughed all the way through and took heaps of screen shots to send to friends.
Forgot to say thanks Tom, you’re a legend.
I cannot understand the logic of preventing people whom you despise from leaving the country. If they were gone they would no longer be your problem. By not explaining the reasoning behind this decision spells out clearly what was the aim – cruelty. ScoMo comes from the same school of government.
A suggestion
https://immigrationtomexico.mx/how-to-get-mexican-citizenship/
Seems easy enough.
My American agents in the field basically say freedom loving Gringos are moving to Mexico.
In our travels whenever we used to say where we are from people would say visiting Australia was on their bucket list. Now we have pro-Australian democracy in New York and Warsaw of all places.
Now we know that the utter fall of a country happens in just months.
Haha, just got to the WIP:
Vermont politics
I don’t know what China is up to, but that isnt the same as repeatedly posting about an anti Jewish bio weapon that is the figment of some crackpot conspiracy theorist’s imagination not to mention it appears to be simply an inversion of an anti Semitic bigot’s conspiracy theory that Jews are developing a bio weapon to target Arabs.
same old blood libel
No, the real reason is that Sarah Murdoch was embarrassed at Point Piper soirées.
“I’m paying you from the neck down…”
Good luck discriminating against populations that live side by side. 1/3 of men in the West are raising other men’s children!
East Germany built the wall to prevent people from moving to a better life in the west. The aim now seems to be to create hell on earth everywhere.
Not sure if this has been up previously .. GLADYS doing almost as good as a DOWNFALL parody .. LOL!
https://youtu.be/wLTGXblgUoc
Dullard rosie has turned into a Grigs style fact checker.
Keep finding those obscure sources rosie.
One day you’ll post something interesting.
Over six months ago, when AZ became available for over 60’s, I decided not to have it based on ethical grounds. My husband, having a number of co-morbidities, decided to have it. I promised him that if an alternative presented itself, I would submit.
Time moves on. Our lying PM told me that I would be at “the back of the queue”, implying that all doses of mRNA (the only alternative) would be earmarked for the young. I was happy with that – their perceived needs came before mine. In addition, he stated that the NovaVax would be exclusively used for boosters. He probably lied about that too.
Yesterday, I honoured my promise and threw my fate in with my eldest grandson. I had my first jab of Moderna. Cats will know I’m not happy about it but my position had became untenable, and I’m not about to have my 45 year marriage ruined by this bullshit.
Disclosure is important to me because any comments on the subject I make from hereon must be viewed through this prism. Obviously, my thoughts on passports and on mandatory jabbing remain the same, but I’m not silly enough to think that I’ll be immune from the temptation to use my “papers” to my advantage.
Sorry – that was a lot about the wonder of “me”. The interwebs are full of dishonest @rseholes who get their kicks manipulating others. I just don’t want to be one of them.
Hezbollah and Iran doing their usual awesome job running Lebanon.
Entirety Of Lebanon Goes Dark, Mass Power Outage To Last Several Days (9 Oct)
shatterz, this Saudi takeover could result in a rejuvenation of the entire region.
I can’t listen to Dave Ramsey anymore. “If you help someone, you’re not helping them”.
Can you imagine anyone who isn’t very lucky or very successful in Australia buying a home on 25% of their take home income?
Except in lower bumfudge, you mean people must earn at least a six figure income to buy a home. Even a first home, say a 2 bedroom unit in Penrith. I’ve seen some absurd price rises in housing in regional NSW this year too.
“It’s a good thing if young married couples can’t buy a home for five years”
“Let’s build generational wealth”
I suppose my real gripe is with the amount of tax we pay.
Well said Calli. Watch carefully for health issues though, as Moderna seems a bit more powerful than Pfizer.
Iceland Bans Moderna Vaccine Use Due To Heart Inflammation Risk (9 Oct)
Trump Iowa rally livestream (POTUS 45 is scheduled to appear at 11am AEDT).
What the hell is this?
As if our reputation wasn’t (deservedly) bad enough already.
Darth Calli would have declared that the deal had been altered and to pray that it was not altered any further.
How screwed up is the world when this statement makes sense.
Since restrictions/lock downs started, it seemed like every boomer was out & about when I was taking mans best friend to any of the parks I live near.
Especially on Saturday & Sunday mornings.
Power walking with face masks etc.
Today, things were eerily quiet.
Apart from one couple that I’ve seen for the past couple of years, the park I went to was empty.
Do the end of lock downs mean boomers will stay home?
I cannot understand the logic of preventing people whom you despise from leaving the country. If they were gone they would no longer be your problem. By not explaining the reasoning behind this decision spells out clearly what was the aim – cruelty. ScoMo comes from the same school of government.
I think Trudeau naturally assumes all the unvaxed are white and right wing.
He doesn’t want other countries accusing him of allowing such evil creatures to invade and infect them. He is therefore being a good global citizen and helping to prevent the spread of disease.
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Here in Canberra heard some health Muppet saying now we are approaching 90% jabbed go out and get the MORONAVIRUS to boost your immunity. If these morons had SFB there would be an increase of IQ to 65.
shatterz don’t care about where the money comes from.
If I was a Newcastle fan, I wouldn’t care either.
Being a Chelsea fan, I’ve enjoyed having criminal money deliver the silverware.
Hopefully yes, Bern.
They’ve had their soma of “good citizenship” and “cheerful compliance”.
Now, to the nembutal laced bread and butter puddings they’ve cooked up listening to Fleetwood Mac. Their final dinner party conversation: how John Howard is alright even though he ruined the ABC and made it a right wing front for the extreme Glibberals. No the kids aren’t getting their 2003 E Class Mercedes. It will be donated to Greenpeace and the Jon Stephens legal fund.
worth the read – scary stuff
THE PANOPTICON IS ALREADY HERE
Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
China Will Have “Full Ability” to Invade Taiwan in 4 Years
Yes, It Really is as You’ve Been Informed about How Bad It Now is in Australia.
This, from what looks like a dating site. Quite a good summary too.
“We’re UNDER SIEGE!” What’s Going On With Australia’s Lockdown?!
Russell Brand
Bruce, the choice between Pfizer and Moderna was decided for me by a 12 year old. Whatever happens to him happens to me.
On manipulation, it’s interesting how one goes from Zero to Hero and back again depending on a narrow band of thought, i.e. agree with me and you’re a star, step one foot outside the tolerance zone and you’re evil incarnate.
Life is more complex than that of course. I found Saint Paul’s instructions to the Romans very helpful in navigating the dicey shoals of acceptance, particularly chs 14 and 15.
“callisays:
October 10, 2021 at 8:51 am”
Great comment Calli. And….
“Disclosure is important to me because any comments on the subject I make from hereon must be viewed through this prism. Obviously, my thoughts on passports and on mandatory jabbing remain the same, but I’m not silly enough to think that I’ll be immune from the temptation to use my “papers” to my advantage.”
Likewise Calli, likewise.
*The US is full of gun toting retards*
Yes well. Every county tends to have their own police force.
Lol. One can only hope.
“Bankruptcy of this MSM dinosaur cannot come soon enough.”
Yep….but all MSM needs to be bankrupted and evaporated…along with the Liberal party of Australia.
China’s President Xi Jinping vows ‘reunification’ with Taiwan | DW News
Tomorrow when I go into the CBD office, I have to show my “papers”.
On Singapore Covid deaths and Covid deaths post vaccination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVfrKR_tDc
How many are heavy smokers?
Tomorrow when I go into the CBD office, I have to show my “papers”.
I’ve told my staff no one has to come in until the retarded masks in the office decree ends.
And when they do, I don’t want anyone travelling at peak hour.
calli, I rarely feel ashamed or proud to be an Australian.
But being a taxpayer/citizen of a country that has forced you into this situation makes me feel a deep shame.
This is where we need a “thumbs down” button. I’m sorry for you and for all of us.
I feel a deep shame when I think of people who came here from Poland and Vietnam to escape tyrrany. So where to go? Mexico, Phillipines?
Calli – I’m still holding off booking for Pfizer or Moderna as my situation is such that it matters little whether I am vaccinated or not. And I like you would prefer Novavax if it ever arrives. I have no especial conscientious objection to Pfizer and Moderna although I do have a scientific dislike based on the mechanism. But I do find the massive bureaucratic pressure abhorrent and whilst it is “voluntary” I will voluntarily demur until I can avoid it no more. I had fluvax in June btw.
I put up that Iceland article to underline that if you experience symptoms get yourself immediate medical attention.
Roll forward 6 months.
International travel into Sydney is back.
COVID cases, hospitalisations are substantially higher.
Do you trust governments to not bring back restrictions?
Time will tell.
Read this and compare it to Australia in the real world, and also think what reasons they give are stupid (shrinking trade union membership, economic inequality) to say Mexico is somewhat unfree.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/mexico/freedom-world/2020
Church for me will remain closed until all, vaxxed and unvaxxed, can worship freely. It was the only way we could honour God and remain unmolested by the State.
The least I can do is remain shaggy-haired until all are permitted service at the hairdressers. And that goes for any other businesses as well. Any business that persists with the “vaxx only” will not see my money.
Do you trust governments to not bring back restrictions?
Lockdowns are forever.
Calli,
Some good messaging there, thank you. As a long time lurker and very occasional commenter I find you to be a beacon of commonsense and humour.
I am currently in the position of having to make the same choice as you to keep my job. Living alone I have no one to call an ambulance for me if I got a bad reaction to any vaccine I get. It’s not a decision to be taken lightly.
Legalised corruption is Australian culture.
It is our national past time, national sport but also high art.
Born TOON & proud of it .. LOL!
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/watch-home-newcastle-ronnie-lambert-21792248
“Miltonfsays:
October 10, 2021 at 9:17 am
I feel a deep shame when I think of people who came here from Poland and Vietnam to escape tyrrany. So where to go? Mexico, Phillipines?”
Hungary?
The original findings were that smoking and nicotine tended to protect against Covid. I would be cautious about the latest smoking-is-bad reports, since they smell fishily of leftist politics too.
Israeli study points to nicotine as a potential therapeutic for COVID-19 (June 2020)
Legalised corruption is Australian culture.
This is what the Australian scam was built on.
The facade of the rule of law & property rights.
The earlier you experience the legalised corruption, the earlier your eyes are opened.
Gravitas Plus: Why is Xi Jinping cracking down on everyone?
Prefer something a bit more new worldish Cassie
My plan is to rip up money during the winter of 2022, renting a place out of Sydney for 3 months.
Mentally, I don’t think I can handle another lockdown.
If I’m wrong & there are no lockdowns, great, I’ve just invested in a change of scenery.
I don’t trust government on any issue. My drift towards anarcho-capitalism grows daily. 😀
On the vaxx crap, you must decide for yourself. I was snookered because I thought it would all be moot by now. King Jepthath comes to mind. If you make promises, expect to have to keep them.
I posted a link upthread yesterday to a UK study that debunked that. What the study showed (over 200k cases I think) is that smoking is definitely a big factor in hospitalizations and deaths. Something like 5x more likely to die from covid for heavy smokers. Makes absolute sense.
The Rum Corps would agree. Not much has changed.
“Do you trust governments to not bring back restrictions?
Time will tell.”
Of course they will Bern…this is all a dress rehearsal for climate lockdowns.
Mark Levin: The FBI is turning into the East German Stasi
The anti-christ has arrived.
Agreed.
Schlockdowns were a precedent that should never have been allowed to be set. They’ll be back with a vengeance, especially once we’re gifted with labore/greenfilth goat rodeos in NSW and federally.
I feel like the dog in the socialism cartoon, “this is unbearable”.
Also makes absolute sense that the Cathedral wants to bury studies which go against their holy lefty ideology. Doesn’t matter to me since I’ve never smoked nor vaped.
Any time I see a Snopes “fact check” in the first few search engine results I say hmmm to myself.
I’d be looking at the detail of the studies, especially that Israeli one I linked, since the Israelis seem less hung up by political ideology than NHS people.
We are now in a position where the government is literally forcing us to put our lives at risk, against our better judgment, for permission to earn a living.
We have been reduced to begging supplicants to a tyrannical government. Does anyone seriously see an end to this? Has any tyrant ever given up power voluntarily?
Mentally, I don’t think I can handle another lockdown.
Always remember:
Never take it out on yourself or your loved ones. Take it out on those that did it to you.
Could vaccine passports soon be redundant?
It struck me recently that as testing regimes for covid become more accurate and more readily available (and much cheaper), vaccine passports could soon be redundant. Cheap and accurate tests could give immediate notification of whether a person is covid positive, regardless of vaccine status.
I offer this for argument’s sake only. I think the Swedish style, largely hands off approach to living with the virus has proven its superiority to the Chinese Communist style lockdown approach which our contemptible political class inflicted on us. But if it’s about the science and public health and not a power trip for politicians and health bureaucrats and the squawking ninnies in their social media corner, wouldn’t that be the rational way to go until we achieve herd immunity or close to it? Given we know that the vaccines are inefficient, and that vaccinated people can catch and transmit the virus, persistence with vaccine passports will see outbreaks and lockdowns continue indefinitely.
It’s all good calli. Of one thing I am convinced, the vax will dramatically reduce your chances of being hospitalized or dying of/from covid. And I’m sure many people , family and friends, are very glad your chances of succumbing are now so much lower. We all have to make up our minds as individuals so everyone owns and is entitled to their choices. Without any judgement. Although, I’m concerned still for the long term affects.
As has always been the case with covid, the most horrid aspect of this whole period has been our Govts responses. Lies, deceit and deception, propaganda, out right thuggery and brutality, coercion, victimization, incarceration etc… this country has now become a shithole of oppression. They have ruined many thousands of lives and brought absolute torment and misery to as many families. It must never be forgiven.
I am starting to think all of these freedom rankings are completely cucked.
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
Australia at number 3?
SEEMS LIKE BULLSHIT TO ME!
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-11579-x#:~:text=The%20meta%2Danalysis%20confirmed%20an,1.39%2C%20p%20%3D%200.003).
The study Bruce. Fill your boots. It’s not Snopes.
Zippy’s quote above came from this article in American Thinker George Orwell Was Right.
The interesting thing is that one aspect is demonstrably true – Google the first sentence and all sorts of things come up…but not this article.
That’s my problem too. I have nothing against those who want to get vaccinated.
Interesting developments:
Can You Trust the Moderna Vaccine? – Iceland Joins Sweden and Denmark and Says “No!”
AMAZING: COVID-19 Cases in Indonesia Plummet After Government Authorizes IVERMECTIN For Treatment
Calli, although I don’t know you IRL, I have certainly recognised the anguish in some of your recent posts. It is wicked and unforgivable that our governments are forcing such turmoil on individuals and families, and that so many good people are coerced into actions they do not want for the sake of harmony.
We must never forget what they have done to us.
Real vaccines hasn’t been tried yet.
I know it’s the Age but the data (without any spin) is interesting…..
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/five-graphics-that-explain-how-victoria-s-outbreak-is-tracking-20211008-p58ygw.html
Keep in mind the culture of legalised corruption in Australia (and Lawyer X, the Wood Royal Commission, the Fitzgerald Inquiry) and where the narco-dollars COME from and who writes these reports.
https://www.heritage.org/index/country/mexico
Because they are poor native peasants that want to be left alone.
Can’t we respect these choices?
It goes against my beliefs but I am starting to agree with the institutionalist libertarians. An efficient governemnt doesn’t help freedom unless the society is populated with libertarian angels, that is New Hampshirites or Dots.
I hope so Roger.
If for no other reason that governments cannot afford to maintain this covid apparatus for ever.
As my New Jersey customer said, they have zero intervention in their lives despite 1500 cases and 20 deaths a day and think Melbourne’s lockdown is surreal.
Roger
But if it’s about the science and public health and not a power trip for politicians and health bureaucrats and the squawking ninnies in their social media corner, wouldn’t that be the rational way to go until we achieve herd immunity or close to it?
That’s a bloody big “if” in the first line.
Fascinating.
Since I use DDG, I get Goodreads followed by American Thinker.
I’m an old smoker with comorbidities.
All you whining turds that carry on about myself and my ilk in a rude and disrespectful manner can kiss my arse.
Learn some manners you indoctrinated halfwits.
Makka
As has always been the case with covid, the most horrid aspect of this whole period has been our Govts responses. Lies, deceit and deception, propaganda, out right thuggery and brutality, coercion, victimization, incarceration etc… this country has now become a shithole of oppression. They have ruined many thousands of lives and brought absolute torment and misery to as many families. It must never be forgiven.
Plus infinity times infinity. Neither forget nor forgive.
You’re not dead yet so we’re NOT talking about you.
Apologies if already posted.
Some laughs –
Makka
That is effectively what Jamie Newburrie had been talking about
‘the vaccine effect’
And that’s you Makka. For one.
How could I forget Slug Gate, the Orphans and Widows Fund, the Painters & Dockers???
Third time?
Covid affects the lungs.
I can’t see the rocker science here.
Bruce Of N.
For your future reference, here are the weekly NSW covid stats.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Pages/weekly-reports.aspx
WA cats, there’s a Hardinge lathe for sale for $1,000. Get on it!!!!
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/crafers-west/power-tools/hardinge-hlv-h-lathe-for-restoration-or-parts/1282757878
Oops, SA, not WA!!
First Reading at Mass today: Wisdom 7:7-11
Leftist YouTuber Gets Redpilled And Then ATTACKED By Woke Mob, Former ‘Friends’
Tim, Ian, and Lydia join friend and fellow YouTuber Luke Rudkowski along with YouTuber and social commentator Arielle Scarcella to scrutinize how social media is affecting Arielle’s mostly young, female audience, and what it was like for her to leave the left.
(She basically called increasingly rabid feminism and wokeness a mental illness).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNvsYgKzZV0
Nevertheless, something to put to your local member, BJ.
Sowing seeds of dissent.
They’re generally not the sharpest tools in the shed so they probably haven’t considered it themselves.
Another piece of the facade crumbles.
Victoria abandoning quarantine of secondary contacts, 16,000 to be released from quarantine, basically because it’s too hard.
One final time???
Damn straight.
*sparks up*
7news with zero evidence that either of these police officers contracted covid at the protests.
I am currently in the position of having to make the same choice as you to keep my job. Living alone I have no one to call an ambulance for me if I got a bad reaction to any vaccine I get. It’s not a decision to be taken lightly.
Reality is NO ONE cares, except family .. I’m in the same boat tho OAP.. live in NSW HC and have no neighbours who use English so very rarely speak to anyone anymore .. April gone my youngest moved out and that left me on my own .. filled in the various forms to advise HC and get a change in rent .. end result was I ended up over $2 500 in advance .. a ridiculous situation .. so I STOPPED paying rent as all the transactions are computer generated anyway .. I made NO payments or had any contact with the Dept. between mid May thru to mid September when the surplus dropped to a fortnight in front and I started paying again.
Sooooooooo at 73 if I’d dropped dead or had an accident in home, during that 3 & half months that would have been that .. living in a lockdown LGA (Fairfield), officially, my only contact has been by phone to my kids/grandkids but I’m not much of a phone user/answerer so no one would have got excited at me missing a coupla missed calls..
I do recall a Housing minister once stating that they check on HC folk over 70 living alone regularly but like most gummint edicts another piece of rubbish ..
Being an old smoker doesn’t necessarily class you as a stupid old bastard. But in this case ,as you have judged me I’ll do the same, you stupid old bastard.
Nothing I have posted above has been disrespectful of either people with comorbidities or smokers (but I absolutely detest the disgusting habit). I was hoping the studies might be helpful to those considering vaccinations.
Dot
“How many of them were smokers?”
If that’s not a cheap shot by an anti smoking Nazi please explain what it was?
The Nazi Party being the only historic mob for enforced smoking, treading on rights and rabid anti smokers.
Smoking is legal.
I’d you reckon it’s ok for some anti liberal zealot to make cheap shots here that’s cool. Free speech. And right of reply.
we all know who the antichrist is and it’s certainly not biden. biden is just the ugliest mask that could be found to rub in our faces the antichrist’s power and arrogance.
Brucie, could be right, but emphysema and CPOD reduce lung functionality by causing problems with the oxygen and CO2 exchange.
Then it could be right that tarring inside the lungs ironically offers protection.
This new study is a meta study. Meta studies just aren’t reliable.
Makka,
I may be old and strong in arm weak in head but my parents were married.
I bet you run like a girl.