Not allowed to protest Satan.

‘God has planned to ambush them’: Tempers flare as furious religious groups protest SatanCon and white supremacists brandish crucifixes at Devil worshippers in Boston for ‘largest Satanic gathering in history’ (29 Apr)

The annual SatanCon festival arrived in town on Friday to celebrate the organization’s 10-year anniversary, kicking off with a bizarre opening ceremony that saw speakers tear up the bible and perform ‘un-baptisms’.
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‘Hail Satan!’ screamed one of the speakers, Chalice Blythe, who repeated the chant as she tore up a bible and a ‘thin blue line’ police-advocacy flag during the opening ceremony.

Funny how they never do that to a Koran. And those “white supremacists” just about glow in the dark, they’re so obviously Feds. I may be wrong, but smearing Christians is just the sort of thing alphabet agencies like doing lately.

It’s about time we started thinking the unthinkable – that our elites want us gone and replaced by a more malleable voteherd and that they are working toward this.

This is not ‘unthinkable’, its ‘undeniable’ once you realise our government does not represent us, it rules us.

It’s about time we started thinking the unthinkable – that our elites want us gone and replaced by a more malleable voteherd and that they are working toward this.

Unintended consequence will be they themselves will be replaced as well. I am waiting for the rise of ethnic based political parties, parts of Sydney already have advertising billboards all in Chinese script which means they certainly have the mass in certain areas.

That there was nothing or even a prevention of studies was a huge alarm bell that didn’t seem to interest the media.

Relevant essay today:

The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit: Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height (29 Apr)

In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science—chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math—not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn’t the only entity pushing it, either. “Progressive” scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and Energy Department, scientific journals and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting “social justice” than by their scientific achievements.

RTWT. The original is behind a paywall, but this Insta post has a large chunk.

flyingduksays:
April 30, 2023 at 9:16 am
It’s about time we started thinking the unthinkable – that our elites want us gone and replaced by a more malleable voteherd and that they are working toward this.

This is not ‘unthinkable’, its ‘undeniable’ once you realise our government does not represent us, it rules us.

Been that way since Howard at least. The degree of immigration, with largely incompatible cultures, has been an unspoken war on Australians for at least that long.

University of Queensland forced to apologise over ‘white privilege’ medical assignment

Following backlash from the medical cohort, the prestigious university has been forced to apologise and remove the results of the assignment from end-of-year grades.

TE Snap !

He points to Finland, which has the highest per capita electricity consumption in the EU, and relies on renewables for 40-45 per cent of its energy. Of that, 80 per cent comes from biomass (usually peat) and the rest is hydro, with more baseload coming from nuclear.

If peat is ‘renewable’, then so too are coal and oil, just on a longer timescale.

It’ll take 10 to 20 years to recover after the Chairman has finished. No Kennett style empty logs lying around this time.

At least. Andrews is making Joan Kirner look like a fiscally astute beacon of common sense.

I cant lay my hands on the original paper, but this one from 1991 also showed a marked increase in wound infections when masks were worn.

We can’t have the truth getting in the way of profit from PPE sales…

Also, I’m sure masks are the last things on anyone’s mind when patching up people on the battlefield.

you do need to be careful how you address the medic though

Just a thought. What sort of connecting wires do solar panel farms have? Would a rat or mouse plague make a meal of these? Keeping them clean from dirt and insects might also become troublesome. And a hailstorm such as Sydney periodically has could do great damage. Proud owners of rooftop installations seem to have a blind spot about hail damage.

Under what circumstances does anyone think Australia would stop exporting coal to China?

Article on hailstorm damage with some pics here.

Also google for further pics of massive hail damage in Sydney.

Whoever was the Qld civil servant who came up with the Wagner deal so no longer be in their job. However pretty sure Wagner would employ them !

Exactly but I think the rot probably goes deeper. Lets see if the opposition has a set to have an inquiry or set the CCC on to it. Talking about it in opposition when it is news is one thing and actually following through with it is another…

So – seems many householders have a fire and storm-damage electrical nightmare installed over the bedrooms.

What I dislike is the constant, petty and vindictive TDS.

What I loathe most is the whole LYING industry that has gone into turbo mode since Trump became POTUS. That industry not only houses the media- but every single organ of state – LYING and misrepresenting the truth and facts, censoring and spying on citizens to further the aims of Marxism and authoritarianism. Creating punishments and intrusions on daily private lives.

They’re less sure DeSantis will fight the latter with quite as much vigour, even though they like what he does in the culture wars.

Maybe. My realpolitik suggests though that DeSantis is more likely to get voted in. ‘Fortification’ would perhaps have less effect on him than on Trump as there has to be a level of willingness to accept it, which was there with Trump but less so in the general mood with DeSantis, especially vs Biden. And better to have someone good in the White House than leave the field to the Demonrats any longer.

Hairy’s a dedicated Only Trump man though, so this house is split.

The problem is, where to run to?

A nice comfortable shed, where to can switch all this shit off and spend quality time with your interests and hobbies, while doing the best to forewarn/forearm you family.

Over The Target news:

This may have been referred to earlier on this august journal of record, but anyway (the Courier-Mail):

An eminent Queensland jurist has invoked the spirit of Joh Bjelke-Petersen in warning of the unforeseen impacts of a yes vote in the Voice referendum.

“It is an irony that so many of the proponents of the Voice, well-intentioned and highly regarded as they are, should be echoing the language so often and infamously used by the late Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen to reporters seeking information about government: don’t you worry about that,” Ian Callinan said.

On the money.

A High Court judge for more than nine years, he added: “All of the indications are that the Voice will be made up of a hand-picked Canberra cadre.

“In short, it is probable that the representations will not be made by a truly representative body.”

Duh. Duuuh.

It comes as prominent Victorian ­lawyer Stuart Wood says barristers supporting a yes vote for the Indigenous voice to Parliament are commercially motivated and will reap a financial windfall for doing so.

Duuuh. DUUUUH-UUUUUUHHHHHH.

Easy Tiger. A little less of the Special Ed talk.

Comes from my errant past. Special Ed is a newbie in dope argot.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Progressive American Critique of Pandemicism: A Review of ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’
EUGYPPIUS

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Skyhorse Publishing, 2021). ISBN: 978-1510766808.
No single work has influenced the American alt-Covid discussion as much as Robert F. Kennedy’s The Real Anthony Fauci, an extended attack on the medical-industrial complex and its purported kingpin, recently-retired National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci. Across 450 pages of narrow margins and densely-set type, Kennedy argues that the entire Covid pandemic unfolded as a second act to the AIDS scare from the 1980s and 1990s. In Kennedy’s view, Fauci played a key role managing both pandemics, to steer massive profits into the coffers of corrupt pharmaceutical companies by pushing harmful proprietary drugs over vastly less profitable but more effective remedies, leading in both cases to untold unnecessary mortality.
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Kennedy’s discussion of Covid is split between the opening and the concluding sections of his long book. Chapter 1 on “Mismanaging a Pandemic” – at 100 pages, a small monograph unto itself – argues that most if not all of American Covid mortality arises from Fauci’s cynical suppression of early treatments like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. The final two chapters expand the narrow focus of this opening barrage, by tracing the history of “phony epidemics” like the 2009 Swine Flu that have occurred under Fauci’s watch (Chapter 11), as well as the strange tradition of pandemic wargaming, from Dark Winter to Event 201 (Chapter 12).
The middle chapters are wholly different. They draw on long-standing progressive critiques of Fauci’s role in the AIDS pandemic, particularly his promotion of expensive and dangerous antiviral drugs like AZT over much cheaper and more readily available treatments (Chapters 2-4); his alleged role in cementing the scientific orthodoxy of HIV as the cause of AIDS over the views of “heretics” like Peter Duesberg (Chapters 5–6); ethical scandals surrounding AIDS drug trials (Chapter 7); and the campaign to reduce the maternal transmission of AIDS in Africa with Nevirapine, which culminated in the firing of key AIDS Division policy director Jonathan M. Fishbein (Chapter 8). Thereafter the focus shifts to the “Philanthrocapitalism” of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Africa (Chapter 9) and the questionable success of and controversies plaguing Gates-supported vaccination initiatives there (Chapter 10).
There’s a reason this review has been much announced and much delayed: While Kennedy’s book is highly readable, it covers a great deal of ground, and presents a complex series of arguments that it’s taken me two readings to understand fully. This has been worthwhile, insofar as it’s improved my perspective on the broader Covid debate in America, and the leading dissident voices there. A recurring thesis of the plague chronicle, is that Europe – and specifically Italy – is ground zero for Corona in the West. The American response happened somewhat later and from its earliest moments was much more deeply politicised, and this has inevitably left its mark on TRAF, in ways that are sometimes salutary, but sometimes also limiting.
Because much of what follows will be devoted to exploring my disagreements with Kennedy’s thesis, I will open with words of praise:
Above all, the focus that Kennedy brings to bureaucratic actors like Fauci is absolutely correct and vitally important. All of our countries spent years subject to the tyranny of an arbitrary gaggle of Corona tsars, unelected and very often unofficial advisors who became the public face of pandemic policies and the incarnation of The Science for hysterical journalists and terrified television-bound Covidians sheltering at home. This phenomenon arises from the fact that the pandemic represented in almost all of our countries a kind of bureaucratic coup, as the institutional apparatus seized the initiative from the political arm of the state. While this isn’t exactly the argument that Kennedy makes, his focus is in exactly the right place, and TRAF includes excellent discussion of the dynamics at work, alongside good, detailed and heavily-cited accounts of how bureaucratic actors like Fauci amassed their power in the first place.
Second, Kennedy is absolutely right to point out that pandemic policies involved an enormous amount of dishonesty, scientific fraud, and misrepresentation, none of it redounding to the health or well-being of anybody. While I differ on the details and the purpose of this massive exercise in deception and medical malpractice, one of the most vital things to understand about the pandemic (and pandemicism in general) is that it’s not about human health. It’s a bunch of antisocial, fundamentally unhealthy, illogical and insane policies that never had any hope of suppressing a virus. These policies were defended and implemented via the authority of avatars for The Science like Fauci, who “encouraged his own canonization and the disturbing inquisition against his blasphemous critics,” and at one point even famously declared that “‘Attacks on me … quite frankly, are attacks on the science’” (xvii).
Third and finally, TRAF is best seen as an attempt to revive an older, increasingly forgotten progressive tradition of regime-critical activism and thought. It is one massive reminder, page after page, that many of the very same left-leaning Americans currently worshipping at the altar of St. Fauci were, not that long ago, openly opposed to the machinations of public health bureaucrats and deeply sceptical of heavily promoted proprietary pharmaceuticals. They were some of the first to complain about things like regulatory capture and exorbitant pharma profits. The entire Western world has undergone a massive political since 2020, one which has conveniently aligned compromised regulators, powerful corporations, and their erstwhile leftist critics, and Kennedy is one of very few left-leaning progressives to have taken notice.
But this is also where my praise must end, because I think there are important limitations to Kennedy’s perspective here, and that this is a strength that also entails some substantial weaknesses.

TRAF was not the book I expected. On first reading, I was surprised to find that key pandemic policies such as lockdowns and mask mandates play such a small part in his account, as do the misuse of propagandised disease statistics to terrorise the populace, gain-of-function research and the origins of SARS-2, the failed predictions of virus modellers, the overuse of ventilators and many other themes in this vein. To be sure, Kennedy condemns all of this, but the bulk of his analysis is focused elsewhere. I was also surprised to find that such a well-known vaccine sceptic should have so little to say about the Covid vaccines, confined mostly to a brief discussion of pathogenic priming.
In many ways, those chapters that Kennedy devotes to Corona are his least impressive and original. His argument here is heavily indebted to American critics of pandemic policy like Pierre Kory, Ryan Cole and especially Peter McCullough, who are quoted in extenso to make the case for early treatment and the dire consequences of its suppression. Kennedy is at his strongest in the middle sections of TRAF, on Fauci’s role in the AIDS crisis. Here citations to contemporary reporting abound, and while he covers controversial ground – like Duesberg’s thesis that HIV is not the cause of AIDS – his approach is entertaining and also in many ways careful and sensitive to a broad range of possibilities.
Kennedy shares the view of many gay activists that much early AIDS mortality is to be laid at the feat of public health managers like Fauci, who were more interested in promoting expensive proprietary antivirals than saving lives, leaving the gay community to fend for itself (149f.):
[B]ustling networks of community-based AIDS doctors mushrooming in cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas [became] specialists in treating the symptoms of AIDS. As Dr. Fauci swung for the fences – the miraculous new antiviral ‘cure’ for AIDS – these community doctors were achieving promising results with off-label therapeutic drugs that seemed effective against the constellation of symptoms that actually killed and tormented people with AIDS. These included off-the-shelf remedies like ribavirin, alpha interferon, DHPG, Peptide D, and Foscarnet for retinal herpes; and Bactrim, Septra and aerosol pentamidine for AIDS-related pneumonias.
The toxic Fauci-promoted antiviral azidothymidine, or AZT – which HIV sceptics like Duesberg invoke to explain early AIDS mortality – becomes in Kennedy’s telling a direct precedent for the failed and toxic antiviral Remdesivir, which Fauci and others promoted as a Covid treatment according to the very same “worn rabbit-eared playbook” (67) from the AIDS era. In this analysis, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are cast accordingly as the 21st-century counterparts to the off-the-shelf drugs procured for informal AIDS treatment by the buyers’ clubs of activist legend.
This brings me to the most serious disagreement I have with my many American readers. Just as I’m very sceptical that the Covid vaccines were any kind of success, I am also unconvinced that early treatments could have significantly ameliorated or stopped the pandemic. This doesn’t mean I’m happy with their suppression; doctors should be given wide latitude to treat diseases as they see fit. But, I don’t believe that this is the central knot in the pandemic tapestry, and I cannot bring myself to believe, like many of Kennedy’s informants, that any of these proposed treatments are likely to be “miraculous.”¹ Kennedy is surely right in suspecting that attacks on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were related in part to the heedless promotion of Remdesivir, but I also can’t buy the related argument that this was mere regulatory wrangling to pave the way for an emergency use authorisation for the vaccines. The pandemicists violated all kinds of laws and rules in their eccentric three-year crusade, and fudging the requirements for an emergency use authorisation would rank among their lesser offences. I’d also suggest that respiratory viruses like SARS-2 and influenza are an old, pervasive phenomenon, which also afflict livestock and against which we don’t have any very effective remedies despite a century of obsessive research. I know there are studies that show the opposite, but there are also studies that show the vaccines are safe and effective. Because Covid isn’t actually that dangerous and wasn’t even that transmissible before Omicron, a lot of remedies, from masks to lockdowns, will at times seem to work, and I have no trouble believing that doctors who eschewed first-wave over-ventilation of patients saw substantially better results for that reason alone.
But, the empirical question, of what we can reasonably hope that any specific drug will achieve, is for me almost a side issue. Far graver is the framing that the entire discourse on early treatments assumes. The advocates whom Kennedy quotes and people like Fauci appear to be in agreement not only that Covid presented a serious danger, but that it was a problem to solve. They differ merely on the solutions, with public health technocrats on the side of lockdowns, masks, vaccines and remdesivir; and early treatment advocates on the side of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. This has uncomfortable consequences, as when Kennedy uncritically cites Covid mortality statistics to demonstrate Fauci’s failure in pandemic management, or when he attributes falling mortality to things like the authorisation of hydroxychloroquine. This is exactly how pandemic managers themselves argued, and I submit this entire ideological system around viruses as a thing to prevent and manage – whether via ivermectin or masks or anything else – is the root of all evil. This is a natural blindspot for progressive critics of pandemic policy like Kennedy, who generally support the mission of modern bureaucratised liberal democracies; it’s why he laments the “global war on … public health” in his subtitle. After the hell of the past three years, I think there are few things we ought to welcome more enthusiastically than a war on public health, which is no longer by or for the public and no longer about health.

As I said above, TRAF includes some excellent discussions of the malign public health bureaucracy that rules us. The managers who dominate our institutions are manifestly not selected for their vision, their compassion or their scientific knowledge, but rather for their abilities to ascend byzantine bureaucratic hierarchies and defend their positions in them. Thus we read (p. 132) that
[Fauci’s] gifts were his aptitude for bureaucratic infighting; a fiery temper; an inclination for flattering and soft-soaping powerful superiors; a vindictive and domineering nature towards subordinates and rivals who dissented; his ravenous appetite for the spotlight; and finally, his silver tongue and skilled tailor.
Kennedy also provides a wealth of apposite remarks on what he calls the “medical cartel,” namely the complex and intertwined system of “pharmaceutical companies, hospital systems, HMOs and insurers, the medical journals, and public health regulators” (135), along with a detailed and well-cited analyses of how this system works (120):
Dr. Fauci’s drug development enterprise is rife with …corrupting conflicts. Most Americans would be surprised to learn, for example, that pharmaceutical companies routinely pay extravagant royalties to Dr. Fauci and his employees and to NIAID itself. Here’s how the royalty system works: Instead of researching the causes of the mushrooming epidemics of allergic and autoimmune diseases … Dr. Fauci funnels the bulk of his $6 billion budget to the research and development of new drugs. He often begins the process of funding initial mechanistic studies of promising molecules in NIAID’s own laboratories before farming the clinical trials out to an old boys’ network of some 1,300 academic “principle investigators” … who conduct human trials at university affiliated research centers and training hospitals, as well as foreign research sites. After these NIAID-funded researchers develop a potential new drug, NIAID transfers some or all of its share of the intellectual property to private pharmaceutical companies, through HHS’s Office of Technology Transfer. The University and its PIs can also claim their share of patent and royalty rights, cementing the loyalty of academic medicine to Dr. Fauci.
He also rehearses standard and useful left-leaning critiques of major philanthropists like Bill Gates, with an equal awareness of the broader system in which they participate and the dividends their apparently charitable activity pays them (291):
Gates strategically targets [the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s] charitable gifts to give him control of the international health and agricultural agencies and the media, allowing him to dictate global health and food policies so as to increase profitability of the large multinationals in which he and his foundation hold large investment positions. Following such tactics, the Gates Foundation has given away some $54.8 billion since 1994, but instead of depleting his wealth, those strategic gifts have magnified it. Strategic philanthropizing increased the Gates Foundation’s capital corpus to $49.8 billion by 2019. Moreover, Gates’s personal net worth grew from $63 billion in 2000 to 133.6 billion today. Gates’s wealth expanded by $23 billion just during the 2020 lockdowns that he and Dr. Fauci played key roles in orchestrating. …
In 2017, the Huffington Post observed that the Gates Foundation blurs “the boundaries between philanthropy, business and nonprofits” and cautions that calling Gates’s investment strategy “philanthropy” was causing “the rapid deconstruction of the accepted term.
These are, again, attacks from a forthrightly progressive perspective, which is fine and in view of Kennedy’s audience maybe even a strength, but I see these matters in broader terms.
What we have before us are not so much hierarchies, with managers like Fauci at the top commanding an army of loyal principal investigators in the trenches, as they are complex densely interconnected networks of personal and institutional relationships and loyalties, which extend beyond the institutional confines of government agencies to embrace broad swathes of academia, NGOs, pharmaceuticals, and philanthropists. When money flows in one direction across a given node, power very often flows in the other direction. NIAID grants are a way of extending the institutional influence of the public health institutions to academia, while academics and pharmaceuticals are in turn increasingly important in often informal and difficult-to-assess roles in formulating policy. This is one instance of a pervasive phenomenon I have returned to many times, namely the diffusion of political power downwards, out of the bureaucratic institutions and into an ever wider range of corporate, university and media actors.
It is a complicated system, not a fiefdom managed by any single person, and while I accept that there may rhetorical or advantages in focusing critique on a single actor like Fauci, there is also a cost in a tendency to overstate his importance. The “quarantine of the healthy” which “would kill far more people than COVID” can’t be laid entirely or even primarily at Fauci’s feet; nor was he alone responsible for “obliterat[ing] the economy, plung[ing] millions into poverty …. and grievously wound[ing] constitutional democracy globally” (xviii). Fauci is one face of a widely distributed bureaucratic consensus, and his personal significance, while surely substantial, is also often obscure.
To take one of many possible examples, it wasn’t Fauci who “dispatched the handpicked elite of virology’s officer corps to draft and sign the consequential editorials published in Nature and The Lancet … assuring the world that the lab leak hypothesis was a ‘crackpot’ conspiracy” (p. 297). As later emails leaks (not available to Kennedy at the time of writing) seem to suggest, he was merely one participant in a broader discussion involving Jeremy Farrar and key virologists, and far from the most active contributor. From the partial view that we have, it seems that Christian Drosten, not Fauci, was the most strident voice in favour of natural origins early on. Relatedly and in another connection, I find the oft-repeated thesis – hardly original to Kennedy – that “Gates controls the WHO” (p. 300) or that he exercises “dictatorial authority” (p. 302) over the global vaccinator cabal known as GAVI far too limited. Gates’s agenda with respect to third-world medical interventions and vaccines is not even all that original. This is an agenda he supports to transform some of his wealth into social and cultural regard. Gates is a follower even more than he is a leader.
One cost of this focus, is the fact it sidelines a lot of key actors whose motivations to this day await adequate explanation. This is especially the case with Neil Ferguson at Imperial College, who is cast in his all-too-brief cameo here as a mere agent of Farrar and Bill Gates (361f.). Ferguson’s role in promoting virus panic over decades is a crucial one, and that it’s probably not a good idea to discount him as the mere agent of other, bigger men.

Summing up, I would say there’s a narrowness in the approach that TRAF takes to the pandemic, which is easy to miss because Kennedy’s scope is so broad in other respects. The final chapters on “Hyping Phony Epidemics” and “Germ Games” read like efforts to include topics otherwise excluded by the internal logic of Kennedy’s argument. It’s absolutely right and necessary to draw attention to the failed panic mongering of the pandemic establishment, and there’s a particularly valuable account here of the overhyped 1976 Swine flu panic, which all too many (including myself) have neglected. Far more important for understanding Corona, however, are very real outbreaks like SARS-1 in Asia from 2003/4 and Ebola in West Africa from 2014. These events drew vast funding and attention to the pandemicist programme and made their virus apocalypse scenarios much more credible in the eyes of the public. The most proper precedents and parallels to the 2020 Covid response lie here, rather than with the AIDS crisis that first brought Fauci to prominence
In Kennedy’s final chapter, meanwhile, Fauci all but disappears in favour of new personalities like Peter Daszak and Robert Kadlec. Here, the civilian bureaucrat responsible for organising the catastrophic pandemic response is displaced by much different theses about the biosecurity aspects of pandemic wargaming and Covid as “a military project” (from 433). I find that the book is at its weakest in these pages. Particularly the discussion of pandemic wargaming is too superficial; as I’ve said many times, what’s significant about these exercises is not that they planned mass containment policies in advance, but precisely that overtly coercive virus suppression is missing from them. They often toy with the prospect of authoritarian measures, it is true, but a sensitive reading shows that they do so largely to provoke handwringing histrionic discussions about the importance of civil liberties. Mass containment was not Fauci’s invention, but an insanely repressive and largely theatrical exercise in virus suppression that originated in China, to which Fauci was a relatively late convert.
Because these matters are fairly far from Kennedy’s most central concerns, I don’t want to press too hard here; and to those readers who are irritated, I’ll extend at the end of this review the concession that has been implicit throughout: Kennedy is a long-time political activist, and it’s probably true that his approach has important tactical advantages. My concerns are much more empirical. I want to understand the pandemic response, how it arose and how it persisted for so long. It’s up to other people to find the most effect ways to discredit pandemic policies before the voting public.
There is one point that I won’t concede, though, and that the plague chronicle will insist upon so long as there are still bits flowing through the internet. This is that the overgrown overcomplicated self-serving bureaucracies of Western states must be kept, in future, as far as possible from preventing or mitigating virus outbreaks. The problem is not that they alighted upon the wrong solution in this case; it is that they assumed the project of solving pervasive seasonal respiratory viruses in the first place. Even if ivermectin worked as well as its advocates argue, the technocratic leviathan would hardly be satisfied with that, and the reason is not merely pharmaceutical profits. It’s the predilection of our institutions for intractable problems and highly complicated solutions via which they justify their own existence and ensure their propagation and the expansion of their jurisdiction. Once they get ahold of something like a virus, which spreads via social contact, you will seeing nothing but the proliferation and brutal enforcement of anti-social anti-human policies again and again.
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The assertion occurs repeatedly in the first chapter, where I wish the argument were much more moderate. See p. 8, where Pierre Kory claims that “The efficacy of some of these drugs as prophylaxis is almost miraculous”; p. 17, where we hear that “McCullough used his own money … to teach doctors the miraculous benefits of early treatment with HCQ and other remedies”; p. 18, for Ryan Cole on the “miraculously effective medicines to treat this virus”; p. 24 for “miraculous results following early treatment with HCQ”; p. 39 on the “miraculous efficacy” of ivermectin; p. 46 about Andrew Hill’s research supporting “IVM as a miraculous cure for COVID”; p. 52, where Tess Lawrie is found “endorsing the miraculous efficacy of IVM”; p. 56, where a “dying woman miraculously began to recover” following the administration of ivermectin; p. 62, for McCullough once more on ivermectin as “a molecule that is miraculously effective against parasites and viral infections along multiple pathways and mechanisms of action.”

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“No free ice cream for Chinese”? BMW evaporated €2.26B/Tesla learns a lesson/Decouple from China?
China Insights
The 10-day Shanghai International Auto Show opened on April 18th, 2023. Tesla, America’s largest electric car company, didn’t attend. As it turns out, it was a smart move by Tesla. It learned its lesson from the 2021 Auto Show. This time, it’s BMW’s turn to be unlucky.
The CCP is no longer able to give Germany a larger market. It basically has no more cards to pull Germany’s strings. And the political and security differences between the two countries are becoming increasingly obvious. In addition, for a long time, the CCP has used patriotism to make the public form a xenophobic mindset and sentiment.
This has led to the emergence of more war wolves, large and small, who have brought about the chaos that is beyond the control of the CCP.

the language so often and infamously used by the late Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen to reporters seeking information about government: don’t you worry about that,” Ian Callinan said

Callinan’s whole piece is excellent advice to the unwary and he is certainly in a position to know.

His views should form part of the NO vote advice. Certainly should be there in the advertising.
It points to what is likely, especially the fact that the Voice will be hand-picked by Labor and in there for all time.

As Roger points out Tucker is still under contract to Fox. Just read good Breitbart article via top of Powerline blog about Tucker and Bongino.

Plenty of comments coming out that Fox will want Tucker out of the picture due to fear of competition and preferably not being able to have an impact on 2024 election. The remaining $’s from his contract is going to be tens of millions and hard for Tucker to give up.

Easy for me to say but if he walked away without a pay out and did a Rogan (ie. Subscription) I think he would come out ahead in 2-3 years.

“I would block ambulance with dying patient onboard, says XR founder Roger Hallam”

You’d only do it once tough guy.

If you haven’t already left Victoriastan I’d be making plans

Yes, late stage planning now. Bet the hunchback fukcface fascist will bail just before the wheels fall off.

Razey cursed:

Yes, late stage planning now. Bet the hunchback fukcface fascist will bail just before the wheels fall off.

Given the geology of western Victoria, it’s actually not impossible for Talidan to have a secret retirement lairrr at the base of a volcanoooo.

Miles, aw gawd. That explains a tonne. Wagners would have seen him coming a mile away…

I see Poland is claiming it can’t continue to support Ukr arms transfers, because it’s running out of ammo and materiel to send. And , there’s little point in continuing anyway because it sees no sign at all of Russia relenting in it’s armament production capabilities or annexation of the Donbas.

Probably directed at the Yanks to send more $$$$$. Not seeing many of the glorious Ukraine victories over hapless Russians headlines lately. Things have gone rather quiet after the massacres at Bakhmut.

It’s quite possible that Europe’s love affair with Ukraine will result in not only their energy/inflation crisis but also millions of Ukr refugees to permanently house and feed and vastly depleted arsenals. Govt’s certainly have an uncanny knack to completely fk things up.

the hogs on the rotating golden codpiece.

Can someone translate from Sandgroperish into English for us?

Maybe it’s like “John has a long mustache”. – the underground strikes tonight.

FlyinDuk:

If peat is ‘renewable’, then so too are coal and oil, just on a longer timescale.

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that little faux pas.

Flying duk:

And for those of you interested in other myths …. contrary to popular belief, Christmas and Easter are *not* high risk times on the roads, but are actually slightly safer!

Aaarrgghh!
Now you’ve given the bastards an excuse to extend the ‘double demerit’ fines to the rest of the year!
Someone shoot down the FlyinDuk!

[Trump] is winning all demos apart from 200K and over, incl. 4 years over college.

We’re still 18 months out from the election and anything could happen.
I’m particularly interested in what scandal / emergency/ upset the Dems will stage as their October Surprise.
Don’t count your Trump administrations before they’re tanned.

HZHousewife:

Under what circumstances does anyone think Australia would stop exporting coal to China?

That’s actually a really good question. I don’t have an answer to it.

Clinton’s Secretary of Labour, Robert Reich:

It’s a recipe for fascism.’

Mr Reich needs to buy a mirror, that is a description of the current DemonRat Party.

I don’t care what Trump says. I care what he does.

He fights.

Sky News buys the propaganda:

Five dead including eight-year-old boy after mass shooting in Texas leaves police desperately hunting suspect (30 Apr)

Why do I say propaganda? Because nowhere in the report they mention the crucial datum…

Texas Manhunt Underway for Mexican Migrant Wanted in Alleged Killing of 5 Honduran Neighbors (29 Apr)

He was a Mexican national. It’s sad when even Sky News Australia is sucked into the morass of leftist crud.

He was a Mexican national. It’s sad when even Sky News Australia is sucked into the morass of leftist crud.

This is nothing new for Daytime Sky.

He was a Mexican national. It’s sad when even Sky News Australia is sucked into the morass of leftist crud.

Another bloody victory for the left. Defund ICE and the border force was the catch cry of AOC and her comrades. They are such a despicable bunch.

“Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said since Biden took office in January 2021, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have come across the United States border, which is more than the population of 25 states and more than all the illegal immigrants under the Obama and Trump administrations combined”

Can someone translate from Sandgroperish into English for us?

Mole has long used the image of McGowan in a highly bejewelled and decorated codpiece…a form of…ahem…overcompensation for possible physical insufficiencies.

The codpiece is being refurbished and added to with each overseas “truimph” and domestic act of despicableness. Now it is rotating for extra oomph, and the ivory hogs are a nice touch.

I’m awaiting the installation of the Kohinoor.

Doc Faustus:

Where would the canaries live?

The Canary Islands?
(Is there a prize for quickest correct answer?)

Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
April 30, 2023 at 12:12 pm
thus spake thefrolickingmole :

the hogs on the rotating golden codpiece.

Can someone translate from Sandgroperish into English for us?

The WA Government is shovelling money out the door on ‘capital projects’ that are overdesigned, over budget and a waste of f****** life without any anticipated return on capital.
The underground railway to the airport, the renewables, and FMD the freeway interchange on the north and west of Albany townsite.
Meanwhile the City of Perth is a homeless camp covered in orange witches hats and onion bag. Shops are closing, people going broke while the Government indulges in stunts for their reporter drones.
Basically, Australian Government as usual when the ‘borrowed money trough’ is not yet empty.

(sorry for swearing moderator.)

MatrixTransformsays:
April 30, 2023 at 11:26 am

Nothing like being forced to collude in a cartel arrangement with an American ‘powerhouse’ who reckon your Competition and Consumer Act is irrelevant.
I told the bloke that even having a discussion with him exposes us criminally
and that basically, I thought his behaviour was a form of extortion.

It sounds interesting. Can you give us some context for the story?
(I’ve provided some capitals and full stops for the quote, and can do a deal in exchange for any surplus commas you have.)
Ta. 🙂

He was a Mexican national. It’s sad when even Sky News Australia is sucked into the morass of leftist crud.

The MSM also took pains to state that he used an AR-15 style rifle. What they didn’t mention is that the weapon was illegally possessed by the illegal immigrant who then chose to use it illegally to murder people, illegally.

Because that would pop their gun-control agenda bubble.

They use the same methods against Dem candidates in primaries so I’m not sure why the would not be as motivated against DeSantis.

I mean that persuading people to hand over their vote to the Dems would be harder. It’s easy when there is a hate figure to sway people. The ‘fortifiers’ who proudly listed how they did it against Trump in that Time Magazine article used Twitter and Facebook and door knocking in ways that wouldn’t play against DeSantis. See what I’ve said above about the character trail of Trump. And that’s to say nothing of the way in which four years of invented lawfare vs Trump would still affect perceptions and add doubts.

BIDEN: “We can only reelect Donald Trump”

Trump militarised the police with armour plated trucks and other ex-military equipment.
https://youtu.be/sedNMosOU8M?t=605
In his own words.

What price for a Trump 2.0?