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Open Thread – Saturday, 26 February 2022
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Summer’s on the run…
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No idea if it is summer. There ain’t no sun her for a week to come and in all the week that’s gone.
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A couple of thunder claps and a few drops of precipitation in Perth tonight; back to warm weather tomorrow.
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No missing people found here. Just a jovial day pulling dumped cars out of the water.
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Adventures with Purpose:
We found 5 more vehicles underwater in Fort Worth here on the 3rd day while training other search teams how to use sonar and recovery sunken cars.
Day 3 – FOUND 5 VEHICLES UNDERWATER (Fort Worth Underwater Sonar Training)
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Getting a bit wet up there, mh?
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Anyway, back to regular programming.
Covid. Fella at merogenomics sez that once you take a clot shot it is “practically impossible” to clear the spike from your system.
PS. Love you too, Black Ball 🍻
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And just like that Dow up 800+pts Russia take Ukrain ,back to normal programming….wahaaaaa climate wahaaaaa covid.
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It was never about war, it was all about sanctions. We good to go now.
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Pretty much everyone I bump into these days
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Yes, Ragu.
The Courier Mail calls it an emergency, but keeps the information behind a paywall.
And no point getting info from the ABC. They are hopeless.
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I gather everyone is panic buying, again.
Looks like no lessons learned from last time as they’ve only just started to release universal solvent from Wivenhoe.
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The ABC (errors included)
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They have unpaywalled the road closures
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/full-list-of-road-closures-due-to-flooding-across-southeast-queensland/news-story/0d7bb54f9d170ce85a41e294f125fce1
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The Australian attempting, I think, trying to attract readers.
‘Australia’s transition towards renewable energy and a greener economy is the greatest challenge — and the greatest opportunity — of our time. We are proud to celebrate the Australians who are leading the way with innovative ideas, new technology and bold vision.’
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Oh noes, where’s the next pandemic gonna come from now?
Already reports they are targetted/destroyed/captured.
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2 harmies. LOL
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Some memes.
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Fog Of War ReeEEeE Stream 02-25-22
Salty Cracker
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Wivenhoe over 100%
https://www.seqwater.com.au/dams/wivenhoe
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When are they going to blow rhe top off it? 110%?
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Salty: “Google diversity hire kombucha enema experts” keeping the Left information-ringfenced on social meeja platforms.
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https://rumble.com/vvw830-fog-of-war-reeeeee-stream-02-25-22.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=3
Live Reee stream on Rumble
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What’s going on Ukraine? All the Max Peakers are blowing out hard at Boomervaxally and I can’t be plooked wading through the Chinese whispers
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If you don’t wish to be trawling social media, this bloke will do it for you.
Agenda-Free TV.
Russia Attacks Ukraine – LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE (Putin Declares War)
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Thanks, Steve
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Ragu says:
February 26, 2022 at 12:25 pm
When are they going to blow rhe top off it? 110%?
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I had a look at the rain radar for Brisbane and it’s still pouring down, it will be at 130% soon. Why didn’t they open the flood gates earlier, last time they delayed, Brisbane flooded.
Tomorrow’s newspapers will have a photo of Kevin walking around carrying an empty suitcase from someone’s flooded property.
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Trois
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Paul Joseph Watson
World War Woke
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They’re off with the fairies and chewing on fly agaric. 2011 wivenhoe was essentially empty and the rain stopped the day/day after they opened the gates. This time the dam was at ~80%(?) and its still raining.
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Beyond Satire:
Kerry Worried Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Will Distract the World from Climate Change
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Salty: EU signs new Gas deal with Russia after they invade Ukraine.
Follow-the-money
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Is there a shortage in supply of screenwipes?
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Salty: No one knows, if they say they do, they’re lying.
Did Russia Surgically Strike 8 Secret US Run Bio Labs In Ukraine?
Salty Cracker
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Shy Ted, Ragu,
Your comments in the previous thread re NDIS, phlebotomy, consent and so on are educative. Reading some commenters first person experiences in certain areas, adds to the learning process. More reasons to visit the blog.
johanna shared her experience, too.
When I have to go to a pathology centre for my blood tests, I sit in the chair and watch the process carefully to make sure the swab sachet is torn open in my presence, same with the disposable needle, new gloves pulled on, all vials correctly labelled.
There was one occasion when the lab technician (is phlebotomist the correct term for everyone who draws the blood?) must have been a trainee and there was a supervisor there, as well. She was quite nervous so I chatted with her. I spoke loud enough for the supervisor to hear and told her that it was generally hard to find my veins, others have had problems too. That gave her the confidence to continue and get it done.
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They love you. Until they don’t.
Libs of Tik Tok
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The US – Let’s Go Brandon – government is going to take tough measures against Russia if it doesn’t withdraw from Ukraine. It will impose sanctions.
Except
Blinken:
We’re Not Halting Gas and Oil Purchases from Russia Because We’re Trying to Minimize ‘Pain to Us’
Putin must be terrified of Brandon.
(Twitter has kindly marked it potentially sensitive content.)
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There aren’t the numbers for this plan to get through. But if it did, it would be a fantastic outcome.
“Liberal & Labor politicians are terrified of this message!”
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It’s
Caturday.
Yes,
It is.
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Wivenhoe now at 120% capacity.
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Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
When nature sends the flooding rains, there should have been a plan in place to save for the droughts.
We elect politicians not leaders.
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Pretty much, the technique is phlebotomy so it doesn’t matter if one is a scientific officer or a Tech officer or a TA. Same rules for everyone. It’s a one shot deal.
On the training, afyer initial traing a novice has to be supervised for 30 jabs before getting the all clear to get stabbing on their own.
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Testing
FLOOD RELEASES FROM WIVENHOE DAM – UPDATED 5:50PM 26/2
CRITICAL SEVERITY
Affected Locations:
Wivenhoe
Last Updated: Saturday, February 26, 2022 – 17:56
WIVENHOE DAM:
Seqwater advises flood releases from Wivenhoe Dam will recommence overnight.
The timing of releases from Wivenhoe Dam will depend on actual rainfall and inflows into the dam.
Gated releases from Wivenhoe Dam commenced temporarily at 10pm on Friday 25/2 at a low rate and then ceased at 11pm.
Seqwater is working closely with the Bureau of Meteorology to assess the evolving situation and need for flood releases, based on modelling and in accordance with its flood manuals…
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Thanks, Ragu.
As lay people we use other terms when we have to refer to the person who drew the blood for our tests. I had to look up the meaning of the word phlebotomy when I read it in your previous comment. As for the spelling …… 🙂
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Anyway. I’m done with the health scene, I might try and enrol in that blockchain course at RMIT.
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Vampires
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Romania’s Football Team Bans VACCINATED Players
There have been denials about this. According to the club, Becali was only joking.
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Break time
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Food Art
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Southern Raised
Sixteen Tons
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War correspondents in this conflict seem to be play acting with vests and helmets miles from any actual action.
One bloke on some European channel actually admitted he had fled to a country retreat to avoid the danger of the battle for Kiev. He was still wearing his vest and helmet.
Another chick was reporting from hiding in her hotel room, saying she had heard a series of explosions but had no idea. Apparently even looking out the window is too dangerous for your modern journalist.
This could be the first war ever where no war correspondents are harmed.
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There may be some real journos out there prepared to risk life and limb to report on the war.
Was watching a site (linked above) that mentioned some breakdown in internet systems. If true, it could affect the reporting.
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From the Cossack:
Protestors clash at the Russian Consulate in Sydney over the war in Ukraine!
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Sirens going off in Kiev.
LIVE: Blick auf Kiew | DW Nachrichten
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All quiet again.
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Also, those commenting about the “Russian tank runs over car” video:
Self propelled guns, rocket launchers and BMPs are not tanks.
Whether or not it’s Russian or Ukrainian requires a look at the markings. Something else that the “journalists” and commentariat seem to remain ignorant about, given their inability to report anything of actual value.
What a clown show modern reporting has become.
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Pauline Hanson has proven how ‘effective and damaging humour can be’
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Thanks for your service.
I just hope the SES isn’t putting any women at unnecessary risk by pretending they have the physicality of a man.
I’m prepared to be educated. Just putting it out there.
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Bloomberg:
Ukraine Grid Can’t Transit Extra Russian Gas Due to Conflict
– Grid is facing extreme circumstances after Russian invasion
– Ukraine canceled auctions for extra gas capacity for Saturday
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That Wivenhoe eleventy per cent is a bit misleading. Total capacity inclusive of flood mitigation is 2080000ML and current volume is 1,469,150; ~70%
Bit if memory serves me right (had a few good times since 2011) Somerset is the worry as it has a more efficient catchment. Total V inc. 705000ML Vcur. 510,759 ~72% and rising at about a purr cent per hour. So it might get close to something serious.
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Brisbane is going to need the Ruddster.
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Life goes on; latest from the whacky world of islam:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
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I just hope the SES isn’t putting any women at unnecessary risk by pretending they have the physicality of a man.
good point, mh. Also age can be a factor in most stressing physical situations, male or female. A fit 60 year old just can’t perform the same as a fit 25 year old.
Stopped raining here now for nearly two hours. HOpe that’s a good sign, otherwise it’s hard to have confidence in how the relevant people handle the dams and hopefully read their flood manuals this time.
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Brisbane Times
Catastrophe: Five dead, flood concerns now for Brisbane
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Correct Old Bloke.
Wivenhoe is now at 132.6% capacity.
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This week’s Week in Pictures: The U-Cranial Inversion Edition
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George Christensen
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Aussie Cossack may alienate many supporters by hanging too much shit on the Ukraine. Has done great stuff, but needs to pay attention to the “aussie” bit if he want to attract wide support.
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I just watched a short clip on the bloke at JLP’s channel, Fallen State. I have never heard of him before. Curiosity has kicked in.
Just about to tune in for the full interview below.
Charleston White Joins Jesse!
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Clip descriptor…
On this week’s episode of TheFallenState TV, host Jesse Lee Peterson is joined by Charleston White, the founder & CEO of H.Y.P.E., Helping Young People Excel. In an at times outrageous interview, Jesse delves into Charleston’s background and his mindset while growing up, and what led him to catch a murder charge at the young age of 14. Charleston explains his former belief that going to prison was how you proved you were a man. They discuss the true impact of fatherless homes and the increasingly problematic depictions of black culture and family in the movies and media over the years. They also tackle political current events, race relations, faith, black history, relationships, and much more. Viewer discretion is advised with this colorful and unpredictable interview—you don’t want to miss it!
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#CPAC2022
Ron DeSantis 2022 CPAC speech: full video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Ba47MLw14
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Wivenhoe 156.4% capacity.
Still raining over the catchment.
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good point, mh. Also age can be a factor in most stressing physical situations, male or female. A fit 60 year old just can’t perform the same as a fit 25 year old.
Definitely! I’m 74 and very fit do swim 1 kms 3x a week and bike ride 50kms + on other days BUT when I garden I find that the hard stuff(digging ect) that I could once do for several hours on end is now about an hour’s worth and do I know it, afterwards! ..
Wonderful to be still fit & active at my age but you need to know your limitations .. after all, there is no guarantee of waking up tomorrow morning regardless of health once you pass 70 .. LOL!
MISSING MARKA PIX, as well!
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Firstborn’s column – from the Daily Tele…
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Politics of Protests: Agree or Go Home
YOU can glue yourself to the road here in protest against a lack of action over climate change, and Albo won’t tell you to go home.
As long as they agree with what you say, you can yell it into a loud hailer across manicured lawns to empathetic ears.
Your crusade can block the foyer and chant, you can light doors and prams on fire, splash paint everywhere, and Labor and their comrades won’t tell you to go home.
But Labor’s crusade comes with caveats.
Last week the wrong army turned up outside Parliament.
Last year Anthony Albanese went to the women’s March4Justice rally, made up of many studio-ready faces and or, those on a $281 a night government travel allowances, and attacked those who didn’t attend for “not listening to the women of Australia”.
Yet when thousands of mums and dads who drove for days with their kids on outback roads came Albo said: “Go home”.
It’s far easier to dismiss people as crazy, to question their mental health and disregard them, than to understand how they got so desperate that more than 10,000 rallied at Parliament House last weekend.
Was it because they drove in dusty trucks instead of flying business class, staying in $22 a night campsites instead of posh hotels?
I saw intolerance scream at them from coffee shop windows, “shut up, shut up, just f..k off,” but the crowd kept building.
Even when they weren’t carrying flags, utes parked outside Woolworths stood out besides shiny ACT-registered Porches, where my family watched a Karen scrawl “assholes” in the dust with her finger on the back window of a Convoy van.
When they moved campsites to Cotter Dam, they were targeted by Antifa-types in the night, throwing rocks and bottles at them.
Separately a negligent driving fine was given to 26-year-old Only Fans performer Chantal Fox, captured on film hitting and crushing a Convoy vehicle shouting “Get out of Canberra you bogan sl.t”.
Violence was directed at them, not by them.
It was a peaceful contrast to violent union riots on the same grounds 26 years ago that injured 120 federal police, shattering the doors to Parliament, causing $188,000 of damage, with containers of acid, urine, paint and blunt picket signs used as weapons.
Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw confirmed that it was he largest protest seen in Canberra since the 1980s and well behaved, with many families and children in attendance.
Not all those protesting were saintly.
One aggressively clipped the shoulder of my friend, a well-known politician, as we walked through the crowd, but still were not as aggressive as the March4Justice women who shouted “c..t” in their faces.
And it’s easier to fascinate yourselves at caustic dinner parties screeching about the rednecks whose profanity echoed around your sacred city than to acknowledge they were simply venting their unheard anger which has grown icier over two long years of neglect.
Some were vaccinated because they were told it would end the lockdowns, some did so they could open their business again, only to be told they couldn’t, and nurses, police, teachers, tradies and early childhood workers lost their jobs because they chose not to.
Some had experienced terrible side effects from the vaccine or lost their incomes, and were shamed when they talked about it.
Those we heard from felt ignored, dismissed as their livelihoods, that took decades of dedication to build was mandate by mandate stripped away.
There were more than 267,113 Australian deaths registered by the ABS between January 2020 and January 2022.
In total, 2639 died with or from Covid-19, making it our 38th biggest killer, after cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dementia, but our most potent when it comes to government regulation.
The horn-honking, flag-waving mums and dads I watched on Saturday were told they couldn’t sing, dance, cross state borders, or go to church or school or playgrounds.
They couldn’t grieve at funerals or celebrate birthdays or see their loved ones before they died alone in hospital.
Unlike other protests, they had no slick PR campaign, no political help, no real organisation, no perfect blow dries and TV make-up.
People without much spare cash were ignored by the national broadcaster, giggled at by the Canberra press gallery on television and told to go home by Labor politicians.
It dwarfed every other rally of late – women’s equality, anti-coal, climate change, those which are so popular with our political class they don’t just welcome them to Parliament, they attend themselves.
When Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese told demonstrators to “go home” the Member for Canberra Alicia Payne said calling out their “bad behaviour” was what made him a real leader.
Ms Payne forgets that Canberra, before it became the seat of government, with largesse delivered by taxpayer-funded bureaucracies, was dotted sheep stations. It was an organic and angry response rather than an organised group, with a minor extremist element that set their cause back by making it easier to paint them all with one brush.
But Labor empathy or the empathy from the enlightened in Canberra, only applied for certain crusades from certain parts of the world, only for the appropriate armies.
Not the “cookers”, not the women in wheelchairs who drove for days, they are only to be rolled out when the story is one they agree with.
When the story isn’t theirs, they scream at them to go home.
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The “People’s News” is an emerging print/electronic newspaper in NQ moving to take the space vacated by News Corpse when it closed its regional weeklies “because covid”.
They invited me to submit a column – below…
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Guest column: (Cardimona), United Australia Party candidate for Kennedy
If you’re like me, you’re thoroughly sick of incompetent and distant bureaucrats trying to micromanage every aspect of your life – including your health. If you’re aware of the lock-stepped, one-size-fits-all approach to the so-called “novel coronavirus” by all Western governments, you’ll also be aware that it tips centuries of best medical practice on its head.
It’s not up to the federal government in far-off Canberra to promote one course of medical action only, in this case ill-advised mass injections with leaky vaccines in the middle of a disease outbreak, by using the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency to silence all sceptical and/or dissenting doctors with threats of prosecution and deregistration.
It’s not up to the government to use the Therapeutic Goods Administration to ban your GP from prescribing well-known and effective therapeutics off-label to cure your Covid-19, such as those outlined by Australian disease expert Professor Thomas Borody with his “Covid triple therapy”.
You and your GP know your health status better than anyone else and are best placed to make day-to-day decisions on your best health care – how dare governments usurp that traditional arrangement?
How dare governments spend tax money taken from us by force of law to trigger a population-wide fear campaign, or “mass formation psychosis”, via “media flooding”, as they call it, to generate widespread belief that Covid-19 is way more dangerous than it ever actually was?
Many of us have known for over two years that Covid-19 was circulating in Wuhan from October 2019 during the World Military Games. We had direct flights to Australia for five months after that. Anyone who had the flu in that time likely had the “highly infectious and very deadly” Covid-19 – but it was no big deal because the artificial fear campaign hadn’t been ramped up yet.
Even Federal Health Minister and former Director of Global Strategy for the World Economic Forum, Greg Hunt, noted in a press release on 25/01/2020 that the first community case of Covid-19 had been officially found in Victoria – a Wuhan man who’d flown from Guandong on 19/01/2020. ScoMo belatedly closed the border to China on 20/03/2020.
For two years now we’ve been bombarded with information from governments that is doubtful at best and incredibly damaging at worst. Regardless of the government propaganda, Covid-19 presented no greater threat than many flus before it and it claims the same demographic, the elderly with co-morbidities, as every other flu always has.
As Professor Borody had established by August 2020, Covid-19 is particularly treatable and with early intervention with his ivermectin, azithromycin and zinc therapy there was no need for lockdowns, social isolation, job losses, business destruction, masking, experimental-vaccine “mandates”, and all the social division that followed.
There was no need whatsoever for our state and federal governments to be implementing elements of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2010 “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Development”, specifically parts of the chapters titled “Lock Step” (about a pandemic), “Hack Attack” (about government debt) and “Smart Scramble” (about societal collapse). Yet here we are with a vestigial Chinese Communist-style social credit score system called a “vaccine pass” or a “green tick”.
Our established political parties have been solidly behind this insane, anti-Australian attack on our economy and our societal cohesion. They have even wilfully disregarded our national Constitution, which is written in plain English, in matters relating to state border closures and forced medical procedures, such as vaccinations and masks. Our Constitution was never intended to be “interpreted” solely by highly paid lawyers – it’s the Australian peoples’ contract with the Australian government.
Section 117 states,
“A subject of the Queen, resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to him if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other State.”
And yet we were discriminated against based on our state of residence.
Section 51(xxiiiA) states,
“The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:
(xxiiiA) the provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorize any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances;”
And yet many of us experienced “civil conscription” into “medical services”, such as “mandatory” experimental gene-therapy vaccines, and surgical splash-masks that never have stopped viral transmission.
If our established political parties won’t abide by their contract with the Australian people, we can never trust them with government again. We need to give them our last preferences on our ballots in May.
My name is (Cardimona), I’m a retired fireman, a father of five, a grandfather of four, an Australian patriot, and I’m the United Australia Party’s candidate in Kennedy.
(Links continue in next comment.)
https://www.ahpra.gov.au/documents/default.aspx?record=WD21/30750&dbid=AP&chksum=fzAfcVE%2F5L%2BakgX%2BZZZ%2FqA%3D%3D
https://www.medianet.com.au/releases/189953/
http://covexit.com/we-know-its-curable-its-easier-than-treating-the-flu-professor-thomas-borody/
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FoxTEL is part owned by Telstra.
Fascism, no?
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https://www.tga.gov.au/media-release/new-restrictions-prescribing-ivermectin-covid-19
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-greg-hunt-mp/media/first-confirmed-case-of-novel-coronavirus-in-australia
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/border-restrictions
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2022 Victorian State Race Series – Sandown Round 1 Sunday
Blend Line TV
LIVE
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Meanwhile Wivenhoe is over 160%.
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https://twitter.com/hashtag/brisbanefloods?src=hashtag_click&f=live
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Garrison
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Evo with paddle shifters and high boost currently tearing up the field (7 laps) – “three abreast in the mid field – sequential shift/H-pattern/paddle shifter (Evo)” – Evos drives around them.
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Guardian still pushing bullshit that the chunk virus came from the wet market and not the lab:
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/coronavirus-came-from-wuhan-market-and-not-chinese-lab-twin-studies-say/ar-AAUlOp4?ocid=entnewsntp
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I’m conflicted over Ukraine.
I want the new world order wankers to get a bloody nose at the hands of Putin.
But I also want the Ukrainian adventure to be an utter debacle that leds to the downfall of Putin so that Xi looks at it and goes “Hell no, I’m not doing that in Taiwan, not ever”.
Whatever.
All I know for sure is to ignore the propaganda. Which is particularly nauseating as the mainstream whores try to entice as many young men to their deaths as possible with silly David vs Goliath narratives.
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Are Qld’s emergency shelters for fully vaxxed only?
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Cardimona says:
February 27, 2022 at 9:13 am
The “People’s News” is an emerging print/electronic newspaper in NQ moving to take the space vacated by News Corpse when it closed its regional weeklies “because covid”.
They invited me to submit a column – below…
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Thanks Cardi, that’s a good article, all the facts succinctly put together. Regarding Vikki’s article, Delta on the other Cat said that there was some support from the Canberra natives, cars with ACT rego flying their flags etc., so there wasn’t universal hostility.
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Forget the Great Reset. Embrace the Great Escape.
ReasonTV
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Arky. FYI.
Hmmmmmm!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/26/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the-truth-the-current-western-propaganda-for-ukraine-is-epic-in-scale/
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KRuddwatch – I did not know that
Golfing water hazard
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Knock knock joke
It’s very, very hard to give up your addiction
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Tis but a scratch
When you can’t get boob Convid
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Brisbane floods will be at least equal to the 2011 floods, imho.
It is likely to be worse due to the length of time the place will be underwater.
Wivenhoe dam releases will be stepped up as the current levels mean they cannot hold back much longer. Heavy rain has also returned to the Wivenhoe catchment.
Intense rain fell over the area between Brisbane and Wivenhoe this morning.
So the Brisbane river will get higher and wilder.
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Most likely Sharon got paid to sit on her arse for two years.
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