Doha | Australia’s dancing substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne saved the last penalty to clinch a place at this year’s soccer World Cup in Qatar as they edged Peru 5-4 in a shootout following a 0-0 draw after extra time in an intercontinental playoff on Monday.
Redmayne danced across the goal line before diving to the right to stop a kick from Alex Valera and hand Australia a deserved victory at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.
QLD News12 minutes ago
New warning to brace for blackouts as power price surge continues
Queensland residents have again been warned to be prepared for blackouts tonight as regulators maintain price caps on generators as the price of power surges
This NEM thing is wild. Now Taswegia is importing the price is down to $200. I presume the reason the price went to the max when they were exporting was to gouge the market.
Mrs made some enquires about switching super over to cash and was told “that may not be all that good because we invest in some banks with negative interest rates”
‘Outright lying’:
Australian scientist hits out at TGA after ‘life-changing’ Covid vaccine injury
An Australian scientist, left unable to work for eight months after a debilitating neurological reaction he blames on the Covid shot, has likened the treatment of people suffering vaccine injuries to that of returning veterans with health issues after the Vietnam War.
Dr Rado Faletic has slammed the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) adverse event reporting process, saying the medicines regulator tasked with vaccine safety surveillance was “simply uninterested” in investigating his symptoms despite submitting multiple reports.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers tests Covid positive and is now isolating on the same day $100 Billion is wiped off the ASX.
Did he – maybe – get it from Trudeau – who maybe – got it from Biden?
I’ve tested positive for COVID-19. I’ll be following public health guidelines and isolating. I feel okay, but that’s because I got my shots. So, if you haven’t, get vaccinated – and if you can, get boosted. Let’s protect our healthcare system, each other, and ourselves.
It would have been soooo much worse without the vaxxxxx ….
Several researchers reportedly “in advanced discussion” with the World Health Organization have proposed changing the name of the monkeypox virus in order to be “non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing.”
Oh the irony! Power blackout in Zali Steggall’s electorate. The ‘climate change’, renewable power advocate gets cut off. Too funny. With Liebor in power, expect much, much more of this!
One of the helpful replies:
Found a way for you to promote your ‘Zero Carbon’ Renewable Energy push, AND provide power to the people of your electorate who suffered through the latest blackout…
LIVE POLITICS NOW
Bowen tries to calm blackout fears
Energy minister Chris Bowen says he is confident of power supply for the foreseeable future, as long as there are no further unexpected closures of coal-fired power stations.
By JESS MALCOLM
And
GRID OVERHAUL
WA reveals plan to shut coal-fired power stations
In a dramatic overhaul, the McGowan government will pump almost $4bn into renewable energy, storage and infrastructure.
By PAUL GARVEY
World Health Organization have proposed changing the name of the monkeypox virus in order to be “non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing
They should have public suggestions and an online vote. Remember Boaty McBoatface? Those were the days.
LEIGH SALES: After the RBA October board meeting last year, you said that rates would not rise before 2024. In May the RBA lifted rates by 25 basis points, then this month by 50. What changed from last October?
PHILIP LOWE: What we’ve said right through the last two years was, and this is important, if the economy evolved as we expected, interest rates were unlikely to increase until 2024.
So for most of the past two years, we thought that growth would be slow to recover, that inflation would stay fairly low, that there’d be a long tail from the pandemic and given that, we thought interest rates would need to stay where they were until 2024.
So sometimes my comments get interpreted as me having made a promise, or a very strong statement that interest rates would stay where they were to 2024. In our own communication, in our own way of thinking, that was very much a conditional statement. If the economy evolved, as we had expected, we’d keep rates where they were until ‘24.
But the economy didn’t evolve as we expected. It’s been much more resilient, and inflation has been higher and we thought we needed to respond to that.
The Israeli-American company Celsius announced last night that it is freezing the assets of its users – 1.7 million in total, according to the company’s latest count. That is, people who deposited their coins – be it Bitcoin, Ether or anything else – have lost all access to them, can not withdraw the coins, exchange them, pay with them for other loans they took or sell them. Will they ever be able to get their assets? Only time will tell.
An old man in hospital had received no nursing care for a week. He wasn’t fed for three days. He asked a nurse if he could be bathed. She brought him a damp paper towel and told him to do it himself.
A 92-year-old former ward sister was told that she had terminal liver failure. The doctor had apparently conducted an examination via a video link. A face to face visit was refused. Taken by a relative to the local A&E department, the woman was diagnosed with a simple infection – treated with antibiotics. Three days later she made a full recovery. (There had been a 12 hour wait on a ward trolley.)
A patient was admitted to hospital as an emergency had to wait 49 hours before a bed could be found for him.
A patient with a broken arm, in great pain, was told by an ambulance service that her condition wasn’t life threatening and that the wait would be eight hours.
An 89-year-old woman waited six hours for an ambulance and died.
It is now recognised that failing ambulance services are responsible for many deaths. In Northern Ireland ambulance delays were a contributory factor in 14 deaths. Ambulances spend 25% to 30% of their time waiting outside emergency departments.
An NHS boss who had a stroke was taken to hospital by her husband and recovered. She said it might have been different if she’d called 999.
Waiting times for ambulances have never been as long. The ambulance service is so bad that patients are told to call a taxi – it’ll be quicker.
Such stories now abound.
Hospitals are so badly run that millions of people would rather stay at home – even if that means dying alone and without medical care. Hospital staff have taken away dignity and hope – even these are among the most valuable things a doctor or nurse can offer. They have replaced hope and dignity with despair and disillusionment.
Seriously ill patients who visit Accident and Emergency units in hospitals must routinely wait ten hours for treatment. It is reported that 90% of patients who visit A&E go there because they cannot contact their GP. That’s not surprising. The average GP now works a three day week or less. Most made a fortune giving covid jabs and are trying to keep their tax bills down. Even those who work a full week manage less hours than a librarian – and never see emergencies. Many GPs stay at home and still refuse to see patients face to face. The evidence proves this is dangerous but it is, say doctors, the future. GPs claim they are overworked but the evidence proves the contrary.
Physiotherapy departments which shut in March 2020 are still shut. Physiotherapists work from home though no one explains how they manage this.
While patients are ignored, the NHS spends a fortune on hiring ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ administrators – though no one knows what these people are supposed to do or why they are considered necessary. Hospitals pay huge salaries to employees with jobs as bizarre as ‘Hard FM Commissioning Manager’ and ‘Portfolio Lead for People-Led Care’ – though no one seems to know what these titles mean. There’s a shortage of nurses and beds but ‘Equality chiefs’ are paid £90,387 a year and there are ‘diversity managers’ galore.
People who collapse at home or in the street are routinely tested for covid – even though the test that is used has been proved to be entirely useless. If they test positive they are put on a covid ward and forgotten. They receive no other tests and no treatment. This isn’t medicine – it is cultism.
Patients who complain are simply drugged and sent to sleep. There appears to be war on the elderly – with hospitals slapping Do Not Resuscitate notices on just about everyone over 60 (and a good many younger than that).
Everyone who falls ill is regarded by the NHS as a burden – a second class citizen. Everyone ill over 60 is a 3rd class citizen – not worth bothering with.
MPs have warned that there is no evidence that Britain’s appalling cancer care will catch up with other countries. Another 2.7 million have joined the cancer backlog waiting diagnosis and care. The number is increasing by 1,000 a day.
The driving forces of modern medicine are stupidity, greed, incompetence and ignorance. Doctors and nurses seem too busy or too uppity to do what they’re paid to do.
Doctors and hospitals who have been told to abandon crazy covid rules (masks, hand sanitiser and social distancing) are, like children holding onto comfort blankets, insisting on clinging to these insanities. It’s been proven that masks, sanitiser and social distancing did far more harm than good. But no one in health care understands science anymore.
Last year absurd new working rules meant that 2,000 dentists quit the NHS. Over four million patients now have no access to NHS dental care. Those who can find an NHS dentist are waiting three years for an appointment.
Hospitals have been told that it is illegal to prevent relatives or friends accompanying or visiting patients. But hospital staff break the law without caring.
Waiting lists are now so long that most patients will die before they are treated. Private health care services cannot cope with the sudden rise in demand. A third of 18-34 year olds are considering funding their own private care and 85% of patients on NHS waiting lists have paid for or are considering private treatment. Consultants are making a fortune.
The NHS has more money than it needs. But most of the money is wasted on administrators. There are more of those than there are beds or nurses!
If the NHS were closed down and the money shared out, every one in Britain would be able to afford excellent private medical care.
The NHS is dead. Let’s bury it.
Please share this article with everyone you know who can read.
This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.
The UK Government is fast tracking legislation through Parliament ‘in consequence of recent events in Ukraine’. Why am I not surprised.
If you die before your 75th birthday then your beneficiaries can draw down money from your pension scheme tax free. If you die after your 75th birthday they’ll generally pay income tax on the amounts they draw down from the pension. Quite an incentive to kill yourself if you’re approaching 75. (I’m out of temptation because I’m over the age limit.)
Pensioners who don’t have a civil service pension, and who rely on a private pension, will be hit hard by the fact that there has been a 25% drop in dividend payments.
Twitter recently paid out $150 million over claims that it harvested 140 million users’ phone numbers. Twitter had broken a promise made in 2011 after previous incidents. The company exploited customers’ privacy concerns in a way that facilitated further invasions of consumer privacy. Lovely people eh.
‘Stagnation, inflation and taxation have combined to sound the death knell of capitalism in England.’ – Paul E. Erdman writing in `The Crash of 79’ (first published in 1977).
Is it not slightly odd that the United States is holding over 100 million doses of smallpox vaccine when the disease has been extinct for nearly 40 years.
Antoinette bought me a radio controlled car for my birthday. It is supposed to do around 35 mph. The snag is that on the box there is a label saying ‘suitable for 14-year-olds and older’. I am usually OK with stuff for up to five-year-olds but I’m going to have trouble with this. The back of our garage is stuffed with solar panels, garden equipment, etc. that remains a mystery to me.
It occurred to me that Boris Johnson makes Richard Nixon look positively decent and honest. Johnson masquerades as a gentleman but he doesn’t have a single attribute that would qualify him for that designation. Tory MPs who support him and defend him are reprehensible and indefensible.
A primary school in London is reported to have pupils speaking 60 different languages. Over a third of the pupils are entitled to free meals (a common sign of poverty).
Good broadcasters always employ at least some members of staff who work on the edge. It’s what makes them exciting. I cannot think of anyone employed by the BBC who is likely to know how to spell the word `originality’ let alone know what it means. Please remember not to pay the BBC licence fee (but do it legally, of course).
On the late evening of 4th June I rushed around the house putting buckets and bowls under leaks. The sky was alight with lightning. A thunderstorm raged for two hours. I looked on the Met office site to see how long the storm might last. The Met Office said that there was ‘a 10% chance of precipitation’. And these people claim to know what the weather will be like in the year 2050!
The absurd love affair with ESG is fading fast. For a couple of years now investment bosses have fallen over backwards (and betrayed investors’ interests) in trying to show their allegiance to the absurd demands of ESG. Now the hapless idiots are beginning to realise that ESG will ruin us all.
Global warming is regarded by too many in the media as an established principle – beyond debate. But there is no more evidence in support of global warming than there is that the moon is made of cream cheese. Those who believe in the myth of global warming are ignorant idiots who are a greater threat to us all than any terrorist group.
The celebrated Canadian physician Sir William Osler once said that ‘The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature that distinguishes man from animals’.
If I were young George, (son of William and Kate and a boy with great expectations) I would be planning for a career outside kinging. His uncle Harry and auntie Meghan will turn Britain into a Republic. And a damned good thing too.
Am I the only one puzzled by the fact that an MP who was spotted looking at tractors on his smart phone has resigned, while the Prime Minister and the Chancellor who have both been fined for breaking the law are still in office. And why has no-one criticised the complainant who looked at the MP while he was looking at tractors? I thought `looking’ was a criminal offence.
Arthur Sackler, whose family company gave the world OxyContin (the opiod painkiller that has launched a thousand lawsuits) helped market Librium and Valium – the world’s first benzodiazepines – spending huge amounts of money on ads in medical journals. (It has always seemed to me that medical journals will take ads for just about anything as long as the drug has a licence and the cheque is large and doesn’t bounce.)
Over 450,000 Americans have died of opiod related overdoses.
Rod Stewart, a singer, complained that the BBC made him sing ‘Sweet Caroline’. How did they make him sing it? Did they threaten to pull out his fingernails? Why didn’t he just say ‘no’?
Rishi Sunak doesn’t have much of a reputation left. I don’t think even Tory MPs would make him the next Prime Minister. He was fined by the police for breaking lockdown laws which he helped create. And his wife managed to avoid paying a good deal of tax. And now Sunak is accused by economists of wasting £11 billion of taxpayers’ money in which the Financial Times calls a ‘debt blunder’. That’s over £180 wasted for every man, woman and child in the UK. Sunak should be forced to pay it back. I’ll have my £180 as a cheque please. I don’t trust bank transfers.
Is it not slightly odd that the United States is holding over 100 million doses of smallpox vaccine when the disease has been extinct for nearly 40 years.
If it’s the same shit they were injecting the military with a few years back then watch myopericarditis go through the roof. From memory it was a strike rate of 1 in 6000 for smallpox vaccines
Wage rise ‘will add fuel to the inflation fire’
The Fair Work Commission’s decision to lift the minimum wage by $40 a week has drawn a mixed response from the government and industry.
This will be the biggest story of the day – unless the electricity supply gets shut off.
AFR
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https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
For some reason, Taswegia price is $15k even though we are exporting 300MW.
Demand in NSW is 11 000MW
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Doha | Australia’s dancing substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne saved the last penalty to clinch a place at this year’s soccer World Cup in Qatar as they edged Peru 5-4 in a shootout following a 0-0 draw after extra time in an intercontinental playoff on Monday.
Redmayne danced across the goal line before diving to the right to stop a kick from Alex Valera and hand Australia a deserved victory at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium.
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Ferkin lol. If you can’t score a point you don’t deserve shit.
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Ferkin lol. If you can’t score a point you don’t deserve shit.
https://ibb.co/Bt2FKpc
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It’s worse than that shatterz.
It’s 120 minutes!
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ASX200 down 5%.
Jim, please announce a new spending package.
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This NEM thing is wild. Now Taswegia is importing the price is down to $200. I presume the reason the price went to the max when they were exporting was to gouge the market.
What a fuck-up.
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Tony Heller:
In part two of this series, I show how the temperature record is being abused by government agencies to create a fabricated warming trend.
The Global Temperature Record (Part Two)
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S&P 500 CLOSES DOWN 22% FROM RECORD HIGH, ENTERS BEAR MARKET
Biden reacts
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Mrs made some enquires about switching super over to cash and was told “that may not be all that good because we invest in some banks with negative interest rates”
How the plook does that benefit members?
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‘Outright lying’:
Australian scientist hits out at TGA after ‘life-changing’ Covid vaccine injury
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Blackrock
Who is Blackrock?
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Owned by Blackrock
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I want to read this article from the Newcastle Herald but it is paywalled. I tried 12ft and Webpage archive but couldn’t get it.
Does anyone have access or is able to bypass the paywall and get to the article?
Another view of billionaire Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, his climate sermons and his bid for AGL
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers tests Covid positive and is now isolating on the same day $100 Billion is wiped off the ASX.
Very convenient.
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Steve, can you add Tony Heller’s Global Temperature Record (Part 1 and 2) to the CatWiki Climate Science Facts section?
Please?
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Did he – maybe – get it from Trudeau – who maybe – got it from Biden?
It would have been soooo much worse without the vaxxxxx ….
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Will do, kaysee.
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Thanks, Steve.
I’m tired of seeing myself alone in the wiki. 🙂
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A short break-time ….
An art gallery
that will drive you crazy
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Did the monkeys complain?
Scientists Want to Change the Name Of Monkeypox To Make It ‘Non-Discriminatory’ and ‘Non-Stigmatizing’.
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Can anyone from Warringah confirm?
John Parry
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In other news, the Chris Waller trained Nature Strip runs tonight at Royal Ascot. 🐎
Coverage on CH78.
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No dice, Kaysee. The Newc Herald has the bestest paywall in the known universe
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Two stories at the top of the Paywallian
LIVE POLITICS NOW
Bowen tries to calm blackout fears
Energy minister Chris Bowen says he is confident of power supply for the foreseeable future, as long as there are no further unexpected closures of coal-fired power stations.
By JESS MALCOLM
And
GRID OVERHAUL
WA reveals plan to shut coal-fired power stations
In a dramatic overhaul, the McGowan government will pump almost $4bn into renewable energy, storage and infrastructure.
By PAUL GARVEY
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Ragu, thanks for giving it a try. I tested a few times and just couldn’t get through.
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Neil Oliver
Are we stupid? Or are we just being treated as if we’re stupid?
Which is it?
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Break time
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Simon Cowell Sings on Stage?!
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Paraglider meets a black vulture.
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Paul Weston talking about current events.
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Paul Weston – The New World Order Is On The March
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Good one, Steve.
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World Health Organization have proposed changing the name of the monkeypox virus in order to be “non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing
They should have public suggestions and an online vote. Remember Boaty McBoatface? Those were the days.
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The prattling RBA governor
https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/reserve-bank-governor-philip-lowe-speaks-on/13929192
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A daily dose of Cash.
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woofCash 2.0 Great Dane at Bass Pro Shops 2 bark growl:
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One more from Cash.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 19
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Mark Dice:
Rachel Maddow Has a NEW Theory of What Really Happened! 😂
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NATURE STRIP HAS DESTROYED THEM. ❤️💛💙
Take a bow @cwallerracing & @mcacajamez
https://twitter.com/7horseracing/status/1536722929912025088?s=20&t=0Q_FtNsDjEgGaky2ASsUiw
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Peter Schiff joins Charles Payne on Fox Business:
Cryptocurrencies are collectible tokens, not assets or money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gk89KJSL7I
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Alternatively, you can listen to rapper Ice Cube
#FOXBusiness #MariaBartiromosWallStreet
Ice Cube’s next big thing comes with some big perks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLTM2G9hZNA
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From this week:
Peter Schiff debates Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky – 6 months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaNXa4yLv-w
If you watched this video 6 months ago you would say Schiff makes a cock of himself from getting so angry, even attacking the debate host.
Watching it today, knowing what has happened to Celsius, people would view it differently.
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The Death of Health Care in Britain
An old man in hospital had received no nursing care for a week. He wasn’t fed for three days. He asked a nurse if he could be bathed. She brought him a damp paper towel and told him to do it himself.
A 92-year-old former ward sister was told that she had terminal liver failure. The doctor had apparently conducted an examination via a video link. A face to face visit was refused. Taken by a relative to the local A&E department, the woman was diagnosed with a simple infection – treated with antibiotics. Three days later she made a full recovery. (There had been a 12 hour wait on a ward trolley.)
A patient was admitted to hospital as an emergency had to wait 49 hours before a bed could be found for him.
A patient with a broken arm, in great pain, was told by an ambulance service that her condition wasn’t life threatening and that the wait would be eight hours.
An 89-year-old woman waited six hours for an ambulance and died.
It is now recognised that failing ambulance services are responsible for many deaths. In Northern Ireland ambulance delays were a contributory factor in 14 deaths. Ambulances spend 25% to 30% of their time waiting outside emergency departments.
An NHS boss who had a stroke was taken to hospital by her husband and recovered. She said it might have been different if she’d called 999.
Waiting times for ambulances have never been as long. The ambulance service is so bad that patients are told to call a taxi – it’ll be quicker.
Such stories now abound.
Hospitals are so badly run that millions of people would rather stay at home – even if that means dying alone and without medical care. Hospital staff have taken away dignity and hope – even these are among the most valuable things a doctor or nurse can offer. They have replaced hope and dignity with despair and disillusionment.
Seriously ill patients who visit Accident and Emergency units in hospitals must routinely wait ten hours for treatment. It is reported that 90% of patients who visit A&E go there because they cannot contact their GP. That’s not surprising. The average GP now works a three day week or less. Most made a fortune giving covid jabs and are trying to keep their tax bills down. Even those who work a full week manage less hours than a librarian – and never see emergencies. Many GPs stay at home and still refuse to see patients face to face. The evidence proves this is dangerous but it is, say doctors, the future. GPs claim they are overworked but the evidence proves the contrary.
Physiotherapy departments which shut in March 2020 are still shut. Physiotherapists work from home though no one explains how they manage this.
While patients are ignored, the NHS spends a fortune on hiring ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’ administrators – though no one knows what these people are supposed to do or why they are considered necessary. Hospitals pay huge salaries to employees with jobs as bizarre as ‘Hard FM Commissioning Manager’ and ‘Portfolio Lead for People-Led Care’ – though no one seems to know what these titles mean. There’s a shortage of nurses and beds but ‘Equality chiefs’ are paid £90,387 a year and there are ‘diversity managers’ galore.
People who collapse at home or in the street are routinely tested for covid – even though the test that is used has been proved to be entirely useless. If they test positive they are put on a covid ward and forgotten. They receive no other tests and no treatment. This isn’t medicine – it is cultism.
Patients who complain are simply drugged and sent to sleep. There appears to be war on the elderly – with hospitals slapping Do Not Resuscitate notices on just about everyone over 60 (and a good many younger than that).
Everyone who falls ill is regarded by the NHS as a burden – a second class citizen. Everyone ill over 60 is a 3rd class citizen – not worth bothering with.
MPs have warned that there is no evidence that Britain’s appalling cancer care will catch up with other countries. Another 2.7 million have joined the cancer backlog waiting diagnosis and care. The number is increasing by 1,000 a day.
The driving forces of modern medicine are stupidity, greed, incompetence and ignorance. Doctors and nurses seem too busy or too uppity to do what they’re paid to do.
Doctors and hospitals who have been told to abandon crazy covid rules (masks, hand sanitiser and social distancing) are, like children holding onto comfort blankets, insisting on clinging to these insanities. It’s been proven that masks, sanitiser and social distancing did far more harm than good. But no one in health care understands science anymore.
Last year absurd new working rules meant that 2,000 dentists quit the NHS. Over four million patients now have no access to NHS dental care. Those who can find an NHS dentist are waiting three years for an appointment.
Hospitals have been told that it is illegal to prevent relatives or friends accompanying or visiting patients. But hospital staff break the law without caring.
Waiting lists are now so long that most patients will die before they are treated. Private health care services cannot cope with the sudden rise in demand. A third of 18-34 year olds are considering funding their own private care and 85% of patients on NHS waiting lists have paid for or are considering private treatment. Consultants are making a fortune.
The NHS has more money than it needs. But most of the money is wasted on administrators. There are more of those than there are beds or nurses!
If the NHS were closed down and the money shared out, every one in Britain would be able to afford excellent private medical care.
The NHS is dead. Let’s bury it.
Please share this article with everyone you know who can read.
We have the power to change things.
No one else will do it for us.
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This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.
Passing Observations 111
The UK Government is fast tracking legislation through Parliament ‘in consequence of recent events in Ukraine’. Why am I not surprised.
If you die before your 75th birthday then your beneficiaries can draw down money from your pension scheme tax free. If you die after your 75th birthday they’ll generally pay income tax on the amounts they draw down from the pension. Quite an incentive to kill yourself if you’re approaching 75. (I’m out of temptation because I’m over the age limit.)
Pensioners who don’t have a civil service pension, and who rely on a private pension, will be hit hard by the fact that there has been a 25% drop in dividend payments.
Twitter recently paid out $150 million over claims that it harvested 140 million users’ phone numbers. Twitter had broken a promise made in 2011 after previous incidents. The company exploited customers’ privacy concerns in a way that facilitated further invasions of consumer privacy. Lovely people eh.
‘Stagnation, inflation and taxation have combined to sound the death knell of capitalism in England.’ – Paul E. Erdman writing in `The Crash of 79’ (first published in 1977).
Is it not slightly odd that the United States is holding over 100 million doses of smallpox vaccine when the disease has been extinct for nearly 40 years.
Antoinette bought me a radio controlled car for my birthday. It is supposed to do around 35 mph. The snag is that on the box there is a label saying ‘suitable for 14-year-olds and older’. I am usually OK with stuff for up to five-year-olds but I’m going to have trouble with this. The back of our garage is stuffed with solar panels, garden equipment, etc. that remains a mystery to me.
It occurred to me that Boris Johnson makes Richard Nixon look positively decent and honest. Johnson masquerades as a gentleman but he doesn’t have a single attribute that would qualify him for that designation. Tory MPs who support him and defend him are reprehensible and indefensible.
A primary school in London is reported to have pupils speaking 60 different languages. Over a third of the pupils are entitled to free meals (a common sign of poverty).
Good broadcasters always employ at least some members of staff who work on the edge. It’s what makes them exciting. I cannot think of anyone employed by the BBC who is likely to know how to spell the word `originality’ let alone know what it means. Please remember not to pay the BBC licence fee (but do it legally, of course).
On the late evening of 4th June I rushed around the house putting buckets and bowls under leaks. The sky was alight with lightning. A thunderstorm raged for two hours. I looked on the Met office site to see how long the storm might last. The Met Office said that there was ‘a 10% chance of precipitation’. And these people claim to know what the weather will be like in the year 2050!
The absurd love affair with ESG is fading fast. For a couple of years now investment bosses have fallen over backwards (and betrayed investors’ interests) in trying to show their allegiance to the absurd demands of ESG. Now the hapless idiots are beginning to realise that ESG will ruin us all.
Global warming is regarded by too many in the media as an established principle – beyond debate. But there is no more evidence in support of global warming than there is that the moon is made of cream cheese. Those who believe in the myth of global warming are ignorant idiots who are a greater threat to us all than any terrorist group.
The celebrated Canadian physician Sir William Osler once said that ‘The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature that distinguishes man from animals’.
If I were young George, (son of William and Kate and a boy with great expectations) I would be planning for a career outside kinging. His uncle Harry and auntie Meghan will turn Britain into a Republic. And a damned good thing too.
Am I the only one puzzled by the fact that an MP who was spotted looking at tractors on his smart phone has resigned, while the Prime Minister and the Chancellor who have both been fined for breaking the law are still in office. And why has no-one criticised the complainant who looked at the MP while he was looking at tractors? I thought `looking’ was a criminal offence.
Arthur Sackler, whose family company gave the world OxyContin (the opiod painkiller that has launched a thousand lawsuits) helped market Librium and Valium – the world’s first benzodiazepines – spending huge amounts of money on ads in medical journals. (It has always seemed to me that medical journals will take ads for just about anything as long as the drug has a licence and the cheque is large and doesn’t bounce.)
Over 450,000 Americans have died of opiod related overdoses.
Rod Stewart, a singer, complained that the BBC made him sing ‘Sweet Caroline’. How did they make him sing it? Did they threaten to pull out his fingernails? Why didn’t he just say ‘no’?
Rishi Sunak doesn’t have much of a reputation left. I don’t think even Tory MPs would make him the next Prime Minister. He was fined by the police for breaking lockdown laws which he helped create. And his wife managed to avoid paying a good deal of tax. And now Sunak is accused by economists of wasting £11 billion of taxpayers’ money in which the Financial Times calls a ‘debt blunder’. That’s over £180 wasted for every man, woman and child in the UK. Sunak should be forced to pay it back. I’ll have my £180 as a cheque please. I don’t trust bank transfers.
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Jim’ll fix it.
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A short clip from Katie Hopkins:
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Red p*ss … and Rwanda …
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If it’s the same shit they were injecting the military with a few years back then watch myopericarditis go through the roof. From memory it was a strike rate of 1 in 6000 for smallpox vaccines
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5.2 PER CENT INCREASE
Wage rise ‘will add fuel to the inflation fire’
The Fair Work Commission’s decision to lift the minimum wage by $40 a week has drawn a mixed response from the government and industry.
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Inflation is transitory.
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I’d post this on the Mock. However, I expect this clip to be booted from sussietube.
You’ll see why very quickly.
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Rainbows and Lollipops. w Gavin McInnes
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‘Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he thinks cryptocurrencies and NFTs are “100% based on greater fool theory.”’
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