Open Thread – Weekend 9 April


Yarilin Valley, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1885

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Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 9:34 am

They are putting frogs in the death camps?
Why would they do that?

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 9:34 am

That is fallacious and emotional hyperbole. Whatever opinions you hold of the general coof vaxxxination process worldwide, it has nothing at all to do with what rosie and I are saying.

dumbest thing I’ve heard since last Monday morning

and that’s saying something

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 9:35 am

boiling frogs tractic

Also, I’ve never boiled a French tractor before. Anyone got any recommendations on how I might do it?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 9:36 am

dumbest thing I’ve heard since last Monday morning

and that’s saying something

Why’s that?

Because your Thought Leader is nuffing about spikes of everyone dying worldwide? In response to a pair of class enemies talking specifically about a small cohort of elderly and immunocompromised Australians?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 9:36 am

callisays:

April 11, 2022 at 9:26 am

In three days time, Queenslanders will not have to show proof of vaccination to enter most venues. What is the story with Victoria?

No-one cares.
I think I have been asked twice in two months.
Only one made a serious attempt to look closely at it.

Struth
April 11, 2022 9:37 am

So why has there been a policy of being extremely careful with the use of AstraZeneca on the particularly elderly, immunocompromised and people with clotting issues since the first adverse reactions were raised, Struth?

I very specifically talked about the elderly and immunocompromised with AZ, as was Rosie.

How do they know who’s who, and who is immunocompromised or could have clotting issues etc etc etc, without checking everyone including children.
You are an illogical liar.

You’re here to obfuscate and dribble shit.

So, just in one short morning here again, we see the absolutely insane illogical and twisted arguments of those who will not see what they don’t want to see and don’t care if you die either.

Take your pick, but do some fucking research.
You’ll note the ones who oppose me the most never do any and sit here 24/7 poo pooing everything presented like the evil ignoramuses they are.

It’s always been your choice.
How many jabs are you going to get?
Will you actually kill yourself by complying with tyrannical government?
And to the silent posters here who know decency, and understand what doing the right thing by your fellow man is, I hope one day you gain your voice.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 9:38 am

They are putting frogs in the death camps?
Why would they do that?

fuck me … that didn’t last long did it?

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 9:38 am

Calli and dot, that is what a lot of people are suggesting as well. These people are engaging in hysteria porn and have lost their senses.

It’s conundrum, Dover.

With all the propaganda. Are people supposed to blindly accept it’s real or venture into the dark side.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 9:40 am

In three days time, Queenslanders will not have to show proof of vaccination to enter most venues. What is the story with Victoria?

No one gives a shit any longer. We’ve been out for lunches and dinners and we’re not asked to show proof of vax. It’s over as folks have said enough and longer term it’s always the folks that determine this and not governments. No one cares anymore at least in Melb.

Dot
Dot
April 11, 2022 9:41 am

Like the great follower of Sun-T Zoo, Tony Soprano said:

What got us here was psychiatry and cunnilingus.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 9:42 am

Snap, Sanchez .

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 9:42 am

How do they know who’s who, and who is immunocompromised or could have clotting issues etc etc etc, without checking everyone including children.
You are an illogical liar.

Because until 10 minutes ago, relatively speaking, children were not being recommended to take any vaccine for covid, let alone AstraZeneca.

You also are clearly stupid enough to assume that anyone who goes to their GP or a clinic and goes though even a cursory exercise of record-checking with their medico has everything about them ignored in the rush to put something in their arm.

That concept does, I agree, play into your personal prejudices. But Rosie and I have tried to explain things. You just don’t want to listen.

You’re here to obfuscate and dribble shit.

Sorry, champ. But that’s your pulpit. And you’ll suffer no-one to share it with you…

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 9:43 am

Always room for exceptions, but it has become a self-serving, Roger.

They have their place treating conditions which respond to medication, such as schizophrenia.

Once you get into psychotherapy I fear you’ can be dealing as much with the psychiatrist’s erroneous assumptions & thinking as with the patient’s.

Many mental health issues that have not yet become severe can be effectively managed with cognitive behavioural therapy which can be applied by any competent psychologist and is much less value laden than psychiatry.

Makka
Makka
April 11, 2022 9:44 am

These people are engaging in hysteria porn and have lost their senses.

Not really dover. It worked very well in scaring the public shitless during covid, so they are just reverting to tried and true method. The general ignorance of the public makes the strategy very effective.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 9:44 am

And to the silent posters here who know decency, and understand what doing the right thing by your fellow man is, I hope one day you gain your voice.

Let’s hope their first act isn’t to tell you to pull your head in first thing then, eh Struth? 🙂

Makka
Makka
April 11, 2022 9:48 am

What is the story with Victoria?

I’ve only been asked to show my cert at the cinema. Nowhere else. Nobody cares.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 9:48 am

In three days time, Queenslanders will not have to show proof of vaccination to enter most venues.

Anecdotally, at least in my neck of the Queensland woods, checking was effectively dropped around Christmas/New Years.

Palaszczuk was simply trying to get some political credits with her talk of “it’s time to reunite Queenslanders.”

Woollies is still asking people to mask up too; hardly anybody does.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 9:50 am

Thanks for the answers guys.

That particular caravan has moved on then.

All that remains, as Indolent pointed out last night, is the disgusting behaviour of certain private enterprise both small and large to mandate vaccines for their staff. Thus violating an individual’s right to choose whether to undertake a medical procedure or not.

This is where both Morrison and Albanese fail at the first hurdle. Neither objected to this, rather both actively promoted it. Apart from members of parliament and federal employees, of course.

I understand the requirement for workers in certain areas. Not the checkout chick and Woolies or Spotlight.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 9:55 am

All that remains, as Indolent pointed out last night, is the disgusting behaviour of certain private enterprise both small and large to mandate vaccines for their staff. Thus violating an individual’s right to choose whether to undertake a medical procedure or not.

And they won’t dare drop any of it until the pollies and wonks who invented and aggressively enforced threatened such policies relent.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 9:56 am

Are people supposed to blindly accept it’s real or venture into the dark side.

We know the dark side. We don’t need to see it. In this case “pics or it didn’t happen” is just foul curiosity to see evil raw and unembellished.

And get a kick out if it – either the kick of justified indignation and horror or something much worse.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 9:57 am

And they won’t dare drop any of it until the pollies and wonks who invented and aggressively enforced threatened such policies relent.

Correct.
You never know when an inspector with a pocket full of slugs might turn up.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 9:59 am

This looks to be a feature and not a bug with these sanctions.

You’re suggesting malevolent intent?

I’d plump for political stupidity.

It’s a consequence of having decision makers who don’t understand how the real world works because they’ve never held a job in it.

Makka
Makka
April 11, 2022 10:07 am

I’d plump for political stupidity.

BIG money, the billions, flows in streams. One big stream was between Germany and Russia. Trump nailed this during his presidency, when he tore the EU and NATO new ones about funding Nordstream II. Germany must have imported energy (although it could be self sufficient if not for it’s green love affair). So now that stream has been diverted to the US who will massively ramp up natgas supplies into Europe, to compensate for the loss of Russian gas – eventually.

So I’d plump for the money. Who is benefiting? And I’ll bet Biden and others “inside” are doing well from it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/natural-gas-industry-gets-boost-as-biden-shifts-stance-11648296002

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:08 am

Disagreement is a good thing. Arguments put up here have changed my mind or modified my ideas. Sometimes you simply need more information or a different viewpoint.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:09 am

How about money and stupidity.

People who think money is the answer to everything and a means in itself are pretty stupid already.

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 10:09 am

I was talking about the low trust, calli.

If it’s real, is it in context are the people trained and supervised in assesing such things agender free. Is what was trying to say.

Just to be clear I have no desire to look for it at all.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:14 am

I have no desire to look for it at all.

No, I never thought that bespoke. Ditto. We are on exactly the same page.

I’d hate to be the one who has to work up a case against these creeps.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 10:16 am

You also are clearly stupid enough to assume that anyone who goes to their GP or a clinic and goes though even a cursory exercise of record-checking with their medico has everything about them ignored in the rush to put something in their arm.

That is pure unadulterated-ed bullshit, Rex.
Everybody knows damned well that is exactly what happens

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 10:24 am

I understand the requirement for workers in certain areas. Not the checkout chick and Woolies or Spotlight.

calli, check out the link to boriquagato that indolent gave earlier. Here it is again:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-is-becoming-increasingly-vaccine?s=r

There is NO justification for any vax mandate for ANYBODY or any job. Quite the contrary.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 11, 2022 10:25 am

Having laws on the books ( masks,Covid vaccines) that aren’t either policed or followed is a very dangerous precedent. Once people get used to doing it for one law it is much easier for the practice to become widespread.

The cafe I go to is still very much enforcing the vaccine prohibition while I will walk through a gym to do my hydro. Sancho’s pocket full of slugs highlights the risk of such an approach.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 10:31 am

It’s still shit for people without it.

No doubt.
That should be the focus.
Look, I can see the point of it being a condition for working in aged care, along with the flu jab, but the rest of it is bullshit.

Jorge
Jorge
April 11, 2022 10:34 am

No-one cares

They do at my local library. And in at Swanston St, it’s no entry to dogs and unvaxxed.

Can go to church, to Bunnings, to the TAB, but not the library.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 10:36 am

Bear at 10:25.
That is what I was getting at.
Draconian laws with crushing penalties which are more honoured in the breach than the observance are a real danger.
A couple of business owners where I am are apparently red-hot on it (not places I go into).
I don’t know for sure, but I suspect someone might have them in the gun and is itching to … what’s the expression again? … “give them a hamburger with the lot and a canary”?

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 11, 2022 10:36 am

Looks like a negotiated settlement is off the table, if Zelenskyy wants to keep his head.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 10:37 am

callisays:

April 11, 2022 at 10:08 am

Disagreement is a good thing.

No it isn’t.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:38 am

There is NO justification for any vax mandate for ANYBODY or any job. Quite the contrary.

I understand the school of thought behind that article. These issues are emerging now.

Last year, when vaccines were rolled out for health workers, they were not. Some here foresaw what might happen, but the momentum was already well established.

One of my children was required to have a booster even though her work is at the executive level and she has zero patient exposure. It’s ridiculous and completely unjustified.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 10:39 am

So, why then are some elderly folks treated more carefully due to clot risks etc., Matrix?

Could it be that the general assertion is not always the case? And that those of us who are younger and healthier and fitter than the identified at-risk very old and very young are the only ones just being blithely jabbed?

It’s pretty hard to overcome or ignore adverse reaction and surveillance policy for the sake of vaxxx ideology. Especially with the elderly. Younger and healthier folks with apparently ‘lower’ risks, not so much.

Zipster
April 11, 2022 10:41 am

??Bosch: anti-Russian sanctions destroy the industrial basis of Germany’s economic power

and to think of those nuclear plants collecting dust….

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 10:42 am

Hrm. Le Pen paying $6.60. I like those odds. Thoughts?

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:43 am

And another thing about arguments…

Calling people who have different, well argued opinions “insane” is classic gaslighting.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 10:44 am

Oh come onsays:

April 11, 2022 at 10:42 am

Hrm. Le Pen paying $6.60. I like those odds. Thoughts?

Dunno.
It’s like groundhog day.
Various Le Pens have been on the brink before, but they never quite get over the line.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 11, 2022 10:45 am

Anyone who has travelled in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe or parts of Asia knows exactly where you end up.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 10:45 am

callisays:

April 11, 2022 at 10:43 am

And another thing about arguments…

Calling people who have different, well argued opinions “insane” is classic gaslighting.

You’re nuts.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:46 am

Le Pen may well be mightier than le Macaron.

lotocoti
lotocoti
April 11, 2022 10:46 am

and to think of those nuclear plants collecting dust

Flashing up those reactors wouldn’t provide the same energy security as wind mills, because…
…drumroll…
… they’d have to import fuel rods.
Apparently.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 10:47 am

Last year, when vaccines were rolled out for health workers, they were not.
By the time the mandates came in it was well known that the vaccines were not sterilising and did little to nothing to prevent infection. Remember how it quickly went from “it will prevent covid infection and prevent you passing it on” to “you won’t get as sick when you get it”.
The mandates were just the result of momentum of the political vax campaign juggernaut. There never was any justification.

H B Bear
H B Bear
April 11, 2022 10:48 am

The system won’t let Le Pen win. It will be like a 2nd Trump term. But hey, not my money.

Jorge
Jorge
April 11, 2022 10:50 am

There’s a yuuuge Elvis exhibition on in Bendigo. Checking is desultory but they wouldn’t allow entry to our small group last week.

At the excellent second hand bookshop around the corner one can frolic maskless and nobody looks up from the shelves.

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 10:50 am

On the other hand if they speak insane meandering, disjointed, dark repetitive dribble they are in insane.

Struth
April 11, 2022 10:50 am

And another thing about arguments…

Calling people who have different, well argued opinions “insane” is classic gaslighting.

People that have already fallen to gaslighting from the government and aren’t arguing rationally and are no longer holding the same values and principles and clear thought as they did before, are what?

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 10:50 am

It’s pretty hard to overcome or ignore adverse reaction and surveillance policy for the sake of vaxxx ideology. Especially with the elderly. Younger and healthier folks with apparently ‘lower’ risks, not so much.

Try getting a medical exemption.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 10:51 am

Having laws on the books ( masks,Covid vaccines) that aren’t either policed or followed is a very dangerous precedent.

Pace Bear, there are many laws on the books that aren’t policed, generally because they’re antiquated and/or stupid. As far as that is the case, public disregard for them is not the road to perdition; to the contrary, it can be a healthy expression of democracy.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 10:51 am

So, why then are some elderly folks treated more carefully due to clot risks etc.

fuck Rex, you are still are still arguing like a school-girl.

your noise pretty much amounts to you, with you arms akimbo, trying to set people up with ‘gotcha’

your single data-point and a well imagined scenario does not not add up to compelling.

stop being such a mong

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 10:53 am

You’re nuts.

…your nuts?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2022 10:55 am

Looks like a negotiated settlement is off the table

No, no. It’s on the table, but there are conditions…

Zelenskyy to meet Putin after Ukraine’s victory in major battles – Mykhailo Podoliak (9 Apr)

Mykhailo Podoliak, Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, stated that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine wins major battles, including the battle over Donbas.

“Whether [we can] just say that in a week or two we will meet at presidential level … No. It will happen as follows. Ukraine is ready for major battles, Ukraine must win these battles, including the battle over Donbas. After that Ukraine will have a more substantial negotiating position to dictate certain terms. After that, the presidents will meet. It may take two weeks, it may take three.”

Shorter summary: leave Ukraine, Donbas & Crimea, then we can talk. Oddly I doubt Mr Putin will be enthusiastic about this awesomely generous offer.

Gonna be a long war.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 10:55 am

Hrm. Le Pen paying $6.60. I like those odds. Thoughts?

I think macron will win in the runoff. Her economic policies were plagiarised from the communist and social parties.

She’s absolutely nothing like Trump.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 10:56 am

Eyrie, I was referring to very early last year, around April/May. I know, because a rello is in the RFS and got first dibs on the limited Pfizer jabs. He was required to have it. This was around the time of emerging panic about clots from AZ, particularly in younger people.

Similarly, family with “connections” were able to access Pfizer as well. Long before vaccines were seen as non-efficacious and took on sinister overtones. They were seen as a public good.

It was only when hesitancy became widespread that the screws were applied in the most outrageous, authoritarian way.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 10:56 am

Try getting a medical exemption.

That doesn’t relate to what I am talking about.

The argument I am referring to, is that nobody at all has been screened or checked or their issues looked into by their medicos because jabs must go in arms, no matter the cost. My example of the immunocompromised and clot issue-affected family friend, amongst others out there, puts the lie to the claim.

The process of obtaining medical exemptions being made effectively impossible was a mean-spirited act to prevent canny and conscientious patients and providers alike from being able to exercise personal choice, and I furiously agree that this was and remains a dog act.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 10:56 am

By the time the mandates came in it was well known that the vaccines were not sterilising and did little to nothing to prevent infection

three people in our sphere since Friday all with a +ve after double vax
the missus was with one Thurs, who tested +ve on Saturday

hope we are ok … is TXT-ing all your friends frantically a symptom?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 10:57 am

And I’ll say it again, in case someone reads the first sentence and shuts down-

The process of obtaining medical exemptions being made effectively impossible was a mean-spirited act to prevent canny and conscientious patients and providers alike from being able to exercise personal choice, and I furiously agree that this was and remains a dog act.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 10:58 am

Nuland did say, Fuck the EU. Roger, I no longer buy the ‘stuff up most likely, conspiracy remote’ line anymore.

As I often say, there’s no shortage of material for conspiracy theorists to work with these days, but without a means of confirmation I’d rather not go too quickly down that particular rabbit hole. We have ample evidence on this site of where that can take people.

Be that as it may, I suspect the Europeans are being altogether too optimistic about Putin’s responsiveness to sanctions, perhaps imagining they won’t have to implement them fully before a peace settlement is reached.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 10:59 am

Nuland did say, Fuck the EU. Roger, I no longer buy the ‘stuff up most likely, conspiracy remote’ line anymore.

Yats is the guy!

What happened in 2014 at the macro level isn’t even in question anymore (unless you refuse to consider the smoking-gun evidence, which is a fairly big chunk of people). The Yanks and their surrogates engineered a regime change operation. There are certainly unresolved issues about what happened on the ground in Maidan, principally: who were those snipers and who gave them their orders?

The least likely suspect is Yanukovych and his people. He had the most to lose, he treated the Maidan protesters with kid gloves for the entire time – in hindsight, I’m sure he regrets not taking a harder line in clearing out the square – it just doesn’t make sense for him to suddenly decide to change tactics and send in terror snipers to pick off both protesters and riot police.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 11:01 am

fuck Rex, you are still are still arguing like a school-girl.

your noise pretty much amounts to you, with you arms akimbo, trying to set people up with ‘gotcha’

your single data-point and a well imagined scenario does not not add up to compelling.

And what ‘well imagined scenario’ is that?

And try not to call me a schoolgirl before you start projecting about ‘noise’ and ‘gotchas.’

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 11:02 am

H B Bearsays:

April 11, 2022 at 10:48 am

The system won’t let Le Pen win. It will be like a 2nd Trump term. But hey, not my money.

This is the thing about run-off elections.
Le Pen (and her old man before her) seem to draw a protest vote in the first round, which raises hopes and shortens odds, then cop a polite but firm “Non, merci à toi” from the electorate in the decisive round.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
April 11, 2022 11:02 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2022 11:03 am

The system won’t let Le Pen win.

Yah. The Frog equivalent of the Libs is backing Macron.

At least they do have paper ballots, voter ID and in-person voting. I’d be watching the vote tally computers very closely though.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:03 am

I think macron will win in the runoff

I think so, too. If I had to guess, I’d give her a 25% chance of winning so $6.60 is a good bet. Doubt I’ll put money on it though as it’s not really my thing. Macron is paying $1.17. I don’t think he’s that safe.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 11:03 am

Matrix, all my jabbed and boosted family have had it. Some became very unwell, others shrugged it off. Completely idiosyncratic, nothing to do with underlying health conditions it appears. One of the “shruggers” is a chronic asthmatic.

It’s currently working its way through all the retirement villages here – just about everyone is jabbed to the eyeballs. I know a couple of holdouts- it will be interesting see if they get it and how they fare.

For myself and the Beloved, we’re still waiting. Maybe we’ve had the rotten thing and don’t know it. Tough old buggers.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 11:04 am

calli, those of us paying attention knew BEFORE The jabs were released that they would be no good. The technology had been around for 15 years and was no good with lots of problems.

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:05 am

Look at the above few comments.

Sancho, before 2020 knew vaccines only protected those that took them and not those around the recipient.
We all knew that.
We all knew that vaccinated people could carry and spread the naughty germs.
We all knew that.
Once minds are lost, even the most ridiculous comment by him has been accepted as middle of the road common sense.
IT’S BULLSHIT, and many of you have become insane.
There’s no need to vaccinate somebody else to protect the unvaccinated.
There’s no need to vaccinate somebody else to protect the vaccinated.

Insanity.
And most of you thought, oh yes, Sancho is being reasonable.
In 2019 if you asked Sancho (and he didn’t lie) whether taken a vaccine will protect other people around you he would have laughed in your face.
You all would have.

Dover, you must be jabbed yourself if you can’t see the level of insanity here.

With the government completely criminal, and the media paid off and well in bed with them, they are talking all sorts of bullshit we know to be insane.
One most disgusting lie is the vaccines are safe.
Between them and the scoffing retards here who want to believe the government line, who is giving you an alternatives to the lies?
Choo Choo?
Notafan?
Where else can you get the real news when the government has been gaslighting with 24/7 propaganda and lost inconsiderate arseholes even on so called centre right blogs do all they can to stop people hearing from non gov , non globalist experts, where are you going to get it from?

Due to the arrogance, ignorance and 24/7 presence of the little gang of sneerers and a few other denialists, this blog HAS become mentally sick.
That’s just a fact dover.
And not anly that, many of your good Nazis here now want to get on with things and find listening to the Jews point out what they are, tedious…………

It’s very sick here, Dover.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 11:05 am

this was and remains a dog act.

Rex, you’re own worst enemy.
calm down
there is one minute between your utterances this morning

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
April 11, 2022 11:06 am

Oh come on says:
April 11, 2022 at 10:42 am

Hrm. Le Pen paying $6.60. I like those odds. Thoughts?

With the result within the polling margin of error, I think some silly money, like $500.00. would be a good investment. Hell I’m unvaxxed so I can’t leave my home (covid police waiting at driveway) so not much else to do with my money!

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 11:09 am

Shorter summary: leave Ukraine, Donbas & Crimea, then we can talk.

Now it’s Zelensky’s turn to overreach.

This is not a part of the world where sound heads prevail to avoid unecessary bloodshed.

Least of all do they need egging on from the sidelines.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 11:09 am

Rex spews gibber for weeks
clumsily pivots around an issue today
and then bitches and moans about being Ms understood.

this joint has became a retarded shit-fight

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:11 am

The system won’t let Le Pen win

I know what the French establishment class is like – they are pretty good gatekeepers – but they aren’t able to manipulate the vote once people have made their minds up and are set on a candidate. They’re much better at manipulating candidates. It wouldn’t at all surprise me if, for example, Le Pen has been flipped and Macron designated to take the L. This would explain his curiously underpowered campaign.

Let the people think they’ve got their anti-establishment President at last and then it’s meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 11:13 am

Rex, you’re own worst enemy.
calm down

Why are you assuming I am not?

local oaf
April 11, 2022 11:15 am

Eyrie says:
April 11, 2022 at 11:04 am

calli, those of us paying attention knew BEFORE The jabs were released that they would be no good.

Yep.

As soon as they talked about a “vaccine” being available in less than 12 months, I decided I wanted nothing to do with it.

Nothing I’ve seen since has changed my mind.

If they deprive me of food, steal my home or all my money, I might have to make a decision.
Even then, it would be the minimum number of novavax required to go on living. Assuming I wanted to in a country prepared to do that to me.

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:15 am

To explain Rex.
Trucks and trains.
He got pulled up lying and went on with it for weeks.

He didn’t get pulled up by me.
But he had a tantrum about it for weeks.

Funny shit, yes, but very sad also.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:16 am

Mykhailo Podoliak, Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, stated that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine wins major battles, including the battle over Donbas.

Whether [we can] just say that in a week or two we will meet at presidential level … No. It will happen as follows. Ukraine is ready for major battles, Ukraine must win these battles, including the battle over Donbas. After that Ukraine will have a more substantial negotiating position to dictate certain terms. After that, the presidents will meet. It may take two weeks, it may take three.”

This guy is reaching Comical Ali levels of absurdity. He’s not quite there yet, but getting closer.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 11:16 am

Rex spews gibber for weeks
clumsily pivots around an issue today
and then bitches and moans about being Ms understood.

Wrong.

You and all your nuffy friends live on the assumption that everything is being done out of malign and wicked intent, jabs going in arms regardless of the cost.

And you get mightily annoyed any time anyone with a slightly better understanding of the medical system than you points out that there is still some form of logical process out there. Even if political imperatives and fads make everything rushed and haphazard.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:19 am

Too many people on this blog spend waaaaaay too much effort cultivating their personal beefs with each other.

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:19 am

This would explain his curiously underpowered campaign.

Let the people think they’ve got their anti-establishment President at last and then it’s meet the new

O C’mon O C’mon.
Macron is doing a Biden.
He knows what the outcome is going to be.
FFS

Whatis it with all the proof of WEF UN control, people will not have a bar of it?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 11:21 am

He got pulled up lying and went on with it for weeks.

He didn’t get pulled up by me.
But he had a tantrum about it for weeks

Wrong. But an impressive projection.

You never proved your ambit that rail freight companies are subsidised to exist. And the financial reports of the single biggest rail freight company in Australia prove your lie.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 11:22 am

Some became very unwell, others shrugged it off. Completely idiosyncratic, nothing to do with underlying health conditions it appears.

Same observed around us Calli.

Mother 78yo, unvaxed … said “I’ve had worse hangovers” (hi mum …* waves)
Friend 48yo, vaxed and insanely hippy-healthy, damned near carked it
I also know maybe 30 blokes whose family all tested +ve and they tried everything they could to get a +ve themselves … and nothing
A 70yo mate with a congential heart condition, and un-vaxed, his whole extended family including a grown son with Crohnes disease … couldnt get a +ve result himself
yesterday a mate in Adelaide, +ve … still manages to SMS
our interior designer +ve Saturday … still on the phone this morning

nobody’s dead
and as far as I can tell, most people hardly even sniffle

who do I believe?
all the colourful rhetoric, or my own lying eyes?

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:24 am

The railway they ride on, those companies competing for freight get to use solely for doing so are subsidised by the taxpayer.
A complete rort, and make work for unionists.

That was settled back then.
You stomping your feet changes nothing comrade Choo choo.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:25 am

Re Macron v Le Pen, Zemmour has endorsed Le Pen. A few of the others are going to prefer status quo so it is going to depend on how Melenchon’s votes split. It’s interesting how ‘Conservative’ and ‘Socialist’ candidates are falling in behind the establishment candidate, Macron. Politics appears to be becoming less ideological and more pragmatic.

I think a pretty decent chunk of his support will be looking for a candidate offering genuine change and will be willing to go for Le Pen.

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 11:25 am

Rex … just stop the gibbering

and it all the issues that your petty one-up-manship has created will go away.

be a fucking grown-up

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 11:26 am

Politics appears to be becoming less ideological and more pragmatic.

The professional political class is circling the wagons.

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 11:27 am

It’s not surprising people have different reaction, Matrix.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:28 am

Whatis it with all the proof of WEF UN control, people will not have a bar of it?

Aside from controlling who the people are permitted to vote for, how do you fix a French election?

Dot
Dot
April 11, 2022 11:29 am

The least likely suspect is Yanukovych and his people. He had the most to lose, he treated the Maidan protesters with kid gloves for the entire time – in hindsight, I’m sure he regrets not taking a harder line in clearing out the square – it just doesn’t make sense for him to suddenly decide to change tactics and send in terror snipers to pick off both protesters and riot police.

Loopy stuff.

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:30 am

People are getting colds now.
I’m sitting in the barbers listening to women talk about who’s had it and who hasn’t and who’s had to isolate.
For a fucking regular cold at best….or completely “asymptomatic ” another name for well.
They love this shit.
Because Australians are the most boring people on earth.
It’s filled a void that’s never been truly explored.
The cultureless, overbearing nanny state void of nothingness that in times past made women create family dramas out to be national disasters worthy of 24/7 over emotion.
Now they have COVID.
And no men willing to kick their arses and tell them to stop it.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:30 am

And Macron is not doing a Biden (ie. cowering in a basement). He’s just not campaigning very effectively.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 11:31 am

Rex … just stop the gibbering

and it all the issues that your petty one-up-manship has created will go away.

be a fucking grown-up

You first

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 11:32 am

The technology had been around for 15 years and was no good with lots of problems.

Yes. Yet another family member has worked in the chemical side of BigPharma for many years. My recently deceased BiL was the recipient of a suite of mRNA drugs that prolonged his life way beyond the expected “expiry date”. Some of them were experimental, being part of clinical trials.

I was paying attention, Eyrie. I recall stating early in the piece that I didn’t see vaccines as harmful, but these vaccines were using the entire world as a guinea pig.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:32 am

Loopy stuff.

Go on….

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:34 am

Aside from controlling who the people are permitted to vote for, how do you fix a French election?

Serious question?
Tis not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes.

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 11:34 am

dover0beachsays:
April 11, 2022 at 11:18 am
Politics appears to be becoming less ideological and more pragmatic.

I’d be delighted if pragmatic entailed a more evidence based approach to policy making but all too often it is developing rhetorical strategies to win elections.

Struth
April 11, 2022 11:35 am

The yanks coming to Australia in ww2 nearly shot themselves with boredom.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 11:38 am

Out at Warwick Farm they were busy chatting up all the local girls.

Or so my father tells me. 😀

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 11:40 am

JCsays:

April 11, 2022 at 10:55 am

Hrm. Le Pen paying $6.60. I like those odds. Thoughts?

I think macron will win in the runoff. Her economic policies were plagiarised from the communist and social parties.

Clive of Paris?

MatrixTransform
April 11, 2022 11:43 am

It’s not surprising people have different reaction

to Rex’s arguments or the the Vax/Virus ?

rugbyskier
rugbyskier
April 11, 2022 11:46 am

The metaphorical lightbulb might be coming on for Germany. The Premier of Bavaria announced on the weekend that the nationwide ban on fracking should be reconsidered in light of the country’s over-reliance on gas imports from Russia. Although he said it in the context of his own state, there are national implications as the Bavarian-based CSU is a major influence on the direction of the CDU/CSU coalition.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:47 am

I have no problem with the RNA platform – it strikes me as incredible technology – I was surprised to read several months back that it’s been used in experimental cancer treatments for years and has been successful (I wasn’t surprised about its success – more that I hadn’t heard about it before.)

In principle, I have no problem with it being used as a vaccine platform. However, any new medication needs to be tested thoroughly and its safety profile clearly established via a transparent and disinterested process before it can be brought to market (with the exception of right to try candidates who are cactus anyway). Unfortunately, no such regulatory system exists and hasn’t existed for decades.

cohenite
April 11, 2022 11:48 am

Sad news: Lara Logan kicked out from Fox for criticising dr fauci. A real pity: she has the best tits of anyone in the media.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 11:48 am

Try a little experiment. I find it helpful.

Read the comments without referring to the commenter’s name. Explore the merits of the comment – is it true? Is it insightful? Is it funny? Does it give me the sh*ts?

Then read the name.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 11:49 am

Serious question?
Tis not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes.

Do you have anything other than a cliche? Because it sounds like you’re guessing.

Nelson Kidd-Players
April 11, 2022 11:50 am

I occasionally get half a paragraph into a Struth post before scrolling back to confirm the name. 🙂

Nelson Kidd-Players
April 11, 2022 11:51 am

While we’re talking about tweaking the blog (or at least it came up last night), how about we use Comic Sans from now until the election is over?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 11:51 am

Fucking amazing.
Nanny Neil is on a WEB from 3AW and footy reporter Tony Jones is standing in.
A rational, balanced discussion with a cardio about vaccine risks.
No-one called anyone “insane” or anythink.

Nelson Kidd-Players
April 11, 2022 11:51 am

Love the Easter-themed banner by the way, Dover.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 11:55 am

I know he is ABC, but I would like Antony Green’s take on the French election.
As I say, I reckon run-offs are a strange beast, which we have no real experience of here.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 11:56 am

Nelson Kidd-Playerssays:

April 11, 2022 at 11:51 am

While we’re talking about tweaking the blog (or at least it came up last night), how about we use Comic Sans from now until the election is over?

You’re insane, Nelson, you bloody Liberal shill.

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 11:57 am

Politics appears to be becoming less ideological and more pragmatic.

The professional political class is circling the wagons.

The Liberal Party has just expelled the member who took them to court for circumventing their constitution and denying branch members a vote in preselections.

Meanwhile, Malcolm Turnbull remains a member in good standing.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2022 11:58 am

I was, obviously, referring to astrazeneca, both in terms of the treatment of patients who developed clots and the encouragement to consider other vaccines for those at risk of clots, in fact it seems the use of astrazeneca is being phased out in Australia.
Shocking to think the Australian medical establishment don’t want people dying of vaccine side effects.
And of course ordinary people are incapable of assessing their own health risks, they all need someone like struth to give them his expert medical advice.
Sick of headless chooks running around hysterically calling others names (and their pathetic one eyed white knights).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2022 12:00 pm

Someone ask him what a woman is.

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese provides wrong answer on unemployment figure and fails to reply to cash rate (Sky News, 11 Apr)

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has stumbled heavily on the first day of the Federal Election campaign where he provided the wrong answer to Australia’s current national unemployment figure.

The Labor leader, who kicked off the drive for votes in Tasmania, has been spruiking and “fighting” for Australians who are unemployed but when he was quizzed by reporters at a press conference in Tasmania on Monday morning, he repeatedly tried to dodge a standard question.

Mr Albanese skipped over the question twice on the nation’s unemployment figure and then attempted to answer it when asked a third time by Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.

“The national unemployment rate at the moment is … I think it’s 5.4,” he said, from the ultra-marginal seat of Bass on Monday.

“Sorry. I’m not sure what it is.”

A reporter then called for his Shadow Finance Minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, to see whether she knew the answer as she would be potentially in charge of the portfolio.

“The Reserve Bank current rate is 0.10. And the unemployment rate is at 4 per cent,” she correctly answered in response.

I can see who is wearing the trousers in that pair. Oops, am I allowed to say that?

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 12:02 pm

Oh come onsays:
April 11, 2022 at 11:47 am
I have no problem with the RNA platform – it strikes me as incredible technology – I was surprised to read several months back that it’s been used in experimental cancer treatments for years and has been successful (I wasn’t surprised about its success – more that I hadn’t heard about it before.)

In principle, I have no problem with it being used as a vaccine platform. However, any new medication needs to be tested thoroughly and its safety profile clearly established via a transparent and disinterested process before it can be brought to market (with the exception of right to try candidates who are cactus anyway). Unfortunately, no such regulatory system exists and hasn’t existed for decades.

I regret to advise that while the establishment of a transparent and disinterested process is an admirable goal Mr. Spock is a very rare breed typically found only in high functioning Aspies. Over a decade ago Malone argued for the rapid development of mRNA based vaccines in response to a potential pandemic and is now a stringent critic of the regulatory process that gave rise to these new toys. They had a new toy, they wanted to play with it, they convinced politicians, most of whom can’t distinguish between mRNA and tRNA, that it was imperative they be given mountains of money to make something with their new toy There was nothing “transparent and disinterested” about it. In human affairs that is just a dream.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:04 pm

Antony Green is overrated. A big fish in a small pond. The ABC has deified him and turned him into a ‘national treasure’. He isn’t all that, in my opinion.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:05 pm

There was nothing “transparent and disinterested”

Did you actually read my comment?

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 12:09 pm

Oh come onsays:
April 11, 2022 at 12:05 pm
There was nothing “transparent and disinterested”

Did you actually read my comment?

Did you read mine because I was supporting your argument? My reference to transparent and disinterested was to highlight while that is admirable there is typically some level of personal involvement in all such decisions. A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 12:14 pm

A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

Which is where we get that terrible moral precipice between honourable commitment and noble cause corruption.

Something humanity has been fascinated by for thousands of years.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:15 pm

Did you read mine because I was supporting your argument?

I did. It read as though you were schooling me on matters one could reasonably infer from my comment that I would already be aware of. In short, it sounded condescending. If this was not your intent, I apologise.

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 12:20 pm

Oh come onsays:
April 11, 2022 at 12:15 pm
Did you read mine because I was supporting your argument?

I did. It read as though you were schooling me on matters one could reasonably infer from my comment that I would already be aware of. In short, it sounded condescending. If this was not your intent, I apologise.

It wasn’t my intent. The goal is one to reach for while recognising we often never quite get there. It’s an intrinsic limitation in our cognition that is very difficult to address. I was being sarcastic about human behavior, not your comment.

dopey
dopey
April 11, 2022 12:20 pm

‘Le Pen paying $6.60’ That’s Kenny Callander odds!

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 12:21 pm

Vax/Virus

Matrix

Roger
Roger
April 11, 2022 12:25 pm

A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

But as Richard Feynman used to warn his students, “the easiest person to fool is yourself.”

sfw
sfw
April 11, 2022 12:27 pm

Sports bet have Le Pen at $.50 to win, where do you get $6.50 odds from?

sfw
sfw
April 11, 2022 12:28 pm

Sorry that’s Sportsbet at $4.50 to win.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:30 pm

A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

Disinterested =/= uninterested.

The best scientists are disinterested. They are also very interested in their research and personally committed to their goal. Unfortunately, the incentive structures within the institutions of science do not support such people. Quite the opposite – they are actively undermined.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2022 12:30 pm

I have no problem with the RNA platform

OCO – The problem is that you are lining the surfaces of blood vessels with a molecular group which the immune system recognizes as an antigen.

Consequently you are setting yourself up for three things: inflammation of blood vessel linings (and related tissues, like the inside walls of your heart), you are flagging those cells for destruction by killer T-cells, because they present as being “infected”, and you are inviting autoimmune diseases by having other activated lymphocytes latching onto normal surface molecules as they’re trying to find and kill the “infection”.

That is the overall problem with mRNA treatments. For Covid there’s the additional problem that the vaccine causes death of the T-lymphocytes that recognize it, thereby stripping those out of your immune system defenses, which is why protection goes negative once the antibodies have disappeared. I don’t think that is an issue for other mRNA therapies, but the first three still represent serious problems.

It would be justifiable to use this technology if the issue was really life threatening, like a contagious version of ebola. Or otherwise untreatable cancer. But not for the common cold or flu.

The way forward is to combine the mRNA package into a micelle with receptors on its surface that selectively bind to target cells – like a tumor. That would overcome the three baddies, since you wouldn’t be “infecting” the blood vessel lining cells.

Unfortunately that’s difficult and the technology isn’t at that point. And if it was it would make more sense to keep the receptor-coated micelle and replace the mRNA with a non-coding anticancer molecule (or etc for other issues). That would be simpler and cheaper, and would be derived from the Novavax approach.

I am not vaccinated against Covid for these reasons, and I’m seriously reconsidering fluvax since Big Pharma have made it clear they intend to use mRNA for that too. I’m fine with the killed-virus fluvax grown in eggs, which I’ve had each year for nearly 20 years. But I’m not going to get a mRNA fluvax, I have enough allergies as it is.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:30 pm

Betfair.

Struth
April 11, 2022 12:41 pm

I was, obviously, referring to astrazeneca,

No you weren’t.
You said it about all vaccines.
You’re a back peddling liar.

both in terms of the treatment of patients who developed clots and the encouragement to consider other vaccines for those at risk of clots, in fact it seems the use of astrazeneca is being phased out in Australia.

This is pure crap.
As if all people are doing is getting some slight pains and then seeing their doctors and all is fixed, tickety boo.

Warnie should have just got off the bed and said, gee, I feel a bit off today, I think I’ll see my quack.

Jabs are going in arms regardless, and in many places not in doctors surgeries.
See how they make it sound?

The denialists…it’s all done above board and the doctors are checking everyone out who might be prone to anything.
UTTER LYING BOLLOCKS…and dangerous lies.
DANGEROUS lies.

Kids are going in with their parent unable to be with them in great entertainment centres and venues by people who have only just learned to stick the pointy end of the needle in.
Pharmacies are going jabs….
The fucking dishonesty just keeps going and the bullshit builds upon itself if you don’t nipthis shit in the bud.

Shocking to think the Australian medical establishment don’t want people dying of vaccine side effects.

They are killing people instead of losing their jobs, that’s the shocking reality.
Death by the jab is being denied by doctors everywhere…whatchagonna do when you’re not a quack ?

And of course ordinary people are incapable of assessing their own health risks, they all need someone like struth to give them his expert medical advice.

Supplying many links here to help people with that decision giving an opposing reality to the bullshit narrative of criminal government that notafan shills for, is not giving medical advice, you dishonest w…re of a woman, it’s bringing news which is not propaganda.
If it was left up to the likes of you, we’d all be jabbing ourselves to death, as you offer nothing but support of the lying government narrative by lying yourself.
“A real piece of work”, as some might actually describe you as.

Sick of headless chooks running around hysterically calling others names (and their pathetic one eyed white knights).

I assure you, you cannot begin to know how many are sick of you.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 12:42 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 12:45 pm

A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

Is it time for a discussion of the meanings of the words “disinterested” and “uninterested”?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 12:45 pm

I assure you, you cannot begin to know how many are sick of you.

You and your little circle at the Judean Popular Peoples’ Front Furniture Store, certainly.

But do you really have any concrete numbers beyond that? You’re getting into Grigs territory with claims like those, Struth.

And Grigs entertains no competition…

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 12:45 pm

People are getting colds now.
I’m sitting in the barbers listening to women talk about who’s had it and who hasn’t and who’s had to isolate.

Sheilas in a barber shop? Interesting.
Do they go in for a daily shave up north, Stuth?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 12:46 pm

Oops.
I see OCO has made that distinction.

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 12:47 pm

UTTER LYING BOLLOCKS…and dangerous lies.
DANGEROUS lies.

Struth clearly does not like his GP…

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 12:48 pm

Unfortunately in biomedicine there are so many players and money involved that the research community is often fighting for media and investor attention at the expense of letting the empirical clues drop where they may. . This came up in my morning reading:

You must be joking: funny paper titles might lead to more citations

Naturally they will try to create titles to attract interest. Publish or perish is driving mediocrity. In 2006 I read, A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology, a title designed to suggest THC causes Alzheimer’s. In 2006 there were still people who believed THC was neurotoxic(it is but at extremely high doses). The authors knew the title would draw in the THC is evil crowd(it can be evil but not because of neurotoxicity). The article argues the exact opposite case, that THC prevent protein aggregation and hence has therapeutic potential superior to existing drugs, a result which has now being documented hundreds of times but mostly in vitro. Does recreational smoking offer protection from dementia? I doubt it because of the impact on the blood brain barrier from smoking. A study just released even argues that a strong driver of Alzheimer’s is damage to the blood brain barrier. That makes a lot of sense, not something to be explained here.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2022 12:48 pm

Comic Sans font be damned.

Everyone knows what’s really needed is a medieval Old English font.

The one Magna Carta’s written in. And the Maritime Law 1619 booklet.

I have no idea why my personal belief, regardless of where it came from has not been accepted and embraced by all assembled, lurkers included.

I want. I want. A medieval font. Otherwise this will become the most boring country on Earth, full of boring people being boring.

Struth
April 11, 2022 12:49 pm

Consequently you are setting yourself up for three things: inflammation of blood vessel linings (and related tissues, like the inside walls of your heart), you are flagging those cells for destruction by killer T-cells, because they present as being “infected”, and you are inviting autoimmune diseases by having other activated lymphocytes latching onto normal surface molecules as they’re trying to find and kill the “infection”.

That is the overall problem with mRNA treatments. For Covid there’s the additional problem that the vaccine causes death of the T-lymphocytes that recognize it, thereby stripping those out of your immune system defenses, which is why protection goes negative once the antibodies have disappeared. I don’t think that is an issue for other mRNA therapies, but the first three still represent serious problems.

This was presented here and spoken about by Dr Bakari when these vaccines first came out.
Exactly these points were made.

I presented that video here and so did many others.
And other specialist instantly shut down by government and big tech were saying the same thing.

That’s called struth offering medical advice by a miffed, destroyed fucking liar.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 12:49 pm

I’ve been trying to follow the “read the post before checking who posted it” rule.
However some reveal their identity very early in the first couple of paras.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
April 11, 2022 12:50 pm

I’m sitting in the barbers listening to women talk about who’s had it and who hasn’t and who’s had to isolate.

They’re probably making sandwiches and changing out pairs of slippers.

Indolent
Indolent
April 11, 2022 12:53 pm

All that remains, as Indolent pointed out last night, is the disgusting behaviour of certain private enterprise both small and large to mandate vaccines for their staff. Thus violating an individual’s right to choose whether to undertake a medical procedure or not.

It’s actually worse than that. Yes, some enterprises do so of their own accord but in many cases, such as aged care, providers are forced to mandate jabs to retain government funding. I know of several people who have lost their jobs over this and there’s no sign of it being lifted.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 12:53 pm

Tell the bloke with the pointy scissors he is a big sheilah.
I Furkyan Derya.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 12:53 pm

It would be justifiable to use this technology if the issue was really life threatening, like a contagious version of ebola. Or otherwise untreatable cancer. But not for the common cold or flu.

Yes, this was exactly what I was getting at. I have no problem with its use as a vaccine or a therapeutic if its safety profile is known – ie. we are provided with genuine informed consent so we are aware of the risk/benefit ratio. Of course, we haven’t been provided this for any drug for decades (perhaps we never have), but the Covid vaxxes have taken the obscurantism that afflicts the medical science establishment to a whole new level.

It’s not hard to see why – because an unprecedented amount of money, influence and prestige is on the line. If you walk that line, and you walk it well, you can eat your fill and then some. Deviate from it, and what you do have can be ruthlessly stripped from you.

I’ve long been amused by the presumption that scientists are somehow less susceptible than the rest of us to incentives like the attainment of wealth, power and an enhanced status in the eyes of peers and the wider community. No, a scientist is just as likely to be compromised and corrupted by the allure of these influences as any other human is.

shatterzzz
April 11, 2022 12:54 pm

Is Albanese ill?
His visage looks about 2-3 decades older than his age on paper.

The “makeover” doesn’t appear to have gone well .. I’d be asking for my money back if I was AnAl ..
then again, we, the mug taxpayers, probably paid for it anyway! .. LOL!

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 12:54 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
April 11, 2022 at 12:45 pm
A “disinterested scientist” is almost an oxymoron because the best are often the most interested and personally committed to the goal.

Is it time for a discussion of the meanings of the words “disinterested” and “uninterested”?

I’m very cynical about the possibility of human beings being disinterested in their behavior. Ego involvement is ubiquitous. The reason I mentioned Aspies because if there is a group of human beings truly being disinterested in their analyses they are the most likely category.

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 1:02 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
April 11, 2022 at 12:49 pm
I’ve been trying to follow the “read the post before checking who posted it” rule.
However some reveal their identity very early in the first couple of paras.

It is that tiresome repetition which justifies the scrolling. I read enough already and am not compelled in any sense to give a fair reading to those who have consistently demonstrated repetitiveness or wrongology or just plain tediousness.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 1:04 pm

Compromised and corrupted by the allure of these influences AS WELL AS the prospect of losing them or being prevented from acquiring them, I should have written. People with something to lose can be just as craven in attending to their interests as people with something to gain.

Zipster
April 11, 2022 1:04 pm

Mykhailo Podoliak, Adviser to the Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, stated that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine wins major battles, including the battle over Donbas.

Whether [we can] just say that in a week or two we will meet at presidential level … No. It will happen as follows. Ukraine is ready for major battles, Ukraine must win these battles, including the battle over Donbas. After that Ukraine will have a more substantial negotiating position to dictate certain terms. After that, the presidents will meet. It may take two weeks, it may take three.”

mariupol anybody?

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 1:07 pm

I’ve long been amused by the presumption that scientists are somehow less susceptible than the rest of us to incentives like the attainment of wealth, power and an enhanced status in the eyes of peers and the wider community. No, a scientist is just as likely to be compromised and corrupted by the allure of these influences as any other human is.

The ones who sell themselves and keep getting grants would make good livings selling used cars.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 1:07 pm

read the post before checking who posted it” rule.

It was a little proposed experiment.

Some of the responses are almost reflexive regardless of what is said. I wondered if it’s subconscious bias.

Comment Privilege and Unconscious Commentism.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 1:09 pm

I’m very cynical about the possibility of human beings being disinterested in their behavior.

Which is why there are various data collection and analysis safeguards.
The biggest danger comes with becoming something of a science celebrity.
Tin Gods and Gurus have a tendency to rely on their own omnipotence and short-cut proper methodology.
For example, the Second Coming of William McBride (Debendox).

local oaf
April 11, 2022 1:11 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
April 11, 2022 at 12:48 pm

Comic Sans font be damned.

Ya never hear of runes anymore – c’mon Dover!

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 1:12 pm

Is Albanese ill?

Too much sugar water.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 1:12 pm

Any thoughts on what Australian shares will do as the election approaches?

local oaf
April 11, 2022 1:14 pm

Is it time for a discussion of the meanings of the words “disinterested” and “uninterested”?

Is there such a thing as “post-interested?”
That’s my status re the upcoming election.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 1:20 pm

The Ukes are using drones with the coolest name ever- “switchblade drones”. If we manage to ship enough over the Russians are pretty well fucked.
These are drones that release a missile and just as the missile fires up wings flip out like switchblades. How freaking cool is that.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 1:22 pm

Eyriesays:

April 11, 2022 at 1:12 pm

Any thoughts on what Australian shares will do as the election approaches?

Faulty over at the Furniture Store is the guy for those sorts of predictions.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 1:24 pm

I’m very cynical about the possibility of human beings being disinterested in their behavior

Of course this is not possible. I think the problem in the scientific community is that too many scientists regard themselves as disinterested because they believe scientists are axiomatically disinterested and as they’re scientists, they must be disinterested.

Perhaps I should be clearer – a scientist who recognises they are inherently subjective and incorporates into their approach to their work an ongoing effort to obtain objectivity, despite knowing they will never succeed, is going to be a better scientist than one who is unaware of their biases or assumes their biases couldn’t possibly affect their work.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 1:25 pm

I’m just learning the switchblades come in two sizes too. Kinda like choosing a Macbook pro or a Macbook Air. So cool.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 1:26 pm

Faulty over at the Furniture Store is the guy for those sorts of predictions.

Has he dated the crash yet?

Kneel
Kneel
April 11, 2022 1:29 pm

“Tell the bloke with the pointy scissors he is a big sheilah.”

Is he running with them in hand?
That could go wrong… They always said it could!
Dastardly GovCo liars…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 1:33 pm

Has he dated the crash yet?

Nothing specific.
He is just carrying a sign saying “The End is Neigh”.
Whatever that means.

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 1:35 pm

The Russians have loitering drone munitions also.
Here:
https://southfront.org/russian-drone-swarm-attacked-ukrainian-forces-in-luhansk-photos/

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 1:35 pm

JCsays:

April 11, 2022 at 1:25 pm

I’m just learning the switchblades come in two sizes too. 

Can I have mine with metallic paint and a ball lightning insignia?

Helen
Helen
April 11, 2022 1:35 pm

Question

Where in the world (or even better, Australia) can I get a ride in a Mustang turbo P38 Enforcer for Captain?

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 1:43 pm

I think the problem in the scientific community is that too many scientists regard themselves as disinterested because they believe scientists are axiomatically disinterested and as they’re scientists, they must be disinterested.

To be fair, this could be extended across the entire academy. It’s just that so many scientists are embedded in the academy. However, it astonishes me how often academics say things that demonstrate the academic hive mind perspective, and with a carelessness that suggests a presumption that everyone listening would agree with them. If you asked them whether they imposed their views onto their students in a manner that stifles the exchange of ideas, they would be aghast that you would even think they could be capable of such an offence (with the exception of the grievance studies courses and units, which explicitly discourage impartiality and rigorously police unacceptable perspectives).

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2022 1:44 pm

“I thought there were several deaths caused by blood clotting due to Astrazeneca but the medical profession started doing a better job of treating and Astrazeneca was discouraged for those cohorts more vulnerable to getting clots.
That might explain the tailing off of deaths being directly attributed to vaccines.”
Just to reiterate that I specifically mentioned astrazeneca in response to the claim I was lying/talking about all vaccines.
Like I said also sick of the histrionics and the straight up lying about what I said, which is available to anyone capable of scrolling back.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 1:45 pm

It’s the Russians who a most vulnerable though as they’re the invaders dragging around heavy armor.

rosie
rosie
April 11, 2022 1:48 pm

“Of the 11 deaths, all were linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine: eight were related to thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, two to Guillain-Barre syndrome and one a case of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP).

Professor Catherine Bennett, chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, told AAP FactCheck the public could be confident in the figures because of the stringent reporting and investigation processes used in cases of reported deaths.

“An expert clinical panel looks at each reported death,” she said, adding that these experts had access to doctors’ reports and medical records, and could request other tests.

“They also compare notes with those doing the same investigations all around the world.”

Prof Bennett noted that Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data confirmed the nation’s age-standardised death rate was lower in 2021, during the period covering the bulk of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, than in previous years.”

and no I never follow st ruth links

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 1:49 pm

JC, if you are about, what is the deal with Musk owning 9% of Twatter as regards a takeover?
Does he have to launch a full-on offer at a certain threshold shareholding (as is the case in Oz)?
Or can he just keep chewing off chunks at will?

Eyrie
Eyrie
April 11, 2022 1:51 pm

a Mustang turbo P38 Enforcer
Helen,

I’ve heard of a P-51 Mustang, a Piper Enforcer (P51 with turboprop instead of Merlin) and the P38 Lockheed Lightning which had turbos on the Allisons but what is a a Mustang turbo P38 Enforcer?
You can get warbird rides in various places including here in Toowoomba. North American T-28 Trojan or if you like a Stearman biplane.

Oh come on
Oh come on
April 11, 2022 1:54 pm

Russian forces destroy Dnipro airport as large military convoy moves toward east Ukraine | DW News

Impossible. The Russian military has run out of petrol and is still stuck on the side of the road outside of Kiev. Putin forgot to renew Russia’s RAC membership again. And it’s also being crushed by the Ukrainian resistance. Millions of casualties inflicted, thousands of planes downed, tens of thousands of armoured vehicles destroyed – everyone knows it’s a wrap for the Russians in Ukraine now. Plus the Russian economy is collapsing, NATO is stronger than ever, all of Putin’s mafia and oligarch patrons are about to overthrow him, and the country is being crushed by the weight of global condemnation.

Thank goodness I have the ABC to turn to so I can get reliable news straight from Ukrainian sources. There’s just so much Russian disinformation out there, we’re practically drowning in it. So many Russian bots spewing their lies.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 1:54 pm

I’m not sure, but I think there are thresholds that require disclosure in the US. I thought it was 5%. Perhaps Musk bought the 9% in one fell swoop and wasn’t able to disclose when he had reached 5%. In other words, say you disclose the 5% at the close, but he had 9% before the close.

I think the US has compulsory acquisition above 92%. Not 100% sure though.

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 1:58 pm

I have been told by a reliable and trustworthy source that when you get the vax at a chemist.

You get a form (three pages)

It’s reviewed and barring any red flags you get the vax.

Is this what others have been though?

John H.
John H.
April 11, 2022 1:59 pm

bespokesays:
April 11, 2022 at 1:58 pm
I have been told by a reliable and trustworthy source that when you get the vax at a chemist.

You get a form (three pages)

It’s reviewed and barring any red flags you get the vax.

Is this what others have been though?

True for me.

Struth
April 11, 2022 2:01 pm

Professor Catherine Bennett, chair in epidemiology at Deakin University, told AAP FactCheck the public could be confident in the figures because of the stringent reporting and investigation processes used in cases of reported deaths.

FMD.
Honestly.

JC
JC
April 11, 2022 2:01 pm

Here Sanchez

Under Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, a party or group that acquires
beneficial ownership1 of more than 5% of any class of equity securities
(generally common shares) registered under the Exchange Act, including
securities convertible into such securities, with a view toward pursuing an
acquisition of the issuer of the shares, must, with 10 calendar days of crossing
the 5% threshold, make a public filing with the SEC on a Schedule 13D.

Looks like you have 10 days to declare, but it’s unclear if it’s not to make a full acquisition. Like everything in the US, it’s complex. 🙂

https://www.lw.com/thoughtLeadership/acquiring-US-public-company-overview-acquirer

bespoke
bespoke
April 11, 2022 2:02 pm

Cheers John

Do you think there is plenty of scope for human error?

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 2:05 pm

It’s the Russians who a most vulnerable though as they’re the invaders dragging around heavy armor.

You’d think they might have figured out the need for rejigging their EW countermeasures and air defence for a drone threat. Even as basic-level tactics keeping one or more turret crew unbuttoned and looking out, with at least their air defence MGs ready or a few Strelas carried on the turret roof for easy and quick access in an emergency.

All video I’ve seen so far of Russian armour advancing to contact or just moving around has all crews buttoned up. You lose so much situational awareness doing that, it isn’t funny.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
April 11, 2022 2:07 pm

mariupol anybody?

Still holding out. Russians have made some very small advances in the centre of town to try and cut off the defenders in separate sections of the city, presumably to knock over each canton one at a time. There’ve been signs that the Ukrainians have been able to get some supplies in and wounded out. The Russians eventually caught up with two helis that have been doing so by flying on the deck, but it’s thought there are other sneaky lines of supply since the besiegers don’t have enough guys to ensure a watertight seal.

The Russians have loitering drone munitions also.

Telenko has an interesting tweet today on the Orlan-10 UAV. The Ukrainians captured one nearly intact and pulled it apart. It’s made from bits you could buy in Bunnings, just about – including a plastic drink bottle for the petrol tank! Pundits are saying how shonky a design it is but I think it’s a very neat bit of kit, very cheap to make with readily available parts. Unfortunately some of those parts probably aren’t available in Russia now, but I’m sure Chinese-sourced bits and pieces could be gotten instead – since that’s where the stuff in Bunnings mainly comes from anyway.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 2:10 pm

Thanks JC.

calli
calli
April 11, 2022 2:11 pm

Yes, that’s true about the chemist.

What is also true is that the chemist might not be up to par with enstabbening, resulting in an injury (ask me how I know).

I find Catherine Bennett less than convincing in other covid related areas. She might be telling the truth on the deaths.

I think this (11 deaths) might be what Arky was referring to last night.

Kneel
Kneel
April 11, 2022 2:11 pm

“Whatever that means.”

He awe, he awe, he always says that!

Rex Anger
Rex Anger
April 11, 2022 2:12 pm

bespokesays:
April 11, 2022 at 1:58 pm
I have been told by a reliable and trustworthy source that when you get the vax at a chemist.

You get a form (three pages)

It’s reviewed and barring any red flags you get the vax.

Is this what others have been though?

I did for Stab #3, which I had to have at my GP at very short notice in early March (Thanks bosses! I still had at least 3 weeks before I became illegal. >:( ) . The first two via WA Health’s mass clinics back in November were a more cursory- Just a few tickboxes if you were healthy or not on the day, and had not already had a stab less than 3-4 weeks prior- But the potential issues weren’t as widely known or causing concern at the time.

Makka
Makka
April 11, 2022 2:12 pm

This didn’t end well;

Tony
@Cyberspec1
#RussiaUkraine
Group of UKR soldiers get blasted at close range by a RUS T-72B3 tank…not clear why they didn’t notice it. Perhaps they thought it was one of their own

https://twitter.com/Cyberspec1/status/1513299106025811968

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
April 11, 2022 2:15 pm

Helen, I can organise a ride in a P-76, if that helps.

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