Covid is in da house…

Milton,
when Albo stuffed up yesterday on the most basic economic indicators (not knowing Cash Rate or unemployment figure) they asked Howard in Perth what he thought about it…

He said he “wouldn’t worry about it too much.”

I would’ve slammed him as it goes to the heart of Albo not knowing the very key facts he’s supposedly campaigning on…

Random iso thoughts continue…

Why is China sending arms to Serbia???

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/04/11/china-delivers-anti-aircraft-missiles-to-serbia/

Salvatore, you obviously aren’t getting the saturation KFC TV advertising

Hehe. Thanks Tom, those who don’t switch on FTA don’t get any TV advertising, saturation or otherwise.

Since found on Youtube (eventually) a couple of ads for Kentucky Friend Chicken containing the line from Albo’s speech balloon.

I think I sorta grasp what the cartoon is trying to convey.

Crikey – anybody being bombarded with that noise pollution & who does not switch off their TV badly needs mental health intervention.

Crikey – anybody being bombarded with that noise pollution & who does not switch off their TV badly needs mental health intervention.

It is sometimes amusing with the sound off. Makes more sense anyway.

Let’s take some time to look at what Gillon McLachlan gave us….

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johannasays:

April 12, 2022 at 1:38 pm

Please explain, not seeing the link to Chris Bailey.

Mine?

I think his third name shows up as Mannix!
Having three names and that as your third might be a hint.

On I-stop in Mazdas. Mine never works, I think the Mazda mechanic explained if you have a usb cable in use to charge the phone the I stop turns off, so I always have the usb plugged in.

Zachary Rolfe stood trial in-part due to expert evidence in $100K report, documents reveal

EXCLUSIVE
Matt Cunningham
Darwin Bureau Chief
Kristin Shorten
Investigative Journalist
@itsKShort
An hour ago April 12, 2022
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Constable Zachary Rolfe was committed to stand trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court based in-part on the expert evidence of a Crown witness paid almost $100,000 to produce a 12-page report supporting its murder charge.

The Australian can now reveal the reasons Judge John Birch provided when committing Constable Rolfe to stand trial over the shooting death of Indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker after the lifting of a suppression order.

Following a three-day committal hearing at Alice Springs in September 2020 Judge Birch said the matter would proceed to trial based in-part on the evidence of the prosecution’s subject matter expert Geoffrey Alpert who was later dropped from the case.

This comes after The Australian on Monday revealed that the NT Police had awarded a contract worth almost $100,000 to the American criminologist to provide a 12-page report about whether the second and third shots fired by Constable Rolfe were legally justified.

Emails obtained by The Australian also revealed Professor Alpert repeatedly altered his report following discussions with detectives investigating Walker’s fatal shooting at the remote outback community of Yuendumu on November 9, 2019.

When delivering his decision to commit the case to trial, Judge Birch specifically referenced the evidence of Professor Alpert and NT Police use-of-force expert Detective Senior Sergeant Andrew Barram.

Det-Sgt Barram had told the court during committal that police training involved options including firing two shots in rapid succession – a double tap – and firing continuously until the threat had ceased.

“Detective Sergeant Barram’s evidence is that the first shot discharged by the defendant was justified in the circumstances,” Judge Birch said in his ruling which was, at the time, prohibited from publication.

“The shots fired by the defendant did not incapacitate the deceased’s right arm, which is not visible on the body-worn video, but is more likely than not pinned under the deceased’s body.”

Professor Alpert, from the University of South Carolina, gave evidence via video link at Constable Rolfe’s committal that the first shot the young cop fired was justified, but that the second and third shots were not.

“If the first and second shots were fired as a double-tap, he (Prof Alpert) would accept that as a reasonable response in the circumstances,” Judge Birch said.

“Therefore, it’s been submitted the defendant did nothing other than comply with the training given to him by the Northern Territory Police Force.”

However, Crown Prosecutor Philip Strickland SC argued that it was an essential part of Constable Rolfe’s training to reassess the need for further lethal force after the first shot was fired.

“I accept the submission is open for a jury to find there were several options available to the defendant, other than shots two and three,” Judge Birch said.

“Detective Sergeant Barram and Dr Alpert detailed those.

“Dr Alpert would accept if two shots were fired as a double-tap at the time the deceased was standing and the defendant was stabbed, he would (support) those discharges.”

Constable Rolfe fired shots two and three after his Immediate Response Team partner Adam Eberl wrestled Walker to the ground.

“Dr Alpert clearly differentiates between the first shot and the second and third shots,” Judge Birch said.

“Based on Dr Alpert’s evidence, I am not prepared to reject his opinion and I am not satisfied a jury, properly instructed, would do so either.

“Similarly, Detective Sergeant Barram’s evidence is reliable on the issue and I’m not satisfied to reject it.

“The jury is also able to accept his view in relation to those shots, police training and a number of other matters in which he gave evidence on.”

In making his decision, Judge Birch also considered the professor’s evidence about the police body-worn video footage of the shooting.

“I do accept the submission that the body-worn video must be considered in real time, but noting the evidence of Dr McIntosh and Dr Alpert, it doesn’t lose its relevance when viewed frame by frame, despite its shortcomings identified by those experts,” he concluded.

But without explanation, the prosecution dropped Professor Alpert before Constable Rolfe’s trial started and relied primarily on the expertise of Det-Sgt Barram to execute its case.

Constable Rolfe was last month found not guilty of murder and the back-up charges of manslaughter and engaging in a violent act causing death.

A fortnight ago the NT’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Michael Riches announced an investigation into “allegations of improper conduct” related to Constable Rolfe being charged with murder just four days after the shooting.

Prior to this NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said he did not believe an independent inquiry was necessary because the case had been subjected to a committal hearing before Constable Rolfe stood trial.

“Police have a process to make sure that their investigation stacks up, then the prosecution also has a responsibility to only take anything forward that they think has a reasonable chance at success,” he said.

“And then there’s a stage again at the courts where a case has to genuinely stack up.”

He subsequently issued a statement saying that he “fully supports” the ICAC decision to investigate the process that led to Const Rolfe being charged.

Constable Rolfe’s defence barrister David Edwardson QC said he was “relieved” about the ICAC’s decision to investigate.

“In my view it is warranted and appropriate,” he said.

“Hopefully the question of whether there was or wasn’t political interference will now be resolved one way or the other.”

GreyRanga says: April 12, 2022 at 7:05 am

Kiwi blokes still think the Canning Stock Route is an annual event.

Heh. Neat joke.
Though the pronunciations are not the same.
“Stock Route” rhymes with out, clout, shout, doubt.

“Here’s a woman stuffing the ballot box in broad daylight in Gwinnett County, Georgia in the November 2020 Election”

It’s possible to obtain publicly available anonymised mobile phone “ping” data, that allows you to track a single phone (without knowing the number or anything else) over pretty much any period you want. In Wisconsin, some mob got several trillion of these records covering the period where “vote by mail” was allowed. During that time there were several thousand records of people going to drop box locations, an average 26 times each (data can be accurate to a few cm, apparently). They even have corroborating CCTV images, sufficient to be sure this was actually ballot “drops” and they were the same person. I don’t have any information on how many ballots may have been “dropped” at any particular time/place.
And this was only a single city, not the entire state.
Ballot “harvesting” – where a 3rd party collects ballots and drops them off – is illegal in Wisconsin.
Apparently, charges are being referred to the DA by the Wisconsin State Senate regarding these events.

“Esssssspresssssso”

My precious Esssssspresssssso and Rissssstresssssso.
Mean, nasty lurkerers and instant coffee – yuk!
We hates them, we does.

Heh. Neat joke.
Though the pronunciations are not the same.
“Stock Route” rhymes with out, clout, shout, doubt.

Nope. As a West Aussie I have only ever heard or used “Route” as in “root”. “Route” as in “clout” is a classic Americanism.

“One spoon of coffee two spoons of sugar add boiling water and milk, Go!”

Heathen.
Firstly, you should never adulterate good coffee with sugar – but since you are using instant, this of course does not apply.
Instant coffee is for emergency use ONLY – like beer in cans, or wine in screw top bottles.

Yesterday, Brucie Nobel was babbling on about vaccines. I’ve frequently noticed when he goes “complex” – that is using complex medical jargon- it usually means there’s something hidden there that requires some further investigation. Consequently, I took his comment and sent it indirectly to the virologist I know through a pal. This is what came back.

Hi Jc, that I agree with him on the following issues: it is a relatively new vaccine platform and there are many unknowns and caveats that also make me uncomfortable. There certainly are possible off-target effects with the current formulation but it is fair to say that the majority of the lipid nanoparticles are taken up by the intended antigen presenting cells with good humeral and cellular anti-SARS-CoV-2 immunity. I have not seen many reports of endarteritis or vasculitis following vaccination and like myocarditis it is much more common following SARS-CoV-2 infection itself. I am not convinced that there is evidence for the other doomsday off-target effects described and that the risk of mRNA vaccines itself is lower than getting infected without being vaccinated. I also agree that at this stage I would rather get subunit influenza vaccine. Seeing that he hasn’t yet had a mRNA COVID vaccine I would still recommend that he gets the Novavax vaccine or AstraZeneca if he hasn’t already.

In other words, there’s some nonsense doomsday stuff contained in the metallurgical biologist’s comment from yesterday. Just trying to keep it real. 🙂

Dover

In war, truth is lost for a time. I don’t get it why there’s any surprise that either side is bullshitting as they’re both bullshitting.

“A light at the end of the tunnel?”

Oncoming train?

I’d say JC’s virologist is full of shit.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/covid-is-becoming-increasingly-vaccine?s=r

From the official UK data.

“In Oz, ‘route’ rhymes with shoot.”

Except in IT, where “root” is the typical administrative user name, and “route” (rhymes with “clout”) is how data is sent between computers (routed this way, not that way).
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Stuth

When did you become a Qanon’er? You’ve reached peak Everest now?

Bruce in WA says: April 12, 2022 at 2:59 pm

Nope. As a West Aussie I have only ever heard or used “Route” as in “root”. “Route” as in “clout” is a classic Americanism.

Not going to disagree over regional dialects.
However I’ve only ever heard it pronounced “stock root” by people who’ve not pushed a mob along one. Usually hipsters who’ve discovered landcare without ever having been west of Strathfield.

(This may be one of the many very serious differences between Kimberley/Pilbara & the rest of cattle country & possible justification for civil war.)

When I was a kid, old fellers pronounced it “route” as in “shout”**. To these blokes a “root” was the name for the underground part of a tree & they would never have imagined it would later take on the “push-push” meaning.
Interestingly the same blokes would sometimes say “root” when talking of along which road to drive.
I never gave it much thought, mostly being amazed by the way their fingers would expertly roll Log Cabin into a tallyho tube, while somehow managing to spill what seemed like half the tobacco onto the pub floor.

(** even though the schoolteacher told us it is pronounced “root”, though with the caveat that stockmen would say “rout” – which pretty much ended the discussion, coz the only grownups we knew were stockmen.)

How often must it be stated that wherever possible read the primary material before reading your favourite goto person on a subject? It’s the logical thing to do.

John H

Usually, it’s Karl Denninger for Hallward Hughes.

Thanks for doing what I refuse to do, which is reading any of the Chief Censor’s links as it’s always simplistic biased bilge.

(Watch the reaction now. He ignores the counters and in a few hours will be back telling us how he’s Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes rolled into one).

How often must it be stated that wherever possible read the primary material before reading your favourite goto person on a subject? It’s the logical thing to do.

Please.
It’s not that sort of blog.

What boriquagato actually said which is backed by his figures:
“vaccinated are at greater risk of contracting covid than the unvaxxed.”
Also: “this is leading to an out of season rise in covid deaths in the UK with deaths per day at ~6X the level of the same date last year and rising when last year was falling into a summer trough. ”
He has the graph just underneath.

“Please.
It’s not that sort of blog.”

Exactly.
Logical? Next you’ll want sensible as well. Then sane. Where does it end?

Wasn’t there a bet about how long biden would last? I must admit the vile old creep has hung around longer then I thought. The msm is literally propping him up while the swampies take turns in putting their paws up his arse to move his mouth.

How does that address the official lying of UKR and its surrogates, and the uncritical amplification of these lies by the MSM designed to draw NATO, etc. into a hot war with RUS?

Perhaps you’re misreading the story-line. I’m pro Uke. I think what Putin did- trampling over the sovereign nation- is egregious. That doesn’t make me want to see a war between NATO and Russia, so why assume everyone in the media wants that appalling scenario?

Nescafe ‘Gold’.

Poofta pansy Euro auto coffee.

1 hour ago
Renewed calls to lower voting age to 16

Aaaaand … the Greens are behind it.

Of course; they know all about the sort of hard-green indoctrination that passes for education in schools these days. That kids barely out of nappies would vote for them is a lay-down misère.

The other issue to think about is that the unvaccinated which constitute a minority or people typically with a very big axe to grind, are the least likely to report an infection.

Totally anecdotal, I know – but not a single person I know who is unvaccinated has tested positive to COVID. Now, these are all people who, when needing to see family, regularly tested themselves. However, now that the virus is rampant, and the vaccinated are mostly not as wary of the unvaccinated, they don’t test so regularly. Nevertheless, I am confidant that, like me, they would test at any suspicious sign of infection. As for notifying of a positive test – I can’t see why, speaking for myself, they would be any less likely to notify than the vaccinated. After all, we have been (resentfully) compliant with all their blasted rules for 2 years.

Now, why is are the unvaccinated so far free of the virus? Probably because virtually all of them, like my husband and I, determined to remain as physically fit and healthy as possible to resist infection. Like us, they are aware of recommended protocol for early infection and/or treat themselves prophylactically (as we do) with the vitamins et al recommended by the FLCCC. Despite the hysteria around everything “Covid” – it really isn’t “rocket science”. Even so, none of us believe we will remain virus free, but are hopeful, that even if we contract it, we have every chance of our immune systems coping well.

Now, why is are the unvaccinated so far free of the virus? Probably because virtually all of them, like my husband and I, determined to remain as physically fit and healthy as possible to resist infection.

Vicki, you’re dreaming. Fit and healthy likely means you won’t catch a serious bout that will kill you. It doesn’t preclude you from getting it. Kids appear to get it just was easily, but they’re hardly impacted.

Head Prefect you say you are pro Uke, that means you are pro the New World Odor yes?
You like Schwab, Soros,Biden & the fat Turkish twat in London, also you love the warmongers in NATO?
You also seem to prefer selling strategically important items like oil & gas, plus wheat ,corn & fertiliser for coloured bits of paper.
Putin, like him or not is shaking the financial system of the global bankers & I love it.
Instead of going to NYC, You should maybe go to DC where your heroes reside?

Okay, fair enough, Ted. All good.

Did you make up the banana quota for the day and how many?

VicPol D/S Penry wrote the briefing note to VicPol Command, listing – 5 key Persons of Interest including Brett Sutton & John Bennie. VicPol never questioned them. Never laid charges. Now they are investigating who leaked the Briefing note…

Would this be the same Vicpol that was banging on last week about how it will be rebuilding brand trust with the public?

Have you ever heard of editing or censorship? Spin? Propaganda ? Are you seriously trying to make a case for the honest and unbiased reporting on Russia and this conflict, free of propaganda? That the MSM is NOT corrupted? That’s ludicrous in the extreme.

I really don’t know what there is to be biased about and to hide. Russia is currently trampling through Ukraine. Leave opinion writing aside, how would report on the war? How would you gather information?

Huge assumption right there…

Okay, then explain what is going on. One foreign media group that was Russia negative was thrown out of the place. Also, which Russian news groups are allowed to report accurately about the war without the threat of being “accidentally” poisoned?