Ben Garrison.
Open Thread – Weekend 2 April 2022
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- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
Gary Varvel..
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Brett Lethbridge.
how do you get a pension with an unencumbered house?!?!?
California Law Requiring Racial And LGBT Corporate Board Members Deemed Unconstitutional
No, was he a grader operator?
A quarter of British households won’t be able to pay energy bills by October.
Multiple reports from Net Zero about the ongoing energy crisis in Europe.
https://mailchi.mp/aff9171a5bae/25-of-british-households-wont-be-able-to-pay-energy-bills-188090?e=47ee5c4c98
The Cherman bloke who had 90 jobs appears to be doing all right.
90 jabs. It was almost a job getting the jabs.
Great save.
Lucky save
What’s Bob Katter think of Novorax? Has he put out an opinion yet?
The SS had a quite a few non German units. This is an audiobook of a French SS division. It’s not a bad story, dunno how true it is of course but worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LEZAowYU3o
There’s heaps of audiobooks on youtube, I use a mp3 converter and get heaps.
Principal place of residence has always been exempt from the assets test. The entire financial planning industry exists to facilitate getting a part pension and PBS meds.
Look it up Zipster. We cannot understand adaptive immunity without understanding those amazing cells. DCs have been referred to as the sentinels of the immune system and are a critical bridge from innate to adaptive immunity. I remain surprised that evolution came up with such an ingenious solution for maximizing adaptive immunity. They phagocytose sick or dead cells, chew up the proteins but not so much as macrophages and neutrophils. The DCs then express the protein fragments via MHC II so that T cells can be differentiated, primed, and cloned in the lymph network to journey off to the issues and do nasty stuff to cells expressing those protein fragments on MHC 1 receptors. That’s the cliff notes version. Like I advised, learn about it. Fascinating stuff.
that’s got rosie excited
Sadly not, bespoke. He never qualified higher than a forklift driver.
It was John McDouall Stuart who ripped into the centre in his Catepillar 16-M grader, opening it up for all to enjoy.
Germany’s left-wing Chancellor has verbally attacked a group of anti-lockdown protesters, accusing them of lying.
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s leftist pro-compulsory vaccination Chancellor, launched a verbal assault on a group of anti-lockdown protesters on Saturday, accusing them of lying about a lack of free speech in Germany.
Scholz’s defence of Germany’s free speech record, such as it is, comes shortly after mass raids were conducted by the country’s police last month against people who had made online posts insulting elected German officials.how fucked can you get?
From The Oz…
Zelensky’s passionate plea during Grammys”
Surely, rather than passionately pleading about his country to a bunch of shallow American entertainers who probably had never heard of “Ukraine” before Putin’s invasion a month ago, Zelensky should be passionately pleading about his country to Putin?
I can’t help thinking that Zelensky is enjoying the limelight.
The Cherman bloke who had 90 jobs appears to be doing all right.
Did he get the jabs or simply cut the jabbers in on the proceeds?
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed a panel led by Canada’s former environment minister to ensure private companies obey climate directives with “every business, investor, city, state and region” targeted for compliance by the globalist body.evil old piece of shit
I reckon Zelinsky is just a puppet of the neo-cons/Washington War Machine. Says a lot that he associates with Hollywood trash.
The tax and welfare treatment of the Principal Place of Residence would explain a large portion of Australian house price to income ratios. They are really a tax free geared savings plan that keeps the rain off. Not universally available.
Sancho Panzer says:
April 4, 2022 at 5:30 pm
……… would last about two weeks in Russia.
Those on escorted tours in Russia (as mentioned) are perfectly safe and will have a marvelous time. Thoroughly insulated and will see some fantastic sights. A genuine trip of a lifetime.
Independent solo travel is recommended only for experienced travellers. Not especially ‘dangerous’ per se although like many places, if you go looking for trouble, you won’t have to look very far and this is particularly true in Moscow. Taking normal precautions should see you safe and this becomes much less of an issue outside Moscow and 1-2 other big cities.
Only the most stupid and/or inexperienced traveller would find themselves being shaken down by a local version of Vlad the Impaler. The biggest issue most may face is corruption by public officials and some travellers can find this hard to deal with. Always carry a selection of $US2/5/10 notes and your path will be cleared – ’till the next time. Don’t argue, negotiate the price, pay, and be on your way. Argue and there may be sudden ‘irregularities’ with your passport requiring lengthy enquiries whilst you cool your heels. If you think $10 is worth more than spending 4-5 hours in a police station (or miss your connecting flight) whilst the matter is resolved to the satisfaction of the ‘boss’, then go for it.
Cheers Delta.
You have the job as my Historian and when you surrender.
Today I did a very serious Site Induction and one of the questions was: What is your gender?
So I answered, “prefer not to say”
I’m really puzzled about one thing thing though
… I mean what would sancho answer?
And Bourke and Wills never took a bulldozer with their scraper, so when it bogged down they were doomed.
Zippy why on earth would I be ‘excited’ about 90 jabs?
Just some random snarking?
I have no doubt Lassiter was on Cat gear. Just waiting for Pirate Pete to confirm.
Always glad to help, bespoke.
Then, obviously, the problem is tennis. Ban tennis now, it’s bad for your health.
It’s an appalling racquet…
I’m guessing that’s a fairly erotic turn of phrase to a grader driver.
Speed can you recommend any tour operators for Russia? Palanga Travel used to be the one in Sydney iirc.
Grader operator! Bush.
Indeed!
Apologies.
One of the few bits of earth moving gear I’m sadly deficient in.
doesn’t really address the point I was making. vaccine injuries are real. Long covid is real. so far only 2 mechanism for long covid have been discovered.
monocytes choking on S1 and stranding themselves on endothelial cells and S1 induced micro-clots. I posted links to both of these, I can dig them up if you like.
it’s not clear why S1 is difficult to digest by the immune system. what is clear is that S1 is toxic and this was known well before the mRNA vax where created.
imo they were playing with fire with these “locked” spike mRNA vaccines.
This is how you get first dibs at my leftover food, Winston.
Should I presume that present yourself as an expert on these vaccines but are ignorant about DCs?
What are the two identified causes of long COVID?
My point really is that people grossly underestimate the cultural barriers they will have to deal with.
Not to mention practicalities like, say, going to a hospital or doctor and finding out the green and yellow card has lost it’s magical powers.
I think its been a while if you think $10 is the going price for fixing irregularities. A favourable police report for a car accident was about USD200 nearly a decade ago and this was for locals not tourists.
The biggest danger traveling solo in Russia is the fake taxi fleets. You will always be given a licence plate number when you book a taxi.
Jamal Rifi on bolta gives glowing report about scomo in the context of that bitter skank fierravanti wells new claims that scomo campaigned to have some lebo removed from his seat contest because race.
I’m sure Rabz will play some of their stuff on his Trad Jazz night.
Lawson was something else on the double bass.
Persistence of SARS CoV-2 S1 Protein in CD16+ Monocytes in Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) up to 15 Months Post-Infection
Persistent clotting protein pathology in Long COVID/Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is accompanied by increased levels of antiplasmin
miltonf says:
April 4, 2022 at 7:15 pm
No, sorry. I’ve never been on an organised tour.
I am fortunate to have my own tour guide (wife) or, have travelled independently (when wife can’t be bothered accompanying me to fossick about in some minor non-descript town in the middle of nowhere). 🙂
We cross the Blue Mtns a lot in our journeys between Sydney and our farm in the NSW Central Highways.
Few trips go by without me contemplating, at one stage or another across, the amazing crossing of those rugged mountains by the original explorers, and also the intrepid settlers who followed them.
One of Cox’s party in a later trip accompanied James Blackman when the latter’s party later pressed on to the northwest along what is now the Castlereagh Hwy & subsequently explored our valley, laying claim to the first lease of 6,000 acres. Even today the road into the valley is long and winding, though its many steep inclines have been cut through with modern machinery.
The persistence and effort of those pioneers staggers my imagination, even though they are now damned by our Green and anti-settlement lobby.
The house is principal residence … green tick.
If the hobby farm is under the asset threshold, that would get them some sort of pension.
Correction: NSW Central Highlands….damn this keyboard….
Just thinking out loud (as opposed to general thought leadership) and wondering this. Is there a possibility that by the end of the decade Germany could be aligned with Russia? It appears to me they’re pretty fucked energy wise and the California alternative is what the Germans dearly love. The California route is to pretend you’re green and such thereby please Greta Thumbnails, while buying the energy from across the border. That’s basically what California does to look green.
I wonder what Bob Katter thinks about this?
there is also some issues with S1 and microglial cells but I never got the chronic fatigue so I haven’t looked into it much
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein S1 Induces Neuroinflammation in BV-2 Microglia
another newish paper
SARS-CoV-2 S1 Protein Induces Endolysosome Dysfunction and Neuritic Dystrophy
Agree Vicky- was sitting on Mt Victoria Station a back in Feb thinking not that long after they found a way across the Blue Mountains they built a railway! 1813 and 1868!
The SS had a quite a few non German units
Indeed.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was about 95% Ukrainian, though the Wiki editors don’t mention that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
Why biden is the biggest threat to the world:
New Iran nuclear deal would allow Iranian terrorists into US
Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ
‘Islamic Nationalist Revolt’ in Israel has Begun
https://archive.feedblitz.com/26412/~8293886/125336260/49fa60cbd338c0e9e2133e918ee5f689
Email sent to the bobster.
I’ll post the reply if I get one.
Panzer Division?
You rang?
From Brisbane Times.
“Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive who led the evolution of Hong Kong from liberal hub to tributary state of the Chinese Communist Party will resign, putting an end to a 42-year career that saw her transform from social activist into an icon of Beijing’s authoritarian reach.
Lam came to power in 2017 promising to mend Hong Kong’s social rifts but her five years in office saw it become more divided than ever”.
After doing her bit to stuff up Hong Kong she will now be able to retire to UK where her husband and kids are citizens.
Zipster says:
April 4, 2022 at 7:25 pm
A favourable police report for a car accident was about USD200 nearly a decade ago and this was for locals not tourists.
Did you kill someone? A decade ago, $US200 would have been the equivalent of 2+ months salary for the average Russian.
In fact, about a decade ago I paid a ‘fee’ to some policemen in Kyiv that was to assist in the retirement of their local sargeant. As there were three of them I decided that discretion was the better side of valour and paid $20. They were so impressed, they gave me a ride in their police car back to my hotel. Even turned on the flashing lights and siren (‘cos I asked them to).
On the same trip, in Russia, I was caught speeding by a cop operating a radar and paid $US2 to fix the matter on the spot. He then warned me that there was another radar about 5km down the road!!
pleasing.
Why biden is the biggest threat to the world:
New Iran nuclear deal would allow Iranian terrorists into US
Biden wish for Trump prosecution leaked as Democrats mount pressure campaign on DOJ
‘Islamic Nationalist Revolt’ in Israel has Begun
The US is pretty much a dictatorship now, controlled by the most evil, repulsive trash imaginable.
no this was a local. I did get into a fake taxi with a local who should have known better, that wasnt funny at all. We demolished a bottle of vodka after I got us out of that mess.
Probably because you made that claim up, Grigory…
Significant 10-15%
What about the rest?
Salt.
Paul Murray is yelling at Anthony Albanese.
Will someone tell him Albo isn’t watching?
The “democratic” country of Canada is following up actions during the trucker protests with a new bill to regulate online speech.
Russell Brand
But did she really have a choice with the 800 pound gorilla peering through the picket gate? What do you think she should have done? She could have stood up to Beijing and then ended dead or in jail because there was no winning alternative.
Wo.
German food retailers to raise prices by 20-50% on Monday, says German Retail Association
I can recommend Alla Tours (no, it’s the owner’s name, nothing to do with PBUH).
https://alla-tour.com
Seriously, organised, professional, highly-educated and passionate tour guides, all paperwork covered — identical tours to those offered by our cruise ship at exactly half the price. We used them a day “grand tour” in Tallin and an outstanding two-day tour in St Petersburg.
Have a look.
Zipster, Speedbox.
I guess the point isn’t what particular bribe gets you out of which particular spot.
And it is much easier if you have a native speaker who knows the ropes.
My points about most Aussies contemplating that a move to live there were:
.1 You will stick out like dogs balls as a relatively wealthy furriner which prints a target on your back;
.2 You will have zero language skills and the simplest task will become incredibly difficult and expensive. What is Rusky for “my hot water service pilot light keeps going out”?
.3 Benefits you take for granted here will evaporate. “Medicare. What is this, comrade?”
.4 And, in the words of the confused baby Polar Bear, “It’s fuckin’ cold, dad.”
Zipster says:
April 4, 2022 at 7:57 pm
…..I did get into a fake taxi with a local who should have known better
At the airport? They’re everywhere touting for business in airports. Barely collected your luggage and somebody is asking where you want to go. Sometimes hard to distinguish genuine from fake.
Further to that incident in Kyiv – it was very late at night, I’d been out drinking with some friends in central Kyiv and was ‘half cut’. I was walking back to my hotel alone and I saw two coppers about 100m up the road walking towards me. Hmmm, ok, so I cross the road. They cross the road. Bugger, ok, so I cross back again. Aarrghhh, they crossed back. We’re about 50m apart now and I knew I was done.
Anyway, we do the deal (helping out the retiring sargeant) and the next thing one of them is on the radio and a couple of minutes later another cop turns up in a police car. They said they would take me back to my hotel so “nothing happens to you”.
100% true story.
The ultimate Australian bush adventures with graders bloke:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Beadell
CL
I’m a little doubtful that German story is true. The sites reporting appear a little second rate. Perhaps I’m wrong, although it’s never happened before. 🙂
Market determined prices don’t generally move in unison like. You see those sorts of wide-scale price increases in countries where prices are locked up by government fiat and Germany isn’t like that.
Whoops
Lastly, this wouldn’t be just a German problem but the entire EU would be sinking in the same boat as they all use the euro.
Same thing happened to Mrs P in SE Asia on a business trip a few years ago.
The taxi touts in the airport terminal take you way out the back of the car park where they have a shitty old car with dodgy signage.
Anyway, she bunged on a turn which drew a crowd and they gave her luggage back and pissed off.
Wowee Albo reckons Palace”chook”is a role model. Yup if you like openly corrupt behaviour and even more conflicts of interest. However this has been a feature of Qld ALP back to Beattie that has never had any robust scrutiny. This will do Albo no favours in regional electorates he has a chance in like Herbert. The “chook” is well and truly on the nose here.
The Olympics need to be dispatched to the longyard too. I am yet in NQ or CQ to find anyone for it. Saw yesterday some commentary saying that Chrisifulli should just say he’ll cancel the bid but won’t due to too many corporate/PS snouts in that trough, that the squealing would be heard from Mars. Newman wimped out in a similar way with the Commonwealth Games.
Nice commentary upthread about Mt Victoria and the Grose Valley. As a young boy I was part of a hike down from Mt Victoria along in part we were led to believe was the original road blazed by Cox. Thanks for bringing back the fond memories.
Bullshit. See Max Hastings’ book “Das Reich.”
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/waffen-ss
The Ukranians were part of the 14th Division a good summary is here
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Ukrainian)
It was John McDouall Stuart who ripped into the centre in his Catepillar 16-M grader, opening it up for all to enjoy.
And assiduously destroyed every last trace of the highly advanced civilisation that existed before evil whitey boys with earthmoving gear showed up.
Yeah, JC – saw the tweet at Being Libertarian but I don’t see how a retail association could do that.
Same thing happened to Mrs P in SE Asia on a business trip a few years ago.
I reckon the most dangerous thing I’ve seen is the former Singaporean Comfort Cabs in Port Moresby still looking the part. A cab but NOT a Comfort Cab.
I wonder how many Singaporeans have stepped into a POM Comfort Cab never to be seen again?!
I have seen a couple of Len Beadell’s survey markers along the Gunbarrel Highway.
They are incredibly accurate considering that back in the 60’s all he had was a sextant and watch to plot his position and relatively primitive surveying instruments to lay the road. No GPS back then.
I checked one survey peg with a state of the art GPS and it was less than 100 metres out.
I know how to use a sextant on land to fix a position, and I am happy to get a fix within one nautical mile.
Len also repaired hundreds (if not thousands) of flat tyres in his exploration travels. Legend has it he could beat a Formula One pit crew in wheel changes. 🙂
So it was the equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce jacking up the price of Weeties and bananas.
Not happening.
Sounds awfully like someone in the industry body has an investment position which could benefit from a short sharp dip in sentiment.
According to the Bible, Edom* (mainly Germany, Austria and other parts of eastern Europe) will join a loose confederation with numerous other nations, Russia, Iran, China and an assortment of other nations, to make war against the House of Judah (the Jews) and the House of Israel (western Europe, Scandinavia, and the Anglosphere).
So, yes, Germany will align with Russia sometime in the future. This doesn’t occur though until another nation called Daughter of Babylon, or mystery Babylon, is destroyed with fire. It’s destruction creates a power vacuum as Babylon is the final and greatest superpower nation, the “hindermost of the nations” according to the Prophet Jeremiah.
*Edom is also found in the Samurai class in Japan. How they arrived there is an interesting story; the Romans and Spartans were also clans of Edom (sons of Esau), and the Romans fought three major wars against the Parthians (mainly descendants of Ephraim, son of Joseph – called the Aegels / Angles) and lost on all occasions. Unlike other nations, the Parthians didn’t slaughter or enslave the captured Roman soldiers, they let them live on their far eastern border with China, hence the archaeological puzzle of the Roman cities in China.
They migrated eastward from China to Japan and took on their military rulership role once there. The Edomites and the Israelites are very similar, 1st cousins in genealogical terms, though they have a more militarist outlook.
rickw.
The stupid thing is that she worked for a yuuuge government department.
No pre-booked transport.
No planning.
No briefing from anyone.
Hopeless.
Amplicons? Raises the troubling possibility of hemopoietic stem cell amplicon presence because monocytes are typically short lived. Perhaps, I’m still not convinced this doesn’t represent an ongoing occult infection. This is one study, if y0u can find others supporting it that would help. A single study without supporting evidence needs to be considered as a tentative result.
Long COVID has also occurred in people with no signs of infection. Depends on how they tested for that though but post viral malaise is common and still unexplained. For example I often wonder if there remains viral persistence in some neurons, especially in the hypothalamus(regulates physiological functions), because neurons typically don’t express MHC 1 receptors hence the immune cells will never detect the antigen. Shingles and the recent finding that many cases of Multiple Sclerosis arise from EBV infection of neurons are examples of that. The other interesting aspect is that monocytes can be present in the brain. The other issue is that monocytes can differentiate into microglia.
Thanks to Bruce and Speedbox for your tips/replies. I fancy I could pass myself off as a Russian until I opened my mouth!
The mysterious journey of the children of Ukraine lost between Huelva and the Canary Islands
The authorities have been on alert since Monday against a possible transfer of more than 30 minors from the Peninsula to the islands, but the group does not appear
Mind you, it doesn’t have to be the third world to get a shitty cab.
The three worst cab rides we have had have all been in New York.
The last one was an Ayrton Senna wannabe driving a shitbox on a crowded freeway.
Fucking lunatic.
We downloaded the Uber app the next day.
Couple of days later we order and Uber to go pick up a hire car in Noo Joisey (don’t ask).
As I said to Mrs P, it says it all that you are over the moon when a car:-
.1 Turns up on time;
.2 Is clean;
.3 Is driven by a polite and friendly driver;
.4 And water and mints!
How isn’t Victoria Police some sort of criminal cartel? They seem to operate almost exclusively on threats and intimidation, almost never a legal basis for what they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XTQ9iNdf1I
A faux fur bearskin hat isn’t going to cut it.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was about 95% Ukrainian, though the Wiki editors don’t mention that:
2nd SS Panzer Regimentt”Das Reich” was formed inthe winter of 1940-41 from 2 regiments of the old SS Verfugungs Division & the SS Motorcycle Regiment “Langemarck” which was made up of Germans & Germanic volunteers ..*
*Hitler’s Legions ..The German Army Order of Battle, WW2 ..Samuel W Mitcham jr .. 1985
Learned the difference between a code and a cipher, yet?
LOL corruption. Pretty normal behaviour in most of the world, lowly paid public officials use it to top up low salaries. “Tea money” to get something processed, bottle of whiskey for a bureaucrat who issues permits when passing through, even buying lunch for the work crew every now and again. It can be in many forms.
As for scams same but even using official outlets will sometimes head you into troubled waters. Speedbox describes what I have experienced when caught up, don’t argue and barter the price down. Fortunately my tangles have been fleetingly rare.
Agree totally with Sancho, don’t skimp on the travel insurance. I used to take the extra motorcycle cover as I knew from time to time I would use motorcycle taxis. A mate was laid up in a Thai Hospital and had THB200,000 bill that his Travel Insurance came to the party for.
We downloaded the Uber app the next day.
What?! Missing out on the million miles suspension creaks, groans and diff whine, the collapsed seat that is all broken and protruding wires and that “yes I was hauling dead goats on the weekend” odour?!
Was the only English speaker in a rural pub in Wales one night (though was made super welcome & not to feel a bit awkward.)
The publican mentioned that he’d spent a lot of years in Australia in his younger days & said he’d worked for Len Beadell. This seemed like his regular spiel whenever an Ozzi ventured in.
Changed everything when he realised I knew full well who Len Beadell was.
He said later, somewhere over the umpteenth pint, that the clue was I hadn’t asked “Who the buggery is Len Beadell?” which apparently was the usual response from Ozzis.
Probed him as hard as I could for everything he could recollect.
Wow, here I was on the opposite side of the world, in a pub full of people speaking in warbling munchkin tongue, & face to face with a living piece of Australian history.
As far as I could establish, he was the big bloke responsible for the cooking, on more than one run in South Oz.
He was very happy, as it was likely the first time in 20 yrs or more that he’d bumped into anybody who knew where he’d been & what he’d done, plus my deference to his place in history was clearly eliminating any doubts the locals harboured regards his backstory.
Just watched Brief Encounter again; amidst all the stiff upper lips the most moving scene is the reconciliation with hubbie at the end.
Speaking of Victoria Police, I wonder what became of Brian of Moorabbin.
He seemed to drop off posting at Sinc-Cat after that incident where someone wrote to VikPlod command insisting BoM was using a work computer and email to post on Sinc-Cat.
We all had our suspicions.
Brian was good value.
Even if he wasn’t, that was a scumbag act.
Ed Casesays:
April 4, 2022 at 7:46 pm
The SS had a quite a few non German units
Indeed.
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich was about 95% Ukrainian, though the Wiki editors don’t mention that:
This is your chance for fame Dickless.
Provide Wiki with the relevant references, and you will be famous. We all look forward to to seeing you receive the credit in Wiki.
Impersonating a Russian?
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=alexei+sayle+russian&&view=detail&mid=54AF7CC6E5F284520CE154AF7CC6E5F284520CE1&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dalexei%2Bsayle%2Brussian%26FORM%3DHDRSC3
miltonf says:
April 4, 2022 at 6:38 pm
I haven’t got that title but did pick up From The Alice to The Arctic, containing some great car and travel yarns
Stuff like (paraphrased):
~ Why are you late to the dinner table?
I had to wash the battery acid from the Land Rover off my hands.
~ How did it get on your hands?
It was upside down.
~ The battery?
The Land Rover.
Zipster at 7.25:
If you watch enough home entertainment, you will realise that this statement only applies if you are a chick and somewhere in the 5.5 – 8 region.
Outback in Focus is listed inside the cover, though. 🙂
Sinc threatened to ban any mumpty who raised the issue again.
they checked for viral rna and didnt find it. they have also replicated the findings in other patients. incelldx a commercial research outfit. the solution to these dysfunctional monocytes was to target fractalkine of which they found an excess. Fractalkine binds these dysfunctional monocytes to endothelial cells and also seems to prevent apoptosis.
The owner Dr Bruce Patterson is the guy behind retrovirals for HIV, so I take his research seriously.
Dr Bruce Patterson Presentation at Georgetown University on Diagnosis and Treatment of Long COVID
The solution to damaged monocytes was to target fractalkine with statins. I can say from 1st hand experience the statins work and they form the heavy lifters for the flccc protocol. Nattokinase I found seemed to work for microcloting, but thats personal experience.
meanwhile western governments have nothing whatsoever to offer for long covid not even diagnosis.
Yes it was – and I’d like to add that Vietnam was an entirely worthwhile conflict, and that any conscript who didn’t pull his weight and help his mates out was a malingering flog.
Rennick ripping into the arseholes that are asleep at the wheel in Australia’s medical bureaucracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEj-GfFPV6Y
Oh.
Also, I think I’ve been hacked.
What’s been written in the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives proves that – it also proves just how completely the anti – war movement fell for North Vietnamese propaganda hook, line and sinker.
It is my belief that Numbaz, for all his (many) faults & flaws, was not the one who tried to dox BoM to Vikplod.
I once knew Numbaz IRL & struggle to accept that in the circumstances he’d do that.
This is not to be confused with a blanket belief that Numbaz wouldn’t shop anybody, hahaha.. in the right circumstances he’d do it in a heartbeat. I just did not ever see anything between BoM that would have come anywhere near the threshold that would trigger Numbaz into trying to ruin a bloke’s career.
Apart from the Senna in a shitbox incident, the other two podium cabbies were:-
– one with torn seats and lining and a 3″ – 4″ tube sticking up out of the floor and some liquid sloshing around. Given what I now know it was probably a toilet.
– the other driven by a Chinese guy who looked about 40 years older than his ID photo (no they don’t all look same), who took us to the wrong museum and insisted that “you pay 25% tip. Is the law”. Fuck off.
Ah, look around.
We are not at Sinc Cat any more.
It is sad to see Len Beadell written out of history by all these alleged “schoolteachers” spouting ancient first nations dreamtime fairy stories instead of the deeds of the pioneers who opened up Australia.
If you watch the video above he discusses the cytokine expression and categorisation for the various issues, vaccine injuries, long covid, post lyme, me-cfs. All have distinct signatures. Also mentions they are developing tests for ep-bar etc reactivation.
its obvious to me that the identification of anything to do with spike protein and injuries given that mRNA turns people into spike protein factories is something the autocrats want to sweep under the carpet.
Sancho Panzer says:
April 4, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Agreed. Moving to any country where you can’t speak the language and english is not common or very basic (unlike Europe or parts of Asia), plus (presumably) you have no local friends and have potential health, dental or other personal issues is a really big jump. As you say, you will likely be perceived as being a ‘rich foreigner’, whether true or not, and many will try to take advantage.
And yes, we are accustomed to Medicare etc. but also apartments that are bigger than 40 sq/m, reasonable compliance with road rules, building lifts that actually work, expansive and full supermarket shelves……and a myriad of other differences.
But at the most basic level, if you don’t have, at least, a rudimentary command of the local language, life will be very difficult whether that be in Russia or anywhere else.
RockDoc.
Motorbikes, skiing and being pissed are the three things which cause people to read the travel insurance fine print … afterwards.
I recall a woman got hit by a car in Las Vegas a few years ago.
Pissed.
Bzzzt.
Insurance voided.
you obviously haven’t tried cabs in Hong Kong. Mind you Thailand isn’t much better.
Dickless
This is your chance for fame Dickless.
Provide Wiki with the relevant references, and you will be famous. We all look forward to to seeing you receive the credit in Wiki.
PS, for even greater fame, give them the reference for the USN aircraft carrier off the coast of China when the Pearl Harbor attack took place. You will become a Wiki legend!
No shit? Listen, thanks for pointing that one out.
Funny you say that, I’ve a friend who pretty much did exactly that when he moved to Thailand. Years later and he’s pretty happy with his life there, but he was and is well aware that it’s not Australia. It was a big part of making the move.
Speedbox.
I could back myself in countries where English is common or the predominant language is one of the modern Romance languages.
Elsewhere?
Nup.
I wonder at the sheer gall of their ABCcess running a reheated “ Australian war crimes in Afghanistan” while the BRS libel trial is still ongoing.
Because that’s Farce corners edition tonight.
Good point – however, whose going to hold them to account?
Bluey.
Sounds like your mate was a realist and reasonably adaptable.
I am thinking of those Brits who move to a Pom enclave in Spain and bitch that they can’t get a decent cuppa tea or proper cod ‘n chips.
If the protein is being expressed without RNA or DNA that is what I call a dangly bit, a piece of information so strange it lacks a frame of reference to explain it. I never draw conclusions from dangly bits. The fact that they didn’t find the RNA doesn’t mean it isn’t present, it just means they didn’t find it.
Many other studies have found persistent infection that can be very difficult to detect because it is only in specific tissues.
This review points to a number of possible hypotheses and note their reference to COVD presence in the brain . We don’t always fully clear infections, viruses can persistent for decades.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.698169/full#B135
The brain, more specifically neurons, are a specific case. As I previously stated, because neurons don’t divide, are cell cycle locked, and lack MHC 1 receptors, viruses can hide there for decades. The presence of S1 unit in the monocytes may be because of phagocytosis, not because the monocytes are producing the protein.
Not Slomo, that’s for certain.
Musk owns 9% of Twitter.
Sal at 9:09.
Not sure why you jumped in to defend “Numbaz”.
Why was that?
Because that wasn’t front of mind.
Probably helps he left Melbourne pretty bitter about Australia. He’s the one who put it to me that Thailand is corrupt as shit, but at least he can pay the cops off. Unlike Australia where there’s the pretense of justice.
Sancho Panzer says: April 4, 2022 at 9:29 pm
Surprised you need help with this, however I’m able to help you work through this:
1/. There would be many things of which you’re “not sure”
2/. What is “front of mind” with you receives zero consideration when I’m typing a post.
An extremely good evening to all the lurkers out there. May bonhomie be upon you all.
We had the privilege of hearing Len Beadell talk at a School Of Mines function about 50 years ago. A quietly spoken man who described his adventures with humour and great love of the bush. His books are excellent; worth reading if they’re still availble.
vr, since when?
Don’t rule out a lurker as the culprit who grassed up Brian of Moorabbin.
Has anyone bothered to ask Bob Katter who he thinks ratted on Brian?
Actually Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter.
JC — the weekend. the journal is reporting it.
Its entirely possible there is hidden persistent covid infection. however then how do you explain statins success in treating long covid? I had long covid for nearly 2 years. nothing worked until I tried the statin. with I might add, a refusal to prescribe it by the state health authorities.
I spent quite a lot of time on long covid forums. and particularly on forums with incelldx patients. its common that either the statin or maraviroc work for the vast majority of people with long covid. I don’t know the mechanism of action for maraviroc since I didn’t need it.
the government are not treating this with any urgency or as an emergency. colour me cynical but smells like industrial scale corruption and butt covering.
JC – he should ask for a board seat or two?
Should’ve bought the stock post the informal survey her did.
Ah, yes.
The lurkers.
It is really, really important that this place be run for the benefit of all those timid Mrs Jessups out there.
The ones who whisper to the Vicar about who he might target in his next sermon, and why.
They don’t really know what they like.
But they do know what they don’t like.
Delta A says: April 4, 2022 at 9:37 pm
Fantastic.
I’ll challenge that.
His books are hard work to read, he’s a rather tough read.
Unless someone is utterly fascinated by the content, they’re going to find his book (they’ll read only one) to be slow hard slog.
I know, I’ve read all of ’em. Got ’em all on the shelf & used to refer back to them quite a bit.
Thanks vr. So the tweets ended up being about that. Sounds as though he’s going to cow prod the board to veer back towards supporting free speech. This of course would encourage the left to control the tech companies.
Wonder what Bob Katter thinks about this?
Having read his book, he must have been wonderful to listen to, Delta! Any souvenir artwork?
Re. TWTR – Paul Singer (I think) has a substantial stake and he has done absolutely nothing with his stake.
And that’s fair Sancho. There are many beautiful places to live, as I’m sure you’re aware, but language is often the biggest hurdle. I’ve never looked into it but I reckon a person would need to know a minimum of ~300 words in the new language to get by as a resident. That would be very child-like communication but you could generally make yourself understood in many circumstances.
Of course, once life turns to crap, as it invariably does, you’re buggered ‘cos you can’t explain detail.
Knowing who the lurkers are is a talent that puts Houdini in the shade.
Well done!
If he’s going to destroy their strategy of only controlling conservative speech then 10% won’t be enough.
He must hate them to do this.
Actually, Sal, I was thinking of a female.
Who I suspect lived a few hours east of the person you mentioned.
Ahh Bribes, finally got onto my subject. Having worked in many a sheethole, I have studied the art and craft of bribes. First don’t look rich – especially the watch ( they pick you by your accoutrements). Second look strong and do not grin or smile (ruskies think smiling westerners are idiots and clowns), next the size of the bribe will depend on the power and position of the bribeee and the prevailing blackmarket economy, not so much on their wage. In Vladivostok it is big as the cash ‘flow’ and the blackmarket is huge. The armed uniformed guy searching your luggage has a lot of power. Yes you can negotiate – but you’ve got to be good. I got away by giving the dude a novel by David Foster – he is probably still trying to work it out. When it comes to cash: $100 or $50 USD is the standard and you will see it disappear quicker than the magic act in Las Vegas. Think of it as a ‘tax at source’.
nowhere does it say that monocytes are producing the protein, what it says it monocytes have it inside them. which implies that they have failed to digest it.
I found a paper from back in the 90s that found monocytes choking on some african parasite and not dying and causing long term persistent illness. so this is not a new mechanism. by coincidence the treatment for the parasite was ivermectin.
JC – why more than 10%? His stake is way bigger than Dorsey’s?
Along with Google, it is a company easy to despise.
We can’t be talking about the same books.
Beadell’s books were informative and highly entertaining. Some of his anecdotes about the aborigines he encountered – genuine, full blood aborigines who had never before seen a white man – were quite moving.
For the dock-sing?
Bit hard to live that far east of Numbaz, he’s on the coast.
But drills, if you’d bother to ask Bob Katter, the mufti of everything would tell you the lurkers cannot be identified but can be counted by:-
Taking average of unique visitors less the commenters. It’s rough but gives you a general idea. I would have thought you would’ve known this running a blog for 15 years. You’re such a silly at times.
Daily Mail. Anyone care to shout “Getcha knickers orf from the back of the hall?
Len Beadell explains how he makes a mark for a future Pedro. 3:21
Some are armed indeed. first visit to Cambodia and my taxi got stopped at a police check outside Phnom Penh airport with police carrying AK47s. I asked him what that was about, and he said motorcycle helmet check.
vr, I think because it’s harder to change the complete philosophy of this company than say forcing them to squeeze out more profits.
The current CEO has at times said he doesn’t like white people. Presumably this also means conservative whites. I’d imagine the rest of the board backs him.
The entire firm would say be against reinstating Trump’s account.
I think it’s more than that.
It’s the culture, it’s the vibe …
Shit, moving from the Big Smoke to the country took an adjustment.
I found myself having to bite my tongue when things moved a bit slower whilst people made small talk in shops and pubs.
But that has it’s upside.
Salvatore
Bit hard to live that far east of Numbaz, he’s on the coast.
Has he moved from ‘Woomba, about two hours inland?
JC —yet the current CEO chooses not to live in India. I remember seeing someone say that last thing the company needed was a coder to run the firm… I think that this is true.
I think he has at least on the earnings side.
Bing Bong!
Rising sea level alert!
Toowomba is now on the coast!
Bing Bong!
We are.
Unlikely there’s a second Len Beadell writing on the exact same topic.
Yep.
For those with a deep & abiding interest in him & his work, they’re riveting.
I can however see they’d be hard work for someone who is unable to relate to his experiences, or who has zero interest in going that deep into it.
It’s a year or two since I had occasion to seriously go looking, however at that time his books were still all readily obtainable.
Yea, figure that one vr.
Toowoomba is pretty much on the coast. FMD, it’s not far.
I have Len Beadell’s book Too Long in the Bush.
It can be a bit dry at times if you are not a surveyor or civll engineer, but cut through that and it is a ripping yarn about a time long gone.
Len would be one of these people I would love to sit with around a dinner table or a campfire.
Snap BJ.
Very interesting article from American Thinker
Why the LGBTQ+ are fighting Florida’s anti-grooming law
Korea, Tibet and Vietnam may not exactly be islands but they’re close to being Pacific islands. Not far.
IIRC, it was 1984, before contact was made with the last tribe of “full-bloods” who had never seen a white man?
The other day you were telling us navigation was your strong suit, Sal.
And you think Toowoomba is on the coast.
Nah.
I’ll catch the bus thanks.
Because sometimes persistent inflammation can kill T cells via exhaustion and prevent an adequate adaptive immune response.
https://www.academia.edu/15933023/Molecular_and_cellular_insights_into_T_cell_exhaustion
Also long covid has been documented in people with no signs of persistent infection but typically expression of inflammation. That’s very difficult to understand and is documented with other viral infections. I think it is a neuroimmune issue but that’s arm waving.
The state has no business telling doctors what to do. There has been far too much politics in this issue.
Of course, if one is driving an A model Ford…..
* pip-pip-pip-pip * <— noise of engine
…. it would be likely that a drive eastward for a few hours from Toowoomba, would not require a snorkel.
Drillsie
Ask freaking Bob if he thinks it’s on the coast. You’re such a silly.
127 kilometres to Brisbane.
Do they have a surf life saving club.
Memo, Sky: mix up the guest list a bit and employ a floor manager.
God, it’s shouty and annoying.
from above
127 km is hardly a distance of any note. That’s only 80 miles or so.
I can see how a Victorian, where the entire state is so small it could (without much of a stretch) all be said to be “on the coast” would mistakenly believe Toomwoomba to be inland.
Jesus Sal.
I’d love to run an interview with you.
I made a remark about “we all have our suspicions” without mentioning a name, and you launch into a defence of someone who wasn’t mentioned.
Tell us again how you run rings around the local cops.
Weather report
That would likely not turn out as you may expect it would.
I love interviewers who believe they’re the smartest person in the room.
Here is the actual email from state health to my doctor
Ta, Nelson K-P (9.58pm) above. Nice to see Len “in the flesh”.
I have about half a metre of books on celestial navigation on the shelf at Casa Pedro.
There is a lot of satisfaction in being able to fix a position the old fashioned way, but even a $20 GPS can do it faster and more accurately these days.
I always skite to the youngin’s using their fancy electronics that they would be up shit creek if they run out of batteries in the bush.
They snigger at the dinosaur.
LOL.
The Muskenator just took a 9.2% stake in Twitter?
If Toowomba had to contend with a king tide, my place in Brisbane would be under water.
I wouldn’t have much trouble getting to the coast from Toowoomba – if that’s what you’re meaning.
I hate electric cars and I wonder if Tesla is just a giant scam.
However, Musk is the kind of FU goofball I kind of like.
vr
What do you think? With 10% you reckon he could change the philosophical direction of the company?p
still doesn’t explaimn why the statin works.
there is a clear mechanism of action for the statin in long covid
Heh, IIRC Toowoomba is about 2,300 feet altitude.
Brisbane would be Atlantis!
Pedro the Loafer says: April 4, 2022 at 10:07 pm
You should get the other half-dozen or so, you’d appreciate every page.
Dry. That’s the term I was groping for when I said his books can be hard work for a non-aficionado.
Thank you.
You can imagine the serendipitous thrill when I realised one of the blokes who’d been with him for years wanted to spend the evening sitting at a pub table talking to me about those times.
JC – I would hope so. I keep reading that most people are not on TWTR, but it has an outsized influence on our discourse. And it seems that every single cancellation of a person seems to start off on that website.
Injection of some sanity would be welcome. the stock jumped 25% on the news of Musk’s acquisition. Can the company dig their heels and say no to a board seat.
I remember giving a lecture on survival to a group of the “Youngins.”
“What use is all this stuff? We’ve all got mobile phones.”
“And if you are in part of Australia, where there is no mobile phone reception? You can die from dehydration in two days, under extreme circumstances.”
vr
I think for good or bad, Twitter is the world’s pulse. It’s very important.
Example , those scum helped the Hiden’s escape scrutiny of their corruption by sin binning the NYPost.
I’m just not sure 10% will be enough. Even the fucking janitor there would be a illegal sth American lesbian. However, the threat he will buy more could be enough.
sfw says:
April 4, 2022 at 6:50 pm
Can you save them to play back on a phone or portable player?
Takes too much time sitting in front of the computer, but would be handy when walking or working outside.
Musk was asking about making the code open source which would be pretty lethal for a lot of those companies.
For the anti-conservative algo.. lol.
I don’t imagine Musk would have bought into Twitter because he thinks it’s the next best thing – it has been around for 15+ years and is very old technology. This is about control and billionaire politics. Pretty to watch.
The large Jewish vote in Wentworth wouldn’t be too happy about that.
Cassie can fill us in on the details.