Science and storytelling are the foundations of civilization. We investigate the world around us and we tell stories about that world and ourselves in it.
We seek the truth in both.
Both our science and our stories are at risk today.
Assignment for the week:
If you come across any suitable media items during the week that would qualify, make a note of them and share them on the next edition of TWTW.
The thread is meant to help wind down from the past week (Saturday – Friday) so we can retain our sanity. Friday drinks at the Cat3 pub.
I’ll put this up again for those yet to know about it…finally watched it to completion last night. Almost one hour and fifteen minutes.
Harald, is being honest. Any tourist that starts filming in that place without the locals giving the go ahead, will lead to a spot of bother.
Raw and fascinating.
Harald Baldr:
BRAZIL, RIO DE JANEIRO: Most residents who live in one of Brazil’s many favelas are just ordinary people who happen to find themselves in an incredibly unorthodox living situation. Over a period of a couple of days, Henry and I trawled the dark cramped alleys of the Rocinha and Vidigal favelas, letting some of the awesome people who live there give us a glimpse of their unique way of life.
I watched part of that – the barber bit – when you last posted the link. What is interesting is the scale of the favelas and that they are almost completely beyond the state’s interest.
Black Ball says:
October 30, 2021 at 4:48 pm (Edit)
Kaysee no. If you have some advice on how to proceed by all means contact me.
BB,
When you posted your original comment earlier this year about contacting various channels, I understood your idea. I think it is a good one. I have a few suggestions but I do not know if they will provide any success with the TV stations.
If you can let me know (via an email to Adam) more about who you have contacted so far and how you have done that, I can then respond with what I think may help.
Death of vaccinated man raises concerns for West Tennessee family
October 26, 2021
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — A local family is speaking out about what they claim happened to their son after he received a second dose of a COVID vaccine.
“Just a family man, good-hearted family man. He just took care of his family and loved everybody,” said Rockie Hornsby, father of Timothy Hornsby.
His family says 36-year-old Timothy Hornsby took his second dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine last month and the next morning, they say he started felling ill.
“He said he felt bad, he had chills, aches, pain, headaches, legs hurting. He was healthy, he had no known problems,” said Hornsby.
Two days later his father says his son’s health took an unexpected turn.
“My wife got up and noticed it was getting late in the morning and then she went in his bed room, opened the curtains and was talking to him. He didn’t respond so she pulled the covers out and found that he had passed,” said Hornsby…
“…At the last election, Angus Taylor, Josh Frydenberg, Scott Morrison, me and many others warned that Labor’s proposed 45 per cent reduction in carbon emissions would wreck the Australian economy. Two years later we are set to turn around and say, actually, it will all be fine. And, in fact we got it so wrong, that we will make lots of money from a 100 per cent cut in emissions! Sorry about that Bill Shorten.
Kevin Rudd lost his Prime Ministership the day he dropped his carbon tax scheme. He did so because the polling told him it had become unpopular. The problem was a year before he had said that “climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time”. Rudd never regained the trust of the Australian people.
The LNP is looking over this “Rudd precipice”. Will we stand by our principles and the people that gave up their free time and money to support us? Or will we become the conservative version of Kevin Rudd, an empty, poll driven kite, that blows with the wind rather than stands against it when it is right to do so?
The most pathetic example of the west’s decline this week was the House of Windsor’s cringe-worthy diatribes against world leaders. Some leaders have the gall to prioritise the development of their poor countries (that the UK once ruled and left poor), instead of returning to the mother country to kiss the ring at Glasgow. The only reason the small British isles off the coast of Europe ended up ruling the world was because they were the first to harness the energy of coal through the Industrial Revolution. The Poms now lecture others that are using that same coal to bring their people out of poverty.
If only we could harness such hypocrisy and turn it into electricity, climate change would be solved. Thanks to climate change activists there is an endless supply of it.
The monarchy has gone woke just like every other corporation. These people agree with Kevin Rudd and view climate change as a “moral” challenge. For the secular west it has replaced religion. In this way, climate change activism has become the new “white man’s burden”. As the enlightened people of the world, it has fallen on the rich, white nations of the world to correct the sins of their former colonies.
This is how wokeism is far from harmless. Lots of woke obsessions are complete BS, but their advocates have a puritan streak which makes woke policies, that on first blush appear to be just a joke, a punishing reality. That is why, as someone else pointed out recently, everything woke turns to …
The net zero emissions BS will turn out no different.”
Tricks Advertisers Use To Make Food Look Delicious
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That was fascinating to watch, kaysee. I don’t know whether to be really impressed by the technical aspects of the food advertising business in making their product look so great, or a bit nauseated by it.
Death of vaccinated man raises concerns for West Tennessee family
October 26, 2021
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Pfizer seems to have the worst reaction, even death, in youngish healthy fit males around 20 to 40.
Another amazing day in the beautiful Yemen, this country is breathtaking. I just posted a photo of the area with the football fields next to Yemen’s Manhattan with the skyscrapers made of mud.
I cannot go to bed without posting the following, which I have just added to the comments in my Kokoda post on DoverCat. This bloke crawled for three weeks on his hands and knees through the jungle, because he did not want to be a burden to others.
Are we worthy enough to be descended from men like this anymore?
Citation for the award of the British Empire Medal to VX15796 Cpl. John Arthur Metson, 2/14th Aust Inf. Bn.
On the 30 August 1942, C Coy of 2/14 Aust. Inf. Bn had been heavily and fiercely attacked by the enemy. A withdrawal was ordered but the order could not be communicated to ever one. VX15796 Cpl. John Arthur Metson remained in the FLDs [sic; thought to be FDLs – Forward Defensive Line/Locality] until it was completely overrun by the enemy and his path of withdrawal cut off. Although wounded through the ankle he gathered together many troops who were also cut off and proceeded to find a way back to [his] own lines via the jungle. At this stage he came upon Capt. S.H. Buckler’s party of A Coy who were also cut off. Eventually it became evident that the party must look for another way back. As the days went on Cpl. Metson became weaker, but he would not allow the others in the party to help. He refused to be carried by stretcher bearers, knowing that the party was too weak to carry more than four stretcher cases who were already in the party. He padded his hands and knees and crawled behind the stretcher cases during the period 30th August – 21 September, of this period, approx two weeks was spent in movement through a 7,000 ft mountain range. Within the party of 8 wounded, Cpl. Metson was outstanding. Not only did he set an example of courage, tenacity and unselfishness whilst with the party behind the enemy lines, but also his sheer example of will power inspired other weaker members to carry on.
[The source was Cpl. Metson’s personnel file, accessed via the NAA’s RecordSearch database].
‘Pfizer seems to have the worst reaction, even death, in youngish healthy fit males around 20 to 40.’
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Candy, here is a female this time:
October 31st, 2021
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA – A healthy young woman suffered pericarditis and neuropathy shortly after her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Valerie Milford got her shot on Wednesday, October 13th. She developed heart palpitations, body aches and fever a few hours later. That same night she went to the ER where she was told that she had suffered pericarditis. She was sent home and advised to take Nurofen for the pain. The next few days she felt weak, tired and constantly out of breath. On Saturday, October 16th, she suddenly was unable to walk and move her hands much due to pain. She went again to the ER where it was confirmed that she had developed neuropathy in her hands and feet…
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And top professional footballers are always being rushed to hospital with heart disorders.
It’s normal.
We are at war. We are being killed, our industries and power supplies destroyed. Imprisoned under force of arms.Propaganda and lies everywhere.
Submit or perish.
……come on struth, calm down. …they’re just weak and stupid politicians.
I know who is weak and stupid.
Boss asks if vaxxed on weekend.
No f… way was the response he got.
Oh I thought everyone working here had.
No and I’m not the only one, I said.
You won’t be able to do anything if you don’t get vaccinated.
I asked…how will they know I’m not vaccinated?
They’ll be checking.
And you’re fine with that?
You don’t see the checking a problem?
That’s how it’s going to be whether we like it or not.
That’s the Anzac spirit, I said to him.
Dick head watches the ABC.
The state has recorded 1471 new cases of COVID-19 and four deaths. Today’s tally is up from yesterday’s 1036 cases’
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What exactly were Morrison and Co so outraged about when George Christensen gave his speech in parliament a couple of months back? Christensen said we need to open up and live with Covid, and yes sadly there will be some deaths.
Boss asks if vaxxed on weekend.
No f… way was the response he got.
Oh I thought everyone working here had.
No and I’m not the only one, I said.
You won’t be able to do anything if you don’t get vaccinated.
I asked…how will they know I’m not vaccinated?
They’ll be checking.
And you’re fine with that?
You don’t see the checking a problem?
That’s how it’s going to be whether we like it or not.
IIRC BHP had mandatory vaxxing at all sites on 27 October – unless you resist on “moral” grounds – so seems there’s always an out (a letter from Epstein’s mother), as with most Gummint enforced propaganda.
The BHP Global head Sherang flew in from OS without quarantining, Rona must have been on holidays.
But if Muddy looks at kaysee’s other headline at 3:03 pm:
Prince William, Kate caught taking holiday amid climate change campaign
We can also play the choose one/all of the following game:
1/ Do as I say, not as I do.
2/ Rules for thee, but not for me.
3/ Announce goals and targets. By the time the specified year rolls around, there will be some other goal to distract us all.
4/ By 2030, the nice net-zero promising pollies will be in a top level UN job.
5/ (Other points: Add to the list)
6/
7/
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These mentally unstable people are teaching your kids
I’m coming around to the pov that teachers are scum.
If you survive the first video, you can scroll down for another.
One was enough. This person should not be watering plants let alone teaching kids.
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Thanks, Muddy. I’ve been lurking the whole time, just haven’t posted for a while.
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Full of heavy metals?
The Heavy Metal Awards?
Was Ozzy Osbourne present?
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In other News – tick aims to offset elephants’ gas emissions.
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Defending and Respecting the Pursuit of Truth
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Jake Kazarek: 28-Year-Old Body Builder Dies 4 Days After Receiving The Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine
Here is his Facebook post after he got his 2nd shot.
His post shows he has given in to coercion, then tells others to get the shot.
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Victorians, your leader
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O ye Cat3 blog travellers,
Assignment for the week:
If you come across any suitable media items during the week that would qualify, make a note of them and share them on the next edition of TWTW.
The thread is meant to help wind down from the past week (Saturday – Friday) so we can retain our sanity. Friday drinks at the Cat3 pub.
You are all invited.
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Why is Pfizer pushing an untested vaccine on children?
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I’ll put this up again for those yet to know about it…finally watched it to completion last night. Almost one hour and fifteen minutes.
Harald, is being honest. Any tourist that starts filming in that place without the locals giving the go ahead, will lead to a spot of bother.
Raw and fascinating.
Harald Baldr:
BRAZIL, RIO DE JANEIRO: Most residents who live in one of Brazil’s many favelas are just ordinary people who happen to find themselves in an incredibly unorthodox living situation. Over a period of a couple of days, Henry and I trawled the dark cramped alleys of the Rocinha and Vidigal favelas, letting some of the awesome people who live there give us a glimpse of their unique way of life.
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Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity
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Link.
The Favela People 🇧🇷
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Good piece in the Paywallian on Leunig that I have just read.
‘Leunig is far more awake than the woke, thankfully’
— Angela Shanahan.
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Black Ball.
I’ve sent you an email via Adam. Hopefully you can make sense of it.
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Donald Trump Jr
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I like the beat
it definitely wont be on youtube for long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE
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Steve trickler.
I watched part of that – the barber bit – when you last posted the link. What is interesting is the scale of the favelas and that they are almost completely beyond the state’s interest.
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Latest from the wacky world of islam:
Palestinian’ Jihad Terrorists Make More Than Doctors or Teachers
Spain: Muslim migrant rapes 15-year-old girl, authorities dismiss such cases by saying ‘It’s their custom’
Kansas City: Student denounces teacher for criticizing Islam, teacher is placed on leave
Father of Samel Paty’s Killer Praises His Son, Says with the Beheading, ‘The Debt of All Muslims Will be Settled’
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Just looked through my account Muddy. Alas, there is nothing there from your good self. Try again?
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BB,
When you posted your original comment earlier this year about contacting various channels, I understood your idea. I think it is a good one. I have a few suggestions but I do not know if they will provide any success with the TV stations.
If you can let me know (via an email to Adam) more about who you have contacted so far and how you have done that, I can then respond with what I think may help.
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Tricks Advertisers Use To Make Food Look Delicious
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Black Ball.
I sent the email to Adam, so it will depend on how busy he is with life’s distractions. It may take a few days.
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CESARIA EVORA Sodade
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Death of vaccinated man raises concerns for West Tennessee family
October 26, 2021
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — A local family is speaking out about what they claim happened to their son after he received a second dose of a COVID vaccine.
“Just a family man, good-hearted family man. He just took care of his family and loved everybody,” said Rockie Hornsby, father of Timothy Hornsby.
His family says 36-year-old Timothy Hornsby took his second dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine last month and the next morning, they say he started felling ill.
“He said he felt bad, he had chills, aches, pain, headaches, legs hurting. He was healthy, he had no known problems,” said Hornsby.
Two days later his father says his son’s health took an unexpected turn.
“My wife got up and noticed it was getting late in the morning and then she went in his bed room, opened the curtains and was talking to him. He didn’t respond so she pulled the covers out and found that he had passed,” said Hornsby…
https://www.wbbjtv.com/2021/10/26/death-of-vaccinated-man-raises-concerns-for-west-tennessee-family/
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If you haven’t already, consider visiting DoverCat & reading my Kokoda post of yesterday.
(I’m typing this on my phone, so cannot link, sorry).
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Woke net zero targets will weaken us
China now has space nukes but they can’t match us on plans to reach net zero
Matt Canavan
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“…At the last election, Angus Taylor, Josh Frydenberg, Scott Morrison, me and many others warned that Labor’s proposed 45 per cent reduction in carbon emissions would wreck the Australian economy. Two years later we are set to turn around and say, actually, it will all be fine. And, in fact we got it so wrong, that we will make lots of money from a 100 per cent cut in emissions! Sorry about that Bill Shorten.
Kevin Rudd lost his Prime Ministership the day he dropped his carbon tax scheme. He did so because the polling told him it had become unpopular. The problem was a year before he had said that “climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time”. Rudd never regained the trust of the Australian people.
The LNP is looking over this “Rudd precipice”. Will we stand by our principles and the people that gave up their free time and money to support us? Or will we become the conservative version of Kevin Rudd, an empty, poll driven kite, that blows with the wind rather than stands against it when it is right to do so?
The most pathetic example of the west’s decline this week was the House of Windsor’s cringe-worthy diatribes against world leaders. Some leaders have the gall to prioritise the development of their poor countries (that the UK once ruled and left poor), instead of returning to the mother country to kiss the ring at Glasgow. The only reason the small British isles off the coast of Europe ended up ruling the world was because they were the first to harness the energy of coal through the Industrial Revolution. The Poms now lecture others that are using that same coal to bring their people out of poverty.
If only we could harness such hypocrisy and turn it into electricity, climate change would be solved. Thanks to climate change activists there is an endless supply of it.
The monarchy has gone woke just like every other corporation. These people agree with Kevin Rudd and view climate change as a “moral” challenge. For the secular west it has replaced religion. In this way, climate change activism has become the new “white man’s burden”. As the enlightened people of the world, it has fallen on the rich, white nations of the world to correct the sins of their former colonies.
This is how wokeism is far from harmless. Lots of woke obsessions are complete BS, but their advocates have a puritan streak which makes woke policies, that on first blush appear to be just a joke, a punishing reality. That is why, as someone else pointed out recently, everything woke turns to …
The net zero emissions BS will turn out no different.”
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egg_ says:
October 31, 2021 at 9:13 pm
Who said that?
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Matt Canavan
Woke net zero targets will weaken us
China now has space nukes but they can’t match us on plans to reach net zero
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Matt Canavan
Fron a link in the recent George Christensen email.
Post didn’t come up.
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Tricks Advertisers Use To Make Food Look Delicious
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That was fascinating to watch, kaysee. I don’t know whether to be really impressed by the technical aspects of the food advertising business in making their product look so great, or a bit nauseated by it.
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Death of vaccinated man raises concerns for West Tennessee family
October 26, 2021
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Pfizer seems to have the worst reaction, even death, in youngish healthy fit males around 20 to 40.
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Good stuff Muddy. Kaysee, yes get my details from Adam. Your input would be most appreciated
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What an utter fuckwit
At a time when the Opposition in this state needs everyone on board to defeat Andrews, he does this.
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Back on the desktop.
My Kokoda post of yesterday on DoverCat.
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Enjoy a safe and relaxing night everybody. I hope you’re all managing to keep your chin above the waterline in this choppy swell.
We need you. ALL of you. Stick around.
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The series continues. 21:52
Indigo Traveller:
Another amazing day in the beautiful Yemen, this country is breathtaking. I just posted a photo of the area with the football fields next to Yemen’s Manhattan with the skyscrapers made of mud.
24 Hours as a Tourist in Yemen (unreal) – Oct 31, 2021
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I cannot go to bed without posting the following, which I have just added to the comments in my Kokoda post on DoverCat. This bloke crawled for three weeks on his hands and knees through the jungle, because he did not want to be a burden to others.
Are we worthy enough to be descended from men like this anymore?
[The source was Cpl. Metson’s personnel file, accessed via the NAA’s RecordSearch database].
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@Muddy
some amazing stories of PNG actions.
Thank you for highlighting them.
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Cheers, Muddy. Will take a squiz over at Dover’s.
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‘Pfizer seems to have the worst reaction, even death, in youngish healthy fit males around 20 to 40.’
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Candy, here is a female this time:
October 31st, 2021
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA – A healthy young woman suffered pericarditis and neuropathy shortly after her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Valerie Milford got her shot on Wednesday, October 13th. She developed heart palpitations, body aches and fever a few hours later. That same night she went to the ER where she was told that she had suffered pericarditis. She was sent home and advised to take Nurofen for the pain. The next few days she felt weak, tired and constantly out of breath. On Saturday, October 16th, she suddenly was unable to walk and move her hands much due to pain. She went again to the ER where it was confirmed that she had developed neuropathy in her hands and feet…
https://thecovidworld.com/valerie-milford-healthy-young-woman-develops-pericarditis-and-neuropathy-after-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine/
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(☀️) Sergio Agüero 🇦🇷 underwent some cardiological studies due to chest discomfort and has been diagnosed with a cardiac arrhythmia, that is, a heart rhythm frequency disorder.
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And top professional footballers are always being rushed to hospital with heart disorders.
It’s normal.
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Americans not liking The Great Reset:
Meet the Press
@MeetThePress
Good Sunday morning —
We have a brand new NBC News poll out this morning that’s filled with tough news for Democrats.
The country is headed —
In the right direction: 22
On wrong track: 71
President Biden’s job performance —
Approve: 42
Disapprove: 54
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We are at war. We are being killed, our industries and power supplies destroyed. Imprisoned under force of arms.Propaganda and lies everywhere.
Submit or perish.
……come on struth, calm down. …they’re just weak and stupid politicians.
I know who is weak and stupid.
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Boss asks if vaxxed on weekend.
No f… way was the response he got.
Oh I thought everyone working here had.
No and I’m not the only one, I said.
You won’t be able to do anything if you don’t get vaccinated.
I asked…how will they know I’m not vaccinated?
They’ll be checking.
And you’re fine with that?
You don’t see the checking a problem?
That’s how it’s going to be whether we like it or not.
That’s the Anzac spirit, I said to him.
Dick head watches the ABC.
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Lame pics courtesy of the ubiquitous Mark A:
https://imgur.com/a/JLGpXWU
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‘Victoria’s daily coronavirus numbers are in.
The state has recorded 1471 new cases of COVID-19 and four deaths. Today’s tally is up from yesterday’s 1036 cases’
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What exactly were Morrison and Co so outraged about when George Christensen gave his speech in parliament a couple of months back? Christensen said we need to open up and live with Covid, and yes sadly there will be some deaths.
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It’s not just two shots you stupid bloody woman. There are boosters required.
“These two shots are as close as we’ll get to a silver bullet to this virus,” Dr Young said.
“Most, if not all, of us will get infected at some point.
“So I urge you – one last time as chief health officer – to get vaccinated if you have not already done so.”
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IIRC BHP had mandatory vaxxing at all sites on 27 October – unless you resist on “moral” grounds – so seems there’s always an out (a letter from Epstein’s mother), as with most Gummint enforced propaganda.
The BHP Global head Sherang flew in from OS without quarantining, Rona must have been on holidays.
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Like any flu.
But how many will die, Cruella?
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I miss Halloween
The witches
Not like this in my day
The arrests
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Red Eagle analysis of the upcoming governor vote in Virginnia, a watershed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfSBvYN2dYs
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