Hamas has been stealing up to 60% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip, and a Channel 12 report last week revealed…
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U.S.-Built Pier in Gaza an Epic Failure Reuters is reporting that most of the aid coming into Gaza from the…
Are you referring to my comment? The article also said no-one who was wearing their seatbelt was injured. So yes…
Interesting how so many muslims are in so many international leadership roles, eg ICC, US elite universities, just when things…
Wow! A seff efrican Security wonk. And the wonk is saying Richard Kemp is making said wonk’s life a misery!…
There’s a more important factor at play here. Akermanis is a renowned golf cheat. The Sporting News:
Filth.
Good onya Indolent.
Glad to learn someone was able to ignore it all & mislead authorities about alleged compliance.
Cops were on my case, hard, the whole time. Right from the beginning.
It started with two cops waiting outside the door for me on the first morning, immediate dark mention of “heavy penalties”, threats & innuendo, dark warnings delivered as if I was somehow deliberately non-compliant & trying to pull the wool over their eyes.
This all within a few hours of when I’d overnight been bushwhacked by the Slomo government into;
Guillotine shutdown of my business, told it’d be for Six months.
Sacking without notice people who’d worked for me for 20 years. Without them having anywhere to go.
It went on for more than a year, up to three times daily entry by police into my premises, to conduct a headcount of persons in the building (three times per day, every day, for some weeks) accompanied by dark mention of the heavy financial penalties (in the tens of thousands of dollars) if they could “catch” me with just one person “too many”
Simultaneously that same police force stood around and watched as thirty thousand people jammed onto the bridges in Brisbane, crowded the CBD streets, & changed ‘something something lives matter’
Then, with the rubbish of thirty thousand people not yet picked up, that same police force dressed themselves in mufti, drove several hundred miles west, & conducted ambush entry of close to two dozen civvie-clothed police officers into one-man, one-kegger bush pubs, just so they could fine the pub ten thousand dollars for having too many people inside.
All power to those who were able to resist, able to non-comply, able to bullshit the authorities about compliance.
John H
It certainly looks really bad but I wouldn’t rely on Sachs. He’s telling us now instead of 2020 or 2021. Here’s a counter, Oaktree, which is fund worth listening to reckons that the US will avoid any sort of deep recession and China will come back.
I think we’re in pretty bad shape and Europe is totally fucked.
Its a pity ASIO is not like Mossad. The conspirators in the Bali bombing would be dead a long time ago.
John H.says:
October 12, 2022 at 1:45 pm
Jeffrey Sachs : Many People Don’t Know This Coming Crisis..Prepare Now
JC, DOT, other econo types here. Thoughts?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rapid-rise-in-rates-could-fuel-global-economic-disorder-imf-warns-11665497701
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bank-england-global-markets-you-have-3-days-sell-all-things
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/disease-war-and-climate-change-are-shaping-the-global-economy-20221012-p5bp4t
https://nypost.com/2022/10/10/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-says-us-world-headed-for-recession-in-2023/
One that Dot will enjoy. Steam pushed an update in the last few days. Someone had a brainfart so it now requires two-factor authentication to start a game. Every day.
I complained, got a response (!) saying I’m either deleting cookies or I have antivirus turned up too high or something. Well that wasn’t helpful, especially as I quite distrust companies like Steam, so of course I delete cookies and have the antivirus turned up. I’ve had hassles from the LinkedIn and Optus hacks, not serious but annoying, so why would I trust Steam? I wasn’t going to say that though.
So I hit the net, and sure enough in about five minutes found a simple workaround. It’s fun that companies like that get so anal about security to piss off their customers unnecessarily, yet leave it trivially easy to bypass.
Steam helpdesk peoples will not be happy campers right now, poor things. I suppose it’s a job.
“The puzzle is: why has this now re-emerged as a gotcha?”
Because trusted internet bloggers are desperately in need of clicks?
Old Ozszie
Who gives a shit what the IMF says.
Zero Fucking Hedge is depression porn site.
Really?
You have to be really, really careful about stuff that people like Dimon says. He’s a dick, but a very rich one. The problem is that he may have stock options to take up and the lower the stock price the better for him. The market will eventually correct his bullshit anyway. Most US banks are into huge buybacks of their stock!
I reckon the dawrf at Quaintarse is doing pretty much the same thing. Q had a large buyback recently and it sounds like it was to help the dwarf’s options. At least that’s how I read it.
It’s fun that companies like that get so anal about security to piss off their customers unnecessarily BoN @1.58pm.
Logged onto BWS to get piss delivered to celebrate my 5 days of isolation and antivirals from Fauci Flu.
Had to to get a new password because the old one, which had worked for for years to get piss delivered, wasn’t strong enough. Fuck me.
GreyRangasays:
October 12, 2022 at 1:49 pm
OldOzzie you’re going well today. Not brave enough to click on the first one
Something nicer
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11305259/Heidi-Klum-49-poses-lookalike-daughter-Leni-18-BTS-footage-lingerie-shoot.html
I thought one of the outcomes of vaccination programms was that the reproduction rate of the virus had significantly reduced.
Isn’t that why Denmark eased covid restrictions?
Our results demonstrate that vaccinations reduce susceptibility to infection as well as infectiousness, which should be considered by policy makers when seeking to understand the public health impact of vaccination against transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Ozzie
It’s freaking sick stuff. Mother and daughter gallivanting around in revealing undies holding each other closely? That’s not like really weird?
3 weasel words in 1 short sentence – some, clues, might. Nothing definitive. As in “You say that I claim the Fizzer Vax prevents transmission? I never said that!”
Most gorebull warming claims make great use of weasel words.
I am about to make a prediction that I know will come true using weasel words. JC might be hit by an object as large as the moon. Scary hey? But if even a mote of dust lands on his head my prediction will come true.
The Vaccines were only ever political vaccines. Politicians eager to believe any polished turd that was supposedly being paid to know what to do but didn’t. The narrative changed by the hour, country to country saying differing things coz none of them knew SFA. It took about 6 months for most to align. Had it been real, people would have falling down dead in the street, not like the actors we saw on Chinese video. Doing any sort of statistical analysis is almost impossible due the the way the data has been selectively distorted in the collection. As soon as someone says believe me, except as an offhand comment, my spidey senses awaken. The amount of material for arse covering hasn’t been made yet. Do they think they will get away with it, yes. Will they. Not as long as I can do something about it.
JCsays:
October 12, 2022 at 2:09 pm
Ozzie
It’s freaking sick stuff. Mother and daughter gallivanting around in revealing undies holding each other closely? That’s not like really weird?
JC,
it’s good to know you are a Chess Fan
You’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
KD at 1:50.
Look, I am not calling for the death penalty on that one unless first prize was anything more than a cap and bag of tees.
U.S. sensors unable to track Chinese, Russian hypersonic missiles: report
U.S. radars are unable to track Chinese and Russian high-speed missiles until late in their flight, even as new systems are being developed as part of the Pentagon’s accelerated hypersonic missile defense program, according to a congressional report.
The Congressional Research Service report said that the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency and Space Development Agency are working on parts of a hypersonic missile defense systems that could be used to stop the missiles, in part because current systems are inadequate for the job.
“U.S. defense officials have stated that both existing terrestrial- and space-based sensor architectures are insufficient to detect and track hypersonic weapons,” the Oct. 3 report states.
For geostationary satellite sensors, hypersonic targets are 10 to 20 times harder to detect than conventional ballistic missiles, which travel in more predictable trajectories, the report said.
Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds greater than 1 mile per second. Current U.S. space and ground radar systems are unable to detect the missiles until late in flight, making interception with anti-missile systems difficult.
Unlike ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles — either gliders or powered — travel along the edge of the atmosphere and can maneuver in flight to avoid defenses.
“The maneuverability and low flight altitude of hypersonic weapons could challenge existing detection and defense systems,” the report said.
Brittany Higgins to resume giving evidence in her rape trial on Friday.
She reminds me of the old gin who offered herself to me for a bottle of port in the front bar of the main pub in Katherine in 1973.
Treasury’s plans to banish alcoholic beverages in America
The left-wingers of our great country are steadily expanding the legalization of marijuana. This is a quarrel that I can save for a later date. But the do-gooders of the land are renewing their struggle against the demon rum, and unless the relaxed, easygoing Americano resists the do-gooders, they will find themselves fighting Prohibition all over again.
How ironic. America is about to legalize a substance whose sole purpose is inebriation, while the rest of us defend our God-given right to enjoy the moderate use of beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks. The intelligent imbiber does not open a can of beer or uncork a bottle of wine to sozzle himself or herself away in an alcoholic stupor. On the other hand, those who consume a marijuana-laced concoction only do it to get high and possibly drive off the road.
According to reports in the news last week, the Treasury Department, whose jurisdiction it is to oversee the labeling of alcoholic beverages, is considering requiring that makers of wine, beer and distilled spirits provide more information on what imbibers consume. Treasury will start with labels that list only the ingredients and calories of an alcoholic product. That is to say, the harmless stuff: ingredients and calories. It will end with Prohibition. It did so early in the last century, and the result was a huge boost for organized crime and alcoholism.
Well, my favorite source for the rebuttal of this particular prohibitionist canard is the Bible. It abounds with references to vinous juices, and many of the references are favorable. My favorite is the Blessed Virgin’s request of her Son to change water to wine. What kind of label do you think the Department of the Treasury would put on Jesus’ wine?
I’m not conceding anything, I’m reporting what was known at the time.
They (Pfizer & Moderna) followed the clinical trial protocols but in an abbreviated fashion so they could bring the vaccines to market urgently.
Something nicer
Weird
This article sets out five reasons why the Manmade Climate Change apocalypse is a steaming lie. Cats will be familiar with the material but it is reassuring to see someone publish this powerful summary in plain English. A great tool for explaining the scam to the grand kids. Or send a copy to a lefty mate with a note saying this is why I no longer support the Climate Change narrative. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/five-climate-change-smoking-guns-reasons-manmade-climate-change-lie/
Still being represented by Cadbury and Smirnoff, Attorneys at Law?
Heidi Klum’s daughter seems nice.
And Tom – the end of the story?
Penfolds Club? McWilliams?
So, here is the CMO of Moderna speaking top the BJM in October 2020:
“Our trial will not demonstrate prevention of transmission because in order to do that you have to swab people twice a week for very long periods, and that becomes operationally untenable.”
“Every trial design, especially phase III, is always a balancing act between different needs. If you wanted to have an answer on an endpoint that happens at a frequency of one 10th or one fifth the frequency of the primary endpoint, you would need a trial that is either 5 or 10 times larger or you’d need a trial that is 5 or 10 times longer to collect those events. Neither of these, I think, are acceptable in the current public need for knowing expeditiously that a vaccine works.”
Pfizer took the same approach, working “at the speed of science” [sic!] as Ms. Small testified to the EU committee.
Zyconoclastsays:
October 12, 2022 at 2:40 pm
Something nicer
Weird
Not Weird
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lizzo++with+big+backside&iax=images&ia=images
Vs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11305259/Heidi-Klum-49-poses-lookalike-daughter-Leni-18-BTS-footage-lingerie-shoot.html
From a Visual Perspective – What is Weird about a Mother being proud enough to pose with her Daughter
Barking Toadsays:
October 12, 2022 at 2:45 pm
And Tom – the end of the story?
Penfolds Club? McWilliams?
In those days definitely McWilliams, but usually in a Flagon
Why is the question re Pfizer vaccine popping up again?
The answer cuts to the heart of the issue surrounding the vaccine passport and various rules and regulations that were implemented against unvaccinated people.
No vaccine meant no restaurants, movies, international travel, job and many other fundamental inalienable human rights.
The basis for participation in society based on one’s vaccine status, was wrong morally, ethically, and medically.
Mandating a novel treatment without evidence is a crime.
The absolute risk reduction from the Pfizer Biontech vaccine was 0.84% in the original submitted data.
1 infection prevented for every 117 people “vaccinated” was going to save the world.
That is one infection prevented, not one death.
Poll: What is the most likely ending to the Ukraine/Russia war?
Ukraine conquered by Russia. 7 (10%)
Russia keeps annexed regions. 33 (45%)
Russia relinquishes annexed regions. 2 (3%)
Ukraine joins NATO 7 (10%)
Ukraine’s offensive pushes Russia out 12 (16%)
Use of a nuclear weapon 12 (16%)
Sorry…BMJ.
No.
But you know that.
One of the major “selling” points for shoving the vaccines into people was the “prevent transmission/faster herd immunity” line.
Some people have memories greater than that of a goldfish.
And that was the Cat Conclusion in late 2020, based on the Az trial data.
By which time the politics of herd immunity were set in place by Morrison’s, evidence-free
“as mandatory as you can possibly make it.“ remarks.
Britnah.
Must be nice to show up to court when you feel like it. It’s not as if the jury has anything else to do.
Selfish sod.
CAN WE HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE COVID SHUTDOWNS?
From early in the covid epidemic, it seemed obvious that the shutdowns ordered by nearly all governors and many municipalities did little good and caused tremendous damage. Experience has borne out that conclusion, but almost everywhere, governments have moved on without any accounting for the mistakes that were made.
American Experiment has just released two papers that address the consequences of covid shutdowns. While their specific focus is on Minnesota, their analyses are readily applicable to other states.
Economists John Phelan and Martha Njolomole performed a multi-factor regression analysis to isolate the effect of state and local shutdowns on economic growth. They used the stringency index developed by scholars at Oxford University to rate the stringency of shutdowns state by state and week by week. They accounted for other factors, including the number of covid cases, the extent that a state’s economy relies on the hard-hit hospitality and entertainment industries, and state tax policy.
Their conclusion is that Minnesota’s covid shutdowns cost the state $10.6 billion in GDP growth by the first quarter of 2021, or around $7,500 for a typical family of four. Their paper includes stringency and economic data on all 50 states, so the analysis can easily by applied anywhere in the U.S.42 Page PDF
Policy Fellow Catrin Wigfall analyzed the effect of school shutdowns on the academic performance of public school students in Minnesota. She found that Minnesota students, on average, missed the 14th largest number of days due to school shutdowns among the states. The consequences were devastating.
Academic performance of Minnesota’s public school students dropped off a cliff as a result of covid shutdowns. This chart tells the story:
Pedro was asked to comment:
RTWT.
Quite so.
It wouldn’t pay to underestimate the possibility of at least a couple of jurors getting so pissed off with her they become locked in to “Not Guilty”.
No good at reversing a caravan or trailer? Here’s how to smash it
I like this solution at the end
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Film “Till The Clouds Roll By” | Angela Lansbury – 1946
“How’d You Like to Spoon With Me?“
Michael Smith News – any Cats thinking of applying?
Note the title of the role ZKTA: “Ambassador”
Because they live in a different “nation?”
The bartender asks the guy sitting at the bar.
“What’ll you have?” asks the bartender. The guy answers “A scotch, please”.
The bartender hands him the drink, and says “That’ll be five dollars” to which the guy replies “What are you talking about? I don’t owe you anything for this”.
A lawyer, sitting nearby and overhearing the conversation, then says to the bartender “You know, he’s got you there. In the original offer, which constitutes a binding contract upon acceptance, there was no stipulation of remuneration”.
The bartender was not impressed, but says to the guy “Okay, you beat me for a drink. But don’t ever let me catch you in here again”.
The next day, same guy walks into the bar.
Bartender says “What the heck are you doing in here? I can’t believe you’ve got the audacity to come back!” The guy says “What are you talking about? I’ve never been in this place in my life!” The bartender replies “I’m very sorry, but this is uncanny. You must have a double”. To which the guy replies “Thank you. Make it a scotch”.
I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
– Tommy Cooper
As I understand things, the jury is listening to other evidences while Mz Higgins is sitting it out for a bit.
I’m not sure why the general public isn’t allowed to hear what’s being presented to the jury by the prosecution until after Mz Higgins finishes.
Seems odd, seeing as we aren’t being asked to reach a verdict – presumably it’s to preserve a narrative stream for the punters.
Durham probe: FBI offered Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate Trump allegations in dossier
Steele couldn’t corroborate allegations in dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton campaign and DNC through law firm
The FBI offered ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele $1 million to corroborate salacious allegations made in his dossier against former President Donald Trump and members of his 2016 campaign, but he was unable to do so, an FBI official testified Tuesday.
FBI supervisory counterintelligence analyst Brian Auten was the first witness in the trial of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as the primary sub-source for Steele’s anti-Trump dossier and has been charged with five counts of making false statements to the bureau.
Auten testified that he and a group of FBI agents went overseas in early October 2021 to speak with Steele about the dossier. During questioning by Special Counsel John Durham on Tuesday, Auten said that during those meetings the FBI offered Steele $1 million if he could corroborate allegations in the dossier. Auten testified that Steele could not do so.
Auten also said that the FBI had no corroboration of allegations in the dossier but nevertheless took that information and inserted it into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
“On October 21, 2016 [the date of the Carter Page FISA application], did you have any information to corroborate that information?” Durham asked.
“No,” Auten said, confirming that the FBI began receiving Steele’s reports, later known as the dossier, on Sept. 19, 2016, and submitted its first FISA application on Page on Oct. 21, 2016.
but usually in a Flagon
Jebus wept – that’s an allnighter!
French Fuel Shortage Leads to Yellow Vest Resurgence
From Armstrong Economics –
“The French, especially in Paris, are starting to feel the effects of the gas shortage. There are reports of cars queued for miles outside gas stations. Some have reported waiting for over an hour, only to find that there was no petrol left to fuel their vehicle.
Workers at TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil in France are on strike at the moment as well. This has led to three out of six refineries shutting down as production has been cut by 60% to 740,000 bpd. Over a third of TotalEnergies’ 3,500 stations are low on petrol. Workers are seeking a 10% salary increase as they feel the oil companies are reaping in profits amid this crisis.
President Emmanuel Macron has urged the people to avoid panicking. Some believe that this situation is only a glimpse of what will come in the winter when reserves plummet and demand soars. There is currently enough fuel for about 90 days.
The climate zealots of the Yellow Vest movement are prominent in France. The group protested for 60 consecutive weeks in 2018 and is extremely anti-Macron. They even stormed the Arc de Triomphe in central Paris. With Macron reelected and fuel woes rising, expect this movement to gain some momentum – with more support than the last go-around.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/france/french-fuel-shortage-leads-to-yellow-vest-resurgence/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
…like Australia.
Anyway, I think Andrew Bolt should apply as he’s done heaps of work with those people.
Dr Faustussays:
October 12, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Britnah.
Must be nice to show up to court when you feel like it. It’s not as if the jury has anything else to do.
As I understand things, the jury is listening to other evidences while Mz Higgins is sitting it out for a bit.
I’m not sure why the general public isn’t allowed to hear what’s being presented to the jury by the prosecution until after Mz Higgins finishes.
Would MZ (“Out Like a Light”) Higgins not be allowed to hear the witnesses to prevent her changing her story, which seems to occur, hence not allowing reporting in the Media?
The question was why has the failure to (completely) prevent transmission re emerged as a gotcha now?
The ones with the memories of goldfish are the ones currently running around with their hair on fire about testing not having occurred in relation to transmission.
We knew and discussed that and a couple of us remembered.
We knew the political message about prevention was incorrect, but also that there was evidence that vaccination reduced both transmitability and viral load, as the Danish study I linked suggests.
here’s another study
“It wouldn’t pay to underestimate the possibility of at least a couple of jurors getting so pissed off with her they become locked in to “Not Guilty”.”
I most certainly hope so. Her shtick of MIA is disgraceful. Perhaps Mr Lehmann can take next week off?
Sorry badly worded meant – Would MZ (“Out Like a Light”) Higgins not be allowed to hear what the cross examination of the witnesses by the Defense team was, to prevent her changing her story, which seems to occur, hence not allowing reporting in the Media?
Snork.
Possibly other than in specific childrens court cases, a closed case in a democracy is a weird thing…
No idea who asked for it and why it would have been granted.
The only reason (and don’t know if its dumb) would be to stop any future appeal from being tarnished…?
“They (Pfizer & Moderna) followed the clinical trial protocols but in an abbreviated fashion so they could bring the vaccines to market urgently”
Exactly, because it was a pandemic situation.
With reference to OldOzzie upthread, fascinating situation in the Danchenko trial.
Durham was viewed as running dead on a range of the pre-trail motions.
But now it seems he’s not using the trial to pursue Danchenko but a platform to introduce more, fresher, newer Steele dossier evidence.
It’s caught a lot of people by surprise.
Greta Thunberg gives Germany permission to keep nuke plants running
The climate activist has called for keeping reactors operating rather than using more coal-fired power amid Europe’s energy crisis
A redress scheme for victim-survivors if state care in Victoria!?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-12/victorian-government-institutional-care-leavers-abuse-redress-/101525950
Didn’t we have five years of Gillard’s hand-picked political witch hunt (also known as the royal commission) assuring us that abuse in state schools and institutions was as impossible as a square circle?
Very easily debunked. I think that’s what we used to call science.
fully vaccinated proportion of population vs. reproduction rate
Bloody Russians!
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-man-survives-shooting-himself-in-head-during-game-of-russian-roulette-20221012-p5bp5e.html
She’s like a spastic in a carnival fortune teller booth.
Kneelsays:
October 12, 2022 at 1:29 pm
“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!
Insect-based food, tastes great.
I also like plant-based food. Cattle and sheep eat grass (which humans cannot digest), transform it i to meat, we eat the meat, delicious.
I am in greatly favour of these varieties of insect and plant-based foods.
I think that’s it.
Strange correlation of headlines at the moment..
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No, not Higgins.
Gerbil warming destroying evidence of African art in WA:
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/under-threat-race-against-time-to-find-ancient-art-carvings-in-wa-s-outback-20221011-p5boz4.html
The Bruce Lehrmann trial will finish far ahead of the expected six weeks. The DPP, Shane Drumgold, has told the court the prosecution expects to deliver closing arguments early next week.
Aussie dollar at 62.7…
Looked up a few comparison charts and was saw that it was slightly lower at the start of ChinaFlu (61.7), slightly higher in 2009 (63.8)…
Pfizer have admitted that they never tested for transmission. So the the “do it for the safety of your fellows in the community ” was all bullshit.
I had no idea Belarus had a government-in-exile. I wonder who finances it? No, really, I do.
Diogenes
JC might be hit by an object as large as the moon.
A minor pedantic correction.
JC might be hit by an object, possibly as large as the moon.
Re the euro parliament enquiry where the Pfizer woman was asked questions. The video below just popped up on youtube, it’s some of the enquiry members holding a press conference about the enquiry. It’s good, I didn’t realise that there were people in the EU Parliament who were worried about the vaxxes etc. It’s 25 min long but the best is the first 12 minutes. Well worth a look.
Six members of the European Parliament held a press conference on October 11, 2022, one day after Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO, refused to participate in the Covid committeee and answer questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTgDj7uiX8&t=792s
Seeing as non sequiturs are the go with you, I’ll put it more bluntly.
Given this was a not so secret secret it follows that all the politicians, media talking head scum and public health officials who pushed the line “stops transmission of the virus” were lying through their teeth.
No wonder so many people fought getting jabbed to the last.
And a reason to wonder; what else are they knowingly lying about wrt “vaccines”.
America Quietly Prepares for Nuclear War
I mentioned in a prior post that the US was purchasing anti-radiation medication. The media is urging the public not to fear as this is simply a precaution. Yet, the US would not have shelled out $290 million on a drug if the intelligence agencies did not fear the potential of a nuclear attack.
The US Department of Health and Human Services downplayed the severity and said that this is part of its “long-standing, ongoing efforts by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response to better prepare the U.S. for the potential health impacts of a wide range of threats to national security.” Of course, Joe Biden fanned the flames of panic by stating there was a risk for a “nuclear Armageddon” not seen in 60 years.
The government is purchasing a drug called Nplate that was approved by the FDA in 2021 to treat radiation syndrome. “Nplate is indicated to increase survival in adults and in pediatric patients (including term neonates) acutely exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation,” the company notes. Although not a worthy source, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) occurs in four stages.
The four stages of ARS are:
It is peculiar that the drug was approved for radiation a year prior to the war breaking out in Ukraine. The drug has never been tested on humans, and the results are not guaranteed. They certainly were not testing monkeys with a radiation dosage even close to that of a nuclear weapon. Of course, this was another NIAID-funded research project. They were testing mRNA drugs and COVID vaccines before the pandemic began too.
How could they top the fear-mongering of COVID-19? Nuclear war. Stay inside because of radiation and take your shots to survive. The nuclear Armageddon could occur at any moment! After 2020, anything is possible.
Cadbury and Smirnoff. Chuckle.
Firstly, and quite vital to informed consent, that they are “Fully Approved”!
Mater’s Musings #57 – Bing-Bong, You Were/Are Wrong!
Tomorrow is the fiftieth anniversary of when a plane flying from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the Andes. The Oz has a piece on the crash and the survivors, fifty years later. The plane was carrying a rugby team from Uruguay, their coaches and family members.
“Of the plane’s 45 occupants, 16 made it home from the 72-day ordeal that became known as the “Miracle of the Andes”. The only way to survive was to eat the flesh of the dead. But for Harley, a retired engineer now aged 70, that was not the worst of the nightmare made famous by the 1993 film Alive.
After the initial shock of their plane crashing into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972, Harley and 31 other survivors found themselves in the pitch dark in minus 30C at an altitude of about 3500m.
Many of them not yet 20 – the plane was flying an amateur Uruguayan rugby team and family members to a match in Chile – none were dressed for the cold.
Several were badly injured.
Those who could squeezed into what remained of the fuselage between dead bodies and the screams of the wounded.
“That night, I experienced hell,” Harley says.
“At my feet was a boy who was missing a part of his face and… choking on blood.
“I didn’t have the courage to reach out to him, to hold his hand, to comfort him. I was afraid. I was very afraid.” By morning, four more were dead, and so started a seemingly relentless torment that would eventually whittle the number of survivors down to 16.
I remember reading the book in the early 1980s. Whilst we now live in a shallow age, it’s inspiring to read stories of human courage, strength and survival.
I take it Nplate is ineffective inside the blast zone.
Lansbury’s cousin is none other than the miserable Malcolm Turnbull…
who knew!!!
[Duelling thread please]
Great vid from the Dutch MEP.
Get vaccinated for others was always a lie. Pfizer admits.
https://twitter.com/Rob_Roos/status/1579759795225198593
[Duelling thread]
Might be a couple of days of tricky electricity on the way for the east coast of Oz which is in the midst of wet weather and fairly heavy cloud cover. At 4pm EST today South Australia is importing nearly half of its needs from Victoria. Of the electricity SA is generating 76% is coming from gas, 8% from sun and 17% from wind. It is producing 795 mw and importing 710 mw. Perhaps the wind will pick up but seems unlikely until tomorrow. And the sun will disappear in an hour or so. Hope those SA batteries are charged and that there is some ready mixed liquid fossil fuel eg kerosene at hand as Victoria is running short of spare capacity and is having to import power from Tasssie and from Queensland via NSW which is also running short. Just as well we still have a coal fired capacity in QLD able to stabilize the system.
Oh dear. That is worse than playing for Brisbane with peroxided hair.
Really dude, you think I’d just lie? Wow!
It seems like a natural progression.
If I worked for Big Pharma and I wanted a dumb-arse double agent to discredit the anti-vax movement, Aker would be on my shortlist.
Gosh 50 years Cassie. I was but a Spring Rooster but remembered it too, not the date though. Today its unlikely that any would survive. Sitting there waiting for a SuperHero to show up.
I still have a Waterford decanter I “won” after being allocated a36 handicap at some charity day. It is a source of some embarrassment to me.
FBI Officials Who Warned Facebook of ‘Russian Disinfo’ Before Hunter Laptop Bombshell Are Democrat Donors
Two FBI officials who had knowledge of the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020 and who alerted Facebook to potential Russian disinformation are Democrat donors, court filings and campaign finance records show.
The unit chief for the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, Laura Dehmlow, and the head of the FBI’s San Francisco cyber division, Elvis Chan, were likely engaged in suppressing Facebook’s distribution of the story on the platform, the Washington Free Beacon reported from court filings.
Dehmlow contributed $60 to the Democrat Neonatal Committee in 2020, while Chan gave $50 to Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) during their 2020 Senate races, campaign finance records show.
The donations raise questions as to whether the FBI officials were working in an official capacity with partisan intentions during the 2020 election cycle when Breitbart News’s Emma-Jo Morris first reported the authenticated, verified, and confirmed “Laptop from Hell” story in the New York Post.
The FBI was in possession of the laptop for over a year before the Post published the story.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in August that Facebook had reduced the distribution of the story on his platform. Zuckerberg admitted the FBI had told the company to be aware of potential Russian disinformation that would hurt President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
In 2017, FBI director Christopher Wray established the Foreign Influence Task Force “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States.” Dehmlow, a member of the task force, could have directly used her position to discredit the “Laptop from Hell” story while making a political contribution to the Democrat Party, which supported Biden’s candidacy.
The “Laptop from Hell” story has since raised questions as to Joe Biden’s involvement with the family business detailed on Hunter’s laptop. Though Hunter is reportedly under criminal investigation for tax and gun related misdeeds, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, believes any investigation into the potential evidence on the laptop has been shut down by the FBI.
Umm…The Oz is reporting this…
Higgins trial expected to conclude end of next week
REMY VARGA
The trial of Bruce Lehrmann, accused of raping Brittany Higgins, is now expected to conclude at the end of next week.
The trial was originally slated to run for four to six weeks, but is now anticipated to run for three.”
Interesting.
Is Tulsi Gabbard still a member of WEF or did she drop out, then leaves the Dems do she can be running mate to the GOP Presidential candidate?
aka back to the drawing board
that’s
It’s only a bother if you have convinced yourself that all the billions of vaxxed are going to die (imminently).
If you didn’t get vaxxed, give yourself that pat on the back and stop pretending to worry, after all, there in no anti vaxx vaxx, so there is nothing anyone can do about it.
I suspect the vast majority of the vaxxed have no fear of impending vaxx doom, no matter how much trusted internet bloggers scaremonger.
I, for one, am completely sanguine.
This sounds plausible.
I did speculate the other day that Britnah’s cross-examination last week might have caused some fractures in the sisterhood, and that she may have then seen some advantage in batting last.
Anyone who believes that the support crew aren’t feeding any tid-bits of evidence back to her are dreaming.
But the system must keep up appearances.
JCsays:
October 12, 2022 at 4:39 pm
I figured you’d have a fit.
Lying?
Where did I say that?
Re Pfizer following protocols “ in an abbreviated” manner- you aren’t serious, surely?
“Abbreviated”????? RCTs for new drugs, vaccines etc take, on average, 5-10 years of testing – most often at the higher end. The Covid vaccine RCTs ( if you could call them that) took around 6-8 months. Sure, immunologists had been working on mRNA vaccines for corona viruses for some 25 years. But they had never arrived at a safe and effective formula/methodology on the test animals. It was when I discovered this in early 2021 I determined not to accept any of the Covid vaccines.
As I have mentioned here before – my husband and I became friends with Dr Philip Altman around mid 2021 & he confirmed my worst fears about the vaccines. He was 40 years in pharmaceutical pathology (Hons in Pharmacology, Masters & PhD) – for many years conducting g RCTs on new drugs for the TGA.
He is currently campaigning with the new Medical Professionals Society to have the Covid vaccines’ approval withdrawn.
Ah I see now…
So the Feds are refusing to provide financial support to either side of the Voice referendum…
Instead, they are just letting Big Tech, elites and MSM to push the “yes” case for them…
Naaa, I’m not having a fit, but I do feel like crap though. Tickler. Why did you apologize to that fucking idiot? Here I was doing an HR routine trying to keep you here. How wrong I was.
I’m embarrassed for you.
So why this?
JCsays:
October 12, 2022 at 4:55 pm
Naaa, I’m not having a fit, but I do feel like crap though. Tickler. Why did you apologize to that fucking idiot? Here I was doing an HR routine trying to keep you here. How wrong I was.
I’m embarrassed for you.
Settle down, dude. Share you financial knowledge and stop being a wanker. Sort your language out.
Another straw man.
These treatments may turn out to be the best medical advance we have seen since penicillin and just so you don’t misrepresent me any further, no, I do not believe by any stretch, that everyone who got the vax is about to die (imminently) or long term. Even though they are still only provisionally approved.
What worries me, rosie, is what has happened to our society and what precedent has been set for the future.
Special dispensation on the Open Thread for a rabid cur and Titties Galore but the rest of us must follow the rules. Is that right, Dover?
That suggests that witnesses have been culled.
This could mean that Lehrmann was going to take the stand and now has chosen not to.
Or, a lot of prosecution witnesses have fallen off the roster. If so, why would that be?
Are you fucking kidding me!?
That is not me calling you a liar.
Here.
Have a virtual box of tissues.
On me.
Tumbleweeds in the Lolly-shop.
And by that I have in mind a lock down to “save the climate” and the like, or power shortages to save the climate etc.
“Or, a lot of prosecution witnesses have fallen off the roster. If so, why would that be?”
Been thinking the same.
You were calling the farmer two doors down a liar and forgot you were on the blog. I get it. 🙂
You had me at “in an abbreviated fashion”.
Still rolling around on the floor laughing my arse off after you reminded me of:
I shot the tent roof because I followed all the rifle cleaning protocols except in the wrong order.
Thank you, but I think you should keep them. Just in case!
Or, a lot of prosecution witnesses have fallen off the roster. If so, why would that be?
If witness lists from either side have changed, this would be known to the other side.
That is, easily fed to the media.
How odd:
An Alabama inmate set to be killed by the state said prison staff poked him with needles for more than an hour as they attempted to locate a vein during their initial attempt to end his life via lethal injection.
Alan Eugene Miller, 57, said that in September, staff struggled to locate a vein in which to inject the lethal drug combination meant to end his life and left him hanging vertically on a gurney before officials made the decision to abort the execution attempt.
Miller’s legal team detailed the September 22 botched execution in a court filing. They are now trying to stop the state from attempting a second lethal injection.
The attorneys wrote that their client is now ‘the only living execution survivor’ in the country, and was subjected to ‘the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain that the Eighth Amendment was intended to prohibit.’
A .22 bullet would have been easier. Daily Mail
I appear to be not allowed to do anything else but police the OT or else get scolded.
The trial of the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins inside of Parliament House could conclude as early as next week, a court has heard.
Bruce Lehrmann has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse with Ms Higgins without her consent and being reckless to her consent.
It is expected the Crown’s case will likely close on Tuesday next week.
Daily Tele
BTW, take the bellyaching over to the Duelling thread.
What about a super-duelling thread?
Let’s wait and see. To lose 2 weeks from an estimated 4 to 6 week trial suggests something has changed.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 12, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Tumbleweeds in the Lolly-shop.
And not populated with sh*t from someone such as yourself.
But we have a total blackout until Britnah resumes after retiring hurt.
Ahh, so you’ve got nothing then?
Thought so. You really should think twice before entering the debate.
Teh Paywallian reporting suggests witness lists will be public once the jury is told.
Ahhhhh, the good old days.
When only the lefties manipulated the truth on this blog.
Cold feet in Bandana-Land?
So the ‘mature minors’ canard isn’t only being used for ‘sex changes’ but also for euthanasia. Really no reason, if you accept the concept, of it not being deployed as a defense in statutory rape cases, or even as a justification for lowering the age of consent. Just incredible.
love the way you switch from incredulity to suspicion on the way to certainty
3/10
132andBushsays:
October 12, 2022 at 5:04 pm
Plus plenty.
Rosie will die in a ditch thinking her vaccines and the associated lockdowns/ brutalization and damage were all worthwhile.
Its like Stockholm syndrome, only she loved the being locked down.
The caring Left- always thinking of the children.
Maybe the CBS lawyers have had a look at the witness statements?
JC I was ripping the quote you put up. Point at the exact words that you think accuse you of being a liar.
No problem, Diogenes. Sometimes get it wrong.
The caring Left- always thinking of the children.
Do better!
WTF?
‘THE aGE.”
Tell me where I supported lockdowns (other than the ban on gatherings over 500) or mandates.
Just more gaslighting.
I guess we’ll get an idea about how Victorians felt about all those things come November.
The liberals are standing on an abolish the pandemic legislation platform after all.
And really your last sentence moley, was risible.
Dover, you recently introduced some rules with regard to the Open Thread, which, I believe most rational people concurred with.
I know what it’s like to have to moderate a forum. What I don’t understand is why you allow JC to continuously denigrate contributors who are posting in good faith. I suspect most of us find it disgusting. The simple thing to do would to give JC a decent warning to lift his game. I’m not speaking for all obviously, but I am sick to death of his putrid and disrespectful haranguing of good and worthwhile contributors. That’s all.
reckless to consent… is this a new gotcha?
Dude is probably NAFO bot somewhere safe.
Rosie.
You are the one person on the blog who will, 99.9% of the time defend the vaccine bullshit of the last 3 years.
Rather telling that you are choosing to pin your hopes on lockDans Stockholm state to validate your strange love for the collar and leash of draconian and unprecedented bastardry from all the Australian organs of government.
Some people find it really rankles to have a rah rah pom pom waving vax/lockdown supporter popping up like Dicky knee at every negative mention of vaxes.
Let’s wait and see. To lose 2 weeks from an estimated 4 to 6 week trial suggests something has changed.
Good advice.
I’d say Ms Higgins has woken up that calling Lisa and Sam Maiden and any other Redwings is a nuts idea.
It’s taken a while, but better late than never.
It won’t be done in the ACT Magistrates Court if it is.
Saw an old Aborigine the other day, he was wearing a mask.
It’s quite common among older Aboriginal men, which says a lot about their consideration for others.
You think they are worried about Channel 10 exposure?
I am not sure how.
JMH has a most valid point.
Ah, yes – makes sense.
Presumably the Court assumed that she would get all her corrections from the press reporting – and there would be absolutely no way that a third party might pass naughty crib notes to her.
Cassie, would you support the return of Bird – unfettered – to this site?
You think they are worried about Channel 10 exposure?
I am not sure how.
Timing of publishing or interview deals??
(pure speculation)
Medics!
This could mean that Lehrmann was going to take the stand and now has chosen not to.
Surely, you jest?
Russia has been parading its nuclear missile launcher trucks in front of the US embassy in Moscow, perhaps that’s why someone felt a need for precautionary measures.
RUSSIA DRIVES TWO NUCLEAR MISSILES AND TANKS IN FRONT OF U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW
I actually don’t have a problem with that as a fallback charge.
If there was no specific statement of consent or otherwise and it can be proven that the complainant was incapable of giving consent (ie dead drunk and barely coherent) that should be a criminal act.
We shouldn’t use the disgraceful handling of this case to try to water down sexual assault laws.
And one more thing.. He will not be allowed to bully liz. That’s not going to happen.
Huh?
Who cares?
This smells like a fake stoush with BlogWreckin’ on it’s mind.
As Snowcone would say, I’ll take that as a comment, Makka.
I only mean well, Sancho.
Distasteful? Yes.
Ill advised? Too right.
But actionable? I doubt it.
geez there’s a first … Ed gets an up-tick
Where is the biblical flood the climate Nazis are on about?
Pretty harsh.
To compare GMH with Bird.
bets are on Rochester
Fair amount of reputational risk attached to Mrs Pirate Pete I’d say. Channel 10 doesn’t kick too many goals. Who knows? You suspect the Judge might have more to say after the trial.
“Cassie, would you support the return of Bird – unfettered – to this site?”
If Bird stuck to terraforming Mars, yes. But you know and I know he doesn’t.
All good.
This should be circulated around Canberra, just to see the response.
How could they respond? They wouldn’t disparage the views of a Swedish teenager, would they?
Just in time for the second coming of Dan.
Most learned defence legal-eagles, when confronted with a “he said-she said” case, strongly advise their client to stay clear of the box.
But I’ll take the word of Dick Ed KC over the likes of Robert Richter.
Two items noticed in the EV world.
Luxury auto-maker Mercedes Benz AG has seen battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales increase by 115% to 30,000 units in Q3, more than double the amount in 2021 despite the global economy’s challenging business environment.
And:
Global #4 carmaker Stellantis has signed a non-binding MOU with GME Resources (ASX:GME) for battery grade nickel and cobalt sulphate. Stellantis has ambitious EV targets and expects, by 2030, that 100% of its passenger car sales in Europe will be EVs, while in the US, EVs will account for 50% of sales.
(Stellantis was formed by a merger between French automaker PSA Group and Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Brands include Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Lancia, Maserati and Ram from FCA, and Citroen, DS, Opel, Peugeot and Vauxhall from PSA Group).
She reminds me of the old gin who offered herself to me for a bottle of port in the front bar of the main pub in Katherine in 1973.
So, did you make an honest woman out of her, Tom?
“Most learned defence legal-eagles, when confronted with a “he said-she said” case, strongly advise their client to stay clear of the box.”
Wasn’t it a mistake by Richter not to put Cardinal Pell on the stand?
Exactly JMH’s point Cassie.
Oh yes, meanwhile…….
Queensland Pacific Metals (ASX:QPM) will soon ink a long term deal with General Motors which includes a material $108m investment and long-term offtake agreement. As part of the initial investment, GM will subscribe for $31m worth of shares in QPM at 18c per share — a premium of 20% to the last closing price.
GM can purchase all uncommitted nickel and cobalt sulphate produced in the first 15 years of Phase 1 of QPM’s flagship TECH Project being 6,000tpa nickel and 800tpa cobalt. GM then has the option to purchase 100% of nickel and cobalt sulphate under the Phase 2 expansion.
Was down at Mathoura finishing off pre season R&M on a blokes header over the last two days.
Also has a property near Rochie, will be seeing a lot go under apparently.
Walgett harvesting job still cut off.
We’ve been Flanneried.
But, with hindsight, we know this was unwise and the vaccines fell well short of what was advertised.
Yet government’s spent billions on them and introduced de facto mandates.
Sorry…governments – plural, not possessive.
I’mm off to decline some Greek nouns by way of atonement.
Hindsight is great Roger, I don’t know that the people of Europe, the US etc really have afforded to wait for that perfect product.
ROFL, in a year when all records for annual rainfall have been broken by October the Green Mecca of NSW is put onto Level 3 water restrictions.
Lismore City Council places Nimbin on level 3 water restrictions (Ncl local news, 12 Oct)
Hey Greenies, have you ever considered that you might be doing things wrong? Just saying.
Wasn’t it a mistake by Richter not to put Cardinal Pell on the stand?
No.
Archbishop Pell appears to be a nice fellow, he woulda been torn to shreds.
You will note that he changed Counsel for his Appeal, and did much better.
There’s no perfect vaccine.
That’s not the point.
This was reckless.
I don’t know about the US and Euros but in WA the Covid regime was as much to protect the (government owned) health system as any of the punters in the street. Sneakers could see the trouble the Chairman got into.
Some of us don’t do irony.
Spot of spacechooking here, for Cats with an interest in military history. “Number One Realist: Bernard B Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare.” by Nathaniel Moir makes damnfine reading.
Fall, as most military type Cats will know , wrote the classics “Street Without Joy” and “Hell In A Very Small Place.” He had served with the French Marquis at 16, visited French Indochina, in 1953, where he claimed that the Viet Minh used the same tactics as the Marquis, and went on to claim that the United States, in Vietnam, did not learn the lessons from the French War and was chasing an unattainable military victory. Interesting reading.
A trait of fanatics.
And folk who get about without pants, I expect.
Lot of Old Testament stuff happening around here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sED4fzIV0k
And we even have a dickless.
Hindsight is great Roger, I don’t know that the people of Europe, the US etc really have afforded to wait for that perfect product.
But enough about Thalidomide….
Reckless in your opinion.
I don’t agree, I’ve read so many claims about this and that side effect, with so many in the ridiculous stratosphere I remain unconvinced that the benefits of the vaccine (not lockdowns, not mandated) were not there.
Just had 23mm in and hour.
All the tanks are full so I’ve opened the drain pipe on the gutters. The water is gushing out on an old plantation of tamarisks.
I bought a new Bailey step ladder today to clean out the gutters and I’m happy with the results so far.
Heavy rain in October is better than in August.
No, reckless according to hitherto accepted protocols & standards of clinical trialling.
In Queensland farmers say “there’s always money in mud.”
Does the same apply down there, Gez?
Latham is going to run for a seat in the lower house next March. Yes please.
Waste of time trying to read the blog this evening…my scrolling
wheel is well worn!
Not to be outdone, H2i Technology (unlisted but large holding by Pure Hydrogen Ltd ASX:PH2) released details of their new 250KVA hydrogen fuelled generator. H2i claims significantly reduced emissions (300 tonnes per annum) per unit compared to diesel internal combustion engines, savings of ~ $90,000 per unit on fuel costs each year and companies can access the lucrative carbon credits system.
FBI is a dumpster fire.
The British Medical Journal, hardly a bastion of vaccine denial or hesitancy, was warning of the dangers at the time of the trials.
Would it have made a difference?
Who knows?
Richter was relying on that quaint old concept of presumption of innocence, and was labouring under the misapprehension that the prosecution needed to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.
In a normal jurisdiction it is a good tactic.