In some states you have a drivers licence at 17, what is so sacred about 18 or is the bloated accreditation ticket clippers somehow involved?

I know I said almost a year ago that I would agree to a Novavax vaccination….but I am reneging:

For those of you who were holding out for the ‘safer, old tech, protein based vax’, I have done a bit of digging today, if it is of interest.

Todays TGA approved NOVAVAX is actually ‘NUVAXOVID’, which is US company NOVAVAX’s protein subunit COVID vaccine for use in adults 18y+
• It uses cell culture to make Spike proteins, which are then attached to lipid nanoparticles for IM injection.
• It avoids the risk of the mRNA/DNA components of Moderna, Pfizer and AZ, but:
o It still uses a spike protein as the antigen – do these escape into circulation ?
o Is still injected IMI (suboptimal for respiratory viruses)
o Still incorporates lipid nanoparticles as part of the delivery system
o Still risks ADE and immune debt

And thats IF you believe they are telling you the truth about it at all, and IF you still believe you lack immunity to COVID, after EVERYONE in Australia getting exposed to it over the last month or 2.

COAG & the Premiers’ Conferences that preceded it at least published minutes of their deliberations, Rex.

Correct.

Twostix was going full Struth-sock in trying to to intimate that none of these prior proceedings were documented.

I have no doubt that the National Cabinet’s meetings are fully documented, they are just resorting to petty legalism and figleafing themselves behind whatever Emergency Acts are applicable to keep it all obscured.

In some states you have a drivers licence at 17, what is so sacred about 18 or is the bloated accreditation ticket clippers somehow involved?

This is WorkSafe, after all…

Hoover Institution hang your head in shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTT8rK-mHtM

One Stanford intellectual: The 2A only came about because white people were scared of black people.
Niall Ferguson & former Trump cabinet member McMaster said nothing.
Unbelievable.

Just tried to buy two fresh roasting chooks in the Rose Bay IGA (not the ready-roasted ones, gonna cook ’em myself). All gone. Will try elsewhere tomorrow. All toilet paper also gone. Most other things seem OK.

My day of shopping local, for convenience and to help the local stores.

Went to the local cheapo nail salon instead of my usual manicurist in Bondi Junction, to save time. Terrible result. Serves me right. Bought some new drifty Covid-kilo-hiding outfits in a new Rose Bay dress shop. Excellent assistants so helpful. They had no other customers. Will return again.

Why are there no vaccines or efforts to make one using the actual virus? Is it because, as some blogs and theorists, speculate that the actual virus has never been isolated, so is unavailable for use in making vaccines.

Like all cold-causing respiratory viruses, the little bastards mutate so rapidly that any serious attempt to attenuate them ?is unworkable. This is why fluvax shots are a scattergun of several strains of whatever is prevalent in the community at that time. You can still get the flu, despite having the stab in your system.

The spike proteins were about the
common factor to all variations, so this is what was seized on to make a vaccine for.

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 20, 2022 at 6:03 pm
IIRC the Caribou cruises at 130-140 knots. Not too shabby for what it is

The Caribou was said to be proof that a brick chicken house could fly, given enough horsepower.

The F-4 Phantom was described as a triumph of thrust over aerodynamics.

Roger

The PM & C office was ordered by Federal Court Justice Richard White to release NC documents under FOI in August.

Rule of law trashed.

Usually the MSM would be all over a Lieboral leader who acted this way, but not now. I wonder why?

Lizzie, buy your chooks from the wholesaler, dunno about Sydney but I guess it would be similar to Melb. Go to a muslim suburb and there should be quite a few chook shops that buy in wholesale and break them up and sell locally. They will have great whole chooks or the parts you want. Cheap too.

Why are there no vaccines or efforts to make one using the actual virus? Is it because, as some blogs and theorists, speculate that the actual virus has never been isolated, so is unavailable for use in making vaccines.

I too am puzzled why they persist in only targetting ONE of the 4 surface proteins (the S or Spike protein) and why they chose the toxic one of the 4. In doing so, they seem to maximise the risk of immune escape and of side effects. I agree that a more complete immune stimulus (like a live attenuated or even killed version of the whole thing) would, on paper, elicit a more durable response.

I am also puzzled as to why they persist in delivering their vaccines via IM injection. Sucharit Bakhdi discussed this recently, as did Ted Steele. Respiratory viruses normally invade the body via the lining cells of the respiratory tract and when they do, the resultant antibodies are of a type specialised in defending that (IgA). If you give your vaccine via the IM route, the body interprets that as the virus attacking from the blood stream and makes different antibodies – bloodstream antibodies called IgG and IgM. When you get the real illness later, your body thus makes the wrong type of antibody. This is one reason why previous coronavax projects successfully made antibodies, but those antibodies did not prevent illness – see the pattern?

It does look like they’ve gone the whole hogg – no masks, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no work at home orders.

I suspect the faceless slime creatures of the conservative Party have been looking at their internal polling and melted into shivering puddles of panic. This is desperation. Good. Now ditch net zero while you have the opportunity.

Btw another sizeable electricity company went bankrupt yesterday.

UK energy crisis nightmare as ANOTHER firm collapses – 176,000 Britons impacted (18 Jan)

In 2021, 28 energy suppliers went bust due to huge increases in wholesale natural gas prices, which rose by around 250 percent since the start of the year. Together’s collapse sees 176,000 customers without a supplier.

Dumb as rocks.

Hairy and I both (he in particular) have excellent superannuation, not self-managed, and when I think about it, I guess the fund managers are all over this green investment cycle stuff. Can’t be helped there, I suppose, but you don’t have to do it deliberately.

Wonder how much Carrie Bickmore’s publicists had to pay the Daily Mail for the barrage of stories they have on her out and about.

TE at 6.21:

That paper reports that Kallista Mutten, that poor child’s mother:

a. Relinquished motherhood, handing off to Nanna in Coolangatta because she’s an iced-up tweaker with two failed rehab attempts;
b. Has done time (two years – blame the courts) for killing a friend of hers, who was a passenger in a car Mutten was driving when she drove into a river while savouring the glass barbie;
c. Had a ‘medical episode’ when initially spoken to by detectives, has been in hospital ever since and is said to be ‘difficult to approach’; and
d. Received two calls from New Daddy while he was driving around with her daughter’s body in a barrel, looking for options to offload it.

These are either on record facts or supplied to the court during Stein’s remand application, so are verifiable. The rest is neither here nor there.

I would very much like to jam Mutten into the usual template of a complicit co-offender who turned a blind eye to the potential something something and then murder of her daughter by New Daddy, but it would be speculation.

She either did it herself, did it with New Daddy, was there with New Daddy when he did it, stumbled across him doing it, stumbled across the aftermath and helped him out, stumbled across the aftermath and didn’t help him out but didn’t tell anybody, stumbled across the aftermath and didn’t help him out and is genuinely traumatised, is in complete fear of New Daddy, is faking medical conditions, is still coming down from a week-long meth bender or is negotiating with the cops for a deal, and while said cops are feeding the media the ‘still unable to be interviewed’ line, which has been done before.

Either way, she’s a piece of shit who doesn’t deserve oxygen. We just don’t know which variant yet.

Also, expect New Daddy to throw Mumsy under the bus at the first opportunity, regardless or her involvement (or not). This will be piled onto the usual ‘drug-plagued/no coping skills/but I’m mental/wrong crowd/dindoo nuffin’ excuses in the playbook.

RD:

The jacks won’t let this go. New Daddy’s in for moida (with potentially more charges to come) and if there’s the slightest sniff of Mum’s involvement she’ll get the book as well.

Pleading anything down is the DPP’s style, with the approval of the court.

Roger says:
January 20, 2022 at 6:05 pm

“I’ll take What is COAG for $200,000 please, Mike…”

But COAG & the Premiers’ Conferences that preceded it at least published minutes of their deliberations, Rex. National Cabinet should do the same, if only so we can confirm what a bunch of gooses they are.

They didn’t publish minutes – they published statements, most of the content of which were drafted before the meeting. I know, because I used to help to draft them.

Honestly, twostix, your obsession with this subject verges on nutty.

There is nothing unconstitutional about any group of people (including politicians) having meetings. Nothing about these meetings is binding, as we saw when various States/Territories each introduced their own arrangements and rules.

Such meetings have been held for many years under different names.

It is fair enough to argue about the pros and cons of the ‘National Cabinet’, but claiming that it is somehow illegal or unconstitutional is nonsense. It isn’t.

Morrison, are you listening????

Huh? Mmmmm, agghhh. “It’s not who we are……”

Relinquished motherhood, handing off to Nanna in Coolangatta because she’s an iced-up tweaker with two failed rehab attempts;

Back story there? Why was the mother still allowed long-term unsupervised access after handing the child over to Nanna? Did nanna have to comply with this? If so, why was this allowed?

I had this situation with a grandchild. Endless problems with social workers wanting this child’s schizophrenic mother to ‘be allowed to be a mother’. Luckily my son, father of the little boy, is a decent sort of person albeit rather on the autism spectrum. With my back-up support, he stepped up to the mark gaining sole custody, with access for the mother limited to his judgement (and mine) on her capabilities and re her ‘menfriends’. It was a battle to win that in the feminist-dominated court and welfare system and won only after the child had been already placed at severe risk and had received some harms and also after my life had been threatened by an ice-addict boyfriend wielding a knife and looking for me, both of them escaped from a locked psych ward.

This boy is now the eighteen year old we are all so proud of, who remembers so little of all this.

I am horrified about that little nine year old girl’s fear and terror, and my heart bleeds for her Nanna grieving for the mess that is her daughter and the death of the little one she was saving.

Correct Will – if windmills are so great, why do they need the RET?

You don’t want covid on your holiday.
*up to date vaccines will probably be a condition of entry

Agree re covid on holiday and likely conditions of entry.
But which vaccines if you want to avoid mRNA are acceptable for Oz exit, Uk entry, Oz re-entry?

Roger says:
January 20, 2022 at 6:30 pm

I have no doubt that the National Cabinet’s meetings are fully documented, they are just resorting to petty legalism and figleafing themselves behind whatever Emergency Acts are applicable to keep it all obscured.

The PM & C office was ordered by Federal Court Justice Richard White to release NC documents under FOI in August.

Morrison didn’t appeal the decision, but he’s simply refused to comply with it since.

Rule of law trashed.

Leaving aside that the ‘rule of law’ is not always regarded as infallible by Cats and Kittehs, e.g. when Victorian judges are involved, I would like to know more about this. Who brought the case? Who is Richard White? Why have the original bringers of the case not applied for mandamus? What documents were sought?

Like it or not, unlike in the US, our legal and political tradition is that there is no automatic right for every government document or process to be public. I don’t see how a Federal Court judge could mandate publication of a State’s Cabinet papers, for example. If those papers fed into the National Cabinet, bad luck. See you in 30 years.

There are many rabbit burrows worth exploring, but this one is a low priority.

8mill punters in NSW.
895k confirmed cases.
Say it’s double that.
Not enough goddam cases to stop NSW health Karens from locking down again.

flyingduksays:
January 20, 2022 at 6:58 pm
Why are there no vaccines or efforts to make one using the actual virus? Is it because, as some blogs and theorists, speculate that the actual virus has never been isolated, so is unavailable for use in making vaccines.

I too am puzzled why they persist in only targetting ONE of the 4 surface proteins (the S or Spike protein) and why they chose the toxic one of the 4. In doing so, they seem to maximise the risk of immune escape and of side effects. I agree that a more complete immune stimulus (like a live attenuated or even killed version of the whole thing) would, on paper, elicit a more durable response.

Because they want to play with their new toy. It has nothing to do with vaccine efficacy. I don’t know why people prefer the Novavax because the end result is almost the same. It is not exactly the same because the mRNA vaccines rely on the same translational machinery that the virus will use and hence demonstrate the same variation in protein production because up to 10% of all translations are not high fidelity. So I would have more faith in the mRNA because it more closely mimics what happens with the viral infection.

My longstanding preference has been the vaccine currently undergoing trials that presents the spike, s , and nucleocapsid proteins because that will require 3 sets of T cells, 3 sets of B\plasma cells, thereby increasing the likelihood of sustained immunity against variants because mutations are not random, in fact mutations are constrained across the genome and that constraint probably serves to preserve critical proteins like the nucleocapsid whereas the spike protein probably has a wide variance range that while not perfect is often to sustain infection, as in the case of omicron, is sufficient.

I should have spent another 15 minutes in the gym but it was a good workout anyways. Now to finish off this fascinating book on the life of fungi. Did you know that even fungi use electrical impulses for signaling across vast networks?

Did the alleged perpetrator’s tortured life have anything to do with his time at Cranbrook, I wonder. At the prole (but very good) school I went to, the word was ‘if you can’t get a woman, get a Cranbrook boy.’

What’s most likely is that the Mother eventually got the daughter back, but “stuff’ had happened in Foster “Care” in the meantime that resulted in the child being angry and violent towards others.

And Grigs has the CCTV footage to prove it…

She was not his ‘stepdaughter.

100% correct.

Back story there? Why was the mother still allowed long-term unsupervised access after handing the child over to Nanna? Did nanna have to comply with this? If so, why was this allowed?

Bingo Lizzie, crossed my thoughts the day he was arrested. I am now curious on those particulars, especially if there are any more recent orders.

Wow, on Cassie’s article. The family sounds very dysfunctional at face values.

Gee, I wonder if the major parties are worried.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/google-doing-everything-in-its-power-to-stop-united-australia-party-spreading-misinformation-20220120-p59pqh.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1642654997-1

Google Australia claims it is doing all it can to stop Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party from spreading misinformation on its platforms, despite accepting more than $100,000 for political ads that it ultimately removed for breaching its advertising policies.

The UAP has spent almost $5 million on advertising on YouTube – owned by Google – since August, with Google’s own transparency report showing it had removed four of the party’s 57 video ads after they had run on the platform for between four and eleven days, collectively notching up millions of views in that time.
Google pulled four of Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party video ads from YouTube for breaching its misinformation policies.

Google pulled four of Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party video ads from YouTube for breaching its misinformation policies.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

At a federal parliamentary inquiry into online safety, Labor MP Tim Watts questioned whether Google’s policies were failing if Mr Palmer’s UAP could promote misinformation with advertising funding.

“We certainly are doing everything in our power to stop him – and every other person who might propagate misinformation relating to COVID or other [misinformation] – on our platforms. We do not seek to profit from that information in our ad policies and our enforcement is in line with that,” Google Australia executive Lucinda Longcroft said.

Asked by Mr Watts what action the platform was taking to stop a repeat of the situation, Ms Longcroft said the company was increasing the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems, saying: “we are rectifying those mistakes and taking all available action” to combat misinformation.

She defended the company’s policy of not publishing transparent information about the details of any strikes issued against UAP or former Liberal MP Craig Kelly, who defected to the UAP last year, saying the vast majority of people who received warnings did not mean harm and were given the opportunity to correct their work.
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“No Mr Kelly,” Ms Longcroft said, adding “our policies are devised in close consultation … with experts in different fields in which they are applied.”

Mr Kelly posed similar questions to executives from Meta, formerly Facebook, which last year permanently banned him from their platform for breaching its misinformation policies, as well as TikTok executives.

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Christiansen is retiring so no incumbency and he was very popular.

It’s Christensen.
They’re a large clan up there, one of the blokes supposedly stabbed to death near Giru by some little wiener, was a Christensen.

It is fair enough to argue about the pros and cons of the ‘National Cabinet’, but claiming that it is somehow illegal or unconstitutional is nonsense. It isn’t.

Prove it.

Roger says:
January 20, 2022 at 7:48 pm

They didn’t publish minutes – they published statements, most of the content of which were drafted before the meeting. I know, because I used to help to draft them.

But the minutes were available under FOI, unlike the NC.

Source, please.

Note-takers from each jurisdiction took notes. There were no ‘minutes’ such as you imagine. There were public statements after each meeting. I was there, I helped to draft the statements.

Where are you getting this stuff from?

Wow, Bluey.

So Google takes your money for ads, then they ban you?

The new Masters of the Universe don’t lack chutzpah,

Nanna would have had multiple “social workers” badgering her to send the little girl to stay with her “mum” for the holidays, because that would have been in the “best interests of the child”.

Guaranteed the State has their cold rancid fingers in this pie, just like the pigs who attended the location of the wife/child murder by the Indian loon last week an hour before the killings.

Rockdoctorsays:
January 20, 2022 at 8:39 pm
Indolent, to be fair I had some interactions a few years back with Christiansen’s office and despite not being in his electorate but in Mackay a lot I found him very good. If he was as attentive to his constituents as he was to my communications I can see why he was popular. He wasn’t afraid to take it up the Government chain and be rapped over the knuckles for it as I could tell from an e-mail I got back one time.

Sounds way better than my local (Labor) members. Who can’t be bothered to even acknowledge I contacted them.

johannasays:
January 20, 2022 at 8:46 pm
Wow, Bluey.

So Google takes your money for ads, then they ban you?

The new Masters of the Universe don’t lack chutzpah,

Might be why various EU jurisdictions have smacked them down and issued some hefty fines. Think Russia has too. I’d look up exactly where, but I’m occupied griping to my dad.

Could be an element of not invented here too…

‘Gay Panic killings’

What?

Hang on, I’ve looked it up.

Gay panic killings occur after you’ve been on the nitrous oxide, and you kill the bloke with more nitrous oxide because you‘red scared he won’t give you more, and have FOMO on being happy, and generally gay in outlook.

Panicking about the prospect of not being gay any more.

I have yet to QR.
My phone. I paid for it and I pay the bills.
How Imuse it is my business.
I like the mime though.Aka the magic wave.

‘a shill for them.’

Ed.

You will rue the day you crossed swords* with those who seek to establish rampant poofery throughout this land.

Watch your back**. You may have something inserted while you’re not looking***.

*Deliberate.
**Also deliberate.
***Aaaand deliberate.

I’m sure everyone remembers the Gay Panic of 1996.

That was when Hugh Jackman got married to a chick.

Dark days.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Will our new-found enthusiasm for solving historical crimes involving gays in Sydney extend to finding out who the pimps and patrons exploiting underage boys were at Castellos, Porkeys, The Wall, Wynyard station and other beats, by any chance?

The infamous Twinkie defence.

Look out, they’re popping up like mushrooms after rain.

Um? Can anyone deny the US is a police state?

Judicial Watch obtains documents regarding communication between FBI and Pfizer about Project Veritas.

https://youtu.be/-WdFxe-xMdY

Abolition of provocation as a defence was a bad idea.

It was a law against harrassment before harrassment was “a thing”.

Not a mask in sight either.

He’s lost Business, Big and Small.

He’s lost the proles.

He’s eventually going to lose the bugmen, too. But only because they’ll have veered further down the fascist path than even the Labor Party faithful will dare to tread.

His eventual end will be swift, and probably internal. And likely accompanied by a Boris-like total, instantaeous abolition of the Public Health Emergency and all its rules, provisions and dictates.

If we are lucky, we will see vindictive thrashings of the ALP at the next two or three State Elections. But given the near-masturbatory historical reverence for Labor in some sectors and demographics of Sandgroperstani society, this may not eventuate to the necessary degree to ensure the lessons are well-learnt…

Well, obviously Streisand.

That’s a get out of jail card for any interior designer.

If there’s anything a Miata is not, it’s hermetically-sealed.

You’d need a 44-gallon drum of Selley’s to overcome that.

Running with the tonneau is where it’s at. 🙂