This will always be welcomed, the trouble is that this argument is endlessly repeated even when you could see it was falling on deaf ears, at least for some. Let it go. Press the matter in another way, and possibly these same people will change their mind. If not, they were never going to be turned.

It’s not about them dover, I poke at them to show what pathetic and low people they are.
Their arguments make no sense, and they don’t care if it makes sense….you can see it directly above with choo choo.

So this is what I’d tell any upstart visitor over on the freedom blog that dared tell another visitor to fuck off that the next time they do, they’re gone.
There’s no sides picked or bias there.
We need to never back down to this shit dover, and your “all for a peaceful life” attitude this “allo allo” French cafe owner approach, is your call.

As the weeks and months progress I haven’t changed my stance on anything, and as the days go by, what was accepted as normal thinking is now offensive, extreme, and only uttered by revolutionary extremists.
You can see that.
We’ve just lost Kneel yesterday.
But my suggestion is go with the right wing option of free speech.
Go woke go broke.
Submitting to the little gang of sneerers will lose you most people, because insanity isn’t attractive, and I’ll admit it wouldn’t happen overnight, but it would happen.
Don’t let them suck you into needing to read every comment.
Just my point of view.

the trouble is that this argument is endlessly repeated

Dover, I don’t even know what the “argument” is any more.

Rather than make it personal, and bitterly personal at that, the real issue is the way our governments have treated all of us, regardless of our decisions.

Coercion, exclusion, punishment, incarceration, removal of the basic right to gather, to protest, face coverings, failure to provide basic education to children…the list goes on and on. While we berate each other, our disgusting rulers get away with blue murder.

We’ve

Who’s ‘We,’ Struth?

Pretty sure in your world, there’s only ‘You’ and those who you permit because they purport to hang on your every utterance…

Struth baby, you are no friend to anyone that you see as a means to an end…

You’re just a troll, and not a very good one.
Kneel is somebody that goes way back on catallaxy, long before you were here.
So shut up, young’n, the adults are talking.

JCsays:
March 31, 2022 at 3:17 pm
You know, there’s no way major central banks will be able to tighten policy without causing another big debt by manufacturing a recession and or rising bond yields that would massively raise the cost of financing the national debt. This is huge pickle that only a higher inflation rate is the single least worst alternative. The huge difference between now and the GFC was that western nations weren’t walking around with so much debt.

Over time a two percent rise in bond yields would cause an extra $40 billion in interest cost as the debt is financed.

Thanks JC. The other day I saw an economic bod make the same argument. The spending is a huge gamble with our money and our lives. If it rates spike we’re all in big trouble.

Trouble is calli calling for unity only disarms one side most times.

Zipstersays:
March 31, 2022 at 3:07 pm
John – Did you catch the one about HIV drugs working on Covid? But only the combo including a protease inhibitor.

maraviroc is the drug against covid and also works with long covid
Maraviroc inhibits SARS-CoV-2 multiplication and s-protein mediated cell fusion in cell culture

statins are also effective against long covid as fractalkine inhibitors

Zipster I noted the previous occasion you posted the statin linkage. That’s interesting because some argue the primary benefits of statins is reducing inflammation and long ago I read a study which related the function of statins as a “vitamin D analogue”.

Not interested in the other link. Preprint, not peer reviewed, not clinical.

You’re just a troll, and not a very good one.

Only to trolls and obnoxious folks looking to start fights because they can.

It was a nice barrel-scrape, Struth. But I much preferred it when you were saying nobody was a man here except you…

See, my conscience is clear……..it might have been difficult for you to hear, and it may have had the terrible result of making you see what you actually did TO OTHERS.

Translated Struth:

It’s really all about me.

DOT that is an interesting study that needs follow up. Keep in mind the old joke: if rodents rule end up ruling the earth they’ll thank us for curing cancer. Translation rates are very low.

Here is a fascinating issue about Metastasis, the main cause of cancer related deaths. Metastasis appears to be metabolically contingent. Cancer cells aren’t suddenly released into the bloodstream, that appears to happen on a regular basis but whether or not they will find a home in another tissue is contingent on the metabolic state of the individual(see below link @ 10.22).
The link to the talk(somewhat tedious)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zk0ubr_lzo

Zipster I noted the previous occasion you posted the statin linkage. That’s interesting because some argue the primary benefits of statins is reducing inflammation and long ago I read a study which related the function of statins as a “vitamin D analogue”.

the statin is what cleared up 90% of my long covid symptoms.

the TLDR
incelldx is the mob who were behind retrovirals for HIV. they are a medical research outfit. they looked into long covid and found certain monocytes that were glued to blood vessels with fractalkine and had S1 protein inside them over a year post covid infection. fractalkine also prevents these immune cells from undergoing apoptosis.

statins are know to be fractalkine inhibitors. they tested statins on long covid patients and the cytokine blood markers started to normalise. people got better.

long covid is caused by the persistence of S1 subunit of the spike protein.

they now have a cytokine blood panel (not available in oz) against which they prescribe various meds, predominantly statins and maraviroc.

Anyone with long covid feel free to contact dover for my email address I can send them more details.

Bruce they didn’t say it “worked”.

John – I read the article not the paper. The relevant para was this one:

After adjusting for factors that are linked with increased risk of COVID-19 including gender, age, CD4 cell count, number of people living in the household, contact with a positive COVID-19 case, the researchers found that patients in the protease inhibitor group were 70% less likely to become infected with COVID-19 compared to those in the non-PI group.

Quite a large difference. Also interesting that it was a prophylactic effect, whereas most IVM studies are on people who are already infected. Since they had patients on two types of HIV cocktail, one with and another without a protease inhibitor it seems a reasonable inference, especially as we know that other protease inhibitors have been performing (at least Pfizer seems to thinks so since they’re spruiking “Pfizermectin” keenly).

Whatever PIs those are they’re already approved by the FDA so could potentially be used off label very quickly.

Trouble here bespoke was that some people were demanding elderly people in other states at high risk from covid not get vaxxed because ‘my rights’.
As far as I was concerned their argument fell at that first hurdle.

I don’t remember anyone saying this. The issue is all about informed consent. The vax are neither especially safe nor wildly effective. governments lied to us and treated us like dumb cattle that needed to be herded towards their chosen outcome.

our disgusting rulers get away with blue murder.

They may think they will get away with it.

Tucker: This is insulting

I live in their heads, dover, it’s not me not letting go.
They can’t think straight, and they fill the blog day and night with Ken Worth and Bing Bong and other immature rot.
24/7.
I own them and I can’t help that.
They have done that to themselves because the truth hurts and they don’t want to hear it.
And if you don’t let the truth get heard, your blog becomes an insane asylum.
So when I come on they start dribbling and becoming obsessed.
I can well understand how it would be painful for others, but others could also do something about it as well Dover.
Too many just sit back and let me teach morons lessons and quietly uptick.

It’s not your job to provide those people with a pleasant experience.
They need to be proactive in making their own.

Now he’s angered at his own supporters or calling for help, Sad.

I live in their heads, dover, it’s not me not letting go.

Struth is the only man in this entire parade who is in step, Dover.

He said so.

You’d better believe him or else!…

Ya also think they would have the decency to provide a study link!

Probably because the paper hasn’t been presented yet: the conference is not until 23-26 Apr.

WHITE HOUSE
Will Kamala Harris rank as one of the worst VPs in history?

BY MERRILL MATTHEWS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR – 03/29/22 3:30 PM ET
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT OF THE HILL

While it is still early in her tenure – so there’s a chance she’ll make a comeback – let’s just say those future assessments of Vice President Kamala Harris’s job performance will likely not be kind.

It’s remarkable, since the U.S. Constitution gives the vice president almost no duties to fail at — and yet failing she is.

Always remember Mater

Mater’s back?

Since when?

Kneel got mixed up with another, No big deal since both use the same tactics.

Let them stick those boosters in your kids Mater, and your life will be a misery every day, because you’ll never know what you did by letting it happen.

Your child took the vaxxxxxxxx, did he not? Despite all your best efforts. As such, has your entire series of tirades at Kneel not just been another exercise in mean-spirited projection?

I know you’re a decent bloke. This sort of talk would be wasted on the likes of Choo Choo.

You’ve been listening to Bird whinge and rage over at the Furniture Store because I’ve repeatedly poked tremendous fun at his magical thinking, too.

Nuffies of a feather, and all that… 🙂

And the winner of the Cans Vs bottle debate.

It was a draw:

Cans and graders.

What about pigeons vs. doves?

Almost forgot about that photo of you Dover and C.L, calli.

Good times.

Graders, calli.

Scrapers.

But only because this blog needs to be reminded of what a proper stoush looks like… 😉

Hunter Biden, the New York Times, and the Coming Impeachment

Why did the Times confess their error on the laptop story? Who knows? But it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to know they’re up to no good.

The Sherlock Holmes question of the week is: Why did the New York Times finally admit that the Hunter Biden laptop was genuine? Here are five possible answers:

How are they going to do that? Actually, it’s probably not so difficult: Harris almost certainly has enough baggage in her past to kill an elephant.

Some people, perhaps many people, lost friends when they claimed that the 2020 election was stolen. Their former friends said there simply wasn’t enough evidence to support that claim.

But how do we know—or rather, how do they know? If you ask them, they will tell you only what they have read or heard from the media, media that we know now (well, we knew it all along) are dishonest: we know that because that is the import of the New York Times’s confession of error. The awful truth is that you, Mr. and Mrs. America, wherever you are, have no idea whether the election was honest or not, because your only way of determining that is by what you read and hear from the media—which is shamefully dishonest and was totally in the bag for Joe Biden.

Detention camps are still not off the cards.

Apart from being frustrated with whats going on, no nothing like Mater.

Yes they kill you, but we are going to force you AND YOUR FAMILY to take them

Cutting Through the Noise in Ukraine

You don’t have to be a Putin apologist to find fault with Western narratives on Ukraine. American interests depend on appreciating the bigger picture.

Despite the initial fog of war having receded as Russia’s invasion slowly but steadily advances, an onslaught of overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine narratives in traditional and online media has made it difficult for a disinterested observer to ascertain an accurate picture.

Let’s begin with Zelenskyy, liberal democracy’s arbiter of the hour.

As might have been predicted considering his having received such open support from Kolomoisky, Zelenskyy’s efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine, which is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, haven’t amounted to much more than a bad joke.

This questionable collision of Zelenskyy’s political and business interests became all the more troublesome for Zelenskyy in October, when the Pandora Papers revealed Zelenskyy, Bakanov, and Shefir maintain a complex network of offshore shell companies together which appear to have deep links to entities controlled by Zelenskyy’s biggest political benefactor, Ihor Kolomoisky. Since Zelenskyy’s election, Kolomoisky has been sanctioned by the United States for “involvement in significant corruption” such as stealing billions of dollars from the Ukrainian bank that he owned

Despite claims that Zelenskyy has united Ukraine, Ukraine remains an ethno-linguistically divided country that, since 2014, has been in a state of conflict with some of its own citizens in the East Ukraine where two separatist republics declared independence and a significant percentage of the population is not just Russian-speaking, but ethnically Russian. When Putin launched his war effort, he declared that he sought to secure the independence of these separatist regions, to secure Russia’s claims to Crimea, and to demilitarize and “denazify” Ukraine.

As far as Putin’s claims about the presence of Nazis in Ukraine, while there is likely no small amount of cynicism in Putin’s decision to employ this terminology as part of his propaganda war. Yet a central player in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine since 2014 has been the Azov Battalion, whose members still prominently display symbols associated with the German Third Reich on their uniforms, and has no shortage of members who openly espouse an eliminationist variety of Ukrainian nationalism, which has caused no small amount of embarrassment to some of Ukraine’s Western defenders.

PS: Can someone help me dismount from my high horse?

All good, Delta,

You can drop when ready… 🙂

Why was Tom not in it?

Busy attending to a troll.

By the way, that’s C.L. in the middle. I’m the thin one.

Scrapers are for people who lack the skills to drive graders.

Suck up! but a just one, Bear.

Media Knives Come Out For Investigative Journalist John Solomon After Trump Interview

Corporate media knives are out for investigative reporter John Solomon after his recent interview with former President Donald Trump went viral.

Meanwhile, the probe into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, led by the US Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, has reportedly “intensified” in recent weeks, “with discussions among Justice Department officials about the strength of the case, and whether more work is needed before seeking a decision on possible charges.”

And despite Business Insider’s claim to the contrary, Fox News has not “cut ties” with Solomon. The reporter to this day remains a frequent guest on the network.

rugbyskiersays:
March 31, 2022 at 4:46 pm
Sancho, what you had is a form of migraine. I get them too and most of the time without the pain that a lot of migraine sufferers get. If you get it again the best thing to do is get into a dark room until it goes.

Same for me, mine seems to be caused by c3-c4 displacement. I usually don’t get more than one symptom at a time, aura, light sensitivity, very rarely pain.

If Mater wished to return incognito, none of us would recognise him, least of all by his IP. All we would sense is a lingering fragrance of ozone, and a smoking patch where an insulter’s avatar once stood.

I watched Kingsman for the first time the other night and now I’m picturing him as a Harry Hart. Before the eyepatch.

😀

Delta can always give herself a heart attack or go into a decline wishing things were different and yelling at clouds and bushes.

And be completely useless to both herself and her family in the process.

Farmers who don’t deliver wheat quota have been threatened with jail

Eat the bugs, sell your wheat, sleep in the pod!

Dot, Cohenite: ever tried periodization training?

Yes. It absolutely works, you need to be patient.

Dotsays:
March 31, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Dot, Cohenite: ever tried periodization training?

Yes. It absolutely works, you need to be patient.

Thanks.

Franxsays:
March 31, 2022 at 4:59 pm
Delta A, I would say that jabbing matters because the jabbing is not just about the jab but also about the tyranny that has given rise to the jab and the tyrannic grip that the jab tightens.

Yes. That’s in part why I’m still unvaxxed, so as not to appear to acquiesce in the tyranny (but only part – no heroism claims in this). But it’s becoming increasingly obvious that that’s a futile gesture.

According to Victorian government stats (yes, I know) 95.8% of “eligible” (12 and over) Victorians are double jabbed. It’s crystal clear from Maximum Leader’s behaviour that he believes he can write off the 4.2% for all political purposes (which is all he cares about). Or maybe worse – he may think that the Frankenstein’s monster of the covid-hysterical Karen voter demographic would rise up against him if he eased up on the unvaxxed.
The stats (yes I know) also say that 65.6% of 18+ Victorians have taken a booster, and there doesn’t seem to be any mass outrage about the idea of boosters. Uptake is slow and there’s a chance, but only a chance, that Maximum Leader will baulk at the political risk of introducing a comprehensive booster mandate, but in fact if he doesn’t then the general public apathy about vaxx mandates will probably become even more entrenched.
And friends, family and work colleagues who know I’m unvaxxed are not argumentative, but aren’t in any way up in arms because I’m subject to restrictions, clearly not thinking that there’s anything wrong with the government denying basic freedoms to people who don’t want to be experimented on. And that seems to be a very general attitude.
So the chances of the unvaxxed being freed here are very, very low at least for the foreseeable future.
The anti mandate battle is lost here in Victoria. Me remaining unvaxxed is not going to change public opinion – anyone’s opinion in fact – or the government’s mind.

Obviously it goes against the grain to get experimented on just because a ghastly little turd like Maximum Leader is abusing power to punish me if I continue not to do it. Plus there are other considerations in my case. So I haven’t yet decided whether to get Novavax or not. But struth’s rantings are inclining me towards getting it simply to avoid becoming a deranged wacko psycho weirdo freako intergalactic macro-frootloop dingaling “last Japanese soldier in the jungle” about the issue.

Bruce of Newcastle:

I was reading about the Demon Core the other day. Interesting stuff. It was to be the 3rd bomb, then was used for testwork when no longer required. Modern OH&S people would have terminal hysterics about what the guys were doing with it.

Even people like myself who believe the OH&S cabal have lost the plot, believe these blokes were idiots of the first degree.

Eyriesays:
March 31, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Not interested in the other link. Preprint, not peer reviewed, not clinical.

Most of the climate science papers are “peer reviewed” too. Doesn’t stop them being bullshit.
Peer review is highly over rated.

Over rated by whom? I’ve read Ioannidis, Cohen, McCloskey.
What’s the alternative? Do you propose we sink into a mire of relativism and decide no amount of research is ever sufficient for practical purposes? If not, how do we avoid that? Wishful thinking? Confirmation bias? The availability heuristic?

And friends, family and work colleagues who know I’m unvaxxed are not argumentative, but aren’t in any way up in arms because I’m subject to restrictions, clearly not thinking that there’s anything wrong with the government denying basic freedoms to people who don’t want to be experimented on. And that seems to be a very general attitude.

Try getting fired for being unvaxxed to find out just how deep the Marxism runs in Victoria.

Obviously it goes against the grain to get experimented on just because a ghastly little turd like Maximum Leader is abusing power to punish me if I continue not to do it. Plus there are other considerations in my case. So I haven’t yet decided whether to get Novavax or not. But struth’s rantings are inclining me towards getting it simply to avoid becoming a deranged wacko psycho weirdo freako intergalactic macro-frootloop dingaling “last Japanese soldier in the jungle” about the issue.

So much easier to submit when you can blame others.

95% of Victorians are vaxxed.

You know the Easter bunny is real as well.
Look in the mirror.

It’s why I am here.
Because we can see the mental decline even on those of the right.
“There will come a time when the world goes mad and the one who doesn’t will be seen as insane”

We knew all this and people here would quote sayings like that.
And now we see it happening before our very eyes.
Our very once right wing eyes.

So the chances of the unvaxxed being freed here are very, very low at least for the foreseeable future.
The anti mandate battle is lost here in Victoria.

The new Liars’ government in SA rather amazingly has dropped such things like a hot potato.

South Australia announces change to vaccine mandates: Unvaccinated teachers, transport staff to be allowed back to work (30 Mar)

Unvaccinated teachers, school staff and passenger transport workers in South Australia will be allowed to return to the job within hours.

South Australia’s Police Commissioner Grant Stevens on Wednesday announced a change to vaccine mandates in the state that will take effect from midnight.

“The two that are being revoked at midnight are the education sector and the passenger transport workers sector,” Mr Stevens said.

“Also affected by this are the maritime workers who currently have a direction in place that prevents them from getting onto an international vessel arriving in South Australian waters unless they’re vaccinated.

The common thread seems to be the union rank and file. It cannot have escaped the ALP that lots of union members are unvaccinated and are quite militant about it, no matter what the Setkas all say.

At the same time there’re more and more people just ignoring this rubbish.

Mandatory Vax Refuseniks: Just 14 Per Cent of Unjabbed Greeks Have Paid Punishment Fines (30 Mar)

Of the over 300,000 Greeks who have been fined by the Greek tax authority for being unvaccinated in contravention of the mandatory order, just 14 per cent have actually paid their fines by the deadline.

A total of 317,962 Greeks over the age of 60 have been notified by the Greek tax agency to pay the €50 fine for the month of January when the government implemented its vaccine mandate for all residents above 60 years old.

According to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), however, only 44,000 people have actually paid the fine by the deadline of March 15th, just 14 per cent of the total, and those with outstanding fines could face additional penalties, newspaper Ekathimerini reports.

And that’s only 50 euros, whereas countries like Austria was about to start fining them thousands. That abomination has also recently been dumped.

The tea leaves appear to be saying that governments everywhere are frantic to make this stuff go away, and having a lot of people sidelined because of unvaccinated would just pick at the sore continually. So to make it all go away they have to remove all restrictions, declare victory and hope the proles forget about it all. It’s that or Nuremberg revenge, formally or Romanian-style, which the the pollies and the CHOs rather dislike the idea of.

scrapers vs graders fight

If came to that.

Woodstock cans win.

It’s why I am here.

And now we see it happening before our very eyes.
Our very once right wing eyes

And he shall benevolently lead us benighted masses into the sunlit uplands of all Struth…

And he shall benevolently lead us benighted masses into the sunlit uplands of all Struth…

No hope for you two dicks

Grey Ranga:

I also thought it strange the idea of giving any muzzie country atomic weapons as they are likely to go muzzie at any time.

It was a political decision, GR – not an intelligent one.

You’re only here coz no one anywhere else with the exception of Faulty will put up with you.

Looks like you better take another laxative before you choke.

As a matter of fact here, you’re a lazy bum and a coward for not taking the vax and losing your jobs etc.

No Struth. You are the coward and the bum for screaming at us and hiding away when you are in a State and a situation where you could sidestep the bureaucracy and still thrive. But you won’t because of your ego.

I’ve repeatedly demonstrated to you where you could put your efforts today. All 7,000-odd of them across road transport and engineering and construction companies, big and small Queensland and South Australia. Every last one crying out for drivers and even owner-drivers.

But all you can or will do, is shit in your hands and clap them at the people here on this blog…

rickw

I have not enough super accumulated nor an inheritance to fall back on but that’s not the only reason I may change my mind. Some times we are left with enduring the un endurable to get what is rightfully owes. Besides I do not fear covid or the Vax.

Money has been poured into the NT for over a hundred years, mostly by the Federal Government and it’s all disappeared into a black hole.
There was a $200 million meatworks built there a coupla years ago
with Feds money.
Never opened, unviable.

Kneel at 1.15pm.

Could be anyone:

Because I am not you and do not know your circumstances nor your history, your hopes, dreams, plans nor anything else about you but what you choose to post here (true or not, which I have no way to tell in any case, and presume is at least mostly true).

and

f you wish to be so rude as to fail to provide me with the same courtesy of not second guessing my motivations, hopes, feelings etc, then do not expect anything less than the abuse you deserve for such failure on your part. If you are so foolish as to continue to provoke people, then you should not be surprised when they eventually decide that you are deserving of derision and ridicule, and return your own lack of civility.

plus

I will do what I can and what I must, and neither do I care for your opinion on such matters – they are not your choices, but mine and I will deal with the consequences. I will not be swayed by some anonymous, arrogant and rude nobody on the internet in such matters, most especially not one who offers naught but abuse and derision in their vainglorious belief that they know better than me what I should do and why.

Yep, just some random who turned up here just after the 67th faux flounce by a heat winner in our Drama Queen Stakes for anyone under 100 years old.

Dot says:
March 31, 2022 at 5:06 pm
Um

Welcome to the economic reset!

Back to the future.
This happened in Australia after the big wheat harvest of 1968/9.

The world was awash which wheat and it was agreed that only a set amount of grain produced by a farmer could be sold to the Wheat Board. The domestic market was regulated as well.

My father hated the whole thing as he’d just bought land and was looking to sell a good harvest at the price the market set.
He was left with little to sell and the bank still looking for it’s due.

Monumental stupidity.

I’ll take Delta’s courage, good humour and resilience in the face of adversity over a few of the sooky la-las here all day long.

Seeing quite a lot of resilience.
NSW has a Resilience Minister, Steph [somebody], she talks about floods on the Telly.

I should have remembered that anything calli says makes sense.

Please stop.