I hope no one is having crumpets for breakfast? Wes Streeting bans adverts for yoghurt because it’s unhealthy … but…
I hope no one is having crumpets for breakfast? Wes Streeting bans adverts for yoghurt because it’s unhealthy … but…
Fun and games in South Korea right now. Ace has an excellent round-up of what’s happening if interested. https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=412647
😀
While bumping along the goat tracks between Horsham, Minyip and Donald yesterday evening my ex army son turned and said…
Pretty much everyone I’ve known who was a genuine talent outside sports left Australia. The few who didn’t had ties…
Another quiet night
yep
It’s an ‘argy bargy’ free zone.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
A.F. Branco.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
thanks Tom
That’s right the Israeli Christian founder of an Aramaic NGO was referring to Hebrew not Aramaic as the language of Christ.
Dr BG is correct (and there I was thinking it was obvious).
https://twitter.com/shadikhalloul
Excellent by Mark Knight!
Not yet.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-warns-iran-could-launch-major-drone-and-missile-attack-as-soon-as-friday/
Trouble’t mill, or as the Krauts would say Ärger in der Mühle
Shock, horror !
It looks like Craig Maclachlan was defamed.
One of the birds who accused CM of being a naughty boy is now herself being accused of being an instigator.
Reading the story in the Terror.
The Daily Express has a oops moment.
Israel’s Iron Dome ‘overwhelmed’ by Hezbollah rockets as Iran begins unleashing hell – live blog (12 Apr)
I checked several other sites and no it isn’t happening. I think they may’ve got a sub editor to set up the story and live blog ready for the expected attack, and then the post button was accidentally pressed…
It’s not to say Iran won’t attack, I don’t know enough to say either way, but it was fun to see a MSM faceplant.
Sooo, why is Oz media backing away from this story .. pushing it down the lower half of the headline issues .. If this happens in the USA it getz top billing & loads of pix/opinion but .. HEY! .. This is just Doonside, western Sydney so need to overdo it .. FFS!
And, of course, the usual give-away when burying a story …. no indication of ethnicity of the attacker(s) or victims ……
Youngest daughter lives 5 minutes from this school and Doonside is a complete mix .. predominantly Pacific Islander, fair share of mussos & a sprinkling of 251s .. and you know they ain’t “white” or else full names & addresses with pix would be included ..! .. so could be any of ’em but short odds on Islanders cos reads teen gang related & they (Islanders) have the majority numbers ……..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-12/nsw-teen-dead-another-serious-multiple-stabbing-blacktown/103702624
Are you sure Bruce?
“IDF says air defenses intercepted 2 UAVs and some of the projectiles fired by the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group; no injuries reported”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-launches-explosive-laden-drones-dozens-of-rockets-at-northern-israel/
Bloody hell..! .. To back up the low media interest in the school killing at Doonside .. this is the, current, HEADLINE story for “our” ABC NEWS online .. FFS! …. BLUEY .. the cartoon doggy ..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-13/bluey-28-minute-episode-where-to-watch-the-sign-selling-house/103694762
Scoop: DNC covered Biden legal bills in special counsel probe
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/12/dnc-covered-biden-legal-bills-special-counsel-probe
I’m more surprised that Axios published anything that could be viewed as unsupportive of Biden than the news itself.
Unchecked Asian imports where upward trajectory of energy costs isn’t an issue.
Maybe Thyssenkrup needs to go south east.
Shatterzz
We know a couple at Rooty Hill. They lived for a couple of years at Doonside, full of released crims. From same couple Blacktown is full of PI & Sudanese gangs that battle regularly.
That said there a Cambodian family that owns a take away over the road from from the Doonside railway station that makes a great flat chicken.
I watched a documentary about some Sydney rappers who aren’t allowed to perform in public because of their involvement in gang violence.
Was it on ABC/ SBS? I thought they got an unwarranted sympathetic portrayal.
Linked?
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nsw/teen-boy-dead-after-stabbing-near-sydney-school/news-story/7bbf9f5e8da6441cce25cab44f517c7a
These guys
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13225397/Notorious-OneFour-drill-rapper-Pio-Misa-glorified-postcode-wars-reveals-surprising-new-direction.html
Rosie – That’s what has been happening several times a week. The Hezbies and the pro-Iranian Iraqi militants have been sending in a few dozen basic rockets and a drone or two every few days. The Israelis pound the launch sites and bases. Hezbollah have had nearly three hundred fighters killed they say.
There’s nothing much on JPost and Arutz Sheva. The latter has their US desk do Saturdays (ie Friday their time), so they should be up to date. This is the only story in that area on their site this morning. I think it’s the one you are referring to.
Barrage on the north: At least 40 rockets fired from Lebanon (12 Apr)
Pretty much as the story says this happens every other day.
Vikki Campion:
What will be net zero by the end of this governments tenure is manufacturing which Ms Campion outlines with Albo’s mealy mouthed horseshit.
Nice country we had once.
The easiest action a woman can take to get even is to accuse the man of sexual misconduct even if it is not true. I saw this as a psychologist when in a marriage break up with accusations the dad abused the kids . Hard to prove with small children or kids who have been programmed with propaganda and fed lies. Other situations when it is just he said she said
As we have seen over the past number of years how often this has occurred No knickers the most notorious
In my own situation , Professor at Uni and more recently with person I had just met I did two things , told someone asap , hearsay evidence , and wrote all details down . Professor was sacked however sitting on other as neighbour in same apartment building where everyone is very social and he charms all the other ladies.
All this re Craig Maclachlan as well as all those Liberal politicians.
A little light reading;
https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2024/04/chicago-dems-plotted-worlds-greatest.html
Anybody spot any contemporary “resonance”?
This is more what an attack is expected to be like:
Iran Readies Over 100 Cruise Missiles For Possible Strike Against Israel: US Officials (13 Apr)
A direct attack from Iran would be an act of war, and Israel would likely request the US to meet the terms of their military alliance.
What the fossil in the White House does is anyone’s guess, seeing his staffers are very hostile towards Israel and the muslim vote has been massively voting “uncommitted” in the primaries.
Hydrogen is only a clean fuel when it is used, the difference being it is a waste of energy to produce it. ROI is never mentioned. I believe a state of the art plant is being built next to the Unicorn Fart Bottling Facility run by Union Super Funds.
Compulsory “gender studies”! Schools are deliberately warping children’s minds.
?’We went to see our daughter get a school prize and it was handed to a boy called Tommi’: SUE REID hears a mother’s heartbreaking story of how teachers kept her in the dark over her 14-year-old’s transition
Coming to a nation near you.
Starlink Reportedly Instructed To Shutdown In Zimbabwe By Government (13 Aug)
Increasingly fascist governments everywhere do not want the proles to escape their control. And increasingly they see Elon as an enemy.
From das Alter Fredde:
Black Ball
April 12, 2024 7:33 pm
We can’t reject this out of hand, the Aboriginals will demand proof of God.
Any way around it apart from just refusing the question?
When I was a young gel in the APS I was asked to write a paper about mitigating the risk from Chironex fleckeri, aka box jellyfish.
It was one of the most enjoyable jobs ever – really interesting.
TheirABC informs us that people are still dying or being badly injured by these nasty buggers:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-13/surf-lifesaver-pleads-for-swimmers-to-wear-stinger-suits/103694570
My recommendation, decades ago, was that swimmers in these waters wear pantyhose (which prevent the poison sacs from breaking on the skin) and T shirts. Much to my surprise, these suggestions were not welcomed by my superiors.
Older and wiser, I now realise that I neglected to recommend further research and more warning signs and ‘education’ programs – in other words, more government intervention and expenditure.
I see that nothing much has changed.A ‘stinger suit’ would be the equivalent of pantihose and a t-shirt, although no doubt more expensive.
The thing with these stings is that the pain is so severe it can send people into cardiac arrest, and does.
Never been a fan of the tropics. No seasons except wet and dry, mould, creepy crawlies invading the home, humidity, boring vegetation.
Enjoying the start of autumn in somewhere where it blazes out in all its glory! Magnificent still days with bright blue skies against red, orange and yellow leaves.
Plus, as the nights cool down, all the bugs die. Die! Die, I tells ya (pant, pant). 🙂
coming of rage stories
I don’t see anything other than a bit of hyperbole in that Express article.
More rockets arrived than Iron Dome could manage ie it was ‘overwhelmed’
In This Is What You Get By Laying Out Trays Of Free Money news:
Albanese Made in Queensland strategy earns a ringing endorsement from a leading
trougherbusinessperson.So, it looks like the Wellcamp Hub is going to become a sustainable missile factory.
Sunny uplands ahead…
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1778834893268455577
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Gawd!
Yet another proclamation that Australia will become, under government direction, a sort of economic ‘powerhouse’.
Strikes and Balls: The Israeli Dilemma
Black tape isn’t just invoking the spirits it’s also insisting on intensive archaeological surveys, often extremely labour intensive ie hand sifting tonnes of soil in search of a piece of knapped stone and it is happening on every single project, large or small.
It just doesn’t make the headlines.
Iranian Rial Loses 30% of its Value Overnight
Watermelon overdose cases reveal a deadly risk to compromised kidneys
The Bee, but you have to wonder how long it’ll be before reality catches up.
Trump Indicted For Taking More Chick-fil-A Sauces Than He Actually Needed For His Order
We knew it would happen.
@charliekirk11
Audit: California Lost Track of $24 Billion Spent to Combat Homelessness
@Heritage
We get more of what we fund, including the weaponization of government.
Unfortunately, a bipartisan coalition in Congress keeps voting to fund everything wrong with our federal government.
Some even pay lip service afterwards opposing the things they vote for.
@MikeBenzCyber
This is Unf*cking real. The FBI plotted to get Trump’s valet “sweaty” before going back to see Trump to fool Trump into thinking the valet was out jogging, instead of being in a secret grilling by the FBI.
What is this in reference to?
GreyRanga
April 13, 2024 8:11 am
Hydrogen is only a clean fuel when it is used, the difference being it is a waste of energy to produce it. ROI is never mentioned. I believe a state of the art plant is being built next to the Unicorn Fart Bottling Facility run by Union Super Funds.
Not the only difference, at all.
Hydrogen is the smallest molecule, just one item. As BoN has frequently reminded us, containing it on a reliable basis is not easy and not cheap.
If it is not perfectly contained, the slightest spark and BOOM! Just what you want in the family car, or a factory, or the ‘energy hub’ next door.
Just like the environmental laws, health and safety laws are selectively applied to products and projects favoured by the Greens and their allies.
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 93 Gina Carano lost her career when she refused to lie for Disney. She seems content with it.
Comments at the end of the last thread Roger.
The Dept. of Health has confirmed it has disposed of 35% of the Commonwealth’s covid vaccine supply, with another 15% due to be binned soon due as use by dates expire.
It is estimated only 26.2%of all vaccine doses purchased were administered.
During the covid panic Morrison’s government boasted that it spent $18bn on vaccines and treatment.
Less than 10% of Australians are presently “boostered”, many only so they can keep their jobs in healthcare and related sectors.
Good to see that the Lizard People have dropped the charade of putting stickers over the use-by dates. Any updates on the $500M worth of shingles vaxx?
Well, without going back to check…
As a Galilean Jesus would have spoken Aramaic, which in that region was quite close to Hebrew.
He would have used formal Hebrew in the synagogue and Greek when conversing with Roman soldiers and other Gentiles.
Latin was used on official Roman documents, but not much as a spoken language in the Judean province.
The ABC tries a fact check that, for the first time ever, actually checks out:
How fast does a wombat really run? An investigation into the 40 kph phenomenon
Unsurprisingly, it is not actually one of the official ABC-RMIT fact checks. They are reserved solely for spreading lies.
Russell Brand
This Elon Censorship Fight Could Change EVERYTHING
If it is not perfectly contained, the slightest spark and BOOM! Just what you want in the family car, or a factory, or the ‘energy hub’ next door.
Wow, its almost like *every single* ‘renewable energy’ idea is a fire risk…. EV batteries, Wind turbine fires, Solar farms (due to the electrical infrastructure) etc etc etc
Any updates on the $500M worth of shingles vaxx?
We know that shingles is just another manifestation of a failure of immune surveillance, and given the now well documented immune suppression which occurred with the COVID injections, I struggle to see how ‘vaccinating’ against shingles (actually against Varicella Zoster) can possibly work.
Still, no doubt the experts are onto it.
Imagine the Port Rejuvenation Potential of a 50,000 DWT hydrogen carrier.
Forgot the link for the vax figures.
Remember when Jacinda Ardern told Kiwis to only get their news from the state?
NZ’s only privately owned FTA news service, Newshub, will close its doors at the end of June, leaving NZers who can’t afford a sub to Sky reliant on the state broadcaster…or the interwebs.
Enjoying the start of autumn in somewhere where it blazes out in all its glory! Magnificent still days with bright blue skies against red, orange and yellow leaves.
Yes johanna, Autumn in this part of the world is a pleasant experience. Cold nights and clear sunny days.
Have to wait until Anzac Day before heaters can be turned on or fires lit.
Anzac Day, the day we reserve to remember those who have served our country.
Also the day that Collingwood bashes Essendon.
Who kicked 5 goals in the 1990 Grand Final? Hahaha – Essendon.
Quite possibly true, but ignoring the self inflicted wounds:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-13/nsw-parramatta-police-citizens-youth-club-closes/103700650
A charity that has been providing at-risk youths with breakfast, washed clothes, and mentorship for more than 60 years has shut its doors in Sydney’s west.
Parramatta’s Police Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) was a place where volunteers used the structure of exercise routines to help divert teenagers away from potential crime.
But on Friday the charity closed its Parramatta branch amid rising costs, even though its old premises sold for more than $30 million in 2016.
The thing the ‘urban planners’ who ravaged Parramatta and turned it into a crime-ridden series of empty spaces will never admit to is that their Utopian theories are completely upside down.
First, they closed off the central square to traffic, leading to boarded up shops and a place where nobody who wasn’t trying to score would go after dark.
Then they administered the coup de grace. The main street was a thriving, bubbling string of restaurants, bars and shops. It was four lanes – two for traffic, two for parking, People would cruise along, slip into a park, have a meal or a coffee or a drink, and move on.
Gaia (personified by local councillors) found this deeply offensive. So they blocked off the whole road, The business there are going broke one by one, and the street culture is dead.
As someone who has been here and there, I used to love Parramatta. There was a great shop that sold war historia, you could get a Bloody Mary at 8 am,
and the hardest decision about food was which to choose.
Those evil ‘urban planners’ have destroyed Parramatta,’
First frost in these parts is usually around ANZAC Day.
BOM warning of a warmer than usual winter, so I’d better get some firewood ordered.
Okay, let’s move beyond the pointless Hebrew/ Aramaic discussion. Surely the more relevant question is, are Palestinian Christians in the West Bank treated as any other Palestinian by Israel, or does Israel distinguish between those who are likely to strike at it (perhaps by way of their history of striking Israel), and those that are not (ie. Palestinian Christians) and not treat such people punitively?
Because if it’s the former, I’d describe that as unjustifiable and thus persecution.
Don’t forget Beryl’s Gladishocklian’s trams – turned Church St inside out. Are hey running yet?
“A direct attack from Iran would be an act of war …..”
Quite right Bruce.
What about if a nation attacks another nation’s embassy?
Would that be considered an act of war?
Or is that answer dependent on the nations involved, in accordance with the “Rules Based Order”?
By coincidence have just finished listening to the Tucker Carlson interview with Gina Carano (The Mandalorian and ex UFC fighter) that Indolent posted. Elon is funding her in legal action v Disney who fired her.
Roger’s link on Covid vaccines goes to Substack of Rebekah Barnett who is an independent journalist doing great work. On Twitter she is Dystopian Down Under and well worth following.
Joh
How many developers are going to make a tonne from killing off those pesky small business to replace with dog boxes to satisfy those high density ghettos being planned. I note Paramatta speedway and Rosehill are likely to be/have been casualties as well, weird because V’Landys runs his mouth off all the time but is silent about Rosehill’s resumption.
Yes johanna, Autumn in this part of the world is a pleasant experience. Cold nights and clear sunny days.
Have to wait until Anzac Day before heaters can be turned on or fires lit.
I am aware of that custom, old Canberrans have mentioned it. It reminds me of The Divine Agatha’s A Murder is Announced.
Thank you for that information, Roger. It is hardly surprising. The government vaxx purchases at the height of vaxx-mania should have made absolutely no sense to anyone with even a tenuous grasp of rudimentary mathematics. Remember when the govt announced it was purchasing 50 million doses of the ‘good’ vaxx, Novavax? That was after they’d committed to purchasing goodness-knows how many millions of the other three. Why?? Just madness.
Hopefully there’s enough space in our chemical waste dumps to fit all of those unused vaxxes, given they’re already stuffed full of out-of-date RAT tests.
Thanks to citizen journalist Rebekah Barnett!
Link provided just upthread.
Not in international law.
As far as I know Israel has as little as possible to do with the Wesr Bank as they can, rolling in to root out terrorists, either after attacks or when their information indicates attacks are imminent.
The big tell is the dimunitition of the percentage of Christians in Bethlehem under Jordanian rule, the increase in percentage under Israeli rule and the massive decrease since the PA took over.
The Maronite pointed out he’d never heard of the pastor interviewed by Tucker and he reckoned he had a congregation of ten.
You can also look at how few Christians now love in Gaza, under a thousand when there were 3000 when Hamas took over in 2007.
You might also consider the persecution of Christians in Syria, in Egypt, in Iraq, in Lebanon.
Incidentally, 7000 Chrimmigrated immigrated from Lebanon to Israel in 2000.
The Israeli Christian community is the only growing one in the middle east.
Last year or possibly the year before, there was news that a Perth couple I’d never heard of had bought a 1970s-era riverside mansion that had not aged well at all. Absolutely prime real estate due to the location, however. They were planning on demolishing it and rebuilding. Something presumably palatial, given the neighbouring properties. Apparently they’d made their money by importing RAT tests from China when the WA government bought an absurdly large number of these (far more than we could ever use). That was one helluva get-rich-quick scheme, and totally legal.
Probably had to know the right people to get the contract, however. I don’t think the government went through the standard procurement processes, given the ’emergency’. We need a bazillion RAT tests yesterday! Who can deliver? Okay, here’s a signed cheque – just write in whatever number you need to get the job done.
The issue in Israel appears to be certain Protestant sects aggressively proletysing.
That would tick me off too.
Over 50 million Novovax jabs not used as per Barnett article. Remember that was the non MNRA jab that many were waiting for but arrived and got approved too late (ie. January 2022). Then when it was approved it was only for first two jabs and not as a booster. Problem was that by then jab no 3, the booster, was being mandated so pointless to take Novovax as would still need to take Pfizer as a booster.
So following the science, oops I mean lack of demand, TGA a month later said now OK as a booster. However the damage was done and many who had been waiting for it did not take it up. I know a GP who was waiting for it but reluctantly took Pfizer as wanted to keep job and time had run out for him.
“Remember when the govt announced it was purchasing 50 million doses of the ‘good’ vaxx, Novavax? “
What a brilliant strategy by NATO. After 2 years and much blood and treasure, NATO has fashioned a larger and more capable RuAF. This is winning.
Okay so I think I can safely ignore this person as not being credible. Took only a few seconds of internet research to find evidence pre-dating the pastor’s Tucker interview that suggests he holds a position of some stature in Bethlehem and would obviously have a congregation larger than 10.
Incidentally, how would this guy know that a pastor he’d never heard of have a congregation of 10?
from The Australian:
Those sex robots cannot come soon enough.
I can imagine it would be a good business filling a brothel with perfect women.
And Putin has fashioned a larger and more capable NATO.
Brilliance all ’round!
The WA government spent $580 million on RAT tests…
I used a RAT test once. The water from the kitchen tap came up clear.
True story.
LOL. NATO is a dead man wallking.
I wouldn’t put it as plainly as that. And there are strong reasons for counting them as acts of war.
“Yet another proclamation that Australia will become, under government direction, a sort of economic ‘powerhouse”.
Hey, Tennis Elbow.
This is a Powerhouse –
? https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.yzOobRO6JeAJYKm55PZQugHaEo&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=170&h=106
Psychedelics and trauma: How one survivor of festival terror attack ‘felt no fear’By Natan Odenheimer, Aaron Boxerman and Gal KoplewitzApril 13, 2024 — 5.45am
Listen to this article
10 min
One Israeli said that being high on LSD during the Hamas-led attack on October 7 prompted a spiritual revelation that helped him escape the carnage at a desert rave. Another is certain the drug MDMA made him more decisive and gave him the strength to carry his girlfriend as they fled the scene. A third said that experiencing the assault during a psychedelic trip has helped him more fully process the trauma.
Some 4000 revellers gathered on the night of October 6 at a field in southern Israel, mere kilometres from the Gaza Strip border, for the Tribe of Nova music festival. At dawn, thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed Israel’s defences under the cover of a rocket barrage.
About 1200 people were killed that day, the deadliest in Israeli history according to Israeli authorities, including 360 at the rave alone. Many of the ravers were under the influence of mind-altering substances such as LSD, MDMA and ketamine as they witnessed the carnage or fled for their lives.
For a group of Israeli researchers at the University of Haifa, the attack has created a rare opportunity to study the intersection of trauma and psychedelics, a field that has drawn increased interest from scientists in recent years.
The young chap takes off his prosthetic legs and goes into beast mode.
@2:09
Good stuff.
Knuckle Sandwich Compilation
https://rumble.com/v4objj6-knuckle-sandwich-compilation.html
More white supremacy:
(15) Collin Rugg on X: “JUST IN: Memphis police officer Joseph McKinney shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee during a shootout with teens. The incident happened at 2am when police officers say they were shot at by teens inside a car. It gets even more infuriating: One teen involved in the shootout,… https://t.co/bPClcTMjWw” / X (twitter.com)
Too many good insights into the shitminds of lefties to select one:
FrontPage Magazine | Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out
It was the best, and we knew it. So did much of the world, that’s why after the war so many wanted to come here. Fresh start, opportunities, good place to raise your family, affordable.
And those that came then, predominantly European, assimilated with Australia with enthusiasm. They wanted better for them and their children and theirs. So they worked at it.
It’s hard to look back and not grieve for that place, considering the multi-culti abomination that’s been thrust onto us.
That NATO shouldn’t be confused with the other NATO
which is currently discovering exactly how far
behind the capability curve they really are.
What’s the issue?
A new film on the American Civil War – This one quite soon.
Here is the Trailer –
https://youtu.be/e-FZ7hQ5EYU
Cronkite, Fraser may have started it, but we need to understand where it may have all came from. Fraser’s mother had Jewish heritage and the refugee thing could’ve played on his mind. Also, in the 70s, no one would’ve known what the fck Islam was about. Hit him for other things like not floating the Aussie dollar sooner.
Gotta luv soccer reports .. headliner on ALeague.com ..
Irankunda scores ANOTHER stunner in Coopers Stadium farewell
So you click on it and what do you get .. Adelaide Utd overseas bound kid scores a goal against Macarthur Utd last night ….. but ….. read on .. and .. Adelaide got beaten 2-1 and the same “kid” missed a penalty ..
Sorta cancels out the “STUNNER” .. LOL! ..
Elon is amazing.
SpaceX’s most-flown reusable rocket will go for its 20th launch tonight (12 Apr)
Sadly just missed it, since it was due for 01:22 UTC and that was about fifty minutes ago. I just found a YT of it here though, the Moon just above and left of the launcher is a very fine and symbolic accidental feature.
So edifying to see and hear the braindead lamestream meeja stroking itself into an orgasmic frenzy at the prospect of an iranian attack on Israel.
And to be fair to SpaceX here’s their own coverage, which is high quality.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1778464774894072023
Launching recovering fueling up and relaunching the same rocket 20 times is an awesome historic milestone.
Where do the Palestinians displaced from their West Bank land by ‘settlers’ end up? Living on skyhooks?
It was still firmly that way in 1980.
It obviously still is attractive – although the opportunities that do the attracting appear to be significantly different.
I’m amused that Stephen Romei gives it four stars in the Paywallian today.
John Nolte’s take is a tiny bit different…
‘Civil War’ Review: Ridiculously Dopey, Anti-Trump Snuff Film (12 Apr)
😀 RTWT, it’s worth it!
Australia bins 35% of multi-billion dollar Covid vaccine supplyOnly 26% of the total 267 million purchased doses have made it into Aussie armsREBEKAH BARNETT
APR 13
As part of its pandemic response, the Australian government purchased 267.3 million doses of Covid vaccines, enough to vaccinate Australia’s population of approximately 26 million people ten times over.
But figures released to Dystopian Down Under by the Department of Health (DOH) this week confirm that, three years into the vaccine program, only 70 million doses, or 26% of the 267.3 million doses purchased, have been administered, while 35% of vaccines doses have been wasted since the start of the vaccine rollout.
Last week, the Australian reported that more than 35% of Covid vaccines were being tossed out as of January due to oversupply. The revelation came from the DOH’s public submission to the federal Covid inquiry.
The wording made it unclear if this was a cumulative figure or applicable only to the month of January, so I contacted the DOH to confirm the total wastage to date, along with some further questions on the value of doses purchased, delivered, and wasted, and exactly how many had been administered.
A DOH spokesperson responded,
This appears to mean that 80% of the wasted doses simply expired on the shelf.
The remaining 20% of wasted doses would likely be due to administration sites not managing to use the entire contents of multi-dose vials once opened. While unopened vials have a shelf-life of anywhere between 9-18 months, opened vials must be used within 6-48 hours.
The DOH refused to confirm the value of doses purchased or wasted, or how many of the purchased doses have actually been delivered, “for contractural and security reasons.” The Australian government has repeatedly refused to release details of its tax-payer-funded Covid vaccine purchase agreements.
However, we know that total government spending on Covid vaccines and treatment supply amounts to over $18 billion, of which it appears that the lion’s share was allocated to purchasing vaccine doses.¹
Source: Department of Health and Aged Care
Most of these remain unused. DOH figures provided to me this week show that as at 3 April, only a quarter (70 million) of the 267.3 million purchased doses had been used, at a total usage rate of 26.2%
Of the remaining 197.3 million unadministered doses, the DOH advised that approximately 53 million doses have been donated as foreign aid.²
That leaves approximately 144 million doses, more than half of the total stockpile, either already expired, or likely to expire within the next several years, as booster rates hover below 10%. ³
As Australia’s vaccine purchases extend into 2023 and 2024, it is probable that a portion of these doses still be viable up to 2025.
But even if vaccine doses never expired, it would take Australians 29 years to work their way through the glut, based on the five million boosters administered in the past 12 months.
As it stands, usage rates by brand are as below:
In a July 2022 article investigating Australia’s already apparent vast vaccine wastage, the ABC asked if perhaps the government had bought too many vaccines?
Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University, criticised the government’s run on the global vaccine supply, suggesting that Australia had hoarded more than its share.
Prof Gleeson told the ABC,
It’s enough to make advocates for global vaccine equity lose sleep at night.
The news of the Australian government’s wastage of billions of dollars worth of Covid vaccines comes as Australians are grappling with the soaring cost of living and the worst housing crisis on record, with over a quarter of a million Australians accessing homelessness services in 2022-2023.
The government webpage also details investment in aid program COVAX, and research and supply chain developments, including some funding for the development of a potential Covid vaccine (since abandoned). The page mentions a 10-year partnership with Moderna and the Victorian Government that will see Moderna build an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility at Monash University Victoria. However, it is unclear if funding for the Moderna partnership comes from this $18 billion investment, or from other funding.
From a DOH spokesperson,
Note that because the DOH would not confirm how many of the 267.3 million purchased doses have been delivered, the precise number of doses sitting in the national stockpile cannot be determined. However, the vaccine agreement webpage does specify delivery dates of some purchases, and from this, it can be ascertained that the great majority of doses purchased have already been delivered.
No one except those who read books.
So edifying to see and hear the braindead lamestream meeja stroking itself into an orgasmic frenzy at the prospect of an iranian attack on Israel.
And, of course, the retaliatory consequences will be all Israel’s fault .. nuttin to do with those sweet mullahs …. FFS!
Haaretz
Exactly. I can’t imagine why Jews wouldn’t like being harassed by proletizing Evangelicals near the Wailing Wall
Alex Garland is a very talented writer, producer, director.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307497/
His work usually needs rewatching.
Devs wasn’t perfect, but was very thought provoking.
No doubt Civil War will be multi layered.
I’m guessing it will be along the same lines as The Hunt.
A Rorschach test.
Peter Hartcher, who wrote the prescient book “Red Zone” a couple of years ago, reckons that Xi has deliberately put the brakes on the Chinese economy – not because it was overheated – but because he is preparing China for war.
Hartcher is a Leftie (like Clive Hamilton who has also written on the threat of China – “Silent Invasion” & “Hidden Hand”) – but has done impeccable research on China & understands their modus operandi.
https://omny.fm/shows/please-explain-1/peter-hartcher-on-why-china-is-tanking-its-economy
Another Brit gets into bother on Koh Tao Thailand:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13300463/British-backpacker-dead-shallow-water-ditch-Thailands-notorious-Koh-Tao-Death-Island-vanishing-night-girlfriend.html
Mates mrs tells me words doing the round on Thai social media bush telegraph and have for years is a very influential mans family is involved with all these killings. The man owns all the cops on the island and has mafia links as well. Apparently a number of Thais have suffered the same fate. Usually suicide or immigrant workers blamed. First rule of travel, don’t walk in dark areas alone at night in foreign countries…
And an Israeli in Malaysia.
Israeli arrested in Malaysia faces up to 40 years in prison (13 Apr)
Malaysia is muslim majority, do not go there.
First rule of travel, don’t walk in dark areas alone at night in foreign countries…
If you do have to go out in a known dangerous area late at night, if it has street lights walk in the middle of the road, you have a chance to see who is coming. (Obviously traffic permitting)
An old Port Moresby safety tip.
Abbott gets interviewed by the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend interview. He gave a speech in Phoenix Az.
Tony Abbott, a Fighter in the Cold War With China
The former Australian prime minister is worried by the U.S. tilt toward isolationism—though he has faith America will come through in the end.
” but wishes it had been more. “The congressional game-playing over the Ukrainian aid package is wrong. Given that everyone says they wanted to provide the aid, I just wish they would not let their disagreements on other issues jeopardize the provision of aid that Ukraine desperately needs.”
I don’t know if Abbott is a simpleton or just dishonest. Calling Ukraine a democracy is preposterous. Given the political games the neocons have been playing there for decades, Abbott’s arguments are specious.
No thanks. Abbott is living in the past.
Well I liked Abbott’s speech.
The Ukraine had elections, irrespective if there was large scale interference, I guess in that’s the criterion then the US isn’t a democracy either.
It’s not. It’s a constitutional republic, as designed by the Founding Fathers. Now subverted by stolen elections.
For all his intellect, Abbott is a feather head.
Just on 4BC. Just happened
4 people stabbed at Bondi Westfield. Cops have shot one person. Shops have closed shutters with customers and staff inside.
Place your bets on culprit.
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He’s also part of the political establishment.
The other half of the political establishment now rules Australia. The fact that it’s the socialist half is beside the point.
Abbott still sees a world where rules apply. The ALP — and China — do not.
“Abbott still sees a world where rules apply. The ALP — and China — do not.”
Abbott speech made a couple of references to how China doesn’t play by the rules.
That is the point, Rosie.
Daily Telegraph now got brief details about Bondi.
First to be stabbed was a mother and child.
Police operation under way, reports of stabbings at Bondi Junction
By cydonee mardon
and madeline crittenden
A police operation is under way at a shopping centre in Bondi Junction, with reports a man has stabbed four people, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Witnesses say a man was chasing people with a knife, before the Westfield complex was evacuated and locked down.
It’s understood multiple people have been stabbed.
Early reports suggest the armed man has been shot by police. Police believe there is one offender.
Police – including the Tactical Operations Unit – and ambulances are on scene, and people have been seen screaming and crying out the front of the complex.
A young witness currently locked inside a store – said she has heard gunshots and “blood-curdling” screams.
“We are absolutely terrified,” she said.
2024. Russia held scheduled presidential elections, Ukraine did not.
Abbott’s position is just boilerplate.
Check this out:
Then he says:
In other words, we have to have an economic policy shaped by strategic purposes.
Let’s be honest, Abbott is just milking the MIC talk circuit.
“I just think, frankly, that America is badly letting down a democracy in desperate need.”
What absolute tosh. Unless he’s talking about how the US turned the Ukraine into a playground for the Washington War Machine. Or unless he was talking about the US in desperate need for free and fair presidential elections. Of course he wasn’t, so what an absolute twerp. Can’t these idiots think outside the square? Like I say, just fluffing around. I have no time for him anymore.
Newsdotcomdotau reporting four fatalities and multiple injured:
Four people are dead and many more injured after a mass stabbing inside a packed Westfield at Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
The horror unfolded at 4pm on Saturday afternoon when witnesses say a man began stabbing shoppers at random, including a woman and her baby, before being shot by police.
I think Abbott’s point is that the strongest nation makes the rules – If it is the US then we will benefit but if China runs things then the rules will be tilted strongly against our interests in favour of China.
At present China is flouting the rules we are accustomed to and acting in accordance with, for their own gain.
There has always some skirmishing on the edges – the EU wants to make the rules (they used to) but they have less clout than the US.
My memory of the 70’s was that of an America in decline, militarily, economically, and in confidence. Then, in the 80’s, under The Gipper, there was a resurgence. America may be poised to do so again – depending on the election.
He also had a point regarding the way that, under America, other countries begin to become like America. Obviously there has been a pop-culture transmission, but I think in more profound concepts as well. Concepts like that of free speech and egalitarianism are far more energetically asserted (and threatened by bad people – which is a sort of acknowledgement also) in other countries now than I think would be otherwise. People in Australia and Europe assume they have an absolute right to free speech. It is a point being constantly tested by the self-serving elites, just as it is in the US.
Europe and Australia are suffering the same malaise as the US. We caught it from them.
Australia became a very different country when we shifted our upward gaze from Britain to America.
Last point I will make is that I am glad Abbott did not overstate Australia’s importance – we don’t have the heft, as I think he put it. But he emphasised new alliances such as with India and Japan. That can’t be called looking back.
Cats, one thing I will say about reaching an age when one is supposed to know better, is thank bloody goodness for friends.
You don’t necessarily need to rely on them, but to have them available to cheer you up is one of those great bonuses in life. 🙂
a man began stabbing shoppers at random, including a woman and her baby
What kind of man could do that? It’s beyond my comprehension.
What kind of a pubic serpent could let people like that into the country?
From a witness at Bondi Junction Westfield
Oh yes we would.
And now I’ve just had my old mum on the phone in tears…any news?
Four people are dead and many more injured after a mass stabbing inside a packed Westfield at Sydney’s Bondi Junction.
Oh no…I hope it is not inspired by what I am thinking…….
This allegedly is the perpetrator:
A certain incident in a Yekaterinburg basement c.106 years ago showed rather clearly that commies do not play by the rules. Those who are today still bewildered when commies do not play by the rules are, shall we say, off the pace.
From the footage it doesn’t seem to be one of the “usual suspects”, but a common or garden lunatic.
The “entirely unpredicted” consequences of the “one child policy” induced sex imbalance has not helped.
Again – WTF is china massively building up its military if it isn’t thinking that one fleeting chance of a mythical “Grater* East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere” with the resulting booty might just possibly be within their grasp?
Or in other words, why bother paying for something when you are able to simply take it?
We’ll find this out shortly enough.
*Deliberate
Cassie predicted this months ago.
And here we are.
Thanks politicians, you disgusting evil quisling deadshits.
$1.01 today’s Sydney mass murderer or his parents were born in the Middle East.
In a “convenient” Kangaroos jersey to muddy the waters further.
Thankfully home again.
Good news – toe is no longer blue and blood is getting past the clot.
Bad news – foot still v sore as a result of lots of small clots across the bridge of the foot.
Best news, no signs of any other clots.
OKish news, the clots were mostly blood and the blood thinners should clear them in the fullness of time and stop any new ones forming due to excess haemoglobin.
As part of the investigation they found my heart rhythm is “off”, so more tests after I have been on the thinners for a few weeks, hoping that resolves the issue.
Absolutely no complaints about Nambour or SCUH hospitals or Queensland Ambulance.
I shall await the news. If the details are suppressed, then we will have an answer. If they smell of being spun, we have an answer also.
Lunatics can be inspired and manipulated by all sorts of things.
HI all, just letting you know that I am safe as is my family. Late Saturday arvo is a time when I am often at the ‘Junction’. I already have pictures and video of the perpetrator with a knife on the escalators. An Israeli news site is already showing a picture of the ‘Arab or Pakistani’. A friend drove out of the carpark during the ‘stabbings’ and saw people fleeing and screaming. If Mum had been there, there’s no way she could have run.
Here’s my theory, he/they is a Muslim, and he/they went looking for Jews to kill, because he/they know Bondi Junction is an area with a lot of Jews.
My caveat to this is that I will be happy to admit I’m wrong but here’s the thing, I suspect I won’t be.
Wait for the ‘mental illness’ angle. Wait for the spiel about “Islamophobia’. The template is already set.
Wait for PM Sleazy, Senator Pong, Pretty Boy Minns and all the rest of the cockroaches currently governing this once great country try and whitewash this.
Bondi Junction is an area I know very well. Once of my earliest memories is of the Junction is shopping with my mother in the food hall of the old Grace Brothers. I think I was about four years old.
I am sitting with my mother, she is crying.
Just saw a photo taken from a different angle – may very well be one of the usual suspects.
Cassie was not alone, Rabz.
I’m too old to be a Pollyanna. This might be the first fruit of Wong’s vile speech.
We don’t have absolute free speech in Australia but a constitutionally guaranteed right to free political speech.
It’s about to be tested due to the Misinformation Bill, if it isn’t already – I believe some fellow who posts on X has been fined c. $75K by Ms Inman Grant, the e-safety commissioner, which he is refusing to pay.
Cassie of Sydney
April 13, 2024 5:52 pm
Good to see you back, albeit with sh*t news.
Take care.
Cassie. so glad to hear that you and yours are OK. I think many people have been holding their breaths, waiting for this to happen as the inevitable result of Albo’s and Labor’s cowardice after October 9 in Sydney. May God rot them.
The Bondi Junction stabbings – brought to you by the labore pardee
Just as I had suspected—those bloody Amish at it again!
Brought to you by the labore pardee.
The Bondi Junction stabbings – brought to you by the labore pardee
and assorted canbra cockroaches
Like calli, I shall wait for more detail prior to opining, but if it does turn out to be from the demographic we all suspect, it doesn’t take much imagination to visualise the various media outlets dipping into the ‘recycled’ bin for fabricated stories of ‘backlash.’
I don’t believe I could despise them any more than I do, but that could be about to be tested if the worst fears are confirmed.
Good to hear Diogenes, take care.
There are reports of four dead.
Mum is in a state of shock, yelling at the television, shouting ‘cockroaches’.
Good to have you back, Cassie. Glad to hear you are OK.
If Dutton succeeds and I hope he does, his big challenge will be the same as Abbott’s- taking on the permanent gubmint in canbra. I’m a bit more forgiving of Abbott regarding his term as PM than some here. It’s his retreat to just making speeches and going on nice trips that disappoints me to say the least.
Mum is in a state of shock, yelling at the television, shouting ‘cockroaches’.
That’s fair comment. Good on Her.
I’m still spinning out.
341 mph.
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I’m happy I started supporting Advance Australia a year or so ago. They seem to be capable of keeping the LNP in line so to speak. Better than rushing off to join UAP or PHON I think.
Lone wolf from religion of pieces? In one, two, three …
Wong and Sleazy this is on your head from your own gutlessness.
I did think domestic violence when the first victims were a baby and mother.
We shall see, there were two buys stabbed at a bus stop a day or so ago, too.
Bruce in WA
April 13, 2024 5:38 pm
This allegedly is the perpetrator:
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Yes, and part of the phone video taken by a shopper and shown on Ch 9 News earlier. The man on the left facing him seemed to challenge his path so he moved off to his left and continued on……………………………
If the perp does turn out to be of a particular breed, perhaps the Palli worshippers may have a Damascene moment.
What happened today was a smaller version of 7th October.
Yes, I’m jumping ahead on this, but does ‘radicalisation’ only take six months from ‘aspiring footballer’ to cowardly murder?
IF it is as we suspect, one wonders if this individual attended a certain place of … ummm, how shall I put this … influence?
HOP Time™, Cats – it is now o’fficially overdue! 😡
Well done the guy on the escalator with the bollard.
Daily Mail has video of a police officer doing cpr. Looks like 2 stabbed at Chanel (I think)
That does look like a Caucasian face in the photo. Not that that rules anything in or out.
Lone wolf.
Mental illness.
Move on.
muds – arabs (the stinking useless pieces of shit) are “caucasians”.
Five confirmed dead.
Just leaves you dumbstruck so this is Lindt MKII.
It has to be said.
Senior Ladee police officer, on her own, confronted this grub and went the full Dirty Harry, taking him out with a single shot.
Well done, ma’am.
The perpetrator was put down by a woman.
Senior police officer. Well done.
Incredible too that ‘Dr’ Miles giggled when asked about the murder of the Australian citizen at Ipswich. The garbage that is the political class.
perhaps the Palli worshippers may have a Damascene moment.
hahahajah
” What was Peter Duttons role in this after his divisive comments last week”…
oh high rotation in 3,2,1
Bingo!
“This person has acted alone. I am content there is no continuing threat.”
From the Oz
Snap calli.
Whilst the Ninja Turtles were jumping out of the black vans and assembling in the safety of numbers, she took it upon herself to track him alone, intercept him and pop him off.
Well done.
This Westfield massacre reminds me a lot (and bear with me, Cats) of the Strathfield massacre back in 1991.
Some complete f*ckwit blunders into a shopping centre with the sole intention of killing people around him.
One was inspired by who knows what, the other by collectivist politicians such as albansleazey, pong and minns excusing and whipping up hatred against Israel and Jews.
You loathsome pieces of shit – you will pay – Munich ’72 style.
It has to be said.
Senior Ladee police officer, on her own, confronted this grub and went the full Dirty Harry, taking him out with a single shot.
Well done, ma’am.
Agree.
Various sub- mongs on twitter feculating that we should all day nothing until the police/media/pollies decide how to spin it.
Including a couple of sub-sub- mongs saying how wonderful it is no one can get a gun in Austfailure.
?Grate work, albansleazey, pong and minns, you communist pieces of shit.
What a shit-show that presser was.
Johnny Rotten
April 13, 2024 6:11 pm
Bruce in WA
April 13, 2024 5:38 pm
This allegedly is the perpetrator:
Take out a gun and shoot the bastard.
This new format is…..ahem….bewildering.
I’m sorry to post this..but the baby is confirmed dead.
Poor little mite.
I am always perplexed when I see after a mass/stabbing/shooting the hundreds of law enforcement officers in para-military gear mulling around.
And then out comes the truth that one or two or three brave individuals took direct, quick action and stopped it.
Converse is when the one or two don’t step up, then you get that cluster f*k like that school in America
Big shout out to those citizens who picked up whatever was handy, and waded in.