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This is the problem with even a “benevolent” dictatorship. No dictatorship would ever admit a mistake.Singapore’s Ministry of Health is…
That’s exactly what it was, an experiment on the whole population, both medical and level of control.IT WAS ALL A…
No word on whether Pool, Rubin, Southern et al will donate their blood money to charity. Fat man has an attack…
Just keep it going. Full stop. Get out of the way D’Ambrosio and Bowen, you complete imbeciles. This is what…
Dot
Jan 9, 2024 7:47 PM
At worst, I’ll be desoldering 200-odd components
Sweet Enola Gay, son
Hey, though I am somewhat stupidly optimistic, I might as well flay the bastard if it doesn’t play ball.
I have no knowledge of the nurse’s story as linked, however I’ve previously revealed myself as a Qld. Health worker (waaaay down the totem pole!) who refused the ‘vaccine’ and has suffered significant financial loss, along with physical and mental health challenges (all documented) as a result. I have not yet been terminated due to my membership of a renegade union, however prior to Christmas, Qld. Health reiterated their intention to discipline me once the last legal challenge concludes, which is likely to be this February sometime. As part of their tactics, Qld. Health has made allegations of serious misconduct against a number of staff. In my case, this is very easily dismissed with documentary evidence, however they are persisting with the intimidation. There is a pervasive mental sickness within the organisation that requires either a formal purge or an exorcism.
US is making a $100 billion nuclear missile. That may not be enough.
Noticed that in his show on power, Kenny gave a very soft go to the blonde female mayor of Newcastle – a hard line Labor “zero emissions” person.
I hope we haven’t been responsible for this, Rosie.
We’ve all enthused so much about your Twitter feeds, hope the scrolling hasn’t been contributory.
Glad to hear it is getting better now. a two week interval should help.
Is anyone else getting distinct “Basil Fawlty flogging the car” vibes from Gilas’ post?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n77eoOfRPE
Say hello Grace Grace. Quite ” When we give a direction to staff, we need to make sure sure they comply”. Zis is a paraphrase if “I woz only followink orderz”
Sorry to hear that, Muddy.
Sheer bloody-mindedness, I repeat.
Keep us informed.
Next up, nice change of pace, a Tasmanian “environmentalist” academic who thinks nuclear is necessary as part of “the solution”. They all think that reducing emissions tweaks the Earth’s thermostat. This is the big lie. But it keeps on being reinforced like the fabled Chinese water-drip torture.
It seems that the Parramatta (NSW) Greens are having a teddy bears picnic soon.
Latest correspondence received, below.
You’re invited!
Hi [name],
The Parramatta Greens are holding a casual summer picnic on Sunday 28 January 2024, starting 11am! Any members or supporters of the Greens are welcome to come along to celebrate the achievements of the past year among friends.
The picnic will be held at Third Settlement Reserve, Winston Hills near the Pemulwuy Loop Playground, on the corner of Oakes Rd and Edison Pde. Food (fruit and snacks) and water will be provided. This is a family-friendly event – there is a playground nearby – so please feel welcome to bring folks along. Optionally, please also feel free to bring some food or a picnic blanket to share if you would like to (no alcohol). There will be some parking available.
It will probably be a hot day, so please be sun-safe. If it is forecast to be raining or too hot, we will reschedule for another date 🙂
If you can make it, please RSVP by responding to this email or shooting me an email at [email protected].
Hope to see you there!
Yours,
Daniel
Secretary, Parramatta Greens
Sounds absolutely luverly. Would be fascinating to see who/what turns up. Purely for observation purposes, of course.
Fellow QLD Cats, I note the Boy Premier has met with a community group advocating for youth justice reform.
They are demanding an undertaking in writing from him that repeat offenders will not be released on bail only to reoffend, failing which they will be campaigning against him.
2024 is shaping up as the year of fighting back!
No alcohol + Greens = no me.
There was and is nothing wrong with the story.
Interesting comment from Tom the other day about the decision of Boeing to ditch the 757 way back when.
No doubt a lack of enthusiasm from airlines was a factor.
It was much larger than the 737 back then with the -200 variant having a seating capacity of 240.
And where are we now?
The 737-MAX 10 is going to seat 230.
So they’ve stretched the 737 to near 757 capacity and put themselves in a world of pain.
There is no doubt they could have upgraded the 757 with more efficient engines and fly-by-wire, just as they have tried to do with the 737-MAX. One thing they wouldn’t have had to do with the 757. That is, change the engine positioning due to ground clearance and write that ridiculous anti-stall software.
Matt Abott sounding off about the Alcoa closure.
Yeah good Matt. You stepped aside from any leadership responsibility in the political process.
Appearing on Sky is not leadership.
Walk it, or fukk orf.
It was a good read, thanks.
Saw Chrisafoolofhimself on Skah tonight. First time he’s ever been slightly animated. I reckon he thinks he in with a chance as 1.609+km is going to introduce a treaty. As much as I never wish to set foot in Queensland I don’t wish either of them on Queensland Cats and Kittahs.
Thanks, Roger.
I dislike writing about myself, but wanted to emphasise that the damage inflicted upon a significant number of people (not just from Qld. Health), caused scars which are still being dealt with now, long after many have forgotten just how violent the ‘Lords and Ladies of Fire’ (Burn the peasants!) acted to distract themselves from their own cowardice and deficient self-esteem. Eff the lot of them and the syphilitic camels they rode in on.
I’ll get my John Hewson contrast collar shirts out the wardrobe. Don’t go anywhere.
Violently.
Terrible grandma, Muddy. Tsk, Tsk!
Probably best with trousers I’d think.
Should I write to him and thank him for the slogan?
Perhaps even praise l him as the Milei of Australian politics…
😀
‘night.
They’re just vandals without any attributes.
Well, Milei did get elected.
So there is that.
The next Rep president needs to reinstate these statues, every single one.
Sancho,
I was hoping you’d tell us that the aircraft industry is standardised to metric (hardware and torque specs).
Not so?
Dover, he’s doing what gerbil warming fanatics do, which is to only show numbers that suit their argument and ignore the facts.
See this chart representing real wages from 2000 to the present. From 2000 to 2009, real wages went up an unsustainable:
€17,325 in 2000 to €26,606 in 2009. A 54% increase totally unsupported by productivity gains.
That required a massive internal adjustment as they don’t have the flexibility of having their own currency. Someone has to pay the piper.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/416209/average-annual-wages-greece-y-on-y-in-euros/
So I just did a bit of digging and the answer is “no”.
Greek unemployment rate was 26.5% in 2013 and now close to halved. So the internal devaluation/ adjustment has worked to get the jobless rate down. Falling real wages to allow the necessary adjustment to take place and get people back to work has succeeded but much more needs to be done, which is a function of time.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/416209/average-annual-wages-greece-y-on-y-in-euros/
Of course they wouldn’t use some penny ant French concoction. It’s the US, not Australia that went with that pathetic metric system.
Which could also mean she’s sounding out and been courted for the most likely spot of VP to the california gigolo.
I’m 90% sure the head of the Hiden crime family isn’t running and will announce health issues around July or August, just before he pardons the rest of the criminals in the family and himself.
Tonight I went to see ‘One Life’ with Anthony Hopkins. The film is about Nicholas Winton and it chronicles how Winton saved over 600 mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in 1939. I highly recommend the film. If you see it, make sure you take a box of tissues. I’m still crying.
Sir Nicholas Winton died in 2015, aged 106 years. A mensch, a truly great man.
Probably does not the price of an Australian cake either.
I don’t think she will settle for VP, JC.
Comment immediately below the official trailer , Cassie
I suspect she will. They’re both lazier than a carcass and the job would fit in fine with that mindset.
Frayed knot.
During the reign of King Gough I we converted to metric. Gough’s courtiers tried to force the aviation industry to go fully metric. They eventually accepted that arriving international pilots could get very confused trying to convert assigned ATC altitudes in metres to feet on their altimeter.
Torque and bolt size don’t matter much if the bolts are still back in the factory. Which was heavily hinted at as a possibility by an NTSB guy on the news tonight.
The term “loose bolts” featured heavily in news reports tonight.
They must read the Cat.
I hate to say this but biden will shit his pants and obuma’s hubbie will take over.
The sheeple are dumb enough and cheating will be sufficient to get hubbie over the line; and Trump will not have to be assassinated although they will still put him in jail.
I saw the preview of it when I saw Napoleon and it looked very impressive.
Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.
Will try to catch it in the next week or two.
Hardline Aboriginal activists will demand “freedom for Palestine” and call on the Albanese government to cut all ties with Israel at their annual anti-Australia Day rallies, causing one Aboriginal leader to warn they will alienate longstanding Jewish supporters of reconciliation.
Leading left-wing figures Lidia Thorpe and Tasmanian Indigenous leader Michael Mansell say Palestine will form a key part of their Invasion Day messages, as they look to drive the wider Indigenous movement in a more radical direction post-referendum.
But Yes campaign leaders Sean Gordon and Mark Leibler said tying the two movements to each other would “alienate” the Jewish community from Indigenous gatherings and deprive the Aboriginal rights movement of much needed allies.
The event page for Sydney’s Invasion Day Rally, organised by The Blak Caucus, features a list of nine demands, including ending the “war on black kids”, ceasing forced removal of children, shutting down youth prisons and prosecuting officials over black deaths in custody.
The seventh demand from the “First Nations organising collective” urges the government to “cut ties with and impose sanctions on colonial, apartheid Israel until Palestine is free”. Independent Senator Thorpe said Palestine would form a key part of her Invasion Day message and urged people to join her on January 26 in “extending our solidarity to the people of Palestine”.
Oz
Well, Milei certainly wouldn’t have spent five minutes yapping on about it, trying to prove he was the smartest guy in the room.
Every time I think about that I imagine him returning to the office and asking his minders, “How did that go? Man, I batted that cake question out of the park, didn’t I. No-one will be asking Dr John about cakes again I don’t think.”
Agreed, a wonderful film about a real man. Courage, drive, persistence, and modesty, Winton had it all.
I took my two high-school aged grandchildren.
I was very surprised at their lack of knowledge about Hitler’s “Final Solution” but hugely encouraged by their thirst for information about the tragedy of the Holocaust and German plans for Europe.
The film showed them what real courage is and opened their eyes to WWII.
I think that era is only studied in yrs 10 and up in NSW in Modern History.
She spent most of her time in the White House eating and complaining about whitey. She’s too lazy to run.
Even so, the wages now are lower than in 2000.
The old fuel in gallons (US and Imperial) vs litres vs pounds has caused some knee-slapping moments of comedy in aviation too.
I saw the preview of it when I saw Napoleon and it looked very impressive.
Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.
It is excellent. And yes, Anthony Hopkins is probably the best actor of the last 50 years. Although I’m also partial to Robert Downey Jnr.
She’s too lazy to run.
Yes, and too sour.
Awful woman, just ghastly.
These people have a death wish.
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
On my show I warned that we’re going to see major airline disasters in the near future. Only a couple of weeks later, a hole blew open in the side of a plane in flight. Now we know that many planes have “loose bolts.” We’re well on our way to a major disaster. Quality and competence have dropped dramatically in the airline industry, just like in every other industry. Now we’re going to start paying the price.
Yeah, the adjustment after the massive bath can take a long time. Also, the unemployment rate is still 13% plus, which means real wages are being held down by this decent overhang.
When you give away the flexibility of having your own currency, there has to be an internal devaluation of sorts and it reflected through wages. The medicine is working but it could have occurred sooner if they allowed more flexibly in the prior years.
Frankly, we may not have a really good picture for the simple reason that there’s a large grey market in hiring and we don’t know what’s happening under the counter. They may have cleaned this up somewhat but we don’t know.
The pope is 100% right about surrogacy.
Example: The Air Canada “Gimli Glider”, which ran out of fuel halfway across Canada because pounds of fuel were pumped in, not kilograms.
The pilot landed it on a disused RCAF runway, somewhat alarming the drag racers having a meet at the far end of the runway.
A very good actor is Robert Downey Jr., when he’s not making superhero movies. His performance as Charlie Chaplin in Chaplin was absolutely superb.
These people have a death wish.
Yes, a death wish for Jews.
They don’t even try and hide their wish anymore.
Diversity Hires in US Military Cannot Repair or Make New ICBMs Because They Don’t Understand the Technology
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
NEW: Fulton Country DA Fani Willis paid her lover, private attorney Nathan Wade, $654,000 of taxpayer money since January 2022 to act as special prosecutor in her case to get Trump. Wade then paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using the Fulton County funds his firm received. Fani Willis directly authorized his compensation, according to a new public filing.
Lizzie nothing to do with my phone use.
It actually is much better, and I could have gone, but it was so painful last night, I couldn’t see how I could sit on a plane, let alone wrangle a suitcase.
Who could know it would improve so quickly?
Abo activists are Nazis now!
Like science fiction.
Go figure.
Chaya Raichik
@ChayaRaichik10
Holy sh*t! Trudeau’s goons are arresting journalists for asking questions
Florida Grandmas, Obstructionists, and Fence Shakers: America’s New Terrorists
Thanks BJ.
I vaguely remember an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring a fuel cock-up in a heavy (767?) but couldn’t bring it to mind.
Warren Mundine is very pro Israel.
Josephine Cashman is coping all kinds of abuse having outed herself as having Jewish heritage, as a member of the extended Worth family.
the reports also didn’t mention interstellar aliens that time warped here
er, non sequitur
… ffs
more on the shocking Brooklyn tunnel story.
Dot, at 5.53:
A trap for young players, particularly at 21st birthday shows in backyards or in shearing sheds, with 6oz glasses poured via the gun and running like wine.
‘I only had 50 ponies in two hours. Dunno how I ended up without pants.’
Warren Mundine is very pro Israel.
Josephine Cashman is coping all kinds of abuse having outed herself as having Jewish heritage, as a member of the extended Worth family
The Nazi left and Nazi Islamists are such a tolerant and kind lot.
Give me the metric system any day, JC.
They can keep the lbs of fuel, ft of altitude, kn for speed etc.
Just standardise what actually holds the bloody things together.
sancho?
In 1997 or 98, sometime around there, it was Friday around 11 a.m., and on a quiet trading day, we were busy ordering pizza to be delivered to the trading desk.
The sales guy handling the account gets a call from the big whale, who at the time happened to be one of the biggest, juiciest accounts on the street. They weren’t hugely price-sensitive, so every time the account traded with us, it helped us or me indirectly pay the mortgage because we snipped a decent spread. Ironically, the person running trade execution for the whale was an Australian dude operating out of the Bahamas.
The order came in, and it was to buy 1 billion Deutschmark or Euros (forget which) against the Greek Drachma. We never really traded that currency in New York, so we passed it on to the dickheads in the London office. 30 minutes later, the arseholes hadn’t done a single part of the order, so I told the trader we’d take it back and do it ourselves through the dealing system. We filled the order over a period of 15 minutes, and then we found the Greek central bank supporting the currency at the bottom, where it had to intervene to hold the EMS band.
An order came in for another billion, and we settled that through the trading system, and again, the Greek central bank was there holding the fort.
Then the client bought another billion and some more. Same execution occurred with the Greek CB.
That weekend, the Greeks devalued the Drachma by 30%, and the client ended up making something like 330 DM or Euros on Monday.
The desk made about 7 million dollars from the trade execution and a position we took because we suspected something was up.
We later found out that a senior portfolio manager who worked for the whale was married to one of the famous Greek shipping families and got the inside scoop that the drachma was being devalued that weekend.
Earlier:
Surmised cause – loose bolts.
Actual cause, identified by multiple sources – loose bolts.
‘Harrumph harrumph harrumph yes but gaussian curves and Nietzsche and chess’
Brilliant.
Errr…shades of Jack Parsons.
Professor of Religious Studies on NASA Launch Rituals
Space exploration is a two-edged sword?
But not an inside trade, huh?
This one?
Earlier again:
Well obviously, the tunnels were heading straight for Wall Street so the Rs could complete the takeover. In plain sight.
Unsure why this is even under discussion.
This is just trolling with the owl imagery.
https://spaceflight101.com/atlas-v-nrol-79/nrol-79-satellite/
mole at 7.59:
My namesake? Rupert Murdoch?
My name’s not Rupert. Well it could be, I suppose, dependent on circumstance.
KD at 10:12.
Snort, cackle.
I didn’t expect confirmation so quickly.
Normally the airline might quietly fix the problem, pass the details on to the NTSB and issue a bland public statement that “x number of aircraft have been inspected and the airworthiness directive complied with, yada, yada”.
The fact that United and Alaska Airlines have both issued statements basically saying “we are finding stray hardware every time we unzip a panel” tells you they are pissed off to the (ahem) MAX with Boeing.
LOL
“Gustatus smilius pullus”
GG
The leftie billionaires are preparing for the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEk79bjYnv0
Nup Zafiro.
This one.
So, head prefect, your considered opinion is the obuma’s hubbie won’t be in the WH come 2025 because she’s lazy? How do you explain biden being there now when he’s effectively dead?
says the bloke that claps like a circus seal whenever anybody chucks him a fish
brilliant
… its why we paid for ring-side seats
There was no such rule in the currency markets, as it only applied to stocks then. It has changed since then, I believe.
The famous trade that Uncle George was supposed to have bravely and heroically taken on the Bank of England was also an inside job.
According to what we heard from a former portfolio manager working for Uncle George, George got the inside scoop that the Germans were not going to support the pound within the European Monetary System. Karl Otto Pohl was the longtime head of the Bundesbank, and when he retired, Uncle George gave him a job on his “international board”- likely because he’d given George inside information when he ran the central bank. There was no “international board as such,” but just a bunch of Uncle George’s cronies looking for a payout.
Pohl gave him the inside scoop that the Germans were not going to help in supporting the pound, and it would leave the system. The Euros were pissed off with Thatcher. That’s the story we heard about how Uncle George heroically took on the BofE. Through inside information.
A correct fish*, or an incorrect fish^?
*Loose bolts as the cause of fuselage ejecting from an aircraft mid-flight.
^Mickleham Death Camps operational and ready because I know all right, and because I know a bloke.
Reasonable point. 24 is going to be a rough election cycle and there will have to be more running around than what we saw from *”Dementia Hitler” in 20. I honestly don’t think he can be bothered, but would take the VP job.
*Someone started calling Hiden Dementia Hitler on X.
This is the new demorat anti-Trump ad. Not a shred of irony in that everything they accuse Trump of wanting to do they are actually doing. Demorats are insane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIvHf-GbpuQ
Re the size of beer glass imbroglio
I’ve got this!
I happen to have a beer glass collection
Including xxxx and crown lager glasses
Small glasses .
I have a hunch that the sizes varied in different states
Victoria was 5, 7 , 10
Back in the day
PS All glasses for sale
Knuckle Dragger
Jan 9, 2024 10:24 Pm
Knuckles the kid eating dog.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Yes, I’d forgotten that one.
Which the God Oracle then tried 24 hours of unicorn distraction by splitting hairs between Mickleham and the very adjacent Attwood.
Yep.
Quite prepared to pay circus ringside to see all 16 of the Harrumphing Clowns get back into the Hyundai Getz, and drive off when demonstrably proved wrong.
the ‘consultant:’ and renaissance man
the beauty contest BComm and world affairs détente specialist
and Inspector (NT smallgoods R us) Gadget
versus the switch-flicking pipe-solderer
LoL … and you dumb-arses are at the peak of your game
Dementia Hitler was used on Scott Adams blog in a comment and he ran with it.
Not a bad nickname for shouty Mcmannappys.
I am a model, as it happens.
mUnter-esque.
‘gaza lol’
‘maga lol’
‘youse wooden know’
Trans
Trying to make other people look and feel small by your incessant attempts at whiny and un-witty putdowns doesn’t make you look like an intellectual giant. It just makes you look like a small-minded envy ridden moron.
You know that, right? It’s no secret.
You’ve been on here most of the day trying to sound witty and useful to the blog. You have zero to share other than recipes, pity trawling with dullard family stories and stoush trolling.
Ask yourself, WTF are you doing here.
I actually know a dude who owns an a/c business with around 100 employees. You, however, have self-described as a consultant , but appear to spend most of your time sniping at people here. God oracle.
Because I’m so old, the bext actor/actress was dead by that time. But to my mind the best actor/acctress was Susan Hayward. I was just at the beginning of my high school years when my mum took us to see ‘With a Song in My Heart’ (the Jane Froman story).
I followed all those old films from Bill Collins presentations on TV and never missed one with Susan Hayward.
Oh okay. LOL. It’s actually pretty decent.
triple spazz chuck
… beautiful
its the whole circus tonight
Muddy,
I am in the grip of qld health right now.
Am happy to have Dover share my email with you and have had 3 provable ND experiences this week alone.
The first one scare you, but the2nd and 3rd times made me dig heels in hard.
I have them shitting in their boots that I will go public. Would you like the info?
Have witnesses, they are gonna kill somebody very very shortly.
Patt
For posterity:
Aaaahahahaa.
‘parts of my little world’
Snork.
Does trans play chess?
Does Trans play downticks?
I’m remembering an Air Crash Investigation episode featuring the crash of a Mexican Airways aircraft. The last words on the fight recorder were the dulcet ones “Check your air speed…check your airspeed…check your airspeed…” “Shut up, Gringo bitch! I know how to fly!”
The 9M730 Burevestnik is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the missile has an essentially unlimited range. Wikipedia
Effective firing range: Effectively unlimited
Place of origin: Russia
Warhead: Thermonuclear
It is certainly not deployed or even deployable yet. Probably several years away.
knight takes rook
because of the circuits
youse dunno
This is the new demorat anti-Trump ad. Not a shred of irony in that everything they accuse Trump of wanting to do they are actually doing. Demorats are insane:
Not insane…
They know at least 60-70 million American voters will believe every word.
The Republicans have very little clue on how to counter it… God botherers turning the other cheek – again and again and again…
I have not arrogation that my emotional blow outs have … wrestled you folks into a kinder .. less infantile … perspective upon discussion…
Perhaps a great place to start is the one where I Really hope you disagree with me in a civilized thought full way ..
Ladies and Gentle Men we are … well to be Truthfull … most of Us have the frost on the brow … ?
Doesn’t mean we are right or wrong … Lord Knows we never will be .. but at least we can bring Adult Perspectives to our conjectures …
Peace …
@Knuckle Dragger
Jan 9, 2024 10:47 PM
Mate with the greatest of Love and respect … It wasn’t so long ago .. you were posting.. beautifully quirky dissident thoughts that made a lot of sense … you could stitch together a great contention Old Mate …
Perhaps the best way to consider this juncture .. it is’nt me kicking back on you ….
so you can count me out entirely … This is only down to you Brother …
Just read back on what you have been posting Old Mate .. …
We Love you !!
Things arent what they used to be … perhaps it would serve our observations if we took that “hit in the guts” .. they never were !!!
But with what we have left perhaps we could make them more so … like they once were …
Proof Anthony Albanese’s brutal crackdown on vapes is a total disaster: Major fail of government’s ‘world-leading’ e-cigarettes law is exposed….
Mr Butler’s crackdown appears to be going up in smoke, ignored by brazen specialist retailers and convenience stores.
Along King Street in the trendy Sydney suburb of Newtown, Daily Mail Australia spotted at least 20 independent and chain stores selling illegal nicotine vapes, illicit cigarettes and other smoking devices.
Daily Mail
Just in time for Christmas 2024.
If only the courage in their Christian faith actually carried over to performance in office. SloMo in particular during the covid rubbish.
John Spooner.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Henry Payne.
Thanks Tom – Short and sweet.
Fauci flip flops during first 7-hour session of grilling before the House.
Story by Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com
House GOP said Fauci’s pandemic policies full of drastic and systemic failures
He ‘backtracked’ on past claims his agency never funded gain of function abroad
READ MORE: Fauci grilled by Congress during two marathon 7-hour sessions
Dr Anthony Fauci evaded more than 100 questions about Covid, the lab leak theory and his ties to Wuhan during a landmark Congressional hearing Monday.
House Republicans who quizzed the ex-White House advisor said he ‘played semantics’ to avoid conceding that he funded dangerous research in China that is feared to have started the pandemic.
Dr Fauci, 82, also admitted that he signed off on millions of dollars worth of grants without reviewing the proposals – and appeared to admit his agency had little oversight of the foreign labs it bankrolled.
The all-day probe on Monday will be followed by another seven hours of questioning behind closed doors today.
Dr Fauci is accused of funding risky experiments believed to have started the pandemic and suppressing the lab leak theory to silence his critics.
Dr Fauci’s closed-door testimony is expected to get heated as previous hearings have. In the past, Dr Fauci has clashed with lawmakers including Sen Rand Paul of Kentucky over his perceived coverup of funding for gain of function research as well as the Covid lab leak theory.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/fauci-flip-flops-during-first-7-hour-session-of-grilling-before-house/ar-AA1mHhxQ
Has there ever been a book that sold zero copies? ScoMo could make history.
Surely it should be called “Chronicles of a Spineless Man”.
Morrison will be selling his book to evangelicals.
Elon Musk has drawn attention to this on X:
“Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote.”
How amazingly amazing, who could possibly have guessed this would happen?
Ray Epps, Target of Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theories, Gets Probation (9 Jan)
Well it’s pretty clear who he works for. And that the whole thing was a deep state set up.
Morrison will be selling his book to evangelicals.
Let’s not get sectarian now, Rosie.?
I may read it, but my guess is that it’s appeal will be more for the pentecostal and charismatic readers.
Wife and I are travelling in North Island NZ today by train. We have an elderly retired (I assume) academic with grey hair, ponytail and walking stick from the far north NSW coast wearing a “Free Palestine” T shirt, replete with the black Marxist fist.
Droning on and on about far north coast Palestinian activist networks. My blood pressure is slowly rising and my wife is bringing a steaming cup of tea back from the buffet. I may ask her to trip and spill the contents over the old commo git.
Of course it features the best actor of the last 50 years.
Hopkins rarely turns in a dud performance but it’s hard to go past Daniel Day-Lewis.
To hell with niceties, put him in his box.
I’m sick of these shits thinking they have a right to mouth off their crap and not cop any blowback.
Two more people in my universe have shingles.
The second time in the past two years for one of them.
It’s an ad. They know what it’s worth.
Call him a Nazi sympathiser.
Next stage of this will be prospective immigrants who haven’t yet arrived have a right to vote. If non-citizens can vote, then do they really need to be resident within the borders?
Call him a Nazi sympathiser.
Which he is. I’m a bit meek, but I have my limits. I think we need Cassie here.
He has at least, shut up for the moment. However the t shirt shows that these people are shameless.
Ask him ‘why do you hate Jews?’.
Ask him ‘why do you support a second genocide of the Jews?’
Look, as Bush said above, F*CK EM. It’s time to stop the niceties and being polite to scum. All being nice has done is to simply embolden the scum.
‘academic with grey hair, ponytail and walking stick from the far north NSW coast wearing a “Free Palestine” T shirt, replete with the black Marxist fist’…..
Here’s the truth, this academic is a Nazi.
The left are never shy in spruiking and promoting their ideology. Why? Because we’ve let them. It is time to stop.
Saw this last night:
Since they call us colonisers and since they accuse the Jews of Israel of being a coloniser, and since the ‘Freedom for Palestine’ cause desires all the Jews be expelled or killed (it is in Hamas charter as well as every classroom, TV show, and it feels like it must be in every conversation), then what is it that these Hardline Aboriginal activists plan for us non-Aboriginals?
Well, they keep using the euphemism ‘Reconciliation’ which our unsophisticated politicians, MSM, and academics assume is meant literally.
Geez. I wonder what a Voice would have been like?
This evening at 5:30pm there will be a memorial mass commemorating the death of George Cardinal Pell in the crypt at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Sloan Oliver at American Thinker examines the relationship the Democrats have had with the military over the past fifty years. It has been an abusive relationship.
A military coup is all that could save the USA at this point, and the Dems have subverted the military to such an extent that this threat is almost completely removed.
They don’t just hate the USA, they hate the military.
There’s a Marty coming our way. You can just smell it in the air.
Survey reports 70% of Germans support farmers’ protests against Green-Left government
When you consider that everything they say is projection, this is truly terrifying.
Jack Poso
@JackPosobiec
They’re insane
The DEI judges are asking Trump’s lawyer what if Trump had SEAL Team Six assassinate his political rivals
AccuWeather
@accuweather
Drone video shows the damage in Panama City Beach, Florida, after a tornado tore through early Tuesday morning.
Evangelicals are generally not Pentecostals.
“Free Palestine”?
You couldn’t give it away!
Seriously though, what is a decrepit grizzled old pony tailed fathead doing wearing his virtue daub in New Zealand?
Surely he should get on the next plane to Gaza and help brutalise the hostages along with his ideological pals. For that is what he is promoting.
So, pretty much you are repeating my comment but needed to assume when I said it I was being sectarian and that you aren’t?
When I thought I was stating the bleeding obvious especially in view of the Mike Pence involvement
I was going for tartarian, btw.
Mike Pence is evangelical.
By the same logic everyone in the world would have a right to vote in the US elections. Who can define prospective immigrant? We can all claim to be so.
Anticipate his talking points/dogma/tropes.
It’ll be the same old same old.
They’re genociding the Pallis.
Open air prison.
The occupation of Gaza
Colonial Zionists
Etc etc
Be ready with some facts.
Two more people in my universe have shingles.
The second time in the past two years for one of them.
Sounds like some sort of immune system failure …. baffling really.
Mike Pence is many things.
😀
Any religion where you put your hands above your head is a bit iffy.
After public outrage, the Penn statue is safe, at least for now.
Democrats’ Statue Toppling Is A Dress Rehearsal For Going After Actual People
NPS Pulls Plan to Remove Philadelphia’s William Penn Statue
I am absolutely certain that a SEAL Team Six would never carry out such an assignment. However, Antifa dressed as SEALS …
And whiffy
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
The idea that we can precisely measure what the average global temperature was 125 thousand years ago is so laughably ridiculous that you immediately lose all credibility on this and every other topic, forever, if you believe it
If we’re going down that line…
I have ancestors who fought as patriots in the American Revolution.
Surely that must count for something? Perhaps it might count against me!
Always useful.
Until you find that their “facts” are better than your facts, because they are feeling their facts while you are only thinking yours.
So make sure your convictions are rock solid and immovable.
don’t drive with people using drones to check IDF locations?
I’ll see your revolutionaries and raise you a Mayflower pilgrim.
😀
Nikki Haley is a Completely Unserious Presidential Candidate
Especially if you shake them.
In this game “all men are created equal.”
😀
Guilt-ridden liberals are condemning white boys to irrelevance
And a very good morning to all those loose bolts and chess aficionados out there!
Jazz hands?
An X-post asserting that American newspaper advertising revenue, since 2006, has collapsed from $49B to just $9B.
My first thought was that such a collapse would surely have resulted in a lot of papers closing and you would have heard of that. But the $49B actually looks to be part of a ‘bubble’, perhaps restricted to the major mastheads that have greated ability to weather shocks that smaller ones. The circulation numbers have maintained a pretty rate of growth.
So, did something (or some things) happen from the mid-seventies that saw advertising increases outpace circulation increases and which thing (or things) have ceased to have an impact? Or did advertisers drive the increase and with the advent of social media they have taken advertising that was previously the newspapers’ for the asking and shifted it to social media?
Newspapers have long been rubbishing their brand, indulging in their own every whim and taking the readership for granted, but could get away with it. Until the internet.
Look what happened to the Sickly Moaning Haemorrhoid in Sydney. People relied on their classifieds and Domain, so much so the editors and journalists could rub themselves lasciviously against their desks – and then the intertubes came along…
(The sources are News Media Alliance and Pew Research Centre – not exactly finge actors.)
In Tartaria, the monsoon finally beckons.
Outstanding.
Just wondering, given there is no current health order in NSW would the requirement or even asking the question about vaccination be an invasion of privacy and therefore illegal?
Reports the SEC has approved the BTC ETF is US. Verified?
Lesson learned from watching that clip, when staying in a Florida hotel don’t stay on the top floor.
Oops… BTC ETF in US.
No.
The Mayflower was packed with unpopular people.
Even the Dutch were happy they left.
Not even good enough to burn or use as toilet paper.
Put it on the next Space X mission to the sun.
Some more tropes..
All Jews in Israel are children and grandchildren of White Europeans
Before 1948, there were no Jews in British Mandate Palestine
Gaza = Auschwitz
Jews control the MSM
Red Cross STILL Not Helping Israeli Hostage Get Meds After Shaming Family to ‘Think of Gazans’ Instead
Red Cross issues emergency warning over nation’s blood supply
Correction to
The devaluation was around 10% not 30%.
“Katzenjammer Avatar
Katzenjammer
Jan 10, 2024 7:14 AM
“Multiple States Have Already Voted To Allow Illegal Immigrants (Non-Citizens) To Vote & Many More States Currently In Process Of Passing Legislation To Allow Them To Vote.”
Next stage of this will be prospective immigrants who haven’t yet arrived have a right to vote. If non-citizens can vote, then do they really need to be resident within the borders?”
Katzenjammer,
remember when Trump was running for President the first time? Many in the UK media and the Euro media were demanding the right to vote in the US election to protect the US, of course. They were giving all sorts of convoluted reasons for their belief in their right to vote.
But of course she has. FMD. Herald Sun Mitch Clarke and Mike Butler reporting:
Well no shit government yes man, there are no kids in detention because they are roaming the streets breaking the law.
If the offenders are of any background other than Australian, deport them. Or at least some uninhabited island off the west coast of Tasmania during winter.
Looks like the SEC website was hacked. Lol.
Pony tailed Academic
I suggest starting by saying…
What do you say to people who would call you a Nazi or Nazi sympathiser?
Do you sleep well at night siding with a people who committed such atrocities on Oct 7th?
What would you say to the parents of the young women taken from a Peace festival, brutalised and held hostage ?
What do you have against a democratic society that makes you support a brutal thug-ocracy?
When do you think your side will release the hostages or have your lot already killed them?
This will not end well for Hamas / Palestine.
Good day to you sir.
So the same amount as the (alleged) NAB deposits tax* back in the ’90’s?
…
* Citation needed.
Not at all. She is the American political establishment’s completely useful idiot who (they hope) can be used to sabotage a second Trump presidential campaign.
They can simply make it part of the deal to sign up as a new hire and their policy, no need to make it a regulation. Other medical questionnaire information can be much more personal and you consent, plus the information isn’t shared (in theory). There is also an exemption to the Anti Discrimination Act in NSW that legitimised the COVID rules regarding employment (of new hires from that point on).
What if Trump tied his opponents up in frivolous court actions and tried repeatedly to put them in jail? What if a compliant judiciary helped by asking ridiculous questions?
So, pretty much you are repeating my comment but needed to assume when I said it I was being sectarian and that you aren’t?
When I thought I was stating the bleeding obvious especially in view of the Mike Pence involvement
I wouldn’t get too tetchy, Rosie. It was meant light heartedly from a friendly evangelical who respects Catholics to a hopefully respectful Catholic.
I am aware of Pence’s Theological convictions. If I had a serious point at all, it was that Pentecostals and Charismatics are more likely to be Scomo’s audience than thinking Evangelicals.
It’s too nice a morning for tetchiness. (I would put a smiley emoji here but don’t know how)
Here’s how…like the old Nokia phones.
: plus ) gives you a smiley, : plus D a laugh, ; plus ) a wink, and : plus P is a rather rude tongue poke.
Just lose the “plus” and place the characters together.
Cumberland City Councillor Steve Christou says
https://youtu.be/JyFZ29I3IKs?t=261
“We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, side by side, hand in hand, with our indigenous brothers and sisters”.
Rumours that his upcoming election campaign is secretly sponsored by the Cambridge Thesaurus are completely unfounded.
If he ever mentions getting a fair suck at the sauce bottle I’d start looking for scratch marks from KRudd claws.
IIRC, the Commonwealth Privacy Act places restrictions on asking formanymedical data.
Of course, any breaches of the Privacy Act between 2019 and 2022 would have been incidental compared to the many breaches of other legislation that occurred in that period.
IIRC, the Commonwealth Privacy Act places restrictions on asking for any medical data.
Of course, any breaches of the Privacy Act between 2019 and 2022 would have been incidental compared to the many breaches of other legislation that occurred in that period.
Those people are beyond eny rational discution, Shake and a waist of effort.
But it is the bemused onlookers that should be the real audience.
A civil fact based rebuttal to this cretin would be more constructive and educational.
ABC RN AM manages to find the one farmer in Australia who’s happy with the BOM.
Chuckle.
Health agencies have exemptions in this area.
It’s
Do you play chess, sanchez? Do you, do you play chess, mortherfcker? Don’t test me.
WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after day one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview:
“Dr. Fauci’s testimony today uncovered drastic and systemic failures in America’s public health systems. While leading the nation’s COVID-19 response and influencing public narratives, he simultaneously had no idea what was happening under his own jurisdiction at NIAID. Dr. Fauci signed off on all domestic and foreign research grants without reviewing the proposals and admitted that he was unaware if NIAID conducted oversight of the laboratories they fund. Clearly, the American people and the United States government are operating with completely different expectations about the responsibilities of our public health leaders and the accountability of our public health agencies.
It is also concerning that the face of our nation’s response to the world’s worst public health crisis ‘does not recall’ key details about COVID-19 origins and pandemic-era policies. Nearly 1.2 million Americans lost their lives to a potentially preventable pandemic. I look forward to asking Dr. Fauci further questions about mandates, his role in prompting the ‘Proximal Origin’ publication, and his policy positions related to masks and lockdowns. Tomorrow’s testimony will continue the Select Subcommittee’s effort to deliver the answers Americans demand and deserve.”
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/dr-anthony-faucis-damning-testimony?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=140517488&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=ho9bj&utm_medium=email
What would you say to people who ask if you support a second holocaust?