My neck is killing me, can’t sleep.

Calli you didn’t rant, you were being accurate.

Good morning, see ya later.

The other plague, scientism, is running rampant.

‘When science mixes with politics, all we get is politics’ (9 Dec)

Censorship of actual science has been heavy-handed, both by Democrats and by their Big Tech acolytes. Epidemiologists, virologists, and physicians who do not toe the party line regarding COVID have been intimidated and silenced. Science that cannot be openly questioned is not science, since the heart and soul of science are to scrutinize every claim from every angle.
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To decry only the skeptics, while ignoring the egregious anti-science of many politicians, does nothing to engender trust in the institutions of science. It does the opposite.

He doesn’t address the elephant in the room which is climate scientism. That is at least as bad as the Covid scientism we’ve been afflicted by, and is likely to be even more harmful if it doesn’t collapse under the weight of its own inconsistencies and hypocrisy.

Jimmy & Glenn Greenwald talk Assange & Snowden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgOJR_S7TqQ

To the Cats who thought that shooting Snowden & Assange would have been awesome (the ones that said that on the weekend should hang your heads in shame), I hope the the big Government does nothing to you.
But I hope you live long enough to see your kids get put through the wringer by the exact forces that Snowden & Assange were exposing.

Crossiesays:
December 13, 2021 at 7:20 am
I find it interesting that Russell Brand has more viewers than CNN yet nobody in the media refers to this. I’m sure there are other vloggers with even bigger viewership numbers yet nobody is discussing this realignment. In other words, the real debate is happening but not in the media.

I am confident in stating that journalists, most of the pundits in the official media and people who watch, listen and read them are the most ignorant of us all.

The main issue is the boomers who mostly still watch propaganda channels such as the ABC.

We need the boomers to start dying off en-mass to get our country back.

Dilbert 3

Aha! As Rugbyskier points out above, ‘toons are (accidentally) at the old fred.

Top o’ the mornin’ Cats. Excellent discussion last night, just finished reading through it. Lots of light with just the right amount of heat.

The problem people have with this JC isn’t one particular rule or assertion is incorrect, but the preponderance of rules that put together make no sense and were made by a prevaricating ruling class that thought we would not notice they are lying.

They are lying because they cannot back down as they chose to be hysterical and they cannot lose face. They committed to the most overblown forecasts and thought dishonesty was best (for example, why masks were discouraged at first – because they thought hospitals would run out).

Apart from the impenetrable (to me) statistics being made clear, the above was the best takeaway.

And this morning the Jerusalem Post article might be the first few pebbles of the avalanche – what happens when vaccines are no longer effective, even in their lousy current form?

Crikey, that Johannes Leak ‘toon has belled the cat. To see how close to the money it is, we’ll have to see how the ABC-Fairfax-Grauniad oat latte alliance cope. Outrage and banishment, like his dad was cast beyond the pale?

callisays:
December 13, 2021 at 8:33 am

And this morning the Jerusalem Post article might be the first few pebbles of the avalanche – what happens when vaccines are no longer effective, even in their lousy current form?

Dont worry, Pfizer can develop a new vaccine in 3 months. Which will take two years to deliver to 7 billion people, by which time a new scariant will be out. Rinse and repeat.

Very profitable business model.

Farrelly booted from the Herald — it must be xmas.

shatterzzzsays:
December 13, 2021 at 8:36 am
Read a comment elsewhere that UNI of WESTERN SYDNEY is accepting entrance applications from anyone completing year 12 , regardless of marks .. no link .. anyone heard/read this?
I know they claim money has dried up without O/S students but shirley this is overdoing it?

LOL, but only if they’ve had the clot shot. Clown World.

Anyone who would even bother coming to Australia automatically has a low IQ.

Farrelly booted from the Herald — it must be xmas.

She’s too sane for that “you lot” of soy consooming Stalinists.

Yep. Barking Betty is actually a voice of reason there.

Excellent discussion last night, just finished reading through it. Lots of light with just the right amount of heat.

True, JC staged an absolute masterclass in the art of self-beclownment. Readers, if you don’t have time to track the whole thing from its source, jump in at JC’s 9.42 pm BIIIIG statement and watch him immolate his own credibility with a pyrotechnic display of evidence and logic-free doubling down and dissembling.
Great coup de gras by Dr Beaugan at the end.

I don’t know about “self-beclownment”, Tim. If someone doesn’t step in and supply a counter argument the place becomes an echo chamber.

Or a news amalgamation site.

Thanks Rabz. Been there, done that, but just a partial. Hurts like billy-oh. The Beloved had the full bilateral and took him out of action for a few weeks.

Dave Sharma can walk the streets of Wentworth for a few weeks in safety. After that…look out! 😀

Excellent statistical ‘discussion’ last night on the OT.

It wasn’t trains v trucks, sure, but in this day and age you take what you can.

Got to love green pollies, they have such a touching faith in human behaviour.

Owning a car is outdated ’20th-century thinking’ & we must move to ‘shared mobility’ to cut carbon emissions, UK transport minister says (11 Dec)

Owning a car is outdated ’20th-century thinking’, transport minister says – Trudy Harrison, 45, is also Boris Johnson’s parliamentary private secretary – She said the UK should move to ‘shared mobility’ to cut carbon emissions

She better not visit Italy is all I can say.

Italian Petition Calls for Women-Only Train Cars After Rape Incident (12 Dec)

A petition, which gained hundreds of signatures in a matter of hours, has demanded that Italian railway companies offer women-only cars following a report a woman was brutally raped aboard a train last Friday.

One wonders how long that would last in the face of fake trannies trying to take advantage of train cars full of yummy ladies without male protection.

Hahaha, thats funny. If the .gov said you need to take the clot shot weekly, 95% of the brain dead population would just line up.

I’ve been looking at Israel data closely to see what the demand for boosters would be (given that every Israeli is “eligible” for one) and it certainly seems to be significantly lower than the demand for the second dose (in Israel you need the third dose to be considered “fully vaccinated” for the vaccine pass). Over 1 million double-vaxed Israelis have refused the booster despite it meaning they are shut out from various activities (unlike Australia though there are still plenty of jobs available for those who refuse). And that’s to go along with the 1.5 million or so Israelis that refused at least one of the first two doses.

Having said that, there is a very large proportion of people on this planet (and in this country) that could still be suffering harsh effects from the previous shot and they’d still be pleading for another.

The thing is though, the path is inevitable. Governments have no idea what to do now they’ve trapped themselves into a corner such that whenever someone gets a sniffle they just have to “do something”. They can’t admit any of the things they have done are wrong and, whilst they are petrified of the backlash from more lockdowns and more boosters, these concerns are always going to be overshadowed by the inability to admit error, meaning that the solution will always be to double down on the actions and increase the propaganda to justify it.

Checks dig p-values, cointegration, truncated regressions and PLS2.

So where is that Victoria’s Secret model I am paying (for her laptop to get through uni)?

(…and no, I am not a pay piggie or a SIMP…I don’t even know what those Nazi dog whistles are, you fascist incels).

Dot, what’s your reference?

Just got terminated due to vaccination status by Mobil Oil Australia.

Joined as a scholarship winner, worked 11 years, then resigned to pursue other interests. Re-hired by the company after 5 years of work in Africa and Middle East.

Had been the manager of the Jet Fuel supply into Melbourne Airport. Three pipelines, two storage facilities and an aircraft refuelling operation.

Joint Inspection Group standards working group committee and operations group committee member. One of the leading standards for Aviation fuel handling.

25 years of Aviation Fuel handling experience .

All done, tough times ahead.

Good on you, RickW. You’ve got my full support. Not many are brave enough to throw it all in… I wish many more had as the first chips of vaxx fascism fell.

JC is worried about the jabs he has had.
He just needs some reassurance that his choice is not going to bring forth his own personal Armageddon.
Don’t worry JC. Be happy.

Just got terminated due to vaccination status by Mobil Oil Australia.

Sorry to hear that rickw.
Hope something good turns up to replace it.

Condolences on the fuckery of your former employers and State Government, rickw.

This is where we get to distinguish between the theory that they want to institute a new world order that keeps the proles under their grubby thumbs, and the theory that they blundered and can’t lose face so keep on pushing vaccines.

I haven’t the slightest doubt that it’s the former. Too much uniformity of approach worldwide.

The uniformity just might be due to bureaucrats just copying each other’s ideas; they aren’t noted for originality of thought. But I’m inclined to agree with you for other reasons.

Thanks for reassuring us about Cassie, Rabz. I hope she’s back and firing on all cylinders soon.

How can Australian business, any Australian business, afford to lose someone like Rickw?

How can they justify this because of a bullshit non-directive by government? Because da feelz or fear of litigation by an aggrieved wokka who gets Covid and thinks it might be Rickw who gave it to them? Either way, it’s a stupid knee jerk reaction by head office lickspittles who wouldn’t know their arse from their elbows.

Rickw, there’s a smorgasbord of opportunities out there waiting for someone just like you. Godspeed in your efforts to pick the very best one.

Rabzsays:
December 13, 2021 at 8:55 am
What’s happened to Cassie?

I hope she won’t mind me filling people in on this – she’s recuperating in hospital after some knee surgery. She’s OK, but you don’t get over that type of thing quickly.

She did say that, I’d forgotten. Get well Cassie.

William Pike, champion hoop in WA, reported Saturday as ‘suspended’ so no rides.
This morning RSN reveals he has refused to get vaccinated.
Some staff at RSN also refusing to get vaxxed and have been let go.
‘Bloody idiots’ seems to be the on air attitude.

Rickw really sad to hear that and somewhat infuriated . I’ll be in the same situation come January.

It is a shitty, scary time all for a virus with 99% recovery rate. If only the majority had not given in to the spurious mandates and fear propaganda, we’d all have our jobs.

Will keep you in prayers.

As for the UK, they are averaging around 50k cases a day and around 150 deaths

Just curious …

These 50k cases – are they for people who have never had the virus? Are any of these cases repeat infections? How many of these cases actually have to be hospitalised? How many of these cases are already vaxxed?

The deaths – how many were vaxxed? What comorbidities are they not telling us about? What are the ages? Given the PCR tests have a bad rap for false positives, how do we know any of the deaths were caused by the virus?

Sorry to hear of your sudden unemployment Rickw.

As someone who has been made redundant twice in my career, it is not always a bad move as it forces you to make changes you wouldn’t otherwise have been motivated to do. Long term, I am in a much better place than if it never happened. I hope that works out for you too.

Back from treadly ride, was interested to see a queue of cars nearly a km long for the bat crud testing station. None all last week. How odd…

Newcastle nightclub on Omicron alert after 24 test positive to COVID-19 (13 Dec)

NSW Health has issued an urgent alert after 24 people linked to a Newcastle nightclub tested positive for COVID-19, with a number of cases “likely” to be the Omicron variant.

Revellers who attended the prom night-themed event at The Argyle House between 9pm last Wednesday and 3am Thursday is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for seven days.

The rule applies to all 680 people who checked in using the QR code and anyone who did not check in.

Weird huh? How could 680 people have fake vaccination apps on their phones? Surely they couldn’t be vaxxed people, even though the despicable unclean unvaxxed aren’t allowed to visit nightclubs until the 15th. It’s a mystery.

Condolences Rickw. Problem is you will be replaced with a trained monkey working for peanuts with a fraction of your qualifications courtesy of the population ponzi. Scomo and some states have already signalled it with those who defy the jab.

Been very hit and miss in the mining game. Some sites are coercing workers where others aren’t. I think it is more sized based though, smaller companies can’t afford to lose staff so are wary to tread that path where as the bigger players like BHP are on board fully and can absorb the short term losses.

How can Australian business, any Australian business, afford to lose someone like Rickw?

They can’t; they just don’t realise it yet.

They may never realise it. They may go totally broke, taking employees, creditors and shareholders with them, and still be asking each other, mystified, “but how did this happen? – we did everything we were told to do by government, MSM and social media to earn our “social licence””.

That’s a different faith, Razey.

Good luck, Ricky.

QLD’s new CHO is a vaccine true believer, a born again evangalist.

His brother died from Hong Kong Flu and now a lifetime later here he is – CHO in the middle of a ‘pandemic’.

It’s time to roll out a few witnesses that will testify that their crops went rotten when the unvvaxxened walked by.
And their cat/dog died.
And the wool fell off their sheep.
And their dog caught its tail!

Witchery is afoot. The unvvaxxened must be tested on the ducking stool!*

* ducking stools are currently being installed in all VIK courts.

RickW,
I would like to add my sympathies/empathy to everything that has been said by other Cats thus far. I am proud of you for sticking to your guns, even though we all know that it comes at a cost. As a mother, I would like to add that, by staying true to what you had stated is the greatest lesson you could have given your son.

The most important lesson we teach our children is by showing them that we stick by what we say, rant etc when we are actually put to the test. We have all been around people who come out with the “this is what I would do, blah blah blah”, but when actually faced with the problem, gape like a goldfish and nary a peep out of their mouths.

Bravo RickW, and the very best to you and your family.

Best wishes Rick. Large companies are so in bed with big government intimately these days, straight out of the fascism playbook. And they’re actively squeezing out the small guys too. It can’t end well, but they never learn.

The Gulf States are going to be in the box seat over the next few years, and I doubt they will be so anal about covid as Aussies seem to be. May be keen for expats.

U.S. Shale Slams Biden’s Oil Policies (Oilprice.com, 9 Dec)

U.S. shale producers have been disappointed with the Biden Administration’s policies regarding the oil and gas industry for nearly a year now, and they voiced their disappointment, once again, at this week’s World Petroleum Congress in Houston.

While the U.S. Administration was calling repeatedly on OPEC+ to pump more oil to stop the rally in U.S. gasoline prices, which hit a seven-year high a few months ago, it failed to reach out to domestic producers first for more supply, shale executives and industry associations say.

Instead of asking OPEC+ and counties like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Russia to pump more oil, the Administration should have laid the foundations for a faster recovery of U.S. oil production, which producers curtailed last year in response to the crash in demand and oil prices, executives say.

Biden’s response has been to put a stealth tax on natural gas. It’s clear his staffers are full-on climate crazies, they just don’t want the US voters to realize how much they’re going to have to pay.

Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%: Op-Ed (12 Dec)

All of this is on purpose:

“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases,” Obama said. “Coal power plants, natural gas, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money onto consumers.”

Shit state of affairs rickw.

As has been said, these companies – now bereft of decades of world-class experience – will express shock and incredulity when things fall to shit, or explode or tumble into pits.

‘Nobody could have foreseen this’, they’ll say. But they could have.

Virtue signalling at the expense of a business’ primary function will become – if it hasn’t already – counterproductive. And it will always, always be nobody’s fault.

Except it will be somebody’s fault, and it won’t be yours.

Best case – you’ll be asked to return in twelve months, and you can name your fucking price.

Please remember the Pilots Strike about 1990.
Don’t count on the unvaxxenated bing asked back. It may occur for many individuals, but older workers are more expensive and a year’s experience of responsiblity for the lower level team members often makes them far better better value than they were.
Concentrate on the future, where you stand now.

Japan announces public and private sectors cannot discriminate against those refusing experimental injections

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/news/post/japan-places-myocarditis-warning-on-vaccines-requires-informed-consent/

Shit deal rickw.

Hmmm, the surgeon just gave me the report card from my tumble into the spa. It sounds a little like a casualty list from a battalion assault.
Two compacted vertebrae in my coccyx (that hurts).
A torn cartilage cushion further up – minor apparently.
Deep tissue contusions (she mumbled something about trombonists and possible necessary application of a chain saw and bilge pump, or sommit).
Possible hairline crack in the pelvis (only a problem if giving birth).
Broken finger (only minor chords to be played at the Christmas concert).
Chipped shoulder (bugger, this is the third time and I know that it takes two or three years for a chipped shoulder to stop hurting).
A minor concussion (nobody would notice),
An economy sized free range egg on the noggin which they drained to ensure that no nasties were lurking.
A pair of pub brawl standard black eyes.
All up, no great drama except that I’m basically immobile short term and everything will continue hurting for a while.
Problem is I’m not allowed to fly so I miss out on seeing the kids for Christmas yet again.
Repeat after me: “old fools use stair rails”.

Mother Lodesays:
December 13, 2021 at 10:14 am
So…NSW is creeping up to the 15th.

Are restaurants still able to demand showing a certificate after the 15th?

Yes, but you are not forced to eat there. There will be others more “flexible”.

LOL. Roof-top solar peoples are quietly getting “curtailed”.

Solar curtailment is emerging as a new challenge to overcome as Australia dashes for rooftop solar (10 Dec)

Almost a third of Australia’s estimated ten million households now have solar on the roof. But as the nation moving fastest to produce energy on our homes, we are also encountering teething problems, such as “curtailment” of output.

This issue will be one we have to overcome as ever more Australians install solar. Our grids were designed primarily for large fossil fuel power stations transmitting electricity in one direction, while solar households both consume and export power.

That means in some conditions, household solar may contribute to spikes in voltage levels outside of the acceptable range, especially as voltage levels are typically already high.

To counter this, your solar system can stop exporting to the grid or even shut down temporarily if voltage levels are too high. This is called “curtailment”.
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This issue is set to get bigger, as more and more solar systems are installed and export to the grid at the same time.

That’s the problem with renewbulls, they don’t produce when the customer wants it, at 7pm while they’re cooking dinner. It’ll be fun when governments mandate all new solar to have batteries too. That will triple the cost of installations and cause screeching audible on Mars.

Wow, Bons, your fight with the spa sounds like ten rounds with Cassius Clay. Get well soon!