The ending is a great visual capture of the streamers / vapor trails.
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Elwyn R:
F-15c Reapers led the F-35 Valkyries 495th fighter squadron through the Mach Loop Low Level
Chuffed to catch the first F-35A based at RAF Lakenheath Low fly in Wales also a first are Seymour Johnson F-15s that are based at RAF Lakenheath at the moment.
The 48th Fighter Wing has reactivated the first U.S. Air Forces in Europe F-35A squadron. The 495th Fighter Squadron, nicknamed as the “Valkyries,” was activated at exactly 8:49 and 50 seconds, Friday morning, 30 years to the day since its designation as a fighter squadron.
The base was selected to host the first U.S. F-35A squadrons in Europe based on very close ties with the Royal Air Force, existing infrastructure, and combined training opportunities. Additionally, the U.K. is a critical component in training and combat readiness for U. S. Air Forces in Europe due to its excellent airspace and F-35 program partnership.
We found Carey Mae Parker underwater, solving a 30-year-old missing person case in Hawk Cove, Texas, bringing home a mother, daughter, sister, and friend.
Carey Mae Parker (23), was last seen in Quinlan, Texas on March 17, 1991. She was driving a blue and gray 1980 or 1981 Buick Skylark with Texas license plates at the time of her disappearance.
Nobody knew what happened to Carey, and why she never arrived at her son Brian’s birthday party 30-years ago in Hawk Cove, Texas.
This documentary brings you alongside Adventures With Purpose’s search on October 15th, 2021, following up on their initial find on February 5, 2021, when they found Carey’s car underwater, leading in Lake Tawakoni, Texas, answering questions as to what happened to Carey’s car 30-years earlier, before being found and recovered.
Thanks Steve. Hadn’t seen that clip before, nor the movie. Looks interesting.
I do know the song though. Listened to it on my little transistor radio when it first came out a million years ago. That Grace Slick could definitely belt them out.
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Serbian president slammed Australia for mistreating their national pride and the world’s top tennis star, Novak Djokovic.
I’m on team Serbia this time.
Imagine they treated an Aussie athlete this way.
Shameful.
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Immigration Minister Alex Hawke concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a VALID medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in the country and passing it on to others.
But now, they argue the tennis star could spread dissent.
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The government is arguing in court that Novak Djokovic should be deported from Australia as “he may risk lives and civil order by eroding regard for Covid rules and vaccinations”.
DJOKOVIC vs AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION | LIVE TRIAL 2 | Australian Open 2022 | GTL Tennis Watchalong
Latest News: Novak Djokovic has his final hearing in court to see if he can play the Australian Open 2022. Alex Hawke cancelled his visa for a second time and wants him deported from Australia immediately. Who will be the victorious?
Bayern Munich football star Alphonso Davies has been sidelined after he was diagnosed with myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle). Davies, who is considered one of the best full-backs in the world, will be out of action for at least “the coming weeks” after the heart diagnosis.
All Bayern Munich players and staff members had received their COVID booster shot during the winter break, according to German news outlet Sport1.
Australia declares Djokovic a risk to civil order and public health
The Morrison government has adopted a radical, Novak-zero approach in its bid to deport the anti-vax tennis star.
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#BREAKING: Australia has its political prisoner, Novak Djokovic, back in custody ahead of his second court appeal tomorrow.
I hope he wins again.
Because our government deserves all the embarrassment, they can get.
Any govt with half a brain could have dealt with the Novak Djokovic saga better. They had months of warning that he was coming and should have had a better plan to deal with the issue
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Alec Baldwin has finally handed over his phone to police as they investigate the accidental fatal shooting on the set of his movie, Rust.
What a complete bungle by an incompetent, virtue-signalling government.
If the rule states that only double jabbed sheeple can enter Australia, then the department issuing visas could require proof, and based on this, issue or decline the visa. By this process, Djokovic would not have received the visa to enter Australia and that would be it.
But he was issued a visa by the relevant department and thus landed on the shores of this country. If visa was issued in error, the department could have apologised to all those terrified of unjabbed aliens or upset by the injustice. A mistake was made by the government and the visa holder should not be penalised for it.
Sure there would be grumblings by the usual sections of society but the error could have been blamed on miscommunication, and Tennis Australia, Vic Govt, Immigration and Federal Govt could all have apologised. They could have placed some restrictions on Djokovic and imposed some fines as well.
The visa story would have ended there. And the action would have moved to the tennis courts and matches.
Two points that would be high on his priority list:
a/ He is not competing in the AO for the money. It is about the titles.
b/ He wants the freedom to decide whether he gets jabbed or not.
Knowing the above and the restrictions in coming here, he should have been more careful and prioritised/cancelled other activities. Also, the mistakes in the visa application by his support team? They must be a highly paid staff, well-versed in dealing with travel matters. How did they not get it right?
This is the government’s case against Djokovic heading to the Federal Court tomorrow. It has nothing to do with filling out visa applications – that got tossed out of court last week. The government’s new line of attack is quite pathetic:
The Australian government says the presence of Novak Djokovic throughout the two weeks of the Australian Open may put lives and civil order at risk by increasing anti-vax sentiment and disregard for COVID-19 rules.
In a radical reframing of the case against the Serbian tennis star, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a valid medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in Australia and passing it on to others due to his recent infection…
Mr Hawke’s detailed reasons for his decision to cancel Djokovic’s visa for a second time since his arrival in Australia late on January 5, revealed by the Herald and The Age, portray the nine-time Australian Open winner as a menace to both public health and public order.
The minister describes Djokovic as a “high profile unvaccinated individual” who has publicly indicated his opposition to getting the jab and demonstrated an “apparent disregard” for basic COVID rules such as isolating after a positive test.
“Given Mr Djokovic’s high-profile status and position as a role model in the sporting and broader community, his ongoing presence in Australia may foster similar disregard for the precautionary requirements following receipt of a positive COVID-19 test in Australia,” Mr Hawke wrote.
“In particular, his behaviour may encourage or influence others to emulate his prior conduct and fail to comply with appropriate health measures following a positive COVID-19 test, which itself could lead to the transmission of the disease and serious risk to their health and others.”
Explaining how a 34-year-old visiting tennis player could be a risk to public order, Mr Hawke argues that when case numbers are rising in Australia due to the spread of the Omicron variant, influential persons and role models who show a disregard for public health measures have the potential to undermine the pandemic response of federal, state and territory governments…
An excellent letter. He has the credentials, and if the Israeli government follows his advice, the global scam will start to topple.
This could refer not just to the Israeli government but most governments (especially, Western) around the world.
You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarized the discourse……………..
There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets and control.
From what I read a few years ago, HCQ is the lab version of Quinine. The press and health officials immediately tried to downplay the obvious gin and tonic – with zero proof of course. There is no downside!
With so many jabbed athletes around the world coming into a spot of bother, I do wonder about all the GA crashes that have occurred over the last couple of years since the needle, particularly in the USA.
We shall wait and see. Pure speculation folks. Sussietube channels will not entertain the thought of discussing that because they will be booted.
I do wonder about all the GA crashes that have occurred over the last couple of years since the needle, particularly in the USA.
One glider crash in New Zealand was attributed to this a couple of months ago. Guy made a few dumb decisions in a row ended up damaging the glider. Report said maybe caused by the brain fog side effect of his second Pfizer jab the day before.
OPINION Djokovic an easy target in anti-vaxxer witch hunt
By Paul McNamee
January 15, 2022 — 4.30pm
Clearly, the outcome of the Federal Court case on Sunday has implications for Novak Djokovic. How about for the Australian Open?
The Australian Open is far and away Australia’s biggest international sporting event. Hosting all the world’s best tennis players in arguably the best sporting precinct in the world, it generates close to one billion dollars in economic impact for the state of Victoria. It puts Melbourne front and centre on the world stage for two weeks but, this year, for all the wrong reasons.
The No.1 men’s player in the world and nine-time champion is scheduled to begin the defence of his Australian Open title on Monday. In the Federal Court, he is facing deportation for three years. For me, perhaps sending home one of the best athletes in the world boils down to the simple reason that it is now known he is not vaccinated, and being such a public figure, it made him an easy target. Otherwise, there never would have been what seems to be a witch hunt.
When he boarded the plane for that long flight to Australia, he had every reason to believe he was entitled to enter. Yet, unlike the other players and officials who had arrived before him with the same medical exemption (including, in my view, the very poorly treated Czech player Renata Voracova), he was the one singled out to be detained. The one positive is that the location of his detention shone a light on the treatment of refugees.
It’s important to note the federal government has now accepted his medical exemption is valid, that there is only negligible health risk, and further stating in court documents he is a “person of good standing known for his philanthropy”.
For the record, if you have the same medical exemption here in Victoria as Djokovic, you can get a job at Woolies, or can work at or attend the Australian Open. The new court case will be based on entirely new grounds, with the Immigration Minister saying that “as a high profile un-vaccinated individual … Mr Djokovic’s ongoing presence in Australia may lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission”.
People are saying he is getting special treatment because he is Novak Djokovic, when in fact it’s the opposite, as now it’s only because he is a high-profile and “influential” person that he is facing deportation.
Djokovic is not an “anti-vaxxer”, which has been widely reported. He has openly said his children get various vaccines. Generous to a fault, he has personally donated millions of dollars to hospitals and causes struggling under the burden of COVID-19 in Serbia, Spain and Italy. He set up and paid for free vaccinations at two ATP and one WTA tournament (on his property) in Belgrade, so players and coaches could be double vaccinated, as many were. Who knew that?
He knows from his own experience with allergies and diet that, in many ways, you are what you digest. Simply put, he wants the final say about what enters his body. As the No.1 in a highly competitive global sport, who can blame him? So, what he is actually is pro-choice.
On the other hand, Djokovic, after learning he was positive, albeit masked and social distancing, was nonetheless rash when he did a one-on-one interview on December 18. However, he publicly has regretted and owned that mistake and in doing so, cannot be said either to encourage non-compliance. I’ll add this. For a very long time, he didn’t even want to disclose his status. That’s hardly a forthright position for someone alleged to be an anti-vaxxer.
The facts are that Djokovic, a complex, holistic and deeply spiritual man, was put in detention just in time for Orthodox Christmas. He chose not to take his “bat and ball” (actually racquet) and go home but, armed with resources unavailable to the average man, he dared to take on the government in the Federal Court, and won.
Now he is facing another court case, on entirely different grounds. He could have said it’s all too hard, cut a deal, so there would be no further detention or long-term consequences, and got out of Australia pronto. He has chosen to stand his ground and take on the fight, and is again detained, on the eve of his first-round match. I respect him greatly for that.
I also respect that he fights for the rights of lower-ranked players to make a better living. He is popular in the locker room, and since this saga began, I have run into many players, male and female, and especially the lower ranked, who deeply appreciate the efforts he makes on their behalf: “Without Novak, we have no voice. He is our friend.”
The Australian Open has been engulfed and paralysed by this fiasco. Having once been the tournament director for 12 years, and knowing the enormous contributions of so many, I am not happy that it is being subject to ridicule, given, for example, the so-described “temporary draw”. At least five players do not know who their opponent is, and one potential lucky loser, plus Djokovic, do not even know if they’re playing at all. How do they prepare for their matches, some of which are on Monday? It’s not a good look for the tournament.
The facts are that Djokovic came to Australia with one sole aim, to try and defend his Australian Open title. Agree with h
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The ending is a great visual capture of the streamers / vapor trails.
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F-15c Reapers led the F-35 Valkyries 495th fighter squadron through the Mach Loop Low Level
Chuffed to catch the first F-35A based at RAF Lakenheath Low fly in Wales also a first are Seymour Johnson F-15s that are based at RAF Lakenheath at the moment.
The 48th Fighter Wing has reactivated the first U.S. Air Forces in Europe F-35A squadron. The 495th Fighter Squadron, nicknamed as the “Valkyries,” was activated at exactly 8:49 and 50 seconds, Friday morning, 30 years to the day since its designation as a fighter squadron.
The base was selected to host the first U.S. F-35A squadrons in Europe based on very close ties with the Royal Air Force, existing infrastructure, and combined training opportunities. Additionally, the U.K. is a critical component in training and combat readiness for U. S. Air Forces in Europe due to its excellent airspace and F-35 program partnership.
My First F-35 in the Mach Loop Snowdonia Wales
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Reboot of a follow up:
SOLVED: Missing 30-years Underwater (Carey Mae Parker) AWP Brings Their Mother Home!
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Adventures With Purpose. ( Clip Above )
We found Carey Mae Parker underwater, solving a 30-year-old missing person case in Hawk Cove, Texas, bringing home a mother, daughter, sister, and friend.
Carey Mae Parker (23), was last seen in Quinlan, Texas on March 17, 1991. She was driving a blue and gray 1980 or 1981 Buick Skylark with Texas license plates at the time of her disappearance.
Nobody knew what happened to Carey, and why she never arrived at her son Brian’s birthday party 30-years ago in Hawk Cove, Texas.
This documentary brings you alongside Adventures With Purpose’s search on October 15th, 2021, following up on their initial find on February 5, 2021, when they found Carey’s car underwater, leading in Lake Tawakoni, Texas, answering questions as to what happened to Carey’s car 30-years earlier, before being found and recovered.
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Thanks Steve. Hadn’t seen that clip before, nor the movie. Looks interesting.
I do know the song though. Listened to it on my little transistor radio when it first came out a million years ago. That Grace Slick could definitely belt them out.
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Serbian president slammed Australia for mistreating their national pride and the world’s top tennis star, Novak Djokovic.
I’m on team Serbia this time.
Imagine they treated an Aussie athlete this way.
Shameful.
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Immigration Minister Alex Hawke concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a VALID medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in the country and passing it on to others.
But now, they argue the tennis star could spread dissent.
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The government is arguing in court that Novak Djokovic should be deported from Australia as “he may risk lives and civil order by eroding regard for Covid rules and vaccinations”.
NOT that he’s a threat to spread the virus.
That he’ll spread dissent.
ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?
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They are obviously not their own Masters, but mere toadies.
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Immigration Minister Alex Hawke is arguing that Djokovic must be removed from Australia because he will spread anti Covid vaccine sentiment.
However until this persecution, no one knew officially what Novak’s vaccine status was because he didn’t wish to talk about it.
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Another reporter collapses live on air
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DJOKOVIC vs AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION | LIVE TRIAL 2 | Australian Open 2022 | GTL Tennis Watchalong
Latest News: Novak Djokovic has his final hearing in court to see if he can play the Australian Open 2022. Alex Hawke cancelled his visa for a second time and wants him deported from Australia immediately. Who will be the victorious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5HmbQoqgr4
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Sorry Novak, we have lost our minds!
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Dan’s going for COVID Hotel MkII?
Jobs for the bovva boys?
What’s the r0 for stupidity?
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Lost our minds – confirmed!
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Leak
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Live broadcast from Sydney rally
https://twitter.com/CraigKellyMP/status/1482146737846624257?s=20
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Any govt with half a brain could have dealt with the Novak Djokovic saga better. They had months of warning that he was coming and should have had a better plan to deal with the issue
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Speaking to some of the most respected modellers ,Kerry Chant gives us her startling virus prediction
Spoiler alert
its 4 million people 😱😱😱
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Modellers are the new doctors
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Twit gets it
Crocodile Dandee
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There is no safe TV channel
If it isn’t this
Or this
It’s SBS programming decisions
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Always thought of myself as a bit of a traditionalist. Yup
See you later…
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The Moronic strain is less likely to cause “long COVID” – that suffered by fat, unhealthy cvnts?
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Smokers up to 80% more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid, study says
Nervous cvnts sucking on mummy’s nipple surrogate more likely to succumb to Rona?
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They survived.
The bloke commenting is fine at his craft. 🤣
Riddick Racing Jetsprint Crash – Whanganui March 2019
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TARA BLAISE, – IN WAR OF THE WORLDS..
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Some memes for your delectation
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What a complete bungle by an incompetent, virtue-signalling government.
If the rule states that only double jabbed sheeple can enter Australia, then the department issuing visas could require proof, and based on this, issue or decline the visa. By this process, Djokovic would not have received the visa to enter Australia and that would be it.
But he was issued a visa by the relevant department and thus landed on the shores of this country. If visa was issued in error, the department could have apologised to all those terrified of unjabbed aliens or upset by the injustice. A mistake was made by the government and the visa holder should not be penalised for it.
Sure there would be grumblings by the usual sections of society but the error could have been blamed on miscommunication, and Tennis Australia, Vic Govt, Immigration and Federal Govt could all have apologised. They could have placed some restrictions on Djokovic and imposed some fines as well.
The visa story would have ended there. And the action would have moved to the tennis courts and matches.
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A little disappointed with Djokovic.
Two points that would be high on his priority list:
a/ He is not competing in the AO for the money. It is about the titles.
b/ He wants the freedom to decide whether he gets jabbed or not.
Knowing the above and the restrictions in coming here, he should have been more careful and prioritised/cancelled other activities. Also, the mistakes in the visa application by his support team? They must be a highly paid staff, well-versed in dealing with travel matters. How did they not get it right?
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Would this be any health food store?
Or is it a specific shop in Melbourne?
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Super spreader train. Strict sniffle rules on show here. Karen’s around the world would have a heart attack watching this.
Jan 15, 2022.
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Kurt Caz:
To get out of Hyderabad we decided to take the easiest way back to Karachi.
Which was by train.
Madness on The Karachi Express! 🇵🇰
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That’s a poetic description of the one important ingredient in human relationships.
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We are worried about Big Pharma and Big Tech censoring us?
See how far they go.
Pfizer Uses Copyright-Strike To Censor Video Of Their Own CEO Admitting Vaccines Don’t Work
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Scotty-from-Marketing in a nutshell.
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Kaysee,
This is the government’s case against Djokovic heading to the Federal Court tomorrow. It has nothing to do with filling out visa applications – that got tossed out of court last week. The government’s new line of attack is quite pathetic:
Australia declares Djokovic a risk to civil order and public health
The Australian government says the presence of Novak Djokovic throughout the two weeks of the Australian Open may put lives and civil order at risk by increasing anti-vax sentiment and disregard for COVID-19 rules.
In a radical reframing of the case against the Serbian tennis star, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke concedes the unvaccinated Djokovic entered Australia with a valid medical exemption and poses a low risk of contracting the virus while in Australia and passing it on to others due to his recent infection…
Mr Hawke’s detailed reasons for his decision to cancel Djokovic’s visa for a second time since his arrival in Australia late on January 5, revealed by the Herald and The Age, portray the nine-time Australian Open winner as a menace to both public health and public order.
The minister describes Djokovic as a “high profile unvaccinated individual” who has publicly indicated his opposition to getting the jab and demonstrated an “apparent disregard” for basic COVID rules such as isolating after a positive test.
“Given Mr Djokovic’s high-profile status and position as a role model in the sporting and broader community, his ongoing presence in Australia may foster similar disregard for the precautionary requirements following receipt of a positive COVID-19 test in Australia,” Mr Hawke wrote.
“In particular, his behaviour may encourage or influence others to emulate his prior conduct and fail to comply with appropriate health measures following a positive COVID-19 test, which itself could lead to the transmission of the disease and serious risk to their health and others.”
Explaining how a 34-year-old visiting tennis player could be a risk to public order, Mr Hawke argues that when case numbers are rising in Australia due to the spread of the Omicron variant, influential persons and role models who show a disregard for public health measures have the potential to undermine the pandemic response of federal, state and territory governments…
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An excellent letter. He has the credentials, and if the Israeli government follows his advice, the global scam will start to topple.
This could refer not just to the Israeli government but most governments (especially, Western) around the world.
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Or is it a specific shop in Melbourne?
The Bitters Lab, located at Shop 9 / 397 Smith St. Fitzroy. http://www.onlybitters.com
From what I read a few years ago, HCQ is the lab version of Quinine. The press and health officials immediately tried to downplay the obvious gin and tonic – with zero proof of course. There is no downside!
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Chickens, meet roost.
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With so many jabbed athletes around the world coming into a spot of bother, I do wonder about all the GA crashes that have occurred over the last couple of years since the needle, particularly in the USA.
We shall wait and see. Pure speculation folks. Sussietube channels will not entertain the thought of discussing that because they will be booted.
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The link to the Open Letter had some other good links that were worth adding to the CatWiki. Thanks.
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But they believe in safe spaces which have borders.
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I do wonder about all the GA crashes that have occurred over the last couple of years since the needle, particularly in the USA.
One glider crash in New Zealand was attributed to this a couple of months ago. Guy made a few dumb decisions in a row ended up damaging the glider. Report said maybe caused by the brain fog side effect of his second Pfizer jab the day before.
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Big volcanic bang on Tonga.
Tonga Volcano and Tsunami Warning – LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
Don’t stress folks.
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OPINION
Djokovic an easy target in anti-vaxxer witch hunt
By Paul McNamee
January 15, 2022 — 4.30pm
Clearly, the outcome of the Federal Court case on Sunday has implications for Novak Djokovic. How about for the Australian Open?
The Australian Open is far and away Australia’s biggest international sporting event. Hosting all the world’s best tennis players in arguably the best sporting precinct in the world, it generates close to one billion dollars in economic impact for the state of Victoria. It puts Melbourne front and centre on the world stage for two weeks but, this year, for all the wrong reasons.
The No.1 men’s player in the world and nine-time champion is scheduled to begin the defence of his Australian Open title on Monday. In the Federal Court, he is facing deportation for three years. For me, perhaps sending home one of the best athletes in the world boils down to the simple reason that it is now known he is not vaccinated, and being such a public figure, it made him an easy target. Otherwise, there never would have been what seems to be a witch hunt.
When he boarded the plane for that long flight to Australia, he had every reason to believe he was entitled to enter. Yet, unlike the other players and officials who had arrived before him with the same medical exemption (including, in my view, the very poorly treated Czech player Renata Voracova), he was the one singled out to be detained. The one positive is that the location of his detention shone a light on the treatment of refugees.
It’s important to note the federal government has now accepted his medical exemption is valid, that there is only negligible health risk, and further stating in court documents he is a “person of good standing known for his philanthropy”.
For the record, if you have the same medical exemption here in Victoria as Djokovic, you can get a job at Woolies, or can work at or attend the Australian Open. The new court case will be based on entirely new grounds, with the Immigration Minister saying that “as a high profile un-vaccinated individual … Mr Djokovic’s ongoing presence in Australia may lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiment in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission”.
People are saying he is getting special treatment because he is Novak Djokovic, when in fact it’s the opposite, as now it’s only because he is a high-profile and “influential” person that he is facing deportation.
Djokovic is not an “anti-vaxxer”, which has been widely reported. He has openly said his children get various vaccines. Generous to a fault, he has personally donated millions of dollars to hospitals and causes struggling under the burden of COVID-19 in Serbia, Spain and Italy. He set up and paid for free vaccinations at two ATP and one WTA tournament (on his property) in Belgrade, so players and coaches could be double vaccinated, as many were. Who knew that?
He knows from his own experience with allergies and diet that, in many ways, you are what you digest. Simply put, he wants the final say about what enters his body. As the No.1 in a highly competitive global sport, who can blame him? So, what he is actually is pro-choice.
On the other hand, Djokovic, after learning he was positive, albeit masked and social distancing, was nonetheless rash when he did a one-on-one interview on December 18. However, he publicly has regretted and owned that mistake and in doing so, cannot be said either to encourage non-compliance. I’ll add this. For a very long time, he didn’t even want to disclose his status. That’s hardly a forthright position for someone alleged to be an anti-vaxxer.
The facts are that Djokovic, a complex, holistic and deeply spiritual man, was put in detention just in time for Orthodox Christmas. He chose not to take his “bat and ball” (actually racquet) and go home but, armed with resources unavailable to the average man, he dared to take on the government in the Federal Court, and won.
Now he is facing another court case, on entirely different grounds. He could have said it’s all too hard, cut a deal, so there would be no further detention or long-term consequences, and got out of Australia pronto. He has chosen to stand his ground and take on the fight, and is again detained, on the eve of his first-round match. I respect him greatly for that.
I also respect that he fights for the rights of lower-ranked players to make a better living. He is popular in the locker room, and since this saga began, I have run into many players, male and female, and especially the lower ranked, who deeply appreciate the efforts he makes on their behalf: “Without Novak, we have no voice. He is our friend.”
The Australian Open has been engulfed and paralysed by this fiasco. Having once been the tournament director for 12 years, and knowing the enormous contributions of so many, I am not happy that it is being subject to ridicule, given, for example, the so-described “temporary draw”. At least five players do not know who their opponent is, and one potential lucky loser, plus Djokovic, do not even know if they’re playing at all. How do they prepare for their matches, some of which are on Monday? It’s not a good look for the tournament.
The facts are that Djokovic came to Australia with one sole aim, to try and defend his Australian Open title. Agree with h