Open Thread – Wed 22 June 2022


Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1560

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sfw
sfw
June 23, 2022 6:41 am

Rosie “Sri Lankans fleeing from an actual crisis get the bums rush.”

What would you have us do? If you take one you should take all of them, I guess 25 million of them would really increase our diversity and our economy, no downside is there?

bespoke
bespoke
June 23, 2022 6:43 am

Mr Ibrahim said the community had a responsibility to protect women from these incidents in the future and highlight the issue of domestic violence faced by migrant women.

Like what?

Stop them marrying other Muslims?
Stop them traveling?
What?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 6:48 am

Literary news, from The Hun:

Amber Heard is in talks to write a tell-all book now that she has “nothing to lose” in the aftermath of ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit, according to a new report.

The leaked title – ‘Huge Grogans and Tiny Dogs: A Survivor’s Tale‘.

132andBush
132andBush
June 23, 2022 6:55 am

calli says:
June 22, 2022 at 10:03 pm

Bingo!

Ahahaha! You bet!

lol
Now that’s how to do it.

Mater
June 23, 2022 6:55 am

Stop them marrying other Muslims?
Stop them traveling?
What?

Why not?
We locked down an entire country, and confined them to home detention, ostensibly for their own good. What’s wrong with micromanaging and locking down a segment of society, based on gender and belief, in order to save them from themselves?

If it saves just one life!

[Yes, SARC off]

Cassie of Sydney
June 23, 2022 7:09 am

From the Oz, apparently last night that grotesque, adolescent attention seeking Greens senator, Lidia Thorpe, appeared on The Project and said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project“…well, at least she’s honest.

“Divisive Adam Bandt puts reconciliation in peril, Greens senator Lidia Thorpe ‘there to infiltrate colonial project’

Anthony Albanese says the push for reconciliation risks being undermined by the refusal of Greens leader Adam Bandt to stand in front of the Australian flag.

The Prime Minister said every parliamentarian should be proud to stand in front of the national flag, urging Mr Bandt to “reconsider his position and work to promote unity and work to promote reconciliation”.

“Reconciliation is about bringing people together on the journey that we need to undertake.

“It is undermined if people look for division rather than look for unity,” Mr Albanese said.

The criticism of the Greens escalated further on Wednesday after the party’s First Nations spokeswoman, Lidia Thorpe, said she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”.

Incoming Northern Territory Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Price said Governor-General David Hurley should investigate whether there were grounds to dismiss Senator Thorpe from parliament. “I think she has nothing but contempt for the Australian people and she doesn’t respect the position she is in,” Ms Price said.

“I personally feel that the ­Governor-General should take a closer look at what her real ­intentions are and consider whether this is possible grounds for dismissal.

“She doesn’t see herself as an Australian, she doesn’t see herself as being represented by the Australian flag. Therefore she is not the right person to be in a position to represent the Australian people nor does it indicate she has Aus­tralia’s best interests at heart.””

Firstly, incoming senator Jacinta Price will be an asset to parliament and to this country.

Secondly, when the senate next sits, is it too much to hope for that the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation organise a censure motion against Thorpe? Okay, it might not succeed but if Labor refuses to support the motion, it would wedge Labor and the so called independents such as bush pig Lambie and show that Labor probably either secretly supports Thorpe or is happy for her to continue abusing Australians and content for her to trash our flag and institutions*.

Oh, which reminds me, does the bush pig from Tasmania have anything to say about Bandt, Thorpe, and the trashing of our flag? No need to remind everyone that she’s another one of Clive’s gifts.

* don’t worry, I already know what the Liberals and Nationals will do….fuck all.

Dot
Dot
June 23, 2022 7:10 am

Amber Heard is in talks to write a tell-all book now that she has “nothing to lose” in the aftermath of ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit, according to a new report.

At this rate, she will be sold off in Dubai as a concubine. A fate worse than Lindsay Lohan.

Dot
Dot
June 23, 2022 7:15 am

From the Oz, apparently last night that grotesque, adolescent attention seeking Greens senator, Lidia Thorpe, appeared on The Project and said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project“…well, at least she’s honest.

She’s buying into a myth of a monolithic Aboriginal people.

Britain, let alone England were hardly monolithic.

What’s her plan? Dispose of Australia, send all of us fucking chimley loving south westerners back to the chalk hills?

Then what? President Pascoe* the wise raises “hidden ancient advanced culture” science such as the fountain of youth and interstellar travel?

*May or may not be a colonial infiltrator.

Her and Bandt are all wound up with nowhere to go.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 7:21 am

At this rate, she will be sold off in Dubai as a concubine. A fate worse than Lindsay Lohan.

Yep.

Stand by the for the ‘now I’m a lesbian’ presser.

Mater
June 23, 2022 7:23 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

#9News | Nightly at 6pm

The left looooooove subjective laws.
It makes things sooooooo much easier.

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 7:26 am

This is the affirmation required from all Senators:

I, (name) do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors according to law.

Moments later, from Lydia Thorpe,

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

What a worthless piece of excrement. Her word counts for nothing.

Cassie of Sydney
June 23, 2022 7:28 am

We now have a situation where, thanks to a growing number of young Australians who’ve been indoctrinated at school and university, our parliament is now host to Marxist scum such as Bandt and Thorpe. Bandt trashes the flag and Thorpe regards herself as a an “infiltrator”. The truth is that Thorpe is an unhinged embarrassment.

My mother’s father fought in New Guinea and my father’s uncles fought at Gallipoli and in World War II, in North Africa and New Guinea. I’m beginning to wonder why they bothered.

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 7:30 am

Oh, and speaking of the denizens of the toilet bowl, Leak gets the plastic bobble head just right this morning.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 7:33 am

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

The bottomless trough cash, opportunities for grandstanding at taxpayer expense and extremely generous post-Senate fiscal benefits are, of course, purely coincidental.

132andBush
132andBush
June 23, 2022 7:34 am

Garrisons’ Pelosi is a thing of nightmares, therefor accurate.

132andBush
132andBush
June 23, 2022 7:36 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

#9News | Nightly at 6pm

No doubt a gay pride mardi gras march would get a pass though.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 7:36 am

In Out of Left Field news:

Electric cars could significantly increase demand on the power grid, however, trials underway to change behaviour

With the threat of blackouts a reality amid higher prices and demand, Origin’s general manager of e-mobility Chau Le said the network would struggle once EVs became more popular.

“At the moment our electricity grid is not coping at all,” she said.

“If we were to add another 30 per cent of peak load to the grid during those periods of high prices and constraints on the network, this would require significant investment to increase capacity.”

To manage the looming threat, Origin and ARENA have been trialling “smart charging”, with results published yesterday.

Smart chargers, costing between $2,000 and $3,000, were installed in homes of 150 EV users and baseline data was captured.

The chargers allow people to set their charging times, for example when there is more low-cost renewable energy being produced or to support the grid at times of peak demand.

It found that without intervention, 30 per cent of charging was done in the evening peak, between 3pm and 9pm.

So, you plug your EV in when you get home and hope it’s charged in the morning. Relying on low cost renewable energy – say from solar – being available overnight.

All sounds plausible.

Oddly, I don’t see any mention of all this in the ALP EV Policy.

In safe hands.

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 7:40 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

That can mean anything you want it to mean.

Get ready Victorians. Shape up, do as you’re told or it’s the Lockholes for you!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 23, 2022 7:43 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

Grossly offensive behaviour.
-Arresting pregnant women for a Facebook post
-knocking down and pepper spraying an old woman
-stealing a woman’s phone while she’s sitting on a park bench
-pile driving a suspect into the cement, hitting with a rifle butt and kneeing protestors on the ground
-shooting plastic rounds in the backs of unarmed peaceful protestors
-Brutally arresting a couple having a rest in a park only a few hundred metres from where they lived.
-lying to the public about hotel quarantine
-lying to the public about the efficacy of vaccines
-lying to the public about vaccine side effects
-lying and smearing individuals who were eventually found not to be breaking covid rules
-destroying businesses
-fucking up the entire economy

Cassie of Sydney
June 23, 2022 7:44 am

“Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.”

Coming soon…”grossly offensive thought in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

I suppose all of this will be supported by Groundhog Guy and the stupid effing Liberals.

Mater
June 23, 2022 7:47 am

With the threat of blackouts a reality amid higher prices and demand, Origin’s general manager of e-mobility Chau Le said the network would struggle once EVs became more popular.

And she’s only referring to the Generation end.
Let’s ignore the fact that it will likely melt the Distribution networks if they are all charged at night. They say this can be mitigated by controls around when people can charge, and that means ‘changing behaviour’.

Human Engineering is the greatest engineering challenge of this transition…and we know where Scientific Socialism always ends up.

Cassie of Sydney
June 23, 2022 7:50 am

“Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars “

Worth remembering that Vic plod still haven’t found or charged Andrew Bolt’s attackers…so their “grossly offensive behaviour” is conveniently ignored.

And will this law be applied to left-wing activists, Socialist Unity and Antifa scum who turn up to assault Victorians who are choosing to attend talks by people the left object to? Why do I think not?

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 7:54 am

“Grossly offensive behaviour” is so broad, all it will end up meaning is “behaviour that offends [insert special group here]”.

It will not apply to the offending of the wider population.

Or…perhaps I’m wrong. The “wider population” has been brainwashed and gaslit into assuming a mantle of offence over anything they’re directed towards.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 7:57 am

“Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars “

Subjective indeed – and remarkably similar to the Feds’ Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme which picked out Abbott for speaking at CPAC in 2019, instead of the seething mass of Labor’s Chinese lapdogs dancing in front of it before and afterwards.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 23, 2022 8:05 am

Dickless

The cops in England are under strict instructions not to harass gypsies and blacks committing Crimes against the English.

Do you have any actual evidence to back this statement, or is it just another product of your fevered mind (you don’t have a brain to be fevered). And what about (lower case) crimes? are they covered by the instructions?

John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 8:06 am

You’ve got the Red Nose and ClownShoes out early today, schmendrick.
The cops in England are under strict instructions not to harass gypsies and blacks committing Crimes against the English.

Another incisive comment with no added value from the Head Case, Suitcase, Suitable Case for Treatment, Nut Case ongoing Mediocre Soap Opera Show.

John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 8:08 am

Do you have any actual evidence to back this statement, or is it just another product of your fevered mind (you don’t have a brain to be fevered). And what about (lower case) crimes? are they covered by the instructions?

LOL. It’s early morning humour………….Too early in the day for you I guess…………………….

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 23, 2022 8:11 am

Calli

Moments later, from Lydia Thorpe,

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

What a worthless piece of excrement. Her word counts for nothing.

Slime of the Slime?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 8:12 am

In the UK they’re already being limited to off-peak charging.
It’ll be fun when the luvvies notice they can’t charge their cars when they want to.

Driving law changes: All home EV chargepoints will need smart chargers from next month (25 May)

MASSIVE law changes are coming into effect at the end of June which will require all home and workplace electric car chargers to have smart charging capabilities.

New chargepoints will be pre-configured to avoid charging during peak hours, between 8am and 11am and between 4pm and 10pm on weekdays.

According to LeasePlan, an 18-month smart charging trial involving 700 drivers, noted a surge in electricity demand at 10pm as chargepoints came online after peak hours.

To avoid this, new units will randomly defer off-peak charging sessions by 10 minutes, and allow utility companies to extend this to half an hour if grid demand is high.

So not only preventing charging before 10pm, but then delaying even longer to avoid melting the grid with a million of the things all starting to charge at the same time. Madness. It’d get even more crazy when the usual suspects start playing with the chargers to avoid the restrictions (and the electricity cost).

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 23, 2022 8:16 am

John Sheldricksays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:08 am
Do you have any actual evidence to back this statement, or is it just another product of your fevered mind (you don’t have a brain to be fevered). And what about (lower case) crimes? are they covered by the instructions?

LOL. It’s early morning humour………….Too early in the day for you I guess…………………….

My comment was directed at Dickless, aka Dick Ed, but if you feel that it applies to you ………………………

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 8:19 am

Moments later, from Lydia Thorpe,

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

What a worthless piece of excrement. Her word counts for nothing.

Greens voters must be so proud of themselves.

There’s a detailed family history, over on Michael Smith. Seems most of her forebears were staunch Communists.

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 23, 2022 8:20 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

Whilst the Porsche chaps behaviour has been portrayed as somewhat tacky, all he did to warrant this new and made up charge was film 4 dead plod (not killed by him) and say something along the lines of ‘all I wanted to do was go to xyz…’.

No crime was committed by doing so, it cant have been because there is no victim.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 8:26 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

like calling politicians lying slime buckets

Tom
Tom
June 23, 2022 8:26 am

For American politics junkies, do you remember when this line-and-length Democrat cheat ran for Florida governor in 2018?:

Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum has been charged with 21 felonies by the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Florida.

The charges include conspiracy, wire fraud, and making false statements.

RTWT.

Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 8:26 am

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

The infiltration of our institutions by Marxists has been going on for five decades.

I mentioned it yesterday in the context of the refusal of our major parties to promote nuclear energy.

Beginning in the 1970s, the means and objectives used to be discussed in Marxist groups all over the Western world, following the lead of Rudi Dutschke.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 8:28 am

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

maybe she can try infiltrating an actual brain, you know with a triple digit IQ

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 8:30 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

victoria is governed by fascist fuckwits

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 8:34 am

Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

misgendering will be at the top of the offence list

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 8:36 am

Human Engineering is the greatest engineering challenge of this transition…and we know where Scientific Socialism always ends up.

A properly designed smart charger and backend database will solve all problems.

A car registered to someone with a suitable Social Credit score, or a Maaate, is obviously going to have charging priority in the Mad Max energy future.

Inappropriate travel destinations picked up on car GPS? Vaccination out of date? Fail to vote correctly? IP address identified as posting at the Cat?

A trip to an Origin Community Compliance office required to reinstate charging privileges.
Room 101 meet the Probation Office.

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 8:39 am

The murdered woman lived in Australia for four years.
At a loss as to what the Australian community could or should have done
We need to do something so that nothing of that sort ever happens to any other Australian women. We need to empower our women in a way that no one in future can exploit them or take advantage of them wherever they are in the world.”

And several media outlets dumbed down the story to give the impression that she was a dinki di, true blue conned into taking her “Oz” kids to Paki by hubby …..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 23, 2022 8:39 am

Zipstersays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:26 am
Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

like calling politicians lying slime buckets

Quite so, truth has no standing.

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 8:41 am

“Sri Lankans fleeing from an actual crisis get the bums rush.”

Country is in such a mess, according to the media, yet still has no problems hosting cricket tours .. LOL!

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 8:42 am

UK Police have failed to solve a single burglary in neighbourhoods covering nearly half the country over the past three years, a Telegraph investigation has found.

why waste time on redistributive activities when you have hate speech and misgendering to deal with….

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 8:43 am

1000 dead, according to the noos. Estimated damage bill of $1.70.

report I read reckoned $10million of improvements .. LOL!

Tom
Tom
June 23, 2022 8:51 am

victoria is governed by fascist fuckwits

The Daniel Andrews method is simple:

a) pick a popular public works project – in this case, the removal of suburban railway crossings.

b) spend tens of millions of dollars advertising the project – a de facto re-election campaign paid for by taxpayers.

c) give your police force lots of fancy new weapons, which turns them into Daniel Andrews fans.

d) Unleash the police onto dissidents who object to police behaving like a lawless street gang.

Ironically, Andrews had nothing to do with creating his biggest advantage in the 2022 state election in November: the Stupid Fucking Liberals havee turned cowardice into an art form and behave like teenage fans of the Andrews regime.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 8:52 am

That didn’t last long.

Fox Mogul Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall Getting a Divorce (22 Jun)

Bryce Tom, a spokesperson for Murdoch, declined to comment. A representative for Hall did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

At least it sounds less messy than what transpired in the Pistol and Boo household.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 8:54 am

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

Are the likes of Lidia Thorpe, what we can expect comprising an Aboriginal “Voice to Parliament?”

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 8:57 am
John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 8:57 am

John Sheldricksays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:08 am
Do you have any actual evidence to back this statement, or is it just another product of your fevered mind (you don’t have a brain to be fevered). And what about (lower case) crimes? are they covered by the instructions?

LOL. It’s early morning humour………….Too early in the day for you I guess…………………….

My comment was directed at Dickless, aka Dick Ed, but if you feel that it applies to you ………………………

LOL. That’s me caught out speed reading again. I now withdraw my comment but agree with the Ed Case heading. Knob “Ed” could also apply to the said individual/it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2022 8:58 am

UK cops trying it on.
I look forward to Ricky Gervais going to town on it.

Joe Lycett standup joke investigated by police after complaint
Comedian says he was asked to explain context of gag to investigating officers, and will keep it in his show

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jun/22/joe-lycett-standup-joke-investigated-by-police-after-complaint

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:01 am

This is the question that’s been bugging me for literally years now. And I can only see one answer to it, namely deliberately. Let me know if you can think of any others.

how do you miss the most blatant safety signal in vaccine history?

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 23, 2022 9:03 am

Another foggy and dead calm start to the day.
It’s weather for ducks, Teal ducks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 9:04 am

Speaking of EV charging load on the network, add this to the mix.
Several local councils in Melbourne wanting to ban gas appliances in new apartment approvals.
So, come home, plug in the Tesla, turn on the plasma and fire up the induction cooktop (x 1 million).
Although the gas ban has gone quiet of late.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 23, 2022 9:09 am

shatterzzzsays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:41 am
“Sri Lankans fleeing from an actual crisis get the bums rush.”

Country is in such a mess, according to the media, yet still has no problems hosting cricket tours .. LOL!

Bread and circuses without the bread.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 9:09 am

Please, please, let Adam Bandit and Lydia Thorpe run free.
Any “RRRRecognition” referendum will sink on launching with them sticking their heads up every five minutes.

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 9:11 am

Are the likes of Lidia Thorpe, what we can expect comprising an Aboriginal “Voice to Parliament?”

lest we forget! .. she wasn’t selected by the “people” but by the Greens party members which leaves the Greens vetting & selection process looking a tad ordinary ..!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 9:14 am

said “she was only in the parliament to “infiltrate” the “colonial project”

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Can the Senate vote to censure, or expel, Lidia Thorpe?

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:14 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 9:15 am

No show from ussr’s crazy step-father overnight.
A big “Hi!” from the North Melbourne mansion NFI!

rosie
rosie
June 23, 2022 9:17 am

I’m not advocating for us to accept economic ‘refugees’ from Sri Lanka just pointing out the idiocy of feting the Biloela four and turning back the rest.

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:18 am
Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:20 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 9:20 am

how do you miss the most blatant safety signal in vaccine history?

The CDC and WHO have been fully captured for the cause. I’m amused that the Left religion is now going through a prissy Baptist phase. They certainly don’t ever learn from history do they?

Reports: US to Drastically Reduce Nicotine Content in Cigarettes (21 Jun)

President Joe Biden’s administration is set to announce a new policy requiring cigarette producers to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels, US media reported Tuesday

Prohibition by Stealth: W.H.O. Pushes Tax Increases, Price Controls to Limit Alcohol Consumption (22 Jun)

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is concerned at global rates of alcohol consumption and published advice Tuesday calling for a lift in taxation rates as well as price controls to keep it out of reach.

The moves were aired as the W.H.O. prepared for a conference addressing the issue of alcohol consumption in Europe and ways to limit access through regulation, prohibition and control.

They really are the Fun Police aren’t they?

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 9:23 am

They really are the Fun Police aren’t they?

It’s no fun torturing people who are already anaesthetised.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 23, 2022 9:24 am

Dotsays:
June 23, 2022 at 7:10 am
Amber Heard is in talks to write a tell-all book now that she has “nothing to lose” in the aftermath of ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit, according to a new report.

At this rate, she will be sold off in Dubai as a concubine. A fate worse than Lindsay Lohan.

Dubai porta potties dont get to fling poop back

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 23, 2022 9:29 am

Indolentsays:
June 23, 2022 at 9:14 am
I’m not sure about the panicking part, they’re still too busy covering it all up.

Not sure that article is particularly useful.
It screams hysterically that 9 out of 10 covid deaths in Canada are vaxxed, but what it neglects to mention is that Canada’s vaxxed rate (at least according to official figures) is 93%.
That translates to 7% unvaxxed accounting for 10% of covid deaths.

Those numbers hardly suggest that the vaxxes are very effective – indeed on the raw numbers they seem less effective than annual flu shots, which are notoriously haphazard at about 60% effective in a good year. Also, I think we’ve learned to be wary of official figures. And, most importantly, broad brush stats like that can often be misleading – to get any sort of real picture we’d need to see some breakdowns by age, health status etc.

However, the article isn’t in itself any basis for a beatup about vaxx related deaths.

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:32 am
Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 9:32 am

Just yesterday I was reading about the 1919 Communist revolution in Hungary and some of its parallels with the progreess of wokeism (an instrument of Marxism) in Western countries today, especially the indoctrination of children, including the normalisation and introduction of them to sexual perversions in the attempt to undermine the ” bourgeoise” family, which was pioneered by George Lukacs, later famous in the West as a literary critic.

Today this appears at American Conservative:

The above stories offered serious lessons to Hungarians. Giving up our roots, letting loose unbridled liberalism, failing to measure the danger of socialism, and allowing weak democrats and soft-handed liberals to rule, all helped the far-left dominate.

[Americans]…have yet to experience is occupation by foreign powers, or totalitarian dictatorships working through internal agents and external powers. Then, oppression is not only economic or political, but total. It comes for your home, your children, your thoughts, and your soul.

‘Americans Must Learn From Hungary’s Past’

Rossini
Rossini
June 23, 2022 9:33 am

flyingduksays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:20 am

Well said
I agree 100%

Slim Cognito
Slim Cognito
June 23, 2022 9:34 am

9 out of 10 covid deaths in Canada are vaxxed…….. the article isn’t in itself any basis for a beatup about vaxx related deaths

Other than it clearly doesn’t prevent infection, symptoms or death. What is the point of it again?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 9:35 am

Dr Faustussays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:36 am
Human Engineering is the greatest engineering challenge of this transition…and we know where Scientific Socialism always ends up.

A properly designed smart charger and backend database will solve all problems.

A car registered to someone with a suitable Social Credit score, or a Maaate, is obviously going to have charging priority in the Mad Max energy future.

‘Mad Max’ apocalypse vehicles spied as filming begins

Movie cars have been spotted as filming kicks off for the latest Mad Max instalment in parts of NSW.

The first spy photos of the next Mad Max film have appeared as production returns to Australia.

Director George Miller has begun filming for Furiosa, a prequel of the 2015 movie Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, with The Queen’s Gambit lead Anya Taylor-Joy playing a young Furiosa alongside Chris Hemsworth.

Journalist and photographer John Veage captured these images of the set at Kurnell, around 30km south of Sydney’s CBD, where the former sand mine is being used – the same location where primary filming for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome occurred in 1985.

Filming is also said to be occurring in Hay, in the Riverina region of south-west New South Wales, as well as in an area outside of Broken Hill, in the state’s far west.

Images published by The Daily Mail show a 1948 Buick Special known as ‘Polecat #7’ together with an early iteration of ‘Claw Car #1’, a 1980 Ford F-250 tow truck, both of which appeared in Fury Road.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 23, 2022 9:40 am

Andrews government ‘perpetuating’ a ‘victimhood culture forever’

The Spectator’s Alexandra Marshall says the idea in Daniel Andrews’ mind is to “help reconciliation by digging up the trauma of the past for every new generation”.

The Andrews government introduced the first treaty authority bill as the state seeks to negotiate a formal reconciliation process with the Indigenous community.

“What he’s actually doing is ensuring that you’re taking these young kids, who love each other and have no problem and are fully reconciled, and making sure that you divide them into oppressors and victims of crimes they never committed,” Ms Marshall told Sky News host Rowan Dean.

“And so you will perpetuate this victimhood culture forever, it won’t actually reconcile anything at all.”

Sky of course, the perpetrators of this nonsense just want power and money out of it. Always follow the money.

Miltonf
Miltonf
June 23, 2022 9:40 am

Yes George Lukacs. Had forgotten about him. Evil.

Indolent
Indolent
June 23, 2022 9:40 am

Those numbers hardly suggest that the vaxxes are very effective – indeed on the raw numbers they seem less effective than annual flu shots, which are notoriously haphazard at about 60% effective in a good year.

If only the adverse reactions were similar to the flu shot. Also, I don’t recall mandates for flu shots, though I did read some time ago that Fauci was trying unsuccessfully to introduce them. They were going to get here one way or the other.

BREAKING: 26-Yr-Old NFL Player Dies Unexpectedly…Cause of Death Is “Unknown”

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2022 9:41 am

Roger, if you thought that column on Hungary was interesting, follow Michael Malice on twitter & YouTube.
When he’s not trolling he spends a lot of time on totalitarian mistakes of the 20th century.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2022 9:43 am

The full Joe Biden press conference over night was chilling.
He kept saying the quiet parts out loud.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 9:43 am

ukie lines in donbass are crumbling

Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 9:44 am

“And so you will perpetuate this victimhood culture forever, it won’t actually reconcile anything at all.”

That’s why they keep shifting the goal posts.

Given the flak that useful idiot Perrottet received over his flag proposal, it seems a good portion of the general public are well and truly over it.

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 9:45 am

Cassie of Sydney:

When you watch a tranny and observe how he dresses, how he puts on makeup, how he walks, you can see that his notion of what constitutes “a woman” is completely sexual, kinky, even pornographic, this is exhibited in their attire, fishnet stockings, high heels and satiny silky clothes. They want to look like whores because that’s how they think of women. They’re freaks….it’s pure misogynism.

That’s a very good point -hadn’t thought of it in quite those terms before.
Ta.

Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 9:45 am

Will look him up, bern.

Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 9:50 am

…allowing weak democrats and soft-handed liberals to rule, all helped the far-left dominate.

I give you Dom Perrottet.

Apparently he’s now best chums with Australia’s most subversive premier, Daniel Andrews.

Roger
Roger
June 23, 2022 9:51 am

They’re freaks….it’s pure misogynism.

It goes deeper than that; it’s a rejection of God’s created order: male and female.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
June 23, 2022 9:55 am

Larry Fink could walk down George Street and 99% of people wouldn’t know one of the key architects of so much of US policy just went past.

Parker and Hart – The Wizard if I’d

The King is a fink

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 9:56 am

Don’t pump brakes: our COVID strategy must change to reflect reality

Australia continues to release the pandemic brakes, such as the easing of mask mandates in airports and isolation rules for positive cases, sending a strong “mission accomplished” signal to the public. However, this narrative is in contradiction to what the numbers say about widespread infection, suffering and disruption.

Australia continues to release the pandemic brakes, such as the easing of mask mandates in airports and isolation rules for positive cases, sending a strong “mission accomplished” signal to the public. However, this narrative is in contradiction to what the numbers say about widespread infection, suffering and disruption.

Omicron has had a massive impact. More than 7 million COVID-19 cases have been registered in Australia this year – 20 times more than the two previous years. A study released on Monday indicates that this probably represents around half of the actual number infected. That suggests about half of the Australian population has been infected.

Still happy to be unvaxxed and stick with anti-virals

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 9:59 am

Zyconoclast:
This is still going on? The rapes and murders of girls in Rotherham by Muslim men for over 20 years can only be happening with the connivance of the Police and Social Services!

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 23, 2022 10:08 am

Let’s ignore the fact that it will likely melt the Distribution networks if they are all charged at night.

A practical demonstration was the old ‘hood.
The original three bedroom, one bathroom houses on two 16p titles began being sold off and replaced with the must have at least four beds, 2 bath, ensuite, pool
and ducted air dog boxes on 16p.
The local transformer started going boom on a regular basis until everything including all the above ground wiring was replaced.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 23, 2022 10:09 am

“We should be kind, but not encouraging to it.”

With respect Lizzie, I disagree.

My experiences are limited with this stuff, but here are three:

1. A hesitant and nervous woman acquaintance shows me pics of her ‘transitioning’ teenage daughter and I know that this mother has been subjected to a barrage of ‘we’ll take your child if you don’t go along with this’. I listen to the pronoun ‘he’ being used for this girl as this loving mother tells me about when the pics of her ‘son’ were taken, and I say nice general non-gendered things, like ‘that’s a good photo’ etc, and at the end I look at the last photo and say kindly to the mother ‘she’s still a girl though, isn’t she?’, adding ‘plenty decide to change back as they grow older’. The mother is almost in tears by this comment and agrees with me, reverting to using ‘she’ for her daughter, and letting down her barrier in a way she hadn’t felt able to do before. Was I being kind, or unkind? I don’t know.

2. Hearty old salt, our captain on a sailing day-tour cruise in Tasmania wears earings and has titties, but bellows out the instructions to the crew in fine form for a deep-throated seaman. As we leave, a male passenger loudly and sincerely congratulates this shemale with ‘Well done, Sir’. And that seemed to me to be a good way to handle it.

3. Grandson shows me pics of his set of male friends who include one in a skirt. They look like a nice group, I say at first, for he is clearly proud of them. Then I say ‘I don’t think a dress makes a boy into a girl though’ adding ‘to me it’s just a fashion these days’. Staid old grandma, but he was listening.

In these instances you have to negotiate the circumstance and situation, being kind when you can imho. Also Cassie, I wasn’t brave enough to say anything at my defacto daughter-in-law’s photographic art exhibition, picturing 70’s Kings Cross ‘Les Girls’ cross-dressers who were avowedly not transgender, but which included an array of ‘real’ trannies arriving late in the evening. This is ‘art’ these days. I quietly say to this artist that I’m a big believer in two sexes only; but she knows that already. I couldn’t see any point making a scene at this exhibition, although I would happily write a piece about my views that it is part of a wider cultural aberration if asked.

I wonder too how I would go if I came face-to-face with an internationally famous professor I used to know and enjoy being with in the days before his ‘transition’. Could I ignore it? I certainly wouldn’t congratulate him on it. I think most of all I would be terribly sad for him, to see him in such a state of self-delusion, that my impulse would be to be kindly. Individual cases are always difficult.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
June 23, 2022 10:12 am

The King is a fink

I liked that cartoon series.
One of my favourite pieces of graffitti also referenced a fink.
In an old Melbourne train many years ago: “Disraeli is a fink.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 10:12 am

Delayed Higgins rape trial now set for October
Courtney Gould
COURTNEY GOULD

The trial of the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins will now begin in the first week of October after a speech at the Logies caused the court to rule for it to be delayed.

Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting Ms Higgins inside Parliament House in 2019.

He was due to stand trial in the ACT Supreme Court next week.

But lawyers representing Mr Lehrmann were successful in their application to delay the trial following the publicity that surrounded Lisa Wilkinson’s Logies acceptance speech.

ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum said she had “robbed Peter to Paul” to ensure the trial would go ahead this year.

“That’s a result of some pinching and robbing Peter to pay Paul. To be more precise, the only way to accommodate dates is by me sacrificing some time out of court and leave,” she told the court on Thursday.

Defence barrister Steven Whybrow had asked the court to hold off until the beginning of next year, raising concern the “bushfire” of publicity would still be burning in October.

“We would like there to be no further issues and delays,” he told the court, adding he had availability issues within the time frame named.

But Justice McCallum said she would not wait to hold the trial until next year, believing a three-month period was enough time to dampen the publicity around the case.

The case will likely commence on October 4.

We are assuming Lisa Wilkinson will keep her mouth shut, this time?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 10:13 am

Filming is also said to be occurring in Hay, in the Riverina region of south-west New South Wales

Yes.
Hay.
I understand that is the beginning of a huge chase scene where our hero gets warm human excrement in his Crocs and pursues four Indian truckies to exact revenge.
Can’t wait to see it.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 23, 2022 10:14 am

Indolentsays:
June 23, 2022 at 9:40 am

If only the adverse reactions were similar to the flu shot. Also, I don’t recall mandates for flu shots, though I did read some time ago that Fauci was trying unsuccessfully to introduce them. They were going to get here one way or the other.

Those are important points Indolent and I don’t disagree at all.
But I’m presuming that you, like most vaxx sceptics, want to know the truth – and that article was at least incomplete in its assertions.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
June 23, 2022 10:15 am

monty is a fink.

John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 10:18 am

Don’t pump brakes: our COVID strategy must change to reflect reality

Australia continues to release the pandemic brakes, such as the easing of mask mandates in airports and isolation rules for positive cases, sending a strong “mission accomplished” signal to the public. However, this narrative is in contradiction to what the numbers say about widespread infection, suffering and disruption.

Australia continues to release the pandemic brakes, such as the easing of mask mandates in airports and isolation rules for positive cases, sending a strong “mission accomplished” signal to the public. However, this narrative is in contradiction to what the numbers say about widespread infection, suffering and disruption.

Omicron has had a massive impact. More than 7 million COVID-19 cases have been registered in Australia this year – 20 times more than the two previous years. A study released on Monday indicates that this probably represents around half of the actual number infected. That suggests about half of the Australian population has been infected.

Still happy to be unvaxxed and stick with anti-virals.

I will never get jabbed with these drugs as I call them. Far too many adverse events for a start. And as to the number of “Cases”, well, the accuracy of the testing has been shown to be suspect. Apparently, an open can of coca cola was tested for the “Rona” (PCR or RAT I’m not sure) and found to be positive.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 10:21 am

Lizzie – Reading your experiences with these poor people reminds me very much of the circumlocutions and veiled language used in the Soviet Union and East Germany.

Now when a friend asks me about something not narrowly scientific I say to them sorry I won’t talk about that area. When they ask me why I evade, or if pressed say it’s too dangerous. That’s where we now are.

Unfortunately low information people and the kids are really and physically suffering because of this madness. I don’t know how to prevent it happening.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 10:21 am

is The World FALLING APART?!

Russell Brand

As research shows that corporate price markups and profits jumped to their highest levels in seven decades last year, are we now seeing how an alliance between big business and government renders the rest of us powerless?
#globalcrisis #profits #bigbusiness

John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 10:22 am
Frank
Frank
June 23, 2022 10:22 am

Lidia Thorpe is 48 years old according to her wiki page, a bit old to be carrying on like that.

m0nty
m0nty
June 23, 2022 10:24 am

I am old enough to remember what the word fink meant when it was in popular usage – basically it was a dibber dobber.

So yeah I guess I’m a fink, since I work for ASIO reporting on you clowns.

John Sheldrick
June 23, 2022 10:26 am
incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
June 23, 2022 10:27 am

Viktoristan bans a symbol with heavy penalties for displaying said symbol.
Can anyone think of a 1930/40s gubbmint that banned a symbol?

The ironing. It burns.

Frank
Frank
June 23, 2022 10:28 am

The King is a fink

I liked that cartoon series.

Batfink (and his sidekick Karate) was big at my place in younger days. His wings were like a shield of steel, the bullets just bounced off. Black and white, if memory is correct, with Peter Gun style theme music.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 10:35 am

Lefties fink, righties think.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 23, 2022 10:43 am

The rapes and murders of girls in Rotherham by Muslim men for over 20 years can only be happening with the connivance of the Police and Social Services!

No no no.
According to some totes independent audit just released,
that sort of thing never happened.

There is no doubt that there were, throughout this period, legitimate concerns on the part of both the council and the police that the high-profile convictions of predominantly Pakistani offenders across the country could be capitalised on by a far-right agenda and lead to the victimisation of the Pakistani community.

Sweeping the whole mess under the carpet, then beating it with a stick until it stopped moving wasn’t connivancing.
It was defending social cohesion and pre-empting far-right activity
for the greater good.
Coincidently, one of the scumbags is fighting deportation,
because his son needs a role model at home.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 23, 2022 10:47 am

Jab jab booster…………………….

A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Andrology on June 17 vindicates another dark suspicion about COVID-19 vaccines: they harm male fertility. Specifically, researchers find declining sperm counts for up to five months after the second dose of Pfizer’s mRNA COVID-19 jab.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pfizer-vaccine-impairs-sperm-count-conspiracy-theorists-were-right_4548368.html?utm_source=opinionnoe&utm_campaign=opinion-2022-06-22&utm_medium=email&est=6XN8tsRYRWR9oSKrXgR4xkYNV5hvXHOB%2BTfj3HBXM6l6OyWWzso8pzSuNNbVoGPW6Vk8u0tg

cohenite
June 23, 2022 10:51 am

There is a whole generation who are removed from the constraints and exigencies of nature. A social infrastructure unparalleled in human history has been built up to insulate this generation from nature. They enjoy every advantage which was not available to people even 60 years ago: reliable power, medicine, social services, a lifestyle undreamed of by our ancestors. They take it for granted and think this grand virtuous act of saving the world will not affect them. This is cognitive dissonance writ large.

The psychology behind the green movement is fascinating. Sure there are grifters and spivs in it for the money to be made with the monstrous and useless renewables, the equivalent of the Easter Island statues. There are also the commies using anthropogenic global warming (AGW) to destroy Western society. But then you have the useful idiots who vote green/teal/alp and even segments of the LNP who BELIEVE there is a climate crisis. No doubt education and the MSM have played their part in convincing the masses who now accept the climate crisis. This has been so successful that any deviation – drought, flood, bushfire, earthquake (!) – from a Camelot view of the climate/weather is hailed as the worst ever and indisputable proof of AGW. There is never any evidence to support this; every prediction to do with AGW has failed as has the science (sic) generally.

So why do people BELIEVE this nonsense? Guilt, boredom, gullibility, meaning in their life, a sense of superiority over the rednecks, deniers and rubes who don’t BELIEVE? Perhaps all of them. One thing is for sure, as has happened overseas, when the renewables fail the question must be asked of these people, as they sit shivering in the dark and no change in the climate has occurred, do you still BELIEVE in AGW?

You bet, they’ll squeak.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 10:52 am

Towards the emergence of a new form of the neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Twenty six cases of CJD declared a few days after a COVID-19 “vaccine” Jab

“Resubmitted preprint withdrawn after 132 000 reads on RESEARCHGATE”
ABSTRACT

We highlight the presence of a Prion region in the different Spike proteins of the original SARS-CoV2 virus as well as of all its successive variants but also of all the “vaccines” built on this same sequence of the Spike SARS-CoV2 from Wuhan.
Paradoxically, with a density of mutations 8 times greater than that of the rest of the spike, the possible harmfulness of this Prion region disappears completely in the Omicron variant. We analyze and explain the causes of this disappearance of the Prion region of the Spike of Omicron.
At the same time, we are analyzing the concomitance of cases, which occurred in various European countries, between the first doses of Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine and the sudden and rapid onset of the first symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which usually requires several years before observing its first symptoms.
We are studying 26 Creutzfeld Jakob Diseases, in 2021, from an anamnestic point of view, centered on the chronological aspect of the evolution of this new prion disease, without being able to have an explanation of the etiopathogenic aspect of this new entity. We subsequently recall the usual history of this dreadfull subacute disease, and compare it with this new, extremely acute, prion disease, following closely vaccinations. In a few weeks, more 50 cases of almost spontaneous emergence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have appeared in France and Europe very soon after the injection of the first or second dose of Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneka vaccines. To summarize, of the 26 cases analyzed, the first symptoms of CJD appeared on average 11.38 days after the injection of the COVID-19 “vaccine”. Of these 26 cases, 20 had died at the time of writing this article while 6 were still alive. The 20 deaths occurred only 4.76 months after the injection. Among them, 8 of them lead to a sudden death (2.5 months). All this confirms the radically different nature of this new form of CJD, whereas the classic form requires several decades.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 23, 2022 11:03 am

Slim Cognitosays:
June 23, 2022 at 9:34 am
9 out of 10 covid deaths in Canada are vaxxed…….. the article isn’t in itself any basis for a beatup about vaxx related deaths

Other than it clearly doesn’t prevent infection, symptoms or death. What is the point of it again?

True, it seems not to prevent any of those things.
And, as I understand it, it doesn’t prevent transmission to others.

But on the raw numbers in the article (and, yes I know, I noted all the provisos in my previous email):
7% of the population unvaxxed were 10% of the deaths;
93% of the population vaxxed were 90% of the deaths.
That suggests, possibly, some potential value in reducing the risk of death, though hardly a spectacular success rate.

Which, if it is the case, needs to be weighed against vaxx risks – which is virtually impossible to do because no government is interested in making proper vaxx risks stats available to the serfs (even if the governments were interested in compiling those stats at all).

I’m not trying to promote the vaxxes. I’m unvaxxed myself, and fully recovered from an unpleasant but brief and non-threatening experience infection with covid. And I’m certainly not condoning any mandates for the vaxxes.

But this shouldn’t be about joining a cheer squad, it ought to be about ascertaining the truth as best we can.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
June 23, 2022 11:06 am

Sure there are grifters and spivs in it for the money to be made with the monstrous and useless renewables, the equivalent of the Easter Island statues.

Easter Island statues have some immense advantages over wind turbines and solar panels.
They don’t slaughter wildlife.
And they don’t need to be decommissioned thus leaving detritus full of toxic substances which need to be dealt with.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 23, 2022 11:08 am

So why do people BELIEVE this nonsense? Guilt, boredom, gullibility, meaning in their life, a sense of superiority over the rednecks, deniers and rubes who don’t BELIEVE? Perhaps all of them. One thing is for sure, as has happened overseas, when the renewables fail the question must be asked of these people, as they sit shivering in the dark and no change in the climate has occurred, do you still BELIEVE in AGW?

You bet, they’ll squeak.

We can see this sort of catastrophising human psychology very much in operation still by clicking on the link above to today’s SMH drama piece about Covid. The piece itself is hysterical enough, unscientific and shrieking of relevance deprivation syndrome on the part of the fallen public health czars, but the comments are absolutely incredible. Hard to comprehend that so many people could be so deluded about both the degree of threat and its relative risk, some of them calling for social distancing and mask wearing to become part of all daily life in for all time in the future (because Covid is unbeatable). They are totally hooked on masks – a fetish if I ever saw one – and on enforcement too, for these people are anti-democratic to the core.

What a parochial set of left-overs are these timid Australians was my first thought, drawing as I did on my recent memories of Britain, where Covid is nowhere at all on any agenda nor visible in any way in the culture. It was ‘over’, and what a relief that was to be sure.

Lysander
Lysander
June 23, 2022 11:13 am

This is a great Ted talk by a former Obama eco-catastrophist who oversaw many green programs roll out in California. He quickly realised solar power panels were killing birds and small animal and insect habitats, wind power took more energy to generate to create than what it made and that, globally (as at 2016) $1,5TR had been spent on nuclear and $2.0TR on ruinables and that nuclear was safer and generated 2x the power.

It’s 16 minutes and worth the watch! https://youtu.be/N-yALPEpV4w

Michael Shellenberger is his name.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 11:14 am

Tesla Model S catches fire three weeks after getting sent to junkyard

Firefighters ended up submerging the car in a water-filled pit

In what sounds like the automotive equivalent of The Walking Dead, a Tesla Model S caught fire three weeks after it was involved in an accident and sent to a junkyard. Firefighters had a difficult time putting out the blaze, and they ended up having to submerge the battery.

Posting on its official Twitter account, the Metro Fire Department of Sacramento explained that it sent crews to extinguish a vehicle fire in a wrecking yard. When they got there, firefighters found a burning Model S that had been wrecked in a non-fire-related accident about three weeks before. Why the electric sedan caught fire after sitting for nearly a month is unclear, but Metro Fire says the Tesla put up a fight.

“Crews knocked the fire down but it kept re-igniting/off-gassing in the battery compartment,” it wrote on Twitter.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 23, 2022 11:14 am

From Indolents link at 0901 about CDC not monitoring VAERS.

“the agency whose specific purview and policy was to monitor this data just told you that everything was fine and their diligence the most robust in history while failing to do even the most rudimentary first pass work they were supposed to. they not only missed but misled about what is probably the single most severe safety signal in pharmaceutical history”.

and then they said “not my job.”

Not to worry as in Oz any reporting of vaccine adverse events is frowned upon and Dr’s and media know that only the vaccine positive stories are to be run.

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 11:23 am

Indolent:

This is the question that’s been bugging me for literally years now. And I can only see one answer to it, namely deliberately. Let me know if you can think of any others.
how do you miss the most blatant safety signal in vaccine history?

Straight out of ‘Yes Minister” – you refuse to collect the information that undermines your narrative.
How blatant is the lying about the efficacy of the Ersatzvaccine?

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 11:25 am

A mystery brain illness that is baffling Canadian doctors is increasingly affecting young people, a doctor has claimed.

People who care for patients with the progressively worsening disease are also bizarrely becoming sick, as though it is catching.

The disease has been instilling confusion and fear for two years with health officials in the affected area, New Brunswick, no closer to discovering the cause.

Symptoms listed by health chiefs include memory problems, muscle spasms, balance issues, difficulty walking or falls, hallucinations, unexplained weight loss, and pain in the limbs.

The illness is similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disease, one form of which is known as “Mad Cow Disease”.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
June 23, 2022 11:25 am

Another story from Tesla

(Bloomberg) — A former Tesla Inc. contractor has refused to accept $15 million in damages over racist abuse he was subjected to at the electric vehicle maker’s northern California factory after a judge drastically slashed a $137 million jury verdict.

Owen Diaz on Tuesday told US District Judge William Orrick that he won’t agree to the the 89% cut. Instead, Diaz plans to seek a new trial, his lawyer Larry Organ said.

“In rejecting the court’s excessive reduction by asking for a new trial, Mr. Diaz is again asking a jury of his peers to evaluate what Tesla did to him and to provide just compensation for the torrent of racist slurs that was directed at him,” Organ said in an emailed statement. “Mr. Diaz seeks to restore a fair and just punitive damages award that will punish and deter Tesla for the racist conduct to which Mr. Diaz was subjected and to prevent future harassment from occurring.”

In October, Diaz won what’s believed to be one of the largest verdicts in US history for an individual plaintiff in a racial discrimination case, following a seven-day trial in San Francisco.

Orrick had denied Tesla’s request for a new trial, based on the condition that Diaz accept the reduced award.

Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Orrick ruled June 7 that Diaz can’t appeal his April decision to cut the massive jury award. The former elevator operator didn’t pinpoint “questions of law” that would warrant a review, Orrick said in his ruling.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

cohenite says: June 23, 2022 at 10:51 am

There is a whole generation who are removed from the constraints and exigencies of nature. A social infrastructure unparalleled in human history has been built up to insulate this generation from nature. They enjoy every advantage which was not available to people even 60 years ago:

Honest responses/answers please.
60 yrs ago how many housewives would (even if no longer doing) have the following;
Been unable to kill & dress a chook.
Been unable to cope with living in a dwelling that had only an outdoor dunny.
Been unfamiliar with household health threats from significant hygiene issues (eg, sewage [dunny], poultry going “off”, various rotten “stuff”, poorly treated wounds, etc)
Been unable to make clothing.
Been unable to make jumpers, beanies, socks & darn same.
Been unable to bake a cake from scratch ingredients.
Been unfamiliar with a wringer or a mangle.
Had known life without an electric refrigerator.
Been unfamiliar with living in a house that contained at least one firearm.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 11:36 am

From the above paper, which likely to have it withdrawn

With Figure 18, we can now conclude by asserting that the 8 amino acid mutations, or 21% of this small region have ACTUALLY caused the TOTAL DISAPPEARANCE of the Prion function. Two questions remain “open”:
1/ Was this Prion region “natural” or chimerical when the Wuhan virus emerged?
2/ Was this suppression of the Prion function natural following the “humanization” of the virus or was it provoked? This question also remains “open”…

Gabor
Gabor
June 23, 2022 11:39 am

GreyRanga says:
June 23, 2022 at 8:39 am

Zipstersays:
June 23, 2022 at 8:26 am
Grossly offensive behaviour in Victoria will be punished by five years behind bars under a bill introduced to state parliament on Wednesday.

like calling politicians lying slime buckets

Quite so, truth has no standing.

The same is happening in Germany as we speak, speak out against the state or government or its policies and get 5 years in jail.

Who could’ve thunk it, coming from the krauts?

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 11:40 am

Indolent:

What we are looking at is the intentional wrecking of the US transport sector by people working for the WEF.

From your link on recession.

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 11:42 am

ZK2A:

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Can the Senate vote to censure, or expel, Lidia Thorpe?

It sounds like she lied on her oath – therefore she hasn’t fulfilled the requirements to take her seat.
Burn the Witch!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 11:44 am

Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials

Results:

Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an increased risk of serious adverse events of special interest, with an absolute risk increase of 10.1 and 15.1 per 10,000 vaccinated over placebo baselines of 17.6 and 42.2 (95% CI -0.4 to 20.6 and -3.6 to 33.8), respectively. Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an absolute risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest of 12.5 per 10,000 (95% CI 2.1 to 22.9). The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).

Discussion:

The excess risk of serious adverse events found in our study points to the need for formal harm-benefit analyses, particularly those that are stratified according to risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes such as hospitalization or death.

Note:

Funding Information: This study had no funding support.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 11:47 am

ZK2A:

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Can the Senate vote to censure, or expel, Lidia Thorpe?

Behind Paywall – The Australian

EDITORIAL

Bandt’s flag rejection too serious to dismiss as stunt
The Greens’ Lidia Thorpe says she is in the Senate as an ‘infiltrator’.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
June 23, 2022 11:51 am

Bandt’s flag rejection too serious to dismiss as stunt
EDITORIAL

12:00AM JUNE 23, 2022

The refusal of Greens leader Adam Bandt and Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe, an Indigenous woman, to stand in front of the national flag raises important questions for taxpayers. Given the pair’s evident loathing for the nation, who are they really representing in return for their $210,000-plus salaries? In defending her leader in radio, television and newspaper interviews over his disgraceful removal of the Australian flag from behind him at press conferences, Senator Thorpe made a telling revelation of her own about why she was in the Senate: “I’m there to infiltrate” what she described as “the colonial project”.

Senator Thorpe describing the national flag as an “obscenity” was offensive. The flag did not represent her or her people, she said. It had “no permission to be here”; there had been no consent or treaty. It had connotations of “invasion, dispossession’’ associated with mass murders of many men, women and children”. Her reasons for seeking office would strike many who pay her salary as bizarre. She swore allegiance to “the colonising Queen” to gain access to the media and to parliament. She wanted to question the “illegitimate occupation” and for people to know “whose land they’re on”. The first people “never ceded sovereignty”. It was “time to treaty”.

The two Greens MPs’ views are anathema to Australians who love the flag for its representation of the nation’s heritage and for its Southern Cross and Commonwealth Star. Degrading a highly valued symbol is galling to those who have served the nation and its values fighting under the flag or who have lost mates or loved ones doing so. RSL Australia president Greg Melick said Mr Bandt’s action was “unfitting of a member of our national parliament”. Australians had served under the flag irrespective of race, religion or politics, The Greens’ unpatriotic, shameful behaviour is likely to prompt some people to buy and wear small flag pins. Anthony Albanese is correct when he says every parliamentarian should be proud to stand in front of the national flag. Mr Bandt’s action, the Prime Minister said, risked undermining the move for reconciliation.

But in a healthy sign of national unity, some of the most potent criticisms of Mr Bandt and Senator Thorpe have come from prominent Indigenous people, including serving and former elected MPs. Indigenous Labor MP Marion Scrymgour said Mr Bandt’s divisive act would make it harder to win broad community support for a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament. Indigenous leader Warren Mundine said he was “flabbergasted” by Senator Thorpe’s comments and asked: “So is she there to blow the place up? It is just bizarre.” Australia’s first Indigenous cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt, called on Mr Bandt to rethink. “The Australian flag has the Southern Cross on it, and the Southern Cross story in many Aboriginal cultures is significant and it’s an important symbol,” Mr Wyatt said. “In Aboriginal astronomy it is a very sacred set of stars.” Aboriginal men and women had died fighting under the flag, he said, and that should be respected.

Incoming Northern Territory Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Price said Senator Thorpe had “nothing but contempt for the Australian people”. Senator Thorpe “doesn’t see herself as an Australian, she doesn’t see herself as being represented by the Australian flag”. She was not the right person to represent the Australian people, Ms Price said. Nor did Senator Thorpe’s comments indicate she had Australia’s best interests at heart. Ms Price wants Governor-General David Hurley to look closely at Senator Thorpe’s intentions “and consider whether this is possible grounds for dismissal”. Some have dismissed Mr Bandt’s antics as a stunt, but that misses the point. His disrespectful action, and Senator Thorpe’s comments, attack the essence of our nation. Coming from elected MPs they are intolerable. All parties should condemn them now and at the next election.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 23, 2022 11:51 am

On a cold winters night there’s nothing that beats the warmth of a burning Tesla.
For the backyard bonfire, a solar battery setup will usually get the cheery glow started.
Bring your own marshmallows and hazmat suit.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 11:54 am

UVALDE SCHOOL SHOOTING

“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in”: Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools — but not clear orders

The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy.

The officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary wanted to get inside classrooms 111 and 112 — immediately. One officer’s daughter was inside. Another officer had gotten a call from his wife, a teacher, who told him she was bleeding to death.

Two closed doors and a wall stood between them and an 18-year-old with an AR-15 who had opened fire on children and teachers inside the connected classrooms. A Halligan bar — an ax-like forcible-entry tool used by firefighters to get through locked doors — was available. Ballistic shields were arriving on the scene. So was plenty of firepower, including at least two rifles. Some officers were itching to move.

One such officer, a special agent at the Texas Department of Public Safety, had arrived around 20 minutes after the shooting started. He immediately asked: Are there still kids in the classrooms?

“If there is, then they just need to go in,” the agent said.

Another officer answered, “It is unknown at this time.”

The agent shot back, “Y’all don’t know if there’s kids in there?” He added, “If there’s kids in there we need to go in there.”

“Whoever is in charge will determine that,” came the reply.

The inaction appeared too much for the special agent. He noted that there were still children in other classrooms within the school who needed to be evacuated.

“Well, there’s kids over here,” he said. “So I’m getting kids out.”

The exchange happened early in the excruciating 77 minutes on May 24

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 11:56 am

Mak Siccar says:
June 23, 2022 at 11:51 am
Bandt’s flag rejection too serious to dismiss as stunt
EDITORIAL

Thanks Mak – my github anti-paywall no longer works on The Australian

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 23, 2022 12:03 pm

m0ntysays:
June 23, 2022 at 10:24 am
I am old enough to remember what the word fink meant when it was in popular usage – basically it was a dibber dobber.

So yeah I guess I’m a fink, since I work for ASIO reporting on you clowns.

Have you ever wondered how many here might report to ASIO on you and your ilk?

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 12:03 pm

Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19
Operation Warp Speed brought to market in the United States two mRNA vaccines, produced by Pfizer and Moderna. Interim data suggested high efficacy for both of these vaccines, which helped legitimize Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA. However, the exceptionally rapid movement of these vaccines through controlled trials and into mass deployment raises multiple safety concerns. In this review we first describe the technology underlying these vaccines in detail. We then review both components of and the intended biological response to these vaccines, including production of the spike protein itself, and their potential relationship to a wide range of both acute and long-term induced pathologies, such as blood disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune diseases. Among these potential induced pathologies, we discuss the relevance of prion-protein-related amino acid sequences within the spike protein. We also present a brief review of studies supporting the potential for spike protein “shedding”, transmission of the protein from a vaccinated to an unvaccinated person, resulting in symptoms induced in the latter.We finish by addressing a common point of debate, namely, whether or not these vaccines could modify the DNA of those receiving the vaccination. While there are no studies demonstrating definitively that this is happening, we provide a plausible scenario, supported by previously established pathways for transformation and transport of genetic material, whereby injected mRNA could ultimately be incorporated into germ cell DNA for transgenerational transmission. We conclude with our recommendations regarding surveillance that will help to clarify the long-term effects of these experimental drugs and allow us to better assess the true risk/benefit ratio of these novel technologies

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 12:10 pm

60 yrs ago how many housewives would (even if no longer doing) have the following;
Been unable to kill & dress a chook

Creep up behind it. Plastic bag over the head. Whisper ‘I love you’ in its ear as it suffocates.

Then put Aunt Gerda’s pantaloons on it. Left leg first, then right. Then – ball gown over the top, careful not to disturb the comb. Some makeup – lipstick and foundation only.

Place in lounge chair, slightly offset to TV. Leave for 30 years.

Simple, yet a forgotten skill.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:11 pm

Lisa Wilkinson offers to STOP talking about Brittany Higgins’ case in urgent letter to the judge as a new date is set for the trial –  despite warning The Project host’s disastrous Logies speech sparked a ‘bushfire of publicity’

Offers to stop talking, you say.
I think she has been told to STFU by ‘Er ‘Onner.

Delta A
Delta A
June 23, 2022 12:13 pm

Lysandersays:
June 23, 2022 at 11:13 am

Thanks for posting that, Lysander.

This has given me valuable ‘ammunition’ for my next argument with a no-nuclear ignoramus. Shellenberger, a dedicated environmentalist, admits his total change from anti to pro nuclear when he assessed the damage caused by wind and solar to wildlife, the countryside and the atmosphere.

Well worth watching, but if you want a quick precis, watch from 14 minutes.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:14 pm

Re the earthquake in Afghanistan.
I do hope witnesses 13, 48, 65, 86 and 99 are OK.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 23, 2022 12:17 pm

Delta A

This has given me valuable ‘ammunition’ for my next argument with a no-nuclear ignoramus. Shellenberger, a dedicated environmentalist, admits his total change from anti to pro nuclear when he assessed the damage caused by wind and solar to wildlife, the countryside and the atmosphere.

Does anyone here think that the likes of m0nty-fa[scist] would even consider looking at the Schellenberger discussion? Such a contradiction of the ever-so-precious “narrative” must be ignored, lest their entire world view be destroyed.

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 12:17 pm

Interesting question, Sal. On the other side of the ledger, 60 years ago for men:

– service lawnmower
– change tyre
– service motor vehicle (oil, brake fluid)
– make simple furniture from scratch
– prune trees
– mix a barrow of mud
– change power point or tap, clear a drain

All skills that most manbuns no longer have.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 12:26 pm

strange monkeypox still spreading fast
uk 793
spain 518
germany 469
portugal 304
france 247

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 12:26 pm

But on the raw numbers in the article (and, yes I know, I noted all the provisos in my previous email):
7% of the population unvaxxed were 10% of the deaths;
93% of the population vaxxed were 90% of the deaths.
That suggests, possibly, some potential value in reducing the risk of death, though hardly a spectacular success rate.

Your comment prompted me to follow the link.

Sure enough, another Daily Exposé analytical mad skill on display: misrepresentation.

A quick glance at the numbers tells us that, in the month to June 2022, the unvaxxed made up 7% of the Canuck Covid-ridden population and 14% of the Covid deaths.

One possible conclusion from that is that you are, on average, twice as likely to die if you are unjabbed.

Obviously, if you are under 70 that’s not a huge risk to take on vs the vaccine risk. But for the over 70’s, who (the linked Canadian data tells us) make up 80% of the deaths and are 98%+ jabbed, it might be a comfort.

But that’s unlikely to shake loose change into the Daily Exposé coffers.

As you say: “…this shouldn’t be about joining a cheer squad, it ought to be about ascertaining the truth as best we can.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 23, 2022 12:27 pm

The Greens’ Lidia Thorpe says she is in the Senate as an ‘infiltrator’.

The GG could ask whether she took the oath of allegiance in good faith or misrepresented herself to his office.

rosie
rosie
June 23, 2022 12:29 pm

Jaylon Ferguson’s death from unknown causes.
Don’t even know if he was vaxxed but indolent just knows it’s a vaxx injury fatality.
Immediately ruling out accidental overdose or suicide (or death from natural causes).

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 23, 2022 12:29 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
June 23, 2022 at 12:10 pm
60 yrs ago how many housewives would (even if no longer doing) have the following;
Been unable to kill & dress a chook

Creep up behind it. Plastic bag over the head. Whisper ‘I love you’ in its ear as it suffocates.

Then put Aunt Gerda’s pantaloons on it. Left leg first, then right. Then – ball gown over the top, careful not to disturb the comb. Some makeup – lipstick and foundation only.

Place in lounge chair, slightly offset to TV. Leave for 30 years.

Simple, yet a forgotten skill.

…I’ve reported myself to ASIO, just for reading this all the way through.

duncanm
duncanm
June 23, 2022 12:30 pm

OldOzziesays:
June 23, 2022 at 11:44 am
Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials

what’s more important, IMHO, is that this is from pfizer and moderna’s own trial data!

Methods: Secondary analysis of serious adverse events reported in the placebo-controlled, phase III randomized clinical trials of Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
June 23, 2022 12:34 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 23, 2022 12:36 pm

since I work for ASIO reporting on you clowns.

It was quite a few years ago when ASIO became public knowledge, and at one stage opened their files to various wannabee activists and so on.

A lot found to their chagrin they either didn’t have a file, or had one with the contents being disappointedly small.

In other words they were legends only in their own imagination.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 12:36 pm

Drbeen Medical Lectures
576K subscribers

Makes Me Angry

Is CDC doing what they said they will do?

rosie
rosie
June 23, 2022 12:36 pm

“Well, he was unvaccinated, contracted Covid this past September, and they think it may have been a drug overdose due to paraphernalia found at the scene. We’ll have to wait for the autopsy results. What are we supposed to be discussing exactly? It’s a tragedy”

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 12:38 pm

Senator Thorpe made a telling revelation of her own about why she was in the Senate: “I’m there to infiltrate” what she described as “the colonial project”.

Indigenous Labor MP Marion Scrymgour said Mr Bandt’s divisive act would make it harder to win broad community support for a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament.

But not Thorpe’s?
The Voice is going to be an ornament on the Australian democratic process.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 12:38 pm

Reposted – Dr. F from the tail of the previous page, because it is both accurate and excellent:

Sure enough, another Daily Exposé analytical mad skill on display: misrepresentation.

A quick glance at the numbers tells us that, in the month to June 2022, the unvaxxed made up 7% of the Canuck Covid-ridden population and 14% of the Covid deaths.

One possible conclusion from that is that you are, on average, twice as likely to die if you are unjabbed.

Obviously, if you are under 70 that’s not a huge risk to take on vs the vaccine risk. But for the over 70’s, who (the linked Canadian data tells us) make up 80% of the deaths and are 98%+ jabbed, it might be a comfort.

But that’s unlikely to shake loose change into the Daily Exposé coffers.

As you say: “…this shouldn’t be about joining a cheer squad, it ought to be about ascertaining the truth as best we can.”

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 23, 2022 12:39 pm

First of my two rejected comments at the Oz today. Article about anti virals and encouraging people to take them :

“In September the TGA sent out a letter to all Dr’s with reasons why they should not prescribe a certain drug that Joe Rogan had mentioned only a few days earlier. That drug had by then been used in many countries around the world including Australia.

The first reason given was that if people knew there was a medicine available for Covid they would be less likely to take the vaccine.

Now they are actively pushing the fact there is a medicine available. The current drug is made by big pharma and costs hundreds X more than the much cheaper off patent drug which health authorities maligned by calling it a horse dewormer when in fact it had won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015”.

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 12:40 pm

Max Siccar:

Mr Bandt’s action, the Prime Minister said, risked undermining the move for reconciliation.

That’s the goal, isn’t it?
Why would Adam Ant put down a weapon he keeps beating us with?

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 12:41 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Hey. That’s my financial advisor’s IP address.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:42 pm

callisays:

June 23, 2022 at 12:17 pm

Interesting question, Sal. On the other side of the ledger, 60 years ago for men:

– service lawnmower
– change tyre

Walk of shame time.
Had a fight with my flat wheelbarrow tyre on the weekend.
Popped the old tyre off, pulled the tube out, found the leak and patched it.
I had a replacement tyre sitting in the shed for years and it was so rigid I couldn’t fit it to the rim without the right tools. Thought about warming it up with hot water but finally conceded defeat and spent the $25 on a pre-assembled rim, tube and tyre.
Hi, St Ruth!

– change power point or tap, clear a drain

Fitted a new mixer tap in our city penthouse just recently and have the biggest collection of drain plungers, probes and scrapers in the Southern Hemisphere.
But electricity and gas?
Nup.
Do not want to void my insurance.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 23, 2022 12:42 pm

I do hope witnesses 13, 48, 65, 86 and 99 are OK.

Try ringing their shoe phones to see if they answer.

The Taliban are currently begging for aid. Perhaps they could sell some of the stuff Joe gave them, I’m sure Ukraine would happily buy a lot of it.

Taliban Asks World for Aid as Afghanistan Earthquake Death Toll Passes 1,000 (22 Jun)

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 12:44 pm

Is CDC doing what they said they will do?

FOI request found that the CDC is doing no data analysis as they are required to do of the vaccine adverse events.

It’s hard not to draw the conclusion that they don’t give a stuff about adverse events, almost as though this is a planned eugenics exercise or a population reduction exercise

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 23, 2022 12:45 pm

My 2nd rejected Oz comment today under Adam Creighton’s excellent column about experts getting it wrong. I think the mods proved my point.

“Regarding Covid the only experts the media want to quote are the ones constantly pushing the next Vax.

You will never see an article about Vax injuries or even one questioning why perfectly healthy young children should be vaxxed. Or how about the fact Pfizzer tried to keep their trial information locked away for 75 years. There are plenty of Covid / Vax stories out their but MSM prefers to go with Health Department or latest institute modelling releases without question.

One of the comments I read two years ago, not in MSM, was follow the money and since then that has often been shown to be a massive factor. Plenty of people and institutions have made big money out of Covid and as a result are incentivised to keep it going.

A journalist would find plenty of interesting angles if they looked at the web pages of Senators Malcolm Roberts or Gerrard Rennick”.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:45 pm

NoFixedAddresssays:

June 23, 2022 at 12:34 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Is that near North Melbourne?

Winston Smith
June 23, 2022 12:47 pm

Calli:

– change power point

I have a power point/light switch in the laundry that needs replacing.
If I do the job, I void my house insurance.
Credentialism.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:47 pm

Hey. That’s my financial advisor’s IP address.

What a coincidence!
It’s my Philipino massage therapist’s IP address too!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2022 12:49 pm

Re the NFL player who died.
The NFL is is almost the opposite of the European football (soccer) clubs.
Ex their top tier (top earners) franchises don’t want to know much more about players health ex their performance stats.
There are rules regarding training in the heat & mandated breaks during the off season.
If someone is injured, it doesn’t even eat up salary cap space.
Bottom line, if an NFL player keels over it could be anything.

rosie
rosie
June 23, 2022 12:50 pm

What useful purpose would many of those skills serve younger adults today?
In the main, zero.
Fortunately today they have access to YouTube where many many useful skills can be picked up when required.
My youngest son has picked up many such car and gardening related skills that way.
And anyone that can read can bake a cake from scratch, if they want.
You should try my daughter’s rhubarb and apple cake.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 23, 2022 12:50 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

George Christensen?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 12:51 pm

I have a power point/light switch in the laundry that needs replacing.
If I do the job, I void my house insurance.
Credentialism.

Yeah, I know.
I have a switch which has popped a spring.
But I don’t want to push it just to make my powerpoint point.
I have a relatively minor claim in progress at the moment and, given the hoops they make you jump through over what should be a straightforward claim, I dread to think what they might do if the house burnt down.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 23, 2022 12:52 pm

180.190.162.89

Those are my way bet Keno ticket numbers, I’ll have you know.

Lysander
Lysander
June 23, 2022 12:52 pm

This has given me valuable ‘ammunition’ for my next argument with a no-nuclear ignoramus. Shellenberger, a dedicated environmentalist, admits his total change from anti to pro nuclear when he assessed the damage caused by wind and solar to wildlife, the countryside and the atmosphere.

Well worth watching, but if you want a quick precis, watch from 14 minutes.

Thanks Delta, I too found him very interesting. His conversion from deep green eco-catastrophism was very powerful. And BJ, Montifa only likes **feels** (as evidenced by Creepy Joe) and not facts.

His citations from the Lancet Journal hardly make him a fringe dweller…

I just see his written a book: Apocalypse Never lol!!!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
June 23, 2022 12:53 pm

Dr Faustussays:
June 23, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Hey. That’s my financial advisor’s IP address.

Well pay my bill or I’ll show everyone what poor advise I gave.

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 12:53 pm

2022 TV series (7 episodes) of John Wyndham’s MIDWYCH CUCKOOS out now .. been that long since I read the book, in my teens, that I’d forgotten the plot so thoroughly enjoyed re-visiting! ..
worth watching ..!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14245846/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

rosie
rosie
June 23, 2022 12:54 pm

I thought NFI was sharing his own ip address.

Cassie of Sydney
June 23, 2022 12:55 pm

Lizzie, I understand the importance of being kind on a personal basis however everything has limits, including kindness. A few years ago, in an interview which saw her cancelled by the wokerati, Germaine Greer bluntly said (I’m paraphrasing only slightly) that a man who cuts off his dick doesn’t make him a woman nor does pumping yourself full of female hormones make you a woman. However, in the same interview Greer said that if she was to meet a transgender person on a one to one basis, she’d probably use that person’s preferred pronouns. That’s being kind and I agree with Greer. I’d probably do this as well, particularly with someone like Cath McGregor who has made an effort to look like a woman. However I will not be compelled to use female pronouns and I will not be compelled to acknowledge that a man with a beard who puts on a dress and “identifies” as a woman is a woman nor will I be compelled to tolerate a male in a female only space. That’s not being unkind, that is being honest.

We can be kind on a personal basis, but being “kind” on a societal level has led us to this state of disarray, confusion and ludicrousness, to a state where we’re expected to acknowledge lies over truth and we’re we being compelled to change not just our language but our very perception of what is reality and biology.

I’m reminded of Popper’s “The paradox of tolerance” which is that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. We are now seeing this happen in the West with so many things and I feel this applies strongly to the whole transgender movement. Being kind without limit is enabling those who wish to destroy biology and blur reality and this writer, as an adult human female, says no.

Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 12:59 pm

China in Focus – NTD

00:52 Schools Replace Confucius Institutes w/ New Programs
02:29 Severe #Flooding: 85 Rivers Surpass Warning Levels
03:44 Bank Runs Begin in Shanghai, Other Chinese Cities
05:19 Chinese Bank: E-Transfer Limit Hits New Low
06:17 China Property Sector: Trade Garlic for House
07:19 Shanghai: Locals Should ‘Donate’ to COVID-19 Control
10:00 #WorldCup Reinstates China Reference for Taiwan
11:39 Chinese Asylum Seekers Jump 800% In 10 Years

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 1:00 pm

Dr Faustussays:
June 23, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Hey. That’s my financial advisor’s IP address.

Congratulation Doctor!
With our most diligent researching and using our highly esteemed investment advisor we have made for you 10% return in just one month.
Yes, it true.
Ten percent!!!
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Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 23, 2022 1:01 pm

Cassie for next Wentworth MP. You know it makes sense.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 23, 2022 1:02 pm

rosiesays:

June 23, 2022 at 12:54 pm

I thought NFI was sharing his own ip address.

He’s in the Philippines?
That explains a lot.

calli
calli
June 23, 2022 1:08 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Chuckle. What’s Mater up to now?

😀

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 1:14 pm

‘Hypocrite’ politician is slammed for wasting precious electricity by leaving his office lights on 24/7- despite demanding ordinary Aussies and even hospitals reduce their usage to stop blackouts

– Energy minister accused of wasting power by leaving lights on in electoral office
– Matt Kean says lights are on 24-7 in his Hornsby office because of a wiring fault
– Electrician offered to travel from northern beaches to fix light problem for free
– Comes after Mr Kean urged everyone statewide to conserve power amid crisis

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
June 23, 2022 1:15 pm

Unvaccinated teachers who refused to get a Covid jab are finally allowed to return to work in Victoria – as the state battles a crippling staffing shortage

– Unvaccinated teachers, school staff and childcare workers can resume work
– Mandate which required those workers to be triple vaccinated will end on Friday
– Parents won’t be able to ask for the vaccination status of school staff
– Mandates scrapped in mainstream schools but will continue in specialist school

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
June 23, 2022 1:23 pm

Your IP address is 180.190.162.89 in Busay, Cebu, Philippines (6000)

Chuckle. What’s Mater up to now?

Well, whatever it is, he seems to be offering a smashing rate of return.

And pretty safe, too, I imagine.

Sophisticated investors only, mind you. So don’t get too excited.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 23, 2022 1:27 pm

From The Australian:

On Wednesday morning, Matthew Collins, president of the Australian Bar Association, was interviewed on the Seven Network’s Sunrise program and said it was a “serious possibility” that authorities might look into charging The Project co-host Wilkinson with contempt of court after her Logies speech on Sunday night, which subsequently resulted in the delay of the trial of the man accused of raping former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins. Within four hours of his appearance on the breakfast TV show, Dr Collins was approached to represent the Ten Network and Wilkinson.

Wow. Talk about buying off the opposition.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 1:34 pm

Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Can the Senate vote to censure, or expel, Lidia Thorpe?

Local Senator’s office informs me that they have received a number of phone calls asking that question.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 23, 2022 1:35 pm

Jab jab booster………………………

The bottom line is that the Pfizer Phase 3 trial which was used by NIAID, FDA and CDC to justify the emergency use authorization is pretty much a junk clinical trial which was inappropriately halted long before it even got close to meeting the intended follow up period, did not provide a sufficiently long follow up analysis of vaccination-associated adverse events, and in which the control group was intentionally eliminated. This resulted in basically erasing any opportunity to ever get to the bottom of what the major true risks of the Pfizer mRNA inoculations were. In terms of more minor risks, the study was not powered (not big enough) to evaluate those.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239

Old bloke
Old bloke
June 23, 2022 1:35 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
June 22, 2022 at 10:12 pm

Birds of the Northern Territory:

Plovers, aka Avian Gronks
Ibis, aka the Bin Chicken
Kites, aka Shithawks

The End

I’d also include the stone curlews and the bush chooks amongst the weird birds in Darwin. The stone curlews have a blood chilling call in the middle of the night like a maiden being ravished, and the bush chooks can make a real mess in your garden and you’re not allowed to chase them away.

shatterzzz
June 23, 2022 1:35 pm

– Electrician offered to travel from northern beaches to fix light problem for free

Just what NSW needs another idiot! .. LOL!
Don’t know about anyone else but a “sparky” offering a “trougher” a “freebie” would have me very dubious about letting him near anything electrical or any type of domestic repair job .. FFS!

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
June 23, 2022 1:37 pm
Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 1:38 pm
Zipster
Zipster
June 23, 2022 1:41 pm

– Matt Kean says lights are on 24-7 in his Hornsby office because of a wiring fault

or is it a loser error?

cohenite
June 23, 2022 1:49 pm

My pick of Tom’s Toons this morning is this Branco effort comparing the differing approaches of obuma, biden and Trump to the ME:

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thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 23, 2022 2:00 pm

So yeah I guess I’m a fink, since I work for ASIO reporting on you clowns.

Incorrect.
You are a know-nufink, a different species of fink altogether

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 23, 2022 2:06 pm

Can someone with access to the Oz copy/paste the piece by Adam Creighton?

Thanks in advance.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 23, 2022 2:15 pm

‘Experts’ have been so wrong on just about everything Adam Creighton Follow @Adam_Creighton
12:00AM June 23, 2022
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It’s hard to recall a period in history in which experts have been so comprehensively wrong on so many topics in such a short time. Think Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inflation.

Intelligence experts looked foolish when it turned out Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction after all.

The Queen took a dim view of economists, who failed en masse to foresee problems in the world’s banking system that precipitated the global financial crisis in 2008.

Economists have a long history of being wrong, at least since more than 300 of them publicly warned Margaret Thatcher in 1981 that the British prime minister’s belt-tightening policies would cause a recession, only to be proved spectacularly wrong a few months later.

But the decade beginning in 2020 appears to have taken institutional wrongness to a higher plane. Economists, even after the embarrassment of calling inflation “transitory” for most of last year, are still at it; they wrote a public letter in September last year playing down concerns about inflation and encouraging Joe Biden to press ahead with his $US3.5 trillion Build Back Better package. But with inflation at almost 9 per cent in the US, supporters of the package have gone strangely quiet in recent months.

Foreign policy experts, though, have given economists a run for their money since Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting the US and Europe to wallop Russia with unprecedented sanctions designed to compel Vladimir Putin to stop his illegal invasion.

They fired a bazooka at their own feet, doing nothing to avert the war while crushing the competitiveness of European industry and slashing the living standards of ordinary Americans and Europeans. Goodbye German car industry, on current trends.

It’s worse, though. In late March Biden, under the advice of experts no doubt, said Russia’s currency would be turned to “rubble” by sanctions. This week the rouble reached a seven-year high against the US dollar, becoming the best performing currency in the world this year.

Interest rates on Russian 10-year government bonds, at about 9 per cent, are one percentage point lower than they were before the war. The Russian central bank is cutting interest rates as the Fed lifts them.

Soaring energy prices, as a result mainly of Western sanctions, have supercharged Russian oil and gas revenues, quadrupling the Russian government’s budget surplus in May compared with the same month a year ago, as Putin gloated in St Petersburg last week.

Security and intelligence experts haven’t done much better, routinely foreshadowing the collapse of Russian forces, or even the imminent death of Putin from a variety of diseases, all while those forces appear to have slowly occupied a fifth of Ukraine, including the crucial land corridor between Crimea and Russia.

Perhaps these are the same US intelligence experts who in October 2020 publicly said they were convinced the files on Hunter Biden’s laptops, which have since raised serious questions about the business dealings of the US President’s family, had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”. Perhaps, but it was also entirely real, as similarly benighted media experts have now conceded.

Then there’s the climate change and energy experts who have been telling us for years a rising share of solar and wind power in national grids would cause prices to decline, when the two nations furthest down that path – Germany and Denmark – have the most expensive power in Europe.

Batteries would continue to get cheaper, the experts told us, seemingly oblivious of the impact an immense increase in mandated demand for electric cars and giant lithium batteries would have on the price of the critical minerals they require. Not very smart.

But no group of experts can compete with epidemiologists and other so-called public health experts for being so militantly and repeatedly wrong about every aspect of their supposed speciality, which will go down as one of the great fiascos of history.

Three weeks to flatten the curve turned into almost 850 days of chaotic, arbitrary restrictions that appeared to do very little in the end to stop the spread of Covid-19, let alone pass any sort of rational cost-benefit assessment.

Cloth masks worked, then they didn’t; vaccines protected against infection, then they didn’t. Two doses were enough, then three, then four. The virus emerged zoonotically for certain, then it didn’t.

“Experts say”, “experts warn” has become something of a joke. It’s not surprising that less than a fifth of American parents, for instance, intend to vaccinate their toddlers against Covid-19, according to a recent Kaiser Foundation survey, even though experts are recommending it urgently.

This false narrative of a consensus among experts risks damaging public respect for all of them. That’s a pity because genuine expertise is valuable.

The handful of people presented by the media as experts are a sliver of the total, among whom there is rarely a true consensus on anything. Social media has supercharged the incentives to moralise and fall victim to groupthink. On top of that, expert ranks have swollen as society has become richer, enabling more people to think for a living.

That means the average quality of advice has declined, providing the media with a greater number of potentially crowd-pleasing, dubious opinions to promote. Experts get it wrong often because they bear few personal consequences of their advice. The accuracy of past predictions or assessments is rarely checked. For experts, it’s much more important to be on the right side of the debate than to be right. Most of all, experts’ incomes typically are guaranteed whatever they say; others bear the consequences.

The past few years have been a crisis for the reputation of experts, but not for experts themselves.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 23, 2022 2:17 pm

Cheers ZK2A.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
June 23, 2022 2:18 pm

That’s a very good point -hadn’t thought of it in quite those terms before.

Cassie, a former flatmate for reasons unknown as he wasn’t gay knew a lot of gay guys, and he claimed vociferously that they all deep down hated women.

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