Open Thread-Mon 18 Oct 2021


 Venus and Cupid, Diego Velázquez, 1651

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JC
JC
October 19, 2021 8:28 am

I don’t know anyone here who’s a “jab pusher”.

The VAX causes AIDS.

calli
calli
October 19, 2021 8:31 am

The VAX causes AIDS.

Makes sense.

The virus can shut down the world’s economy and it has magical altitudinal powers and can select non-government workers while ignoring politicians and court officers.

I’m amazed that the antidote doesn’t do more. AIDS sounds a bit wimpy to me.

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 8:35 am

I distinctly remember you spending months irritating and hen pecking people who were stating it isn’t a vaccine because it doesn’t give immunity, by smugly posting links to Science(tm) and mainstream media “proving” it gives immunity. The data! The Science!

No I haven’t. I’ve said all all along I don’t give a shit what people do. There’s no need to lie.

You’re better than this. Normally you’re on your throne doing a woe is me about generational theft and how hard done you are because older people have more money than. A truly shocking revelation . Stick with that. At least it’s funny as.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 19, 2021 8:35 am

The VAX causes AIDS.

Ah geez.

Look, if I have to have AIDS, I want Magic Johnson AIDS. Not gay Tom Hanks in Philadelphia AIDS.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
October 19, 2021 8:36 am

Immunity is a relative term.
Immunity in a vaccine that delivers lifelong resistance to infection.
Immunity in a vaccine that stimulates an immune response but not resistance.
Immunity from legal action by a population that you have brutalised for your own political purposes.
Premier Immunity.

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 8:39 am

Look, if I have to have AIDS, I want Magic Johnson AIDS.

A few weeks ago they were auctioning a pair of his “work” sneakers . The expectation was 1,5 mill. FMD.

Twostix
Twostix
October 19, 2021 8:40 am

Imagine if you had of believed covid-rosie a year ago that the vaccines give total immunity to covid 19.

What today is she mocking people about that in another 6 – 12 months she will be smugly telling you she always said was going to be the case.

“Ugh antivaxxers I never said you’d wouldn’t need a vaccine license to leave your house”… No wait she’s already done that.

“Ugh antivaxxers I always said the vaccine causes immune disorders, can we talk about something else”.

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 8:42 am

Have to go. Back later this afternoon. Please people, no vax whining as it’s really becoming sad.

Razey and stix.
Stop being such vax whiners as it influences the other depressees.

calli
calli
October 19, 2021 8:44 am

A year ago I believed that the States had fair and free elections. It was “October Surprise” time and the laptop from hell was considered a hoax by the knowledgeable MSM.

Meanwhile, Biden (on track to record over 80 million votes) was either in his basement or doing rallies for audiences of media sitting in circles.

A lot can happen in a year.

Twostix
Twostix
October 19, 2021 8:52 am

Notafan not for nothing but are you mentally ill? You have a problem with lying.

Probably the most stupid case of wrongology this year…

At the start of the year I commented that we would shortly see unvaccinated people ‘locked down’ in their homes – the vaccine passport becoming a defacto license to be in public, banning you from entering shops.

Notafan called that obvious observation hysterical.

How you going NSW unvaccinated? Had much sympathy from covid rosie here?

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 8:56 am

I think Razey is Queensland Ted (Bundy). Wow. That disguise worked.

Razey
Razey
October 19, 2021 8:56 am

LOL. Hook, Line and Sinker.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 19, 2021 8:57 am

The Mother of all Parliaments’ response
to an Honourable Member being butchered by an islamist?
Ban anonymity on social media.

Dot
Dot
October 19, 2021 8:59 am

There’s always an angle.

https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/additional-investment-to-future-proof-indoor-air-quality-nsw-schools

100 mn AUD?

Who wants to sell air purifiers right now?

“Sure, Mr Premier. Our base model has a retail price of $45 K, but for you, $35 K…”

Tom
Tom
October 19, 2021 9:05 am

Expectation: A panacea of all-estrogen equality and fairness, with all assembled feeling strong and confident and supportive of each other, with absolutely no backstabbing or snide, back-handed compliments on age, hair, makeup, martial status or gunt.

KD, I’ll tell you a secret: no-one actually runs Australia’s Ten Network for its American owner, CBS. Only in the past few days will anyone at CBS have received an email about what a ratings disaster Network 10’s top “news” programs have become.

Nobody at CBS will understand the problem because CBS’s news shows in the US are worse in turning off middle America.

Narcissistic look-at-me females like Pirate Pete’s missus are a ratings disaster for Ten because they turn off middle Australia.

So the reaction at CBS to its ratings disaster Down Under will simply confirm to the bean counters that treating Network 10 as a tax dodge was and is an excellent strategy.

Twostix
Twostix
October 19, 2021 9:05 am

If you’re unvaccinated and losing your job this week, or still locked up in NSW, or worried about the future Covid Rosie wants you to know that she’s bored with your whinging so can you shoosh please?

Coffee Club calls and that shiny new passport isn’t going to scan itself you know, and you’re just being total buzzkills. Man oh man have some decency would you?

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 9:08 am

Thanks Calli:
I usually duplicate the Open Fred, but this time didn’t.
Bugger.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 9:09 am

miltonf says:
October 19, 2021 at 7:46 am
This is what our “elected” governments are signing us up for.

Yep and in Australia I’d say this has been going on since at least the 80s. In the mid 80s I can remember people calling the Tingle twerp in 2GB warning about the push for world government. They were correct.

Yep, in the Australia in 1980’s the microchip technology was already way more advanced that media was deliberately misreporting it was.
Playing up the ‘problems’ was just to lull people back to sleep as they field tested & tweaked their lifetime trackers & recorders.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 19, 2021 9:10 am

Tintarella di Lunasays:
October 19, 2021 at 5:27 am

From Tinta’s link:

Pelosi also said that the bill is simultaneously obscure and wildly popular with American voters. “Whether they know it or not, they overwhelmingly support it,” Pelosi said.

From the woman who gave us “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, …”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 9:10 am

Here you go JC. This is a quote from a Nature article from 2018 if you are disinclined to look at the link. It’s quite prophetic.

Several different mRNA vaccines have now been tested from phase I to IIb clinical studies and have been shown to be safe and reasonably well tolerated (Tables 2, 3). However, recent human trials have demonstrated moderate and in rare cases severe injection site or systemic reactions for different mRNA platforms22,91. Potential safety concerns that are likely to be evaluated in future preclinical and clinical studies include local and systemic inflammation, the biodistribution and persistence of expressed immunogen, stimulation of auto-reactive antibodies and potential toxic effects of any non-native nucleotides and delivery system components. A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms54,166 induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity167,168. Thus, identification of individuals at an increased risk of autoimmune reactions before mRNA vaccination may allow reasonable precautions to be taken. Another potential safety issue could derive from the presence of extracellular RNA during mRNA vaccination. Extracellular naked RNA has been shown to increase the permeability of tightly packed endothelial cells and may thus contribute to oedema169. Another study showed that extracellular RNA promoted blood coagulation and pathological thrombus formation170. Safety will therefore need continued evaluation as different mRNA modalities and delivery systems are utilized for the first time in humans and are tested in larger patient populations.

All the highlighted aspects have occurred widely amongst the mRNA recipients. Many deaths have occurred from heart inflammation and blood clotting. Autoimmune disease causes a suppressed immune system. Which renders you more susceptible to infections. I’ve previously linked data which shows rheumatoid arthritis suffers commonly experience a large increase in their symptoms after Covid vaccination. This is consistent with the overall mechanism.

I do dislike being educated by a Dunning-Kruger sufferer like you seem to be JC.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 9:12 am

The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM finds a Lieboral they can get behind. Peculiar old queer Warren Entch who’s off to Glasgow. Och aye.

Rabz
October 19, 2021 9:13 am

Had much sympathy from covid rosie here?

Stix – I don’t expect sympathy from anyone. Our justified anger needs to be directed towards those responsible for this fascist insanity – our beloved politico/bureaucrat/meeja class.

And yes, JC, I’m guilty as charged. But what exactly do I have to be happy about? At this rate I’ll still be under house arrest until 1 December, having been so confined since the evening of 18 June – and spare me any rubbish about being thankful I don’t live in India, etc.

It’s also not as if we can take any comfort from other news – for example, all this “year net zero” stupidity is seriously getting on my goat. We are governed by vile irredeemable imbeciles unashamedly committed to destroying what’s left of our way of life. We have been disenfranchised, thanks to our staggeringly stupid and no longer fit for any useful purpose political system – and it looks very much like things are only going to get worse from here anyway.

If ever there was a scenario that warranted some self righteous anger, this is it.

Dot
Dot
October 19, 2021 9:15 am

Yep, in Australia in the 1980’s the microchip technology was already way more advanced that media was deliberately misreporting it was.

How the hell do you know this?

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 9:17 am

miltonf says:
October 19, 2021 at 8:03 am

Monty is a malevolent marxist turd yet some people here were prepared to trust him. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

stupid or … also malevolent marxist turds of a more colourful, seductive feather … 😉

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 9:22 am

Well.
That escalated quickly!

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 19, 2021 9:23 am

min:
Scots are upset according to Michael Smith as diesel generators are having to be brought in to charge the Teslas being used to cart all the visitors around during Climate Change conference in Glasgow .Not enough wind to for electricity to keep the cars going

Put that down to the first law of reality: things never work out the way you think feelz they should.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 19, 2021 9:27 am

Fremantle Port strike: 60 Qube wharfies chuck sickies, blame COVID jab policy
Jenne Brammer
The West Australian
Mon, 18 October 2021 7:24PM
Jenne Brammer

The Maritime Union of Australia claims a “no jab, no work” policy was responsible for almost a quarter of stevedore Qube’s workforce not turning up for work at Fremantle Port over the weekend, after a 77-day strike was suspended.

Qube said it aimed to fill 260 shifts between Friday and Monday at Fremantle but 60 rostered workers called in sick —possibly an Australian record.

The absences meant Qube had to drop a shift — unloading a bulk steel vessel — on Sunday. Qube’s normal sick day absences average 1.5 persons a day.

MUA WA branch secretary Will Tracey confirmed there was a lot of absentees but said it was because of the COVID vaccine policy that took effect on Friday.

Vaccination is mandatory for WA’s port workers who board or work with exposed vessels, with an October 15 deadline for first dose and November 12 deadline for full vaccination.

“If you don’t have evidence of vaccinations you are not allowed to go to work and Qube has been telling people to book off sick,” Mr Tracey said.

“That’s just not Qube and not just Fremantle — it’s affecting ports from Albany to Wyndham. The next biggest site for Qube is Port Hedland, where there is no dispute, and 29 of 64 people didn’t go to work over the weekend for this reason.”

Mr Tracey said he expected most Qube workers would get vaccinated but either haven’t been able to get in for a vaccine or do not yet have the evidence, which takes 10 days to appear on the MyGov site.

Qube Ports director Michael Sousa said while the removal of the protected industrial action by the MUA was welcomed, obstructive behaviour was now impacting operations.

“In the past four days, we have experienced a record sick leave absenteeism rate nearing 25 per cent of our workforce, combined with a 30 per cent reduced productivity on vehicle vessels and a 70 per cent reduction in productivity on the bulk steel vessel by those who actually worked their shifts,” he said.

“We think this is an Australian record for absenteeism. We just want to pay our workers their $800 plus per day to do the jobs they are employed to do.”

Mr Tracey said Qube had been “bulls***ing” the media over claims its pays workers that it pays an average $139,500 salary for 169 days work.

Rabz
October 19, 2021 9:32 am

the bill is simultaneously obscure and wildly popular with American voters. “Whether they know it or not, they overwhelmingly support it,” Pelosi said.

Reminiscent of Teats Peanuthead’s support for some lie Gillard had mouthed, even though he had no idea what she’d actually said.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 9:36 am

callisays:

October 19, 2021 at 8:27 am

Lol. All it takes is to have a bitch online and they pick up the phone.

It’s the 5G nano-particles in the vax.
If reception is poor press your nose against the window.
You’re welcome.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 19, 2021 9:39 am

A British Army veteran accused of fatally shooting a man in Northern Ireland during the Troubles almost 50 years ago died last night after catching Covid midway through the controversial trial.

Dennis Hutchings, 80, was suffering from terminal kidney failure and heart disease when he flew to Belfast this month to face a judge-only trial, but said he was determined to clear his name over the alleged attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in County Tyrone in 1974.

His case was one of two ongoing prosecutions of Northern Ireland veterans who served during the Troubles despite government plans announced in the summer to end all criminal and civil cases relating to deaths during the 30-year conflict. The proposals are yet to be implemented and were met with fierce backlash on both sides of Northern Ireland’s political divide.

Daily Mail

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 9:39 am

Rabz

That’s true. There’s not much to be happy about.

There was a great book written by a holocaust survivor – a psychiatrist by training. The book was about how to change your mood in the face of huge adversity. I strongly recommend it, but I forget the name.

I’ll look for it later.

It basically explains the mental tools one can use to work your way out of the slumber.

I’m not being a smart arse, but some people here could find it useful.

I really have to go.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 19, 2021 9:40 am

‘no-one actually runs Australia’s Ten Network for its American owner, CBS. Only in the past few days will anyone at CBS have received an email about what a ratings disaster Network 10’s top “news” programs have become.’

Nobody’s in charge? Is there at least a People’s Committee of some sort?

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 9:40 am

From the National Shooting Council:
New laws coming in from Victoria about gunsafes/storage.
The screws steadily tighten.
They’re just waiting for some idiot to do something and the guns are gone.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
October 19, 2021 9:41 am

Where did the quote/italicky things go?

Rabz
October 19, 2021 9:43 am

Thanks JC.

JC
JC
October 19, 2021 9:44 am

Brucie

I’m not a virologist and neither are you. I’ll pass on that to you know who and see what his relative has to say. Are you good with that?

I’ll email it to you as I don’t think it’s ethical to slap his response on a blog without his approval.

Now I really really have to go.

I’ll always love you, brucie but not homosexually .

Rabz
October 19, 2021 9:44 am

Where did the quote/italicky things go?

Still reporting for duty here, KD.

lotocoti
lotocoti
October 19, 2021 9:46 am

Narcissistic look-at-me females like Pirate Pete’s missus are a ratings disaster for Ten because they turn off middle Australia.

Funnier still, the likes of Squalid Wally were brought in to attract the all hip youngsters rebelling against stodgy middle Australia.
They don’t want to watch their mum.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 19, 2021 9:49 am

From Top Ender’s link.

Of the 3,250 people who lost their lives during the Troubles, only 301 – around ten per cent – were killed by the British military. Half of these were civilians tragically caught up in crossfire.

Paramilitary groups including the Provisional IRA were responsible for the remaining 90 per cent, including 722 soldiers.

A total of 1,441 military personnel died as a result of operations in Northern Ireland.

That soldiers are still being hauled to court over alleged offences committed during the Troubles while IRA terrorists were effectively given get-out-of-jail cards as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is a disparity that many veterans cannot comprehend.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 10:01 am

“Our justified anger needs to be directed towards those responsible for this fascist insanity – our beloved politico/bureaucrat/meeja class.
***

Social Media Friends” are one of the the most powerful Influencer Groups.
For many, more influential than flesh & blood family.

The UN Mobsters could only bring the world to this point of so many willingly complying themselves to death, because of how much they have invested in replacing real world families (that they destroyed & scattered with economic & legal warfare), with Social Media Friends“.

The modern Lord Haw Haw’s & Tokyo Roses are far more effective & dangerous because now they are a backed up by a whole world “Information Curators”, from MSM, Social Media, Entertainment, Education & even Medicine & Science, who make real facts ‘go away’ so that the fake ‘facts’ of the Lord Haw Haw’s & Tokyo Roses are much harder for lay people to dispute.

Roger
Roger
October 19, 2021 10:03 am

There was a great book written by a holocaust survivor – a psychiatrist by training. The book was about how to change your mood in the face of huge adversity. I strongly recommend it, but I forget the name.

Sounds like ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl.

Roger
Roger
October 19, 2021 10:05 am

And just like that…

Palaszczuk: “We have to reunite families. It’s fundamental”.

Lying moo.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 10:07 am

I think there is a sweet spot for women who watch Breakfast TV ( squeezed into K Mart yoga pants). The female presenter can’t be too young and good looking that she might steal her husband, Kevin, nor too old to remind her where she will be in a few years.

That leaves a period slightly longer than the average professional footballer.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 10:09 am

“Dot says:
October 19, 2021 at 9:15 am
Yep, in Australia in the 1980’s the microchip technology was already way more advanced that media was deliberately misreporting it was.

How the hell do you know this?
***

I’ve told you, I’ve had a long & interesting life.
I’ve also told you I’m not a name dropper.
However, anyone familiar with the industry would know this now.

Gab
Gab
October 19, 2021 10:10 am

Sounds like ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl.

Exactly what I thought too, Roger. Great book.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 10:11 am

For the record I would not be caught dead in K Mart yoga pants.

P
P
October 19, 2021 10:12 am
Gab
Gab
October 19, 2021 10:13 am

H B Bearsays:
October 19, 2021 at 10:11 am
For the record I would not be caught dead in K Mart yoga pants.

As we know, you only wear a tie!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 19, 2021 10:17 am

For the record I would not be caught dead in K Mart yoga pants.

Nor would I!

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 10:22 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
October 19, 2021 at 9:49 am
From Top Ender’s link.

Of the 3,250 people who lost their lives during the Troubles, only 301 – around ten per cent – were killed by the British military. Half of these were civilians tragically caught up in crossfire.

Paramilitary groups including the Provisional IRA were responsible for the remaining 90 per cent, including 722 soldiers.

A total of 1,441 military personnel died as a result of operations in Northern Ireland.

That soldiers are still being hauled to court over alleged offences committed during the Troubles while IRA terrorists were effectively given get-out-of-jail cards as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is a disparity that many veterans cannot comprehend.

Isaiah 5:
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Proverbs 17:15
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

C.L.
C.L.
October 19, 2021 10:22 am

11 deaths in Victoria.
Once again, the ABC and Fairfax not reporting vaxxed/non-vaxxed breakdown.
Four deaths in NSW – two vaxxed.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 10:29 am

Catholics are Under Attack
(Who Keeps Burning All The Churches)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhYvq8MjGhk

Oct 19, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Cassie of Sydney
October 19, 2021 10:34 am

“That soldiers are still being hauled to court over alleged offences committed during the Troubles while IRA terrorists were effectively given get-out-of-jail cards as a result of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is a disparity that many veterans cannot comprehend.”

Have the murderers of Jean McConville ever been hauled to court?

One of those implicated in McConville’s disappearance is Gerry Adams.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 19, 2021 10:35 am

Rosie:
People are still able to travel between South Australia and Queensland

According to Marshall, only if the traveller into SA is vaxxed. And QLD, has announced that when the state opens up on Dec 17, it will only let in vaccinated people.

Where headed for a situation where an Australian citizen, perhaps long gone for years oversea, can return home, not have to quarantine and presumably will be able to travel anywhere, while an Australian citizen resident in his/her own country, having not left, will not be able to cross an internal border.

Seems fair /sarc.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 19, 2021 10:36 am

Some of those who got in touch echoed similar experiences at the hands of a workplace “boys’ club”

How did Thomas Sowell put it?

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

I expect there are some guys in the industry who do harbour prejudices but think they are commonsense, others who resent some real or imagined injury due to competing against women, and some who are sleazy and have a low opinion of women. In fact I would imagine there are some guys mesmerised by social media, the MSM, and the unceasing barrage of emails about being women’s allies and diversity etc who favour women over men.

But that is not what they are talking about.

They refer to a ‘boys club’. As if there is some special bond that men feel with other men merely because they are men, to keep women out regardless of who the woman is. Two guys who barely know each other will smile triumphantly upon excluding a woman who one or both of them might know well.

I have seen such things depicted in movies. I have never seen it in my life.

Maybe it is not a boys club. Maybe it is women who were elevated for their gender now being treated according to their talent.

Cassie of Sydney
October 19, 2021 10:36 am

What was Jean McConville’s crime? She helped a badly wounded British soldier outside her home.

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 10:38 am

Does anyone know a good emigration agent?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 10:38 am

Narcissistic look-at-me females like Pirate Pete’s missus are a ratings disaster for Ten because they turn off middle Australia.

Logged onto the compuda yesterday and I get a news feed on fresh internet tabs.
Story front and centre:-
“Karl and Elle in New Pay Deal”
(Elle is Mrs Pirate’s replacement at Nein).
I didn’t read the story, but I have no doubt it was Nein PR trolling Mrs Pirate.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 10:38 am

Despite the data showing VAERS reports this year to October are already 13 times higher than last year, it’s looking like VAERS events are being underreported due to politics. From Sundance via Lucianne:

Physicians Asst. Whistleblower Reveals Hospital Intake With 90 Percent Vaccinated Patients and Hospital Administration Refusing to Report Adverse Events (17 Oct)

The central statistic in this whistleblower story is important. In a community with a 50% vaccination rate, 90% of the hospital admissions were vaccinated patients, and most of the critical care hospital intakes were within 14 days of the patient taking the vaccine. An alarmed physicians assistant began reporting those issues into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting system until the hospital administration stepped in to stop her from recording the frequency. She felt obligated to become a whistleblower:

Entirely in keeping with the 2018 Nature paper I quoted from upthread, which I might add was spruiking mRNA vaccines not dumping on them. And I suspect subclinical effects are a large iceberg under what we are seeing in hospital admissions.

Never forget who did this to you.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
October 19, 2021 10:38 am

The Maritime Union of Australia claims a “no jab, no work” policy

Perhaps they could revisit the ‘no ticket, no work’ policy too.

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 10:41 am

As we know, you only wear a tie!

Don’t forget the waist coat and hat!

That’s his real license for not wearing pants!

Try it!

Roger
Roger
October 19, 2021 10:43 am

Media reporting that Colin Powell died of “covid” or “covid complications”.

He had multiple myeloma, which compromises the immune system.

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 10:45 am

They’re just waiting for some idiot to do something and the guns are gone.

The fact that nothing has happened over the last two years shows how decent Australians are, and how indecent our politicians and police are.

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 10:50 am

When Germany and the Allies went to war in 39 45, the Allies decided to systematically destroy both German and Japanese industry. This planning went well against Japan – all it required was stopping the shipping.
Bit more difficult against Germany but still doable.
So the Allies destroyed rolling stock, the canal system, factories and bridges.
But it appeared the vital factor was raw materials. Nickel, Tungsten & Molybdenum for armour – German tanks toward the end of the war were known for brittle armour. The Me 262 famously had engines that ran for about ten hours before having to be rebuilt due to wear because of the lack of high temperature metals. Rubber for tyres, the lack of copper for bullets meant that they had to be coated in lacquer to prevent rusting which when hot jammed MG workings, the list goes on.
Albert Speer went to Hitler in late ’44 and essentially said the war must end because of the lack of raw materials. Luckily, there was enough in the manufacturing pipeline for another couple of months as stockpiles of factory bits and pieces. The Ardennes Offensive was literally Germany’s last chance to win the war. The Final Levy of troops included machinists, chemical engineers and Volksturm.
German and Japanese supply chains collapsed.
The US established a Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpile to prepare in 1939.
What we are now seeing happen to the supply chain is China restricting goods and raw materials (Pharmaceuticals, PPE, computer chips, timber, etc etc.) so that the fat in the supply pipeline is being slowly used up and cannot be there to support the US war industries.
The Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpile will be drawn down by the O’Biden/Harris Regime, the oil inventories used up.
The rest of the world is sitting on its collective arse waiting for the US to supply all the tools, and all they have is what’s in the pipeline. We cannot, in Australia, instantly turn iron ore into finished steel plate, or dig rolls of copper wire out the Olympic Dam mine, or pull finished aluminium bar out of Gove and Weipa. We don’t even have the power to run what refining capacity we already have. And if it becomes necessary to use that power for essential war production, the cities will have to have rolling 12 hour blackouts.
We need to have – as a national priority – a dozen nukes & coal power stations to run our essential smelting and manufacturing industries we need to survive the coming conflict. It takes time to develop a war production base, or even to redeploy the plant we have into defence production.
Do we even have a plan?
(All done from memory so probably some mistakes in the rant – but you get the drift)
Tired – going to bed.

rosie
rosie
October 19, 2021 10:50 am

It doesn’t matter what you say twostix, vaccines against viruses like flu and covid increase your body’s capacity to fight disease, no more, breakthrough covid is well documented as is death in the highly immune compromised vaccinated.
The flu vaccine has never been touted as an absolute guarantee against flu death either.
Putting up the death of Colin Powell as a proof that the vaccines don’t work is the stupidity here.
As for your constant trolling of my comments, par for the course.
How does it feel to live your life as the dogmatic in the manger?
Apparently we should all ignore new information as it becomes available and rigidly stick to whatever we believed at x date.

rosie
rosie
October 19, 2021 10:51 am

Exactly Roger
But don’t let facts get in the way of trolling.

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 10:51 am

Re the AIDS and HA.HA.HA thing, do the spike proteins affect memory too?

It’s hardly a long bow to draw for those who have functional memories. Particularly when we’re now being told “oh sorry the ‘vaccines’, aren’t actually ‘vaccines’, don’t do anything that we said they do and it turns out we know nothing about them, you are the clinical trial, and as info comes in about their effects and relative uselessness instead of offering mea cupla’s and explanations, we’re just going to pretend everything is going as planned and lie to everyone.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 10:53 am

Rabzsays:

October 19, 2021 at 9:13 am

Had much sympathy from covid rosie here?

Stix – I don’t expect sympathy from anyone. Our justified anger needs to be directed towards those responsible for this fascist insanity – our beloved politico/bureaucrat/meeja class.

Absolutely correct.
Enough of this bullshit about “vax-pushers”.
Apart from Googlery (and JC’s occasional outrageous trolling), I challenge anyone to point to one post – just one – where anyone here has said that others should get the vax, much less supported mandatory vaccination.
The question is for those running that line … Are you really looking for support to overturn this shit, or are you revelling in your glorious martyrdom?
Some here are starting to sound awfully like that chick in the US, carrying her mattress around campus and crying rape every day for two years.

Roger
Roger
October 19, 2021 10:56 am

The South African government is reportedly going to Glasgow with a request for $269bn in aid to help it combat climate change.

They’ll no doubt find a long line of kleptocrats queing outside the Last Chance Saloon.

rosie
rosie
October 19, 2021 11:00 am

BBS
That information as I read it yesterday was in relation to people travelling from overseas or from domestic ‘hotspots’

It may well be some states will start to limit interstate travel to the vaccinated only.
That may be challenged by the commonwealth and it is definitely political pandering to their own covid cozy electorates.

here is the link to the South Australian website which clearly states travellers from Queensland are permitted to enter without restriction (provided they have not been in a restricted zone in the last 14 days)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 11:00 am

Rogersays:

October 19, 2021 at 10:43 am

Media reporting that Colin Powell died of “covid” or “covid complications”.

He had multiple myeloma, which compromises the immune system.

And he was 84.
So he is pretty much the poster boy for the cohort who are in the sweet spot for being susceptible to dying with/from covid.
Hardly an “Aha!” moment in this debate.

Roger
Roger
October 19, 2021 11:02 am

Hardly an “Aha!” moment in this debate.

It all helps to keep people fearful and in their place though.

cohenite
October 19, 2021 11:02 am

Good article on the alarmism BS by Rozner at the Spec.

My comment is a doozy:

“I think it is wildly optimistic”.

I do too. When the Climate Sceptics party was formed in 2009 I thought there was a real chance of defeating alarmism because science was still the basis of the argument. Now it is entirely ideology and politics and money. The ideology is more like a cult and people are making $billions from the off-spring of alarmism, renewables. 95% of the media is on board and very few politicians have taken a stand. Plus most of the rich folk swallowed alarmism, Twiggy and Cannon-Brookes for example, and the young have had their forming brains completely brain-washed by the activists in education.

How to fight back against all this?

Keep it simple. For instance in 2020 human emissions of CO2 fell by 30%. Did CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere fall; nope, they didn’t change. Plus several papers by atmospheric physicists came out in 2020 showing nature is responsible for the increase in CO2.

Alarmist predictions: not one has come true. Every year leading alarmists tell us we’ve got 5 years or some short time before the whole thing explodes. They ‘ve been doing this for 50 years, first with global cooling now with warming. None of the ice has melted, the seas haven’t risen, storms and droughts haven’t increased, temperatures have increased but no where near what the models predicted. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Yet we still see alarmism treated as though Moses has brought it down and it’s the word of God. In fact it’s the word of idiots like Turnball and Rudd, the 2 worst Australian PMs.

Time after time the people have voted with their feet. Every election for the last 10 years has been about alarmism and the people have voted against it. And still the politicians ignore it. Scomo won in 2019 on the basis of coal. The recent Hunter by-election saw Turnball and the greens rejected. How much more evidence do the pollies need? The only conclusion you can reach is the pollies are going to ignore what the people want. Unless PHON, UAP and the DLP step up Australia is stuffed.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:02 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 19, 2021 at 10:38 am
Despite the data showing VAERS reports this year to October are already 13 times higher than last year

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If you increase the number of vaccinations occurring in a population, you will also increase the number of reports made of adverse events after vaccination. Not all reports of adverse events after a vaccination are due to the vaccination.
One would expect that if you vaccinate 70, 80, 90% of a population in a year the number of adverse events after vaccination would increase, because you have massively increased the number of people being vaccinated.
What you need is a ratio of reported events : events proven caused, for vaccines generally, then apply that to the recent increase in vaccinations.
Then you’ll know if the increase in reported events is unusual given the number of vaccines given.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 11:04 am

rosiesays:

October 19, 2021 at 11:00 am

BBS
That information as I read it yesterday was in relation to people travelling from overseas or from domestic ‘hotspots’

That was my read too.
The words “overseas” and “international” were liberally sprinkled through the text.
Now PalaceChook has been deliberately obtuse about it in the brief verbal announcement, because it plays to the line the paranoid Queensssland electorate wants to hear about “keeping dirty Mexicans out”.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 19, 2021 11:04 am

The Me 262 famously had engines that ran for about ten hours before having to be rebuilt due to wear because of the lack of high temperature metals.

I think they were a little better than that – around 25 hours. However the DB605 in the Bf109 at the time when highly supercharged with MW and Nitrous oxide injection was said to have a life of around 10 hours. The Jumo 004 was much easier and cheaper to overhaul and would run on low quality fuel instead of needing high octane.

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 11:08 am

It’s of critical importance to note, that in the west we ‘chose’ (lol) mRNA vaccines over traditional vaccines, because these mRNA ‘vaccines’ – they said, were 98% effective and offered total protection forever, compared to ‘just’ 30%-60% effectiveness of those ‘old’ well understood technology ones against coronaviruses. Two ‘jabs’ and all done, compared to requiring ‘boosters’ forever that the ‘old’ tech ones do they said.

Except now they’re telling everyone, well, sorry, that was all a lie…but we’re still going to force you to get mRNA ones because we already pre-purchased a gajillion doses of them (and to secure those we promised Pfizer and Astra wouldn’t raise a fuss and the pharma industry will blacklist and punish us wholesale us if we do).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 11:08 am

The South African government is reportedly going to Glasgow with a request for $269bn in aid to help it combat climate change.

Might be a bit of a gap for the delegates to bridge.

Half of America doesn’t even want to spend $1 a month extra on green electricity or fuel (15 Oct)

Seeing that Americans and Aussies are already forking out thousands per year in subsidies and high energy costs it’s no wonder governments bury this information as deep as they possibly can.

Incidentally Prince Willy has been moaning again. He’s getting more and more like his dad.

Prince William Says ‘Humankind’ Must ‘Unite in Repairing Our Planet’ (18 Oct)

Why would you fix a planet that has nothing wrong with it?

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 11:09 am

The thread of the denialists and the hysterical.

Incidentally the ‘controversy ‘ started when someone decided to denigrate KD for getting vaccinated so he could get down to Victoria to see his recently widowed mother.
Now pretending to stand on the high moral ground.

See how she does that.
Classic POS move of notafan.info.gov.
I was having a go at the vaccinated making things worse, and then KD responded with his tale of whoa.
Notafan, like the government she believes in, is a liar.
And many now see this.
She is actually at the stage of doing a “numbers”
Having to leave when confronted with reality so she can come back later and keep on with the bullshit.

Talking about what we now know as undeniable facts………

Let’s regroup nearly two years into a two week tyranny to flatten the curve.
Cases mean nothing because the tests have been shown to be completely useless but just used as a propaganda tool.
Fact.
The conspiracy theorist in this case has been the one who distrusts government, and should rightly be called a history buff.
Fact.
And all this happening was openly declared last year by those who read what the enemy told us they would be doing.
The vaccine does not work.
Obcious, undeniable fact.
At all.
Fact.
The vaccine does however kill.
Undeniable fact.
We know it kills, and kills quickly. Those those that aren’t dead from it within a couple of weeks can sit and ponder the mystery of what organ the spike protein is attacking inside them which will make death via the vaccine easy to deny, because it will be a myriad of deaths.
But the age of people will be the tell tale.
The young dying of strokes and heart attacks for example.
As is happening.
We know it causes injury in those it doesn’t immediately kill, we’ve all seen the videos of the jab jive and the dropped sided faces, of the young in agony.
Yet like we now see in Britain, a “super cold” is coming through, because people’s immune systems have been interfered with by the genetic modifying, murdered baby cells jabbed into them by pure evil.
The American front line doctors warned of this last year.
Fact.
This was scoffed at by the jabbed submissives here.

Fact.
Although there were plenty of people here warning those people not to take the jab, for your own health regardless of the immorality of doing so, some did, and you and I both know your submission to this will destroy you.
And take those that did not submit with you.
Personal responsibility means recognising that saying “I just have to” and “I’m only just one person” is a croc o’ shit.
And as Twostix rightly points out…..now the bleeding obvious can’t be denied no matter what bullshit you come up with, you don’t want to be held accountable.
So here’s an observation open to critique.
Looking at history and what we now know about the Davos mob, and the non vaccines you took, (and please don’t try to peddle the nonsense they work)……
We could reasonably conclude, looking overseas, that not only are the jab takers not vaccinated against anything, they are most likely going to die within four to five years , many sooner, because you submitted, and in doing so, you’ll kill people like me in camps like Toowoomba.

And as the vaccine passport comes in the next is the digital face recognition, the end of cash, and the supply chain collapse, so that we are no longer the rich west, but a poverty stricken , starving shithole of death, …….
here’s the rub.
Last time evil like this attempted to take over by force, they were looking for disposable humans to work them to death.
These evil bastards just want us dead.
Saving the planet is their justification.
We have traitors in our highest offices, and I’m sure the collapse of Rome for the same reasons, was a lot easier to escape that the digitally controlled deaths we will not be able to.

What is it about denying the bleeding obvious?
What is it about denying Greg Hunt spent two years with Klaus and was awarded by him, and thinking there could not possibly be a connection?
Some how, miraculous coincidence it may be, but Boris, Horseface Adhern, Trudeau, and many more global heads of governments and swamp monsters have graduated from the Klaus school of global socialist tyranny.
They don’t hide it, so they know YOU JUST WON’T LET YOURSELF believe it.
We are at war with traitors.
It’s logical and common sense and you need to stop denying it, or letting people who will call black white rather than admit they fucked up, control the subject matter. It will send you as insane as they are.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 19, 2021 11:09 am

Daily Mail lead article:

Young Woolworths worker who took his own life compared his job to a ‘nightmare even Freddy Krueger wouldn’t want’ – as his distraught mum vows to hold the supermarket giant accountable

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 19, 2021 11:10 am

Supply chain issues.
I was going to buy a small milling machine yesterday so I called Hare & Forbes and was told they were out of stock , the next batch was sold out and there would be no stock until sometime first quarter 2022.
Bummer.

rosie
rosie
October 19, 2021 11:10 am

For the last twelve months people in Victoria got pasted by Queenslanders and others for our predicament under the harshest lockdowns in Australia; the world record is now ours and now I’m getting singled out by the same morons for not showing sufficient sympathy to people in Sydney.
As if the constant gaslighting weren’t enough.
Some of us remember how nasty you were.
Don’t worry Rabz, I know exactly how you feel and then some.
The toll on my family has been horrendous. My daughters with new babies, one who had to be rushed back to hospital with a very serious medical condition, my sister fighting cancer and other matters I will not discuss, all under hard lockdown while the whinging, whining Queenslanders did as they pleased.
You know what you can do.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:10 am

Then you’ll know if the increase in reported events is unusual given the number of vaccines given.

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Should read:

Then you’ll know if the increase in reported events is unusual given the number of vaccines given, and an estimate of adverse events caused by the covid vaccines.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 11:13 am

What Arky said at 11:02.
FFS, guys, stick to facts and data.
The VAERS website specifically says upfront that the recording of incidents does not imply any causal link.
As Arky says, if you vaccinate 80% of the population in the space of nine months, some of those people are going to fall off the twig within two weeks of receiving the vax, just as a matter of course.
If I injected the entire population with 5 mls of saline over a six month period, what do you think VAERS would show?

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:13 am

Except now they’re telling everyone, well, sorry, that was all a lie…but we’re still going to force you to get mRNA ones because we already pre-purchased a gajillion doses of them (and to secure those we promised Pfizer and Astra wouldn’t raise a fuss and the pharma industry will blacklist and punish us wholesale us if we do).

So threaten their copyright and patent status.

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 11:19 am

Your family-first liberal government hard at work steadily advancing a key plank of the bolsheviks as the country implodes on their watch:

From 7 March 2022, families with two or more children aged five years and under in care will have their Child Care Subsidy rate increased by 30 percentage points for their second child and younger children, up to a maximum rate of 95 per cent.

A family earning $110,000 a year with two kids in care, four days a week will be better off by $100 a week.

The $10,655 annual cap will also be scrapped on 10 December 2021 and applied retrospectively for the whole 2021-22 financial year, meaning families who hit the cap before the date will receive a refund on any excess fees paid.

“We’re going to set up a vast apparatus to ban you from going to work, but here….let us take your children off your hands for free while we do it”.

Absolute creeps.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:19 am

FFS, guys, stick to facts and data.

We’ll stick to facts just as soon as the vaccine lobby sticks to facts. How are those deaths WITHthe China Virus going?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
October 19, 2021 11:20 am

lol. They don’t like history. Some of my comments on The Australian, and this one the only reject:

Neville Chamberlain came home in 1938 from a meeting in Munich waving a piece of paper that was going to solve all of the world’s problems.
That wasn’t leadership either, ScoMo.
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I can’t be bothered arguing find points of detail with them any more either so I’ve let it be. At least I think I am doing some good on The Oz as part of the resistance. Maybe renew your subscription and fight to show opposition widely while we can before the axe comes down, as it will. But once again, we won’t give them our subscription money when it does. They let these and others stand:

I am sick of hearing lame excuses from wet Liberals for Scott Morrison’s massive U-turn into being a Net Zero Fifty fanatic. Morrison and his acolytes are playing silly geo-political games at the expense of our economic future.
Leading us over a cliff is not leadership.
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Don’t go, Big Scotty, don’t go.
A mistake to think he’ll have our backs spruiking Zet Nero Nonsense, but a dead cert that Rudd and Turnbull will have the knife out and into his.
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No China. No India. No Russia. No Brazil. The countries responsible for the vast majority of global CO2 emissions are nowhere near COP26.
Why are you doing this ScoMo?
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“Confidential modelling”. Yea, right. That has always worked out well before..
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Mr. Morrison, going nuclear may satisfy the climate gods of your fancy but my family and I will continue to expect to drive a petrol car suited to Australian conditions for as long as we want to, and we will also expect to eat a lot of meat not extortionately priced and electricity to be as cheap as it ever was.
Put that in your calculations please.
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Morrison is forcing the nuclear option because he’s a dead duck if he doesn’t.
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Agree. Let’s remove all subsidies and regulations that favour renewables and disadvantage coal, and let the market decide which is cheaper.
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Reading between the lines, it looks like Biden and Boris made net zero a condition of the subs deal. Just guessing..
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Is supporting this charade at Glasgow simply the cost of our submarine deal? If so, would Mr. Morrison please fess up now.
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You mean ‘disappear’ industries that account for 80% of our exports and government revenue? The ones that pay for your standard of living?
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There is no need for the Nationals to remain in coalition. Just leave, and let the electorate sort it out at the next election. While you are at it, the Nats should run candidates in all seats, including Wentworth and Warringah.
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“We have known a long time that the Earth is warming because of carbon emissions, becoming hotter and drier, that sea levels are rising, and we are experiencing more extreme weather events”
No Troy. This is sheer alarmism. We haven’t known this and we still don’t know it. The recent IPPC Report (not the political policy summary) is actually very chary about these things. Extreme weather events are not more frequent and sea levels show no noticeable rise. The CO2 hypothesis can hardly be considered proven. ScoMo is putting himself on a hiding to nowhere.
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So ScoMo is now going to genuflect to the Net Zero Green Religion. Why doesn’t he raise his arms and sing Hallelujah?
Our family were reflecting this evening on why he is doing this. Does he not know what won him an election only two years ago? Is he so deluded by the Canberra and Washington dinner table talk that he now thinks this a good idea?
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August and September have always been calm months in the UK for wind. Anyone who has ever lived there knows that. We are ruled by complete idiots.
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All driven by the unproven hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming. What a farce – you have to laugh, else you would cry buckets as our elite class try to dismantle our comparative economic advantages. All to the advantage of China.
Mr Sharma and Mr Bowen: if we are being ‘left behind’ in your job-creating green revolution, can you please point us to those countries who are ‘in front’ and the number of ‘green jobs’ they have created? Just one example will do. You will not be able to.
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A true spokesman for the people, and not just his people either. Wonderful to see an aboriginal man who speaks out loud and clear for everyone, making us truly Australians All. What he says is right, and he says it with great clarity.
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Pledge to Net Zero 2050 and there will be no difference between you and Labor. You will lose the next election.
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H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 11:21 am

The South African government is reportedly going to Glasgow with a request for $269bn in aid to help it combat climate change.

Sounds like the green Ford. A popular colour for beggars.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 11:22 am

Arky – I reported raw data. The VAERS data file for this year is 13 times larger than last year, which was then the highest ever to that time. And this year’s data is only to October.

Now if someone in the media was doing investigating reporting I might be able to give you some explanations. But the MSM, as we have observed, is quite parochial lately. And the elites have manned their battlements with their useful idiots and have pulled up every drawbridge they can. Which is a tell.

Heller is a good data man. I suspect it was he who had a look at the VAERS files and noticed the size differences. (Here’s the link to his blogpost with that graph in it.)

And as I said the signs in Sundance’s report, and also the American Thinker article mentioned here yesterday the adverse events are being very much underreported.

Gab
Gab
October 19, 2021 11:22 am

For those interested, below is a link to the True Devotion to Mary book-PDF (as well as a video summary of the reflection for the day), for those interested in making/renewing their consecration to Mary i.e. to Jesus through Mary

There are many consecrations one can make to our Blessed Mother, but for me, none quite as edifying as the 33day preparation St Louis De Montfort’s Consecration to Mary.

Over the the course of those 33 days, one goes on a journey of introspection with the desire to submit oneself completely to Mary, who leads all to Jesus.

There are prayers said, scriptures verses read and a focus on meditation on various aspects daily, during this monthly preparation. It culminates in the consecration made to Our Blessed Mother on the 34th day, which is always falls on a feast of the BVM.

On that 34th day one consecrates oneself to Our Lady as well as ensures one receives both communion and confession.

This devotion draws the soul ever so close to Our Blessed Mother, establishing an intimate connection between mother and child and through this deep connection an automatic drawing near to Our Blessed Lord.

If you haven’t already done it, I highly recommend you do it, it is a beautiful gift, a treasure at our disposal.

Today marks the beginning of the 33 day preparation for those hoping the make the consecration of the feast of the Presentation of Our Lady. But you can begin at other times throughout the year: https://www.fisheaters.com/totalconsecrationmontfort.html

Book https://www.ecatholic2000.com/montfort/true/devotion.shtml

Gab
Gab
October 19, 2021 11:22 am

And the 5 min daily reflections as an extra aid https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=92dufiFpVvQ

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:24 am

We’ll stick to facts just as soon as the vaccine lobby sticks to facts.

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Just stick to the facts and you won’t get led astray either way.
However, keep in mind that there is pressure to under report vaccine events, and there was pressure to over- report covid deaths.
But as soon as you start making up your own facts based on your feelings, you’re lost and you aren’t convincing anyone but yourself.
Unless you really wat to engage with the other side in a contest to see who is the most deluded, stick with using what data we have to try to find out what is happening.

Dot
Dot
October 19, 2021 11:25 am

SSR

I mean no harm – given the grave circumstances we are in, it is probably time to drop names.

You gotta help us out if you actually know we had government surveillance only dreamt of now, back in the 1980s.

It would be very noble of you and enlightening for us all.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 11:26 am

Not a good day for harvesting or wheelchair commuters in the Western hermit kingdom today.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:28 am

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 19, 2021 at 11:22 am
Arky – I reported raw data. The VAERS data file for this year is 13 times larger than last year,

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Which is irrelevant unless you know the increase in vaccinations due to covid vaxxes and the rate at which reports usually divided between verified and not.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:28 am

Just stick to the facts and you won’t get led astray either way.

Helped really well with the “Global Warming” debate. We won on all the facts, and lost tactically and strategically. That political parties of all persuasions still pursue CO2 reduction AT ALL is a measure of the depth of our failure.

Top Ender
Top Ender
October 19, 2021 11:28 am

Mike Cannon-Brookes launches world’s largest solar farm in NT

Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has created the world’s largest solar farm from the Simpson Desert to Singapore. Here’s how the incredible scheme works.

Joe Hildebrand

Special report: Take 125 square kilometres of solar panels, a battery that’s 150 times bigger than the biggest in the country, three billion people and a giant extension cord. Then call it “Sun Cable”.

It sounds like a sci-fi scheme cooked up by a Bond villain. In fact it is Mike Cannon-Brookes’ plan to power Asia with energy from the Australian sun and it is fast becoming real.
The Atlassian co-founder and tech guru is building the world’s biggest solar farm in the middle of the Northern Territory and what is literally a giant power cable from the Simpson Desert to Singapore.

Once complete the project will give the 5.5 million-strong island metropolis up to 15 per cent of its total power needs but for Cannon-Brookes that is only the first step.
He says the AAPowerLink project will just be the first of many. He predicts that soon there will be power lines from Australia to all over Asia, selling them our cheap and abundant solar energy.

“Think about it as a giant extension cable that runs from our sunny deserts up to Asia,” Cannon-Brookes said. “There are two or three billion consumers that want cheap energy and want a lot of that energy and we have it and can provide it. I’m hopeful it’s the first of many, many, many cables that we string across to neighbouring countries.”

Sun Cable’s Australia-Asia PowerLink will unlock Australia’s vast world-class solar and land resources to provide significant renewable electricity to Darwin and create a new $2 Billion export industry by supplying up to 15% of Singapore’s electricity needs. Picture: Supplied
If the scale of the ambition seems staggering, that’s because it is. But everything about the Sun Cable project is on a staggering scale.

The initial stage of the project alone involves 5,000 kilometres of power lines stretching from the middle of the NT to Darwin and then 4,200km underwater past the full length of Indonesia to Singapore.

This alone will be the world’s longest High Voltage Direct Current cable system.
There it will provide up to 15 per cent of the island city-state’s electricity needs – all clean, all green and all from a single power plant in Australia.

As well as being the world’s largest solar plant, it will also feature the world’s largest battery, capable of storing 36 to 42 gigawatt hours. By contrast Australia’s so-called “Big Battery” in South Australia is just 129 megawatt hours, currently being expanded by 64.5 MWh.

In other words, when Cannon-Brookes says his is 150 times bigger he is actually underestimating it.

The whole project is expected to cost upwards of $30 billion, with construction to start in 2024. Sun Cable says it will be providing power to Darwin just two years later in 2026 and to Singapore the year after that, with the whole project to be completed by 2028.
If true that would be an astonishingly fast build.

Approximately 2,000 direct jobs are expected to be created in the development, construction and operation alone and over $8 billion of investment is expected to be ploughed directly into Australia.

Once complete the project is expected to generate up to $2 billion in energy exports for Australia per year.

As well as being a cheap energy source for the giant Asian market, it will also flood the Australian market with cheap energy, starting with far cheaper rates in the NT.

“Australia should have the cheapest power on the planet,” Cannon-Brookes said. “We have so many resources opportunities in our sun and wind. We are the lucky country in terms of where we sit geographically in the world and our natural resources when it comes to renewables. We can turn that into by far the cheapest energy anywhere in the world – which we should have, by rights.”

And when it comes to exports, Cannon-Brookes said Australia had all the ingredients needed to be an energy superpower.

“We have, as I mentioned, these two to three billion consumers to the north of us who are rapidly coming up the economic curve and what happens when a country gets wealthier is its average salary goes up and its energy consumption also goes up, and energy consumption goes up faster than salary,” he said.

“And so that is the market for it. Think about us creating this energy and then we have that market right up close to us.

“That is just a beautiful position to be in, and we should take advantage of that. I would say it’s the biggest economic opportunity than Australia has ever seen. It’s such an amazingly large opportunity.”

NT News link – probably paywalled. 400 comments so far and they don’t seem to believe it all – strange.

areff
areff
October 19, 2021 11:30 am

A mate in the trucking racket, he specialises in hauling containers around Victoria, says that three months ago you could buy a 20-foot container from Royal Wolf for around $2000. They’re were going for $6000 the other week until RW stopped selling them. Huge container misallocation across the globe, apparently, and getting worse daily.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:31 am

Look, it goes without saying that the powers that be decided everyone must get vaccinated regardless of individual bad outcomes, and that they are spinning like hell to ensure that.
This makes finding out your actual risk difficult.

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 11:32 am

Best of luck to anybody even trying to make an informed choice on the vaccine. I know my limitations and will rely on long held prejudices and gut feel. My record on medical misadventures is not great and would not listen to me either.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:32 am

Helped really well with the “Global Warming” debate. We won on all the facts

..
“Winning” here is figuring out your individual risks and making the best decision for yourself.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 11:33 am

You’re clutching at straws Frank.
The evidence is overwhelming and you know it.
You may be a coward, but you know underneath, you don’t want the jab.
You’re not that stupid.
Not because of the principle of the matter, but with each passing day, you are realising that the evidence grows.
Like everyone in Australia, word of mouth is getting around to the point where I could safely say that everyone reading this knows of somebody who has had a bad reaction, or some oldie they know has carked it, but they can’t specifically put it down to the jab they just happened to have two weeks prior.
And the 500 odd deaths in Australia are only the ones they can’t blame on anything else.
In other words the young and healthy.
Same with VAERS. There is massive under reporting and doctors who will not admit the deaths are from the jab.
Imagine if you were a doctor and cock sure of your own brilliance admitting you’ve killed a heap of people by being politically naive.
There are threats and many many lefties in all Health departments as well.
There’s leaked video of what is going on.
But worse still, is the suppression of what is going on.
Surely, you don’t deny the suppression?
Wake up to yourself.
Don’t take the bloody jab.
Even if it’s only your piddling existence I save by argument here, I have to argue these points.
I don’t want any of you to die from this…..not even you Frank.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:33 am

Look, it goes without saying that the powers that be decided everyone must get vaccinated regardless of individual bad outcomes, and that they are spinning like hell to ensure that.
This makes finding out your actual risk difficult.

No it actually makes it easier. Since it is no longer an individual decision, as per above, no vaccination is the correct political answer.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 11:35 am

At least I think I am doing some good on The Oz as part of the resistance.

You are doing good stuff Lizzie. The Tele and even Sky News websites this morning were chock full of climate bedwetting. I think I’m going to give the Tele away entirely, as I did with the Oz some time ago.

Incidentally Bowen has this stinker in Sky News today, which illustrates my pique rather well:

‘The economics don’t stack up of nuclear for Australia’: Bowen (18 Oct)

Every word of his is a lie, pretty much.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 11:36 am

From the VAERS website (my emphasis added):-
………..
When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event.
………..

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 11:41 am

ook, it goes without saying that the powers that be decided everyone must get vaccinated regardless of individual bad outcomes, and that they are spinning like hell to ensure that.
This makes finding out your actual risk difficult.

No it actually makes it easier. Since it is no longer an individual decision, as per above, no vaccination is the correct political answer.

+100

H B Bear
H B Bear
October 19, 2021 11:41 am

If only the Aztecs were as strong on cause and effect relationships. It would have made life much easier for virgins living proximate to volcanoes.

srr
srr
October 19, 2021 11:41 am

The Reaction to Sir David Amess’s Murder
(Sadik Khan – Murdered MP “Passed Away” & other evils)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipk-cCpQcIk

Oct 19, 2021
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 11:41 am

Same with VAERS. There is massive under reporting and doctors who will not admit the deaths are from the jab.

Disclaimer from the VAERS website (again, my emphasis added):-
……..
VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.
………. End quote.
I could equally argue that anti-vaxxers are polluting VAERS with dodgy adverse reaction reports.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:41 am

no cause-and-effect relationship has been established

Then why report it at all.

jupes
jupes
October 19, 2021 11:42 am

Do we even have a plan?

Indeed we do. Sacrifice our economy to the ‘climate’ hoax.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 11:42 am

Cannon-Brookes

If his mad Bond-villain project wasn’t going to be wasting oodles of my tax money I’d pull up a comfy chair and break out the popcorn. The silly investors putting in capital deserve to be educated. Unfortunately though with guys like this they come to these things with a giant umbilical cord from Treasury.

rosie
rosie
October 19, 2021 11:42 am

Looks like JC may have gotten the king of vaccines after all.
israel now making astrazeneca available via rohancct on twitter

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 11:44 am

As Arky says, if you vaccinate 80% of the population in the space of nine months, some of those people are going to fall off the twig within two weeks of receiving the vax, just as a matter of course.

Yeah we can say that about covid 19 too, and people did, but nobody cared then openly went on the attack about it when people brought comorbidities and age up: ‘oh so you are saying they were going to die anyway so it doesn’t matter that they died with covid, bigot??’.

miltonf
miltonf
October 19, 2021 11:45 am

Yes Bowen is one of the nastier little shits out.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:47 am

Given that China is run by a bunch of commie assholes and the collapse of the supply chains build around China as the world’s manufacturer, I’m investing in India.
However, most of the ETFs for doing so bundle India in with a bunch of China shit, so there’s this one, which is India only:
India ETF.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:49 am

A Suggestionsays:
October 19, 2021 at 11:41 am
no cause-and-effect relationship has been established

Then why report it at all.

..
Because it’s a first step in seeing if there is a problem.
No one’s saying there isn’t a problem, I’m saying you don’t know it’s a 13x problem until you do further work.

cohenite
October 19, 2021 11:49 am

Special report: Take 125 square kilometres of solar panels, a battery that’s 150 times bigger than the biggest in the country, three billion people and a giant extension cord. Then call it “Sun Cable”.

And it’ll produce about as much power Eraring (intermittently), Australia’s largest coal power plant, which sits on about 100 acres.

Arky
October 19, 2021 11:50 am

Of course, no one likes being told further work is required.

Zipster
October 19, 2021 11:51 am

NIH and ivermectin
Dr. John Campbell

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 11:52 am

Don’t be stupid Frank.
The same rules applied to mall the other vaccines.
Now your teeny brain maybe saying that due to the large numbers of vaccinated of course there will be more adverse effects and deaths.
Wrong.
Millions more have been jabbed with the other proper vaccines over many more years,
That they have jabbed quickly in this case does not mean that these dead baby injections have been more numerous.
Hence we see that from the time of the first vaccine until the present time, all the deaths from all the other vaccines over all those years (which means just as large a number and because of the different jabs for mumps and polio and whatever else, many more millions of jabs overall, ) piddle into insignificance compared to what this has killed in such a short time.
And THINK.
All of those proper vaccines WERE TESTED first.
How anyone could possibly be thinking of jabbing themselves with this shit is beyond me.
For something you laughingly can be asymptomatic from.
F..k me dead.
Fear removes all common sense and logical thinking.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 11:54 am

Was told on the weekend (treat this as anecdote, not evidence) that BHP are having some staffing troubles due to a reasonable number of production staff not being vaxxed.

Couldnt happen to a nicer load of fascists.

Then this story pops up.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-19/fifo-workers-in-pilbara-region-protest-vaccine-mandate/100548182

Over the weekend, Perth experienced a call to arms by workers opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccines. A ripple effect was felt in Karratha, where people took to the streets.

The “Freedom of choice” peaceful rally was made up of local residents, and families and workers from the mining industry, as the resource industry relies heavily on locals to fill the skilled labour shortage.
….
Is a worker shortage looming?
Sector worker and protestor John (who didn’t want to give his surname) said he would be forced to give up his job.

“I’m with one of the big mining companies just up the road here,” he said.

“Come the first of December, I will walk.”

Another protestor, Joe, said his employer would have to stand him down.
New regulations in place state FIFO workers must get one dose of the COVID vaccine by December 1 and be fully vaccinated by January 1, 2022.
“I’m not going to leave on my own accord. They will have to stand us down.”

He said he believed he had a right to freedom of choice.

“I have been FIFO through all of this right up until now,” he said.

It comes as Victoria Police revealed 34 officers and nine Protective Services Officers (PSOs) had been stood down over a failure to comply with the Victorian government’s vaccination mandate.

However, for protestor Allen, he said it was cruel act by the big miners.

“If I don’t get the vaccination by the first of December, I am told [my employment] will be terminated and the same for my wife,” he said.

We feel like it’s economic coercion.”*

He said going from two full-time incomes to none would cause a lot of stress and anxiety.

“I think to threaten people with termination, while mental health is at all-time lows is a pretty low act from these big miners,” he said.

* This, absolutely this.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 11:56 am

Because it’s a first step in seeing if there is a problem.
No one’s saying there isn’t a problem, I’m saying you don’t know it’s a 13x problem until you do further work.

Thus providing endless excuses as to why the vaccine could not have been the cause of the problem.
None of the possible alternative causes of death were accepted in the China Virus death count. This is all numerical theatre to keep an opponent on the back foot and progress an agenda to frighten a populous into doing something that they would otherwise not do.

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 11:59 am

For people over-egging ‘adverse’ events, there’s the other side where people are quietly suffering because they don’t want to go to the doctor and say they think the vaccine made them sick. For many reasons, least of which is the grinding social pressure of the mob to not say anything negative about this experience, worst of which are many people are cultish covid karen lunatics who wouldn’t accept the vaccine caused a reaction in them even if their skin was peeling off and a Pfizer ‘doctor’ was standing there explaining that it was indeed caused by the vaccine.

Witness that reporter the other week who developed myocarditis then tweeted from her hospital bed how wonderful the vaccine is.

See also: mask-weirdo’s wearing masks outside in regional QLD.

Arky
October 19, 2021 12:01 pm

Thus providing endless excuses as to why the vaccine could not have been the cause of the problem.

..
No you fucking moron.
Just if you use data, either use it correctly or don’t use it at all.
Otherwise, just make up any shit you want to scare the old ladies, but don’t pretend it has anything to do with science or data.

Arky
October 19, 2021 12:06 pm

Millions more have been jabbed with the other proper vaccines over many more years,

..
Then you can’t just look at the 13x jump as that is over 1 year.
You have to sum the previous range and present it in a completely different way.
Don’t fucking argue with me on this, Struth.
My major was in mathematical modelling, this is something I actually know about.

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 12:06 pm

Just if you use data, either use it correctly or don’t use it at all.
Otherwise, just make up any shit you want to scare the old ladies, but don’t pretend it has anything to do with science or data.

Arky, you are arguing from a fact based scientific standard.
The vaccine brigade are NOT. They are using deception, omission, lies, suppression and shear overwhelming volume to shout you down and push the vaccine on people. They are using sophisticated psychological techniques of persuasion – Emotion often trumps logic.

twostix
twostix
October 19, 2021 12:08 pm

If you think you’re going to win a propaganda war worrying only about ‘data’ you’re mistaken. It didn’t work for climate change, and won’t work for this. Not that it’s not important to see reality with clear eyes and people who like diving into ‘data’ serve an important function for grounding and creating fodder for arguments. But ultimately as the climate wars have proven, ‘the data’ arguments only exist to service the polemical attacks, they never make a dent on their own, and worse provide fodder for your enemies who will take your deep careful analysis, reframe and desconstruct your analysis of their data which they control find the inevitable minor inconsistencies and things you have to explain, magnify them and declare to everyone “See? These people don’t know anything they’re talking about!” and move on having used their propaganda and institutional arms to destroy you and run you out of a job (Peter Ridd, etc).

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 12:08 pm

Sancho Panzer/Rabz:

Stix – I don’t expect sympathy from anyone. Our justified anger needs to be directed towards those responsible for this fascist insanity – our beloved politico/bureaucrat/meeja class.

Shorter – our beloved Brahman class

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
October 19, 2021 12:09 pm

They refer to a ‘boys club’. As if there is some special bond that men feel with other men merely because they are men, to keep women out regardless of who the woman is. Two guys who barely know each other will smile triumphantly upon excluding a woman who one or both of them might know well.

I have seen such things depicted in movies. I have never seen it in my life.

I have seen it and one of the blokes was the woman’s husband.

Arky
October 19, 2021 12:12 pm

Arky, you are arguing from a fact based scientific standard.
The vaccine brigade are NOT. They are using deception, omission, lies, suppression and shear overwhelming volume to shout you down and push the vaccine on people. They are using sophisticated psychological techniques of persuasion – Emotion often trumps logic.

..
Agree.
The solution to that isn’t to do likewise.
It’s to be precise and act in a trustworthy manner to inform those with an open mind.
The rest can go to hell.

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
October 19, 2021 12:14 pm

Why would you fix a planet that has nothing wrong with it?

Not saying it’s broken but could be improved by Removing some of the elite numpties going to Glasgow. Maybe there is a grant available..?

A Suggestion
A Suggestion
October 19, 2021 12:15 pm

The rest can go to hell.

Yes, and they will take us with them.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:15 pm

When will the people of Australia wake up?

Our governments , pollies and public servant swamps, are at war with us .
Our known enemies are people like Jane Halton, Greg Hunt , all in the unconstitutional cabinet and are aiming to destroy Australia so it can be replaced.
We have to suffer so we become compliant to everything, so we may just hope to survive on our bug ration.
Sounds over the top.
Sounds insane.
Like killing people in the killing fields for wearing glasses.
Like killing those of a particular race.
Like experimental medical treatments ..people screaming in agony that caused us to sign the Nuremberg treaty.
People are screaming in agony already, and they’ve only just got started.
People at war kill their enemy.
That’s exactly what they are doing.
Stealing out wealth while they kill us and we help them kill our children with these totally unnecessary jabs for children that prove this is not about a virus.
Scott Morrison is not weak, he is a traitor and at war with Australia.
Isn’t it obvious?
When people talk as if the businesses are stupid for mandating jabs, how subservient to the governments have these businesses become over the years?
It’s a fact that business can be put out of action any time a government wants….even before lock downs and forced business closures occurred.
The meeting in Scotland is a Davos meeting. A WEF war room gathering, to discuss the battle plans and logistics.
And every night on shows like Alan Jones he and his letter writers ask why, why, why, why……..wwwwwwwhhhhhhyyyyy!
Do people think that there has been a vaccine invented to stop the spread of traitors?
Because like Covid, there has not been a vaccine invented to cure us of traitors either.

And it’s all in the family.
Here’s event 201 attendee Jane Halton, who’s brother in law is Brett Sutton.
Remember me talking about her last year?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 12:18 pm

Hmmm, shitstirring opportunity???

our legal department just hit us with this..

paraphrasing and selective cutting & pasting, just in case.

Companies are required to keep proof of vax.
Ooops, some confidential info which should only be used by medical people is on the vax certificate…

The IHI ( Individual Health Identifier number (IHI)) uniquely identifies Australians for healthcare purposes in the same fashion that a Medicare number does and only health practitioners should maintain those numbers, this is known as the healthcare identifier act Healthcare Identifiers Act.

Most companies are keeping full, unredacted copies of certificates… oops, illegal…

But hey, we should totally let them introduce that “digital passport” idea eh?

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:19 pm

It’s a simple as this Arky.
Millions more of all other jabs have been given over the years with hardly any deaths from them while reported in the same manner and under the same rules as the thousands of deaths that have occurred in only the last few months of these dead baby jabs.

Bar Beach Swimmer
October 19, 2021 12:20 pm

ML:
Maybe it is not a boys club. Maybe it is women who were elevated for their gender now being treated according to their talent

Bears repeating.

C.L.
C.L.
October 19, 2021 12:24 pm

Remember when monty was going to save the blog?

Dot was a big meanie. “No, you should rooly let mUnter hElP oUt!!!1”

That’s not really fair or accurate.
Originally, the talk was to preserve and migrate Catallaxy, including its archives. Nobody had the server or the skills to do this. WordPress has a system for migration but for a blog of Old Cat’s size, it was close to impossible. Jacques couldn’t pull it off and he’s the tech guru.

Monty offered to park the site on his server. That became a moot point when the old site was archived because anyone can set up a new site. But he did try to help when nobody else knew what the hell they were doing.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 19, 2021 12:25 pm

Like killing people in the killing fields for wearing glasses.

The logic was simple – if you wore glasses, you could probably read, and if you could read, you might read enough to question the word of “Brother Number One” and his foul gang….

Winston Smith
October 19, 2021 12:25 pm

Eyrie:

However the DB605 in the Bf109 at the time when highly supercharged with MW and Nitrous oxide injection was said to have a life of around 10 hours.

I’m fairly sure that Methanol/Water, Nitrous Oxide was only a war emergency boost and had a duration of about 20 30 seconds – along the same lines as the Spitfire.
But you will find this interesting…
A video by Mark Felton where the Germans captured an intact Spitfire and put a DB605A motor in it…

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
October 19, 2021 12:25 pm

Winston Smith.

A very provocative gravitar you have there!

Arky
October 19, 2021 12:26 pm

Not that it’s not important to see reality with clear eyes and people who like diving into ‘data’ serve an important function for grounding and creating fodder for arguments. But ultimately as the climate wars have proven, ‘the data’ arguments only exist to service the polemical attacks,

..
We made progress in the climate debate by arguing the facts.
Abbott was elected Prime Minister.
Skepticism remains in the general public despite the propaganda from schools and media because our side was much more credible.
We should exactly follow that formula forb this thing, and hope for the same success.

Arky
October 19, 2021 12:28 pm

struthsays:
October 19, 2021 at 12:19 pm
It’s a simple as this Arky.
Millions more of all other jabs have been given over the years with hardly any deaths from them while reported in the same manner and under the same rules as the thousands of deaths that have occurred in only the last few months of these dead baby jabs.

..
Show me that data.

Zipster
October 19, 2021 12:31 pm

This is a global supply chain crisis caused by a worldwide slow-motion, but accelerating collapse of globalisation. As the American economist Matt Stoller underlines, globalisation “has left us uniquely unprepared to manage a supply shock. Our hyper-efficient globalized supply chain, once romanticized by men like Tom Friedman in The World Is Flat, is the problem. Like the financial system before the 2008 crash, this kind of economic order hides its fragility. It seems to work quite well, until it doesn’t.” Now, we’re beginning to see what it looks like when it doesn’t.

Internet protocol (IP) works along similar lines to just in time (JIT) manufacturing. However JIT has not evolved to deal with disruption. firstly IP has a buffer to account for minor variation in delivery times and secondly on major disruption applies an exponential back-off algorithm.

In times of uncertainty, consumers apply their own buffering causing disorderly oscillations between over production and under production back up the supply chains.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 12:31 pm

Which is irrelevant unless you know the increase in vaccinations due to covid vaxxes and the rate at which reports usually divided between verified and not.

LOL. I wonder what happened between last year and this year that VAERS reports might increase 1300%? Golly, It’s a total mystery. Inscrutable. How could anyone ever even think that the advent of mRNA vaccines for the first time ever could have anything to do with it?

Incidentally I suspect just about every American has had multiple vaccinations in their lifetimes. Fluvax, tetanus, MMR, childhood vaccinations – which are mandatory here. I don’t know if they are in the US. But none of those were mRNA of course.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 12:32 pm

A Suggestionsays:

October 19, 2021 at 11:41 am

no cause-and-effect relationship has been established

Then why report it at all.

Oh, FFS, can you at least go read their website.
It is raw data which might – just maybe – provide a pointer as a starting point for further study.
……. Start quote.
VAERS is designed to rapidly detect unusual or unexpected patterns of adverse events, also known as “safety signals.” If a safety signal is found in VAERS, further studies can be done in safety systems such as the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) or the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) project. These systems do not have the same scientific limitations as VAERS, and can better assess health risks and possible connections between adverse events and a vaccine.
……… end quote.
Why quote VAERS figures and conveniently ignore the caveats from the front page very same website?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 19, 2021 12:35 pm

areffsays:
October 19, 2021 at 11:30 am

A mate in the trucking racket, he specialises in hauling containers around Victoria, says that three months ago you could buy a 20-foot container from Royal Wolf for around $2000. They’re were going for $6000 the other week until RW stopped selling them. Huge container misallocation across the globe, apparently, and getting worse daily.

Thanks for the heads up Areff.
I’ve a feeling my cunning plan to buy 2 x 20-footers this week has just been foiled.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure
October 19, 2021 12:39 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
October 19, 2021 at 11:54 am

Was told on the weekend (treat this as anecdote, not evidence) that BHP are having some staffing troubles due to a reasonable number of production staff not being vaxxed.

Couldnt happen to a nicer load of fascists.

+1
Excellent descriptor of them.
Anyone here who has had occasion to send them (even one) bill will know exactly what I mean.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 12:39 pm

LOL. I wonder what happened between last year and this year that VAERS reports might increase 1300%?

Arky answered that question.
Twice.
If you vaccinate the whole population in a year (as against the normal cohort for other vaccines of pre-schoolers and random adult boosters for, say, tetanus) you are going to get an increase in reports.
Not very sciency of you Bruce to clutch at a percentage increase in raw reporting numbers, without considering the size of the base population in each year.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:39 pm

Like the financial system before the 2008 crash, this kind of economic order hides its fragility. It seems to work quite well, until it doesn’t.” Now, we’re beginning to see what it looks like when it doesn’t.

The words of communists.
They sabotage what is working brilliantly and claim it failed by itself.
Oldest trick in the communist book.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:44 pm

Have you been jabbed, Arky?

duncanm
duncanm
October 19, 2021 12:47 pm

Tomsays:
October 19, 2021 at 4:01 am
John Spooner.

note Spooner’s sly water vapour dig at the ‘smokestack’ idiots.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
October 19, 2021 12:49 pm

CAD 2.0c. Cheers for the tip, Dot. Will they be able to get wukkas though?

calli
calli
October 19, 2021 12:51 pm

Impertinent.

Next, you’ll be demanding purity papers.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:51 pm

Bullshit, Frank, complete bullshit.
The number of other vaccinations over all the years vaccines have been invented far outweighs the number of dead baby jabs given, and the conditions for reporting haven’t changed.
Let me repeat that .
The conditions for reporting haven’t changed.
Billions of jabs would have been given due to successive generations coming through that time frame.
Hardly any deaths until last year.
The conditions for reporting haven’t changed.
The conditions for reporting haven’t changed .

Zipster
October 19, 2021 12:53 pm

Err, So If THIS Isn’t Misinformation Then WHAT IS??!

Russell Brand

How much does Covid continue to be politized and is false reporting from the mainstream media also being treated as misinformation?
#Misinformation #Censorship #MainstreamMedia #Covid

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 12:54 pm

It is not in comparison to that one year.
All jabs over all years deaths compared to the last few months.

You bastards willfully will not see the forest for the trees.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
October 19, 2021 12:55 pm

Sancho – Do you disagree that every American has likely had multiple vaccinations? I certainly have, even though I’m not an American. I don’t know how many have fluvax each year, for example, but it would be a substantial proportion of the population.

Yet the VAERS reports from this year, only to October, are more than the entire number from all previous years combined.

What would be the common factor? Gosh, that is really difficult to work out.

I’m really amazed that people who’ve been so sceptical of government for so long suddenly are embracing government like they’re their saviours. It’s weird.

duncanm
duncanm
October 19, 2021 1:01 pm

miltonfsays:
October 19, 2021 at 7:54 am
Post modern Scotland really is the pits

sure is.

What happened to the country that gave us great Clyde shipbuilding industry, and engineering giants like Napier, John Logie Baird, Robert Stirling, Robert Stevenson, James Watt and all the others (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Engineering_Hall_of_Fame) ?

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:08 pm

I’m really amazed that people who’ve been so sceptical of government for so long suddenly are embracing government like they’re their saviours. It’s weird.

They are embracing anything so they don’t have to embrace the horrible truth.
The truth may not be good news, but embracing it, frees your mind to be who you were in 2019, and as coherent and logical.
Coherence and logic.
To break out of the spell of propaganda is my hope for all here I’ve been fighting.
They may have your body….they’ve imprisoned us all, but never let them take your mind.
Sco Mo is a traitor.
But to think he is weak, or that the elections coming up concern any of them, or that the vaccine is a vaccine, that the tests work, that you think you are now free in NSW, etc etc etc can only happen if they’ve got your mind.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 1:10 pm

Dot..

Ive curated this one just for you.

The biggest belly laugh you will have all day, from the gruinaid..

‘I feel hurt that my life has ended up here’: The women who are involuntary celibates
What is it like to go without a partner when you long for one – and when even a fleeting sexual connection feels impossible?

Then they go and spoil it be giving away the whole “Im a female incel” in the subheading under the picture.

Women may find it harder to find a partner they are attracted to as they get older.

Boilerplate “incel men are all violent nazIIIS!!!” for the first few paragraphs.

But it is not just incel men who struggle to find sexual connections in the modern world. Some young women are turning to online “femcel” spaces to discuss the challenges they face as involuntary celibates.

Theirs is a non-violent resistance. Rather than blaming the opposite sex for their unhappiness, as some of their male counterparts do, femcels tend to believe their own “ugliness” is the root cause of their loneliness. Posting anonymously on platforms they have designed for themselves, they argue that they are invisible due to their abnormal appearance, and that our beauty-centric, misogynistic culture prevents them from being accepted. There is anger and open grappling with self-esteem, but no extreme hatred and no sense of entitlement within the community.

Meanwhile, a far greater number of women would not describe themselves as femcels, but live unintentionally celibate lives. They share many of the femcels’ concerns.


Caitlin, 39, doesn’t call herself a femcel, but she hasn’t had sex for almost eight years and doesn’t think she will find another sexual partner. “I’m not conventionally attractive and I never get approached by men,” she says.*
….
She never tells people that she is celibate, because it makes her feel “abnormal” and inadequate. “I feel a lot of anger and hurt that my life has ended up this way.** I struggle to cope with the fact I may never find a partner. Society makes it harder because, after a certain age, people tend to pair off and form their own insular units and life gets lonely for single people.”


she has had two short-term relationships, which ended in heartbreak.***

There is a popular notion among incel communities – and even in wider society – that women are privileged because they can get sex at any time.**** Not only is that untrue, as many women will testify, but also, as Caitlin points out, not all sex is enjoyable. “Generally, men who aren’t in a relationship with you don’t make it a pleasurable experience,” she says. “The risk of rejection afterwards is high*****, which makes the sex even less enjoyable. As a woman, you want to be desired, not treated like a piece of meat.”

….
I see lots of beautiful women dating men who aren’t good-looking, but rarely the other way around. Men have more ways to attract a partner than looks.”******
….
Jane, 49, has been single for eight years and celibate for five.***

Dishonesty is a common theme; she says it is impossible to build trust with a man who lies online. “Pictures will be 10 years old, or not an accurate representation of the person,” she says. “I look for men who take care of themselves physically, who are emotionally available, open and honest. You can’t see that on a profile.”*******
….
It’s hard to meet men who share your interests.********
….
She is 53 and has been celibate for five years.
***

“The #MeToo movement was extremely important, but, at the same time, it created polarisation in society,”*********

According to Silva Neves, a sex and relationship psychotherapist with the UK Council of Psychotherapy, it is not uncommon for women to struggle to find a partner they find physically attractive, especially as they get older.
Problem shallow women???
Nope, my soggy knees is to blame
“We absorb and internalise this misogyny on every level and even women are more likely to criticise another woman’s body than a man’s. You often see women putting more effort into their appearance as they age because they have been taught it’s important in a way that men haven’t. But a lot of women complain that they struggle to be attracted to men, because they have let themselves go.”
See men, its your fault women want chad thundercock…

Elaine, 37, who has been celibate for five years***, feels her successful career has played a role in her dating difficulties. “Men don’t like the fact I don’t cook or clean, even though I pay for someone to do both jobs,” she says. “The stereotype of male hunter-gatherer remains quite prevalent and at times I think they feel they don’t have a role.” Like other women, she is seeking an intellectual equal and is not interested in finding someone who will take care of her. “If you don’t fit in a Barbie box and do all the domestic duties, it can be quite upsetting for some men.”
She want a Chad who earns as much as she does.

Yvonne, 28, recognises the same traditional values in men her age.
Men desire something… It must be mens desire that is broken…
..
Neves argues that while misogyny and misandry are both unacceptable, they have very different roots. “Misogyny is an ideology which dictates that women should be seen as objects, without the same rights as men. Misandry is mostly a reaction to misogyny and informed by evidence.

Look what you made me dooooo!!! What a pile of steaming horseshit. Even women who are vile to chaps are really the victims of those chaps…

“Of course, not all male incels are involved in extremist online forums, but those that do are feeding off their hatred of women, viewing us as possessions or something to conquer,” she says. “Involuntary celibate women seem to be handling their anger and hurt in a more evolved way, throwing themselves into work, life and healthy communities where single life is celebrated. I hope it can inspire me to feel more confident in my own situation.”

Cat shelters/kitty litter, whiskas futures, all looking solid…

* Arrr, but the hour be late and the blowhole be wet… (this may be verbatim from KD gazing on Chriseen nixon in spandex behind the kebab shop at 3AM)
** Why didnt Chad Thundercock return my calls, after all we went all the way on our first date…
*** Not an incel…. just an older lady waiting for Mills or Boon to kick in.
**** 99% true is a pretty good standard.
***** Chadlio, Chadlio where for art thou Chadlio???
****** What an acknowledgement that men have to devise ways of increasing income/developing personalities etc to attract ladies??
******* Inconceivable I know…
******** Maybe your interests are shit. Just putting that out there, no charge for the advice this time. (Does she even 40K?)
********* Bitches be cray cray….

Arky
October 19, 2021 1:11 pm

Yet the VAERS reports from this year, only to October, are more than the entire number from all previous years combined.

..
Then present the argument that way, not the 13X thing.
And calm the fuck down. No one is saying there isn’t something to investigate.

Arky
October 19, 2021 1:11 pm

They are embracing anything so they don’t have to embrace the horrible truth.

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No.

Baba
Baba
October 19, 2021 1:14 pm

What happened to the country that gave us

Thomas Blake Glover?

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:15 pm

No.

Show me the data.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 1:15 pm

Then you can’t just look at the 13x jump as that is over 1 year.
You have to sum the previous range and present it in a completely different way.
Don’t fucking argue with me on this, Struth.
My major was in mathematical modelling, this is something I actually know about.

Yep.
I can’t claim a specific academic major in maths modelling, but I have done enough over the journey to the point where it is almost a reflexive response when I see sloppy data “analysis”.
I would go further with VAERS data.
I think it is very limited, even as a base level indicator, for the mass Kung Flu vax program.
It really comes into it’s own as a longitudinal tool looking at annual vaccine programs over time.
Example. We administer a vaccine for twenty-five years from the inception of VAERS in 1990. Suddenly, in 2016, we get a blip in adverse reports. Why is it so? Have dosages changed? Did we add something to a composite vax? Are we administering at a younger age? Was it Donald Trump’s fault?
Postulate – test – evaluate.
Rinse and repeat until you get an answer.
With the Kung Flu vax, all you can do is grab all of the “adverse outcomes”, eliminate the obvious, and try to find patterns and links. It’s tedious and requires stacks of analysis.
More than looking at a raw increase in report numbers and going “Aha!”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 1:17 pm

Another piece on the 7-Nilligan lady.

The auditor general has said he is unable to judge the appropriateness of the ABC’s decision to pay $200,000 for costs incurred by reporter Louise Milligan in a defamation dispute with Liberal MP Andrew Laming, because there was no policy or precedent for it.

In a letter, auditor general Grant Hehir revealed the ABC had decided to cover Milligan’s costs – including a $79,000 payment to Laming – because of fear it could be liable and link to the defamation case brought against it and Milligan by former minister Christian Porter.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:21 pm

Straw clutching and weasel words.
Let me be longitudinal you tool.
All years, all vaccines, same reporting parameters.
FUCK ALL DEATHS (sorry, that was a bit latitudinal) over the billions of jabs compared to the new Vaccines millions of jabs and only so far, in a few months.
Stick that in ya graph.

Arky
October 19, 2021 1:23 pm

Here’s a comparison.
Hib vaccine:
This vaccine is probably given out in 100s of millions of doses, it’s common childhood vaccine:

VAERS received 29?747 reports after Hib vaccines; 5179 (17%) were serious, including <strong>896 reports of deaths.

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Here’s the same thing for the cov vaxxes:

. More than 403 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through October 6, 2021. During this time, VAERS received 8,638 reports of death (0.0021%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Yes, it deserves a closer look.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 1:24 pm

..
Then present the argument that way, not the 13X thing.
And calm the fuck down. No one is saying there isn’t something to investigate.

… and if we pursue this kindergarten finger-painting level “analysis” any debate falls at the first hurdle, and any focus on legitimate study is lost.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:24 pm
Rorschach
Rorschach
October 19, 2021 1:26 pm

BoN:

And as I said the signs in Sundance’s report, and also the American Thinker article mentioned here yesterday the adverse events are being very much underreported.

Another amusing thing from the Cathedral is covered by this American Thinker article:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/10/is_aspirin_the_new_horse_dewormer.html

Aspirin in low doses has long been used by people to “thin blood” to reduce the chance of heart attack and stroke.

There have been a number of studies suggesting that Aspirin helps reduce the severity of COVID (by as much as 40-50% need for intubation etc in people who used it at time of infection). As I understand, this is because it appears that COVID will induce micro clots / thrombosis on its own, and Aspirin’s blood thinning effect will reduce the effects of this [particularly in the lungs]. It is why Aspirin is/has been included in the cocktail of drugs that India for example used to treat COVID.

The American Thinker article points out that the Cathedral got wind of this, and Aspirin is now being “Cancelled”. So much so that it has just been recommended that people over 60 [who have been using it for decades and decades] should no longer take it.

“While daily aspirin use has been shown to lower the chance of having a first heart attack or stroke, it can also cause harm”… “The latest evidence is clear: starting a daily aspirin regimen in people who are 60 or older to prevent a first heart attack or stroke is not recommended,”

https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/sites/default/files/file/supporting_documents/aspirin-cvd-prevention-final-rec-bulletin.pdf

What harm? It has been used and abused for nearly 100 years!!!! With little or no significant side effects unless used in industrial sized quantities for very long time!

Nothing but NOTHING that can help people suffering from COVID can remain in use…!!

Actually this is not really amusing.

This is now becoming scary – not just that people by actions like this are being denied possibly life saving medicine, but because to do this is a politically mandated decision to do so. And this means that – under normal circumstance – those doing the mandating would/should be made accountable for their actions when the govt changes [i.e can you imagine a Trump or a De Santis not smashing this to bits?]… and given the stakes are so high – the Cathedral will do anything ANYTHING [and not just a bit of petty criminal voter fraud] to prevent a government change.

Interesting times.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 1:27 pm

struthsays:

October 19, 2021 at 12:44 pm

Have you been jabbed, Arky?

Way to refute an argument, Struth.

cohenite
October 19, 2021 1:28 pm

New book by Ian Plimer: Green Murder.

It has never been shown that human emissions of the gas of life drive global warming. Large bodies of science that don’t fit the narrative have been ignored by IPCC, COP and self-interested scientists paid by taxpayers. A huge subsidised industry of intermittent unreliable wind and solar electricity has been created based on unsubstantiated science. The same hucksters now want subsidised hydrogen, costly inefficient EVs, subsidised mega-batteries and other horribly expensive tried and failed schemes to impoverish people, create unemployment, transfer wealth and enrich China. Germany, Texas, California and the UK had a glimpse of Net Zero with blackouts, astronomically high electricity costs and hundreds of deaths. We once had reliable cheap electricity and now that governments have gone green, we are heading for hard economic times.

In this book I charge the greens with murder. They murder humans who are kept in eternal poverty without coal-fired electricity. They support slavery and early deaths of black child miners. They murder forests and their wildlife by clear felling for mining and wind turbines. They murder forests and wildlife with their bushfire policies. They murder economies producing unemployment, hopelessness, collapse of communities, disrupted social cohesion and suicide.

They murder free speech and freedoms and their takeover of the education system has ended up in the murdering of the intellectual and economic future of young people. They terrify children into mental illness with their apocalyptic death cult lies and exaggerations. They try to divide a nation. They are hypocrites and such angry ignorant people should never touch other people’s money.

The greens are guilty of murder. The sentence is life with no parole in a cave in the bush enjoying the benefits of Net Zero.

Arky
October 19, 2021 1:28 pm

So, the cov vaccines have around 10X more reports of deaths (again, not confirmed as caused by, just reported) than a common childhood vaxx that has probably many more times doses given, as keddies get four shots of the stuff.
Yes, I’d be doing an urgent investigation into the covid vaccines.
That needs to happen, and the buggers need to STOP mandating the shit.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:29 pm

… and if we pursue this kindergarten finger-painting level “analysis” any debate falls at the first hurdle, and any focus on legitimate study is lost.

No ……..it is kindergarten level basic.
You know when the finger painting artist has a load in his nappy and it doesn’t need scientific analysis..just because you refuse to change the nappy without it.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:31 pm

Way to refute an argument, Struth.

No I just want to know what I’m dealing with.
From my experience, people who have had the jab will be far more aggressive toward the truth than others.

struth
struth
October 19, 2021 1:33 pm

I seriously mean this gentlemen.
I hope you all have a good day.

min
min
October 19, 2021 1:38 pm

Frolicking mole apropo the post on sexual encounters for ladies after a certain age here are some stats that would apply to the male demographic that may have some influence . 50% of men suffer ED these days rising to 80% % as they age . Not many women would be able to cope with this situation let alone the blokes. A person of experience as a psychologist with sex therapy training in the tool kit so have dealt with these bedroom problems that appear to be on the increase , I would think a huge inhibitor
Also most don’t know that it is the pheromones, fantasies that turn you on and the other unrealistic expectations. a turn off.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
October 19, 2021 1:42 pm

On a (kind of) unrelated matter, I saw a doco on Pizzagate last night.
I did not know that a guy (Edgar Maddison Welch) actually drove from North Carolina to DC with an AR-15 to “sort it out”.
Everyone got out while he searched for the “imprisoned kiddies”. The only physical damage was three bullet holes in the building.
They played the tape of his arrest.
When asked what he was up to he said “I was here to rescue the kids”.
But the tone in his voice said “I’ve been fucking had”.
He was a hero on Infowars for a day.
Then he spent the next 1,400 days in jail.

Tom
Tom
October 19, 2021 1:44 pm

People who won’t get vaccinated are no threat to the vaccinated. But they’re being demonised to enforce compliance with the political establishment, who won’t observe their own rules because rules are only for servants. On the occasion of Colin Powell’s passing, Tucker Carlson’s masterful essay on the death of American meritocracy.

cohenite
October 19, 2021 1:48 pm

Good memes on the chunk virus and the fucking vaccines:

https://generaldispatch.whatfinger.com/top-10-memes-live-free-watch-maga/

The one about fauchi and the efficacy of the vaccines is a doozy.

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 19, 2021 1:50 pm

Antica filth is essentially the sharp end of the establishment

shatterzzz
October 19, 2021 1:51 pm

Canadian gummint goes FULL WOKE! .. never go full woke the laughter gets too LOUD! .. LOL
https://ibb.co/C9GVzRt

Miltonf
Miltonf
October 19, 2021 1:52 pm

I should add that Antifa filth is going after unvaxed in Brisbane

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
October 19, 2021 1:54 pm

Don’t ditch wenches of Disneyland, say visitors
By Charlie Mitchell
The Times
2 hours ago October 19, 2021
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Not all is well at the “happiest place on earth”. As Disneyland ditches culturally insensitive characters and scenes at its 12 theme parks across the world, some fans are expressing fury online at its new-found “wokeness”.

Bill Cotter, a former employee at the original park in Anaheim, California, who moderates a 114,000-member “Vintage Disneyland” Facebook group, said he has been shocked by recent levels of toxicity.

He said an invitation for people to complete the phrase “My Disneyland ..” found fans lashing out at the modern theme park rather than sharing positive experiences.

“My God, the hatred that was flying back and forth,” Cotter told SFGate, a news website. “Like, ‘my Disneyland didn’t have whale-sized people stuffing food in their face.’ What are you talking about? Body shaming is not acceptable.”

Among the changes criticised by fans include Disney’s decision in 2017 to remove a “wench auction” in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, where women are sold into sexual slavery, and this year to withdraw “negative depictions of ‘natives’ ” — such as cannibals — from the Jungle Cruise ride, which dates from 1955.

Disney also turned Jessica Rabbit, the nightclub singer from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, into the head of her own private investigation service — a role Disney says is “more relevant to today’s culture”.

Beyond the rides, it will allow a more inclusive dress code for cast members, and said they would no longer have to cover their tattoos. It is fighting a court case against 25,000 current and former employees who claim they deserve better pay.

While reforms are occurring across Disney parks worldwide, from Paris to Tokyo, much of the anger is thought to come from American fans, where the scale and intensity of Disneyland-focused social media has made it an area of academic study.

Cotter said vitriolic members are in the minority, but added: “What frustrates me is that you’re trying to say you want to go to the happiest place on Earth and people just feel absolutely compelled to bring the outside world into it.”

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 1:58 pm

Supply chain issues.
I was going to buy a small milling machine yesterday so I called Hare & Forbes and was told they were out of stock , the next batch was sold out and there would be no stock until sometime first quarter 2022.
Bummer.

Dude! Where’s the consultation?!

Should I pull out my mini mill patterns and make a batch?! Oh, Northern Amalgamated Foundries doesn’t exist anymore because worksafe shut them down with $1M of safety improvements…..

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 2:04 pm

Northern Amalgamated Foundries doesn’t exist anymore because worksafe shut them down with $1M of safety improvements…..

All those workers are completely safe now from industrial slaughter…
Mission accomplished, high 5s for everyone at worksafe!!!

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 2:07 pm

What happened to the country that gave us great Clyde shipbuilding industry, and engineering giants like Napier, John Logie Baird, Robert Stirling, Robert Stevenson, James Watt and all the others

Thomas Sowell has a good talk on the rise of Scotland and Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3OF8bhJw18

Dot
Dot
October 19, 2021 2:09 pm

. 50% of men suffer ED these days

Not under 50.

No such thing. We aren’t attracted to landwhales.

I bet London to a prick that ED rates are correlated close to 1:1 with a high r*2 with female obesity.

Eyrie
Eyrie
October 19, 2021 2:11 pm

A video by Mark Felton where the Germans captured an intact Spitfire and put a DB605A motor in it…
Yeah the hybrid was better than the 109 or the Spit. Ran across that the other day. The Spit took about 3 times the man hours to build so I can see why the Germans weren’t interested in stealing the design.
The use of the MW and Nitrous even for short periods was was caused the short life, not that it ran like that all the time but when you think about intercepting high flying bombers you need to get high, quickly. After the supercharger passes critical altitude you’d likely go to MW. Hard on engines. Basically running them like in a racing car.

Razey
Razey
October 19, 2021 2:11 pm

Been listening to IBAC. Labor are criminals.

But how can we use this to get rid of the fascist hunchback?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
October 19, 2021 2:13 pm

I bet London to a prick

I want to believe that was deliberate…
Please tell me it was.
Either that or the greatest Freudian slip of all time.

In my experience (anecdote time), ladies use fat like armor once they cant be bothered with sex anymore.

rickw
rickw
October 19, 2021 2:21 pm

Given that China is run by a bunch of commie assholes and the collapse of the supply chains build around China as the world’s manufacturer, I’m investing in India.

The problem with India is Indians. They are a bloody nightmare to deal with. 8 months ago I tried to organise some lathe imports from Rajkot which seems to be their machinetool manufacturing centre. FMD, the BS was so deep. If I insist on a D1-4 spindle nose, just fucking accept that, don’t launch a whole lot of fucking BS at me about why the ancient L00 spindle nose is better, or, say you can fucking supply D1-4 and then send me a quote for L00 hoping I won’t fucking notice. I even offered to make D1-4 spindles and ship them to them if they would send me the drawing of the L00 spindle so I could adapt it.

Complete fucking spastics.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
October 19, 2021 2:21 pm

thefrollickingmolesays:
October 19, 2021 at 1:10 pm

Posting anonymously on platforms they have designed for themselves, they argue that they are invisible due to their abnormal appearance, and that our beauty-centric, misogynistic culture prevents them from being accepted.

…it is not uncommon for women to struggle to find a partner they find physically attractive,

….

Nope, no lack of self awareness or overdeveloped sense of entitlement there at all..

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