Not just pode…. FOIST!!!

Not first

Oh, it’s over. Not too long to wait, then. 🙂

From boss of Rebel News as quoted in Daily Mail. He and AVI doing great work in Davos.

“Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, has never had an unscripted media interview in his life.

Until today.

We asked him 29 questions.

And he could answer none of them”.

Wow, The Australian has an Inside Story on vaccine injury. Quite a bit of detail.

Comments open.

Lizzie love the travelogues I don’t like the cold so am enjoying the details from the warmer climes here on the days that are warm ???

Honouring forensic scientist Kirsty Wright who bravely took a stand
By JAMIE WALKER
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
@JamieWalkerOz
10:00PM JANUARY 20, 2023

When they came for Kirsty Wright, they came with teeth bared. The quietly spoken forensic scientist was called all manner of things she had never for a moment imagined herself to be: a turncoat, a tattletale, naive, dangerous.

But she didn’t flinch from doing the right thing then, and she doesn’t resile from it now that the dust has settled on the greatest scandal to engulf Australian ­forensic science and her central role in exposing it through this masthead.

Dr Wright risked her career, her reputation and financial ­security to work hand-in-glove with a team led by The Australian’s Hedley Thomas to uncover glaring failures at the Queensland government forensics laboratory that potentially allowed killers and rapists to escape justice.

Speaking from her Gold Coast home, the unassuming 46-year-old said: “I see this as recognition of the importance of speaking out and doing the right thing. You don’t have to be someone famous or someone special to do the right thing. I was just a normal person who found myself in a situation, with the skills I have, that I had an opportunity to really make some change and really help people.”

What began as an investigation by Thomas into the unsolved 2013 murder of north Queensland woman Shandee Blackburn lifted the lid on industrial-scale “scientific vandalism” that sabotaged DNA evidence for years and paved the way for a royal ­

commission-style inquiry to vindicate his work with Dr Wright.

In a scathing report last month, former Queensland Court of ­Appeal president Walter Sofronoff KC found victims of crime and the police were betrayed by “grave maladministration involving dishonesty” at the state forensics laboratory. Crime scene samples rich in DNA had been written off as having no evidentiary value, the retired judge said. He recommended the review of thousands of major crime cases reaching back more than a decade. Scientist in charge Cathie Allen had repeatedly lied and the cover-up was “about as big as it gets”.

Yet without Dr Wright, none of this would have come to light, editor-in-chief Michelle Gunn said in announcing our Australian of the Year. Worse still, violent criminals guilty of horrific offences could have continued to walk free.

“Dr Wright was a standout for this year’s award, favoured by both our readers and our senior editorial team,” Gunn said. “This is because she embodies values we all aspire to: honesty, integrity, and a determination to change things for the better.”

Dr Wright said the DNA ­debacle was the worst to rock Australia’s tight-knit forensic science community, surpassing the wrongful conviction of Lindy Chamberlain in 1982 for the murder at Uluru of her baby daughter, Azaria, on the basis of flawed scientific evidence.

As with the Chamberlain case, the abuses of process at the Queensland forensic lab should herald a shake-up in forensic ­testing centres nationwide, Dr Wright said.

The response from most of her peers and all the professional bodies? “Complete silence, deafening silence,” she said.

Not a peep from the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA), which accredits forensics labs, nor an inquiring email or text from the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society. Nothing from the National Institute of Forensic Science, either.

“They’re the three main forensic groups in Australia and not one of them has contacted me to ask either for clarification or more detail,” Dr Wright said. “What I was saying wasn’t just affecting Queensland; it was highlighting that there’s a critical gap in our national forensic science quality framework.

“The Queensland forensics lab was NATA-accredited. And if one lab is behaving like that, then it means other labs could also be behaving like that. So it’s extremely disappointing that there has been this radio silence.

She shouldn’t be surprised, though, given the obstacles she faced after being approached by Thomas in 2021 for help to ­research his Walkley-award winning podcast, Shandee’s Story.

The Australian’s national chief correspondent was trying to make sense of why blood and other ­samples collected at the murder scene in Mackay returned findings of “no DNA detected” when tested. How could that be when they had to be teeming with genetic markers?

Dr Wright was immediately intrigued. She had worked at the Brisbane laboratory for seven years until 2007, when a “bullying culture” imported with a change of management caused her to leave. But she respected many of the people who were still there, and they deserved the benefit of the doubt.

“I didn’t want to raise alarm bells, at least externally to begin with, because I knew that I really needed to check this out,” she said. “If I was wrong, that would be incredibly damaging to the Blackburns, to other victims of crime, and to the lab as well.”

A few nights later, with the rugby league telecast playing in the background at home, she was reading through a batch of documents and transcripts Thomas had put on a thumb drive when it clicked: the DNA profiling had to be off.

In this type of situation, it’s not unusual for someone like Dr Wright to take a step back in their dealings with an investigative journalist. Yes, I’ll assist. Just keep my name out of the story. In the trade, it’s called backgrounding.

By now, she was employed by the army as a senior forensic scientist, and that could have made things tricky for her. But from the outset she was determined to be on the record, come what may.

“If I was going to come out and make such serious claims and important claims, I wanted to own those claims,” she said.

“I think they’re much more legitimate if they come from a known source.”

Dr Wright secured clearance from her bosses to work with Thomas in her own time, and it soon became apparent that the mishandling of the Shandee crime scene samples was no anomaly.

The lab had introduced higher thresholds for DNA testing, evidently to save time and money, and the police weren’t awake to the implications. Samples that fell below the new limit were immediately written off as containing no DNA when, in fact, some 10 per cent of them could have generated an actionable genetic profile.

Dr Wright didn’t voice her concerns only through Thomas’s top-rating podcast and the masthead’s follow-up coverage; she shouted them into every microphone put her way. The official ­response was dismally predictable: shoot the messenger.

Mr Sofronoff documented a series of meetings involving senior managers to devise a strategy to go after Dr Wright.

“Action items” included approaching the Queensland University of Technology, where she is a visiting fellow, to discredit her. Legal action was flagged over an alleged violation of the Queensland Health code of conduct, even though she hadn’t worked for the department for years; a lab ­manager contacted the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission “to dig up dirt”, she said.

“I knew that I was risking my career, my reputation, my financial security and maybe even my safety,” she recalled.

“So it was ­really like taking a leap into the unknown – I didn’t know where I was going to end up.

“But there was no way after finding out what Hedley and I found out that we were going to stay quiet.”

Applauding Dr Wright’s principled decision to put the “public good” first, Mr Sofronoff wrote in his December 13 report: “In my opinion, her willingness to take a public stand was an act of real bravery.”

The full consequences for Ms Allen – facing the sack after being branded a “malignancy” by the commissioner – and at least two other adversely mentioned managers are yet to play out.

Ms Allen strenuously denies wrongdoing.

A key recommendation from the inquiry was to put the troubled forensic lab under a stand-alone agency, independent of state ­control. Dr Wright considers that to be a good start. She has recharged and reset over Christmas, enjoying sorely needed time on the beach with her inky Alsatian, Ava, and catch-ups with family and friends.

She will be watching what ­happens next in Queensland to implement the Sofronoff findings and in other jurisdictions, too, ­because the DNA testing scandal must never, ever be repeated. The message to her critics and peers alike is she is not going away.

“I call bullshit,” Dr Wright said of the forensic science community’s so-far muted response.

“I’m hoping I don’t have ­another battle on my hands. But if that is genuinely their position – to basically ignore what happened and hope it doesn’t happen again – then I’m going to step into the batter’s box for another round.”

NATA, the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society and National Institute of Forensic Science were contacted for comment.

Now that’s courage – what a gal – didn’t break a nail, didn’t have to curtsey, wasn’t the darling of the media, tongue-bathed up the wazoo, but was literally, right up to her elbows in blood and guts and she took on the beasts in the bestiary and prevailed.

Of course the official Australian of the Year will probably be a maggot-farmer, which will be no surprise, given the current state of The Establishment

Tinta:

The Australian’s national chief correspondent was trying to make sense of why blood and other ­samples collected at the murder scene in Mackay returned findings of “no DNA detected” when tested. How could that be when they had to be teeming with genetic markers?

A great story – I’ll certainly be following whatever comes of it.

There are a range of events today around the world in support of Julian Assange.
Odd how John Lyons hasn’t had anything to follow up his Assange comments from almost a month ago.
Saying he was going to be released was quite the scoop.
If he wasn’t talking out his arse.

Cancel Culture Doesn’t Forgive. Meghan & Amazon Reject Clarkson’s Apology.

Peter Hitchens Calmly Dismantles Communism to a Communist

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

This updated lists function on twitter is replicating youtube playlists.
Pretty cool, especially as they plan to extend the length of videos that can loaded.
But I wonder why Jack didn’t roll this out a million years ago as soon as he saw youtube doing it.

Year13 co-founder Will Stubley said it was surprising, but what the data shows is that it’s young LGBTQIA+ females driving this difference – of the young females who said they don’t want to have children, two thirds of them identify as being LGBTQIA+.

entitled, delusional, narcissistic and above all profoundly stupid

Meanwhile, the idea that girls dream and plan their weddings from when they are little is well and truly over, with just 67 per cent of females saying they want to get married, compared with nearly three quarters of males.

When it comes to kids, the traditional gender stereotypes have reversed, with more males hoping to become a parent one day (67 per cent), compared with 61 per cent of females.

Yep, women don’t want to get married. Not until they are 40 year old single mothers. Then you have really insidious shit like “starter husbands”.

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Mr Drury said he lived in the property to start with but is now renting it out and is back home with his parents, doing extra shifts as a lifeguard on top of his full-time job, while he saves.

He said while he could just about afford his mortgage repayments, which have increased from $2300 to $3040 a month, he wants to set himself up first by saving and buying another property instead.

His grandparents could have a house, two cars, three kids and a bedroom free from anyone parents or in-laws on one income.

Until his income significantly improves, he’s doing this until he’s 49.

Roger Stone has maintained his long held view that John Dean was Deep Throat.
Roger Stone is a Spook.
Henry Kissinger is Deep Throat, so named because of his predilection for cocksucking.
And that Dean was the architect of the Watergate break-in because he’d been fed a story that evidence of his girlfriend being a hooker was there.
That’s misdirection too.
All the White House Plumbers, apart from G. Gordon Liddy, were CIA.
As Nixon said to one of his confidantes at the time, it all goes back to The Bay Of Pigs.

Two houses With the one he lives in being renovated.

Tradies who renovate their principal place of residence are gods amongst men.

It’s such a huge creator of equity.

Tax free equity creation.

Uurghhhhhh….

h/t Homer Simpson

Morn all. Sitting on QF753 atm gassing my way to Brisbane. Pity looks like a beautiful day out the window. Next leg is on a DHC8, more room but less mod cons like wifi.

I see during the week the chickens are starting to come home to roost for Albo’s gas & coal policies. He has reacted accordingly by setting the regulators on them. LOL ACCC’s track record hasn’t been too good so we’ll see if it is bluff.

Hope all here have a good day…

Sounds like my son.

I hope not. That poor kid took on too much debt and if mortgage rates rise to 8%, he’s ruined. Is he on IO or P&I? What’s he going to do, work 100 hours a week? For how long?

Your son is far better off.

Turns out we have a pretty little totalitarian at Davos:

Michael Knowles@michaeljknowles
“Safety by Design” might be the biggest tech threat you’ve never heard of. The World Economic Forum, the Australian Government, and a radical bureaucrat named Julie Inman Grant are using it to impose their woke ideology onto the internet for everyone worldwide. Here’s how:
4:04 AM · Jan 19, 2023

She is our eSafety Commissioner, and yes she regards righties as a threat who must be muzzled.

The tweet is part of a thread which explains what “Safety By Design” is. Worthwhile to read the whole thread. Hat tip to this guy, who has a long and excellent rant today, which ZH has picked up:

World Economic F*ck’em (21 Jan)

Karen Inman Grant.

Special Ed doing any test, “it’s either a spook or a flamer”, mmmm. It’s never the first thing I think of. Flamer, right. I, I, I got this one, definitely a flamer. Oh, not a spook either. Must be a spook and a flamer. Special Ed, the answer is 42. What was the question again. “What is the number after 41”.

That Julie Inman Grant women needs to be ejected out of her Commonwealth salary and financially ruined.

She’s a literal threat to our democratic way of life.

Is anyone here able to provide me with a good reason to vote Liberal again?

Should read:
Is anyone here able to provide me with a good reason to vote Liberal for the first time evah?

Wait another 12 months, at which time you’ll be collecting twigs to make a fire to cook up a dead possum you found on the road, and ask that question then.

The Preppers and Truthers have been busy overnight.
Thankfully left on the dead fred.

Thanks for the tip, will take a look

I wish no harm but I have seen the other side of it.

Recession time. House renovation.

Bricklayers coming to our front door at 7:30 as Dad is dressed for work, about to have breakfast and he has to turn them down.

Cap in hand, they were knocking on our front door for cash work below the minimum wage.

Avi interviewed Greta.

Why? She should be ignored. Does anyone take her seriously?

Do 13, 14 …20 year olds take her seriously, unless they’re also retarded?

The theory is she gets to the “yoof”, other than impressing primary school chillins’ I can’t see any merit in this fat little arsehole’s act.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/10f8zk9/gretas_fake_arrest_wins_all_the_reddit_points_i/

Smiling while being handcuffed and carried by police – the absolute height of white privilege.

I can give you a good reason to vote SFL Cassie. They’re not as bad as the Liars. Sorry Cassie, I lied. There can be no credible government in the foreseeable future. I fear I will never see one again in my lifetime no matter how long I live.

Cassie

I think Hitchens is being way too nice and polite, conservatives, be they Tories in the UK or Liberals here, are both stupid and lazy, a toxic combination.

It could be worse. They could be stupid and energetic (like the Slime). Think of the damage they could do then.

Boags tell us that beer sales are down.
THAT is a temperature proxy. People drink beer in hot weather.

The UnZud Prime Ministership is a poisoned Chalice.

Only one dweeb threw his hat into the ring. Lol!

SFW. Good review of Atlas Shrugged. The movie is obviously as bad as the book that we were all supposed to admire for its ideological purity.
It was just silly.

HB Bear,
some twat called “Chippy”.

Ayn Rand’s best writing is Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

Her best fiction is The Fountainhead.

The Simpsons did a good job of it, calling out Lisa as a left wing loon.

..and yes, that was Jodie Foster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZN16SUWjeg

Tucker Carlson wouldn’t be saying this without a good source.
It’s Disinfo.
The truth about Woodward has been common knowledge for at least 25 years.

Black Ball says:
January 21, 2023 at 7:08 am

Our future captains. Hun:

The results of the Big Youth Survey contradicts many stereotypes.

That’s up from 15 per cent in 2020, according to Year13, which undertook this latest survey on behalf of News Corp.

Black Ball,

in Melbourne week before last, 13yr Granddaughter said 25% of her School Class identify as Lesbian or Trans – she was fairly scathing and agrees with views of Netflix Wednesday

Zipster:

Year13 co-founder Will Stubley said it was surprising, but what the data shows is that it’s young LGBTQIA+ females driving this difference – of the young females who said they don’t want to have children, two thirds of them identify as being LGBTQIA+.

entitled, delusional, narcissistic and above all profoundly stupid

…and on their way to become the example that parents point to in the street – “See that old woman with 43 cats? She used to be a Lesbian when it was all the rage, now she wishes she’d just settled for Mr Pretty Good, instead of a Billionaire because that was what she was entitled to. Don’t be like her.”

The myths they told
By Monica Doumit -January 20, 2023

I had thought that the Australian media, self-proclaimed comedians and other members of the political and commentariat class had defamed Cardinal George Pell more than any human person could be defamed in recent years. It turns out I was wrong. Given that Australian law deems it impossible to defame a person who has died, a good number of his detractors have done away with the microscopic amount of restraint they had left and lowered themselves to new depths of defamation in the days since His Eminence passed away.
…
Those who hounded the Cardinal to his death show no sign of relenting, even now, and they appear to be immune to the truth, no matter how many times it is clearly presented.

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/advice/a714/starter-husband/

Within months of promising to love and honor and cherish Tucker forever, she knew she had made a huge mistake. The problem? He was boring. “Wholly uncomplicated,” as she puts it. The kind of guy who reads Tom Clancy books on the couch and watches Adam Sandler movies while dreaming of white-picket fences. Going to depressing French movies, leapfrogging over the less ambitious on the company ladder — those were the things that excited Andi. “The idea of spending my life with someone like that seemed stifling,” she says. “It finally just got to me that he was so…sunny.”

For some, a starter husband is like a starter home — a semicommitment where you’re willing to do some of the surface work, like painting the walls, but not the heavy lifting, like gutting the whole foundation; he’s just not a long-term investment. Others compare a starter husband to a first job, where you learn some skills and polish your resume before going after the position you really want.

In our everyday life — one where we’re encouraged to pursue the bigger, better anything (witness the average college grad who now burns through seven jobs before turning 30 — how can you commit to something, or someone, forever? “That’s a huge promise. We live in an incredibly fast-paced consumerist culture,” says Pamela Paul, author of the book The Starter Marriage, who herself was divorced less than a year after taking her vows at age 27. “Ours is an H&M culture, where you go out and buy 10 cheap items for the season, then toss them, rather than investing in one beautiful coat you’ll wear for another 10 seasons. More and more women have that throwaway mentality with their first marriage — the ‘I want it now’ attitude.” Until, of course, you don’t.

The whole article is a shitshow of entitlement.

Is a “starter wife” a thing too? Probably is, but I don’t read gentlemen’s magazines.

The first time I heard a mother advise her daughter to marry first for money, and for love second time around it shocked me. I thought she was joking, but she was perfectly serious.

The difference is Calli that the top 1% of men can do that, all women can do the starter husband thing.

How many Oztraileruns are prepared to fight for a democracy?

1? 2?

American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home

Real-life Emilys in Paris complain that the show’s heroine, clad in over-the-top couture and barely able to speak French, is giving them a bad name.

But

The World of ‘Emily in Paris’

Lily Collins stars in the Netflix series as an American social media wiz in the French capital.

Why Are We Still Watching?: “Emily in Paris” has been widely mocked from the beginning. But despite its flaws it’s a pop-culture phenomenon. Here is why.

Emily, C’est Moi: As an American in Paris, our critic used to look down on Emily. He then realized they have more in common than he thought.

The French Reaction: The response of actual Parisians to the first season was “ridicule” — French for ridiculous and absurd, as well as amusing.

The Man Behind the Show: Darren Star, who also created “Sex and the City,” has specialized in escapist visions of the urban female experience.

Facepalm

“I think women our age are like, We’re either going to fix this, or we’re going to end it, and that’s for the better,” says Kay Moffett, coauthor of Not Your Mother’s Divorce. She married her own starter husband in a funky, flamingo-filled Florida wedding at 27, then divorced him four years later after realizing she could never make the real commitment of having children with him. But don’t call her divorce a failure; in this enlightened world, it was simply a relationship that ran its course. “I think maybe we’re moving more toward a serial-marriage society — maybe you have three marriages in your life and several different careers. That’s where I’m heading,” she says.

Still, even unapologetic Andi admits that the process is not always easy. “On the one hand, I felt empowered, like, Woo-hoo, I have the rest of my life in front of me. But there were moments of, Oh, my God, I’m a divorcee — does that mean I’m all washed up?” she says. It’s why, she suggests, she turned to drinking heavily for several months after her breakup, trying to reconcile those thoughts — and perhaps, I suspect, dull some of the pain she’s so sure she never felt.

Then she met David. He was supposed to be her rebound relationship. Three years later, she realized that she wanted to have kids with him — and that was the clincher.

Year13 co-founder Will Stubley said it was surprising, but what the data shows is that it’s young LGBTQIA+ females driving this difference – of the young females who said they don’t want to have children, two thirds of them identify as being LGBTQIA+.

entitled, delusional, narcissistic and above all profoundly stupid

I see nothing fundamentally wrong with this cohort being taken out of reproduction. They can live happy, fulfilling (or unhappy, angst-ridden) lives as Communication Advisors, Equity Officers, or TicToc influencers – and then pass away leaving no imprint behind them.

This soldier—who gives his first/last name—claims that the helicopter with the Minister of the Interior and his seconds was deliberately destroyed by drug traffickers in Ukraine.

If you look at the photos it’s clear the helicopter was flying low to avoid AA radar, and in fog it clipped the school building. Pretty certain it was pilot error.

The tide is turning. The sandbar is gradually being exposed, now a glimmer of gold beneath the swirling milky pale water. Yesterday’s brilliance is gone – it is overcast.

Children are on the jetty fishing. One caught a silvery tiddler and didn’t know what to do with it. Others are sitting in dinghies in the channel, but too far away to see if they’re catching anything. I can hear water bubbling in the distance – a guy is sitting in the pool spa, hat on and stubbie in hand.

Australia. 😀

Men, by and large, write documentaries for their lives.

Women tend towards penny dreadfuls.

I know which one I prefer.

Dot says:
January 21, 2023 at 10:05 am

…then, the bloke on the yacht in the inlet gets bifurcated by a 25 foot, three tonne Great White Shark.

Calli, I know your husband is the police inspector and he doesn’t like the mayor.
calli says:
January 21, 2023 at 10:07 am

Men, by and large, write documentaries for their lives.

Women tend towards penny dreadfuls.

I know which one I prefer.

Being successive posts, this is gold.

An American Politician speaking Truth & making sense – 3 Mins 54 Secs

Don’t believe the hype. Electric cars pollute far more than conventional vehicles

H B Bear says:
January 21, 2023 at 10:00 am

The Man Behind the Show: Darren Star, who also created “Sex and the City,” has specialized in escapist visions of the urban female experience.

Dahling, really?

H B Bear,

“You Magnificent B*tch” – The Final Show – Emily In Paris – Netflix 3 mins 55 Secs

Now that’s what I call FASHION. Let them eat cake

Bear Necessities says:
January 21, 2023 at 10:13 am

I’ve been a starter husband for 22 years. Has my wife done something wrong to not move on? I’m not game to ask.

I raise that hand, with 55 years – can’t think of anyone else I would have wanted to spend my life with, other than my Wife