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2016, yep, that one election my prediction was wrong. For the next eight years of US elections, I was correct…
Thanks for the UN report, Dover, but I stopped reading it when I got to these sorts of comments. For…
Good news from the Netherlands? https://x.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1856753778814308733?t=xv5kBPk-3W4HRXH8Ugn9Hg&s=19
JC November 14, 2024 12:03 pm Will be interesting to see which country is the buyer.It’s marketing bullshit to suggest…
Good luck!
Don’t forget to pack your trousers.
Give it a year or two and the expert advice will go back to the pandemic management plans that were thrown out with covid. The ones that looked very like what Sweden did.
No admissions of wrongdoing though.
Northern Beaches Council – Charge Ahead! Electric Vehicle Charging Locations
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Council invoice the providers of EV charging locations as outlined in our Delivery Program and Budget – fees and charges. You can find more detail about our Delivery Program here.
The FY2022/23 fees are $1,737 (annual fee) and $565 (one-off application fee).
Yup.
Whatever their personal proclivities, that was 360° awareness reduced to a tiny fraction.
Message: Not Serious.
I think we all needed a Kenn Worth Road Ranger pep-talk.
Certainly fired me up to do … what was it I was going to do again?
Ah, yes, that’s it.
Fight tYrAnNy.
Well done, Bear! And good luck. I hope the weeds haven’t taken over while you’ve been away. 🙂
IT’S THE SIMPSONS’ WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT:
Carlos That Notices Things
@BasQuetzal
This came out in 2006
57 secs and prescient with respect to today
Further to the superannuation/tax issue – after a roughly 30 year working life (with a couple of Friday afternoons off for golf and lunch), vast PAYG tax and private health insurance (now dropped) – with the NDIS and hospitalisation I suspect I am in deficit. Yes, there are significant inefficiencies in government and public services, yes lower taxes would allow you to make private provision for most (if not all) of these services but on balance Australia gets them about right.
Merriam-Webster Changes the Definition of ‘Female’
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary has caved to the trans agenda. In order to appease woke activists, the dictionary publisher has added a secondary definition of “female” that defines the term as “having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.” The key term here is “gender identity,” which demonstrates that Merriam-Webster maintains that gender is not directly connected to sex. A female is a woman. Trans-identifying males are not female. However, according to trans activists, men can be women.
This is not the only part of the definition that has changed in the online edition of Merriam-Webster.
Notice the primary definition of female: “Of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs.” In Merriam-Webster’s tenth edition, the dictionary defines the noun female as “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or produces eggs.” The change in the online edition to include the phrase, “typically has the capacity” shows Merriam-Webster’s attempt to include trans-identifying males in the definition of female. While this phrase may refer to women who cannot bear children due to infertility, given their nod to “gender identity” in defining the word “female,” it is most likely another way to appease the trans community.
Ironically, the “kids definition” of the adjective “female” in the online edition remains the original one: “of, relating to, or being the sex that bears young or lays eggs.” We are at a point when the children’s definition of a word is the real definition while the adult definition is politicized nonsense.
Especially as it costs nothing to grow!
“chronic fatigue syndrome is definitely a complication of viral infection – whether a flu or Covid or any other viral infection.”
Indeed Vicki. In August 2017 I contracted Avian Bird Flu. I’ve never been so sick and I not only had chronic fatigue syndrome afterwards but I also got very sick again in December 2017 and in May 2018.
Perhaps taxing the exploding profits of fat cat corporates might be a solution.
What is this “male” of which they speak?
Do they have a definition yet, so we can determine its opposite?
Thanks for your undergraduate economics lesson mUnty. Still an F I see.
Timing is everything Bear.
If you really had to spend two years in rehab, you picked the best two years in a century to do it.
Yeah. Slipped into those NDIS billions. Can’t see it being around in 10 years somehow. Suspect they won’t get around to collecting old wheelchairs.
These “exploding profits” are funding my retirement – very comfortably, thank you.
Bear, I cannot treat seriously the hair-pulling by coddled urban elites about worker wage growth when corporate profits are sky high and executive remuneration is through the roof.
A bit of inflation is the least of our problems at the moment. The previous below-target inflation regime wasn’t working for the average worker as their real wages were dropping, maybe this new normal will deliver them better outcomes.
“Perhaps taxing the exploding profits of fat cat corporates might be a solution”
Monty gets his talking points from Teals confirmed!
Pay rises for everyone!
Josh Frydenberg joins Goldman Sachs lol.
Actually, what have input costs grown by?
Indolent says:
July 21, 2022 at 9:27 am
What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You: Novavax’s ‘Loud-and-Clear’ Nanoparticle Adjuvant
Matrix-M.
Congratulations Bear!
Idiot of the Day in the Letters section of the Oz:
Before Europeans came to this country it was in pristine condition because the inhabitants caused no damage. They had a lifestyle that kept them fit and healthy. Contrast that with the environmental report this week (“Farmers warn against land grab”, 20/7) that shows that in the brief 200 years we have been here, our superior way of life has degraded the environment to crisis point.
At the same time, by imposing our way of life on these previously healthy and satisfied people, we have largely destroyed what they had and exposed them to the evils of our own culture, such as drugs and processed food, which have had a devastating impact.
There is now considerable discrepancy between their quality of life and ours. All that is being asked is that we give them some control over how they live so they can figure it out for themselves. If they make mistakes then that would put them on a par with us – I see nothing to complain about here.
Mary Marlow, Blackheath, NSW
MCB and SHAC are free to buy me a mansion on acres.
Upper Murray preferred.
The Minister making climate change spending her main priority . Fvck me swinging!
This is for that left wing drip that keeps dribbling on this blog.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1549685535815647232
Infanticide…cannibalism…..savage and brutal tribal punishments……
On the question of whether long covid exists.
I find it interesting that there is widespread acceptance by the medical fraternity and others that long covid exists, but when significant and ongoing vax side effects are claimed, the same “players” are almost entirely of the reverse opinion.
As an example, the other week I read a report on news.com.au of an Australian scientist who was left unable to work for eight months.
https://news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/outright-lying-australian-scientist-hits-out-at-tga-after-lifechanging-covid-vaccine-injury/news-story/c57a554e4f7b6750e8ae6ff2db6c9514
As Dr Rado Faletic points out, when he went looking for answers to what he has been experiencing because the TGA was not interested in his adverse effects reports, he found “hundreds of people” on-line who had submitted reports of similar symptoms to the TGA.
See also the case of DJ Tyson Illingworth, aka tyDI, which was reported by news.com.au on 5/7/22, and who became partially paralysed after receiving the Moderna jab.
https://www.new.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/dj-who-lost-motor-skills-after-moderna-vaccine-says-doctors-privately-admitted-line/news-story/23d4186d816aeb91b18691548963be12
If long covid is worthy of investigation so too are all the major, life-changing side effects from the jabs.
This is unrepentant horseshit.
There may be, however getting an official diagnosis in ’21 was virtually impossible and even today there is no official diagnosis beyond symptoms from covid lasting for more than 3 months. It remains extremely difficult to get a diagnosis and any form of treatment. long-covid can pop up months after infection making an official diagnosis in australia near impossible.
maybe this new normal will deliver them better outcomes.
There you have it.
The eternal cry of the regressive left.
“I dont like a part of “x” therefore we should overthrow that and maybe something better will happen”…
Mong economics.
“I dont like tsarism and a gradual stop/start progress towards a representative assembly that will take decades to deliver power to ordinary people. Better overthrow him, maybe something better will come along”.
“I dont like coal fired power, we should legislate to cripple it and see if something better comes along”…
etc..etc..
time to end universal suffrage
On the question of whether long covid exists.
I find it interesting that there is widespread acceptance by the medical fraternity and others that long covid exists, but when significant and ongoing vax side effects are claimed, the same “players” are almost entirely of the reverse opinion.
As an example, the other week I read a report on-line of an Australian scientist who was left unable to work for eight months.
As Dr Rado Faletic points out, when he went looking for answers to what he has been experiencing because the TGA was not interested in his adverse effects reports, he found “hundreds of people” on-line who had submitted reports of similar symptoms to the TGA.
See also the case of DJ Tyson Illingworth, aka tyDI, which was reported by news.com.au on 5/7/22, and who became partially paralysed after receiving the Moderna jab.
If long covid is worthy of investigation so too are all the major, life-changing side effects from the jabs.
(I sorry, but I can’t link – NewCat doesn’t like it – if you want to read about these two cases, do a search of their names)
That’s a pretty weak article about Novavax.
They don’t actually address the topic. It is mostly deflection and guilt by association.
It’s not as bad as “graphene oxide” but still, it is fairly poor and just pumps up actual “derp polio isn’t real” antivaxxers’ tyres.
Also their ABCcess has got the hyperbowl turned up to 11 this morning on the Burrup fertilizer plant..
In one sentence the words “atrocity” and “desecration” were used to refer to the Julkan gorge getting blown up.
Lots of semi mystical ‘woo” invoked as well.
Complete and utter horse-shit.
American leftwing geniuses are now suggesting the US needs to raise taxes in order to get inflation under control.
If … and it is a big if … unemployment is kept under control you can see a scenario where this doesn’t end in a flaming wreck. China won’t be much help this time around.
Daddy government to father a new generation of single parent kids.
Because it is such a success in every metric measured.
‘A giant step’: charities welcome plan to widen access to IVF on NHS
Change removes need for single women and same-sex couples to privately fund artificial insemination
…
She says the quiet bit out loud.
“Fertility services are crucial in supporting the development of different family structures. However, our research has found that female same-sex couples and single women are disproportionately impacted by policies which require that they self-finance costly, and less effective, artificial insemination, in some cases for at least two years, before becoming eligible for funded IVF. These restrictions amount to a tax on LGBT+ families, and the impact can be truly devastating.”
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I dont blame the next incel who makes a lady feel bad… how can he compete with daddy government from cradle to grave?
Corporates are largely deleveraged. Unlike most cases they aren’t the problem this time.
Thanks, Monty, at 10.01am — straight out of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book. Laughed out loud.
OK. Let’s assume there is an argument for increasing the corporate tax take without [ahem] ‘unexpected consequences’.
How then does tax revenue contribute to wage growth (using the normal economic sense of ‘wage’)?
Because I’m getting a whiff of UBI here.
They had a lifestyle that kept them fit and healthy.
Infanticide…cannibalism…..savage and brutal tribal punishments……
Well – of course the latter were commonplace.
But it is obvious from early photographs & accounts that, upon first contact, the Aborigines were seen to be very lean and conditioned to their environment. And it is hardly surprising – their diet being lean meat (roos, possums, lizards (perenti), fish, eels et al) & seed cakes, yams & other roots, and some native fruits.
It is sad to see so many of them today – bloated and obese from sugars, saturated fats & all the worst products of contemporary western society. They were even fitter during the colonial period when they did consume whitey’s bread, beef and beer, but still maintained some bush foraging.
The last time we crossed swords on this matter, all you and some others could do was tell me about Victoria Nuland and dirty Neo-Cons, and how you understood what Russia was doing by standing up to them.
No mischaracterisation at all. Everything afflicting Ukraine was and is Victoria Nuland’s fault. Especially Vlaf Bae’s outbreaks of imperial fever in April 2014 and now.
Munty I bet you make more from fantasy failure as a percentage than than the corporates do. Pay your fair share. Krispy Kremes are not a deduction. Go visit the furniture shop as Ken is suffering relevance deprivation.
Yes, I found that lack of access to OPM has hindered me most of my adult life.
You missed out the broken clock analogy at the end, Cassie. FDR, for all his ideological fixations, got the supporting the western Allies in their war efforts against Germany bit right, and continuing to do so when America could reasonably have turned its sole focus on Japan in 1941-2.
But he had many mistakes of statecraft along the way. Yalta and all his other episodes of Stalin fanboi-ing especially.
Though, I had thought he died at the end of 1944, and was already replaced by Harry Truman.
Big_Nambassays:
July 21, 2022 at 10:19 am
This is for that left wing drip that keeps dribbling on this blog.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1549685535815647232
Whatever your politics, Steve Bannon is 100% right here
As he said Millennials are the Russian Serfs of today and Both Republicans and Democrats are responsible
Indolentsays:
July 21, 2022 at 9:30 am
New Study Adds to Growing Body of Evidence Suggesting Mask Mandates Are Ineffective
Give it a year or two and the expert advice will go back to the pandemic management plans that were thrown out with covid. The ones that looked very like what Sweden did.
No admissions of wrongdoing though.
Yet, this morning all the medical bureaucrat clowns were on TV urging the return to masks! I suspect they are doing this because the same fools overseas (Germany and others) have already signalled a return to mask mandates.
They just won’t give up.
A house at Blackheath would stand on Aboriginal land, surely?
In 2009 I contracted pandemic H1N1 Swine Flu.
I powered through it because I am a MAN and my chromosomes give me the awesome powers of never having to whinge about feeling unwell, being a COW, or a Whore to Socialism.
Klaus Schwab didn’t send me a Get Well card.
EVIDENCE the bastard wanted me dead.
Of course. Liberalism.
what could possibly go wrong
Dear Mary Marlow of Blackheath may not have enjoyed becoming
surplus to requirements when her fertile utility had passed.
Short, or long list?
To understand current inflation one only has to look at M1, expand the graph out to maximum to make the picture perfectly clear.
First Responders At Fatal PA Tesla Wreck Disassemble Vehicle Before Moving It “To Avoid Electrocution”
Perhaps just as alarming as the crash were first responders’ reactions in dealing with the electric vehicle, which had been badly mangled due to the wreck.
The report says it took two hours for a towing company to get the car out of the ditch and that crews had to disassemble the car before removing it, in order to avoid electrocution.
paywalled
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Teachers.
University students to fill teacher shortage (Sky News, 21 Jul)
Also teachers.
I said ‘teachers are trained in dumbest parts of dumbest colleges.’ Here’s why I said it. (Instapundit, 20 Jul)
The dynamics of Albo’s new teachers policy are fun. First, the only ones which will go for it will be the women, since there aren’t many men in teaching any more. Why would you when you could be ruined for life by one unsubstantiated allegation? Second, the wymminses who do elect to become teachers will be the worst of the worst, since woke corporations are dragging any even slightly competent women into their employment like a thirsty man in a desert.
So the Instapundit story will be fulfilled day one. I suppose teaching kids with one’s uncompleted gender studies degree is better than being a barista though. Possibly.
Mr Whittington said the McGowan Government was not doing enough to help keep the disease out, claiming WA Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan made climate change spending “her number one priority”.
All of us, but esp. journalists – so no chance there – need to ask these ministers and bureaucrats at what date will temperatures stop warming and the seas stop rising due to their “tackling” of climate change. (Don’t go down to the road of pointing out they are not.)
Then noting that the rest of the world are busy building coal-fired power stations.
So – if what Australia is doing is going to have no effect – then why are we inflicting high energy prices and other associated pain on our ourselves?
Not a chance. One of NSW teachers’ (alleged) key complaints is the sheer amount of compliance and reporting and extra lesson prep work they have to do.
Oddly enough, the burden gets bigger with every fad that passes thru both the Department’s and union’s braincases and makes it into policy.
At not one EBA or strike or other dispute, has the prospect of easing the workload of simplifying and streamlining the reporting and compliance policy demands, or simplifying the curriculum in such a way as to reduce the burden on teachers ever been seriously raised.
Instead, all they do is demand more money and more staff.
H B Bearsays:
July 21, 2022 at 9:22 am
Very best of luck, Bear. Take it easy.
Quarterly Essay
White thinks we’ll be on our own when the shooting starts.
Nothing he says is surprising or unexpected, though. It could have come from Greg Sheridan or Paul Kelly.
Nobody wants to ask what the consequences of turning to renewables might be on our ability to defend ourselves. How will comms e.g. manage ?
No submarines in working order ? This is mentioned but not explored.
A disarmed population, not mentioned.
No mention of conscription. Nothing about the wisdom of a trans and female military. Nor what has happened in the SAS.
Going with nuclear not considered.
Fuel reserves ? Nada.
White fancies himself as the poser of hard questions but he doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Well, he is an ardent Sinophile and authored Labor’s defence policy of letting every defence capability except some image-important fighter aircraft and warship capabilities wither on the vine in the 1990s. On the grounds that “They’ll never get all the way over here, mate…”
A policy he has never seemed to quite grow beyond, as this article reviewing his book from 2019 relates.
Companies make profits when they sell things to people. It is why they sell stuff. Why would you want to disincentivise people getting what they want?
Companies make a profit because they can supply something at a cost lower than the customer will pay, and the customer profits by getting something that is worth more to them than the money they part with. It is a win/win.
And government wants to stamp on it.
Benito M0ntylini takes his cues from the Tim Robbins School of Economics:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xGn55BRyDSk
#MATT-DAMON!
It doesn’t directly, unless you also use it to politically justify other budget measures that lead to wage growth.
I was being a bit flippant, I am just sick of gasbags spruiking on behalf of spivs and their superprofits.
Yes, I found that lack of access to OPM has hindered me most of my adult life.
The struggle is real.
Do we have any update on the recovery of Prof Kates?
Of course they are ‘crucial’ in this, for same-sex relationships cannot by definition produce children. Here health administrators are simply recognising the medical truth that normal insemination of women will usually produce children, i.e. these women have no medical condition of infertility requiring IVF, just a mental dislike of the usual method of fertilisation. Making them chose to try that method, in the slightly less effective mode of a turkey-baster, seems a reasonable cost-saving initiative. Medicine is full of these sorts of initiatives, based on medical need grounds rather than ideologies.
You’re lost.
Completely lost.
Those symptoms were the same as flus and colds in previous years.
Because people haven’t got Covid, they’ve got colds and flus.
Covid has never been proven to exist.
Hard fact to swallow, but indeed a fact.
Try to get your teeny tiny propaganda destroyed minds around the fact it’s a fucking cold.
The SNIFFLES.
Maybe a cough if you didn’t do what your mum taught you to, and looked after yourself, and it went to your chest.
Look….I get the age group of retirees here I’m speaking too, and I see the women and scared little elderly men line up for testing, oblivious to the possibility of corruption and evil, but get your head out of the sand.
You’ve been had AND you took injections that mean every little cold going around now, you’re going to catch.
That’s what’s happening.
Long covid as perceived by the brainwashed is actually constantly feeling crook from a rapidly failing immune system …..from the jabs …. because if jabbed, you put your own health above the future of your children and your nation to save yourself from a cold you knew you would survive.
You took an untested concoction now proven deadly and it’s just been a year so far……from people who want to rid the planet of a few billion of us and have openly declared that goal.
You couldn’t be more stupid.
Fear and gullibility.
It’s not long covid stupid, it’s the salmon mousse………or hypochondria, or , …..as the real experts tell us……you’re catching colds and diseases again that you’ve had before but can’t fight off with your rapidly crumbling immune system.
From the jabs.
Depending on the individual…
I’ve had a flu for the last few weeks.
Bad for three days and still and then a niggly cough if out in the cold for weeks later.
I expect it after being isolated from the rest of the world for two years.
Government induced sickness because the government is playing god.
Fought it off with my own immune system.
Some panadol and then back to work.
Fancy that.
Some flus hang on for months before people felt 100%.
This was called “life”.
Also filed under “general Knowledge”.
But here’s the scary part.
We , the unjabbed can see this all as clear as day, but denialism in what you have done means you’ll never accept the truth, and as sickness (and fear of a red line on a little test made by the Chinese and nothing but utter horse shit) either keeps you locking yourselves away, or just hoping to bludge by pretending you have covid, to partake in virtue signalling victimhood, as those Australian suburban lives, so incredibly boring and mundane, give you something to talk about, to grap some attention for yourselves ……….either way, our society, our civilisation, without truth, will be destroyed.
And here at Dover’s denialists we can assure ourselves that is out future, as even those who once declared themselves to be right wing have fallen and refuse to acknowledge truth.
And if they have fallen, god help the west.
And boy did they fall….and quickly.
Two years later, and still Warnie died of the salmon mousse.
Mark Styne is never mentioned.
All posts now proven to be factual by indolent and myself and a few others over the last few years dutifully ignored and ridiculed.
You know I’m having the last laugh.
You know it underneath.
So is Indolent and many others.
However, it’s never been and is still no fun for me, as I suspect it is no laughing matter for them either…….. as you destroy much more than just yourselves.
Battery Replacement Of Family’s EV Ford Focus Would Cost More Than Car Itself
A Florida family who just a few months ago purchased a battery-powered vehicle learned an unforgettable lesson after their car suddenly stopped working.
The parents of Avery Siwinski, a 17-year-old of St. Petersburg, spent $11,000 on a used 2014 Ford Focus Electric that had 60,000 miles at the time it was bought
“In March, it started giving an alert,” Siwinski told the network.
“And then we took it to the shop and it stopped running.”
After taking the car to a local Ford dealership, the family learned that the mechanical issues were linked to the vehicle’s battery, which apparently needed to be replaced.
The repair bill for the battery was a whopping $14,000, said Siwinski’s grandfather, who stepped in to help her with the car problems because her father passed away in June due to cancer.
He also noted that the figure presented by mechanics wasn’t even the total, as it didn’t include labor costs.
However, the family found out that all the hustle they went through was in vain, as there weren’t any batteries of that type available anymore because the Ford model is discontinued.
“Then we found out the batteries aren’t even available,” Siwinski said.
Meanwhile, a recent report from data analysis and advisory firm J.D. Power found that electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids may have more problems than internal combustion engines.
While internal combustion engine vehicles averaged 175 problems per 100 vehicles, this jumped to 239 among plug-in hybrids and 240 among electric vehicles, a June 28 press release of the J.D. Power 2022 U.S. Initial Quality Study stated. Lower scores represent higher-quality vehicles.
Tesla models, which were included in the industry calculation for the first time, averaged 226 problems per 100 vehicles, according to the report.
Hopefully he isn’t exposed to any m0nsternomics rantings during his recovery period.
To me, an added advantage of the ‘turkey baster’ method is that those men providing women with semen in an interpersonal context may also end up having a vested interest in the outcome of this venture. Thus a child may eventually come to know it own father, which can only be a good thing. Even if the women refuse to admit this to the child the father can keep in touch and eventually the child, perhaps when of age to do so, can offer to undergo DNA testing to prove his or her origins.
Taking the biological joining of a male and a female out of the ‘parenthood’ equation, encouraging it to become widespread in a society, is a disastrous policy to foster as a ‘good’ thing. Children always want to know of their biological parentage. Missing out on having a male and a female parent is always going to be a loss for the child. We know that because children who lose a biological parent through death or misadventure also feel this loss.
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Mental note for roasting poultry.
Turkey baster now to be considered a single use item.
Break a new one out of the sealed plastic wrapper every time.
I’m pretty sure fairly accurate pcr covid tests were available in early 2020.
Good article in PJ Media about the trash political class in Canada. Applies here too. Garbage people- particularly the troodoughs.
Mental note for roasting poultry.
Turkey baster now to be considered a single use item.
Break a new one out of the sealed plastic wrapper every time.
Phrasing….so much phrasing.
LoM
Can we not talk about Turkey Basters and semen, please? This is a family forum. I have to cover my eyes when I scan Lizzie’s posts.
Very cheering to hear this. Just retribution is needed. Yesterday at Rose Bay Beach shops car park we watched a haughty woman in a huge electric Jaguar pull out demanding leeway of others before she slid silently away. She’s definitely a teal voter for Allegra’s change of da climate, mutters Hairy, as she leaves a slew of put-out people behind her.
You are correct Lizzie.
Adopted children experience the pain of loss of biological family too.
I know of one young woman whose father died when her MOTHER was pregnant with her suffered a great sense of loss never knowing her FATHER.
Family destroyers can say what they like, nothing beats your very own mummy and daddy.
There’s that number again: 8 years.
My second hand ICE is a 2007, so fifteen years.
Cost me $12k Aussie in 2015.
Runs like a dream.
My eldest grandson is in his second year at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music studying Musicology with Bachelor of Music (Music Education) a four year full time course.
Just this week I asked him how many girls were studying to be teachers and he said it was 50%, but not as many for Musicology.
Gaining entrance to Sydney University at the Con was not easy.
American leftwing geniuses are now suggesting the US needs to raise taxes in order to get inflation under control.
We’ll know the US is serious about tax reform when they address carried interest.
But considering the donor lists of the DNC & GOP that won’t happen.
So they’ll keep on talking about taxing income more which won’t impact the donor class one little bit.
As Questions Mount About Corruption In Ukraine, The Neocon Narrative Is Unraveling
The Washington establishment would rather cast aspersions on those asking questions about corruption in Ukraine than recognize the problem.
Americans who even casually followed the news in the fall of 2020 probably know that Ukraine was infamously corrupt long before the United States sent the country $54 billion in aid after the Russian invasion in February. They might not know much else about Ukraine, but they know it’s the kind of place where just being the son of the vice president of the United States can get you an $83,000 monthly paycheck just for sitting on the board of an energy company.
No one knows this better than Ukrainians themselves, who have to put up with a level of official corruption on par with countries like Mexico and Gabon. Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Ukraine 122 out of 180 countries worldwide, and the second most corrupt country in Europe — right after Russia.
Just ask Ukrainian-born Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., who lived in Ukraine until she was 22 and has been back six times since the Russian invasion. Spartz probably understands what’s happening in Ukraine better than anyone else in Congress, and yet Republican House leaders now say they regret giving her such a prominent platform to speak out against the war.
Why? Because she’s asking hard questions about corruption among some of Ukraine’s top officials, as well as raising totally reasonable concerns about U.S. oversight of the billions of dollars and unprecedented amount of weaponry we’ve been pouring into the country.
Such questions undermine the neocon narrative that Ukraine is a noble beacon of democracy and freedom, and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a Churchillian figure whose integrity and policies cannot be questioned. That narrative is what the neocons are relying on to prolong the war with indefinite financing and use the conflict as a way to punish Russia.
Narrative integrity notwithstanding, the reality of Ukrainian corruption and the complete absence of U.S. accountability aren’t concerns that can simply be waved away, no matter what paper-thin talking points Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is spouting this week. The fact is, there’s plenty of evidence that Zelensky’s government is deeply corrupt, that he has surrounded himself with officials who served in previous corrupt Ukrainian governments, and that maybe Ukraine isn’t the kind of place the United States should be flooding with tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons.
The backstory is that on Friday, Politico reported Republican House leaders (who of course remained anonymous) are “coming to regret” elevating Spartz as an authority on Ukraine after she criticized both Zelensky and President Joe Biden for “playing politics” with the war, and called on Congress to “establish proper oversight of critical infrastructure and delivery of weapons and aid.” Hers is a reasonable request, of course — especially after the debacle in Afghanistan last fall, when some $80 billion in U.S. military hardware wound up in the hands of the Taliban following the disastrous U.S. withdrawal.
Bakanov, the now-fired head of the SBU, is a childhood friend of Zelensky and a former director of a television production company started by Zelensky and some of his friends. Why was a media executive appointed to lead the Security Service of Ukraine in the first place?
And why is Tatarov, of all people, in charge of anti-corruption efforts? As Spartz noted in her letter, Tatarov has delayed the appointment of an independent anti-corruption prosecutor for more than a year, rendering the NABU — the agency that brought corruption charges against him in 2020 and was still actively investigating him when he assumed his current post — incapacitated.
Ah me. Cold hard reality must always be faced on the Cat, Real Deal.
Yep. Those metal basters are cold and spikey, not warm and hard, like the usual way of doing such things.
I know this well from my adopted neice.
We’ve all tried hard to find her biological parents for her, without success.
We love her to bits and she knows that, but the longing for origins is still there.
P – Sydney Conservatorium has always been elite. Also you need to be competent, since you have to play an instrument extremely well to get in.
Unfortunately with the demise of the music industry due to the internet and YouTube (with Covid helping) even going to an elite place like the Con won’t get you a job. But a Con graduate would be an excellent pick up for any employer I should think. The kid has demonstrated attention to detail, industriousness, dexterity, self-control and intelligence.
Ah, good to see he’s still punching.
Thank you BoN, he is loving every minite of his learning at the Con. In fact he said the other day ever time he walks through the doors he pinches himself to make sure it is real.
Naughty!
Boast warning.
Very proud of my sibling that went there.
They played four instruments.
One of which was self-taught, the harpsichord of all things.
The boasting ends.
“I’m pretty sure” is Notafan trying to argue but knowing she doesn’t have one.
Fucking bullshit.
The PCR tests were crap and known to crap right from the start, as you were told here again again as soon as they came out.
The cycles were a joke and anyone buying this PCR test bullshit WANTED TO.
It couldn’t tell the difference between live or dead cells, or distinguish between varying sniffles.
Notafan is a liar and she knows she is now just hoping to get away with it.
You’ve been a shameful, evil bitch from the start of this, little miss Nazi-pass.
Me, not so much.
I do like to tap two spoons together.
As Questions Mount About Corruption In Ukraine, The Neocon Narrative Is Unraveling
Thank you Ol Ozzie (what a treasure you are with the information you post!) for this article.
There is a tendency for blogs and the general media to label any criticism of Zelensky and the Ukrainian government as pro Putin. That is stupid and denies the importance of critical thinking and historical inquiry in respect to international affairs.
Here we go again: the “Health Advice” is that we need to mask up more, despite masks being ineffective and an embuggerance.
Sky News seems happy to give shadow Health Minister a grilling, wanting her to agree that there should be a Mask Mandate! She wriggled on the hook rather than counter-attack with some form of words that support personal freedoms. She said she didn’t have all the Health Advice yet, and opined that the ALP government had hard decisions to make.
F&M fragments found in Chinese food shops in Melbourne are from products that are not being imported through known channels.
So the dodgy food packages you see grabbed from the “No speak English” passengers on Border Security aren’t just for grandma.
Lying grifting bastards couldn’t give a Peking duck about anyone else. That’s a trait that years of communism achieves.
“PCR tests” can be very accurate.
Not when you intentionally amp up the cycles and hence increase the level of error.
Keep in mind PCR is merely an analyte amplification. It isn’t the test..
To quote Corporal Jones:-
“Cold steel! They don’t like it up ’em! We used to give them fuzzy-wuzzies a taste of cold steel. They did not like it up ’em. They did not, sir!”
Isn’t any Melburnian capable of giving this silly cow a lesson in manners?
Not when you intentionally amp up the cycles and hence increase the level of error.
If you’re not doing 50 cycles, what’s the point?
PS, at 50 cycles a PCR test said David Boon was pregnant.
with choice items sold to china
Who the buggery is that psycho slag?
my quote was about long covid not covid. there is still no test in australia nor any real treatment for long covid. testing is available in the US & UK. we are always years behind.
Ah, so this is why Turkey was playing footsies with and Iran.
Turkey Looks to Ditch Dollar in Payments for Russian Energy
Turkish officials say the nations are considering using lira
Agreement could help slow decline in Turkish foreign reserves
I wondered what Erdogan was meeting with Vlad for.
They expected Erdogan and Putin to take up the proposal on Tuesday on the sidelines of a meeting on Syria in the Iranian capital.
Putin Arrives in Iran for Raisi, Erdogan Talks Dominated by War
Russia remains a critical source of energy supplies for Turkey. It provided a quarter of Turkey’s crude oil imports and around 45% of its natural-gas purchases last year, giving Moscow a huge surplus in bilateral trade.
Awesome member of NATO right.
The best
believe me.
https://www.covidlonghaulers.com/ do test for presence of S1 in blood as well as full cytokine/chemokine panel for long covid. the US gov on the other hand just wants to stick a needle in you.
Jab jab booster booster……………………………………
Recently, The Lancet published a study on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and the waning of immunity with time. The study showed that immune function among vaccinated individuals 8 months after the administration of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine was lower than that among the unvaccinated individuals. According to European Medicines Agency recommendations, frequent COVID-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune response and may not be feasible. The decrease in immunity can be caused by several factors such as N1-methylpseudouridine, the spike protein, lipid nanoparticles, antibody-dependent enhancement, and the original antigenic stimulus. These clinical alterations may explain the association reported between COVID-19 vaccination and shingles. As a safety measure, further booster vaccinations should be discontinued. In addition, the date of vaccination should be recorded in the medical record of patients. Several practical measures to prevent a decrease in immunity have been reported. These include limiting the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including acetaminophen to maintain deep body temperature, appropriate use of antibiotics, smoking cessation, stress control, and limiting the use of lipid emulsions, including propofol, which may cause perioperative immunosuppression. In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccination is a major risk factor for infections in critically ill patients.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/07/20/safe-and-effective-76/
“I know this well from my adopted niece.
We’ve all tried hard to find her biological parents for her, without success.
We love her to bits and she knows that, but the longing for origins is still there”
Quite right Lizzie, knowing where we come from is a natural human desire, something that I believe is innately inherent in us. I don’t have a negative view of adoption whereas I do with surrogacy and the global fertility business. I’m opposed to surrogacy except in a family situation which is the only legal surrogacy here in Australia and even then I have my reservations. Surrogacy in the US is akin to the wild west, basically women’s wombs are being bought and sold, it’s a lucrative business and it preys on poor women who need money. Some women have even died. The point is that it is not a right to have a child.
Sarah Dingle is an Australian ABC journalist who was conceived from a sperm donor and only found out when she was in her mid 20s. The devastation at learning that the man who raised her was not her biological father was profound. Dingle has written a book called “Brave New Humans” which is an insight into the fertility business. Here’s the blurb from her book…..
“Journalist Sarah Dingle was 27 when she learnt that her identity was a lie. Over dinner one night, her mother casually mentioned Sarah had been conceived using a sperm donor. The man who’d raised Sarah wasn’t her father; in fact, she had no idea who her father was. Or who she really was.
As the shock receded, Sarah put her professional skills to work and began to investigate her own existence. Thus began a ten-year journey to understand who she was – digging through hospital records, chasing leads and taking a DNA test – that finally led her to her biological origins. What she discovered along the way was shocking: hospital records routinely destroyed, trading of eggs and sperm, women dead, donors exploited, and hundreds of thousands of donor-conceived people globally who will never know who they are. But there’s one thing this industry hasn’t banked on: the children of the baby business taking on their makers.
In a profoundly personal way, Brave New Humans shines a light on the global fertility business today – a booming and largely unregulated industry that takes a startlingly lax approach to huge ethical concerns, not least our fundamental human need to know who we are, and where we come from.”
Worth reading.
To quote Corporal Jones:-
Real soldiers too.
The actor Clive Dunn served with the 6th AIF division in Greece in an English armoured unit attachment. Captured with the Aussies in a rearguard action.
Arnold Ridley who played the doddery old Private Godfrey was a WWI soldier, wounded by shrapnel and from hand to hand combat in trenches. A bayonet to the groin and a rifle butt blow to the head.
The woke may cancel them but they’ll be remembered.
I do hope it wasn’t a roast turkey dinner.
I’m having a cuppa and trying to delay unloading the trailer of fire wood I cut this morning. Everything aches.
an only fans whore
So the wincing was real whenever Jonesy said “they don’t like the cold steel up ’em.”?
A man who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed by it.
I’m very proud of my grandson’s achievement in being accepted at the Con. When rang me and told me he had received his email at the beginning of 2021 welcoming him to Sydney Uni I looked up the Con alumni and found that the first two concerts I had attened with him and his twin sister had a ‘band’ member who had gone to the Sydney Conservatorium.
The twins were 22 months old when they saw the Hooley Dooleys on stage and 3 years old when attending their first Wiggle concert.
Notable alumni of the Con:
David Butts, former member of The Hooley Dooleys
Sam Moran, former member of The Wiggles
Ridley did a hell of a job playing any role as the head injury caused him to have blackouts. He was in the Home Guard during WWII.
Catch a fox in a rabbit trap and it’s likely to chew it’s leg off.
Strychnine on the trap jaws fixes that.
Now rabbit traps are outlawed as is strychnine. Last century it fetched a premium in NSW when they were being paid for fox scalps.
Hope nobody tried teaching him how to wear his webbing or handle a .303.
Ridley also wrote the Ghost Train play iirc
The FDR administration was riddled with Marxists and Stalinist agents, starting with Harry Hopkins who shipped Canadian-sourced uranium and plans for building the bomb to the USSR in 1943.
It’s stretching credibility to argue FDR’s priority was helping European allies in the fight against Nazism. You’d think after Pearl Harbour the US would concentrate on the Pacific. Instead, in a self- punishing move worthy of Hitler at his worst they denied materiel to their own and British forces and shipped them off to Stalin. Singapore fell because of this treachery. After the government of the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991, select archives opened briefly and The Secret World of American Communism (1995) helped shed light on a very murky world. Diana West’s American Betrayal goes into more detail.
OldOzzie says:
July 21, 2022 at 11:59 am
Corruption is endemic in both Ukraine and Russia. It features in every level of Government and extends into what we call ‘statutory authorities’ and other government owned or operated businesses. That is not to say that every official is corrupt, but the rot starts at the top and it is hard to convince a junior official to be scrupulously honest when they see their boss (and their boss’s boss and so on) taking a bribe in cash or goods or selling/renting* government owned property and pocketing the proceeds. It is the way of life and if you want to achieve money/status for yourself and your family, the temptation to emulate those around you must be very strong.
I have no trouble, none, believing that hundreds of millions (and eventually billions) of dollars are extracted/traded from the largesse given by the west to the Ukraine. Anybody who has lived in either Russia/Ukraine or has visited extensively and knows their way around the circus that passes for government would be certain this to be true.
*I know a fellow who has an arrangement with another chap who is employed at a government owned works depot. My mate ‘borrows’ equipment from the works depot and then rents it out to people who need it on the weekends – like a mini Kennards Hire. None of this could happen without the relevant people in the depot receiving a percentage of the hire proceeds.
If this can happen on this small scale, just imagine the epic free-for-all with billions of dollars in cash and vast supplies of weapons, ammunition and other goods flooding into the country.
“The world being what it is I’m willing to bet there are people self diagnosing long covid who can’t even say for certain they’ve had covid.”
It’s like “died FROM” vs “died WITH” – they conflate the two.
Most people are sick OF, not sick WITH, covid.
So everyone who is sick OF it, is another case! No wonder cases are exploding.
If only it would be politicians that exploded(literally), not cases (figuratively)…
Flying duk’s logic seems to be if you can catch Ross River, or get chronic fatigue syndrome, then long covid must be real.
Amazing.
Daily Tele senses blood:
A huge number of outraged mums and Daily Telegraph readers have lashed out against Federal Government bureaucrats who have attempted to replace the word “mother” with “birthing person” on official forms.
An astonishing 97 per cent of more than 2000 readers in our exclusive poll voted hands down against swapping the time-honoured word “mother” with the woke term.
That’s despite Services Australia saying it had tested the new words “birthing person” and received positive feedback before changing the forms.
And in excess of 440 readers have commented on the news, with the vast majority saying they were “insulted” by the term and many saying they wanted “radical looney ideas” kept out of people’s lives.
It comes as the Federal Government stepped in today to change the form, after a new mum hit out at the language saying it’s like something out of the Handmaid’s Tale by erasing the word “mother”.
But is it because Our Bill has ridden in to the rescue?
Minister for NDIS and Government Services Bill Shorten vowed to have the word “mother” replace “birthing parent” after The Daily Telegraph revealed the choice of language in an article published on Wednesday.
In a series of tweets, Mr Shorten noted he had been made aware of the document after reading the NewsCorp publication.
He said that he immediately ordered officials to “cease” using the two-word term that claimed it was implemented as “part of a pilot program launched in three hospitals under the previous Coalition Government”.
“When I was informed of this situation yesterday, I instructed the responsible officials they should cease using the previous government’s forms,” Mr Shorten tweeted.
I believe you DocDuk. What you describe is what I had as well.
Survivors! Nothing quite like it. 🙂
A reverse ‘foreigner’!
Was told a story of an ADF facility years ago with a fully equipped workshop. A certain officer was constantly bringing in gear from home for repairs and tune-ups, or even manufacture of various fixtures. Which wouldn’t have been so bad except for him simultaneously berating the troops for falling behind on regular tasking.
Day of reckoning.
Inspection visit by top brass.
Workshop was sparkly clean and everything in it’s place, except for the Victa lawnmower sitting prominently in the centre of the floor.
Brass : “What’s this?”
Lowly Ranked Workshop Grunt : “It’s a lawnmower, Sir.”
Brass : “I can see that. What is it doing here?”
LRWG : “Being repaired, Sir.”
Brass : “And who does it belong to?”
LWRG : “Major Smiff, Sir.”
And so endeth the foreigners in the workshop.
The latest Covid panic is a gift for State/Territory politicians to explain why their hospital systems are so crappy. All those on endless waiting lists for surgery are expected to believe that the reason for their suffering is Covid plus seasonal flu.
It’s a lie – surgeons don’t treat Covid, and thanks to policy decisions over the last two years they haven’t been treating surgical patients very often either.
To no-one’s surprise, the Presstitutes just swallow the official line without a murmur or a question.
Comprehension is not Dr Couch’s strong suit. If only everyone listened to me we wouldn’t be in the shemozzle.
Corruption is endemic in both Ukraine and Russia. It features in every level of Government and extends into what we call ‘statutory authorities’ and other government owned or operated businesses.
Just like Australia, then?
Horrific little birthing canal.
the = this
It’s now nearly a day old, but I still can’t find a syllable in Australian newspapers about Russia’s expanded war aims in Europe: Russia declares expanded war goals beyond Ukraine’s Donbas.
Australian newspapers no longer do news, just narratives. They’re as useless as tits on a bull.
And sometimes kids are better off not knowing there biological parents ever.
The last two and a half years made me realise that low-level corruption can be sometimes beneficial for the purposes of freedom. When your government forces you to have an experimental substance injected into your body, for example, the existence of medical officials registering your jabs who are willing to help you to avoid this is a positive. Mind you, some of them do it not just because they want to enrich themselves, but because they genuinely support your freedom of choice. That is not in Australia, of course. In Australia corruption is only acceptable at the higher government level.
“…the burden gets bigger with every fad that passes thru both the Department…”
Te he.
Reminds me of the copper I used to chat with on the ‘net – I explained to others in the group that he would need to spend 3 hours filling out a form in quadripilcate using a 1/2 inch long pencil stub, and then wait 6 to 8 weeks, in order to obtain a new pencil that he could have gotten himself from the local newsagent for less than $1. And that he needed that pencil to fill out all the forms explaining what he spent his time doing, which incredibly didn’t have a space for “filling out forms”, despite the fact that this consumed approximately 25% of his time.
He suggested that I had a web-cam in the station somewhere… 🙂
Nah – seen it myself, had to deal with it, got the shits with it, and left it behind.
The PS NEVER, EVER reduces rules, regulations and paperwork. These only ever expand. Therefore, “administrative costs” never go down, only up – you always need more people to do the paperwork, especially when GovCo insists on “accountability” for every cent spent. It doesn’t matter that “accounting” for it can cost 10 times as much as the actual item you want/need, it must be done and you have to justify every cent you spend.
It all makes a weird kind of sense – you SHOULD be accountable for spending tax-payers money, but not to the point where it costs $20 to justify a $1 pencil.
Global warmening is nonsense – and every liberal on earth knows it. That’s why American liberals all live on the coasts in the path of “rising sea levels” – they’re having a laff. Oh, and America’s puppet president says he has cancer (a recitation he has used before). Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Supposed to have been a “Lowly Ranked Workshop Grunt” at “Barracks Section” at a certain R.A.A.F. base way back when, who was facing the music over using Air Force time and materials to “do foreigners.” He was looking at “twenty eight days Ingleburn,” to make a horrible example of him. He asked leave to make a statement, concerning a certain senior officer, who had used Air Force time and materials to refurbish his holiday home “on the coast” and copped a reprimand instead.
Quidditch has now been renamed because JK Rowling is supposedly a transphobe. FMD
Test
The fully-electric Tesla Model Y and Model X have made it to the northern base camp of Mount Everest, more than 5200 metres above sea level.
In a 2240km road trip documented by Chinese vlogger Trensen Chongqing, the Model Y and Model X were taken on a drive along a stretch of the China National Highway 318, a 5500km route between Shanghai and Zhangmu.
Posted to Tesla China’s YouTube channel, Chongqing detailed the journey which included nine stops at Tesla’s recently-completed Supercharger locations along the route, enabling his Model Y and his friend’s Model X to stay charged throughout the journey.
In a 2240km road trip documented by Chinese vlogger Trensen Chongqing, the Model Y and Model X were taken on a drive along a stretch of the China National Highway 318, a 5500km route between Shanghai and Zhangmu.
Posted to Tesla China’s YouTube channel, Chongqing detailed the journey which included nine stops at Tesla’s recently-completed Supercharger locations along the route, enabling his Model Y and his friend’s Model X to stay charged throughout the journey.
While the need for snow chains reduced their range to just over 250km per charge, the frequency of Superchargers in the once-inhospitable area meant the task trip was completed with relative ease.
In Camp Mode, both vehicles stayed warm overnight in the freezing conditions of China and Tibet, sacrificing range for the comfort of their occupants.
It’s worth noting that while internal combustion-engined vehicles can operate above the 5200-metre altitude of the north base camp, Nepal has an exclusion zone for fossil fuel burners near the base camps, meaning only electric vehicles can now access the site.
WA education department is masking schoolkids again.
Co-signed with the Catholics and “Independent” sector bodies.
new pronouns?
Newsome running for President will be hilarious!
Newsome’s campaign:
-Do you want to live in a crime-ridden, drug addled shithole like California?
Was watching a driving show the other day and the idiot presenter says, I kid you not:
“One of the other great benefits of having an electric car travelling through the bush is that you get to plug your car in at local towns, go get a newspaper or a coffee, spend some money locally while your car charges.”
Fuck me.
Nothing at wiki but I’m sure I read somewhere that he was injured in WW2 when a V1 hit. He may have actually been in his own yard at the time.
oh no! kamala is going to be installed
Seems he served in both World Wars – wounded in WW1, and never spoke of his service in WW2.
… go get a newspaper…
How old is this bloke?
On the question of whether long covid exists.
I find it interesting that there is widespread acceptance by the medical fraternity and others that long covid exists, but when significant and ongoing vax side effects are claimed, the same “players” are almost entirely of the reverse opinion or silent on the matter.
As an example, the other week I read a about Australian scientist, Dr Rado Faletic, who was left unable to work for eight months after receiving his Pfizer jabs in October 2021.
When he went looking for answers to what he has been experiencing because the TGA was not interested in his adverse effects reports, he found “hundreds of people” on-line who had submitted reports of similar symptoms to the TGA.
DJ Tyson Illingworth, aka tyDI, is another Australian whose life has been completed altered from being partially paralysed after receiving the Moderna jab.
If long covid is worthy of investigation so too are all the major, life-changing side effects from the jabs.
(I sorry, but I can’t link – if you want to read about these two cases as examples of what many Australians are experiencing, do a search of their names)
Lysandersays:
July 21, 2022 at 1:56 pm
Newsome’s campaign:
DoWhy don’t you want to live in a crime-ridden, drug addled shithole like California?he was injured in WW2 when a V1 hit. He may have actually been in his own yard at the time.
My old man had that happen to him. Being the youngest in the house, he had a Sunday morning duty of collecting the newspapers and making the tea, and then taking it all upstairs. Had just done so when a V1 hit. The explosion demolished the house to the extent the top storey fell into the lower. All survived with numerous cuts and bruises.
Gosh I’m so pleased I went to Europe last December, especially now there are so many problems with air travel.
Got my flu shot this afternoon, asked about novavax boosters, (apparently a common question) but they still aren’t approved so I’ll wait a little longer.
m0ntysays:
July 21, 2022 at 11:31 am
…
I was being a bit flippant, I am just sick of gasbags spruiking on behalf of spivs and their superprofits.
m0nty, so we can do a proper quantified analysis, can you please:
(a) identify from exactly what time in the past you are saying profits/exec remuneration have been “exploding”;
(b) explain why we can calculate that at that time profits/exec remuneration weren’t too low?
So, what are the symptoms of “long covid?”
Er, you know… a cough. Fatigue. Tiredness. And general discontent, sometimes developing to full-blown ennui.
What are the symptoms of “jab injuries”?
Pericarditis, myocarditis, polyarthritis, hepatitis, stroke, paralysis and cardiac arrest.
There’s no comparison.
As someone mentioned upthread any virus, and any lung infection can lead to longer term health issues.
long flu
Take a deep breath, Struth. Even if you regard Covid as just another “corona cold”or even the flu – that doesn’t preclude a “post viral after effect”.
It has taken years for the pig headed medical profession to accept that the immune system is sometimes victim to some sort of bifurcation pattern after a viral overload. You don’t want to join that fraternity blinded by their superiority complex.
BBS, I found your mid-morning comments in the spam folder and released them.
Also at Coles, they are now using imperfect vegetables in their packaged noodle dishes to reduce waste.
I don’t suppose the prices have gone down, down, down.
And home brand streaky bacon is made from imported pork but the packaging assured me it was from the UK and the EU.
Like bread ties, it seems inevitable that with the push to carbon neutral the spivs are going to take all our plastics away.
Soon it will be time to lock up your Tupperware.
Gee Rosie, I would check with what Duk said a little while back about Novavax.
It hasn’t proved to be the totally safe alternative to the genetic concoctions that many hoped it would be. I have read numerous reports of after effects. Maybe even a “dead” spike protein is not necessarily harmless.
Rosie,
Novovax has been approved as a booster for a few months now. I think the issue is some Dr’s not stocking it as little demand and many have had to be thrown away.
“Got my flu shot this afternoon, asked about novavax boosters, (apparently a common question) but they still aren’t approved so I’ll wait a little longer”
Dr Faustus on Short Willie
Horrific little birthing canal.
Hahaha
Speaking of turkey basters, my newsfeed sent me to this article a couple of days ago. One of those perennial “man admitted to ER with foreign object wedged into rectum requiring emergency removal” stories; with x-rays. This time it was a 7.5 inch water bottle that got away from the perpetrator. Two paragraphs stood out.
He was a fifty year old Iranian man and the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Sari was the location. Clearly a different outcome to Westerners in a similar situation. The other paragraph of note considering upthread.
One wonders at the thought process involved with respect to the turkey basters and in particular, if people have a clear understanding of basic biology.
Lysandersays:
July 21, 2022 at 2:03 pm
Was watching a driving show the other day and the idiot presenter says, I kid you not:
“One of the other great benefits of having an electric car travelling through the bush is that you get to plug your car in at local towns, go get a newspaper or a coffee, spend some money locally while your car charges.”
ACT EV strategy revealed, new ICE vehicles banned from 2035
Tesla S 90 kWh version – An average Tesla uses 34 kWh of electricity per 100 miles.
An average Australian house consumes electricity amounting to 18 KiloWatt(KW) per day or 6570 KW per hour.
Given an Electric Car 90Kw is 5 times average Australian Household daily consumption and ACT says it will only use Renewables for Electricity – where is the Electrical Power coming from?
Can NSW isolate ACT so they only have their own renewable power supply – we should use ACT with no external electrical power as a Test Bed for Australia
Kneel says: July 21, 2022 at 1:36 pm
One of my minor frustrations this past year or so is govt departments believing that admin & so on will be given priority by me, & if there is a staff shortage, it is commercial operations that will be taking the hit.
They’ve no bluddee idea whatsoever.
My pharmacy texted me recently, stating I may be eligible for my FOURTH shot. Um, you seem to have a counting problem. I’ve been eligible for my first for a while. Thanks but no thanks.
Novavax was sold as the low risk, ‘tried and tested’ vaccine platform as compared to the experimental or very new platforms offered by Fizzer, Moderna, AZ etc. Maybe it’s true – I don’t know. What I do know is that the risk/benefit calculation now favours someone like myself acquiring natural immunity rather than taking an experimental therapeutic, which Novavax is. I now have that natural immunity. So, again – thanks but no thanks.
Struth, I like a lot of what you have to say. And I am open minded about it. Lord knows anyone who has lived through these last few years ought to be open minded about issues one might normally regard as settled issues. Hell, I listen plenty to the terrain theory people who argue that viruses don’t exist. They may be right! At a minimum, they raise some interesting points that ought to be considered regarding the veracity of virus isolation.
However, I’m just not with you on the ‘Covid isn’t real’ train. Even if I went full terrain theory, I might argue that Covid isn’t a virus, but it is something. I’ve tested positive to Covid, I’ve been symptomatic. And I have to say that the experience was not severe at all but very different from any other illness I’ve had. The mix, nature and sequencing of symptoms was just *weird*. I have never experienced a cold or flu like this and cannot accept that what I had was just a seasonal cold or flu or whatever. No, it was way too unusual. It was something else.
Cassie, I have a post on surrogacy on the backburner that follows on from a article Dingle wrote about surrogacy and the Ukraine (they’re like the US, surprise, surprise). She’s probably the only Australian journalist that is asking questions about surrogacy in the Australian MSM.
Correct…. if one virus can cause long term debility, why can’t Covid?
No, it was way too unusual. It was something else.
OCO, if you wouldn’t mind, can you explain further please?
Re electric vehicle sales: Has anyone seen a breakdown of the ‘incredible, amazing surge in EV sales’?
True, I regularly see a Tesla in Coles’ carpark, but I’m also wondering if golf buggies, milk floats, forklifty-type things and other non-passenger units are counted. If so, would explain a lot about that ‘surge’
DB,
Thank you, but I re-wrote because of that. Not sure why, but every time I put in a link, NewCat does not like me ?
areff,
I saw your comment from yesterday: best wishes to you and yours.
Actually, we didn’t cross swords on this matter, and I was very clear about this. It is not a productive use of my time to get into it with you. Ultimately, if you don’t believe there are powerful, virulently anti-Russia factions within the US security state that have a great deal of influence over the Ukrainian government, I’m not going to bother trying to change your mind.
If you want to presume that my unwillingness to engage indicates an inability to so, then go right ahead. I couldn’t care less, really.
Oh, do shut up Tim, you old bore.
It’s actually kinda old hat.
There have been domestic Russian narratives about forming a ‘Novorussiya’ from the Donbass to Moldova, quietly leaking out into non-English language European media sources and Russian social-media watchers since Kyiv and Odesa were under threat in March and early April.
It’s just gotten louder and more widely known as the narrative was morphed into a ‘defensive’ claim against western weapon supplies and their effectiveness in-theatre, versus when it was just something mooted as a ‘victory ideal’ when Russia looked strategically unassailable.
For Christ sakes listen to yourselves.
You cannot prove covid exists.
Therefore you cannot prove long covid exists.
End of the story.
Now, you may have had a cold or a virus that has dragged on.
No one is denying that.
You just can’t call it covid and you can’t therefore, logically, call it long covid.
In technical terms.
You caught a wog.
A flu.
A cold.
A lurgy.
A bug going round.
You know, the ones that disappeared completely when they were renamed covid by those at war with you and your minds.
OCO, not every cold or flu you have ever had has had exactly the same symptoms either.
Of course “this was different”
They all are slightly, and just consider what your mind is capable of telling you, if you have only slightly succumbed to the propaganda.
Whatever you had you cannot claim as covid.
Un unknown virus is what you had.
Like most years.
A cold.
A flu.
A lurgy.
After all, and stick with me here, ……even those that have turned your minds to mush tell you covid is a cold virus.
So it’s another cold, BUT they are calling it COVID and you are treating it as if it is something different from the yearly cold variants.
That’s why they always updated flu shots and called them variances.
Remember people saying, back in the sane days………this flu going around has a terrible cough that hangs on for weaks,….or….this bloody cold going around has you sneezing non stop.
Remember?
Remember how we used to speak when we were sane?
ABC covered it, Tom. There really is nothing knew here though. The longer this went the more likely they were to keep the areas they captured.They already hold Kherson, 75% of Zaporizhzhia, and about 40% of Kharkov. They are already paying people in the first two areas pensions, issuing Russian passports, etc. Those aren’t the actions of someone cutting and running.
Zippy, This = That at Suzanne years ago which I’m sure Kittah’s can attest.
variants.
One wonders at the thought process involved with respect to the turkey basters and in particular, if people have a clear understanding of basic biology.
maybe he was co-habitating with a lesbian couple and they were after a fresh sperm sample…
/brain bleach, not just for breakfast anymore
these are not the long-flu you are looking for
secondary infection is from weakened immune system. the other points are not worth wasting time on. nothing to do with long covid, which is the persistence of detectable spike protein long after infection.
BBS: runny nose but not congested. Then the debilitating fatigue, the aches and pains, the feeling of being feverish without a temperature – lasted about a day and a half. Then the very sore throat hit and lasted for three days or so. When the sore throat began to fade, I noticed I’d lost my sense of smell. Not taste, just smell. Took me a little while to realise because I have only ever lost my sense of smell as a result of nasal congestion, but my nose wasn’t congested at all. I realised when I changed my kid’s shitty nappy and smelt nothing. Also, the flavour of food lost its complexity that comes with smell. Sense of smell returned a couple of days after losing it.
Again, nothing severe – the sore throat was the most unpleasant symptom and was untreatable – I’ve always been able to numb a sore throat with anaesthetic throat gargle, but not this time – yet I was perfectly functional. The fatigue period was the most debilitating, but I just slept and it passed.
All I can say about the experience is what I said above; it was just weird and unlike any illness I’ve had before.
So, where were they before 2013? And why is Ukraine only ever a mindless puppet in your line of thinking? Why do you consistently do what the Russians do, and keep discounting the Ukrainians themselves? EU membership would never have been considered if EU-positive parties weren’t getting elected into Ukraine’s parliament, you know…
Because I don’t just blindly accept the narrative it’s all the dirty neo-cons’ and NATOists- fault alone? And dare to suggest Russian designs on Ukraine as a controlled vassal vs an independent party wanting to go its own way, and its threats over Ukraine’s request for mere EU membership on its population’s behalf might have possibly influenced said average Ukrainians to demonstrate against Russian control of their governors?
You keep replying, and you keep trying to fluff Vlad Bae and the Russian armed forces every time something that seems embarrassing to them (whether it is true or otherwise) comes up in discussion. What else am I supposed to think?
Saw a burnt out Prius on the way back from the coast last Sunday and it wasn’t there Thursday night. Mind you the the local natives burn most vehicles if left for a few days. I’d say most likely it set itself on fire and had fire and rescue there as it had police tape over it and the don’t usually bother if its the locals.
Thanks for the best wishes, BBS, and the same to all Cats who expressed the hope that my looming grandchild’s heart issue proves minor.
Here’s a further thought. According to the TGA, it’s now just beaut if you covid-jab your baby after six months.
Clear on that?
Well it is also said that it is safe for mums-to-be to get their jabs.
So, its OK for the vax to reach the baby in the womb*, but not immediately after birth. Makes no sense at all.
* I have read this is the case.
Twitter gold.
On the covid front, old man has nearly recovered from his bout …
10days crook, about level with a nasty flu as far as symptoms go.
Did you get itchy, scratchy eyes, Oh Come On?
Had read nowhere of that being a symptom, but when I mentioned it to Tim Blair, who came down with the virus at about the same time, he also said his eyes were off, hayfever-style, at the height of the infection.
If only you’d had some ivermectin, OCO.
McClown after a few more cubic zirconas to add to the platinum codpiece.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-21/mobile-average-speed-cameras-trial-on-perth-regional-roads/101257956
Portable traffic cameras that calculate the average speed of a vehicle to catch speeding drivers will soon pop up in Perth and regional Western Australia, but don’t expect to cop a speeding ticket anytime soon.*
But for police to issue fines, traffic laws need to be updated – a process that could take a significant amount of time.
“The current laws were written in a way that they are constraining as to what type of technology you can use,” said Road Safety Minister Paul Papalia.
“It doesn’t enable you to use a camera of this nature … so we have to change the law.
“It will take time to draft that and pass through parliament to then enable us to use these cameras to fine people.”
* Ronsons I hope.
The thing is, struth, I came at this from the position of a skeptic, not as someone who was hanging out for a Covid diagnosis and thus would be susceptible to confirmation bias. Even so, I can’t deny it was not just slightly different but very different from any cold, flu, lurgy etc I’ve had before. If there was one thing that really clinched it for me that simply cannot be explained away as just another typical cold or flu symptom, it was the loss of smell even though my airways were completely unobstructed. That suggests a neurological component.
Why would anyone bother dialoguing with you? You’re an unserious person. Goodbye.
The people pushing the covid line are the same people who frightened the likes of Notafan into hystericc.
Looking back, who really still believes Italy was a big covid death camp when now we know they admitted it was all bullshit.
Their overall death numbers never moved from the yearly average.
They never did anywhere in the world.
Yet the Notafans of the world lost their shit, calling people nanna killers.
Not one excess death anywhere.
Until the vaccines came along.
Until the vaccines come along.
No “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” until the jabs come along.
Until they started with the annilation of the western humans to save the planet (or that’s the excuse)
Now they aren’t recording those numbers anymore.
Insurance companies most certainly are.
You and I both know hospitals aren’t full. They are lacking staff. The unvaxxed who are the ones with the smarts.
They haven’t got any covid patients at all.
They have people who have gone into hospital with other problems been given a bullshit test that is totally unreliable and are said to be hospitalised by covid.
Horse shit.
The covid jab is what is hospitalising people.
Hey, that’s what all those nurses who refused the jab have been telling us for a long time now.
But who of you who have been jabbed, or even have loved ones who have been jabbed, wants to acknowledge such hard truths ?
When you deny the obvious, the truth, you are accepting lies.
Which is what socialism must have you do to win.
Where has your memories gone?
Denying the truth has seen large chunks of recent history irradicated from many minds, …..and I’d argue it’s done as a coping mechanism.
But it really is just a delaying mechanism, and the longer the truth is denied, the harder the true world will become, and the more impossible to deny.
As it happens, I did 🙂
And no itchy eyes.
you mean like First Nations, these wokeheads are thick as a brick
As it happens, I did 🙂
And no itchy eyes.