My 2 cents on this idea that Australia is a shithole.

Australia is not a shithole in the sense say Thailand or most 3rd world countries are shitholes. ie cheerful squalor and top to bottom corruption, out of control crime. No. Australia is now a wealthy country, it still has out of control crime. One area I lived in not so long ago had to get all residents to contribute to security guards to do random patrols as break and enters were out of control. The police did nothing and caught no one.

50 years ago Australia used to be the lucky country, if you were willing to work hard and make a go of it, you got respect, so long as you could give back the banter as good as you got. Nowadays you turn on the radio and you get punjabi techno and your letterbox is full of chinese language junk mail. The luck has gone walkabouts. More specifically the luck has been exported offshore by both of the main parties to a communist shithole.

In the place of work hard and get ahead we have an explosion of rules and regulations, green and red tape and minority empowered blackmail. Every layer of the bureaucracies have bloated beyond recognition and gov meddling and intrusive bugmen stick their nose into every aspect of your life. High rates of tax and absurd compliance requirements are dead weight costs used to drive unwanted and unelected globalist agendas.

Kids used to get a free bottle milk every morning at public schools, now they get excursion risk assessments and told they are precious snowflakes that can have it all, all the while being exposed to the most radical marxism in human history.

Our rights have been shredded and turned out to be an illusion to be swept away at the tap of a keyboard. Media has become no better than the worst of any state controlled communist organ, censoring inconvenient stories and shaping public opinion based on government approved talking points.

Big tech turned out to be big fascists hell bent on driving censorship and mass control closely following the recipe of fascism with chinese characteristics.

Science and medicine have been totally corrupted by politics.

Is Australia or any of the “great” western democracies any better than your typical corrupt 3rd world shitholes? Aside from being material better off and who knows for how long, it’s impossible to honestly say we are shining lights of freedom and democracy.

Top Ender, are you here today or still in Soggy Sydney?

It is a perfect Autumn day, sunny, bright blue sky, zephyr breeze, Autumn is the best season around here.

Mind you, it got down to 3.3C last night.

A lot of pensioners and other poor people are in for a very hard winter, bills-wise. Not to mention the thousands of people who are homeless after the floods. Meanwhile, with an election in the offing, *bright* and *shiny* new projects galore are being promised by both sides.

Forget the detritus of past failures.

I read a story (admittedly at TheirABC) of a woman who lost her home and everything in it in the bushfires two years ago, finally found a house to rent in Lismore and lost that and everything in it again in the floods. Uninsured, the cost of insuring against floods is astronomical, if you can get it.

I’m not saying that people should be rewarded for stupidity, but many victims of bushfires and floods had no control over the government policies that caused the catastrophes.

Throwing them a few thousand dollars doesn’t even begin to deal with the predicament that they are in.

Lizzie

Did the new version of West Side Story include the song about the stupidity of social workers?

Timothy Neilsonsays:
April 5, 2022 at 10:39 am
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
April 5, 2022 at 10:23 am

So Dawson’s supposed good points are:
(a) useless virtue signalling;
(b) presiding over systematic pathologically psychopathic neofascist thuggery; and
(c ) claiming credit for an emotionally charged but essentially routine operation conducted entirely by other people.

Presumably the only reason he isn’t seeking Labor preselection is that they’ve already got a full complement of personnel with those skills.

(d) head up Mc Clowns arse, dark in here isn’t it.

I don’t understand why Germany doesn’t use coal gas for heating.
They have industries that require metallurgical coal, have shit loads of coal and instead are piping gas from Russia?

They don’t allow themselves to dig it up anymore, the Poles and Czechs keep theirs to themselves, and China has apparently purchased all of Russia’s exportable production for at the next year.

Same issue the Poms have- Governmental policy leads to mining companies winding down and/or not maintaining their equipment, and pissweak ersatz is offered up in reply.

The last Welsh coal mine at Ffos-y-Fan has had its washing and grading equipment break down, so uncontaminated large run-of-mine lumps are now unavailable. Tata Steel UK has bought up its last year or so of stockpile, and is crushing it for use in steel plants. The entire UK heritage railway and various preservation sectors and supporting industry in the UK is thus squeezed from all ends, and is trying to substitute with ‘ovoids’ made from a mix of anthracite and olive hulls, bound with molasses.

Reports are it has some useable heat to it and is non-smoky (no volatiles), but is impossible to build up a decent firebed from due to the negligible ash content.

And as a manufactured product from imports, is a ridiculous cost.

Everyone is putting on a brave face, but Vlad Bae deciding he wanted some more free real estate off his neighbours has been another supply complicatiom this year that nobody needed.

Like you said, Idiots.

Calli said:

Twitter isn’t allowing me to see any of that Tweet without registering, lotocoti.

Just click on the box to sign in or register.
Then click on the top right X box.
The demand goes away.

The Saint opined:

Covid never gave you Myocarditis or strokes and heart attacks

With 30 seconds on DDG this can be found, written by doctors in New York and published a month before any vaccines were approved:

While the primary symptoms of COVID-19 may be respiratory in nature for the vast majority of cases, several studies have pointed to extrapulmonary effects of the virus [2]. This phenomenon is likely observed due to the cumulative effects of the hyperinflammatory response of the body and the omnipresence in major organs of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) cellular receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses for cell entry [3]. Of all systems which may be affected by the virus, possibly the most common extrapulmonary complications can be observed in the cardiovascular system, with these complications including myocardial injury, cardiomyopathy, acute coronary syndrome, cardiogenic shock, acute cor pulmonale, thrombotic complications, and arrhythmias [4••, 5].

And at great expense to Berka HQ management (an additional 2 minutes of searching) this press release from the very non-political Salk Institute, published 4 months before Pfizer was approved in Australia, says outright:

In the new study, the researchers created a “pseudovirus” that was surrounded by SARS-CoV-2 classic crown of spike proteins, but did not contain any actual virus. Exposure to this pseudovirus resulted in damage to the lungs and arteries of an animal model—proving that the spike protein alone was enough to cause disease. Tissue samples showed inflammation in endothelial cells lining the pulmonary artery walls.

This explains the heart inflammations. The virus creates a lot of spike protein, which provokes vascular inflammation and possibly clotting. The vaccines also create a similar spike protein, so they have a similar side-effect but severity depends on the dose, which organs are exposed to it, personal genetics, etc.

The extra issue which has emerged over the last couple of months is that the use of pseudo-uridine instead of normal uridine as one of the amino acids in the artificial spike has meant that the cells do not break down and dispose of vaccine spike protein as quickly as natural spike protein. This implies that in anyone who would have suffered these effects from the virus anyway, the vaccine will create these same side-effects for possibly a longer period than the virus would have.
BUT you also have to take into account that this shouldn’t be happening at all if (as was supposed) the vaccine stays in the muscle cells at the shoulder and don’t get spread around. Also remember that the spike protein by itself is missing the massive replication ability of the real virus’ nucleus, which gets copied endlessly (as viruses do) anywhere in the body there is an ACE2 receptor. The artificial spike can’t do that, which is why the virus is virulent and the vaccine isn’t. You’d expect severity to be less with the vaccine, so it would still be the lesser of the two risks.

So St Ruth was half right, but was mistaken to say that “Covid never gave you Myocarditis”.

Jayne Mansfield’s bra, as designed by Howard Hughes

Jane Russell, actually.

Ukraine cannot win.

CL – It’s a common human response to aggression to take your attacker with you. This seems the motivation right now, amped up by incandescent fury. Incidentally there was a poll couple weeks ago:

Recent survey shows 93% of Ukrainians believe in victory over Russia (21 Mar)

The Russian withdrawal from the north over the weekend will not lower that number methinks.

Colonel Crispy…you go and do a bit more homework and you might find that report was from a Fauci department.
Don’t do his dirty work for him please.
He’s covering what he knew would happen because he knew the virus was about getting the vaccines into people which was about bringing in a social credit scheme.

Claiming that the killers doing this to us knew how they were going to do it does not mean covid gives you myocarditis.
No one was dying of it and it wasn’t mentioned for the first twelve months prior to vaccine introduction.

But can you please understand all of you, how denialism is insane?
Why I’m being rather straight forward lately?
Take this.

Pretty sure he’s still about……But I do understand that a Struth-seeker would get very upset about such folks, as they do rather crumble his Narratives about both the apparent lethality of the KiLlShOtS (Still alive! :D), and demonstrate a greater willingness and creativity of Resistance than raiding a blog full of hated denialists from time to time in order to be a shouty nuisance for digital applause…

People still alive after probably less than a year after taking how ever many shots is not, no matter what a retard says, proof a vaccine is safe.
He has just put a proposition out that someboby still alive under a year proves the vaccines are safe.
Really.

Hello….HELLO…….HELLO!!

FMD.
You need to stop the constant bullshit from people like this, as he’s either a paid troll or too stupid and lost to denialism to be good to have around.
Did any of their shit this morning make you feel that maybe you’d risk having the booster after all?
Because a knob took 90 or one or 50 jabs and isn’t dead yet, …..is that proof it’s safe?
These people are in denial, a mental sickness, or are trolls.
Either way, sick or evil.
There only two choices with people dribbling the sort of shit choo choo is.
He has zero concern and takes zero responsibility for his fellow man.

Top Ender says:
April 5, 2022 at 11:56 am

Yeah johanna, back here, making preparations for being allowed to cut down a tree in my very own backyard. Was denied at first but we appealed.

Lovely day here as you say. However, memories of Canberra in the winter remain, and I am laying in firewood. (Not the tree – that will take some months to dry.)

Cheer up. At least you were finally allowed to cut it down.

When I lived in the adjacent ACT, permission to cut down a tree, no matter how badly it was sited, what damage it was doing to underground plumbing, or even if it was a widowmaker in a primary school playground, was almost impossible to get.

When I went to vote at the ultra-woke Narrabundah Primary School (dripping with ‘Indigenous’ symbols) I shuddered at the sight of numerous limb-shedding eucalypts around the playground.

While you were in the NT, I did get a win over the Woke elements in the council.

They dropped a pamphlet in my letterbox, and sent me a personal message, about unauthorised stuff being put in the recycling bin. The personal message was accompanied by a photo that might have been of the Loch Ness Monster on a particularly cloudy night.

What ensued was a crisp and forthright exchange of views, on my part at least, with copies to my local MP (then Barilaro, Deputy Premier) and her CEO.

Went away.

Always remember, they are not used to resistance.

“If he gets anything out of this war that looks like a victory, he will one day go to war again.”
As he is, I believe, in his 70s, I doubt he will have another chance.

Thanks Leon! It works!

In Backing away slowly news:

Queensland’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for cafes, pubs and clubs set to ease

People will no longer need to prove they have had two doses of a vaccine before heading into cafes, pubs and clubs from 1:00am on April 14.

This also includes theme parks, casinos, cinemas, weddings, showgrounds, stadiums, galleries, libraries and museums.

The mandate will still apply for vulnerable settings including schools, hospitals, correctional and aged care facilities.

CHO, Lex Luthor, said the proportion of people that had been vaccinated no longer made the mandate a “public health benefit”.

Now, it would seem that the States are going to be in a race to see who rescinds the Emergency Declaration first.

Sadly, it won’t be a good race. But more like a staring contest or game of Chicken…

Now, it would seem that the States are going to be in a race to see who rescinds the Emergency Declaration first.

Doubt they will. Instead they will allow the proles to forget about the ongoing emergency declaration until the time comes for something they want to do. States of emergency are just so damned useful, as Mr Trudy could tell you.

Bespoke:

This is how you get first dibs at my leftover food, Winston.

Thanks Bespoke, but I already have enough composite armour plate for the T34/85 I’m restoring in the Bunker and also have enough rust remover for it.

@ Winston-

You’ll need a co-driver to work the gearstick on that thing, if you’re going with the stock transmission. It’s just out of reach of the driver, and sits between the two.

Also, my gunnery skills are reasonably decent. And any tactics I have forgotten I can brush up on fairly quickly… 😉

A California law requiring diversity on corporate boards of directors has been struck down in a blow to the state’s efforts to address racial and gender disparities in the workplace.

In response to a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, a nonprofit conservative advocacy group, Judge Terry Green of Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday found that the law violated the state constitution.

Doubt they will. Instead they will allow the proles to forget about the ongoing emergency declaration until the time comes for something they want to do. States of emergency are just so damned useful, as Mr Trudy could tell you.

There is that.

But between Craig, Fat Clive and even the Australian going off LockDans in order to preserve what little readership and public credibility they have left, I think even the lowest information rusted-on voters will respond to the near-subliminal* messaging about the Emergency Acts being tyrannical and thus equated as bad.

* The spamming of UAP ads about no mandates is getting through to votersm Even if they publicly rage at Clive’s methods. Pushing the Social Credit angle was an overreach that sounds a little bit too Nuffy to be considered seriously by the average voter. But if they refocus on Emergency Acts in addition to debt, job losses and deleterious mandates, it will start to appear in regular discourse. If it has not already.

And that all assumes that the Parliaments’ advisors don’t crumble first and advise dropping everything in the face of normalising case numbers, as the Nosferaflu inevitably bell-curves itself back into the background noise.

Amazon Prime now in the Foxtel box.
You little beauty !

Jeez, no wonder we get the politicians we do.
Just before an election they ease restrictions and dumb fuckers claim it’s all over!

Qld Gov knows how many are unjabbed up here.
That is all.
SoE has just been extended.

Sebokeng residents say they are “drowning’ in human excrement.
Sewage has been flowing into homes, yards and streets in the area.
The human excrement comes from inside and outside toilets as well as drains

Members of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), led by Amos Masondo, this week paid an oversight visited to the Sebokeng water treatment plant.

Masondo was worried about the little progress made at the plant to fix ageing infrastructure and the mess affecting Sebokeng.

He said a lot of money had been pumped into the treatment plant with little progress.

“… are we happy with the result? I would say there is a gap between the money spent on the plant and the results we have.

“We could have done much better. We can do better. The money spent should speak to work that has been done and work that will be done in future,” said Masondo

Just saw an article re Queensland government dropping ‘some’ mandates, Could it be because of the upcoming election where dreary Albanese said he was following the “popular” Queensland premier? I would rather vote for the pizza delivery guy than any of that mob.

A Health Public Policy Nightmare
Vaccine spike antigen and mRNA persist for two months in lymph node germinal centers…

Only one poster on this blog ever said the current Ukraine president wasn’t in the country.
It was done multiple times daily.
We all know who it was.
That party doesn’t post here anymore.
Instead of calling out that one poster in particular, wannabe censor-in-chief throws a tantrum.
Sad.

Sanch Panzer:

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.

Funny you mentioning that. I have the original threat to him from a member of our community. The interesting part of this was the claim by Brian that the dobbing in hadn’t come from there, but from somewhere else.
It didn’t take too long to work out the connection.
So just a warning to all that there are among us people who make bullets and then give them to others to fire off.

Faustus, they’re struggling to get shelves packed here. Possibly for the same reason. The store managers are out doing the work that casual staff once did.

Someone warming a comfy office chair didn’t quite think this garbage through.

Kneelsays:
April 5, 2022 at 1:41 pm

Plus eleventy.

Someone warming a comfy office chair didn’t quite think this garbage through.

Calli, if that’s not a Liberty Quote that describes everything the world has experienced from January 2020 to present, then I don’t know what is…

One of my sons is allergic to morphene.
Life saving for him when he was mentally ill and living on the streets.

Just for the record I am really looking forward to travelling to the UK and staying there for a month. It will give me time to help my Darling One celebrate his 70th birthday with his family and old friends, and allow me to get some face-to-face meetings with people who might help save a church I wish to save.
And all before I turn 80 in July, hopefully still in my current excellent health and mental acuity, having easily survived Covid recently, as well as coming basically unscathed and unbowed through a major abdominal operation and further abdominal infection.

We travel for fun. We enjoy spending our cash rather than leaving it to the taxman.
We are totally self-funded from earned and taxed money and don’t cost the government a cent.
This site should encourage us not diss us if we travel.

I don’t get what’s wrong with ANZ?They have an app which is pretty decent. Their regular website is pretty workable and their notifications are okay. But then I just use them for basic banking and not for private banking stuff.

They had a huge outage and lost statements when we were using them. we had to wait 6 months for them to restore them from backups. I asked for them to email the statements, but no they printed them out and we had to rescan the lot. their systems are archaic and extremely basic. access permissions can only be done at the bank and their is insufficient linkage between accounts and people so they often get it wrong. I found one ex-staff member still had access to some accounts 2 years after they left, even though I asked for them to be removed.
One account that I asked to be closed wasn’t and the accruing fees hit the overdraft which I also had asked to be cancelled and went ballistic into debt. The stupid teller promised to fix it, but turns out you can’t close an account in debit and never got back to me that she couldn’t close the account. Taking your phone number and not getting back is a common issue with ANZ. It took over a year to sort it out.
They have no access to the credit cards systems and everytime you want something sorted out they give you the credit card peoples phone number. I am in the bloody branch, why do I have to go back to the office and chase up their stupid credit card dept.

the list just goes on.

If someone WANTS to take it, I do not care. That they feel they need to take it in order to travel – I find highly offensive that they are so required, but if that travel is overseas and the mandate beyond our control, and they still want to go, then let them do it – if that is their wish. They are not evil to do so – they may appear wrong to you, or silly, or compliant or whatever, but they are not evil.

I don’t care if anybody wants to take it either Kneel.
But you are being simplisitc and a little bit dishonest to say the least.

Firstly, who if not people on social media were you going to get information other than the official propaganda?
The lies?
If you find that the vaccines are dangerous and your fellow man is blindly following government dictate without being fully informed do you say, well fuck him, let the stupid prick die?
Or do you do what I have done to many people and try to talk them out of it based on the dangers so obvious from the moment they were introduced, where those that predicted absolutely correctly what these vaccines would do were silenced?

To use an analogy. Do you let a drunk drive home if he might kill himself and others in the process?
Do you say none of my business?
I showed dot about the moth cells hiding the same shit in the other vaccines, and pleaded with him not to take it.
He made up his own mind.
If it hurt no one else, my conscience is clear, and I stepped back and said no more.
His choice.

But this business you talk of regards taking the jab to travel.
That involves submitting to tyranny to be “allowed” to do things.
Submitting to tyranny hurts others, hurts your country, and your civilisation and the jab endangers other people’s lives.
I won’t do that to other people to save my job.
And I’m not the only one. There are millions of us in Australia.

But just been booked for the 14th and the 16th.
Work immediately coming back in.
I just had a lovely lady who runs a pub I’ll be playing at on the 14th, asking me to do the reopening, break down on the phone.
She never got jabbed so had to close her pub.
The voice started cracking, and wobbling, and she lost her bundle.
Good woman.
Very proud of her.

…Jane Russell, actually.
From a world authority.

Or do you do what I have done to many people and try to talk them out of it based on the dangers so obvious from the moment they were introduced,

By calling them cock-smokers and telling them they were submitting to TyRaNnY and ruining your life for you, with a little dose of Greta for good measure?

But just been booked for the 14th and the 16th.
Work immediately coming back in.

That’s legitimate good news, Struth.

Maybe you won’t now need to worry about driving trucks at all, and you can stop snarking about the 5,607 potential Queensland driver vacancies you keep turning your nose up at because to take one would spoil your Narrative of total vaxpartheid…

Indolent:

Why the LGBTQ+ are fighting Florida’s anti-grooming law

That’s a very interesting viewpoint Indolent, and bears repeating.
Ta.

Is the independent any good Cassie?

Was there a particular statin mentioned?

The Obvious one?

Statin, The….

[I’ll see myself out. That one was honest-to-goodness awful.]

lol, Rex.

Statins are overused and not without harms.
Cardiologists are worried about medical negligence claims if they don’t recommend them.
It’s up to individuals to be brave enough to say no. They can’t force them on you.

Personally, I think Calibri Bold is far more appropriate for a tanker fleet.

Based out of Sans Serif…

Of course you advise them as to your concerns. I cannot control what they do, there is nothing else to do if there is much propaganda other than advise someone and let them decide. Would you be so crass as to force them to NOT take it? How is that better than forcing them TO take it?

No I have never forced anyone not to take it.
How could I, even if i wanted to?

See Kneel, I was coerced into taking it too, petal.
So were thousands of Nurses and teachers and people of every industry and jobs everywhere.
people who needed to see dying relatives.
I get all that.
It’s wrong.
But two wrongs don’t make a right.
They didn’t take it.

Many held the line.
Many lost everything.
What offends you about me saying that?

I continued to call it out because there will be boosters.
Which I made plain.
Again and again.
Because you don’t want to hear the truth regarding what effect your choice has on other people, your nation etc , etc doesn’t mean I should stop making those points when people will be told boosters are the only way into WA, or to keep their jobs, or for any reason they dream up.
I’m not going to stop speaking the truth because it offends you, while this is not over.
And it’s not over.
I promise you, when this is over, I won’t ever want to mention it again.
But while there are still choices to be made, I’m discussing the consequences of those decisions.

Statins are overused and not without harms.
Cardiologists are worried about medical negligence claims if they don’t recommend them.

Then you have arseholes like the Anger family.

Old Man Anger has familial hypercholesterolaemia, and had been fighting his GP for years* about taking the statins. Finally, he brokered a deal with the GP that he would take take it for a month or so and demonstrate it wouldn’t work for him.

His baseline was about 14, which I believe is fatal heart attack-level or worse. After a week or 2, it dropped to 9. Old Man Anger didn’t feel quite right, but the doc was gleeful.

Then physiology took over, and his body said “Sod this for a laugh, I’m going back to baseline.” And despite the drugs and diet and so forth, at the end of his course of medication his system had returned to 14.

Homeostasis is a funny thing…

* I’ll point out that our GP was actually a legit nice guy and a crack diagnostician. He just learned not to fight with the elder Angers over medical boilerplate that they knew didn’t work for them. He jokingly referred to them as ‘The patients from Hell.’ 🙂

“Or do you do what I have done to many people and try to talk them out of it based on the dangers so obvious”
Rubbish. The threat was ‘if you’re not vaccinated, you’re not getting on the plane’. As blunt as that.

See Kneel, I was coerced into taking it too, petal.

You mean you’ve been lying the whole time about being unvaxxxed, and unemployed because you were unvaxxxed?

Oh dear…

See Kneel, I was coerced into taking it too, petal.

Someones at a certain Echo Chamber will be most displeased by this revelation.

Especially given that some of those someones are more diligent at observing all goings on here and reporting back their findings and analyses of same, than even the old Stasi’s most dedicated Block Wardens…

I can’t keep up with who will end up carrying the can on Greensill.

Greensill Capital hit with fraud allegations by Tokio Marine

Greensill Capital’s biggest insurer, Tokio Marine, has alleged the collapsed firm acted “fraudulently” by failing to disclose material information required for insurance and that it will not pay out on policies it inked for the supply chain finance group.

Due to “fraudulent misrepresentations and fraudulent breaches of an insured’s duty of disclosure, Tokio Marine has today advised counterparties that these policies and related obligations are void from inception,” the Japanese insurer said in a statement on Monday.

I’m sure it can be rosie, but all my hot air gives me too much feedback.

There’s a reason some of us didn’t take to nursing.

All the landscape gardeners and cleaners moved to Queensland too.

You are going to win Tidiest State of Australia.

Article in the Oz about Spender and her BDS friends.

There is something odd about a candidate being publicly backed by half a dozen billionaire families, who is talking about a total overhaul of the tax system, yet no one in the media has asked what favours the billionaires have asked for.
Odd.

Based on the Censor-in-Chief’s blog rule rants, Struth’s pursuit of Kneel over the past week would fit into all the categories he’s moaned about in relation to Panzer & JC.
But not a comment.
Lucky the selective censoring is only wishful thinking on his behalf.

Rex, the medical “profession” has a hangup about total cholesterol. What are your Trigs and HDL? Apparently if your Trigs/HDL is less than 0.5 this is excellent. Isn’t it funny that total cholesterol includes HDL which is the good stuff. Weird. Witch doctors.

Chuck in the relationship to Blood Glucose Levels (if that’s normal then a ‘borderline’ bad LDL is OK), and it call gets rather terribly confusing.

Apart from all that Eyrie, I seem to be medically unremarkable. At my last Category 1 Medical, I never heard a word after the blood test.

A good place to be. 🙂

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