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US tripling it’s nuclear power generation capacity, while we run the nation into the ground with mirrors and windmills. We…
I agree with you, Craig Foster has to go. I usually record Danica’s program and watch it later so when…
I remember bus conductors being called clippies for punching the passengers’ bus tickets.
Hey bern Sound like Sydney is having only a moderately bad day. On the coast of NSW, we can beat…
Conservatism is the opposite of radicalism. All functioning societies need to be essentially conservative or they cease to exist.
From a brilliant short essay by Dennis Prager:
RTWT
Link
And yet we never see “salmon mousse” recorded in the official stats despite it being widely reported by trusted sources on the innernet.
Such is the all corrupting influence of Big Salmon.
The legendary Dame Angela Lansbury talks about Murder, She Wrote
rosiesays:
October 12, 2022 at 8:52 am
Apparently the CPS often refuses to prosecute
Retailers Urge UK Police to Prioritize Shoplifting as Costs Rise
Security tags, normally reserved for high-end products like bottles of whiskey, are now found on everyday items including butter, cheese, meat and washing detergents.
I will confess to a certain schadenfreude watching Labor trying to grapple, after reckless promise-making to win the election, with finding the pantry stripped when they got in.
It is the inevitable result of having two major spendaholic Labor parties having their heels nipped by minor spendaholic parties.
The schadenfreude does not really make up for the perilous position we find ourselves in…but it is something.
Howard has always talked a good game. Practice … not so much.
https://notrickszone.com/2022/10/11/german-government-fears-millions-of-furnaces-going-off-children-now-being-handed-blankets-at-school/
Hong Kong stares down US on Russian-owned super yacht
Hong Kong | Hong Kong’s leader John Lee said on Tuesday he would only implement United Nations sanctions, after the US warned the territory’s status as a financial centre could be affected if it acts as a safe haven for sanctioned individuals.
Mr Lee’s statement on Tuesday came days after a luxury yacht connected to Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov docked in the city.
Hong Kong authorities have said that they do not implement unilateral sanctions imposed by other governments.
“We cannot do anything that has no legal basis,” Mr Lee told reporters. “We will comply with United Nations sanctions, that is our system, that is our rule of law,” he said.
Going to the supermarket in the UK is a political act. Sainsburys – solid, middle class. Also Tesco.
The chances of police prosecuting shoplifters in Sadiq Khan’s London are something approaching zero.
I can remember being in a supermarket in Paris (which was just on the edge of the DMZ) and seeing an aspiring rapper attempt to stuff a bottle of spirits down his pants. Didn’t fit so he removed the outer box and threw it on the floor. I don’t know why he bothered concealing it. Staff and other customers just averted their eyes and pretended it wasn’t happening.
Via OldOzzie
“We have been presented with some challenges in relation to electricity use. In short our infrastructure is from 1822 and our cars are from 2022,” the flyer says.
Brighton must be a real go-getter area, to have had electricity infrastructure in the suburb in 1822.
Or the idiot who wrote that has no idea of history (or anything else).
Noted above but worth repeating…
Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democratic Party, calling it “an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness” while praising Trump’s international leadership.
I am shocked that the Nazi Pass didn’t work in the German grocers.
Only 53 Per Cent of Gen Z Britons Are ‘Exclusively Straight’ – Stonewall Research
In its ‘Rainbow Britain Report’ for 2022, the LGBTQ+ activist organisation hailed the fact that “our lives and experiences are now more visible than they have ever been — in every community, and in all aspects of life, in Great Britain.”
They noted, in particular, the fact that “only 71 per cent of people identify as straight” among Generation Z, according to their Ipsos-conducted research — compared to 91 per cent of Baby Boomers.
Moreover, fully 14 per cent of this young demographic “identify as bi or pansexual” — an astonishing rise from the mere 2 per cent of Baby Boomers who do so.
Generation Z may be even more “queer”, as Stonewall puts it, than even these figures suggest, with only 53 per cent identifying as “exclusively straight”.
“[Forty per cent] have a pattern of attraction that could be described as queer,” they crowed, defining this as anything “outside the scope of exclusively heterosexual attractions between cisgender people”.
The identities offered survey respondents ran the gamut from the familiar heterosexual/straight, bisexual, gay, and lesbian — a separate category from gay, for whatever reason — to the more bizarre “omnisexual” and “pansexual” — the latter of which now accounts for 1 per cent of the overall population and four per cent of the Gen Z population, apparently.
They also found that two per cent of the overall population and five per cent of the Gen Z population are supposedly “asexual or ace”.
People who are only attracted to the opposite sex appear to be falling with each successive generation, with the 53 per cent for Gen Z contrasting with 61 per cent for Millennials, 71 per cent for Generation X, and 77 per cent for Baby Boomers.
“Taking account of the 7 per cent who don’t know, or prefer not to say, two in five (40 per cent) of the youngest people in our survey have attractions that are queer,” Stonewall observed of its fidings.
I guess you could have said much the same thing during the Covid pan
demic…but you didn’t.BREAKING BIG: Pfizer Director Admits Vaccine was Never Tested on Preventing Transmission During EU Hearing Contrary to Previous Claims (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
During the COVID-19 EU hearing, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, admitted that the vaccine had never been tested on its ability to prevent transmission, contrary to what was previously advertised.
Robert “Rob” Roos, a politician from the Netherlands who is also a member of the European Parliament, exposed the lie that people from all over the world had been led to believe.
“If you don’t get vaccinated, you’re antisocial. This is what the Dutch prime minister and health minister told us. You don’t get vaccinated just for yourself, but also for others. You do it for all of society, that’s what they said. Today, this turned out to be complete nonsense. ” Roos said in his viral bombshell video posted on Twitter.
“In a COVID hearing in the European Parliament, one of the Pfizer directors just admitted to me at the time of introduction, the vaccine had never been tested on stopping the transmission of the virus,” Roos said.
n one of the most atrocious crimes against humanity, all the governments worked together with big pharma and big tech to deceive the general public into taking the COVID shot.
They lied to us. They coerced millions of people into being vaccinated on the lie of preventing transmission.
“This removed the entire legal basis for the covert passport. The COVID passport that led to massive institutional discrimination as people lost access to essential parts of society. I find this to be shocking, even criminal,” Roos added.
True, but it’s also true that without NATO in the picture, they would still have cheap Russian gas that would have left them better off even with the higher defence budgets, and likely no war in Ukraine now even if it chose to join the EU.
Either Elbow is so dumb he actually thought his reduce electricity bills by $275 could happen or he’s a liar.
Or he’s dumb and a liar.
Auf Wiedersehen, Wolkenkuckucksheim?
12% think the greens are best suited to deal with Chermany’s problems.
Be interesting to see what a cold winter and a growing housing shortage
will do to that number.
Although getting four from adding 2 and 2 together isn’t a skill
normally found in green voters.
The CSIRO says QLD needs to incease its renewable generation capacity 50 fold by 2050, requiring $14b in capital investment each year, if it’s to meet the Palaszczuk government’s clean energy targets.
Absolutely doable.
Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 1m
VP HARRIS: “When you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children, they are the children of our country, of our communities. I mean, our future is really bright if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1579963618367799301
State Department Spokesman Ned Price: Giving Ukraine Billions Is ‘Foreign Policy For The Middle Class’
State Department Spokesman Ned Price defended the Biden administration’s policy of aid for Ukraine as part of a “foreign policy for the middle class” during a press briefing Tuesday.
One reporter asked Price how the administration felt about the fact that the U.S. has given more than double the aid to Ukraine that Europe has, and how the immense spending on weapons and other aid for Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s invasion comports with President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to implement a “foreign policy for the middle class.”
“The costs of this are not insignificant. In fact, to the contrary, they are significant. The costs of inaction would be far greater,” Price said, without going into specifics about those costs.
Today’s Moran, woo.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo Discusses His Decision to Recommend Against COVID-19 Vaccines for Young Adult Males
On October 7, the Office of Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, issued an announcement recommending “against males aged 18 to 39 from receiving mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.” [link] This created quite a stir as his advice goes against the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and numerous other scientific organizations.
Dr. Ladapo cited a Florida health dept study showing an 84% increase in the incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination. Immediately Dr. Ladapo became a target by federal officials, big tech and defensive media. {Direct Rumble Link} Dr. Ladapo appeared on Tucker Carlson last night to discuss. WATCH: 2 Mins 27 Secs
Lays out trail of Dotbait….
I am a woman in a long-term relationship with the father of our two young adult daughters. He is a great dad and a caring partner. He’s loyal and in love with me. I love him but rarely feel like having sex with him.* I’m struggling with my desire to be hugged and heard without feeling obliged to have sex with him in return. Sometimes I can imagine myself into a playful state where I’m more likely to feel turned on, but it’s rare (other than when we go on holiday and I’m much more receptive). The other aspect of my sexuality is that I’ve always been attracted to other men. I’ve had casual relationships with a few men** over the past 25 years. I don’t feel as guilty as I think I should. My partner is an introverted homebody, whereas I love to go out to gigs and social events. Of course, I inevitably meet other men there and am attracted to their energy.***
Ill be the agony aunt for this one.
Dear rancid slag. KYS, preferably after taking out a large insurance policy to compensate your husband for having to have shared genitalia with 25 years of randoms.
The gruinaids version…
It seems to me you are managing this dilemma – and doing so as well as anyone can. Long-term monogamy is hard for everyone. Feeling “less guilty” than one thinks one should about extramarital sexual experiences is common among those who understand that, in many societies, social norms and boundaries are in conflict with fundamental biological urges. Celebrate the differences between you, and do what you have to do to get your needs met while honouring the long-term bond and commitment between you as well as your joint responsibilities. Not everyone can navigate these ubiquitous dilemmas with grace, safety and a minimum of chaos; just continue to do your best.
* Beta bux, alpha fux..
** More than a football team, but less than a stadium.
*** Big dick energy!! its a thing
NZ does it again! Brain fart results in Burp Tax.
No.
He was relying on the MSM giving it a decent burial in the forgettory.
Biden Announces U.S. Air Defense System for Ukraine Following Retaliatory Russian Missile Attacks
October 10, 2022 – Sundance
Like the bombing of the Nordstream pipeline, it is highly likely the Kerch Strait bridge targeting was planned by Ukraine and the United States. However, we are not permitted to speak about these coordinated efforts. The bottom line is the U.S. Biden administration going further toward direct engagement with Russia via the proxy state of Ukraine.
BIG PICTURE – The baseline for the global aspect to the Ukraine conflict remains rooted in the economic cleaving underway. Saudi Arabia has expressed their alignment with OPEC+, including Russia, on a coordinated oil supply. The NATO alliance broadly wants to pressure their partners away from oil, coal and natural gas. Thus, today in addition to the phone call with Zelenskyy, Joe Biden called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:
The western ideologues, politicians, corporations and banks (yellow on map) are trying to force a new global energy system. However, there is opposition from multiple nations (grey on map) who see the effort to shift away from oil, coal and natural gas as economic suicide.
The citizens within the western alliance nations are suffering the consequences of the global economic cleaving. Energy driven inflation, a purposefully created problem, is creating a recession amid the western alliance nations. The monetary policy of U.S., EU, CA, NZ and AU is currently constructed to lower economic activity to support the reduced amount of energy resources available.
Specifically, because the Ukraine conflict is being used as a justification for political economic and monetary policy, there appears to be no limit in what the U.S. will do to widen the ideological war against Russia. Unfortunately, the era of great pretending forbids anyone from talking openly about the true root of the issue.
It seems clear now that NATO, led by the USA, is willing to escalate a European war if that’s what it takes to protect the climate change goals.
We are pretending our way into a war.
That Florida 84% higher tweet article has been posted several times and had to wonder what it was 84% of.
20
With the comment I never thought, and have said here many times, that under 40 vaccination was unnecessary.
some discussion here.
Cold and wet in Melbourne.
Different, unusual.
Probably not salmon mousse, not many salmon on prairies.
Maybe moose mousse.
Eileen Ryan dead: Legendary Little House On The Prairie star and mother of Sean Penn dies (11 Oct)
Right.
So, we have Eileen Ryan, Angela Lansbury and the Queen.
I am waiting for some DeNiAlist to get in here and say, “Oh, just coincidence”.
FMD.
Sheeple.
Incredible. Just incredible.
So, we have Eileen Ryan, Angela Lansbury and the Queen.
I am waiting for some DeNiAlist to get in here and say, “Oh, just coincidence”.
Its the curse of Dads Army come back to life!
At least JR’s joke are so repetitive.
Sometimes I have no power to resist clickbait like this.
Bastard.
At least JR’s joke are not so repetitive
Living proof that “equal opportunity” hiring policies are a danger to humankind.
they did model the effect on pfizer’s bottom line though if that’s any help
And it continues.
Frank Williams (the vicar) cruelly snuffed out just short of his 91st birthday in June this year.
The last survivor, Ian “stupid boy” Lavender is only 76, but must be a worried man.
why yes, yes he is
They sure are.
And what about Loretta Lynn and Louise Fletcher?
Why not them?
Is this some sort of cover up?
It’s happening.
gimme all your moneys and I’ll make sure its on time and on budget
…scout’s honour
Held up at the airport for QF11 due to chaos in Security. Not even boarding yet. They’d better not say it was due to late arrival of the aircraft, says Hairy. That plane’s been there since 7am. He should know because he was at hotel window early checking on it. He likes to stay at Rydges 181 steps from check in, as they bill themselves. We could have taken an early cab from home but I think the real reason he insists on hotelling it there the night before is because he enjoys watching the planes come and go and other airport activity. He spent quite a while last nite holding a glass of wine admiring the skills of a fork lift driver packin stuff into a warehouse. Men can be simple creatures at times. We were in the same room we had 2 years ago heading out into the ‘pandemic’ to the horror of our whole family. Very deja vue now. Now they’ve just announced a further delay, engineering issues. I hope they are minor, and fixed!
Calli, I hope you slept your way to Japan as intended. I will be watching movies unless this flight is delayed till bedtime.
Ok now boarding.
Whatever it takes.
If only the Dems could convince Putin to nuke Ukraine, they could call off the US mid-term elections in November by declaring martial law because of a “national security crisis”.
There’s absolutely no way that’s true. If people believe that, they haven’t worked in large organizations. They may have tested it and weren’t pinged back without a good result, or the dude is lying. There’s no way they didn’t test it because NO vaccine would be sent out to the public without being tested – especially by a firm as big as Pfizer. Secondly, the FDA would never allow it. I’d take a small bet the person is a former disgruntled employee.
Coal got her. The deadly stuff destroying the planet. Sing about it for seventy years and you’ll die horribly.
Are we living under early stage fascism? (Ramsey Ramerman & Bret Weinstein)
The last monk, upon entering, paused in the lock.
He stood in the open hatchway and took off his sandals.
“Sic transit mundus,” he murmured, looking back at the glow.
He slapped the soles of his sandals together, beating the dirt out of them.
I must read “A Canticle for Leibowitz” again. Thanks. Must be more than 50 years.
Big Salmon is the patsy for the Moussers.
Big Mousse is the George Soros of the fluffy food cabal.
OMG!
OMFG!
This is big!
There’s absolutely no way that’s true. If people believe that, they haven’t worked in large organizations. They may have tested it and weren’t pinged back without a good result, or the dude is lying. There’s no way they didn’t test it because NO vaccine would be sent out to the public without being tested – especially by a firm as big as Pfizer. Secondly, the FDA would never allow it. I’d take a small bet the person is a former disgruntled employee.
Pfizer did not test the vaccine for preventing transmission of Covid
Miss the last bit?
Don’t invest in any bridges.
Big Salmon is the fall guy?
I’m not having it.
Mousse is innocent.
This is the sort of smear put about by the Klaus minions.
The Bat eared mong held a press conference yesterday to announce Melbourne is expecting rain.
You could not make this shit up.
As for releasing health advice for lockdowns ….crickets.
There’s a reason why you kick the tyres before lighting the fire.
Eyrie beat me to it.
Remember the good old days when the shots would help reopen society by stopping people from transmitting the disease to others?
Long time ago 2021.
As one wag at work said yesterday, ” to be fair it was for 2025. They will make a big song and dance about actually achieving it – except the saving will not be on the 2022 price which was implied, but double the 2022 price, which will be the norm in 2025″.
And the ALP can’t complain about the budget. Everybody knew it was in terrible shape.
a civilisation ending trend
The British Medical Journal pointed this out 2 years ago.
The testing was inadequate and they only used subjects with mild covid symptoms.
Got some nice bounce out of that pill.
Warnie couldn’t do better.
Hallward, you’re such a conspiracy the mongering guttertramp. You complete dickhead, you’re taking an assertion from someone who’s likely to be disgruntled without a shed of evidence and holding that up to be true without being tested. Get back to Denninger’s site .
There’s zero chance a firm as large as Pfizer would travel that road.
Must be a university survey.
How fares our lady of the chaise longue this day?
An early swoon and no show?
Perhaps, but that doesn’t equate to this bilge that Hallward is defending.
Here:
I wonder if we could access information from the FDA?
Anybody know what has happened to Mike Yeodan? He is the former VP of Pfizer ( he went on to run his own company & had since retired) who expressed amazement at the lack of normal procedures followed in the premature release of the Covid vaccine. He was sufficiently vocal to fear for his life and last year moved from the UK to Florida. From there he released another stinging criticism of Pfizer in particular, & the producers of the Covid vaccines in general.
But havnt seen in any recent work by Yeodan on the internet.
here, look at my raging incredulity-boner is not an argument
just sayin’
As for “disgruntled employees” – you might also include Brooke Edwards, a recent senior executive of Pfizer, who was fired after she notified superiors of contamination of the testing process for their vaccine.
More power to “disgruntled employees”.
Will Germany sink the EU?
Destroying Germany’s economic lifeline
Someone blew up Nord Stream pipelines bringing in cheap, abundant natural gas from Russia to Germany. German economy depended on this resource for nearly 60% of its industrial production. As Zoltan Pozsar suggested, $2 trillion of German value depended on $20 billion of Russian gas.
We can’t be sure who blew up the pipelines,but the most likely suspects are all Germany’s supposed friends and allies: the US, UK, Poland, Sweden and Denmark.
Adding insult to injury
Last month one of the key architects of this catastrophe, Berlin’s hapless Economy minister, Robert Habeck publicly complained about the situation in an interview to German media. Only yesterday, French economy minister Bruno Le Maire chimed in: “We cannot accept that our American partner sells its LNG four times the price at which it sells it to its own industries.” But these lamentations come far too late to mitigate the extreme damage to European economies.
Beseiged from all sides…
Thus, together with Poland’s bold demand for 1.3 trillion Euros in WW2 reparations, Germany has suddenly found itself besieged by its “friends” and “allies” on many fronts
As Hans Peter Wollseifer, president of the Central Association of German Crafts said to the Rheinische post, “Every day, we receive emergency calls from companies that are about to stop production because they can no longer pay the enormously increased energy bills.” The Federation of German Industries (BDI) also warned of a wave of bankruptcies due to energy cost inflation which is now a major challenge for 58% of companies while 34% believe that the crisis jeopardizes their very survival.
Germany has (potentially) one reliable partner
The nation is being pushed to destruction. But while this may note be apparent to the unsuspecting consumers of western corporate media narrative, Germany has found itself in the situation where it may have only one partner to rely upon. If you guessed Russia, you guessed correctly.
German subsidies arms-race could sink the EU
Vicki
You’re quite happy to live with people making assertions that you’re bias favors. That’s okay, you can believe the earth is flat or Hallward is a former astronaut just because he claims so. Fine with me
The key about large organizations is that.. well they have large numbers of people working for them. You really believe that Pfizer didn’t just cut corners, but actually sent out a vaccine that hadn’t been tested AT ALL. That’s what the former employee claims. Also, a huge number of people have kept it quiet about and so has the FDA.
Magic Marvin is here pretending he was never vaxxed.
JC
She is listed as a current Pfizer executive on the You Tube recording of her evidence yesterday. Could be a stuff-up, but ….
She won’t be for long. By the way, who actually listed her as a current Pfizer exec?
JC,
What is the missing word that might indicate she might be disgruntled ?
She says they didn’t test for transmission prevention. Did the vax prevent transmission?
Not allowed to supply wrongthink to Chinese proles.
China asked Elon Musk not to sell Starlink within the country (11 Oct)
I suspect Starlink terminals and dishes are going be hot property in the celestial empire.
Yeah, I believe that. He moved from the UK to Florida , not because of the better weather, no siree. He moved to Florida because he feared for his life in the UK and felt much, much safeer because Florida is 9 hours flight time from London and those big bad guys couldn’t threaten him in the new digs as its so far away and remote.. I believe that, like who wouldn’t.
Eyrie has never claimed to be an astronaut.
Do we have our wires crossed, JC?
Janine Small is a Pfizer executive, not a former employee. She was responsible for marketing the vaccine to the EU. What she says in the clip tallies with what the BMJ reported at the time – Pfizer & Moderna expedited their trials to get their vaccines to market without the usual rigourous testing for efficacy in regard to preventing both serious disease and transmission. The justification for this at the time was just as Small says in the clip – the need for the vaccines was deemed too urgent to engage in extended trials. The role of the FDA & our own authorities in authorising the vaccines is another question, but let’s just say that Pfizer et. al. weren’t as energetic as they might have been in correcting the information governments gave to their citizens.
OK who’s upset JC now? You kids stay off his lawn.
“He was sufficiently vocal to fear for his life and last year moved from the UK to Florida”
There were a few vocal types here in 2020 muttering about their own likely premature deaths.
Another failed prediction.
Diogenes
We don’t know. I suspect the vax had some impact on the Alpha strain but just as the vax was being distributed the mutation commenced and we ended up with delta and then, quickly the Omni.
That isn’t the point though,
The bint made a very specific assertion – that the vax was not tested. I don’t believe this to be true. Moreover, in the beginning of the vax distribution, there was no apparent suspicion that Pfizer’s was reacting any differently to the others. In fact, Pfizers was considered superior to the one we had in oz, which I think was the Oxford one.
Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee
Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found
Thousands of officials across the government’s executive branch reported owning or trading stocks that stood to rise or fall with decisions their agencies made, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
More than 2,600 officials at agencies from the Commerce Department to the Treasury Department, during both Republican and Democratic administrations, disclosed stock investments in companies while those same companies were lobbying their agencies for favorable policies. That amounts to more than one in five senior federal employees across 50 federal agencies reviewed by the Journal.
A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency reported purchases of oil and gas stocks. The Food and Drug Administration improperly let an official own dozens of food and drug stocks on its no-buy list. A Defense Department official bought stock in a defense company five times before it won new business from the Pentagon.
The Journal obtained and analyzed more than 31,000 financial-disclosure forms for about 12,000 senior career employees, political staff and presidential appointees. The review spans 2016 through 2021 and includes data on about 850,000 financial assets and more than 315,000 trades reported in stocks, bonds and funds by the officials, their spouses or dependent children.
AMONG THE JOURNAL’S FINDINGS:
• While the government was ramping up scrutiny of big technology companies, more than 1,800 federal officials reported owning or trading at least one of four major tech stocks: Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
• More than five dozen officials at five agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department, reported trading stock in companies shortly before their departments announced enforcement actions, such as charges and settlements, against those companies.
• More than 200 senior EPA officials, nearly one in three, reported investments in companies that were lobbying the agency. EPA employees and their family members collectively owned between $400,000 and nearly $2 million in shares of oil and gas companies on average each year between 2016 and 2021.
• At the Defense Department, officials in the office of the secretary reported collectively owning between $1.2 million and $3.4 million of stock in aerospace and defense companies on average each year examined by the Journal. Some held stock in Chinese companies while the U.S. was considering blacklisting the companies.
• About 70 federal officials reported using riskier financial techniques such as short selling and options trading, with some individual trades valued at between $5 million and $25 million. In all, the forms revealed more than 90,000 trades of stocks during the six-year period reviewed.
• When financial holdings caused a conflict, the agencies sometimes simply waived the rules. In most instances identified by the Journal, ethics officials certified that the employees had complied with the rules, which have several exemptions that allow officials to hold stock that conflicts with their agency’s work.
Number of federal officials who reported owning specific tech stocks, 2016-21
Federal agency officials, many of them unknown to the public, wield “immense power and influence over things that impact the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans, such as public health and food safety, diplomatic relations and regulating trade,” said Don Fox, an ethics lawyer and former general counsel at the U.S. agency that oversees conflict-of-interest rules.
He said many of the examples in the Journal analysis “clearly violate the spirit behind the law, which is to maintain the public’s confidence in the integrity of the government.”
Some federal officials use investment advisers who direct their stock trading, but such trades still can create conflicts under the law. “The buck stops with the official,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and former ethics lawyer for the Washington, D.C., government. “It’s the official who could benefit or be harmed…. That can occur regardless of who made the trade.”
Federal agency officials, many of them unknown to the public, wield “immense power and influence over things that impact the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans, such as public health and food safety, diplomatic relations and regulating trade,” said Don Fox, an ethics lawyer and former general counsel at the U.S. agency that oversees conflict-of-interest rules.
He said many of the examples in the Journal analysis “clearly violate the spirit behind the law, which is to maintain the public’s confidence in the integrity of the government.”
Some federal officials use investment advisers who direct their stock trading, but such trades still can create conflicts under the law. “The buck stops with the official,” said Kathleen Clark, a law professor and former ethics lawyer for the Washington, D.C., government. “It’s the official who could benefit or be harmed…. That can occur regardless of who made the trade.”
Investing by federal agency officials has drawn far less public attention than that of lawmakers. Congress has long faced criticism for not prohibiting lawmakers from working on matters in which they have a financial interest. The rules were tightened in 2012 by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, passed following a series of Journal articles on congressional trading abuses.
Journal reporting last year on federal judges, revealing that more than 130 jurists heard cases in which they had a financial interest, led to a law passed this May requiring judges to promptly post online any stock trades they make.
This article launches a Journal series on the financial holdings of senior executive-branch employees and, in some instances, conflicts of interest hidden in their disclosure forms.
U.S. law prohibits federal officials from working on any matters that could affect their personal finances. Additional regulations adopted in 1992 direct federal employees to avoid even an appearance of a conflict of interest.
The 1978 Ethics in Government Act requires senior federal employees above a certain pay level to file annual financial disclosures listing their income, assets and loans. The financial figures are reported in broad dollar ranges.
Most officials’ financial disclosures are public only upon request. The Journal obtained disclosure forms by filing written requests with each federal agency.
Some made it difficult to obtain the forms, and several agencies haven’t turned over all of them. The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t provided any financial records. (See an accompanying article on methodology.)
The Article continues – extremely long and interesting read
I remember Tel pointing out last year that the vaxxes weren’t tested for transmissability.
I scanned a few reports just now.
Not entirely clear what her job within Fizzer was/is?
One j’ism gave her a battlefield promotion to CEO.
Just a note on house hunting in WA.
On the holiday went to kick tiles on a few places.
Heres the findings.
Dozens of people turning up, even for the most dilapidated dump.
Prices are effectively the floor price for people to lodge offers above, real estate agents are effectively running moving auctions during home opens, but you dont know if its bullshit or there really have been 3 offers on the $400,000 house which means youd have to offer over $415,000 to be the purchaser.
No way Im buying into a pig in a poke like that.
That’s correct JC; Oxford’s astrazeneca was linked to thrombosis and Australia stopped giving it to people under 60.
So then, you concede that the vax was tested if in an expedited way. I’m sorry, but this contradicts the first assertion:
I have a head cold and had an argument with Wifey last night. So don’t bug me. 🙂
Ask him. He’s been the the moon, Mars and back in one long loop. He traveled there with Karl Denninger and Uncle Fester.
Also, I can’t recall which maker and I think it was all the western vaxes came out with an efficacy on of above 90%. I think Johnsons was below that. Was that all made up then?
You need to apologise, buy flowers and apologise again over a very expensive dinner.
Not interested in the detail.
That’s the only way out.
JC
By the way, who actually listed her as a current Pfizer exec?
She was appearing before the EU Parliament. The name plate they put in front of her says “J SMALL PFIZER”.
It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that the EU stuffed up (it’s what they routinely do), but it seems unlikely. If nothing else, if she had previously been sacked, Pfizer would come down on them like a ton of bricks.
Sanchez
I think I’ve apologized 3 times in decades and I’m not about to start now. All sheilas are somewhat crazy and she started it. Enough now.
“All sheilas are somewhat crazy”
Aye, that we are.
Funding Panic Imminent? Fed Quietly Sends $3.1 Billion To Switzerland Via Swap Line
Fast forward two weeks when there still hasn’t been any formal announcement from the Fed, but every so quietly – and just as we expected – the Fed shuttled $3.1 billion to the Swiss National Bank to cover an emergency dollar shortfall.
The next logical question obviously is: why does Switzerland suddenly have a financial institution needing $3 billion in cheap (3.33%) overnight funding. We don’t know the answer, but have a pretty good idea of who the culprit may be. (Credit Suisse)
Ok, the site is rejecting links to BJM.
Ditto. Error message that says it cannot complete this action at this time. Please try again. Which I will.
JC, I hope you’re watching Carlson’s show (or will watch the repeat later): he just replayed the Pfizer frightbat admitting the company never tested the Kung Flu vaccine on the public. Carlson also interviewed Dutch MEP Rob Roos calling it “one of the great scandals” of our lifetime.
In better news the PC I bought, well one of them, thanks to the Rudd response to the GFC, has finally been to the computer doctor’s and is running like a dream.
Now been upgraded to 320gb something something.
I was happy to buy a new one,if needed, but apparently not.
Only use it for eparcel and preparation of taxes as these days I do most of my online work on the phone.
Luxury.
Try this, remove spaces Ive added and it should take you to the site, I hope.
https:// http://www.bmj .com/content /375/bmj.n2635
And why not? It’s more fun that way.
Dating apps I:
Right-wing dating app reviews claim users contacted by FBI (12 Oct)
Dating Apps II:
Michelle Obama’s ‘When We All Vote’ partners with BLK dating app that made ‘No Voting No Vucking’ video (8 Oct, via Instapundit)
Dating makes minefields seem safe these days.
“Megansays:
October 12, 2022 at 11:36 am
Last night I tried to close my PayPal account and could not. I will try again today.
Ditto. Error message that says it cannot complete this action at this time. Please try again. Which I will.”
As did I and I was unable to.
Footy great Jason Akermanis reveals his wife’s shock cancer diagnosis – and questions whether it is linked to the COVID JAB: ‘It happened straight after’
. Akermanis’ wife Megan Legge, 43, underwent a double mastectomy last month
. Akermanis said he wondered if her cancer was related to her recent Covid jab
. AFL star said she was otherwise fit and healthy, and didn’t drink alcohol
. ‘It happened straight after she had the Covid jab, and she felt a lump,’ he said
. Daily Mail Australia does not suggest a link between the Covid jab and breast cancer
“And why not? It’s more fun that way.”
Absafuckinglutely. Men can’t cope when we lose it.
Other than not trialing for transmission, in what way didn’t pfizer not trial the first covid vaccine?
pfizer, about our landmark trial
Cassie of Sydneysays:
October 12, 2022 at 11:38 am
“Megansays:
October 12, 2022 at 11:36 am
Last night I tried to close my PayPal account and could not. I will try again today.
Ditto. Error message that says it cannot complete this action at this time. Please try again. Which I will.”
As did I and I was unable to.
Cassie,
did you follow
https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/How-do-I-close-my-PayPal-account-FAQ1215
I did after making individually inactive all accounts (of which I was stunned were so many). then followed the instructions on the above link and account was closed
nature report on the first pfizer trial on humans
Now for the Good news, although it is based on the Always Wrong BOM Forecast
Say goodbye to a sunny summer: Grim weather forecast warns Aussies are in for another six months of flooding, tropical cyclones and thunderstorms
. Bureau of Meteorology issues grim long-range forecast for the next six months
. More flooding expected after some regions recorded wettest year on record
. Likely chance of at least 11 tropical cyclones before April, first one within weeks
. More torrential rain and flooding for NSW, Victoria and Tasmania in coming days
Tulsi has parted ways with the Democrats. She has spoken positively of Trump but I have not heard that she is moving into the Republicans. Is she staying in politics as an independent?
Feeling a lump, doesn’t that happen because the cancer has been growing a while?
As for risk factors, what about having a first baby after thirty or being on the pill?
Or carrying faulty breast cancer genes?
Join the Foreign Legion.
Work a tramp steamer out of Lourenço Marques.
Butler for Ginge & Cringe.
There’s always another way.
Trump or DeSantis should be eyeing her off as a VP running mate. She doesn’t agree with everything those two say, but a VP doesn’t have to. She’s also reasonably cute.
You have to remember the absolute hysteria surrounding Kung Flu early in 2020. President Trump was committed to fast-tracking vaccine development — and, despite the media’s hatred of him, he was applauded because it was a very popular move.
The media’s primary mission was getting Trump out of the White House and — using the old media methodology of beating up everything tabloid-style — maintaining the public’s fear of Kung Flu to make people more compliant for Big Government in Washington DC.
rosiesays:
October 12, 2022 at 11:40 am
Other than not trialing for transmission, in what way didn’t pfizer not trial the first covid vaccine?
.1 Duration?
.2 Vaxed the control group after a short period, leaving no valid control group for long term comparison?
Am hearing Ukraine has stopped power supply to EU as is running short for itself…
They most certainly can. To drown out the screeching and ‘losing it’, some proven winners are:
1. Operate a drop saw or angle grinder on scrap wood and metal, right next to the open kitchen door;
2. Turn on Metallica covering Thin Lizzie tracks at concert volume, and on continuous loop;
3. Replay Collingwood’s 1990 and 2010 (replay) GF victories, again at concert level volume;
4. Say ‘The lawn’s looking a bit scrappy’ and direct her to the garden shed; and
5. Depart for the golf course, and/or pub.
Some or all of those options, and in any order are fit-for-purpose.
One other thing, bespoke. Both Hallward and Denninger were bitterly complaining about Fester’s chronic farting throughout the moon/Mars trip and it got so bad one of them was about to choke him on the return leg. The stench in the small cabin was unbearable.
LOL! Older one’s maybe, I think of it as a sport.
Find the right button see how long it spins
Although most of the women I know are rational so have to look elsewhere.
Hope you told her you were a big time tycoon and not to mess with you or you’d bloviate on the Cat. Try some Tycoonlenol
What part of did not test the vaccine for preventing transmission of Covid
is not understood?
She didn’t say it was not tested at all. If you look at the testing that was done it was all pretty hurried and sketchy. The vaccines were NOT tested to normal standards. They are under an EMERGENCY USE AUTHORISATION (EUA). Now when you use an EUA it means there are NO other reasonable treatments available which just happens to explain the demonisation of HCQ/Ivermectin, zinc, vitamin D etc. If those treatments had been shown to be reasonably effective the EUA would have to have been withdrawn meaning no money for Pfizer and the other grifters.
This was a political vaccine.
Still waiting to know just what was done to make a “successful” corona virus vax. After SARS COV-1 in the early 2000’s people were worried by that as the fatality rate was something like 10%. There was a 5 or 6 year effort to develop a vaccine which totally failed and so was abandoned.
Take it to the poo flinging thread, JC.
Aussie boots on the ground in Ukraine: Australian considers sending personnel to train Ukrainian soldiers – as Putin bombards Kyiv and major cities with missiles
. Defence Minister Richard Marles said the government is considering the move
. It would see Australian soldiers travel to Europe to train the Ukrainian forces
. Government is also planning another round of additional military equipment
From the Comments
– Toeing the line as a stooge to the yanks and UN/NATO created and choreographed dislocations is an anachoristic ,died in the wool approach that has been exposed as a folly since Vietnam, Indonesia/Malaya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and now Ukraine.
– NO! NO! NO!
– Ukraine, please take our true fighters green and labor voters as they will not be missed when they leave OZ
– Albanese is behaving in a very in-Australian way.
– Has Albansese completely lost his tiny mind…don’t send Australian troops over there..stay out of it ffs!!!
– That wouldn’t be very climate friendly Albo.
– Send army to rebuild flooded areas in NSW. Qld and Vic, instead of wasting them to help a country that has never helped us and never will. Ukis are takers. They never give anything good in return
Jim Treacher never fails to win the internet
WHO, Bill Gates and Wellcome Trust’s Global Vaccine Fund Lacks Transparency and Accountability
Stop moving the goalposts, Hallward, you dishonest, conspiracy mongering loon.
This is what I reacted to and you defended it as being true.
Piss off.
“it’s not about you, it’s about me!”
how false ascription of “your mask/vaccine/distancing protects me” inverted the morality of covid and broke the world.
Not surprising. Russia is going after water and power infrastructure.
Interestingly Israel is always careful not to do this to Gaza.
Bill Peguillan
@BillPegs
Scary coke sniffing globalist fiend lady’s at it again
New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Arden is set to begin a scheme making farmers pay for their greenhouse gas emissions incldg methane belched/farted out by cows + nitrous oxide emitted thru livestock urine
No. On the other hand you ought to go back permanently to the Lollipop site. After all, you’ve denigrated this site often enough with your comments there. Piss off.
well durh.
Even the most heterosexual of people sometimes find someone of their own sex attractive.
Doesn’t mean they want to go any further
Bang on, bespoke.
‘It’s more fun that way.’
Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democrat party. It’s well worth reading this thread as she sets it out very well. I doubt anyone here would dispute her reasoning.
Tulsi Gabbard
@TulsiGabbard
I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are…
artificial grass roots
never trust the song of a bard who was paid to write it
Via OldOzzie
. Defence Minister Richard Marles said the government is considering the move
. It would see Australian soldiers travel to Europe to train the Ukrainian forces
That reminds me. Has m0nty-fa enlisted yet for the noble war against Wussian imperialism? Or does he remain a mere chickenhawk/front bar urger?
Err No!
Soros Admits Responsibility for Coup and Mass Murder in Ukraine
I told you.
I am not interested in minutiae like “who started it”.
And of course all COWS are crazy.
We know this.
But you need to apologise.
It’s the only way.
Now that’s what I call a money making venture. Destroy the heart with one injection and then “repair” it with another.
Can’t Make This Up – Moderna CEO Announces Development of New mRNA “Injection” to Repair Heart Muscle After a Heart Attack
Engineers created a safe micro-nuclear reactor that fits in the back of a truck
Easy to move to they lied to us about vaccine safety and they lied to us about vaccine effectiveness..
The issue of transmissibility was discussed on the old Cat in some considerable detail in late 2020 – particularly as it applied to the medico-political goal of ‘herd immunity’.
I don’t carry this stuff on my phone, but I clearly recall that there was significant expert doubt (including from Moderna IIRC) that any of the Covid vaccines provided ‘sterilising immunity’ – ie prevented the virus from entering and replicating in vaccinated humans and stopping the chain of transmission.
I, for one, find you very attractive bespoke.
At that distance, anyway.
I don’t know what the percentage is here, but I’m proudly part of it. I did my very best to ignore the whole thing, from beginning to end.
A tangled web: 42% of Americans ignored COVID precautions or lied about taking them
So, more expensive, more time – and energy – consuming and of course, to top it off, vastly more dangerous. We should all run out and buy one.
John Solomon
@jsolomonReports
Energy analyst says EV charging more expensive than gas | Just The News
I, for one, find you very attractive bespoke.
At that distance, anyway.
That reminds me of this line from Raymond Chandler’s “The High Window”
Phillip Marlowe:- “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
Old School Conservativesays:
October 12, 2022 at 12:22 pm
They lied to us. They coerced millions of people into being vaccinated on the lie of preventing transmission
Easy to move to they lied to us about vaccine safety and they lied to us about vaccine effectiveness..
Meanwhile as a Reminder
CDC’s Definition of ‘Vaccine’ Has Changed Over Time: ‘Protection’ vs. ‘Immunity’
As CNSNews.com reported on May 4, 2021, the CDC at that time defined vaccination as “The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.“
But that definition has changed over time. The CDC website now defines vaccination as “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.”
The CDC’s definition of “vaccine” also has changed: Last spring, CDC defined a vaccine as “a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.”
The definition of “vaccine” now reads: “A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”
Last spring, when CDC said vaccination produced “immunity,” the health agency also admitted it was “still learning” about how effective COVID vaccines are; whether they protect against variants; whether they keep people from spreading the disease; and how long the protection lasts.
See also – https://www.citizensjournal.us/the-cdc-suddenly-changes-the-definition-of-vaccine-and-vaccination-2/
Nothing suspicious about that. Right?
Was This Episode Of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Based In Shreveport?
I haven’t had time to read back but I’m sure someone would have mentioned Angela Lansbury’s death at age 96. According to this article, she was working right up to the end.
When we bought our home in Subi, late 1988, people had been offering over the ask over the phone sight unseen just to get in a look.
We paid (I think) $130K for a termite mound that had been bought for $79K three months earlier. We didn’t know it but the crazy had faded just before we started looking.
Made 8% annually after that for the ten years we had it, and raised some awesome kids there.
Firstly, Aker is nowhere being a credible source on being anything but a mouthy, “look at me” dickhead.
Secondly, some facts.
The age of 43 is not right at the peak of the age bell curve for breast cancer, but it isn’t out past 3 standard deviations either.
5. Depart for the golf course, and/or pub.”
Yes, that’s why when we do lose it, men need spaces to escape to. It is perfectly understandable.
You would struggle to find anyone who would argue with that.
is he?
I’d like to know how he’s doing that
I see that JC is till pretending he has an actual argument.
Exactly so.
Domestic Oil is the new Ivermectin. You can’t have it because it would resolve the crisis they need you to go through.
Medicine as Keynesian economics.
JC, a brief flick through DDG shows the dudette, Janine Small, is the company’s president of international development markets (as at Sept 29 2022).
Not one news item in my search referred to her as a “former” executive.
It appears she stepped into the European Parliament’s special committee on COVID-19 because Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla pulled out of an appointment to testify.
On the surface of it, you can assume she is gruntled, currently employed by Pfizer, and has let the cat out of the bag on behalf of the boss: the company did not test if its COVID-19 vaccine stopped transmission of the virus before the vaccine was put on the market.
Knuckles et al re loony sheilas….
5. But just go to the pub. Why fuck around in long grass trying to find a golf ball.
Exclusive: Capitol Cop Admits Oath Keepers Defended Him, Capitol Building from Violent J6 Agitators
Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tulsi Gabbard’s defection from the Democratic Party.
NATO once ‘lost’ underwater drone under Nord Stream, Gazprom reminds
The Stupid War On Russian Literature
BY: DAVID HARSANYI
Read Dostoevsky.
“Yes,” says the latest edition of The Economist, “the Russian literary canon is tainted by imperialism.” Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has called into question “not just the value of reading” Russian classics, says the magazine, “but also the morality.” As it happens, I’m a big fan of Russian literature and classical music. For me, the novels of Dostoevsky are still imminently readable — which is more than I can say for The Economist.
In The Times Literary Supplement, Oksana Zabuzhko, a Ukrainian writer, “argued powerfully,” The Economist points out, that Western readers of major Russian authors have ignored their “imperialist attitudes and indulged their drastic moral relativism and sympathy for criminals.” These books, the author claims, are “the camouflage net” for Russian tanks in Ukraine.
This is insanity. Soon after Putin’s invasion, symphonies and opera houses began shutting down Russian artists and performances. Carnegie Hall removed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, and Metropolitan Opera dropped opera singer Anna Netrebko. The Polish National Opera canceled performances of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” and the Cardiff Philharmonic dropped Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” over its bellicosity. The Russification of Ukraine was most intense under Soviet rule, so why allow anyone to play Prokofiev or Shostakovich? Next thing you know Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” will be banned for normalizing cultural appropriation.
The attack on Russian writers is worse. I will admit to knowing little about the “imperialist bent” of the renowned poet and novelist Pushkin, who apparently wrote verse trumpeting Russia’s “might” in the 1830s. Though a critic of the tsars and champion of the downtrodden, a Ukrainian critic points out, the poem “To the Slanderers of Russia” is a broadside against the French-backed Polish uprising against the tsar in 1830. Pushkin was apparently still sore about Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812. (Napoleon promised the Poles, and many other “colonized” ethnic minorities in Europe, self-determination. Colonizer or liberator?)
Leo Tolstoy, notes The Economist, is guilty, as well, for neglecting “the perspectives of the colonised peoples of eastern Europe.”
Do you think there might be an agenda at play?
‘Put puberty on hold’: Abortionists now urge kids to switch genders
Quite so, if my experience is any guide.
Recently I pressed “record series” on my Foxtel box for “Murder She Wrote”.
In a very short space of time over 60 episodes are waiting for my viewing pleasure.
A good looker and a very extensive body of work. Vale Angela.
Let’s try for a bit of objectivity on Mrs Aker.
Take the first sentence of the story:-
Why a double mastectomy?
Did she have a very rare instance of simultaneous cancers in both breasts? Probably not. Breast cancer cannot organically spread from one breast to another.
What is more likely is that she was identified as having a genetic predisposition to breast cancer (BRCA gene), thus they removed not only the cancerous growth, but all breast material on both sides.
If she has a BRCA gene abnormality, other risk factors (alcohol, weight etc) become way less relevant. BRCA gene abnormality absolutely swamps all other risk factors. And BRCA cancers don’t strictly follow the age distribution of common or garden breast cancer.
Angela Lansbury’s ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Cameo Will Take You To New Heights
Just back from the shops, saw one of those but worse. A Kardashian arse, pumped up boobs, pants so tight you could see the cellulite, a bit of floss for knickers , covered in tramp stamps and lips like Daffy Duck. Sorry to put people off their lunch but I don’t feel hungry after that. She looked ok at 30 metres, at 10 metres shoppers were actually laughing at the spectacle. How does anyone think this description is attractive in the slightest.
Good from afar, far from good!
the company did not test if its COVID-19 vaccine stopped transmission of the virus before the vaccine was put on the market.
Which ought to settle the matter. Note also this was quite obvious by the time of vax rollout in Oz. If you were paying attention.
From a comment on locoti’s earlier link to Izzard
“A ‘mumpsimus’ (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are not.”
Anyone here that would apply to?
GreyRangasays:
October 12, 2022 at 1:08 pm
Just back from the shops, saw one of those but worse. A Kardashian arse, pumped up boobs, pants so tight you could see the cellulite, a bit of floss for knickers , covered in tramp stamps and lips like Daffy Duck. Sorry to put people off their lunch but I don’t feel hungry after that. She looked ok at 30 metres, at 10 metres shoppers were actually laughing at the spectacle. How does anyone think this description is attractive in the slightest.
Something like this – https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lizzo++with+big+backside&iax=images&ia=images
or
https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/megyn-kelly-dunks-on-kim-kardashians-enormous-fake-ass/
In the Thread of Covid Vaccines – “Big Pharma to the Rescue”
This was the very first comment that was posted that I had a problem with.
Is this true or not!
Magic Marvin, put down the soldering iron and tell us if it’s true. Failing that you could always head to the therapy thread
🙂
After a subsequent comment like Roger’s it appears she didn’t really say this. It was bullshit from the start.
Maybe you want recalibrate your starting position, Old school.
“You should not eat bugs. They are insects. They belong on the ground, or in the air, or wherever the heck they live. They do not belong on your dinner plate.”
You have the chickens eat them – makes for very tasty chickens!
The chickens eat the bugs.
The chickens will lay eggs. Eat the eggs.
When they stop laying eggs, then you eat the chicken.
BONUS: chook poop makes good garden fertiliser!
It’s the trout-pout that gets me.
I have a theory.
That stuff doesn’t last and probably isn’t cheap. I reckon the Hollywood types get it done once every 2-3 weeks with smaller quantities. Chicks with less cash get four times that dose in one go every three months.
Sshhh.
Talking about Kenn Worth Road Ranger is likely to summon him up.
Twenty years ago the son of a good of mine died that night –
The assault on paradise
good friend of mine
OldOzzie
October 12, 2022 at 12:33 pm · Reply
Treating the COVID-19 vaccine with facts
By Editorial Board – The Washington Times
Not everyone benefits from a one-size-fits-all approach
I watched the Pfizer woman answer the question, unless I can’t understand plain english it seems to me that she confirms it wasn’t tested for virus transmission prior to release.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/breaking-pfizer-director-admits-vaccine-never-tested-preventing-transmission-eu-hearing-contrary-previously-advertised/
Phillip Marlowe:- “From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
Also known as a low resolution fox…
used to be a barmaid in gero with a body that could stop traffic topped by a face that could curdle milk.
A cruel, cruel trickster is nature.
Did you know Joe and Hunter Biden were both born under the same sign?
What sign?
FOR SALE
It didn’t.
It also never claimed it did.
Neither did any of the other vaccine manufacturers.
The puzzle is: why has this now re-emerged as a gotcha?
Very cool, molten salt. Perhaps thorium fluoride?
Doc F
Here’s the link suggesting they had tested
https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/about-our-landmark-trial
The Australian (no subscription!) “CBA to shun clients with no climate plans.” How good is that? No, I don’t have accounts with them. If I did, they would be closed. Woke/broke.
Doc F
Here’s your own link.
Cassie, he started the mess we’re currently in. Apart from his other blunders in office, his Workchoices at the behest of industry groups that quickly changed sides when it became clear Howard had become toxic to the electorate in the wake of Rudd moving out from Howard’s slipstream was the nail in the coffin of Australian politics. Worse, we lot Costello which would’ve been a turn for the better, comparatively, at least.
It says a lot that the best since was the huge disappointment of Tony Abbott.
Jeffrey Sachs : Many People Don’t Know This Coming Crisis..Prepare Now
JC, DOT, other econo types here. Thoughts?
Joe Biden says Hunter is ‘on the straight and narrow,’ denies alleged gun crime
Comments are quite funny
– Why doesn’t Hunter hang out at Joe Biden’s Million $ beach house?
He doesn’t want to get sand in his CRACK
– Before becoming a highly paid energy expert in Ukraine,
Hunter Biden was trying to get a job in the banking biz.
He told prospective employers he had a lot of experience with WITHDRAWALS
– What does Tr@itor Hunter Biden have in common with other Fentanyl Dealers ?
They both have friends in high places.
-I think Joe been getting high with that stellar son of his!
– Did you hear that Hunter was once addicted to both brake fluid and heroin?
He kept saying to himself that he could stop anytime
– Hunter Biden had a small part in a p@rno movie called “Cocaine”.
He only had one line.
Here’s the link suggesting they had tested
They had indeed tested that the vaccine was effective in preventing the disease in the event of infection.
As had the others.
But not that the vaccine prevented infection – see the Nature link above.
Everyone — from President Trump down — supported the hypersonic conditional approval of Kung Flu vaccines, such was the hysteria whipped up by the media in 2020.
It was NEVER the right thing to do — and Big Pharma knew it. That’s why Big Pharma sought and was granted immunity from prosecution.
Worst of all to me was the validated real world efficacies of the vaccines were not high enough to achieve herd immunity anyway – not unless we vaccinated over 100% of the population.
There was no merit to forcing people to take it. If masks worked, healthcare workers could simply use a mask.
Other vaccines they are compelled to take have better safety profiles, efficacy and here in Australia Novavax was absolutely slowed down.
There are deep political undercurrents to this, beyond stuffing mail in votes. There are issues of manufacturing acceptance of the use of aborted fetus materials in medical research.
Two weeks to flatten the curve turned into 2.5+ years of authoritarianism. The public’s trust in medicine, science and he security of our liberties is shot.
t he
OldOzzie you’re going well today. Not brave enough to click on the first one but I’d say she modelled herself on the second. I’ve only ever encountered a normal woman who had a slight duck look occasionally and that was 40 years ago, well before botox. She didn’t look strange either.
Because at the time this news was being drowned out by fear mongering from politicians and health officers in Australia. Ably supported by the MSM, any news that was contrary to the prevailing narrative of pro-vaxx information was shunted to the sidelines, only to be seen by those who read the fine print.
Its re-emerging now because Pfeizer’s admission has clear air and a slightly more sceptical press.
As for not telling the public that Covid vaccines didn’t stop transmission of the virus, surely you remember the massive advertising blitz about protecting friends and family? The public was led to believe the vaccines stopped transmission.
Sad memories P @1.33pm.
Many share.