Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023


The Dreamer, Casper Friedrich, 1840


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Dot
Dot
January 4, 2023 6:14 pm

I forget the actual law, but isn’t the government allowed now to look inside our computers – amend, delete or otherwise add to our files because Security and Terrorism?
I remember when it came in – “That’s every paedophiles escape clause.”

Also, if you are a problem, well, you know.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2023 6:14 pm

Well, we had elements of tension among the extended family over Christmas, but no assaults, DVOs, AVOs or property damage. It feels rather bland by comparison.

If she launched into any of that Alberscreechi economics over the turkey this response seems quite appropriate. Case dismissed.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:16 pm

Dot
Munt is a disgrace to Leftardism.

When I was a Trot we hated all authority -> particularly toward the US and even moreso the CIA and FBI as they were a direct threat to freedom. Tying myself to US ships docked at Freo ffs! What a loser.

But… I doubt Munt could muster the energy and willpower to get up the stairs out of his basement and do that (he’d be “useful” as ballast).

My how times have changed (although, stairs still seem to be a problem for the Left!?).

Dot
Dot
January 4, 2023 6:16 pm

Britain First or Ireland First?! Make up your bloody mind!

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Dot says: January 4, 2023 at 6:11 pm
Mensa?
Male Engineers Networking Subclinical Autism?

Masturbating Energetically Never Stopped Abusiveness.
Some here seem to give this a pretty fair try.

Dot
Dot
January 4, 2023 6:17 pm

My how times have changed (although, stairs still seem to be a problem for the Left!?).

LOL!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 4, 2023 6:17 pm

Link to pics here- not for the faint hearted or those having lunch.

Not going to look at them Mole. I’m still recovering from the shock of seeing Rita Panahi tweet a video of a masturbating walrus.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2023 6:18 pm

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

US govt agency demanded suspension of 250k accounts, including journalists & Canadian officials!

Actually, I’d rather like to suspend a few Canadian officials. Not quite in this context, though.

Dot
Dot
January 4, 2023 6:20 pm

Masturbating Energetically Never Stopped Abusiveness

Very zen. I’m down with that.

But let’s dig deeper. A koan to read, my dear kohai.

What if you self abuse, grasshopper?

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 4, 2023 6:23 pm

MENSA
Monty Entering Nambla Sexual Activity.
Seems fair. The vehement way he defends depravity must be noted.

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 6:24 pm

Thanks John H. I’ll see how it goes over the next two weeks.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 4, 2023 6:24 pm

Not going to look at them Mole.

Words to live by everyone…

Though if were to look at the pictures its a case of “hes not sitting on a beanbag”.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2023 6:26 pm

According to Wiki, the Anglo-Australian co-founder of MENSA, a Mr. Roland Berrill, Esq. (1897-1962), “was a member of the men’s dress reform movement; he desired more colour in men’s clothes, and objected to the uniformity common in those days. He never married.”

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:28 pm

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/charges-laid-as-wa-police-umbrella-people-clash-at-government-house-20230104-p5cadi.html

Footage has captured the dramatic arrest of several people outside Western Australia’s Government House, which has become a daily meeting place for umbrella-wielding silent protesters dissatisfied with the state government.

The footage, shared to social media, shows several people arriving at the Perth CBD residence of WA Governor and former police commissioner Chris Dawson on Tuesday morning and being met by at least 10 police officers.

One of the officers can be heard telling at least two people their daily visits to the site constituted “stalking” and asking for their personal details. After a heated exchange, the pair were arrested.

During the seven-minute clip, a man arrested at the site can be heard declaring the conduct to be harassment.

The state’s vaccination mandates are understood to have been the catalyst for the daily gathering.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:32 pm

For a so-called group of geniueses you think they could draw a proper arc around Australia?

*this post may have a deliberate John Laws style mistake.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2023 6:34 pm

MUnty’s
Econmics
Never
Surprised
Anybody

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:34 pm

One of the officers can be heard telling at least two people their daily visits to the site constituted “stalking” and asking for their personal details. After a heated exchange, the pair were arrested.

Surely this is rot. Turning up every day on a public street corner to protest is not “stalking.” If it stands we’re f-cked.

MatrixTransform
January 4, 2023 6:36 pm

snap BB

the ‘M’ was a natch

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2023 6:43 pm

National Survey Finds finds 28% Personally know of a Death Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines

Including me although, obviously, I was not in the survey.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2023 6:46 pm

Surely this is rot. Turning up every day on a public street corner to protest is not “stalking.”

The police will have to prove the intent to intimidate the subject of the protest for it to constitute stalking, and further, that the subject was indeed intimidated.

Is the governor even at his residence at this time of year?

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 6:47 pm

Roger says:
January 4, 2023 at 6:26 pm

According to Wiki, the Anglo-Australian co-founder of MENSA, a Mr. Roland Berrill, Esq. (1897-1962), “was a member of the men’s dress reform movement; he desired more colour in men’s clothes, and objected to the uniformity common in those days. He never married.”

Where’s Eddles, to inform us he was obviously a flamer.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 4, 2023 6:48 pm

m0nty says:
January 4, 2023 at 5:13 pm

LOLGF

Rabz
January 4, 2023 6:49 pm

I was one of the biggest proponents of capital punishment until a few years ago

Likewise. We simply cannot arrogate to the state that kind of power, mate.

The key factor is the “incontrovertible evidence” needed to convict beyond any reasonable doubt.

The Belanglo Forest case was a particularly gruesome example. Circumstantial evidence leavened with some convincing forensic evidence, not to mention the dynamite testimony of Wally Onions (shipped out especially from the UK) about that fateful afternoon on the Federal Highway.

Anyone who heard WO’s testimony would have been very thankful they were not heading towards the nation’s capital on that day as a gun wielding thug was chasing him down (while firing random shots) along the left hand side of the tarmac.

Another thing – the Belanglo Forest mass murderer went to his grave without having been forced to name his accomplices (some of whom were likely dead by the time of his trial).

Another regrettable oversight.

Anyway, it’s a long and roundabout way of saying that I believe in HOP Time™, I support Hop Time™ and I will be very actively involved in the long overdue implementation of HOP Time™, I tells ya. ?

There is no shortage of incontrovertible evidence condemning those who will be justifiably on the receiving end, Cats and no chance of “state f*ckups”. Otherwise they would not be on “The List”.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:50 pm

Dunno Roger – it is “his home” now so could be on holidays…

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 6:52 pm

In Alice.

The ute problem was a ghost in the electronics. Restarted fine later this morning, no warning lights.

Finally got a bloke to have a crack at it anyway. Hooked up the computer, found a pissant reported electrical fault with something very minor, checked to make sure it wasn’t faulty at all and reset the EPU. He tells me it happens all the time.

500km. No dramas. Will see if it’s a drama with 1500 tomorrow.

The highway is covered with standing and flowing water from Tennant to Barrow Creeks. A lot of Britz vans and Corollas headed the other way. Whoopsie doodle.

Robert Sewell
January 4, 2023 6:54 pm

Johnny Rotten:
.

Pray for Elon Musk. You can bet they are trying to come up with a disease or a fancy way they can claim he committed suicide.

That’s already started with the jerking around he’s getting over launch times.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 6:55 pm

Oh. Warner got to double figures.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2023 6:56 pm

Sorry Rabz, what is HOP time?

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 6:56 pm

Mindless Exaggeration Never Solved Anything

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 6:58 pm

Rogersays:

January 4, 2023 at 6:26 pm

According to Wiki, the Anglo-Australian co-founder of MENSA, a Mr. Roland Berrill, Esq. (1897-1962), “was a member of the men’s dress reform movement; he desired more colour in men’s clothes, and objected to the uniformity common in those days. He never married.”

Men Engaged in Normalising Sexual Aberration?

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 6:58 pm

Good luck Knuckles. That’s a big drive ahead of you. Drive keen but not mean.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 6:58 pm

Hardly going to break the bank…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/03/twitter-sued-overdue-rent-san-francisco-branch Sued for $130K in unpaid rent…

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
January 4, 2023 6:58 pm

More battery shitness in EV cars on the ABC.
Too cold too or too hot but it’s all the fault of the naughty capitalist manufacturers like Elon.
Socialist governments pushing not ready technology not mentioned.

Oh come on
Oh come on
January 4, 2023 6:59 pm

The problem is, the state cant be trusted to decide who is in that category. Previously I would have conceded this was due to the occasional error, now I worry also about deliberate state malfeasance. Exhibit A: the AFP fitting me up for charges at the Canberra protests – they destroyed evidence of my innocence and manufactured evidence of my guilt. Had I not taken my own film of events, I could have been in jail for 5-10 years.

The question is not ‘when did the State start behaving in this way?’ – it’s ‘has the State ever not behaved in this way?’

I say it always has. We may not have been aware of it, but it has. I wonder how many people have been convicted on the strength of a ‘copper’s hunch’ – something I considered highly predictive of guilt not all that long ago, but I now regard as worthless – perhaps with ‘evidence’ placed accordingly to ensure justice was served? Particularly in cases of great public interest. A lot, I reckon. I read that, up until the 1970s, it was extremely ill-advised for a defendant to raise police misconduct or corruption in their defence and lawyers wouldn’t dare go there unless there was absolutely bulletproof evidence of wrongdoing.

And it’s naive to assume the cops are the only bad actors in this process. The entire establishment lined up to sock it to Pell – and Bruce Lehrmann, for that matter. When people are found to have been fitted up, the police are usually the most visible culprits. However, it’s also probable they’re the junior partners in these affairs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 7:00 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:

January 4, 2023 at 6:52 pm

In Alice.

The ute problem was a ghost in the electronics. Restarted fine later this morning, no warning lights.

Orange light. Ignore completely.
Red light. Look at it if it doesn’t clear up after a couple of days.

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 7:02 pm

I see Carpe is channelling his inner Sven.

That was Swedish, wasn’t it? 😀

Tom
Tom
January 4, 2023 7:03 pm

My favourite Australian TV commercial doesn’t include dialogue because it doesn’t have to – just a stare from a brat child actor. Priceless.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 7:04 pm

Smoke many Camels on the way, KD?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 7:11 pm

No camels. No way am I doing this at night. That’s crazy talk.

Bad enough starting before dawn tomorrow.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2023 7:13 pm

Dunno Roger – it is “his home” now so could be on holidays…

I’d suspect he’d be on holidays atm.

Besides which, given the nature of the residence and the requisite security provided, it’s a stretch to imagine he’d be intimidated by a small group of protesters holding umbrellas.

Unless they have some intelligence or othger evidence suggesting otherwise, it’s the police doing the intimidating here.

Jorge
Jorge
January 4, 2023 7:13 pm

Things seem to be warming up in Jerusalem again. Another intifada because only Muslims get to pray on Temple Mount.
What nong long ago negotiated that agreement.
Was it the same idiot who handed over Ayer’s Rock here ?

Bruce in WA
January 4, 2023 7:14 pm

The ute problem was a ghost in the electronics. Restarted fine later this morning, no warning lights.

Not a Ford Ranga … Ranger, by any chance?

Robert Sewell
January 4, 2023 7:14 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 4, 2023 at 11:28 am
Areff at 11:06.
The headline from the Rob Hulls home invasion article:-
My family home was invaded while we were asleep. I’d like to meet the criminals and ask why.
…and he demonstrates his utter lack of comprehension by asking the question on national media.

Why?
Because they can, Rob.
Because there are no consequences.

Does he think any one in Australia will shed a tear for him or his family?

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 7:16 pm
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rob Hulls home invasion article:-
My family home was invaded while we were asleep. I’d like to meet the criminals and ask why.

Rob Hulls, had he been in the Lovell household would presumably write:
My family home was invaded & my wife murdered while I slept. I’d like to meet the criminals and ask why.

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 7:19 pm

OCO

I think a decent part of our social system has to change before we could think about introducing cap punishment. Someone earlier mentioned the story about the unspeakably evil act of that father throwing his kiddies over the Melbourne Westgate bridge. It’s was a truly shocking act. You dig down deeper and you find the good ol’ family court sticking their stilettos into the father until he flipped out. It was a shocking act and he should never be allowed out of prison. However the family court shouldn’t go unnoticed in terms of just how anti-male it is thereby causing this heinous act. There have been many others too.

A woman is bored with the husband, wants a divorce, the hubbie is kicked out of the house, which he purchased through a mortgage. He is thrown out of the house where his kids live and soon enough a boyfriend moves in while the ex continues to pay the mortgage and everything else. He’s impoverished. Again, it shouldn’t happen, but is it any wonder men flip out in similar circumstances? What does the state do? It creates laws that are so unfair it actually causes guys to go crazy.

Frank
Frank
January 4, 2023 7:20 pm

Clicked on mole’s Harvey scrote link. No biggy, had hangovers that were worse.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 7:23 pm

Not a Ranger Bruce, thank Christ.

The mechanic/computer bloke said they were notorious for it.

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 7:24 pm

I just received our annual SSA letter from the US. (Social Security Administration). The increase for 2023 is 8.7%. Honestly, I don’t know that place can continue splurging like this.

Lysander
Lysander
January 4, 2023 7:24 pm

The Mooslies have no right to Jerusalem or the Temple and, yes, whoever negotiated that as such is a d!ck.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 7:25 pm

Thousands Protest on New Year’s Eve & Day in China; Shanghai Funeral Scalpers Profit Off COVID Spike

00:51 Thousands Protest on New Year’s Eve, Day in China
03:06 Shanghai Funeral Scalpers Profit Off COVID-19 Spike
05:32 Spike in Deaths Among Senior CCP-Linked Experts
06:30 Chinese Citizens Try for Normalcy Amid COVID-19
08:06 UK: No Quarantine for COVID-19 Arrivals from China
09:35 Beijing Decries ‘Political’ Curbs on China Travelers
10:13 EU Offers Free COVID-19 Vaccines to China
11:00 South Korea, U.S. in Talks Over Nuclear Planning
11:56 China Funded Startups in Silicon Valley: Fleming

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 4, 2023 7:28 pm

Have a think about it. Why was the former FBI agent on the ground during the insurrection? Odds on that he was a Trumpist, a true believer. There was never any hard evidence that Antifa was involved.

m0nty=fa has checked the leftard talking points, and they make no mention of Antifa of FBI presence. Therefore, there cannot have been such presence, as leftards never, ever, lie. Any contrary evidence is Wussian disinformation.

Bruce in WA
January 4, 2023 7:31 pm

Not a Ranger Bruce, thank Christ.

The mechanic/computer bloke said they were notorious for it.

Yes, I have known of a few that went into limp home mode; one of them only made it c. 160 km from the dealership before it went tits up. Notorious indeed!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 4, 2023 7:32 pm

It is weird, but January 6th always makes me think of the French Revolution.

That iconic moment in history, when the peasants “stormed The Bastille”: when an unarmed peasantry walked up to the prison, a few of them, and how an unarmed few from that unarmed crowd were ushered into the prison by the guards, how they shouted some slogans and grabbed a couple of trophies of their visit, and walked out again.

Thank heavens for Madame Gelato (the ice cream slurping champion) bringing them to justice.

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 4, 2023 7:33 pm

Hulls is only mouthing platitudes to keep him in the limelight.
Private thoughts would be very, very different.

Tom
Tom
January 4, 2023 7:34 pm

Honestly, I don’t know that place can continue splurging like this.

Simple, JC. The clowns running the Biden White House know nothing about economics, so they’re doing the first thing that came into the heads of the Marxist left — let’s print some more money and let inflation take care of the bill.

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 7:35 pm

That iconic moment in history, when the peasants “stormed The Bastille”

An unarmed peasantry- a few thousand of them- against the most powerful military in world history too. An insurrection!

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 4, 2023 7:39 pm

That iconic moment in history, when the peasants “stormed The Bastille”

mUnty’s wet dream.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2023 7:42 pm

The Mooslies have no right to Jerusalem or the Temple and, yes, whoever negotiated that as such is a d!ck.

The Mooslimes claim that Jerusalem is one of their holy cities, yet it’s not mentioned in the Quran.

Their claim to the Temple is based on a dream by the Prophet Morehammed…..

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 7:51 pm

That iconic moment in history, when the peasants “stormed The Bastille”

Heh. If Wolfman won’t link to it, I will.

Why? Why? Why? Asks the tricoteuse.

Sadly, no rib eye at the Capitol. Just a weirdo in a buffalo suit for the cameras which were studiously not rolling for the prayer vigil in the Senate chamber. Funny that.

Rabz
January 4, 2023 7:52 pm

The braindead lamestream meeja opining on the denouement of the “January 6 Committee Hearing”

“It died in the arse, with dignity.”

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 7:55 pm

One other thing about the criminal justice system and how fair it is.

Martin Armstrong got 11 years for Ponzi fraud. Those 11 years also accounted 5 years for the dishonest skunk continuing to hide money that he’d stolen with the judge referring to him as an unrepentant fraudster. The thing about Armstrong was that he set out to steal the money. All up, Armstrong received around 6 years for stealing hundreds of millions excluding the other 5 years just described.

Fast forward to Bernie Maddof. I’m not making any excuses for him. Madoff didn’t set out to steal money in a wholesale way like Armstrong. He lost money in the 87 crash and was embarrassed about it and so began the Ponzi scheme trying to hide the loss. Madoff committed the crime because he was embarrassed as he was already quite wealthy by then. He received 150 years and died in prison. His family was broken with one son committing suicide and the other dying of lymphoma. I’m not implying Madoff didn’t deserve jail time, but compare Armstrong’s sentence to Bernie.

Incidentally the loss was around a couple of billion dollars and a few years ago I read that the law firm conducting the liquidation etc had accumulated fees of over a billion dollars and I can’t imagine what it is now. Legal theft.

Fast forward again to the Bankman Fried case. As sure as sure are eggs I wouldn’t be shocked if this crooked little Demonrat benefactor ends up actually not going to jail. The bullshit has already begun. It was publicized that the little prick was let out on $250 million bail, except and I don’t know the exact mechanics, $250 million cash wasn’t laid out. It was total bullshit.

This is where we are with criminal justice.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 7:57 pm
Dot
Dot
January 4, 2023 7:58 pm

Armstrong got done for hundreds of millions, the Japanese government initially complained to the US over 3 bn USD at the time being stolen.

That’s like 5 bn now.

JC
JC
January 4, 2023 7:58 pm

Dot says:
January 4, 2023 at 7:58 pm

Armstrong got done for hundreds of millions, the Japanese government initially complained to the US over 3 bn USD at the time being stolen.

That’s like 5 bn now.

Yep.

rosie
rosie
January 4, 2023 8:00 pm

I was very disappointed, the first time I visited Paris to find La Bastille had been demolished 🙁 .
I don’t think it was so hard to storm, only had a handful of prisoners and presumably a fairly small guard.

rosie
rosie
January 4, 2023 8:02 pm

Claiming Jerusalem as a holy place was done to humiliate the Jews and confirm their ascendancy over them.
They tried to do the same thing to Rome and no doubt would have woven a Mohammed myth for that location too.
So far no luck.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2023 8:05 pm

only had a handful of prisoners

Seven prisoners, but the mob were after the ammunition stored there, and when the prison governor refused, his head was paraded through the streets on a pike….sound familiar?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 8:05 pm

Good summary JC.
I agree that Madoff’s key personality flaw was his hubris. He simply couldn’t lose face and admit he had cocked up, and the scheme just grew and grew.
Armstrong set out to steal money – and lots of it – from day one.
Bankman Fried is simply a morally bankrupt millenial. But, yes, he will avoid serious time because he is like Epstein. He knows where the bodies are buried.

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 8:07 pm

I’ve been to the Temple Mount.

What sits there is an abomination. I averted my eyes from it in the same way I do from obscenity.

A pimple on the vast plain of eternity.

Robert Sewell
January 4, 2023 8:10 pm

The Frolicking Moll:

Any form of restriction on abortion leads to masses of psychosis among the legbeard tribe.

Legbeard?
I’ve heard of neckbeards, but legbeards?

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 8:11 pm

Rosie, my link was in response to Mother Lode’s imaginary “storming”…another fictionalised representation of fiction.

Robespierre was all for the National Razor, right up until…

Frank
Frank
January 4, 2023 8:13 pm

If things do go pear shaped in the states due to the rampant crookedness of the powers that be it is interesting to consider which event proves to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. My money is on the Epstein prison death, after that they started acting like they could get away with anything.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 8:13 pm

Arkysays:

January 4, 2023 at 5:20 pm

The shed PC build finished. One computer, two operating systems.
Thanks to whoever on here suggested it.
Pop! And Ubuntu on two seperate drives …

In terms of degree of difficulty how would you rate that, as against, say, setting up a Roomba vacuum?

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2023 8:15 pm
rosie
rosie
January 4, 2023 8:17 pm

Another fascinating place in Paris to visit Calli, the cells where they held Maria Antoinette and so many others before that last ride.
At least Robespierre and his friends apparently got to make merry on their last night.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 4, 2023 8:19 pm

From an article at The Conservative Woman.

“A PRESS release slipped out just before Christmas on the government website outlines, in the banal bureaucratese of such documents, a truly dreadful lurch towards medical totalitarianism.

A ten-year ‘partnership’ has been ‘cemented between Moderna and the UK government’ to produce up to 250million doses of mRNA vaccine in a purpose-built plant to start construction this year. There has been no discussion whatever in Parliament about the wisdom of such a step.

Announcing it on December 22, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay said: ‘This time two years ago, the UK was the first country in the world to administer a Covid vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Since then, countless lives have been saved across the world and more than 150million doses have been given in the UK alone.

‘It is vital we invest in fighting future variants of this disease as well as other deadly viruses that are circulating, such as seasonal flu and RSV, and this partnership with Moderna will also strengthen our ability to respond to any future pandemics.’

Richard Torbett, Chief Executive, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) said: ‘This partnership is fantastic news for British manufacturing and UK-based science and research.’

The deal will include running clinical trials in the UK and Moderna will fund grants for UK universities, including PhD places and research programmes.

It was initialled last June, when then Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: ‘We are bringing supercharged, homegrown vaccines right to our shores . . . Our investment will guarantee jabs in arms against some of the toughest viruses out there, bringing us to the forefront of the fight against future threats. We’ve all seen what vaccines can do, and today’s partnership brings us one step closer to finding cures for some of the most devastating diseases.’

On the same occasion the then Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: ‘mRNA is a truly transformational technology and we have seen its life-saving power during the pandemic.’

The aim, replicating with terrible predictability the hugely profitable Covid playbook, is to ‘go from variant to vaccine in 100 days’. The usual gagging orders on details of this deal-with-the-devil are in place ‘for reasons of commercially sensitivity’. After all, they wouldn’t want us to find out who is in line to profit. A veritable money-tsunami is on the way.

Readers may recall a 2020 article in the Guardian in which Rishi Sunak, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, ‘refused to say if he’d profit from a Moderna partnership’. This, in spite of the fact that he was a founding partner of the Theleme group, registered in the tax haven of the Caymans, which at that time had a £500million investment in Moderna. Sunak left the firm in 2013, and it is not known whether he retained any investment in the Theleme fund”.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 8:24 pm

BREAKING: U.S. Quietly Extends Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination as Entry Requirement for the Entire World

the ’24 election isn’t going to steal itself you know

calli
calli
January 4, 2023 8:25 pm

Is that the Consiergerie? The second place I visited in Paris after the Sainte Chapelle. Jet lagged at the time (no sleep for 36 hours) but game as. Tottered down the Bvde Saint Michel, then hobbled along to Notre Dame afterwards. As I recall, there was a string quartet playing in the garden behind the apse.

Good times, and much younger times. These days I’d split it over a couple of trips. But then I’d miss the music.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 8:27 pm

Please.
Enough with the N*zipass talk.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 8:28 pm

‘It is vital we invest in fighting future variants of this disease as well as other deadly viruses that are circulating, such as seasonal flu and RSV, and this partnership with Moderna will also strengthen our ability to respond to any future pandemics.’

while, as an added bonus, culling the unwanteds

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 4, 2023 8:30 pm

Been listening to the Bret Weinstein interview of Dr Asseem Malhortra.

Good question at the end. Brett asked are you concerned about being double vaxxed. Malhortra says most issues seem to take place soon after vax. He was one of the earliest to be vaxxed in UK. Malhortra emphasises good diet and health may mitigate some issues.

Bret says risks cumulative.

Malhortra was one of those behind push to drop mandates for UK NHS. He did repeat that vax should be stopped.

rosie
rosie
January 4, 2023 8:31 pm

It’s next door, give or take, I think you enter via that beautiful Gothic hall that is now, more or less underground.
I’ve been to the Sainte Chapelle copy on the outskirts of Paris part of a complex where they held the Marquis de Sade. I can’t think what it was called, it was the end of a metro line.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 8:33 pm
Bazinga
Bazinga
January 4, 2023 8:36 pm

Anyway, I got talking the doc about things. He told me that he has patients who come in wanting to either see him or psychiatrist/psychologist types because they’re stressed out and very anxious about ….. you guessed it… Climate Change.

Can I suggest re-education centres 😛

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 4, 2023 8:37 pm

I don’t recall “Oh Come On” ever committing to any particular theory of how Jeremy Renner came a cropper in the snow, just waving hands and implying vast conspiracies and “If you can’t figure out that there’s more to the story than is being presented, then there’s not much more to be said.”

Now on public record via the Beeb:

A family member driving Renner’s car had got stuck in the snow near his house, the sheriff said. Using his snow plough, Renner successfully towed the car free.
He then got out to talk to his relative, but the snow plough began to move while empty.
Renner was trying to get back into the driver’s seat to stop it moving, when the “extremely large” piece of equipment ran him over, Mr Balaam said.
The PistenBully weighs at least 14,330lb, he said. The average weight of a car, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency, is 4,289lb (2 tonnes).
“An eyewitness detailed seeing Mr Renner getting into the PistenBully and not seeing him again until the PistenBully came to a rest in a pile of snow in front of his driveway,” Mr Balaam said.

So there’s a simple explanation, the Hawk-Eye had butter-fingers. Meh!

Purveyors of scandal need another arrow in their quiver.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 4, 2023 8:39 pm

Perhaps I ought to make myself clearer – for all of the symbolism heaped upon the storming of the Bastille, the reality was significantly less magnificent. But even by that meagre standard the ‘insurrection’ on January 6th could only by comedic means compared even to that.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 4, 2023 8:44 pm

Legbeards are fanatical feminists: Clem Ford is a legbeard.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/legbeard

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 4, 2023 8:45 pm

Anyway, I got talking the doc about things. He told me that he has patients who come in wanting to either see him or psychiatrist/psychologist types because they’re stressed out and very anxious about ….. you guessed it… Climate Change.

If these patients are Greta teenagers, well, no biggy.
But if we have significant numbers of 30-40 year olds getting wound like a top over this, we are in big trouble.

rosie
rosie
January 4, 2023 8:52 pm

It certainly has ML.

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 8:57 pm

Anyway, I got talking the doc about things. He told me that he has patients who come in wanting to either see him or psychiatrist/psychologist types because they’re stressed out and very anxious about ….. you guessed it… Climate Change.

medically assisted dying should be offered

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2023 9:02 pm

…if we have significant numbers of 30-40 year olds getting wound like a top over [climate change], we are in big trouble.

We are in big trouble.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2023 9:09 pm

Daily Mail.

Co-founder of queer Indigenous artists’ collective in Wisconsin is unmasked as a WHITE woman – after claiming she was Native American and two-spirit

Kay LeClaire, who went by Nibiiwakamigkwe has claimed to be Native American
Hobbyist genealogist AdvancedSmite posted research on an online forum alleging that LeClaire has been profiting from Indigenous peoples 
They has since released a statement saying that they are is not using the Ojibwe name given to them and are removing themselves from all positions and projects
AdvancedSmite claimed they used online records and resources to find LeClaire’s true lineage – German, Swedish and French Canadian 

Bruce Pascoe was unavailable for comment.

cohenite
January 4, 2023 9:10 pm

Bullitt is such a great movie; best car chase ever, despite the repeat of the green VW, the best put down ever when the photos come through and McQueen at his peak.

When Tarantino made Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Damian Lewis played McQueen. It’s uncanny how similar he looked to McQueen. Anyway here’s the car chase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZ-BHBKyos

cohenite
January 4, 2023 9:14 pm

…if we have significant numbers of 30-40 year olds getting wound like a top over [climate change], we are in big trouble.

We are in big trouble.

Absof.ckinglutely. And I’m afraid women, especially single women. Talking to 2 old girlfriends today. They both believe Trump organised Jan 6, that a cop was killed by the insurrectionists, that alarmism is real and they’re voting for the Voice.

Roger
Roger
January 4, 2023 9:25 pm

When Tarantino made Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Damian Lewis played McQueen.

Haven’t seen it, but he’s an outstanding actor.

His performance made the widely panned Dreamcatcher watchable.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 4, 2023 9:28 pm

cohenite says: January 4, 2023 at 9:14 pm

We are in big trouble.

Absof.ckinglutely.

Not enough of us searched beyond the talking points for the facts and not enough of us put Breitbart’s advice into action. The side that routinely showed up and talked eventually won.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 4, 2023 9:32 pm

Absof.ckinglutely. And I’m afraid women, especially single women.

Maybe the Taliban know something about women that we’ve forgotten.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 4, 2023 9:33 pm

calli says:
January 4, 2023 at 7:02 pm

I see Carpe is channelling his inner Sven.

That was Swedish, wasn’t it? ?

Indeed

And was typed whilst flexing my mighty thews, sans armour.

132andBush
132andBush
January 4, 2023 9:36 pm

Surely this is rot. Turning up every day on a public street corner to protest is not “stalking.”

They’d be fine if they set up a tent embassy.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 9:38 pm

3500+ posts in less than four days.

Smacking it. Big time.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2023 9:39 pm

Ah yes, Legbeards.

Why do sumo wrestlers shave their legs? Because they don’t want to look like radical feminists.
What’s the difference between a radical feminist and a whale? Half a pound of blubber and a pair of jeans.

How many radical feminists does it take to change a lightbulb? Forty-one. Twenty to conduct a seminar on feminism and the politics of lightbulb-changing, ten to run the childcare collective, ten to organise the government grants – and one to ring up her ex-husband and ask him to come and do it.

Mind you, these are getting a bit dated. Even old-school radfems are now being cancelled as TERFs. The revolution devours its own.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 4, 2023 9:39 pm

I damaged the very point of the bone and it hasn’t healed for about 4 months now. It itches like crazy. I got a strong cortisone ointment to stop the madding itch and hopefully it will heal.

I’m not a Dr, but I think they are taught that steroids *impair* wound healing

Cassie of Sydney
January 4, 2023 9:40 pm

“Another thing – the Belanglo Forest mass murderer went to his grave without having been forced to name his accomplices (some of whom were likely dead by the time of his trial).”

It was most likely his sister.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 9:44 pm

‘ring up the ex-husband’

Gold.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

cohenite says: January 4, 2023 at 9:10 pm
Bullitt is such a great movie; best car chase ever, despite the repeat of the green VW, the best put down ever when the photos come through and McQueen at his peak.
…Anyway here’s the car chase:

The self-replacing hubcaps on the black car belonging to the baddies are a nifty feature.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
January 4, 2023 9:51 pm

Mrs Hulls is a Victorian magistrate: one of the innumerable Labor mates on the Victorian (and Queensland) bench. I wonder what sentence she might give.

Anywhere else, she would have to recuse herself. But this is Victoria where John Cain’s name was all over the indictments in the political show trial of Cardinal Pell – the Cain dynasty’s revenge for the 1955 Labor Split.

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2023 9:54 pm

Yep. Horrible people

Miltonf
Miltonf
January 4, 2023 9:55 pm

Judge John Foord in NSW was an interesting one

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 4, 2023 9:56 pm

Talking to 2 old girlfriends today. They both believe Trump organised Jan 6, that a cop was killed by the insurrectionists, that alarmism is real and they’re voting for the Voice.

Taking up with a couple of brain dead dummies like that, cohenite, that’s not a good look for you. ?

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 4, 2023 10:01 pm

When Tarantino made Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Damian Lewis played McQueen.

I loved that fillum but I didn’t think much of Lewis’ portrayal of McQueen. Along with the little screen time he had, I thought his wig let him down.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2023 10:05 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 4, 2023 at 9:38 pm
3500+ posts in less than four days.

Smacking it. Big time.

And a lot of worthless pinball commentary…

cohenite
January 4, 2023 10:13 pm

Taking up with a couple of brain dead dummies like that, cohenite, that’s not a good look for you. ?

They only watch the abc. I do my best to dissuade them; and if that fails I can always look at them.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2023 10:14 pm

and they’re voting for the Voice.

The next generation of the clan have been told that anyone even thinking of voting for the “Voice” is invited to consult a dictionary as to the meaning of “Disinherited.” It would be wrong for them to inherit what was built on the land….

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 4, 2023 10:17 pm

Dunno about worthless Stevie T.

You can introduce the topic of BOM being a cover for WEF masterminds flooding the country via giant cloud seeding EMP rays from its ‘weather stations’ if you like.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2023 10:21 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 4, 2023 at 10:17 pm
Dunno about worthless Stevie T.

Fair comment. I see to much comment on MSM news stories.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
January 4, 2023 10:30 pm

This clip will not grow old.

CSIRO: Today I released my report in response to CSIROs climate science claims, that were presented at the meeting held with CSIRO senior scientists on Monday 26 September 2016 in Sydney.

The key findings of Senator Roberts’ report shows that CSIRO:

1. Refuses to state that carbon dioxide from human activity is a danger

2. Does not have empirical evidence proving that carbon dioxide from human activity effects climate

3. Have used evidence in their presentation that contradicts the empirical climate evidence.

4. Uses climate computer models that are neither appropriate nor recommended to be used to inform government policy

In the Senator’s first speech to the Senate he stated, “Australians should be able to rely on the information from Australian government bodies and institutions [such as the CSIRO] but we can’t.”

“Queenslanders, everyday Australians, have lost jobs, paid higher taxes, wasted opportunities, lost businesses and fritted away scarce resources… nowhere is this issue more important than in our resource rich Queensland, which stands to lose the most of all our states” he said to the Senate.

Senator Roberts’ research has shown billions of dollars have been wasted on mothballed white elephants such as useless desalination plants.

“Our team will now move our primary focus on how the devastating economic impacts of climate alarmist polices are affecting everyday Australians, including higher taxes, destruction of industry, removal of sovereignty and implementation of appalling control mechanisms limiting personal freedom,”

“The ultimate goal of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is to dismantle Australia’s obsession with green guilt and assist in restoring our country’s former agricultural, manufacturing and economic base,” he said.

At a press conference to release the report the senator was flanked by a number of renowned scientists and researchers who have supported his findings into the CSIRO. Those supporting the senator at his press conference were

Internationally eminent Canadian climatologist, geographer and environmentalist Professor Tim Ball, expert on the United Nations’ unfounded and politically motivated climate claims cited by CSIRO;
American engineer, investigator and researcher Mr Tony Heller, internationally respected for exposing manipulation of temperature data by a small unit within NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies and relied upon
Australian scientist, engineer and inventor Mr Peter Bobroff who was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for his services to research and compiled the site reviewing CSIRO’s claims and presenting supporting data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwQ6BiqeBcg

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 4, 2023 10:38 pm

I do my best to dissuade them

You sure you’re putting your all into it?

Have you done anything with these talking points…and a bunch of roses?

1) The laptop from hell
2) The current state of the US economy v Trump’s economic results
3) Will they be happy to have Australian power prices growing exponentially until no-one can afford to power their homes and businesses, while China’s output is at orders of magnitude greater than ours but without any material penalty?
4) The misogyny of traditional aboriginal culture, which is way ahead of anything that they may have experienced while spending time with you.
5) Female and male suffrage to be downgraded to second class citizen status because of a racist test, which ultimately would have further tax increases passed at law to support this gravy train.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2023 10:39 pm

SECRET NEGOTIATIONS
The super-secret International Health Regulations Review Committee (IHRRC) is scheduled to meet January 9-13, 2023. They plan to submit the amendments on January 15, 2023.

The “official” statements of the World Health Organization have consistently stated that they do NOT plan to adopt the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations until the 77th World Health Assembly in 2024.

However, if the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations are submitted to the WHO by January 15, 2023, then they COULD be adopted by the 76th World Health Assembly as early as May 2023.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 4, 2023 10:44 pm

Andrew Bolt. Australians are supposed to take this malarkey seriously?

I shouldn’t be surprised that white academics who claim they are Aboriginal might then teach other things that are fake.

Professor Bruce Pascoe, of course, uses fake evidence to claim Aborigines were “farmers” living in “towns” of “1000 people” with “pens” for animals.

But Professor “Aunty” Kerrie Doyle has now topped Pascoe for teaching the most obviously absurd fantasies.

Doyle, associate dean of Indigenous Health at Western Sydney University, has been recorded by students teaching a Welcome to Country song she claims was sung by the warrior Pemulwuy, who died in 1802.

“Now, we have actually a recording of Pemulwuy singing it, and he’s really good,” she says, before singing it, too: “Barrabula barra ma …”

Amazing. A recording made in Sydney before 1802 of an Aboriginal man? And silly me thought the first recording of the human voice was of Au Claire de la Lune, recorded 58 years later by French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

Indolent
Indolent
January 4, 2023 10:45 pm
Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 10:45 pm

Surely this is rot. Turning up every day on a public street corner to protest is not “stalking.”

They’d be fine if they set up a tent embassy.

calls for blackface

Zipster
Zipster
January 4, 2023 10:49 pm

We are in big trouble.

universal suffrage = universal suffering

Bar Beach Swimmer
January 4, 2023 11:15 pm

On Kevin Rudd, it was only a matter of time.

So, what will Elbow do?
Nothing.
Elbow would rather see the Australia-US relationship damaged by this vindictive narcissist than re-call, I mean, cancel him before he’d even crossed the international date line.

Hell has no fury, (apart from a Turnbull), like a Kevin scorned

rickw
rickw
January 4, 2023 11:17 pm

It was most likely his sister.

Could have been a bus driver. Was on a bus once, at 2:00am driver comes on the PA and announces that we’re now passing the Belangalo State forest scene of the infamous backpacker murders.

Whole bus does a collective WTF under their breath!

rickw
rickw
January 4, 2023 11:22 pm

medically assisted dying should be offered

Indeed, if you’re stupid enough to believe in AGW, you need to get the hell out of the gene pool.

rickw
rickw
January 4, 2023 11:42 pm

Fauci sauce doing what it does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeZpQbr820w

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 5, 2023 12:59 am
Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
January 5, 2023 3:49 am

Canadia is a scary place. Extraordinary bullying such that Jordan Peterson has had to go public in his defence and that of free speech.

https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/canada-to-re-educate-jordan-peterson-for-wrongthink/

rickw
rickw
January 5, 2023 3:50 am

The barely sentient winner:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWJ6lVjgGnE

Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
January 5, 2023 5:07 am

The vote for Speaker of the US House of Representatives (underway as we speak) is headed for a fifth ballot later this week as GOP rebels refuse to back the GOP establishment’s Kevin McCarthy or alternative nominee Byron Donalds in sufficient numbers.

Donald Trump is backing McCarthy even though McCarthy is part of the problem.

Of course, the Democratic Party is totally united in backing radical Hakeem Jeffries to become minority Speaker in a house in which Republicans are the majority.

The Dems are enjoying the disunity among the Republicans, who are headed for even more backroom wheeling and dealing to select a Speaker backed by both the rebels and the party establishment.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 5, 2023 5:26 am

3500+ posts in less than four days.

Blog’s clearly on its last legs.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 5, 2023 5:32 am

Tom, the longer the GOP stoush goes on, the more it demonstrates what “the squad” should have done two years ago.
That is, instead of talking about Medicare for all the entire election campaign & doing nothing about it, they could have at least forced it onto the agenda.
They didn’t, proving they were just another brand of the DNC party.
AOC only votes against legislation when it’s of no consequence.
For example, when selective DNC surrogates were promoting her vote against the recent spending bill, it was because the votes to pass it were already locked in.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 5, 2023 5:38 am

At least the RINO surrogates aren’t promoting the retarded narrative the DNC surrogates promoted two years ago.
That is, if you don’t vote for Pelosi, McCarthy will be speaker.

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 5, 2023 5:45 am

Jim Jordan is the biggest GOP recipient of Big Tech donations.
His rolled up sleeves performance is such horse shit.
For the last two years he’s sided with the DNC at the committee stage to stop anything meaningful getting to the debate stage.
A total uniparty fraud.

sfw
sfw
January 5, 2023 6:57 am

Andrew Bolt is a fool if he doesn’t know that aborigines developed sound recording technology, the method has remained a secret until now, The ‘Aunty’ and her tribe have obviously known of it and have decided that now is the time to reveal it to the world.

In other news, yesterday my wife decided to use the Gold Class cinema vouchers given her as a Christmas gift. I’ve never been and overall it was a pretty good eperience. Went to the Albury cinema and great service. However she wanted to see the Whitney Houston biopic, I was only vaguely aware of Houston, I never really liked her music, after two hours I’ve decided that I hate her music. She had an amazing voice, trouble is much of her output seems to be a vehicle for her voice and all she is doing is vocal gymnastics. Rather boring and way too loud on the excruciatingly long high notes.

Anyway the moral of the story is, don’t let your children enter show business, seems I’ve heard that before.

sfw
sfw
January 5, 2023 6:58 am

The Spooner is spot on this morning, thanks Tom.

Gabor
Gabor
January 5, 2023 7:21 am

sfw says:
January 5, 2023 at 6:57 am

Andrew Bolt is a fool.

No doubt, Fact.

Whitney Houston biopic, I was only vaguely aware of Houston, I never really liked her music.

Neither did I, couldn’t put a finger on why as she has a good voice, you cleared it up for me, Ta.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 5, 2023 7:27 am

I think this was touched on yesterday, but the article at Breitbart London is fun.

Australia’s New Ambassador to Washington Scolds U.S. for Throwing Allies ‘Under a Bus’ (4 Jan)

“For the future, what is the missing elements in U.S. grand strategy? It’s called the economy, stupid,” Rudd told Bloomberg TV, seizing on an observation attributed to former Bill Clinton adviser James Carville.

“You cannot continue to assume that there’ll be collective solidarity on security questions, but on the economy, the United States is happy to throw some of its allies under a bus.”

Rudd qualified his directions for future U.S. foreign policy by saying he was speaking as president of the Asia Society and had not begun his ambassadorial role, telling the outlet it was “three months before I turn into a pumpkin.”

Advice for the U.S. from the enthusiastic globalist didn’t end there.

And a very loud pumpkin he will be.

flyingduk
flyingduk
January 5, 2023 7:28 am

From the Oz

Mayday alert on single pilot plan….. A plan by aviation regulators to allow a single pilot in the cockpit instead of two on commercial flights is meeting growing resistance from pilots and industry leaders.

Good thing too, this site https://www.youtube.com/c/REALATCchannel/videos documents a case of ‘pilot incapacitation’ in a large jet every week or so.

calli
calli
January 5, 2023 7:40 am

“three months before I turn into a pumpkin.”

By Hallowe’en he will be sufficiently hollow to make a jack o’ lantern.

Indolent
Indolent
January 5, 2023 7:49 am

Apparently, he needs to be “re-educated”.

Jordan Peterson Investigated, Allegedly For Criticizing Justin Trudeau

Indolent
Indolent
January 5, 2023 7:59 am

Unbelievable. The accused remains in jail despite potentially exculpating evidence being destroyed, while the crooked cop gets probation.

FBI Agent to Get Probation on Thursday for Destroying Evidence in Arkansas Political Trial

feelthebern
feelthebern
January 5, 2023 8:01 am

A few DNC surrogates are testing out a few narratives as to why the current situation is different to the DNC not withholding votes two years ago to force the Medicare for All vote.
No doubt the spokesperson for their mob will be along at some stage to regurgitate a few of them.
See which one you like.

Johnny Rotten
January 5, 2023 8:03 am

A couple had two little boys, ages eight and ten, who were excessively mischievous. The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be confident that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were involved in some capacity. The parents were at their wit’s end as to what to do about their sons’ behaviour.

The parents had heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in disciplining children in the past, so they contacted him, and he agreed to give it his best shot. He asked to see the boys individually, so the eight-year-old was sent to meet with him first. The clergyman sat the boy down and asked him sternly “Where is God?”

The boy made no response, so the clergyman repeated the question in an even sterner tone “Where is God?”

Again, the boy made no attempt to answer, so the clergyman raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy’s face “WHERE IS GOD?”

At that, the boy bolted from the room, ran directly home, and slammed himself in his closet. His older brother followed him into the closet and said “What happened?”

The younger brother replied “We are in BIG trouble this time. God is missing and they think we did it!”

Johnny Rotten
January 5, 2023 8:05 am

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

Indolent
Indolent
January 5, 2023 8:11 am
m0nty
January 5, 2023 8:12 am

Tom, the longer the GOP stoush goes on, the more it demonstrates what “the squad” should have done two years ago.
That is, instead of talking about Medicare for all the entire election campaign & doing nothing about it, they could have at least forced it onto the agenda.
They didn’t, proving they were just another brand of the DNC party.

Forcing MFA onto the agenda would have achieved nothing because it didn’t have the votes. The squad aren’t stupid, they knew they would look foolish.

The Gaetz faction are achieving nothing at the moment except some grandstanding and ego stroking. Which is probably their primary goal.

Negotiation via stunt doesn’t work. That’s why Trump never got much through Congress, except tax cuts for the rich which all the GOP factions were in favour of.

m0nty
January 5, 2023 8:16 am

Ahead of the fifth vote, Republican Lauren Boebert (Colo.) said Trump called the defectors to tell them “they need to knock this off.” Boebert, among 20 Republicans who voted for Republican Byron Donalds (Fla.), said Trump should do the opposite — call McCarthy and tell him he lacks the votes and should withdraw.

Indolent
Indolent
January 5, 2023 8:17 am
JMH
JMH
January 5, 2023 8:18 am

It’s not just price hikes for gas. Service charge for 2 x 45 kg cylinders has increased by $13.20 from last year.

Indolent
Indolent
January 5, 2023 8:20 am
Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 5, 2023 8:27 am

I am on Twitter but only for reading. Last night got into incredibly interesting threads on Dr Pierre Kory”s Twitter feed with links into his Substack articles. He is well known for his early use of Ivermectin for Covid and has written a book about the saga. He was actually the first US Dr I read about over 2 years ago when saw him saying medicine had been politicised.
He mentions a lawyer who brought many legal cases against hospitals for the right of ICU patients to be administered IVM. Many fought and delayed as much as they could. One particular hospital shows how successful he was. In 6 cases he won the first 3 but lost the last 3. In the cases where he won the patients were able to use IVM. They lived but in the three he lost the patients died.
In August 2021 there was a sudden coordinated campaign to demonise IVM as a horse dewormer despite it already being approved by FDA for decades and winning Nobel prize. The media company for the CDC, Pfizer and Moderna is the same. This coincided with a sharp increase in prescriptions of IVM. It was clear this was going to impact vaccine sales. It was also around the time virals Molnuprivir and Paxlovid were being first promoted.
He mentions the Japanese inventor of IVM approaching Merck early 2020 to ask to do research on IVM and Covid. Not only rejected but Merck went out of its way to say should not be used. One of the links is to a Dr colleague of inventor going off about the vaccine during a meeting with health officials.
He goes into what happened with UK Dr Andrew Hill who initially was very enthusiastic about IVM. He believes Hill was tasked to look into existing alternative treatments with a view to sabotaging them. Hill may not have originally known that plan but later went along with it. Hill actually initially was so keen he actually told African countries to be ready to stock up on IVM. Then came his despicable turn around, well covered in a video by Tess Lawrie, which affected the whole outcome of the pandemic.
He mentions how he and Dr Paul Marik lost their jobs for basically saving lives with IVM .
An incredible story of how big pharma money has warped the medical world and treatments. He deliberately refers to the FDA as the PFDA.
In one post he shows a sudden massive increase in funding, 2020, to the retirement fund of Peadiatricians with the implication bought by pharma.
In FEB 2022 he mentions Homeland Security referring to Dr’s who criticise the Government Covid policies as domestic terrorists. Hmm, that rings a bell based on recent police comments in Qld.
Follow the money when looking at the experts pushing the vaccines.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 5, 2023 8:38 am

Weird that the post Indolent put up just before mine mentioned Bill Gates. He was the one behind UNIAID charity that got Dr Hill to change his mind thanks to a 40m pound donation to Liverpool University.
For those with an interest in previous malpractices of Pfizer check out interesting list of their activities and fines via a link at Revolver News.

m0nty
January 5, 2023 8:54 am

Gaetz pulled a “Sad!” directly at Trump’s post supporting McCarthy, LOL.

The disrespect!

Jorge
Jorge
January 5, 2023 9:00 am

JC says:
January 4, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Good piece by Niall Ferguson

Just talking points, I reckon, JC. He’s right about the likelihood of another world war but he seems to think the western powers want peace and that actual war is ‘failure’. Something much more sinister is going on.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 5, 2023 9:18 am

m0ntysays:
January 5, 2023 at 8:54 am
Gaetz pulled a “Sad!” directly at Trump’s post supporting McCarthy, LOL.

The disrespect!

As a loyal fascist, m0nty=fa does not have any respect for democracy, which includes the right to have an opinion different to that of the party hierarchy.

Sad!

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
January 5, 2023 9:36 am

Krudd, the man they hated so much in his own party they deposed him twice, and changed the rules to make it less likely hed ever get up again was the best person to be ambassador to our biggest ally.

Great own goal you feckless spivs.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-04/kevin-rudd-wants-us-to-stop-throwing-allies-under-a-bus-economy/101827944
Inside government ranks, some MPs have privately expressed concern at the outspoken approach their former colleague may take in his new diplomatic role, suggesting he could become a “second foreign minister” based in Washington.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 5, 2023 9:36 am

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:

January 4, 2023 at 10:14 pm

and they’re voting for the Voice.

The next generation of the clan have been told that anyone even thinking of voting for the “Voice” is invited to consult a dictionary as to the meaning of “Disinherited.” It would be wrong for them to inherit what was built on the land….

Has it occurred to you they might lie about their vote to retain their inheritance of a share of the Ponderosa?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 5, 2023 9:38 am

Ponderosa?
Or maybe Yellowstone Ranch.
It has more family intrigue.

lotocoti
lotocoti
January 5, 2023 9:39 am

FFS.
It’s the government’s fault we didn’t stock enough Lemsip.

P
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January 5, 2023 9:39 am

McCarthy Fails Again on Ballot Number Six, House in Recess Until 8:00pm ET
January 4, 2023 | Sundance

There have been multiple times in the history of congress when multiple ballots are required to nominate the House Speaker. However, at no point in history has the same person failed to capture the majority on six ballots and remained determined to keep trying.

m0nty
January 5, 2023 9:43 am

Trump hitching his wagon to McCarthy may prove to be very costly.

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