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Open Thread – Saturday, 23 October 2021
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Lot of pomp and bluster with Morrison’s answers
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Page turn 🍻🥳
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Albo asks SloMo why he has flipped in relation to electric vehicles etc. SloMo blames Labor for what I don’t know
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Avi:
‘Exiled’ MPs share a warning to the world
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Wodonga and Albury apparently 97 percent vaxxed according to Hunt. Why then an outbreak of Teh Rona?
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Ring the bell for 4 minutes!
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Black Ball.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll pop my thoughts into an email and ask Adam to pass it on to you. It’s still a very rough concept, but I would be curious to gain some feedback. Stay Tuned.
Cheers.
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😂
Calling Bald and Bankrupt & Harald Baldr to Celebrate! Silver Play Button Award!
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Sussietube is borked at the moment.
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Golf clap. Greta may be of use again
Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
Around 1,500 Glasgow refuse and cleaning staff have confirmed they will strike during the COP26 International Climate Conference due to a pay dispute.
The planned walkout will commence on November 1, the first full day of the summit, and go on for seven days …
Glasgow during a garbage strike in 1975
With over 100 world leaders expected to attend the conference, fears are growing that the city could be thrown into chaos with uncollected rubbish and transport issues.
One local authority insider told MailOnline: “We could be in a situation where the city is turned into a giant rubbish dump – just as it is on show to the world.”
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From Tim Blair. Same blog post has an update
‘Bus drivers, garbage collectors, school cleaners, and janitors, also plan to go on strike during the summit, and there could be chaos. Glasgow’s functioning and physical appearance would hit a note contrary to the goals of the summit—one of a world awash in trash and without sustainable infrastructure.’
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Rubbish collectors in Glasgow have confirmed they will strike for a week during the COP26 International Climate Conference.
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I’m sure Greta and the climate kiddies would happily collect garbage to ‘save da planet’
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Neil Burns, What was joe burns average before his run, or should I say lack of run, of Zero,Zip,Zilch,NadaandFuckall. You’ve put in more effort than he has.
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That was the most epic blockquote fail i have ever seen.
Well done (golf clap)
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‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
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That seems wild and crazy if true.
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‘In a shock move, the man confirmed as Dr Jeannette Young’s replacement as Chief Health Officer has decided against taking up the role just days before she is due to become the state’s next Governor.’
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And Pfizer had nothing to do with this. I’m sure.
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Every cent spent on renewables is a cent wasted. Scomo needs a red hot poker up his tight arse.
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VIDEO: Journalist Reads Filthy Porn Book from School’s Library at FL School Board Meeting – Board Members Call Police to Have Him Forcefully Removed for Reading Obscene Content Aloud
The book is about 2 pooftas rooting the arses off each other. Just what you need in a school.
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Readers of military history might be aware of the Lend-Lease program during the Second World War where the industrial powerhouse, the United States of America, provided materials to a number of Allied countries, including other powers such as Great Britain and Russia. Australia, which joined the Lend-Lease program in early September, 1942, three years after the beginning of the war in Europe, also had a reverse or reciprocal Lend-Lease arrangement with the U.S.
By early February, 1943, Australian media was reporting with pride that our primary producers, in conjunction with our New Zealand cousins, had supplied U.S. forces then in both countries “with over 100,000,000lb. of food in the form of beef, veal, pork, eggs, milk and butter. Practically no food was being shipped to American forces in the Pacific. Instead, shipping space was being used for tanks and guns.”
In the 1942-43 financial year, it was estimated that Australia had provided the U.S. with $US196 million worth of supplies and services, including $39 million in ‘stores and provisions,’ $US66 million in ‘works and buildings,’ and $21 million in transport and communications. The ‘stores and provisions’ included food stuffs such as 61 million lb [pounds – weight] of meat, 48 million lb of bread, biscuits and cereals, 49 million lb of vegetables and fruit, and 28 million lb of canned foods.
New Zealand in the same time period contributed $US51 million worth of products and services to the U.S. forces based there. This total included $US24 million of foodstuffs, and ship construction worth $US6 million.
In the first three months of 1944, Australia provided 380 million lb [weight] of food to American troops. In addition to food, Australia also provided road making equipment and specialist signals and communication equipment.
During the 1943-44 financial year, Australian reverse Lend-Lease products and services to the U.S. were worth $US 575,000,000 – “almost 20 per cent of [our] total war expenditures” Australia was supplying “about 95 per cent of all food requirements [to U.S. forces in our region] as well as clothing, transport and other service supplies.” These included millions of packs of field rations “developed by American and Australian diet experts for our jungle troops.”
On a ‘down side’ for civilians “Some of Australia’s largest chocolate makers have turned their entire facilities over to the task of supplying rations leaving little chocolate for Australians themselves.”
Australia was not the only country with reverse or reciprocal lend-lease arrangements with the U.S. Britain, for example, provided U.S. forces in North Africa with warships, 130 reconnaissance boats, 160 Spitfire aircraft, 500,000 flak grenades, and anti-aircraft and field artillery.
“During the war, Australia received 3.3 percent of total Lend-Lease, but provided U.S. forces with 13 percent of total Reverse Lend-Lease, supplying U.S. formations in the region with roughly 1.5 billion dollars of materials, equivalent to 70 percent of what Australia itself received.”
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
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Washington Sinks Australia – The Naval Treaty that sank our Battle Cruiser.
It is to be expected that naval vessels are liable to be sunk during wartime, but what about in periods of peace, by one’s own country, and intentionally, rather than by accident? Such an occurrence took place in Australia in the otherwise unremarkable year (by recent historical standards, that is), of 1924.
The battle cruiser H.M.A.S. Australia was deliberately scuttled on the 12th of April, 1924 as a result of the post-World War One Washington Agreements of late 1921/early 1922, specifically the Five Power Pact which set a limit on the number of capital ships maintained by the U.S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy. As the Royal Australian Navy was regarded as an element of the British Royal Navy, H.M.A.S. Australia did not ‘make the cut’ and so was disposed of to meet British obligations.
The Australia was the largest warship in the R.A.N. at the time. An Indefatigable class battlecruiser, she was built in Clydebank, Glasgow, Scotland, was 179 metres in length, had a displacement of 18,500 tons, and carried 900 crew. She was armed with “four sets of 12 inch breech loading guns… side firing torpedoes and fourteen 4 inch quick firing guns for surface and air contacts,” and after launching from her shipyard, the Australia embarked for her namesake country, reaching there in July, 1913 to wide public celebrations and pride about the country’s naval coming-of-age. In the early months of the First World War, HMAS Australia accompanied the Australian expeditions to capture German Pacific territories such as New Britain and New Guinea, and her presence intimidated the German Pacific Fleet into passivity. Australia was thereafter based in Scotland, patrolling the North Sea. She returned home in 1919 after acquitting herself well during the Great War, but was declared redundant in terms of design, being replaced as the Australian Fleet Flagship by the cruiser HMAS Melbourne. Following this retirement, she was used as a training vessel and fixed coastal battery at Westernport, Victoria.
“[H]er day is done,” declared a contemporary newspaper article.
“For some time she has been obsolete…out-engined, out-armoured, out-gunned by newer vessels”
Despite her declared obsolescence – the British Royal Navy, for example, had cancelled production of the 12-inch ammunition that Australia’s guns required, and the cost of maintaining the vessel during a period when the defence budget had decreased, was no longer justifiable – was by no means popular with either the Royal Australian Navy, or the general public.
Numerous alternatives to the scuttling of the vessel were made, but many were either impractical, uneconomic, or disallowed under the strict terms of the Treaty. These included conversion “into a floating barrack for the unemployed, a training ship, a naval home, or a war museum, which would house the trophies now in Melbourne, and could periodically visit the different states.” Scrapping of the ship – salvaging the materials that comprised her structure – was deemed not to be possible in Australia, and sailing the Australia to Great Britain for scrapping there was cost prohibitive. Another option of sinking her in a strategic position for use as a breakwater was given serious consideration, but again, the financial cost of such a project, and the practical risks involved in positioning such a large vessel with certainty also resulted in dismissal.
According to the Treaty, those ships destined for scrapping “had to be rendered incapable of war service after 6 months, and disposed of within 18 months.” With the Five Power Treaty having been signed in February, 1922, time had run out.
In the end, on the 12th of April, 1924, in the presence of the Australian Prime Minister, the Honourable Stanley Bruce, several Rear Admirals from both the R.A.N. and the Royal Navy – the event had been timed to coincide with the visit of a British cruiser squadron – she was towed to a point 50km east of Sydney Heads and “scuttled with full military honours.”
“After a 21 gun salute, the scuttle-cocks were opened and charges used to blow holes in the side of the hull. With wreaths laid on her deck and the naval ensign still flying … [the Australia] capsized and began to fill with water.” H.M.A.S. Australia’s final voyage took just fifteen minutes.
She was “sunk with all her main guns on board…”
The first photographic inspection of the wreck site was undertaken in 2007 with the aid of a U.S. Navy underwater robotic vessel that had been engaged to search for an Australian Blackhawk helicopter lost overboard from an R.A.N. vessel with the loss of two lives near Fiji. As a result of the survey, it was determined that the Australia “had rolled over [during sinking] and sank by the stern. The forward and aft masts of the control towers snapped off when the wreck hit the sloping seabed and the vessel slid approximately 400 m down the slope before coming to rest.”
Postscript.
In December, 1934 Japan denounced the Washington Agreements – which included two other accords in addition to the Five Power Pact – and set about rapidly increasing her naval strength. Japan had always seen herself as equal to the U.S. and Britain and had been unhappy about being denied ‘full equality’ in naval matters. The race to the Second World War was on.
[Muddy is the author – References are available on request].
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Breitbart
‘The mayor of Hazard, Kentucky, who is also the principal of Hazard High School, was seen receiving a lap dance from a scantily clad male high school student during a “man pageant” at a school assembly. Other staff members at the high school were also seen receiving lap dances from male students.
“The incident is under investigation, and as you know, anything under investigation I really can’t talk about,” Hazard Independent Superintendent Sondra Combs told the Lexington Herald-Leader on Wednesday.
Photos showcasing homecoming activities at Hazard High School were reportedly circulated on social media.
The photos appear to show scantily clad male teenagers — some appearing to be dressed in drag — giving lap dances to staff members, one of whom was Donald “Happy” Mobelini, the principal of the high school, as well as Hazard’s mayor.‘
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Bo and Luke Duke would sort those fvckers out.
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“mh says:
October 28, 2021 at 6:37 pm
‘Alex Jones breaks down Joe Rogan’s bombshell info that over 200 members of Congress were treated with ivermectin while at the same time publicly denouncing the live-saving drug and suppressing its availability during the COVID crisis.’
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That seems wild and crazy if true.”
Joe Rogan Bombshell: ‘200 Members of Congress Successfully Treated With Ivermectin’
October 27, 2021
Joe Rogan says that hundreds of members of Congress have been successfully treated with ivermectin – the same drug he used to treat his recent Covid infection.
During a recent podcast with Michael Malic, Rogan revealed that Dr. Pierre Kory from the Front Line Critical Care Covid group treated him and members of Congress with monoclonal antibodies, prednisone, z-pak, NAD, vitamins, and ivermectin.
“By the way, 200 Congresspeople have been treated with Ivermectin for Covid. Google that. You can probably find that in Dr. Pierre Kory’s Twitter page,” Rogan declared.
“Before there were vaccines, this was a common off-label treatment for Covid.”
Fun fact: Between 100-200 United States Congress Members (plus many of their staffers & family members) with COVID.. were treated by a colleague over the past 15 months with ivermectin & the I-MASK+ protocol at https://t.co/OvU8SLfLJq. None have gone to hospital. Just sayin’
— Pierre Kory, MD MPA (@PierreKory) October 8, 2021
Joe Rogan Vows to Sue CNN into Oblivion for ‘Making Sh*t Up’ About Ivermectin
“I do not know the motivation for demonizing this particular medication,” he added.
“But I would imagine some of it has to do with money because… this a generic drug now. The patent has run out… and it’s worth like 30 cent per dose.”
WATCH: https://newspunch.com/joe-rogan-bombshell-200-members-of-congress-successfully-treated-with-ivermectin/
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Cheers Muddy!
That was an interesting read.
I am now more informed than I was, and can see parallels and ideas for supporting future big fights in the Indo-Pacific region…
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Great reading Muddy. These war efforts I certainly don’t know enough of much to my shame.
I note that Andrews’ power grab in Yarragrad has cleared the first hurdle in the Lower House. Time to get the fuck out of Dodge
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Last for tonight:
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De Kock bows to Marxism after having his career threatened:
“I understand the importance of standing against racism and I also understand the responsibility of us as players to set an example,” de Kock’s statement read.
“If me taking a knee helps to educate others and make the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so.”
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Scott Morrison said some very interesting things today about going to the next G20 with plans of how to shut down anonymous users of social media who engage in bullying or saying nasty things and so on.
He is going to tackle facebook, etc.
I am a little cynical here. I think he wants to shut down Craig Kelly and George Christiansen and anyone on social media who says unpleasant things about him. People do say some disgusting things anonymously, that’s for sure, but I think there is something going on here in the LNP he would like to close off.
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“If me taking a knee helps to educate others and make the lives of others better, I am more than happy to do so.”
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What else could he do. He was about to be totally crushed.
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Won’t matter with de Kock. In such a diverse side as South Africa, he will be an outcast. I said he would be right with Indian Premier League but I read that mightn’t be an option. But Big Bash may be, although not as lucrative
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Ben Horne in today’s Hun writes about this
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‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.
On June 12, de Kock explained his reason for refusing to take the knee.
“My reason? I’ll keep it to myself. It’s my own, personal opinion,” he said.
“It’s everyone’s decision, no one’s forced to do anything, not in life. That’s the way I see things.”
White South African players have received death threats and had property vandalised for taking and knee and it’s this pressure from families and communities which has in some cases prompted decisions to refrain from the protest.
De Kock’s Stan has polarised opinion across the world. He has been labelled racist in some quarters but in others has had his right to free speech defended.
Most expect him to now become a Twenty20 mercenary, although those hopes would be dealt a major blow if his actions lead Mumbai and other franchises to freeze him out of his number one meal ticket at the IPL.’
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‘The prevailing view is there is now no way back for de Kock now in the South African team after abandoning his teammates just hours before a World Cup match against West Indies.‘
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Abandoning them? Lololololol
They are playing a fvcking bat and ball game.
Black Lives Matter is an openly MARXIST organisation.
Taking a knee is purely about giving your allegiance to BLM.
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‘Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are far more likely to die or to end up in severe or critical condition if they are vitamin D-deficient, Israeli researchers have found.
In a study conducted in a Galilee hospital, 26 percent of vitamin D-deficient coronavirus patients died, while among other patients the figure was at 3%.
“This is a very, very significant discrepancy, which represents a big clue that starting the disease with very low vitamin D leads to increased mortality and more severity,” Dr. Amir Bashkin, endocrinologist and part of the research team, told The Times of Israel.’
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Will our medical authorities look at VitD levels? No. Because it’s not about health, it’s about control.
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De Kock is back in the cage
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FCxrdD4VcAIc9uQ?format=jpg&name=medium
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A quick shout-out to commenters and lurkers: be kind to yourselves. You are worth it. Stick around. We need you – ALL of you.
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For those thinking of making puerile jokes – Kok means ‘cook’ in Dutch and therefore in Afrikaans.
It is saddening to see South Africa, once a beacon of hope in the Dark Continent, slithering down the slope to the default setting of corruption and poverty.
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Time to chill now🍹
It’s a long weekend for Brisbanites.
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Lengthy vid from the Cossack
‘Escaping Australia: Why are thousands of Aussie families permanently fleeing as refugees? 1/3’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8QvsI7AOI
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😂 More great vision.
Live fire rounds in front of the crowd. You have to love the Swiss!
AXALP HORNETS – A SHOW OF FORCE (4K)
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Absolutely Muddy.
In these ‘strangest’ of times it is reassuring to see that ‘samizdat’ websites like AdamCat, DoverCat and The Currency Lad let alone some of the video folk out and about.
More power to all of you.
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Great video from Cossack.
But quite sad.
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Wow, more of the Swiss Hornet squad – a reminder to anyone who was wondering why attacking Switzerland from the air is a very bad idea.
Awesome!
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Its on YouTube for now. Young turks Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton absolutely destroy Merrick Garland. It is almost tear inducing. Where the fuck are these blokes in Australia? Perrotet is seen as a beacon on conservative ranks. Give me a spell Bananaby
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Brisbane currently has an App Temp°C of 28.6
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I worded incorrectly. Bananaby I have used on other fora other than this site, so autocorrect and fat thumb assisted.
But point stands. There are no, zero, nada, zilch blokes like Cotton and Hawley determined to stick by conservative values
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Living in a world with people stipulating I get injected with Gates… you can bet that prick has not had it.
Vangelis – Blade Runner (End Titles) – Live by Kebu in Helsinki 2019
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I’m giving Leak a rating for his latest toon.
M for mature audiences
It’s grim.
It’s Victoria.
It’s Dan.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/456835c66d6ee2393ea64ae242f632bb
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Black Ball
Because “Conservative Values” in Australia are associated with the UN loving liberal party.
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BB,
It’s time to move on from your abusive relationship.
The Liberal Party has a new love now.
Klaus Schwab.
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Courier Paywall:
‘60 Aussies in one week hit by heart inflammation after Pfizer
There’s been a jump in cases of a rare side effect linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in the past week. It comes as Qantas revealed changes to international travel.’
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Ignoble Liars
https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/27/the-ignoble-lie/
In a controversial passage in Plato’s Republic, Socrates introduced the idea of the “noble lie” (“gennaios pseudos”).
A majestic fiction, he says, could sometimes serve society by persuading uninformed citizens of something good for them.
Ever since, many prevaricators have used the excuse that they lied for the common good.
Take Dr. Anthony Fauci, our point man on the COVID-19 epidemic.
Fauci said he misled the country about mask-wearing during the pandemic by claiming they were of little use. But he argued that he lied in order that the public not make a run on masks, deplete the supply, and thus rob medical professionals of protective equipment.
Fauci also told “noble” lies about the likely percentage of the public needing to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity. He kept raising the bar—from 60-70 percent to 75-80 percent, to 85 percent.
Apparently, Fauci feared a lower figure, even if accurate, might lull people into complacency about getting inoculated.
Fauci also lied about his own role in routing U.S. aid money to subsidize gain-of-function viral research at the Wuhan virology lab—the likely birthplace of COVID-19.
Either Fauci was hiding his own culpability or he believed the American people might not be able to fully accept that some of their own health officials were promoting the sort of research that was partially responsible for more than 700,000 American deaths.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has serially lied about the number of illegal immigrants who have crossed into the United States. He falsely claimed mounted agents were whipping migrants. He fibbed about the purported lack of federal data of apprehensions, detentions, and deportations. His assertion that the border was secure was a joke.
Apparently Mayorkas believes the public would go ballistic or his own administration would be roundly despised, if he told the bitter truth about the border: by intent, the Biden Administration has deliberately left it wide open.
And it will likely allow 2 million illegal immigrants into the country in the current fiscal year.
Lots of other unelected federal officials serially lied over the past five years by claiming or implying that harming the Trump Administration was in the public interest.
Former FBI directors Andrew McCabe and James Comey likely serially misled the nation. McCabe admittedly lied that he did not leak FBI information to the media.
James Comey on over 240 occasions while under oath in congressional cross examinations claimed he did not know or could not remember basic facts about his own role in promoting the Russian collusion hoax.
Apparently, Comey and McCabe believed that by being less than truthful, they might better emasculate Donald Trump. And that result would be beneficial to America.
Our former intelligence leaders may have been the most brazen liars. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admittedly lied to Congress.
When caught in the untruth, Clapper reverted to the noble lie that he gave the least untruthful answer, apparently on the pretense that he did not wish to damage the reputation of an important intelligence agency.
Ditto John Brennan, the former head of the CIA. On two occasions he lied under oath about the agency’s monitoring of Senate staffers’ computers and the deaths of civilians caused by U.S. drone assassination missions along the Afghanistan border.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley lied for days about the details of an accidental drone strike that killed innocent women and children in Afghanistan.
Either Milley is now lying when he says he warned Joe Biden about the disasters to come in Afghanistan or Biden is lying when he denies hearing any such advice.
Many of the details of Milley’s conversations with authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa as reported in their recent muckraking book were abjectly denied by Milley.
The list of such lies could be vastly expanded.
IRS functionary Lois Lerner never told the whole untruth about weaponizing the IRS.
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch spun an implausible yarn that she accidentally bumped into Bill Clinton on a tarmac in Phoenix and never discussed the then-current FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton.
Special counsel Robert Mueller told a whopper under oath, claiming to know almost nothing about the Steele dossier and the misadventures of Fusion GPS. Both were the two catalysts that prompted his entire investigation of “collusion” in the first place.
In some of these cases, when caught and exposed, the liars will hedge by claiming temporary amnesia.
But sometimes they admit they lied but suggest they did so for higher purposes like national security.
In truth, in most cases there was nothing noble at all in their lying. They simply spread untruths to protect their own endangered careers by masking their own wrongdoing or fobbing it onto others.
In other words, “noble lies” are rarely spun for anyone’s interests other than those of the liars themselves.
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mh I haven’t voted in any election for a decade. That streak will continue until I am six foot under. Unless there are firebrands worthy of my vote.
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This is powerful Flying Pigs. I linked a bloke I know who researches the shit er, researchers do. Don’t expect a response.
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I’ll vote for you BB.
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I am the majority – Full speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwoxG1cQXEo
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Don Surber has a response for a real grifter…
https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1576/dear-bill-kristol-democracy
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Thanks for keeping the early mornings going, FlyingPigs. I enjoyed the ignoble liars one.
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Jo.
I hope you’re not worried about your posting glitch of yesterday evening. It’s a rite of passage, so welcome to the club.
I’d like to read more of your comments. We need more people to interact. You’d be surprised about what individuals find interesting.
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For your edification and hot off the Mark A press, Lame Pics:
https://imgur.com/a/eIatdLI
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“Brought to you by Pfizer.”
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Colin Hay – Freedom Calling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT7NBUdqUUo
If you hear a voice call out your name
Saying you can stop yourself from falling
And if he strikes you in his fear and shame
You can leave him to his ruin
If your dreams they wake you in the night
And your heart it is a pounding
If you cry out as you wake in your fright
And the wind it is a howling
Maybe it’s time to find another place
Where nobody even knows your face
There is no need to be afraid
For it’s only freedom calling
If your tears begin to overflow
As you walk against the undertow
There is no need to be afraid
For it’s only freedom calling
If you’re sad cos you’re all alone
And your hands they are a shaking
And your miracle cure’s not working anymore
And the flood bank’s close to breaking
Suddenly you’re on an open unknown road
Passing all the heavy, long wide loads
It is time to make your great escape
And you can hear your freedom calling
I want to dive into the sea of love
But my knees they are a quaking
I can see myself high up above
And there’s no time left for faking
I no longer need to understand
What it is to truly be a man
When I gave up on my masterplan
Did I then hear freedom calling
Did I then hear freedom calling
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CH7
‘City Gym owner in Sydney speaks of ‘huge shock’ after 15 people catch COVID-19’
Kokkinis said he was stumped about the situation as staff have gone “above and beyond” to follow guidelines.
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Only fully vaxxed allowed.
Did he think the fully vaxxed don’t spread the virus to other fully vaxxed?
🤡🌍
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It’s funny listening to the fully vaxxed talk about when they caught Covid from vaccine passport events:
Dr David Bull: “Covid vaccine passport scheme is totally useless”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTs5kf-tBxk
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FAct
Honesty
Caring
Work thoughts
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Katrina Carroll a doctor also
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The Arbery good ole’ boys who attempted to arrest a black burglar with a criminal history as long as joe’s history of corruption and killed him when he attacked them, look as though they’re rooted by a media which has branded them as KKK and the black guy another saint in the big george mold. Jury selection looks stuffed since a majority of the jurors due to media taint regard the good ole’ boys as racists and guilty even before a trial.
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Friday Fred
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It seems that the Australian government has done a deal with the US that Julian Assange will be repatriated here to serve a prison sentence he might get in the US:
And on us, presumably. First we (the Great Unwashed) have heard of it, though.
Looks like we are reprising the role of providing prisons for people convicted of crimes in another country.
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From Mark A’s Lame Pics, via Cohenite this morning:
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The phrase ‘court martial,’ referring to the hearing and disciplinary process of a member of the armed forces, is derived from the 13th Century English “Court of the High Constable and Earl Marshal.” This court was concerned with “the administration of justice in accordance with the law of arms, which was concerned with many subjects relating to military matters, such as ransom, booty and soldiers’ wages …” A later clarification of the powers of the Earl Marshal declared him able to, amongst other tasks, “punish and correct Officers of Arms for misbehaviour in the execution of their places.”
[Reference: “Our Military Law-Enforcers” by Goff Lumley in The Armourer Militaria Magazine, Issue No.104, March-April 2011, p.10; http://www.heraldica.org/topics/britain/
marshal.htm by Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, accessed 26 January, 2016].
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Thanks, Muddy.
Another fact to add to the many in the cluttered attic of my mind. 🙂
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From the First Things website, via Deadman’s Twitter
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Another addition to the bulging file labelled ‘the Left will never let facts get in the way..’
Well, the Gleneagles Hotel is a six star luxury site, so being sent there is not exactly hardship. Plus, you have a perfect excuse for missing the morning sessions because sleeping off your hangover/being held up by traffic.
I love that garbage collectors and others have decided to go on strike during this wankfest. Serves the authoritarian Scottish ‘government’ right.
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The first vessel to be lost in WW2 by the Royal Australian Navy was the minesweeping trawler Goorangai. The Goorangai collided with the troopship M.V. Duntroon at 8.37 p.m. on the 20th of November, 1940 between Queenscliff and Portsea, Victoria. Both vessels were blacked out due to the presence of German submarines which had laid mines in the Bass Strait area. The Goorangai sank within one minute and all 24 members of her crew went down with her.
[Reference: “The Sea War in Bass Strait” by Jack Loney, Marine History Publications, Portarlington, Victoria, 1993, p.52-3].
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Examples of assaults by warped fucktards of the left against Trump supporters; but hey the fbi is chasing parents complaining at school meetings; Liberal Hivemind, 9 minutes. These are not isolated instances; leftism infects weak minds and causes violence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEpxf2ynLc
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17th Australian Infantry Brigade Routine Orders, 2 October, 1941, [in Syria].
No. 117. Discipline – Leave Parties.
Reports have been received that leave parties have been snatching kepis and tarbushes from the heads of the civil population. This is regarded by the Mahomedan population as an insult and is an action to be suppressed rigorously. Leave parties will be warned that an action such as this may cause serious trouble and that offenders will be severely punished.
No. 118. Discipline – Saluting.
Attention has been directed to slackness on the part of officers in returning salutes. Every effort should be made to avoid slovenly habits in this respect and officers should be punctilious in returning compliments.
[Reference: AWM52 8/2/17/47, p.33].
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Where is the money coming from?
The Wall Street Journal
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Dr. Eli David
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What’s in a name? A Fake by any other …..
First it was FakeBook. Now it will be Fake Meta.
The Recount
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Share that apple
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Remember when we were told by our premier to do the right thing?
Here’s how it is done.
Gladys Berejiklian promised to ‘fix it’ when Daryl Maguire complained his electorate’s projects weren’t being funded
Gladys Berejiklian promised to “fix it” when her disgraced ex-boyfriend and former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire complained projects in his electorate weren’t being appropriately funded.
Dom will be pleased to know that we now know he did whatever Gladly asked him to do.
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My bullsh*t meter/metre has not gone off! So far so good with this group.
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Freedom Media WA:
On Wednesday, 28th October 2021, Pro-choice protestors attended the headquarters of the ABC, in East Perth, Western Australia.
Sarah Stager – The West Australian reporter (part of Seven Media Group) arrived some time after another media representative called out to those protesting for the right for body autonomy, labelling them as “disguising”.
Sarah approached the under the guise she genuinely wanted to hear the people’s concerns, only to lead into fishing for a story to paint those she was speaking to unfavorably.
When Sarah was given insight into a REAL story regarding the pandemic in suicides and mental health cases rising at alarming numbers in the Western Australia community, Sarah immediately left.
At a time when the people are suffering, many having lost their jobs since October 1st, 2021, ABC staff, showing little respect to a recently passed Stalwart of ABC Perth radio, were observed “giving the bird” to pro-choice protestors, something Sarah simply wasn’t interesting in.
Watch now to see Sarah’s lack of compassion and disinterest in genuine stories that could make a difference in people’s lives.
Watch SARAH STEGER – 7 Media Group – FAIL at a SMEAR ATTEMPT on Pro-Choice Protestors
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Cossack:
“Dan Andrews is a scumbag!” Australian influencers react to the Victorian Premier’s new Gestapo laws
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Full clip.
2:00:45.
Australian influencers Join Forces Emergency Live Zoom
Victorian Permanent Pandemic laws – Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Bill 2021
link
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Are you good at reading body language?
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Senate Estimates – The TGA and Vaccines
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Jim Caviezel calls on ‘Christian warriors’ to fight for freedom, ‘be saints’ in rousing speech
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Steve trickler says:
October 29, 2021 at 5:34 pm
Freedom Media WA:
Without the whole-hearted support of the majority of our media, NONE of this past 20+ month disaster would have taken place. (At least not to the same degree). It won’t happen of course, but the media need to be RUTHLESSLY targeted for the vultures they are. How to achieve that is a challenging question, but fighting from the front foot is a start.
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White male marketing VP at North Carolina hospital wins $10million ‘reverse discrimination’ payout
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Muddy says:
October 29, 2021 at 7:27 pm
👍
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Steve trickler says:
October 29, 2021 at 6:39 pm
Are you good at reading body language?
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Senate Estimates – The TGA and Vaccines
A great question and a good link thanks Steve.
I’ve only watched almost half of the 17 minute length, without the sound on, but the senator has so far made some strong points.
As for body language, this is an interest of mine, but I’m not trained in it.
My understanding is that the reading of body language is dependent on each individual and what their ‘baseline’ behaviour is. For example, an individual who lacks self-confidence or self-esteem may avoid making eye contact because of those reasons, not necessarily because they are being untruthful.
Similarly, we all have our various quirks and idiosyncracies – such as twitches, tics, habitual micro movements, etc – which again, may be completely unrelated to truth telling.
Once you establish someone’s baseline behaviour with routine or mundane type of questions, you can then begin looking for changes in that behaviour which may suggest the interviewee is experiencing discomfort. The discomfort, though, may be environmental: a humid room where the air conditioning is not working, a chair which does not support their typical seated posture, or background noise they are having difficulty filtering out.
Because of the distance of the camera from the subject of the questioning, it is difficult to watch for the smaller facial movements that may signal a change in interviewee behaviour: clenching of the jaw, slight curling of a corner of the mouth, etc.
From the part of the questioning that I have watched so far, the interviewer (the senator) asked open-ended questions, which did not require the interviewee to respond with yes, no, agree, disagree, etc. Perhaps the buildup to that is yet to happen.
Another element to consider is that interviewees who are experienced in these situations, may find it relatively easy to ‘keep a straight face’ so to speak. In these cases, any signs of discomfort – changes in normal behavioural response to stimulus – may manifest in less visible parts of the body, especially in the extremities, such as the hands and legs/feet. We could see the interviewees hands, but as he used them to gesture, even when keeping them in front of him on the desk, it is not possible to analyse their movements without knowing more about his normal hand behaviour. We could not see his lower limbs at all.
Sorry about the long-winded nature of this, but I find these subjects fascinating.
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Little River Band – Reminiscing
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Steve Kirsch
For the public record:
Critical questions FDA must address about vaccine safety
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Still on body language, one interesting behaviour is when an interviewee is asked a closed question, requiring a yes or no answer, and they give one response verbally, but simultaneously express the opposite response behaviourally. For example, they might say ‘Yes,’ but as they do so, they tilt the top of their head to one side, or perform an abbreviated head ‘shake’ that more commonly accompanies a verbal response of ‘No.’
You would have to ascertain if this contradictory response is standard behaviour for them, though. If it isn’t, it may not be an indication of intentional deceit, but once you rule out other (external) sources of discomfort, it provides a starting point for further probing.
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YouTube executive boasts about deleting over 1 million videos for “COVID misinformation”
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kaysee says:
October 29, 2021 at 7:58 pm
I recommend that everyone able to, scans the document at Kaysee’s link above. (It’s in PDF format).
I’m sceptical about pretty much everything, and rarely make a judgement on these type of topics without a great deal of thought (and even then, I err on the side of caution). However, the quantity of evidence appears to be greater than I realised that this biological experimentation should have been approached in a far more controlled manner than it has been.
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NOTE: Not being from a scientific or medical background, I’m not in a position to judge the QUALITY of the evidence referred to above.
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Some funnies.
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Muddy, we post information here from various sources. We also provide our opinions and recommendations on any topic. No disclaimers are necessary.
It is up to the blog readers to read, research and arrive at their own conclusions.
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‘Ireland: Highest Covid hospitalizations despite having the highest vaccination rate (91%) in Europe’
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I note a Melbourne Storm star forward will be unable to play next season as he is not vaxxed. What is the science underpinning these work restrictions? Vaccines don’t stop the spread, that’s now off the table. So what is the argument being made that stops a young professional athlete from earning a living?
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Great article by Dr Jennifer Marohasy on the scam COP26 and alarmism generally:
https://mailchi.mp/720c18dc9763/do-glaswegians-mostly-breathe-nitrogen?e=c0863af5cc
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