Open Thread – Tues 8 March 2022


The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1559

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:09 pm

Razey’s a water engineer?
The low man on the engineering totem pole?

I’ll have you know water engineers are in great demand.

In Fukushima.

Eyrie
Eyrie
March 9, 2022 8:10 pm

That’s after it kills your kidneys and damages your liver.

Failed three trials including for ebola. Ineffective and dangerous.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 8:11 pm

Cronkite

Do you really believe the old pedo cares about the constitution.

Of course the worthless piece of shit doesn’t.

The POTUS has precedent in respect of emergency powers to regulate elections; see the Civil War.

Okay, but what could possibly rise to the level of the Civil War in order for the SCOTUS to allow it?

Alternatively the congress, in which the demorats have majorities, definitely has power to regulate elections.

Actually they have a majority in the senate and the reason is that Manchin and the Arizona chick wouldn’t support this atrocity.

Look, after your 2020 prediction (along with Artie) where you were telling people to be cautious in predicting a Trump win because there was nefarious shit going on in the background, so I’m really loathe to counter you.

I just don’t think they could brazen this out although they are planning to de-legitimatize the coming Republican onslaught.

H B Bear
H B Bear
March 9, 2022 8:12 pm

I expect Sneakers is nearing his “Best Before” date and starting to smell. Give Cookie a few months to forget about his stint in health and run it past da bruvvers.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 8:13 pm

“Since O’Keefe was remanded in custody, Mr Chabbra said he had been “surrounded” by warring bikie gang members, denied medication and bullied by Corrective Services officers.”

“bullied”…..poor poor pitiful Andrew O’Keefe. It must be hard for him to be on the receiving end of bullying because until recently he was the one doing the bullying. Who else remembers his utterly disgraceful bullying of American Cassie Jaye? What a hypocrite.

Excuse my schadenfreude.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 8:18 pm

Eyrie

I was at a dinner last night and our friends relative was there. He’s a well known virologist who’s held positions in the UK and now in semi-retirement.

I asked him specifically about the liver thing as it was making the rounds of the Cat yesterday. I specifically asked him if the vaxes change the liver’s DNA. I said people were making this claim on social media.

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 8:18 pm

I’ll have you know water engineers are in great demand.
In Fukushima.

Getting HOT out of H2O is hard. I can see why they’re needed.
Fortunately the ocean is large and all that tritium will be lost in it.

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 8:22 pm

What a hypocrite.

The price of admission for being a TV host apparently.

Look at Stan Grant.

One week he writes a thoughful piece on why the West doesn’t comprehend Vladimir Putin.

The next he’s kicking a lad out of Q&A for suggesting the same.

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 9, 2022 8:22 pm

Clive Palmer ‘the worst Australian not in jail’

Does he still own that nickel refinery in Queensland? It would be a profitable time to reopen that.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 8:24 pm

What is pharmacogenomics?

Pharmacogenomics is the study of how genes affect a person’s response to drugs. This relatively new field combines pharmacology (the science of drugs) and genomics (the study of genes and their functions) to develop effective, safe medications and doses that will be tailored to a person’s genetic makeup.

Many drugs that are currently available are “one size fits all,” but they don’t work the same way for everyone. It can be difficult to predict who will benefit from a medication, who will not respond at all, and who will experience negative side effects (called adverse drug reactions). Adverse drug reactions are a significant cause of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States. With the knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project, researchers are learning how inherited differences in genes affect the body’s response to medications. These genetic differences will be used to predict whether a medication will be effective for a particular person and to help prevent adverse drug reactions. Conditions that affect a person’s response to certain drugs include clopidogrel resistance, warfarin sensitivity, warfarin resistance, malignant hyperthermia, Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis, and thiopurine S-methyltransferase deficiency.

The field of pharmacogenomics is still in its infancy. Its use is currently quite limited, but new approaches are under study in clinical trials. In the future, pharmacogenomics will allow the development of tailored drugs to treat a wide range of health problems, including cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and asthma.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresearch/pharmacogenomics/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 8:24 pm

That’s my understanding too. I’ve met Ronni Kahn numerous times and I’m not a fan (she’s a rabid far-left Green) but Oz Harvest and other similar organisations do great work. The amount of food waste in this country (and other western countries) is scandalous.

I absolutely agree, Cassie, about Ronni Kahn, OzHarvest and the whole waste thing.
But I had a bolt from the blue inspiration on that front last Friday. Went to dinner at a $$$$$ restaurant in Melbourne at the insistence of my fucking S-i-L because it is a “be seen” restaurant as HB Bear says.
But get this.
Although she is a fucking stick figure borderline anorexic she makes a big deal of ordering loads of food.
Knowing she will pick one leaf off three $25 salads and barely chew it, I jumped in and cancelled one starter and two sides, with the line “Let’s see how we go. We can always order more, right? Because, you know, I hate wasting food.”
S-i-L was fuming but couldn’t say boo because she is also a moralising lefty Gaia-saver.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 9, 2022 8:28 pm

Daughter of my wife’s friend has caught Tourette’s tics from… Tik Tok. She’s out of school, too disruptive.

MSM assure me it’s a thing, but it’s not “a thing”, and definitely not a neurological side-effect of lockdowns, mask mandates or batflu jabs, so we can all relax.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 8:29 pm

Struth

I don’t trust our governments as far as I can spit.
There has not been one protest on the east coast and the rain keeps falling.
Funny about that.

You need to be sectioned.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
March 9, 2022 8:30 pm

Dot.
Earth to Dot.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-09/liberal-democrats-lose-high-court-bid-to-keep-party-name/100894356

What the hell. The Fiberals want to literally own the word “Liberal” (capital L).
I guess when you aren’t really liberal the only way to beat the competition is to prevent comparisons.

One of the most obvious political infringements on free speech is rules against what you can call your political party which apply to some people but not everybody.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 8:33 pm

“Sancho Panzersays:
March 9, 2022 at 8:24 pm”

A few weeks ago I attended a work dinner, something I don’t usually like doing. It was an nice Middle Eastern restaurant here in Sydney’s CBD…..very yummy food. There were eleven of us at the table, including five men with hearty appetites. Two people did the ordering, they over-ordered to the point where, by the end of the evening, half the food was remaining on the table. I find such waste distressing.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 8:33 pm

JC

In the poll that came out over the last few days, 74% of the American punters want photo ID to be shown when voting.

The rest are rusted on DemonRats, or people who plan to sell their ballot paper to them?

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 8:35 pm

The rest are rusted on DemonRats, or people who plan to sell their ballot paper to them?

LOL

Roger
Roger
March 9, 2022 8:36 pm

Speaking of hypocrisy, there’s a list being published in the media of the 250+ Western companies that have announcd they’re pulled out of Russia in recent days.

Just about every one that makes things – as opposed to providing services – also features on lists of companies that benefit from forced labour in China.

Given that Russia is likely not a significant earner for any of them, this is purely an exercise in marketing their brand to Western consumers, who also need to ask themselves some questions about hypocrisy.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:37 pm

I don’t trust our governments as far as I can spit.
There has not been one protest on the east coast and the rain keeps falling.
Funny about that.

Translated:

‘Cloud seeding is real and the floods were caused by Gummint to keep The People down!

‘I’m not saying it! Cloud seeding is real and the floods though! Ruined my speech!’

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 8:38 pm

johanna

The idea that individuals and communities should do things to help themselves instead of passively waiting for ‘the authorities’ to show up is repugnant to these statist deadshits.

That’s how they live, they assume that it is normal.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 9, 2022 8:38 pm

I’m skeptical about Big Soup Kitchen for the same reason I’m wary of Big Tech. Colesworth have made a big show of establishing their own-brand food charities, with the same colour scheme, product range, address and corporate membership as the larger company… and so inevitably Red Kite etc end up visibly shilling for the same events and parades, awareness ribbons and hashtags that the body corporate keeps afloat.
Our local Anglican community kitchen once had a great relationship with farmers like me, the food was tip-top, donated produce, tight kitchen and genuine pastoral care. Now we get our deliveries- tinned and plastic bagged- from the Coles warehouse, the meals are made for stodge quantity, and thursday dinners are a pisstake of honesty box backpackers and the more edgy Doctors’ Wives slumming it. I went in to peel spuds midwinter last year, and there was a fucking film crew- haven’t been back.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 8:39 pm

Shackleton’s lost shipwreck discovered off Antarctica
By Afp
An hour ago March 9, 2022
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One of the world’s most storied shipwrecks, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking.

Endurance was discovered at a depth of 3008m in the Weddell Sea, about 6km from where it was slowly crushed by pack ice in 1915.

“We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance,” Mensun Bound, the expedition’s director of exploration, said on Wednesday.

“This is by far the finest wooden shipwreck I have ever seen. It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see ‘Endurance’ arced across the stern.”

The expedition, organised by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, left Cape Town on February 5 with a South African icebreaker, hoping to find the Endurance before the end of summer.

As part of Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition between 1914 and 1917, Endurance was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but it fell victim to the tumultuous Weddell Sea.

Just east of the Larsen ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula, it became ensnared in sea-ice for over 10 months before being crushed and sinking.

The voyage became legendary due to the miraculous escape Shackleton and his crew made on foot and in boats.

The crew managed to escape by camping on the sea ice until it ruptured. They then launched lifeboats to Elephant Island and then South Georgia Island, a British overseas territory that lies around 1400km east of the Falkland Islands.

Despite the hardships, all of the crew survived.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:40 pm

Big Soup Kitchen

Hang on. Didn’t these people take in bags of cash after the bushfires a couple of years ago and only hand out a percentage?

Where’s that cash now?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 9, 2022 8:41 pm

Not going to happen but would really like to see Big Clive get into the newspaper business. Qld and WA would be good although WA probably needs it more.

Team up with Epoch Times ?

He could have serious fun.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 8:44 pm

Malnourished people need Meat, not fucking Carbs.
How much Meat is ColesWorth’s donating to the Needy [and the Greedy]?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
March 9, 2022 8:45 pm

KD,
Last week Qld Premier had a press conference with three charities helping with the flood clean up and announced millions of $’s donation to the three.

One was the Red Cross which raised a huge amount of money for the Bush Fire victims and then did not use it all as the donors intended. They said they were saving it for future use. Was a very significant amount.

Somebody should ask them if they are going to use NSW Bush Fire money to help flood victims in other areas that were not affected by the fires.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 8:47 pm

A Newspaper with Comic Strips might be a big seller.
My ideal paper would have Jiggs, Mandrake, Big Ben Bolt, Rip Kirby, Popeye, The Katzenjammer Kids, Andy Capp, Garth and Blondie before it went PC.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:50 pm

Somebody should ask them if they are going to use NSW Bush Fire money to help flood victims in other areas that were not affected by the fires.

Damn straight somebody should Bourne.

Somebody, or rather a whole shit tin of somebodies should be screaming this from the rooftops.

bespoke
bespoke
March 9, 2022 8:50 pm

Ordering the minim isn’t going to help the poor. In fact it will put a lot out of work.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 8:51 pm

KD and Cassie.
Re Mr O’Keefe (remanded in custody).
Listening to the radio in the car yesterday I heard that he had applied for bail to go into three weeks re-hab.
The beak gave him a “Do Not Pass Go” because they needed to propose a “longer term plan” to get bail.
I predicted this when he last applied for bail.
He was looking to be bailed into the care of a psych at the Sydney Clinic who would promptly declare him all better and release him.
What the beak means by “a longer plan” is that he needs to be in the looney bin 24/7 (no day releases and shopping trips) and, when his shrink declares him cured, he goes back in the slot and applies to the beak for bail.
As it should be.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 8:54 pm

A Newspaper with Comic Strips might be a big seller.

I think a device a bit longer but skinnier than a packet of smokes, and which people could carry around with them and make phone calls to each other from them might be a big seller.

Also – what if there was a paper note that came in a bad that had glue on one side, but the glue was weak enough so you could stick it to something, take it off easily and stick it to something else?

That might be a big seller.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
March 9, 2022 8:56 pm

Newspaper comics?
I’d subscribe for-
Calvin and Hobbes, re-runs A-OK with me
Modesty Blaise
FooTroT FlaTs, run ’em all again
Golden Age Phantom, nose-bones, inscrutable Orientals and starlet-spankings aplenty
..and a rolling Judge Dredd, one page per day

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 8:58 pm

Malnourished people need Meat, not fucking Carbs.

That’s what my currawongs say. It’s clearly true since they salivate great strings of goo on sight of Meat. It’s disgusting but funny.

They are like the dog in the Tom Hanks movie. I should try for a photo, it’d probably be new to science.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 9:00 pm

Just heard from a good source that av gas is in short supply in Europe and my ground lots of planes. Fuck!

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 9:00 pm

may

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 9:02 pm

FooTroT FlaTs, run ’em all again

Was the dog’s name ever revealed?

Crossie
Crossie
March 9, 2022 9:02 pm

Completely unimpressed by those two laughing hyenas on Paul Murray’s show tonight. I’m talking about Erin Molan and Jenna Clarke. Their closing statements were to urge us plebs to get the booster shots to keep us all safe, you see we have become complacent what with the floods and the war in Ukraine.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:05 pm

Honestly, Cassie, my comment about food waste was genuine.
I hate it.
But it is also an extravagant waste of money.
It’s just that if I had said “Oh, shit, that’s $100 we don’t need to spend” the preying mantis S-i-L would have made a big deal of labelling me a tightarse.
But taking the moral high ground on “food waste” is a winner. She could not argue against it, being a greenie moraliser.
No-one will argue with that. And it stops the waiter’s up-sell in it’s tracks.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 9:06 pm

Was Joe Palooka in one of the old Sydney papers?
Anyway, Butch shoulda shot Denzel Washington, that Faggot had it coming.
Why shoot John Travolta; did he ride Una Thurman?
He was mad if he didn’t.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 9:08 pm

I just checked the video of the BMP vs Hyundai, and someone else saw the cat, so I’m not imagining it.

Cassie of Sydney
March 9, 2022 9:08 pm

“Honestly, Cassie, my comment about food waste was genuine.
I hate it.
But it is also an extravagant waste of money.”

Agree 100%.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 9:08 pm

Was the dog’s name ever revealed?

Yeah.
It was called “Flamer” because it was a fucking annoying dog.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:12 pm

Is cloud seeding real?
Did it cause the floods to stop The UpRiSinG?
Look, maybe it did.
I don’t say it did, but some people think it did.
Even ??Doctors on the internet think it could be.
A lot of smart people say it’s true.
Me?
I don’t know for sure.
But it makes you think, eh.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 9:13 pm

Potlatch consumption, Cassie.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 9:22 pm

Is cloud seeding real?

Yes. As I recall Tassie Hydro uses it most years. Sodium iodide crystals.

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 9:24 pm

Is cloud seeding real?

Are Pet Rocks real?
Weather Modification is real though, the US has been working on it since the 1940s [probably with Scientists previously employed by the Third Reich].
Would they ever use it on … gasp …live subjects?
No, of course not, Skippy …

Old bloke
Old bloke
March 9, 2022 9:26 pm

Weather Modification is real though, the US has been working on it since the 1940s [probably with Scientists previously employed by the Third Reich].

Crikey, Nazi rain.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 9:29 pm

Dick Ed

since the 1940s [probably with Scientists previously employed by the Third Reich].

They might be getting a bit long in the tooth by now!

shatterzzz
March 9, 2022 9:29 pm

Malnourished people need Meat, not fucking Carbs.
How much Meat is ColesWorth’s donating to the Needy [and the Greedy]?

About a month before the last local council elections .. the mayor of Fairfield announced a free food handout for the “needy” .. only qualification was, apparently, to ring up and get a tix/line number .. the handout was at a council community centre adjacent to my place .. ran for a week and the daily line-up of top-of-the-range vehicles picking up the “freebies” was something to behold! .. seems lotza Fairfield “needy” were short on food essentials but not petrol money .. but, at least, he got re-elected .. LOL!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:32 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:

March 9, 2022 at 9:22 pm

Is cloud seeding real?

Yes. As I recall Tassie Hydro uses it most years. Sodium iodide crystals.

Yes.
Yes they do.
But tell me this.
Do you think it is reasonable to suggest that the entire weather system which caused the East Coast rains over the last two weeks was induced by cloud seeding?
Or did it even contribute, say, 5%-10% to the rainfall?
What say you, Bruce?
Plausible or not?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 9:34 pm

Afghan man with prosthetic leg ‘marched off’ by Roberts-Smith before being killed, court told
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
March 9, 2022 — 1.23pm

Two “frightened” Afghan men were pulled from a tunnel by Australian troops and taken away for questioning by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith and another soldier before one of the men was killed, an elite soldier has told the Federal Court.

Person 40, a serving Special Air Service soldier, gave evidence in Mr Roberts-Smith’s defamation case on Wednesday that he was present during a mission in Afghanistan in 2009, during which two men, including one with a prosthetic leg, were discovered in a compound dubbed Whiskey 108.
Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at court last month.

“They came out, obviously very frightened, one had a distinctive limp, that’s the person with the prosthetic leg… he was lifting his trouser, sort of pointing to the prosthetic leg, expecting some sort of sympathy from the troops,” Person 40 told the court.

He said the men were searched and “marched off to another area” for what he assumed was tactical questioning by Mr Roberts-Smith and a second solider, Person 35. He later heard machine gun fire and saw the man with the prosthetic leg had been killed.

Person 40 was called on Wednesday to give evidence for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times in the defamation suit filed against the mastheads by Mr Roberts-Smith.

He told the court that another soldier, dubbed Person 29, told him “out of the blue” last year after he was subpoenaed to give evidence in the trial that “RS knows you’re going to be a witness for this defamation case”.

He said Person 29 went on to say “words to the effect of, ‘you don’t have to be a witness if you … speak to RS’s lawyers, they’ll get you to sign some sort of a piece of paper and you won’t have to act as a witness’.”

Person 40 said he was “very surprised” by the conversation.

“I sort of said, ‘yep, okay.’ His other comment at the end was, ‘If you don’t, he’ll see you in court.’”

Mr Roberts-Smith alleges a series of articles published in 2018 portray him as a war criminal. The newspapers are seeking to rely on a defence of truth and allege Mr Roberts-Smith committed or was involved in six murders of Afghans under the control of Australian troops, when they cannot be killed under the rules of engagement.

Mr Roberts-Smith maintains any killings in Afghanistan were carried out lawfully in the heat of battle, and that no men were discovered in the tunnel at Whiskey 108.

Person 40, whose identity cannot be revealed for national security reasons, told the court that Mr Roberts-Smith was the “lead tactical questioner on the ground” at Whiskey 108, and it was standard procedure for suspected Taliban insurgents to be taken back to the troops’ base at Tarin Kowt.

He said he could not recall whether the men were handcuffed but it was standard for suspected insurgents to be searched and cuffed “so they can’t use their hands in any shape, way or form”.

He said that within about 25 minutes after the men were found he heard “a burst of machine gun fire” from what he believed was a light machine gun, the F89 Para Minimi.

“I walked past the person with the prosthetic leg … He was killed,” Person 40 said. He said no prisoners were brought back to Tarin Kowt.

A second serving SAS soldier, Person 18, has given evidence that Mr Roberts-Smith was carrying a light machine gun matching that description on that day, while a third SAS soldier, Person 14, said he discovered later that day that Mr Roberts-Smith was carrying the “distinctive” weapon.

The trial continues.

duncanm
duncanm
March 9, 2022 9:34 pm

JCsays:
March 9, 2022 at 8:18 pm

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/video-on-cell-and-gene-therapy-from?s=r

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 9:42 pm

Dover

Do you believe Ukrainians have the right to self- determination?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 9:42 pm

Do you think it is reasonable to suggest that the entire weather system which caused the East Coast rains over the last two weeks was induced by cloud seeding?

The MainScreamMedia is calling the rain a Weather Bomb.
Do you think that’s a fair description?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 9:43 pm

Sancho – The deluge is from la Nina. Which is cyclical, and more often occurs when the PDO is in down phase like now. The climateers don’t like the cyclical PDO so they’ve been erasing it from the temperature record. It is known as the blip. It’s real, but they don’t like natural variation, especially as the cycle accounts for half the warming last century. I recall 1974 floods quite clearly since we couldn’t get to school in Macksville for a week (our bus was a semi trailer bus, probably unique).

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 9:45 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
March 9, 2022 at 4:51 pm

Cloud seeding is definitely a thing.
It’s how chem-trails are produced.

No, you’ve got it arse about.

The chem trails are seeding the atmosphere with, you know, the chem.

Then they* fire the giant boob nipple gun at the ionosphere which makes something, something etc.
Arrrgh! There’s aluminum in my rain water tank!

* a never quite stipulated body of people (always nefarious) who must number in their thousands by now.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 9:46 pm

I see the Laureate believes is cloud seeding and implies Tasmania runs its hydro with cloud seeding.

Cloud seeding belongs in the same science category as lie detectors as far as verifiable science goes.

Boambee John
Boambee John
March 9, 2022 9:48 pm

Dick Ed

The MainScreamMedia is calling the rain a Weather Bomb.
Do you think that’s a fair description?

If you consider “fair description” to be a synonym for “hysterical rubbish”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:48 pm

That seems plausible Bruce.
But a guy in a Cessna with a bucket of crystals?
Not so much.

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 9:48 pm

Plausible or not?

You didn’t see the seeding plane take off from the grassy knoll?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 9:50 pm

Not entirely sure you are a True Believer 132andBush.

local oaf
March 9, 2022 9:50 pm

A Newspaper with Comic Strips might be a big seller.

I miss Boofhead.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 9:50 pm

I just checked the video of the BMP vs Hyundai, and someone else saw the cat, so I’m not imagining it.

And having seen it again, I think my very first impression of the car being engaged by the BMP’s coax gun before the main gun destroyed it was right.

I had thought the puffs of smoke and dust came from the car, but I saw the grazes of rounds just short of it.

So the car received a burst of MG fire, then was destroyed by 2 30mm autocannon rounds before the BMP drove away.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 9:53 pm

Two “frightened” Afghan men were pulled from a tunnel by Australian troops and taken away for questioning

Don’t tell SRR…

#TuNnElS

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 9:54 pm

Tas Hydro do use seeding.

VERY localised effects.

bespoke
bespoke
March 9, 2022 9:55 pm

“But it is also an extravagant waste of money.”

Highly subjective though. If people need to make a statement out food then there priorities are screwed. Just enjoy the it and the company.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 10:00 pm

132andBushsays:

March 9, 2022 at 9:54 pm

Tas Hydro do use seeding.

VERY localised effects.

Correct.
The correlation between seeding and rainfall is loose at best.
500 kg of crystals might just produce a marginal increase in rainfall over a small catchment.
Even if you believe it works, it would require every heavy bomber ever made dropping crystals 24/7 to get anywhere close to what we saw last week.
Totally ludicrous bullshit.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 10:01 pm

I see that Tassie Hydro has discontinued cloud seeding.

Cloud seeding program

Hydro Tasmania no longer conducts a cloud seeding program. Cloud seeding flights stopped in June 2016.

Hydro Tasmania sometimes used cloud seeding over some catchments to produce a moderate increase in rainfall. When operating, the program was reviewed by independent experts and we sought to keep Tasmanians informed about it.

Not too surprising since sodium iodide is pretty expensive.

Winston Smith
March 9, 2022 10:04 pm

Officials in Texas said they discovered about 10,000 uncounted ballots in last week’s primary election, which led to a delay in the results.
The Harris County Elections Office said that some 6,000 Democratic votes and 4,000 Republican votes weren’t counted and will be added to final tallies.

What a bloody joke!
They had one job to do…

rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 10:05 pm

Just heard from a good source that av gas is in short supply in Europe and my ground lots of planes. Fuck!

Most likely Jet A1 rather that Avgas. Possibly running short, will check with my contacts tomorrow!

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 10:05 pm

Totally ludicrous bullshit.

+100

However, Giant Boob Nipple Guns ARE real

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 9, 2022 10:07 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 8, 2022 at 7:18 pm
Bourke Hospital has always been as dodgy as hell, even before the kidnapping and murder of the nurse years ago.

I’m going back to the early 1980’s – there was a major Defence Force exercise based on Bourke, and some of the locals were spreading the story that the Army had been called in to keep certain members of the population in line…

Ex Drought Master.
I was a newly minted Dig back then but I wasn’t on it.

132andBush
132andBush
March 9, 2022 10:08 pm

Tas Hydro DID use seeding.?

Ed Case
Ed Case
March 9, 2022 10:08 pm

I miss Boofhead.

Boofhead was ace.
In Qld, we had Phil Dill.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 10:12 pm

Cloud seeding.
Whether it works or not, a shite load is spent on it globally.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 10:16 pm

I had to tell a Londoner this evening that the LME was Chinese owned.
And more commodities get traded in Shanghai than London.
He didn’t believe me.
Still not a patch on Chicago, but it’s virtual now so it really doesn’t matter.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 10:17 pm

Ex Drought Master.
I was a newly minted Dig back then but I wasn’t on it.

They deployed armour there, and the local fuel depot was selling a fortnights quota of fuel every two days..

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 10:18 pm
rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 10:19 pm

I specifically asked him if the vaxes change the liver’s DNA. I said people were making this claim on social media.

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies. On top of that, the whole virologist community has pretty much revealed themselves to be demented wankers. I wonder what sick experiments he’s been running on the side?

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 10:21 pm

Re the Nickel short squeeze.
If the rumours are true that it’s a Chinese group that are short.
And the Chinese owned LME cancels all trades from the past 48 hours.
That exchange will be over.
If true.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 10:25 pm

Thanks for this –

duncanm says:
March 9, 2022 at 9:34 pm

JC says:
March 9, 2022 at 8:18 pm

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/video-on-cell-and-gene-therapy-from?s=r

I hope people bother to read the whole thing (including the conversations/comments), as it does a good job to adding to the understanding of a complex issue.

It sure beats being bullied by those invested in Big Pharma who tell you to believe what they said someone said at dinner.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
March 9, 2022 10:25 pm

That exchange will be over.

LME is serious history. Cigars and sherry-style open cry trading. A shame if it dies.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 10:26 pm

The bigger story is the Russian airplane leases.
I wouldn’t want to be left holding the bag on those.

cohenite
March 9, 2022 10:28 pm

Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 9, 2022 at 9:43 pm
Sancho – The deluge is from la Nina. Which is cyclical, and more often occurs when the PDO is in down phase like now. The climateers don’t like the cyclical PDO so they’ve been erasing it from the temperature record. It is known as the blip. It’s real, but they don’t like natural variation, especially as the cycle accounts for half the warming last century. I recall 1974 floods quite clearly since we couldn’t get to school in Macksville for a week (our bus was a semi trailer bus, probably unique).

PDOs, or Pacific Decadal Oscillations or phases, are arguably the premier climate pattern on Earth. A negative PDO is dominated by La Nina conditions which give the world predominantly cool and wet conditions. The +ve PDO is dominated by El Nino which gives predominantly dry and warm conditions. Each phase lasts ~ 30 years. During the 20thC there were 2 + PDO phases and one -ve, which in itself explains the temperature increase during the 20thC.

The 1976 phase change from the mid century -ve to the +ve phase was typically very abrupt, taking place over about 18 months. That phase change and consequent temperature increase basically explains all temperature increase since 1976.

The argument that CO2 drives climate and temperature is the biggest scientific lie ever.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 9, 2022 10:38 pm

Commodities going through the roof, then a bout of selling, then LME suspending nickel trades, wheat booming, all over the shop at the moment.

JC and his trader pals must be OD’ing on speed or valium depending on their holdings.

Madness has descended on the land.

Snapshot from Small Cap.

bespoke
bespoke
March 9, 2022 10:41 pm

Zipstersays:
March 9, 2022 at 10:18 pm
These people are trying to destroy our country: UFC fighter

A lot are sick of endless war including me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 10:42 pm

feelthebernsays:

March 9, 2022 at 10:12 pm

Cloud seeding.
Whether it works or not, a shite load is spent on it globally.

A lot has been spent on water divining and Philipino faith healers too.

Beertruk
Beertruk
March 9, 2022 10:44 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
March 8, 2022 at 9:48 pm
So the people of Melbourne are shagging around while married & diseased?

Packet of OMO in the window. Old Man’s Out.

rickw
rickw
March 9, 2022 10:45 pm

Do you believe Ukrainians have the right to self- determination?

What about Australian’s? That’s the real pressing question!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 10:47 pm

Daily tally starting now.
Numbers rounded up and taken to the death camps on 9th March 2022 … 0.
Cumulative total … 0.
Numbers gassed in the showers at the death camps on 9th March 2022 … 0.
Cumulative gassings to date … 0.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 10:48 pm

Packet of OMO in the window. Old Man’s Out.

Careful, Beery.

That was one of the secrets of a mis – spent youth…

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 10:52 pm

Troop surge to tackle twin threats

Ben Packham
Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent
@bennpackham
17 minutes ago March 9, 2022
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The Australian Defence Force’s biggest expansion in 40 years will increase the military by at least 18,500 soldiers, sailors and aviators to respond to growing strategic threats posed by China and Russia.

The $38bn workforce boost will expand the uniformed force to ­almost 80,000 by 2040, and take the number of permanent Defence employees to more than 101,000 including public servants.

The 30 per cent personnel lift, to be announced by Scott Morrison and Defence Minister Peter Dutton at Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane on Thursday, is 6000 more than Defence said was the “critical minimum” required, providing a buffer for redundancies and additional force resilience.

The additional war fighters are required to operate new capabilities including promised nuclear-powered submarines, the Hunter-class frigates, and advanced long-range and defensive missile systems. Large numbers of space and cyber personnel will also be ­needed, together with intelligence, communications and information warfare operators.

The Prime Minister, who has identified national security as a key issue in the upcoming federal election, said the workforce ­expansion from just over 60,000 uniformed personnel today was vital to protect the nation and its interests in an increasingly uncertain world.

“The first priority of my government is to keep Australians safe and to do that we need a bigger ADF with more soldiers, sailors and airmen and women to operate the cutting-edge capabilities we’re getting to protect Australia,” Mr Morrison said. “You can’t flick a switch to increase your army, navy and air force overnight. Growing the type of people and skills we need to face the threats of the future takes time, so we must start now so critical skills can be taught and experience gained.”

ADF personnel numbers will be increased in every state and ­territory, with a focus on new capabilities, including nuclear-powered submarines, to be delivered under the trilateral AUKUS partnership with the US and Britain.

Highlighting Russia’s war against Ukraine and growing ­Chinese assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific, the government has sought to differentiate its defence credentials from those of Labor, pointing out the slump in military spending under the Gillard government to 1.56 per cent of GDP, compared to more than 2 per cent under the Coalition. But Anthony Albanese has pledged to give ­Defence the resources it needs if Labor wins the election, the ­Opposition Leader acknowledging in a speech to be given on Thursday that “this will mean Defence budgets beyond the 2 per cent benchmark”.

Mr Dutton said the workforce plan was needed to build a credible military force that could protect Australia’s strategic interests.

“This growth in workforce and expertise will enable us to deliver our nuclear-powered submarines, ships, aircraft and advanced weapons,” the Defence Minister said.

“It will mean we can build war fighting capabilities in the domains of space, and information and cyber. It will also build the resilience we need in critical areas and enable our people to increase intelligence, information and communications capacity.

“Defence industry will also be fundamental to supporting ­Defence’s capability delivery and workforce growth to deliver current and enhanced technologies, systems and equipment.”

All states and territories will get additional personnel under the plan. Under the original 12,500 boost proposed by Defence, the biggest winners were NSW (2768), the ACT (2702), Queensland (1875), Western Australia (1414) and South Australia (1088).

The navy, which currently has 15,449 uniformed personnel, will require the biggest workforce boost, with the tonnage of vessels to double under the government’s continuous shipbuilding plan. Australia’s uniformed submarine workforce alone will have to grow from the current 900 to at least 2300, according to Chief of Navy Mike Noonan.

The army – currently the largest service at 30,932 personnel – will also have to grow substantially to operate future “long-range fires” capabilities, establish new information and electronic warfare units, and raise a new self-propelled artillery regiment.

The 15,087-strong air force needs additional personnel to deliver future air capabilities, run air bases, and operate promised integrated missile defence hardware, while new satellite and space control roles will require new and highly trained workforces.

Work on the plan has been underway since it was agreed by the national security committee of cabinet last November and follows a flagged personnel increase in the 2020 Defence Force Structure Plan.

bespoke
bespoke
March 9, 2022 10:52 pm

How is Mater doing?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
March 9, 2022 10:55 pm

A lot has been spent on water divining and Philipino faith healers too.

Pretty sure Filipino faith healers are legit. Mine promised a full refund if the Alzheimers doesn’t clear up.

I think.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 10:56 pm

It looks like I am a hoon.
I just got a ticket for speeding from Canberra from three weeks ago.
On a Sunday.
On a section of four-lane divided road with no pedestrian access.
Allegedly I was going at warp speed* and was a danger to life and limb.
Ker-ching.
$300.

* 46 kmh.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 10:58 pm

Pretty sure Filipino faith healers are legit. Mine promised a full refund if the Alzheimers doesn’t clear up.

Mine specialised in acne, piles and erectile dysfunction.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 11:02 pm

Looking at getting a new TV.
Geez they are cheap these days.
I remember buying a plasma TV back in 2005, 60 inches & it cost five and a bit grand.
You can get a serious bit of gear for well under 2k these days.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 11:06 pm

If in 2005 I put that 5k into Apple stock instead of buying the plasma TV, would worth 500k today.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 11:07 pm

Fucking hell, ‘bern.
TV procurement is the most confusing thing you can get involved in.
Pixels per metre, QLED, OLED, blacker blacks (fucking really???), HD, UHD, UHDDDDD.
Faaarrrrk!

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:08 pm

A lot are sick of endless war including me.

I think the worst is yet to come.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 11:09 pm

feelthebernsays:

March 9, 2022 at 11:06 pm

If in 2005 I put that 5k into Apple stock instead of buying the plasma TV, would worth 500k today.

Yeah, but you can’t watch porn on your Apple share certificate.

Bruce in WA
March 9, 2022 11:10 pm

I see it, I hear it, but I still struggle to believe it.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:11 pm

It sure beats being bullied by those invested in Big Pharma who tell you to believe what they said someone said at dinner.

Always with the Nuffy angle, eh SRR?

Tailored medicine is a physician’s wet dream- Completely bespoke treatments based on complicated and time-consuming testing. With the price tag and timescale to match.

Not mass-produced, and certainly not to create bioweapons aimed exclusively at one racial group.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:12 pm

????? ????????? ? ????? ?????????????? ?? ??, ??????????? ??????? ? ????????????
???????? ?????????? ????? ???????????? ????? ??????????????, ??????????? ? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ?? ???????. ??? ???????? ???? ??? ? ???. ????????? ????? ??????. ??? ??? ???????!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:12 pm

Tailored medicine is a physician’s wet dream- Completely bespoke treatments based on complicated and time-consuming testing. With the price tag and timescale to match.

Not mass-produced, and certainly not to create bioweapons aimed exclusively at one racial group.

You’ll need to go elsewhere to fulfill your murdergenocide fantasies.

Maybe have a chat with Struth about his DeAtH CaMps…

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:13 pm

Errr… Zipster?

WordPress here no likey Cyrilic…

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 9, 2022 11:13 pm

Wearables are the only way personalised medicine can begin to be mass introduced.
PS, you should see the size of Apple’s health division.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 9, 2022 11:16 pm

‘bern, we paid $2k each I think it was for a pair of fair to good LG TVs about ten years ago.
Still OK in my view.
Mrs Panzer disagrees.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:16 pm
Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:18 pm

WordPress here no likey Cyrilic…

racism!

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:18 pm

Sure, but these claims are always muddied by practical considerations.

What’s muddled?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 9, 2022 11:20 pm

I recall 1974 floods quite clearly since we couldn’t get to school in Macksville for a week

So far, so good:

our bus was a semi trailer bus

A what? Semi trailers can cloud seed, right?

All the pieces are slowly coming together.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:24 pm

Wearables are the only way personalised medicine can begin to be mass introduced.

And that still requires:

A) People to be stooged into buying the stuff as regular equipment (Too many people have treated it as only a fad in the last 5-10 years);

B) Convincing the medical industry that the gear is robust and accurate enough for medical monitoring. Standards are tight, and standards cost money. Big money, even. And some of the studies I looked into as a Sleep Scientist for something as basic as FitBit vs. medical grade accelerometers for measuring sleep phase disorders, left a yawning gap between the consumer kit’s claims and their actual performance.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 9, 2022 11:25 pm

Semi trailers can cloud seed, right?

If you rev hard enough.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:26 pm

rickw says:
March 9, 2022 at 10:19 pm

I specifically asked him if the vaxes change the liver’s DNA. I said people were making this claim on social media.

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies.

He’s more qualified that either you or I , RickW.

srr
srr
March 9, 2022 11:26 pm

Zipster says:
March 9, 2022 at 10:18 pm

These people are trying to destroy our country: UFC fighter

Some of the comments, hell, it’s like Hillary’s people still squawking that only they can declare who’s “qualified” to know right from wrong.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:30 pm

Under Mariupol, the base of the special forces “Bears” was destroyed
google will translate these. hit cc then settings-> subtitles autogenerated english

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:32 pm

srr says:
March 9, 2022 at 10:25 pm

Thanks for this –

duncanm says:
March 9, 2022 at 9:34 pm

JC says:
March 9, 2022 at 8:18 pm

His response was to LOL and said it was total bullshit.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/video-on-cell-and-gene-therapy-from?s=r

I hope people bother to read the whole thing (including the conversations/comments), as it does a good job to adding to the understanding of a complex issue.

It sure beats being bullied by those invested in Big Pharma who tell you to believe what they said someone said at dinner.

USSR, you’re a brain damaged, mendacious kunt and I say this is in the nicest possible way. The frequency of you being on here night and day suggests any man would have run an Olympic sprint away from you. Fuck off.

Even if I’m invested in big pharma to the gills, you poisonous kunt, what possible gain would I have selling a pro big pharma view? Would I be able to convince a massive investor like you who moves markets? You pathetic venom filled piece of human trash.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 11:33 pm

How is Mater doing?

Be interested in Mater’s views on the Ben Roberts Smith case..

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:35 pm

Sancho Panzer says:
March 9, 2022 at 11:16 pm

‘bern, we paid $2k each I think it was for a pair of fair to good LG TVs about ten years ago.
Still OK in my view.
Mrs Panzer disagrees.

Because it’s almost never used, we have an old plasma in the bedroom that comes out of the ceiling. I hope it never breaks down as the picture is just great.

MatrixTransform
March 9, 2022 11:37 pm

Critical Race Theory Is Race Marxism

… der

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 9, 2022 11:40 pm

Daily Mail.

Transgender man who thought he couldn’t conceive while transitioning is now a proud dad after a surprise pregnancy – and put off his breast surgery so that he could nurse his son

Ryan Sanderson, from Rochdale, Manchester, has given birth to son Hendrick
Student, 24, was nine weeks into his transition when he discovered pregnancy
Is embracing being a seahorse dad and hopes to increase family size in future

Peak stupidity – we’ve just arrived.

Zipster
Zipster
March 9, 2022 11:42 pm

I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies.

under normal circumstances he might be right. however this actually isn’t a normal mRNA strand. its been modified with one of the letters U replaced with pseudo-uridine. what are the possible outcomes? nobody knows.

original paper
Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line

explanation in plain english
Pfizer Vaccine Becomes DNA in Liver Cells. (In-vitro Swedish Study)

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:48 pm

Zip

This came from your link.

Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 20502 Malmö, Sweden

Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, 22362 Lund, Sweden

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

The dude I was talking to, comes from this area – infectious diseases or infection medicine. Look, maybe he doesn’t know the area of medical science. It’s possible too.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 9, 2022 11:53 pm

Sancho
Bad news on the health front.

The yellow “ pimples “ on your dong aren’t acne.
And when you showed him your tally whacker and bum grapes and asked him to lay his hands on it the interpreter made a mistake.
The healer actually said “ you can stick that up your ass” not as health advice but out of revulsion.

So your attempt at a cure may not be working very well.

jupes
jupes
March 9, 2022 11:55 pm

One was the Red Cross which raised a huge amount of money for the Bush Fire victims and then did not use it all as the donors intended.

The Red Cross should have been banned after they took sides (the wrong one of course) during the Lebanon / Israeli war in 2006. Evil scum.

JC
JC
March 9, 2022 11:57 pm

Sobering piece in the WSJ by Galston.

Putin’s Groupies Walk Back Their Praise

By William A. Galston

Vladimir Putin’s populist supporters throughout the West are running for the hills.

Italian right-wing politician Matteo Salvini, an unabashed Putin fan, has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine but cannot bring himself to criticize his hero by name. Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who palled around with Mr. Putin in Russia, professes not to see today’s Putin as the man he had previously known. France’s far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour admired Mr. Putin’s effort to restore “an empire in decline”—until his effort to rebuild that empire went too far. Another French far-right presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen, whose party received a large loan from a Russian bank, was forced to withdraw more than a million campaign leaflets that showed her shaking Mr. Putin’s hand. The Russian invasion has rendered Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban mute, a rare occurrence, and forced him to accept European Union sanctions against Russia.

America’s right-wing populists are twisting themselves into knots to reconcile their previous positions with their recent adjustments. In February, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley was arguing that we couldn’t afford to expand our security commitments in Europe. Now he is urging President Biden to send Ukraine more military backing, a task the president was carrying out already. Before the Russian invasion, J.D. Vance, an author and aspirant for the Republican senatorial nomination in Ohio, declared forthrightly that “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” Now he calls Mr. Putin an “evil man” but blames the U.S. “foreign policy establishment” for leading Ukraine to the “slaughterhouse” and continues to reject getting further involved in Eastern Europe.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent weeks defending Vladimir Putin against his American critics until finally admitting March 3 that he had been wrong in his prediction that Mr. Putin would not mount an invasion. Previously, Mr. Carlson had urged Mr. Putin’s critics to ask themselves: “Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he ever threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?”

I can think of a few other relevant questions Mr. Carlson might have posed: Did Mr. Putin ever throw his enemies in jail on trumped-up charges? Did he ever poison them? Did he ever crush the liberties of his people? Did he ever invade his neighbors? Did he ever level cities without regard for civilian populations? The answer to all these questions, of course, is yes. The answer was also yes years before the invasion of Ukraine.
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I can think of two beliefs that may account for Mr. Carlson’s moral myopia: First, if it doesn’t happen to me or to people like me, it doesn’t matter. Second, there is nothing more important than the culture war.

Mr. Carlson can speak for himself about my hypothesis. Steve Bannon already confirmed it. Explaining his admiration for the Russian dictator last month, Mr. Bannon said, “Putin ain’t woke—he is anti-woke.” Translation: What the Russian president thinks about gay and transgender rights is more important than what he does to other countries and to his own people. Culture war über alles—the all-but-official theme of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference that convened two weeks ago in Orlando, Fla.

This brings me to the most important speaker at CPAC, former President Donald Trump, who hailed Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “savvy” and “genius” in a radio interview a few days before the conference. (He refrained from calling Mr. Putin “stable,” reserving that honorific for himself.) Mr. Trump explained why the invasion is a smart move to attendees at an event at Mar-a-Lago: “He’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. . . . He’s taking over a country—really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.”

This statement is representative of Mr. Trump’s distinctive contribution to contemporary populism: the worship of cleverness without decency and of strength without moral restraint. Judgments of good and evil are replaced by strong vs. weak and smart vs. dumb. As students of Europe’s past know, Mr. Trump’s sentiments have a dark history. The question is whether they have a future in the conservative movement and in the Republican Party.

In a speech to GOP donors in New Orleans last Friday, former Vice President Mike Pence declared bluntly that “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin.” If the Republican Party again makes Donald Trump its presidential nominee in 2024, Mr. Pence will be proved wrong.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
March 10, 2022 12:02 am

I’ve actually watched the interview they keep quoting with Trump “ praising” Putin.
Would it surprise anyone to know it’s very selective quoting which deliberately leaves out the rest which basically says bad man as well.

There is a reason for lots of quotes but no links

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 12:02 am

JC’s always selling shit.

It pays JC to sell shit.

Fine, he can sell shit, if he can.

However, going by JC’s deranged outbursts, it seems the super seller lost his mojo, long ago.

Gamblers, they come in endless varieties but they have one thing in common; ‘bad runs’ = big debts = do anything to get back in the game and/or owned by those who’ll fund them back into the game.

Social media is chockers with the poor enslaved addicts.

But cheer up JC.
I broke my foot in a gardening accident.
I’m in agony.
Laid up in bed with those who love me spoiling me rotten, not letting me lift a finger, giving me far more time than usual to read, and so, notice just how much coordinated work the bitter bullies put into trying to bully people back into buying the Govt BS.

Zipster
Zipster
March 10, 2022 12:06 am

By William A. Galston

just another woke fuckwit.

let recall briefly which corruptocrat is at the heart of US-ukrainian criminal corruption

these woke fuckwits should STFU with their fake compassion

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 10, 2022 12:07 am

I broke my foot in a gardening accident.

Couldn’t dig out that tunnel, huh?

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 10, 2022 12:08 am

I know a bloke who is a water diviner. He waves around two bronze welding rods to detect underground water sources, about 80% success rate.

I am a cynical bugger, but you can’t deny what you have seen with your own eyes.

I have never been able to find any credible scientific proof of divining, but there it is.

Many strange mysteries out there.

JC
JC
March 10, 2022 12:10 am

USSR

The one who peddles shit here is you, 24/7. The constant barrage of child sex rings is but just one example.

I don’t have debt.

It wouldn’t be possible for you to be surrounded by loved ones because no well adjusted human could possibly love a worthless piece of shit like you.

I hope the ankle hurts. If you stopped eating glutton quantities perhaps it could have been avoided.

Now fuck off.

John H.
John H.
March 10, 2022 12:11 am

Zipstersays:
March 9, 2022 at 11:42 pm
I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies.

under normal circumstances he might be right. however this actually isn’t a normal mRNA strand. its been modified with one of the letters U replaced with pseudo-uridine. what are the possible outcomes? nobody knows.

original paper
Intracellular Reverse Transcription of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 In Vitro in Human Liver Cell Line

explanation in plain english
Pfizer Vaccine Becomes DNA in Liver Cells. (In-vitro Swedish Study)

Forget that study, too many problems. Crap journal, in vitro, cancer cell line. Extrapolating from that is irrational, reflects a lack of experience in reading the literature. I’ve read the study, even the authors caution against interpreting it as the DNA integrating into the genome but of course in internet world who bothers to actually read the studies?

Even the authors advised:

“At this stage, we do not know if DNA reverse transcribed from BNT162b2 is integrated into the cell genome.”

ie. could be amplicons. It is also lazy, they should have determined if that was happening. Why didn’t they?

The person JC spoke too knows this study is too problematic. I’d trust a virologist over any social media posting.

I mentioned this days ago. Look at footnote 25. That is much more interesting than this trash study. Oh sorry, who bothers to check footnotes!?

JC
JC
March 10, 2022 12:11 am

Pedro

How would you know his success rate is 80%?

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 12:15 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 9, 2022 at 11:40 pm
Daily Mail.

Transgender man who thought he couldn’t conceive while transitioning is now a proud dad after a surprise pregnancy – and put off his breast surgery so that he could nurse his son

Ryan Sanderson, from Rochdale, Manchester, has given birth to son Hendrick
Student, 24, was nine weeks into his transition when he discovered pregnancy
Is embracing being a seahorse dad and hopes to increase family size in future

Peak stupidity – we’ve just arrived.

Nah, we got there a long time ago, it’s just that there’s a constant shuttle service running to try to drag all the resistant there to.

Fortunately there are enough who’ll put all on the line to resist until all who didn’t, wish they had.

From 7 months ago, about older news –

Just leave the kids out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waUmU3dd0E

Aug 4, 2021
Samson

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
March 10, 2022 12:16 am

I am a cynical bugger, but you can’t deny what you have seen with your own eyes.

I can think of two possibilities off the top of my head.
1. If you dig anywhere at random except the top of a mountain there’s an 80% chance of hitting water eventually.
2. He can smell the water but the sensing is subliminal. The sticks are just a way of getting the sensory information out into the open; he’s unconsciously affecting them.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
March 10, 2022 12:16 am

All too often in this day and age we people failing to think outside the square.

Not this bloke (The Hun):

Federal police have charged a Victorian man with the state’s first ever “exit trafficking” offence after he allegedly attempted to cancel his wife’s visa and leave her stranded overseas.

The 50-year-old is accused of deceiving his then-wife into travelling to Sudan in 2014 in order to cancel her visa and prevent her from returning to Australia.

This is genius. I wish I’d done that.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 10, 2022 12:22 am

JC, he gets called out to farms hoping to find accessible water sources. He spends a couple of days wandering around taking lots of notes in an exercise book, putting out string lines and little flag markers on the ground he has covered and then gets out the welding rods and starts walking.

The last couple of times I have seen him work he has found water within an hour after all the prep work.

Occasionally he has to announce a failure. There’s the 20% fail rate.

Unexplained magic in my book, but the water flows from where he has indicated.

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 12:24 am

BigGoblinslayingKoranBurning Steve @BGKB
6h ·
·News
Texas hospital halts puberty blockers as trans teens reach breaking point over governor’s attack

Abbott has drawn international condemnation for his attempts to investigate gender-affirming healthcare providers and supportive parents of trans kids for “child abuse”.

Amid threats to prosecute anybody involved in the provision of puberty blockers to trans youths, the Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest paediatric hospital in the state, pulled all hormone therapies for trans kids on Monday.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/08/trans-girl-kai-shappley-texas-greg-abbott/

@sionnachdearg @TexasVet

Zipster
Zipster
March 10, 2022 12:29 am

The dude I was talking to, comes from this area – infectious diseases or infection medicine. Look, maybe he doesn’t know the area of medical science. It’s possible too.

these swedish researchers are in fact the first to show that the mRNA is in fact converted to DNA in liver cells. they did not show that it was incorporated into human DNA. however we know that DNA can be incorporated from for example viral sources. nobody knows under what conditions.

this is the problem, these people are playing god. they have used the opportunity given by Trump with warp speed to push this immature technology into the mainstream while vastly enriching themselves.

all without any of the careful checks and processes to ensure proper safety. hell they can’t even tell you if the spike protein coded for by this mRNA stays in “safe” folded form or if the toxic S1 subunit can detach and create havoc.

the mRNA has been modified to make it more stable with the pseudo-uridine as it would normally only work for short periods of time as was intended originally. is this actually even safe?

they can’t even tell us how long this stuff stays active and there is no way to switch it off.

that this mRNA can convert to DNA is now just another fact not a conspiracy theory.

covid is a nasty virus, however we are being lied to and treated like stupid children by the elites. the idea of informed consent was shredded along with the illusion we have any rights in our so called “free democracy”.

they could have gone with a normal vaccine, even the chinese managed that simple feat.

Pedro the Loafer
Pedro the Loafer
March 10, 2022 12:30 am

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

quoth Hamlet to Horatio, sez Bill Shakespeare.

Not wrong when it comes to water divining. Spooky.

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 12:34 am

JC says:
March 9, 2022 at 11:57 pm

Sobering piece in the WSJ by Galston.

Putin’s Groupies …
***

Ah, but could a sober person read the first two words and believe that the rest of it really isn’t pure propaganda for the Clinton/Biden/Pelosi & Co. Blood Money Laundry that is the Ukraine?

Maybe a sober simpleton.

Zipster
Zipster
March 10, 2022 12:34 am

Zipstersays:
March 9, 2022 at 10:18 pm
These people are trying to destroy our country: UFC fighter

A lot are sick of endless war including me.

indeed.

Zipster
Zipster
March 10, 2022 12:38 am

as a public notice I can tell you from a foaf (of course) that 35mg/day of ivermectin makes short work of omicron, despite what our fascist bureaucrats would have you believe.

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 1:17 am

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srr
March 10, 2022 1:21 am

ITMT –

Hearts of Oak @HeartsofOak
· Mar 8
Watch Hearts of Oak live on GETTR

András László: Fidesz Party – Can Victor Orban Win Again in Upcoming Hungarian Election

https://gettr.com/post/pypmkncaad
Posted on 7:00 AM · Mar 8th, 2022

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 1:24 am

rwmalonemd @rwmalonemd
· 2m
Navy Refuses to Deploy Warship While Commander Remains Unvaccinated
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/navy-refuses-to-deploy-warship-while-commander-remains-unvaccinated_4325853.html

Navy Refuses to Deploy Warship While Commander Remains Unvaccinated

U.S. Navy officials have said a warship can’t be deployed because its commander has refused the COVID-19 vaccine. …

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/navy-refuses-to-deploy-warship-while-commander-remains-unvaccinated_4325853.html
link.theepochtimes.com

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 10, 2022 1:37 am

The person JC spoke too knows this study is too problematic. I’d trust a virologist over any social media posting.

That there are entire courses and umpteen reams of material written on the subject of evaluating medical evidence and determining IF IT WORKS FOR YOUR GIVEN MEDICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, is something that flies outside the understanding of practically every other field of human endeavour.

And gives rise to uninformed people credulously propagating un-information (literally jumped-to conclusions from barely or even outright not understood data) and creating false panic and false hope in equal measure.

And that’s before we get to Nuffies and other professionally mendacious folks looking to further their own agendas and just cause people trouble. And the vast majority of public discourse about the bug, what it is/isn’t, does/doesn’t do, kills/doesn’t kill, treatments/non-treatments and the adverse effects of all of it has driven aot of

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
March 10, 2022 1:38 am

treatments/non-treatments and the adverse effects of all of it has driven a lot of people really quite mad.

And it never had to be. That’s the worst part, Cats.

It never had to be…

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 1:45 am

Australian Prime Minister Rejects ‘Build Back Better’ in Pitch to Business Community
Morrison outlines 7 supply chain areas needing attention

By Daniel Y. Teng March 9, 2022 Updated: March 9, 2022

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected the highly interventionist “Build Back Better” policies embraced by fellow developed countries in an election pitch to the business community.

The prime minister also called for a reconfiguration of supply chains to “just in case” models while outlining seven critical areas, including semiconductors, needing attention.

In a speech to the Australian Financial Review Business Summit, Morrison spruiked the country’s economic performance over the course of COVID-19, outlining key growth indicators which outperformed several other developed nations.

“Our economy is now 3.4 percent larger than when the pandemic struck, and around 260,000 more Australians are in work compared with where we were before COVID-19,” he said.

The prime minister pointed to Canada’s 0.5 percent employment growth rate and 0.1 percent GDP growth in the December quarter compared to pre-pandemic levels.

“Prior to the pandemic, Australia had sustained a world record in, by some accounts, of over 28 years of uninterrupted economic growth,” he said. “Now this was unmatched by other advanced economies, both in terms of duration and the rate of growth.”

“That’s why, frankly, I’ve never really been in the, and caught up in the hoopla, of the ‘Build Back Better’ camp, that opportunistically sees the post-COVID recovery as some opportunity to replace our market-based, business-led growth economic system, with a government-centred reimagination of global capitalism,” he added.

Morrison emphasised that “capitalism didn’t break” and it was because the “world got hit by a global pandemic.”

“My concern is that the alternative to our government, a Labor government, with the Greens, if elected, would seek to snatch the reins back, following the lead of their political fellow travellers in countries overseas.”

Currently, the Biden administration in the United States, Prime Ministers Boris Johnson in the UK, and Justin Trudeau in Canada have all adopted the “Build Back Better” (BBB) motto for their policy platforms earmarking heavy government spending (and involvement) across major industries as a means to drive economic growth and investment.

In the United States, the Democrats are currently struggling to push through their US$1.85 trillion BBB package, with Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) refusing to get on board.

The alternative approach to BBB, adopted notably by the former Reagan and Trump administrations, was to help businesses grow via cutting taxes, reducing regulation, and incentivising investment.

“A strong private sector continues to be our first line of defence,” Morrison said. “A good example was the looming shortage last Christmas of AdBlue.”

“China’s decision to suspend urea exports, from which we make AdBlue, had the potential to shut down our trucking network,” he said. “We took immediate action to intervene, reaching an agreement with Incitec Pivot to convert Gibson Island in Brisbane from the manufacture of agriculture grade urea to produce AdBlue and higher-grade refined urea.”

Morrison said targeted support highlighted the role government should play without overreaching its mandate.

The prime minister also outlined seven supply chain categories needing attention: semiconductors; agricultural chemicals; water treatment chemicals; telecommunications equipment; plastics; pharmaceuticals; and personal protective equipment (PPE).
[links]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/australian-prime-minister-rejects-build-back-better-in-pitch-to-business-community_4325947.html

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 1:53 am

Victorian State Government Provides More Funding For Biotechnology
By Marina Zhang March 9, 2022 Updated: March 9, 2022

The Victorian State government has announced more grants for medical companies to support local biotechnology manufacturing in the state.

The Minister for Industry Support and Recovery Martin Pakula has said that the grant will put Vicotria at the forefront of medtech manufacturing in the country and create hundreds of skilled job opportunities for Victorians.

“We’re putting Victoria at the forefront of medtech manufacturing to deliver new opportunities to local businesses and create jobs,” the minister for industry support and recovery Martin Pakula said.

“This grant program will help our Medtech manufacturers scale up production and turn ideas into real-life solutions that support our health system and boost the economy.”

From March 9, the $3 million (US$2.18 million) Medtech Manufacturing Capability Program will be accepting applications by eligible Australian biotechnology businesses.

An eligible business can receive grants of between $100,000 (US$72,000) to $500,000 (US$364,800) under the program.

To be considered eligible, companies must be based in Australia and have an operational facility in Victoria. The company must also be developing an eligible Medtech product at the time of application, and the product must either be manufactured in Victoria and worked as an enabling or preventative and treating medical device.

Eligible companies must make a gross revenue of $50 million (US$36.4 million) or less and will need to provide financial reports for the last three years. Grant funding must also be met on a 1 to 1 basis.

Successful applicants will also be given the opportunity to access local manufacturing services, infrastructure, and partner with other Victorian businesses to undertake new projects.

The program is delivered by the government’s Australian Medtech Manufacturing Centre, a $20 million ($14.6 million USD) initiative announced in Nov. 2020 as part of the 2021/22 Victorian Budget.

The hub was intended to “champion, develop and identify new opportunities for Victoria’s MedTech manufacturing and innovation sector.”

The funding announcement comes after the Labor government announced it would provide a grant for Lumos Diagnostics and Planet Innovation to locally manufacture rapid antigen tests (RATs) for a secure supply of the tests on Feb. 2, 2022.

Additionally, in Dec. 2020, another MedTech manufacturer, Compumedics, received support to make its Somfit medical-grade wearable monitoring device in Melbourne after a decade of manufacturing most of its products overseas.

Though both initiatives promised to increase employment locally and bring millions in revenue to the state, the amount of funding given by the Victorian state government has not been publicised.

Applications for the Medtech Manufacturing Capability Program open March 9 to April 5.
[links]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/victorian-state-government-provides-more-funding-for-biotechnology_4325880.html

JC
JC
March 10, 2022 1:55 am

srr says:
March 10, 2022 at 1:17 am

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Maybe a drunk simpleton with loneliness issues because she’s a tub of shit.

rosie
rosie
March 10, 2022 3:18 am

The people I know that have it, quickly recovered from omicron with panadol, bedrest and plenty of fluids.

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 3:22 am

rwmalonemd
@rwmalonemd
·
2h
We have a friend in Ontario Canada who organized the Rome COVID Summit, Sept 2021. She brought scientists from all over the world together to coordinate and discuss research. This conference has been viewed by millions of people. She did this without pay or recognition She is a hero.
This year, she is organizing the COVID summit in France. She is not vaccinated but has natural immunity. She is not allowed to leave her own country without being vaccinated- she is essentially a prisoner. Canada has become an authoritarian regime.
The world will suffer because of this- her important voice and organizational skills will be lost during the event itself.
The Canadian government should be ashamed at the damage they are doing to their people and the world.

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 3:25 am

Edward Dowd
@EdwardDowd
·
7h
?Chart 3 Insurance Industry Expert using CDC’s data broken down by age. This data can be recreated from their website…why do you think they haven’t done so yet???

Excess death rate by age shows that recent spike in excess mortality has been
strongly concentrated in working age adults between Aug 2021 & Dec 2021.
Millennials saw nearly 7X higher rate of excess death than the Silent
Generation. We know that Vaccine mandates & boosters hit this age group hard!

[chart]
https://gettr.com/post/pz07jid194

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 3:32 am

CanadianPatriots @TrentsKreations
· Mar 7

Nailed it!!
https://gettr.com/post/pym41pa9ac

Posted on 3:43 PM · Mar 7th, 2022

srr
srr
March 10, 2022 3:36 am

4u2nvme4U @4u2nvme4U
· 48m

DOMESTIC OIL

THE NEW IVERMECTIN

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Posted on 2:46 AM · Mar 10th, 2022

rosie
rosie
March 10, 2022 3:49 am

I have a question, how come the government cloud seeded New South Wales and Queensland but not Victoria?
I’ve lost quite a few plants over the summer thanks to lack of rain in Melbourne.

Tom
Tom
March 10, 2022 4:00 am

Johannes Leak. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
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feelthebern
feelthebern
March 10, 2022 4:42 am

B) Convincing the medical industry that the gear is robust and accurate enough for medical monitoring.

Apple isn’t trying to engage with the medical industry.
Its goal is to set up its own ecosystem.
Example, offering health insurance to people they’ve monitored via the apple watch for a 12-18 month period.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
March 10, 2022 4:54 am

It looks like I am a hoon.
I just got a ticket for speeding from Canberra from three weeks ago.
On a Sunday.
On a section of four-lane divided road with no pedestrian access.
Allegedly I was going at warp speed* and was a danger to life and limb.
Ker-ching.
$300.

* 46 kmh.

Let me guess Sancho, the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and either Cooyong Street or London Circuit? A well known gotcha spot for those of us living in the region. The ACT Government dropped the speed limit from 60 to 40 on the section of Northbourne Ave from Cooyong St/Barry Dr to London Circuit a year or two ago and has been raking in the money ever since.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:06 am

I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies.

He’s more qualified that either you or I , RickW.

It begs the question.
Would FlyingDuk be disqualified from holding a credible opinion on those grounds?

Gabor
Gabor
March 10, 2022 5:07 am

feelthebern says:
March 10, 2022 at 4:42 am

B) Convincing the medical industry that the gear is robust and accurate enough for medical monitoring.

Apple isn’t trying to engage with the medical industry.
Its goal is to set up its own ecosystem.
Example, offering health insurance to people they’ve monitored via the apple watch for a 12-18 month period.

Fricking frightening what sort of info they get without you knowing about.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:09 am

Let me guess Sancho, the intersection of Northbourne Avenue and either Cooyong Street or London Circuit? 

You got it.
Northbourne and London Circuit.
I looked it up.
I wasn’t even intending to go there but overshot my original turn.

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
March 10, 2022 5:16 am

You got it.
Northbourne and London Circuit.
I looked it up.

There’s two speed cameras in the 200m where it’s 40. Huge money raiser.

I wasn’t even intending to go there but overshot my original turn.

Sure, 🙂 sounds like you were going “to get loose at the Moose”. (Mooseheads is an infamous pub/nightclub just around the corner from where you got pinged)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:17 am

ussr

But cheer up JC.
I broke my foot in a gardening accident.
I’m in agony.
Laid up in bed …

… eating Tim Tams.
When it eventually goes septic, will the ambos have to demolish a wall to crane you out?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:20 am

Sure,  sounds like you were going “to get loose at the Moose”.

Ah, no.
I was headed to the Hotel Kurrajong in my Bentley.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:24 am

“Gardening accident”.
Obviously code for something.
Cloud-seeding code probably.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 10, 2022 5:27 am

Maybe Moriah College should have been concentrating on who they employed, not the vax status of the extended family of students.

feelthebern
feelthebern
March 10, 2022 5:28 am

Hot off the Glenn Greenwald press.

Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 5:39 am

feelthebernsays:

March 10, 2022 at 5:27 am

Maybe Moriah College should have been concentrating on who they employed

Was that the one where the finance guy was tickling the till?

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 10, 2022 6:22 am

When even a NYT reporter admits that January 6 has been treated in an “over the top” fashion by the media, it must sink in to the population at large just how the coruptocrats in Washington have fashioned a self serving narrative in order to once again warp elections. The majority of the media have been and remain complicit in this destruction of democracy and ultimately the disintegration of The Union. Project Veritas has the goods, again.
Powerline blog

rickw
rickw
March 10, 2022 6:23 am
Anchor What
Anchor What
March 10, 2022 6:29 am

ACT government went bad from the instant it was created – after a referendum rejected the idea. It has progressed from bad to worse.

rickw
rickw
March 10, 2022 6:40 am

I don’t think a virologist is qualified to answer. It’s not a question about viruses, it’s a question about mRNA therapies.
He’s more qualified that either you or I , RickW.

Maybe, maybe not, many of these professionals seem to be massively under read on these topics simply trusting that their associates aren’t completely fucking up.

One point made by my lecturers was the importance of not being tricked into offering an opinion outside of your area of expertise. He went on to tell the story of a genuine expert on spark ignition engines being asked a question about Diesel engines and then being laughed out of court proceedings for his answer (could this problem have been caused by knock?).

Medical professionals will always offer you commentary on these sorts of issues. They will never qualify their answer by explaining whether or not they actually have any expertise in that area. It’s like assuming that any engineer is qualified to comment on any engineering issue.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
March 10, 2022 6:44 am

It’s like assuming that any engineer is qualified to comment on any engineering issue.

Particularly water ‘engineers’.
They are the worst.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 10, 2022 6:46 am

Today in No Evidence of Election Fraud:
Joe Hoft, editor and contributor at Gateway Pundit, has a new book out –
“The Steal – Volume 1, Setting The Stage”. link
All four years of Trump’s first term revealed something rotten in the state of the union, but 2020 became a cavalcade of corruption never before seen. It culminated in an election that is still subject to ongoing investigation despite every effort of the Deep State and Media to deny access, cover tracks and assert nothing to see here.
The story will not go away. The half terms will have to be stolen in some fashion or avoided altogether by a declaration of another emergency, because the Dems cannot win them honestly.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 10, 2022 6:47 am

Preview would help.

Anchor What
Anchor What
March 10, 2022 6:50 am

You don’t have to be an engineer to know that our power system, and those of most of the western democracies, is being deliberately knobbled by the left under false pretences. Heads should roll, one day.

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