Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
Linky no work. Goes to msn generic news page…
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Noice.
Plus infinity KD. Vic Pol if want some support for their wage rise demand, from family there’s none ATM from…
I strongly suspect that if Israel was annihilated the Disrupt Wars people (probably Marxists) would dance on its grave.
mostly women and transitioners
EV chargers as noted above there are limits on how many can be installed due to the switchboard. The basic fix is to upgrade the switchboard. However some property owners find that there is insufficient power being delivered to the property so as substation needs to be installed. These run to $100ks+.
And in my work experience some electricity providers are now rejecting substation applications as the grid cannot get enough power to the substation or some other resource issue.
There are serious issues to address and will cost taxpayers $Billions for the grid infrastructure.
But listen to Bowen and its all cheap and easy. That guy is a class A bottom dwelling muppet.
I never thought I’d see the day where Australians were so willingly apathetic, so willingly captured and so utterly gullible. People like us, here, are a minority.
This country is a shell of what it was.
It was bad enough during the Covid panic period when “we, the unvaccinated” were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. But noting the inability of friends and acquaintances to understand the catastrophic changes taking place in our way of life further condemns us dissenters to being regarded as a “suspicious minority”.
I have given up discussing the big issues in many circles, because I am regarded as some sort of “Hanrahan” always predicting doom. They are all just lemmings heading for a cliff they cannot see, and probably don’t care about.
correct
to remain happy and content while free-ranging … best to ignore the fences
You give someone a Voice and expect them not to (mis)use it?
Ha! You think we’ll get a choice?
This is a country where pensioners in rentals subsidised solar panels for the middle class via their power bills.
Privatise the benefit, socialise the cost!
It’s pretty clear that the liberal position re abortion now is that if the mother wants to have an abortion what they actually want is a dead child and that interfering before or after birth with this end cannot be allowed. There is no other plausible conclusion.
Might work.
The local Federal member is a Green – so zero reluctance about committing hemp baskets of taxpayer funds to useless causes.
*chuckle
to stay happy
gotta be Plato’s cave-man
… just turn on the telly and watch ABC news followed by re-runs of Vera and MAFS
Watching Sharpe with my old man, the whole 14 episodes is available on YouTube.
Quite enjoyable way to spend a weekend.
@RepJeffries: Republicans are trying to “impose government-mandated pregnancies on the American people”
‘Government-mandated pregnancies’.
Simply imagining the concept speaks volumes about the moral and social abstraction of the Left.
Vera…I used to catch the end when it preceded Midsomer Murders of a Saturday afternoon. Looked to have all the televisual appeal of zoning out on valium.
Ah yes, The Road To Serfdom which allegedly means serfdom is a bad thing, except you want to return to the feudal system of government. Hayek always was confused about basic things.
Mother Load:
I came across a meme yesterday, where some fellow says he looked at the contact list in his phone and saw it had things like “John Electrician”, “Mark Landlord”, and he realised that Anglo names have always worked like that.
You’re right. I just checked my contacts list and well over half are of that nature.
Mind you, it took a few seconds to work out who Tessie Catgirl was.
speak of plato’s cave-man and mUnty appears
uncanny, or what?
Currently, Energex appears to have parked the issue in urban settings and is luxuriating its way through working out how to create smart-meter-based communidy batteries – using the power stored in citizen’s EV and Powerwalls.
Waking up to a powerless EV and the fridge motor making funny noises.
It’s the future.
Substations:
..
https://www.3aw.com.au/not-so-bright-spark-extraordinary-vision-of-a-southbank-theft-gone-wrong/
henceforth named as Range Sharing
Chuckle.
You might disagree with Hayek’s arguments, but one thing he was not is a confused thinker. That partly accounts for the impact of that book at the time and the need critics felt to refute his arguments. It remains in print, a testimony to its importance.
I find it ironic that Republicans are trying to prevent abortions of children who are very likely to be to Demonrat voting women and most likely future demonrat voters. That’s just how evil intentioned Repubs are.
Incredible how the American left gets away with this dumb bullshit.
And here’s more bullshit they try to pull that goes unpunished on the American left.
https://rumble.com/v25aw5d-imbecilic-hank-johnson-suggests-republican-planted-bidens-stolen-documents.html?mref=16emn&mc=6kk5f
You seem to be using the same code for Zoë Kravitz as I do.
Doc Faustus:
Excuse me if I’ve got this wrong, but the EV charging issue appears to be:
.1 If you are in a unit type dwelling, the first 2 or 3 installed can be done with the original wiring/equipment.
.2 The rest need new switchboards costing about $600k.
.3 The first couple installed will be essentially free of the cost for the excess.
.4 After that, the Body Corporate will have to fund the new powerboards.
.5 So will the first couple of installers say bugger off, and vote against the Body Corporate levying all the owners?
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Ed makes clame.
Gets asked to prove it.
Ed says no you prove me wrong.
Repeat…
Henceforth known as Rage Sharing.
It’s a phase Australia is going to have to go through.
We’re going to Mars, then the stars? Bullshit. We’ll be fortunate to make it to the next century.
Just get a load of these two idiots.
.3 The first couple installed will be essentially free of the cost for the excess.
They would have had to get body corporate approval 1st, I’m guessing so why would they agree to pay into the rest of the building costs …… case of 1st in, best dressed .. LOL!
Sorry to be a software pest, but I use Thunderbird for emails. Just went through an upgrade and the “Open in Browser” function doesn’t work.
Obviously it’s just a simple click on a box problem but I’ve been struggling with it for a couple of weeks now and would appreciate some advice.
Using Win!! and Brave Browser.
ta.
Why bother to charge your stupid electric car if your going to discharge it to run your domestic loads? Reeks of perpetual motion- fmd we’ve really moved into an anti scientific, anti engineering era. Also, as anyone with half a brain has been pointing out for years, why encourage electric car take while breaking the power supply?
nice video Arky.
the cascading sequence of explosions probably due to plasma, metal vapour and little copper meteorites. what a ripper!
I can almost hear the groaning sound super-imposed with 50Hz before the fault current limiters go.
if you’ve ever heard it before …. it isn’t a sound you’ll ever forget in a rush
e=t.I^2
… with fault currents in the 10s or 1000s of amps.
count the seconds == to a truck-load of Joules
I’d wager you wouldn’t walk outta there as you’d be deaf, blind and your hair would be on fire
anyway, calling bull-dust on that vid
I think its a mock up …frame change at around 29 sec
and conveniently the hh:mm:ss on the video is also just out of frame.
Indeed – and the longer our sleeping fellows continue to think we are crazy, the better, for it means it hasn’t got to the ‘really bad’ stage.
I have, of course, prepared a reply for the above when they eventually do implement their ‘if you are right, i’m coming round to your place’ plan – ” I hope you don’t, bullets are valuable and it would be a shame to have to shoot you..’
Still looks great.
Even if you are a semi regular wearer of them, a bespoke suit is the way to go.
As one of those lucky folk who’s weight never varies more than 2 kg either way I’ve been wearing the same (only one I’ve got!) suit to whatever occasions it’s needed for the past 25 years .. mind 3 of the 4 kids weddings and a coupla funerals I’m probably talking single digit wearing figures soo it’s still fairly “new” .. LOL!
Radio station SEN in Adelaide off air. Sudden power failure.
As things stand, the first 3 or 4 early adopters get to use the switchboard capacity to overnight charge their EV’s. They pay for their own power.
The cost of upgrading the switchboard and external supply infrastructure will be an eye watering sum – which theoretically would go to the joint account if that’s how the residents voted (and if external supply was feasible).
No free ride for the early adopters – but complications and disharmony while some sort of solution is worked out for later EV arrivals – and for diesel powered residents, who would chew a foot off before buying an EV.
An early taste of what the Albanese Government is foisting on urban Australia. One could describe it as a First World Problem – but for me, it’s a Turd World issue.
They still don’t understand that what they think are conspiracy theories in the main are actual reality. I was amused by this paper by a couple of psychologists.
Bullying, power and control: Why people believe in conspiracy theories and how to respond (13 Jan)
Invoking antisemitism is cute, and says exactly where this pair is coming from. On the other hand it’s clear they haven’t a clue, and are casting about trying to explain the weird phenomenon that righties exist.
Bluey, Sharpe is great, the villains are fantastic, especially Hakeswill, I’d never heard of it till it popped up in my youtube feed.
You have to reestablish those institutions (family, schools, churches, local communities, etc.) substantially before you could reduce significantly or eliminate government welfare. It would be an absolute disaster if you just turned off the tap.
Our politicians must have a very high threshold for cognitive dissonance.
A general intellectual deficit among the political class could indeed explain it.
Certainly the brightest no longer enter politics after proving themselves in some worthy field of endeavour. Parliament is now full of political hacks (the uniparty), subversives (the Greens) and hopeless idealists (the Teals).
We appear to have many…many lurkers today.
Well done! 😀
JCsays:
January 14, 2023 at 11:32 am
LOl, mandated pregnancies.
Where the hell does the Demonrat party find these morons. Demonrat minority leader.
Dave Rubin
This guy has really stepped up to become the most pre-packaged, pandering, putz in the party…
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Jan 13
.@RepJeffries: Republicans are trying to “impose government-mandated pregnancies on the American people”
This is not significantly different to the ravings of m0nty=fa on the subject of abortion.
Very charitable, Roger. Best I could is call them is fools or tools.
Meanwhile in Qld the premier is on holiday and crime continues unabated:
Editorial: The Qld government has lost control of juvenile crime
The idea of protecting vulnerable children from being funnelled into the adult criminal justice system has gained tremendous popularity, but the incontestable fact is that failing to detain and restrain youthful criminals is leading to tragic outcomes.
COURIERMAIL.COM.AU
If the Queensland public need evidence that youth crime has become unmanageable, that is readily available in the form of one 15-year-old boy.
Beyond the urban myths surrounding youth crime, beyond the anecdotal evidence and the exaggeration and hyperbole that can artificially inflate the seriousness of this matter, the case of one 15-year-old, outlined in a story in today’s Courier-Mail, provides stark and irrefutable evidence that the state government has lost control of juvenile crime.
The leaked intelligence report which forms the basis of the story reveals the boy has faced an almost incomprehensible 80 charges yet has never received one recorded conviction.
The boy continues to pursue his criminal career including burglaries and car thefts with his criminal activity spanning the entire southeast region.
Each time he faces a court he is set free. And each time he is set free he offends again, with the authors of the intelligence report making it clear that police can now do little except wait for the inevitable tragedy to occur.
“It has become clear (the offender) and his cohort will not stop for intercepts, committing numerous offences in stolen vehicles, including dangerous driving and hit and run crashes,’’ the report says.
It is all well and good for Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to announce harsher penalties for youths stealing cars and major amendments to the Youth Justice Act requiring courts to scrutinise offenders’ bail and criminal records during sentencing. That was announced after public outcry over the horrific death of young North Lakes mother Emma Lovell, allegedly killed during an attempt by youths to burgle her home.
But what needs to be taken into account is the bigger issue – which is that police believe young criminals are “gaming the system”, pleading guilty to offences to avoid having convictions recorded.
Her response needs to reflect this. The public expectation is that this loophole will be closed.
Juvenile crime in Australia has been the subject of major reforms since the 1970s.
The idea of protecting vulnerable children from being funnelled into the adult criminal justice system by creating alternative methods of rehabilitation has gained tremendous popularity in the past 50 years. Whether there is value in this approach is still the subject of debate, but what is incontestable is the fact that failing to detain and restrain youthful criminals is leading to tragic outcomes.
Allowing youthful offenders to go free and roam our communities allegedly led to the death of Mrs Lovell on Boxing Day.
In 2021 Matthew Field, 37, and Kate Leadbetter, 31, along with their unborn baby, were killed by an out-of-control teen recklessly driving a stolen vehicle.
We simply cannot, as a civilised community, stand by and allow fashionable ideology inside criminology faculties to allow violent individuals to roam through our communities and threaten lives.
This is far removed from calls for vengeance or retribution. Our criminal justice system must have, as its primary focus, rehabilitation.
But what ordinary Queensland taxpayers who fund the justice system have a right to expect is that young repeat offenders will be taken out of circulation and kept on secure premises well removed from the community while their rehabilitation becomes the priority.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, who has quite rightly seized on this matter as a hot-button issue, is doing his job by increasing the pressure on Ms Palaszczuk to come up with a better plan of attack.
But Crisafulli’s calls for the Premier to cancel her current holiday and recall parliament are part of the political game.
What the LNP Opposition needs to do is begin preparing its own legislative reforms which would guarantee the incarceration of repeat juvenile offenders in facilities which have the powers to detain offenders until they are deemed fit to return to their communities. This protects both the offender and the community.
Those legal reforms, if properly framed and pledged to be implemented on achieving government, will be viewed favourably right across Queensland in the lead-up to the October 2024 election.
Queenslanders are becoming frightened in their own homes, some openly wondering whether it is best to leave the car keys on a kitchen bench rather than hiding them away and risk angry youth rampaging through their house and attacking the occupants in their attempt to steal the family car.
That is no way to live. We need a sensible new approach.
Rogersays:
January 14, 2023 at 12:00 pm
… just turn on the telly and watch ABC news followed by re-runs of Vera
Vera…I used to catch the end when it preceded Midsomer Murders of a Saturday afternoon. Looked to have all the televisual appeal of zoning out on valium.
The books on which Vera is based are quite good, but I can’t see how any of the stories can be reduced to an hour (or even two) hour long TV show.
Looked at that video of the copper theft, I’ve been to a few substation fires and incidents, I don’t know how he walked away from that. Unless he hid in a corner shielded from the arcing etc, he should have had serious burns and little or no clothing left.
Someone (someone with political clout, but no idea) has persuaded people in government (people with much less than no idea) that building out distributed, grid-connected batteries is a good thing for managing intermittent and asynchronous renewable generation.
It’s fashionably integrated.
It’s like the Internet of Things.
It’s the vibe.
Too cheap to meter.
Mission accomplished.
https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/1613298299355942912/photo/1
JC
Imbecilic Hank Johnson Suggests Republican “Planted” Biden’s Stolen Documents
Isn’t he the DemonRat idiot who suggested that Guam might overturn?
B John
How would I or anyone else know. The entire party is selected from mental asylums and retard centers. They peddle so much laughable crap that it’s impossible to recall. 🙂
Isn’t he the DemonRat idiot who suggested that Guam might overturn?
African American gent, SpongeBob.
You wouldn’t be a Racist, by any chance?
Or, more likely, a Black hating Nazi?
It’s not broken yet. But it’s getting very very expensive. A massive transfer of wealth.
And therein I think lies the answer to; why? Some well connected people are making $$ shyteloads from expensive renewballs energy. Photios, Turdball et al. We mustn’t look too far beyond self interest when Billions of $ are changing hands.
Jan 13
.@RepJeffries: Republicans are trying to “impose government-mandated pregnancies on the American people”
Sounds remarkably similar to this absolute clanger a frustrated Benito M0ntylini directed at Dover yesterday:
Some leftwit eruptions really do deserve to be laughed at a second time. 🙂
We appear to have many…many lurkers today.
Haha Calli, I see what you did there.
That was one of Trump’s best moments.
Its a disaster already – turn the tap off and stop billing me for other peoples failure to be adults or good neighbours.
Thank you captain obvious.
May we ask, o Courier Mail Editorial Writer, what industry sector creates the reward structure the causes politicians to do the harm they do, to the rule of law and the justice system?
How’s that found out?
Gerrie Coetzee, a former South African boxer and WBA heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s and won popularity with Nelson Mandela and both Black and white fans, has died. He was 67.
Coetzee died on Thursday in Cape Town just over a week after being diagnosed with lung cancer, his former manager, Thinus Strydom, said Friday.
In other words, he Died Suddenly.
Impossible. Our system of governance encourages all politicians to retain their trough place by fleecing the productive in order to procure the votes of the so many parasitic unproductive. Taxes have become an evil , ensuring the shit remain afloat.
Seems so long ago now, but there was time in the mid-2000’s when Australia (at at Federal level) had so little net debt, there were real questions about the viability of trading bonds in Australia without some form of subsidy to ensure market making.
Then GFC.
Then the rest is history.
dover0beachsays:
January 14, 2023 at 12:40 pm
Id be in favour of the total elimination of government ‘welfare’ and a return to the old days of ‘private charity’.
Back then, the salvos, or the church or your neighbours, or whoever it was, had a first hand view of who you were, what your circumstances were, and whether you deserved their help. They had an incentive to get you off charity and back into society.
You have to reestablish those institutions (family, schools, churches, local communities, etc.) substantially before you could reduce significantly or eliminate government welfare. It would be an absolute disaster if you just turned off the tap.
The “first hand view” can be inadvertent. Some years ago, in Canberra, representatives of two different charities that distributed food boxes to the “poor” turned up at the same house simultaneously. I suspect that comparison of the various databases might have disclosed more than one household registered with more than one charity, and collecting from all.
Does ring a bell.
Good article.
@dover
You kill a foetus 2 minutes before birth, it’s an abortion. 2 minutes later, it’s infanticide, and you go to jail. Have I got that right?
Ed Casesays:
January 14, 2023 at 1:05 pm
Isn’t he the DemonRat idiot who suggested that Guam might overturn?
African American gent, SpongeBob.
You wouldn’t be a Racist, by any chance?
Or, more likely, a Black hating Nazi?
Richard Cranium
I realise that you have only very limited reading comprehension skills, but perhaps you could point to where I made any reference to the racial background of the idiot? Other than the reference to his status as a DemonRat.
Or are you a racist who assumes that all references to DemonRat idiots are to the black DemonRats? If so, let me also point out that Creepy Joe Biden is a (white) DemonRat idiot.
Damonsays:
January 14, 2023 at 1:31 pm
@dover
You kill a foetus 2 minutes before birth, it’s an abortion.
In more ways than one.
Any reforms would have to be incremental.
The problem is that if we’ve passed the Tocquevillean tipping point beyond which citizens of a democracy will vote themselves ever more public largesse, no government will have the time in office to implement such a reform program. How Labor reins in the NDIS is a trial run, although they have the luxury of Liberal support.
NRL 4 team mates of Galloway dead
Cancer (2008)
Gunshot wound (2022)
Car accident (2004)
Accidental shooting (2006)
2001 Alabama football players mourning yet another teammate after Ahmaad Galloway death
Good post by Shy Ted at Dash Cat on remote indig communities and the aboriginal “industry”.
Of course, it helps even more if you ban gas stoves and the like.
SpongeBob:
Hank Johnson is a Person of Color, a descendant of Slaves, and a victim of Segregation.
Yet you think it’s funny belittling him because Geography isn’t his strong suit.
You will get billed one way or the other. The thing is the damage done to those institutions has taken centuries, and it has had support beyond the Left. It isn’t just the appearance of welfare that is the problem. Those institutions were diminished in their capacity by direct state interference often under the banner of freedom. People who have been habituated poorly cannot turn on a dime and act virtuously all of a sudden. Circumstances may assist them in deciding that the path they are own is hopeless and they need to turn in a better direction, but unless there are institutions available to assist them in that they are largely done for.
Whereas you seem to think his ignorance should get a pass because of his colour.
Do you hold such low expectations of all people of colour, Ed?
I think there is no intention whatsoever of reining in debt , expenditure and obscene handouts of taxpayer money. The PLAN is to kick the can until something breaks. And when it does, to pocket or benefit as much as humanly possible from the resulting crisis . The suffering and deprivation that would accompany such an event is merely an opportunity to these vultures we have in power- of any party.
I’m glad someone is watching. And I can only assume it’s being done as a nifty demonstration.
Most satisfying.
Do you hold such low expectations of all people of colour, Ed?
Don’t belittle the bloke and then pretend you didn’t realise he is Black, as SpongeBob is fond of doing.
By the way, what are your expectations of People of Color, Roger?
Exalted, realistic, or …?
Budgetary restraint, not to mention the elusive surplus, still has political currency in Australia; hence the pressure on Chalmers and Shorten to tackle the NDIS.
Why should they be any different to what I expect of white people?
To paraphrase MLK Jr., what matters is content of character, not colour of skin.
Window dressing. The fact is, nobody save a handful give AF about the debt when they are being beaten into becoming working poor by mortgage rates, taxes, energy costs, food prices, fuel prices etc. Even if Tits and Chalmers were approaching remotely successful you would go deaf from the screaming of the “victims”. No way on this earth a Labor Govt will legitimately tackle this money minting behemoth. They are just fighting over how the pie is sliced. There will be plenty of hand waving, look at me headlines and “authorized by The Australian Govt, Canberra” propaganda though. You can be sure of that.
We’ll see.
Doc Faustus:
Kind of what I’d thought would happen – lot’s of special meetings with threats of lawsuits being chucked around.
Buy up lots of antacids…
Nope, he ‘died after a short illness*’ ..’died suddenly’ = dropped dead mid stride.
*mind you, there is growing evidence that the vaxxines can ‘turbo charge’ cancers – a surgeon friend of mine said he found 7 or 8 last year, when the norm would be one or 2.
Bern 10:41
I’m Baaaaack
Stylish Bern Stylish
Let me navigate you to other stylish outlets
Okanui – no need to wear anything else for coastal living not even a tee as you bath in the sea water and do it all over again the next day
Kurly Wurly Bar – the chiko roll bucket hat caused a sensation when I posed off along the main drag
Dick Ash – Ahhh resort wear – you can even wear it to the theatre or opera on a hot summers day/enening
who was it said ‘for some people, the best they can hope for in life is to be an example to others?’
Roger 1:40
When you write my vocabulary ( I spelt it all out as you deserve this respect) expands, I tried look up on Touquavillian or whatever it was and it came up blank – what does it mean – aka please explain
BREAKING: The Magic Millions race meeting at the Gold Coast has been aband0ned after only two races were run because of heavy rain that was not forecast by the Bureau of Mythology.
Races worth more than $A10 million in prizemoney — one of the richest race meetings in Australia — now have to be rescheduled because of the incompetence of the government agency we pay $300 million+ a year to forecast the weather while it gives us hysterical “models” of what the climate will be doing in 50 years’ time.
You couldn’t make this up.
https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/gs-research/2023-commodity-outlook-an-underinvested-supercycle/report.pdf
If the Giant Squid is correct in forecasting a commodity SC over the coming decade, then it really is difficult to foresee favorable interest rates.
Louis,
this should help;
Alexis de Tocqueville.
I do the same thing with plumbers and electricians now. I have been trying to get a generator changeover switch installed in Western Vic for 6 months (!) now.
So far, of the 7 or 8 electricians I have contacted, 4 have agreed to do the job, 2 have turned up for a look, and none have actually started. All are too busy wiring up the cookie cutter houses being stamped out by the acre in Ballarat I suspect.
The hamsters are going slow again Dover. About 1.5 hrs slow.
Hank Johnson is a Person of Color, a descendant of Slaves, and a victim of Segregation.
Yet you think it’s funny belittling him because Geography isn’t his strong suit.
Hank is a moron. His colour is irrelevant. The only descriptors of people should be competence, utility, patriotism and beauty.
No you couldn’t. But they do.
Hank is a moron. His colour is irrelevant. The only descriptors of people should be competence, utility, patriotism and beauty.
That’s for the rest of us, but I suggest a small edit for you.
Hank is a moron. His colour is irrelevant. The only descriptors of people should be competence, utility, patriotism, beauty and if they’re dickless.
Don’t be crude head prefect; or redundant: dicklessness is covered by utility.
Blog suddenly updated. As you were.
Kind of what I’d thought would happen – lot’s of special meetings with threats of lawsuits being chucked around.
Bob that’s exactly what will happen. 600K will have a core of owners saying no way who will likely lawyer up/stall in QCAT, some owners will be ambivalent and other owners will be for it. Whether the vote/meeting gets a quorum is another complicating factor.
LOL, what a mess…
I’ve added the site to Cloudflare hoping that would improve things and so far, on my end, it has. Hoping this is the case for everyone.
That’s impossible. How can one be useful if he’s dickless?
Just a small hint which might help.
Country tradies tend to talk among themselves. If they think you are playing one against the other, it is likely no-one will show.
I reckon give one the job as a definite and lock him in. If he doesn’t show then move to the next one but cancel the first one.
Seems to be refreshing quicker in the last few minutes.
Look at Dover, the technical marvel. Pretty soon he’ll be living in SF voting Demon working for big tech.
The following post on Jo Nova’s blog links to report that top Swedish doctors have “pulled the plug” on the safety of the mRNA vaccines:
Top Swedish Doctors Warn: Covid Shots Are ‘Obviously Dangerous’
A group of Sweden’s leading doctors has issued a warning to the public that Covid shots are “obviously dangerous” and called on governments worldwide to order an “immediate halt” on vaccinations.
Five of Sweden’s most senior doctors published a public statement in collaboration with Dr. Johan Eddebo, a researcher in digitalization and human rights.
The top medical experts are raising the alarm about the vaccines and urge that “thorough investigations” must be carried out to identify the true incidence and severity of adverse effects.
The doctors are members of the renowned bio-medico-legal network of Läkaruppropet.
They have called a conference in conjunction with the Swedish Doctors’ Appeal network that will be held on January 21-22 in Stockholm.
Its main focus will be on the consequences of the global politics surrounding COVID-19 and the effects of the vaccines.
The following is the full statement issued by the group:
The true character and scope of the harm caused by the unprecedented mass vaccinations for COVID-19 is just now beginning to become clear. Leading scientific journals have finally begun publishing data corroborating what the underground research community has observed over the last two years, especially in relation to complex problems of immune suppression.
Truly concerning numbers pertaining to both births and mortality are also emerging.
At this moment in time, a new, allegedly super-infectious Omicron variant is all over the headlines. A sub-variant of XXB, this strain is said to possess immune escape capabilities of precisely the type that some independent researchers predicted would follow on the heels of the mass vaccinations’ narrow antigenic fixation.
https://slaynews.com/news/top-swedish-doctors-warn-covid-shots-obviously-dangerous/
History as bollocks: all the things Hazza says happened in Spare Us – which actually didn’t happen.
Rosie 1.41
Now that’s the team I’d love to play for.
Like the championship winning team of Lazio, formers players died skydiving, racing cars, motor bikes and I think one in an attempted bank hold up.
Who wee.
Id be in favour of the total elimination of government ‘welfare’ and a return to the old days of ‘private charity’.
Most folk think CENTRELINK when it comes to gummint welfare but even CL is hard pressed to equal NSW when it comes to ensuring there is NO incentive to work! .. NSW social housing shows the way .. regardless of the type of dwelling (house, flat, no. bedrooms ect) all properties are assessed on the income of the name on the “lease” usually 25/28% of income .. other occupants are assessed but on a much reduced percentage .. On “benefit” your income is what you, actually, receive in hand but if your working they take your before-tax earnings as the assessment …… In other words if you work you pay more so there is NO incentive to work .. not declaring the correct number of occupants to avoid extra rent is a regular occurrence .. punishment is, virtually, non existent as HC investigations/check-ups depend on nationality not honesty, as long as your not “white” your , fairly, safe! .. eg .. a bloke up the street (SE Asian) was whingeing to me about being caught for the 3rd time fiddling the rent during the latest of the, periodic, “amnesty” the Dept run .. (offering you immunity from eviction if you dob yourself in, save them doing the hard yards !) .. his compaint wasn’t worrying about eviction but the fact that they are garnishing his benefit ($10 fortnight) to recover the arrears and they never mentioned in the handout letter ..!
.. every now & then they come out with some statement or other to mollify the vote-herd about fixed term leases and living conditions .. I’ve never, ever come across someone in NSW Housing that has a fixed term lease or been told they earn too much to stay ..
I live in the HC estate which was home to the two families of founding members of the notorious Assyrian Kings dope’crime syndicate .. both families moved on after they earned enuf to buy better McMansions .. 3 family members were gaoled over separate murders and drug related offences during this time .. NSW Housing never ever investigated either family over income or drugs ……..
Between 1992 and 2004 the largest importer of drugs into NSW (and possibly Oz) lived 2 doors from me .. never on the ‘rent’ book, happily paid plod & Bonnyrigg Housing folk off-the-books hand-outs to remain anonymous .. plod was on $300 a week, Housing $100 (not important but keep ’em quiet money .. LOL!) and Assyrian Kings for protection .. he retired to the Carribean (Coconut Islands) in 2004 never ever had any plod/gummint trouble just got old and rich enuf to call it a day .. I could name him but you would never have heard of him .. he knew how to stay out of the limelight .. money, lotza money in the right pockets …….
Cardinal George Pell, a courageous spirit who could not be cancelled
In the forecourt of St Patrick’s Cathedral is an imposing three-meter high bronze statue of Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years, unruffled despite a stiff breeze blowing his cassock. He died in 1963 at the age of 99, an austere, outspoken, pious, orthodox, politically-engaged leader of his flock.
It was Pell who commissioned the statue, not long after he had been installed as Mannix’s successor. As a young man Pell saw the aged archbishop, who had steered his archdiocese through two world wars and the Communist threat, “as one of my heroes”.
In some ways the two men were strikingly similar.
But even more striking was the contrast. Mannix died surrounded by some of the country’s leading political figures; he was praised by Prime Minister Robert Menzies (a Mason) and by Éamon de Valera, the President of Ireland. Cardinal Pell will not be farewelled in a haze of bland platitudes. As he said in his homily at the state funeral of B.A. Santamaria, a singularly important figure in Australia and Australian Catholicism: “We are told that the sure mark of the false prophet is that all people speak well of him. In death, as in life, Bob Santamaria has triumphantly escaped such a fate”.
Cardinal George Pell is to be farewelled today in a mass at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican at 11.30am local time, which is 9.30pm AEDT.
The high priests have consulted the oracle and overseen a few sacrifices. They assure use that the eleckystuff will be just fine.
Do not listen to the doomsayers, they are just engineers who have been removed from the industry many years ago.
All is well. The gods have spoken. Do not listen to the heretics.
Monsoon turning into a bit less than the beat up we have got, unless you are in the Whitsunday region. Had steady rain but only 2″ overnight and another 2″ today that is now easing off. Mackay has had in some areas 8″.
Bruce Hwy/Gregory Developmental rd cut south and Flinders Hwy cut west now. Supermarket shelves will empty. Generator checked this morning in case, Ergon isn’t exactly reliable in one of these events.
Now to get hot & sticky in next few days after. Yuk…
Roger. 2 :01
NDIS is the biggest game in town at the moment.
Hook into that as an allied health pro and its $197/hr charge out rate.
You get paid immediately.
The people that do this say it’s easy work.
Meanwhile in the hard economy people are falling behind and a lot of small business owners with real skill are packing up due to the labor shortage – some say they will ride solo.
Ed Casesays:
January 14, 2023 at 1:44 pm
SpongeBob:
Hank Johnson is a Person of Color, a descendant of Slaves, and a victim of Segregation.
Yet you think it’s funny belittling him because Geography isn’t his strong suit.
No, Dick Head, I was belittling him because he is a Dick Head with no common sense, like you. His race and ancestry have nothing to do with that. (If you think that they do, then you are even more of a Dick Head than I thought already.)
Or building compuders in his garage even.
Yep been doing it in series – book one, give him until a couple of weeks after the expected date (including one or more reconfirmations) then booking another one when they are no shows.
I really think the problem is they are would prefer to do new work in the burgeoning housing estates, rather than fix problems. My old sparkie used to use my car hoist in return for work .. now *that* was a system that worked.
Ed Casesays:
January 14, 2023 at 1:59 pm
Do you hold such low expectations of all people of colour, Ed?
Don’t belittle the bloke and then pretend you didn’t realise he is Black, as SpongeBob is fond of doing.
Dick Head, you have a vivid imagination, but no actual intelligence to go with it. Are you trying, in a pathetic, roundabout way, to claim to be black?
Makka 2.08
To me you have nailed it – everything that is important that underpinned our decent and peaceful society had been bastardised with the result of everything that is vital to sustain life has become expensive.
Medicare, free education started the rot. People trash medicine and gps.
State schools, check out the parents demands on teachers and their child is a great human.
NDIS plus wind and solar subsidisation has taken everything to the next level, result higher takes and if you are out of the ndis loop of health and education your wages are going backwards but your skill level is so much higher.
Solar and wind we see what has happened to energy prices, reliability and Sri Lanka. Not to mention parts of Europe.
Something is wrong when doctors from other fields (rescue/trauma) and even civilians could see this a year or 2 back, yet ‘top doctors’ are only now, gradually noticing….
I’m afraid not a parody. The eyes look genuinely crazy.
Boambee Johnsays:
January 14, 2023 at 3:33 pm
… [SpongeBob babbles on]…
I seem to be over the target, SpongeBob.
You wouldn’t be an AntiSemite too, by any chance?
Is that same people who are the “Top Men” working on the electricity grid?
When we “had the farm:, my old sparkie used to do work in exchange for a trailer load of firewood..
Back from bowls in which we were victorious against a top 4 rival, and favourite for the pennant.
I will finish Campbell’s piece:
5. WHAT’S TO STOP COURTS EXPANDING ITS POWERS? IS THAT LIKELY?
Expect this question to be the biggest source of argument in the lead-up to the vote.
In December, former High Court judge Ian Callinan warned he could “foresee a decade or more of constitutional and administrative law litigation arising out of a Voice, whether constitutionally entrenched or not.”
Prof Craven concedes this risk has been exacerbated by the wording of the draft constitutional amendment, which says the Voice “may make representations to parliament and the executive government,” on behalf of Indigenous people.
“The second paragraph is problematic because it talks about providing advice on government action outside parliament,” he saya.
“There’s much more of a danger of judicial intervention over that than matters of law.”
Porgia2.43
Thank you – sounds like a social worker, muso , pop artist lay about like the labor party/ greens.
Adolph does dum ..!
https://ibb.co/n69Yjrq
6. WILL THE VOICE MEAN GOVERNMENT HAS TO CONSULT ABOUT EVERYTHING, NOT JUST INDIGENOUS ISSUES?
On the face of it, one could argue the proposed amendment would empower the Voice to weigh in on anything it likes.
According to Langton and Calma, parliament and government would be obliged to ask Voice for advice on a defined and limited number of proposed laws and policies that “overwhelmingly” affect Indigenous people.
There would also be an expectation to consult the Voice on a wider group of policies and laws that “significantly” affect them.
How that will be defined is unclear. Everyone seems to agree that a law that dealt with Indigenous people exclusively would be up for consultation.
Mr Button expects that health and education policies, while universal, would be up for consultation, as might tax if it had an impact on mining royalties which intersected with native title rights.
Mr Mayo added that something like the law around superannuation might also be a matter for the Voice, given Indigenous Australians have a life expectancy ten years shorter than the average, “but to say it’s going to have a say about defence is just ridiculous”.
Prof Craven’s view is simply that “if it has an exceptional impact on Indigenous people, the Voice would make representations.”
7. WHAT HAPPENS IF THE GOVERNMENT IGNORES THE VOICE’S ADVICE?
In theory, nothing.
But, as Mr Callinan warned recently: “It is one thing to say the Voice can make representations only, but in the real world of public affairs, as the PM candidly acknowledged, it would be a brave parliament that failed to give effect to representations of the Voice”.
For supporters like Mr Mayo, this is not a problem. It’s actually one of the reasons to support it: “Australians might expect governments to listen.”
8. WHAT IS THE LIBERAL PARTY AND PETER DUTTON’S POSITION?
Officially, they still have an open mind, as demonstrated by the questions Mr Dutton posed the PM last weekend.
But it is difficult to find an MP who thinks the Liberals’ party room is going to support it.
The real question is: how hard it is going to go against it?
Expect Liberals to reach a position as early as next month.
Cohenite 2.44
No 4 requirement – I can’t wait to look in the mirror as I get better looking each day –
It’s hard to be humble
With that I’m off to the gym
Ed Casesays:
January 14, 2023 at 3:38 pm
Boambee Johnsays:
January 14, 2023 at 3:33 pm
… [SpongeBob babbles on]…
I seem to be over the target, SpongeBob.
You wouldn’t be an AntiSemite too, by any chance?
Keep babbling Dick, while you are doing so, you are not spreading your usual trash across the thread.
9. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF IT PASSING?
Pollster John Scales, who has conducted focus groups, thinks it’s now in serious trouble.
“I think it’s slim,” he says.
To win, the Yes campaign will need a majority of voters in a majority of states, and “at the moment they don’t have that, or they’re falling across the line at best, so it only takes a little bit of unravelling and it’s lost”.
On that basis, he says the Yes case has work to do.
“There’s a block of voters who could be persuaded to vote for this, but with some level of detail on how it’s going to work,” he says.
Prof Craven, who has experience in losing referendums — having been deeply involved in the failed republican push in 1999 — agrees.
“At the moment (the chances are) diminishing,” he says.
“The Yes vote is soft and diminishing. If it is going to pass then the government needs to provide a clear model.”
Mr Mayo and Mr Button are more optimistic. “I think we can win it anyway,” Mr Mayo says, if it goes ahead without Liberal Party support.
“Even in the time of (Malcolm) Turnbull when they were calling it a ‘third chamber’, polls still showed people supported it … that’s been consistent for around three years now.”
Mr Button is “still positive” about getting a Yes vote.
“We’ve got some work to do educating the public in plain language in what it means,” he says. “The thing for me is taking it away from politicians, and making it about First Nations people having a conversation with the Australian people.”
You cannot possibly know if Coetzee’s cancer was ‘turbo charged’, whatever that is supposed to mean.
Getting diagnosed one week and dying the next tells us nothing about when the cancer started.
He may have had it for years.
You don’t even know if he was vaccinated.
Just more ignorant, baseless, scaremongering.
Someone who used to be on the blog roll at Sincs who’s gone full red shoe conspiracy theorist opining on the death of Lisa Marie Presley has declared all ‘celebrity deaths’ non vaxx related because they all got the placebo, why he thinks that and why their deaths are significant, I don’t know, as I rarely bother to read his loonie tune posts.
Are ‘celebrities’ dying at an unprecedented rate, I doubt it.
Ok here’s my opening position: We can chat when you get your hand out of my pocket and start earning for yourself. Happy to chat with you then.
What would ‘educating the public’ look like? All ears Mr Mayo but I simply couldn’t give a fornication. We’ve got enough voices if you choose to listen to them. Jacinta Price being the prime example.
‘Top Swedish doctors’
What happened to ‘front line doctors’?
https://twitter.com/AFLDSorg
As soon as Linda Burney made the statement that, once the Voice is entrenched in the Constitution, “they won’t be able to get rid of it, they way they did ATSIC”, that sunk the Voice, once and for all, IMHO.
Budgetary restraint, not to mention the elusive surplus, still has political currency in Australia; hence the pressure on Chalmers and Shorten to tackle the NDIS.
The ‘NDIS’ needs to be renamed as it is not an Insurance Scheme. An Insurance Scheme is funded. The current ‘NDIS’ is scheme alright. it’s Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Long live the long suffering Australian Taxpayer.
Graceless, self regarding Pell piece by Milligan in The Saturday Paper if anybody is suffering low blood pressure…..
No no this is not apartheid.
..
Here ya go. You can do the maths. I can’t be arsed. Find the average age of celebrity deaths as noted by abc news the last four years.
2019, 85 deaths noted:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/notable-people-lost-2019-60136298/image-don-imus-79-67950359
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2020, 100 deaths noted:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/notable-people-died-2020-68027779/image-dawn-wells-82-74979246
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2021, 102 deaths noted:
https://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/notable-people-died-2021-75040337/image-betty-white-99-82022357
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2022, 98 deaths noted:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/photos-famous-people-died-2022-82177625/image-pope-benedict-xvi-95-96015841
Just more ignorant, baseless, scaremongering.
I hope you’re up to date on your monthly Covid vax.
Jacinta Price being the prime example.
Jacinta satisfies all 4 of my criteria: competence, utility, patriotism and beauty. I could look at her all day except when I’m looking at myself or a cute owl.
Er, yes I can: In the current context, a ‘turbo cancer’ is defined as one which is well advanced at diagnosis and progresses rapidly thereafter. My surgeon friend saw about 7 of these last year, instead of the usual 1 or 2.
Am I allowed to be ‘right for the wrong reasons’?, or should we only listen to government experts?
Most irritating thing Arky is that all the good music is dying. Latest is Bachmann from Bachmann Turner Overdrive. Went out aged 69, which isn’t bad for a rocker.
Robbie Bachman, drummer and co-founder of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, dead at 69 (13 Jan)
Soon all we’ll be left with is a rapidly diminishing number of aspiring rappers.
I think you made an error, thats NOT an owl – please repost…. as often as you like
Has hazza filth got bpd like mumszy?
He has something, milton. Apart from the sequoia on his shoulder.
I wonder who ghosted Spare us? And another thing- how do the most incompetent twerps like Hazza and Wilke get commissions in the armed services? NCOs seem to do the real work sometimes and get hung out to dry.
We should be so lucky.
Fairly interesting week as far as vaccine goes.
CNN had a major article about vaccine trial information being withheld from the vaccine advisory committee. That was the meeting where two actually voted no as not enough information. The trial indicated higher rate of infection with those who were on 4th jab compared to those not. However the actual number only in hundreds which is considered low for such a trial. 6 of the committee would have liked to have had the full information. Even when they are provided info it can often be many pages but not much time to fully examine.
Then there was cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra who actually got 5 minutes on the BBC which could be said will encourage some Vax hesitancy. Malhotra now campaigning to have the Vax stopped after originally promoting it on UK TV.
In Oz CH 9 ran a Facebook post about heart problems and got so many Vax related posts they had to stop the discussion. This coincided with Ch 9 finally dropping their own staff mandates after conducting a staff poll. I am guessing this also applies to 2GB. Might explain why their Vax coverage has been so poor as clearly somebody at the top very keen on them.
Club Grubbery had nurses on four different episodes. Interesting to note that two said Qld Health actually told staff in writing early on to only get their information from Qld Health. As one nurse said did not make sense as UK and USA etc were dealing with Covid and vaccine issues before Oz.
Dead celebrities by age group.
2019:
Under 40……6
40s………..……2
50s………………5
60s……..……….8
70s………………16
80+…………….48
Total 85
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2020:
Under 40….….5, (-19%)
40s……………….3, (+50%)
50s……………….3, (-40%)
60s……………….12, (+50%)
70s…………..…..20, (+25%)
80+……………….49, (+2%)
Total 98
Last group should be 2022
Sample size: one stupid news outlet.
Just finished watching “The Name of the Rose” miniseries. A 2019 Italo-Bavarian co-production based on the famous novel by Umberto Eco, which had already spawned a haunting movie in 1986.
Downloaded this from SBS on-Demand.. Not all their series are woke-homo-feminazi flotsam perfumed by heavy doses of porcine excrement.
Outstanding production, with great performances by the whole cast of mostly Italian and German unknowns, with unforgettable performances by John Turturro as the Franciscan William of Baskerville, Damian Hardung (who?) as the novice Benedictine Adso de Melk, Rupert Everett as the Dominican inquisitor Bernardo Gui and Stefano Fresi as Salvatore, a deformed sevant.
Not always true to the Eco story, but overall more satisfying than the 1986 movie, which starred Sean Connery as the Franciscan sleuth based on William of Occam.
The script was first-class, with many memorable quotes, mostly Biblical or Greek-philosophical. My favourite, as uttered by William of Baskerville:
“The greatest worth of a man is not his virtue, but the struggle to transform into virtue the malice within him.”
A true masterpiece, highly recommended.
I saw this – apparently a passage that prefaces Harry’s ode to himself:
His memories are as valid as ‘so-called’ objective facts. He has the Po-Mo scorn for facts, particularly when they fail to support his narrative.
Kind of renders the whole book less than credible.
A multi national survey on vax with a small sample size:
“Had two vax shot, not taking any more, f’ck them!”
♬♬
Cause EeeVeeeeeeee
you’ve gotta be the one to
charge meeeeee.
though after allllllll
I bought a Power-walllllll.
“The only descriptors of people should be competence, utility, patriotism and beauty.”
You forgot the most important….character. The colour of someone’s skin is irrelevant.
Thanks Gilas. Will try to download and watch. I love the story, have it on the bookshelf.
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Arming Ukraine ‘Just Common Decency,’ Upholding ‘International Law’Neo – cons just have to neo-com I suppose. What an evil menace these people are
The colour of someone’s skin is irrelevant.
Stop! You’re upsetting munty!
One for the woodchipper.
“Not always true to the Eco story, but overall more satisfying than the 1986 movie, which starred Sean Connery as the Franciscan sleuth based on William of Occam.”
I will watch…although I did like the 1986 movie.
Was forecast to be 41 here today. Got to 38.
Might not seem a big deal but the local bowls was scuttled, with a rule saying if it’s forecast for 40 plus, you don’t play. So it’s cost sides who are pushing to play finals if they were to come up against a weaker side today. Well done BOM
Condoleezza Rice: U.S. Arming Ukraine ‘Just Common Decency,’ Upholding ‘International Law’
Mate of mine had a few meetings with Condi when Afghanistan was a thing. Smart, but she f’cking loved war.
https://twitter.com/patrickbetdavid/status/1613303486237605894?s=42&t=EvXH6duSrBA2FhjWir6I-g
And a very, very young Christian Slater. Nearly forty years ago. Yikes!
The safe mantra is cracking.
Sars-Cov-2 sequence published 12 January 2020.
Biontech starts “vaccine” testing 14 January.
But usual safeguards are omitted.
Biontech dodged safety testing on the Comirnaty vaccine.
Biontech R&D Study Report No. R-20-0072
So a viral sequence is published 12 January 2020, for an emerging pathogen of unknown virulence and an emerging vaccine company with no previous commercial products starts testing a new candidate vaccine within 48 hours. This was mid January 2020, before the mass hysteria started in Lombardy and the 2 weeks to flatten the curve nonsense.
Furthermore, animal testing is run parallel to human trials to save time, even though at this point, there is no knowledge that covid-19 is going to be a huge problem.
All those who believe this need to keep on boostering and remain in your bubble.
This year will be very interesting as the data does not lie, no matter how hard you try to hide it.
When Two Prophets Built An Alliance Between Blacks And Jews
Over at instapundit someone said this is not possible since the culture (black) has irreversibly changed.
“Graceless, self regarding Pell piece by Milligan in The Saturday Paper if anybody is suffering low blood pressure…..”
Thanks but I’ll give it a miss.
Gerard Henderson calls it “The Boring Paper”. A publication dependent on the millions of its owner, property developer, Morris Schwartz.
Arkysays:
January 14, 2023 at 4:36 pm
Last group should be 2022
Who said they were Celebrities? Are they self appointed? Head Case and MontyPox Virus certainly won’t make it.
People magazine lists 103 dead celebrities on 2018, 146 in 2019, 210 in 2020, 99 in 2021 and 108 in 2022.
I get the feeling that these sites don’t have a scientific definition for the category “celebrity”.
calli says:
January 14, 2023 at 4:54 pm
The book was heavy going, in a trudging-through-molasses kind of way, with slabs of un-translated, fully impenetrable Latin and a dense writing style.
But the story is utterly compelling, with many true historical events.
The miniseries opened my eyes to the intrinsic differences between the principal Medieval Monastic Orders and the ideological struggles between the divided Roman Church and the Holy Roman Empire.
Struggles that eventually led to the Lutheran Reformation.
Anecdote, not data:
My mother died.
She fell sick, when just two weeks earlier she was chain-sawing her own firewood (and a couple of weeks earlier she had her second vax). She and partner had held off the vax for more than a year, living in relative isolation on a farm. She went to the doctor who did some blood tests then told her there was nothing wrong with her, she was just old.
This insulted her intelligence and she refused to go back.
Her daughters by turns travelled home to nurse her, as she wasn’t getting better (or worse). After three months she was taken to Emergency, after worsening. A scan revealed she had advanced lung cancer. She died five days later.
Did the vax turbo-charge her cancer? The evidence of this personal anecdote is not better than coincidence – but we have had a LOT of funerals in the last 12 months.
Cardinal George Pell Faced Down a Hostile World
I never found it so, Gilas. I treated it as a medieval murder mystery with extra depth and details, much like P.C. Dougherty or Ellis Peters.
And…I had the pleasure of visiting Melk a few years ago with its library of twelve rooms. Couldn’t help but think of William and Adso. 😀
I fear we may never be able to garner significant data to determine vaccine safety from the gossip pages.
EeeVee
EeeVee
EeeVee let your users down
EeeVee
EeeVee
EeeVee let your owner down!
Whooooaah EeeVee
EeeVee
So much in love with you!
Duk, you’re kind of an expert too, no? Not tied to the government, but also and expert and if the past couple of years have taught us anything, it’s don’t listen to experts.
Half joshing.
A couple of weeks ago I had a discussion with my GP. He explained to me that Australia has been at the forefront of preventative medicine in terms of world ranking. Compared to us, he reckons, the US is terrible at it.
Could the push for the vax have been embedded in the medical culture here and one major reason the medical profession pushed so hard?
I strongly doubt the vax caused lung cancer.
I vaguely recall the cast and some were like out medieval central casting. Very weird looking people.
Why not, According to someone here some time ago, he said the vax causes serious bouts anal itching. If it dos that , then lung cancer is only a couple of steps away.
“I strongly doubt the vax caused lung cancer.”
As do I.
Cassie of Sydney says:
January 14, 2023 at 4:59 pm
I will watch…although I did like the 1986 movie.
The movie was excellent, especially in the more faithful depiction of the maze above the scriptorium.
The miniseries was scripted on another level though, and with better direction.
These people are good entertainment. I got a call from Jarvis of the Telstra Technical Department, so I said sorry I wasn’t with Telstra and hung up.
Thirty seconds later I get a call from Jarvis of the Optus Technical Department. I said to him “you were with Telstra a minute ago”. Says he: “…I’m with the NBN Technical Department and it is reported that…” I said “Ok I know you have a job to do but really” and hung up. I was nice to get one with a sense of dry humour.
Old libraries, forbidden books, murder mayhem and madness.
Mazes, secret passages, spirals, false walls and windows, lust and love, evil lurking just around the corner…booo!
Reason, logic, order…Eco questions it all. I don’t agree with his conclusion. I don’t have to. It’s a marvellous read all the same.
You’re right JC, they advertised for ugly people as cast for Name of the Rose.
I read the Prague Cemetery by Eco. I think he got lost. Foucault’s Pendulum was ok.
I remember really liking the movie but I’ll have to rewatch it. I watched the first 2 episodes of the series and then got distracted by Yellowstone and 1923. I might get back to it. The imdb commentary, for what it is worth, is not flattering:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7572868/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
I read eco’s name of the rose many years ago. I recall a reasonable detective story spoiled by some half-baked philosophical meanderings.
I strongly doubt the vax caused lung cancer.
The comment was on turbo charging rather than causation.
DoverBeach:
That’s great, DB.
What is cloudflare and what does it do when it’s at home?
I’m in Australia at the moment and i got a call on the mobile about some add on to my switchboard so i can monitor my electricity use.
All well and good but the caller wouldn’t listen when i said i don’t live in Aust, so Flinders Pub will be getting a switchboard addition at 3:30pm on Monday.
I’m Just curious how they got my phone number, it’s a +81 number, very odd.
I popped into Netflix today (to double check when Cunk On Earth was going to be on) and saw, as usual, a trailer one of their shows, in this case for Vikings Valhalla.
One of the first Vikings you see is Black.
Netflix and Amazon are so obvious in their zeal to push identity politics into their films I almost instinctively dismissed it as another example.
Funny thing is that it is not incredible that a black guy make it to Viking lands. They were profound travellers with trading posts along waterways all through Europe and even to the Middle East. A mercenary on the spoor of gold could easily have journeyed into their catchment.
I wonder how many people see this Black Viking and never reflected on what a strange occurrence it would have been because they have been programmed to think places like Scandinavia were always multicultural?
Brutal, DrBeau. But…quite so.
Everyone tries to make sense of their world. Even Prince Harry. 😀
Speaking of Netflix.
If you come across a show Woman of the Dead, don’t watch if you’re expecting a good story.
Great scenery though.
Filmed in Austrian alpine country.
Bloody Auto-corrupt.
They were
profoundprodigious travellersDoes Netflix have anything worthwhile? I’m thinking of cancelling my subs.
From the Daily Mail:
Leftist governments brought these mongrels in to do one thing – terrorise their own civil populations.
Better stuff on Youtube atmLike this Michael Caine & Elizabeth Taylor movie. Good for Saturday Night
I strongly doubt the vax caused lung cancer.
You’re a Doctor now?
The guy was diagnosed on tuesday, heavyweight boxer, dead a week later.
What’s the median between diagnosis and death for Lung Cancer patients?
5-10 years?
He’d taken a few hits to the head over his career,
so, course he was Vaxxed Up.
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Michael Smith is quite brutal. “It Took Louise Milligan 16 Minutes to Start Crapping on George Pell’s Grave.”
Gilas, I haven’t succeeded in finding Eco on SBS on demand.
May have been withdrawn unfortunately