Open Thread – Saturday, 6 November 2021

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  1. mh says:

    Florian Dagoury: World’s Top Static Breath-Hold Freediver Diagnosed With Myocarditis and Pericarditis From Pfizer Vaccine

    Florian Dagoury, the current world’s top static breath-hold free diver – he officially held his breath for 10 minutes and 30 seconds – has been diagnosed with myocarditis and pericarditis 40 days after his second dose with the Pfizer vaccine. The free diver shared his adverse reaction on Instagram:

    “After my 2nd dose I noticed that my heart rate was way higher than normal and my breath hold capacities went down significantly. During sleep I’m at 65-70bpm instead of 37-45bpm. During the day I’m now always over 100bpm instead of 65bpm, even when I sit down and relax. Once I even reach 177bpm while having dinner with friends !!!! 40days after 2nd jab, I had no progress so I went to see another cardiologist and got diagnosed with Myocarditis, Pericarditis and Trivial Mitral regurgitation! I’m now struggling to reach 8min breath hold, 150m down and I even have a strong urge to breath doing 40m dives. 30% decrease on my diving performance roughly.”


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  2. Carpe Jugulum says:

    Podium
    Woo Hoo


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  3. FlyingPigs says:

    Italy Makes a Stunning Announcement About COVID-19 Death Toll

    https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/11/04/italy-reduces-covid-19-deaths-by-a-whopping-97-n1529706

    Italy’s Institute of Health now counts only those who died from COVID-19 has having died from COVID-19, reducing COVID-19 deaths in the hard-hit country from over 130,000 to fewer than 4,000.


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  4. mh says:

    Psaki has a replacement while she battles Corona

    The First
    @TheFirstonTV
    Peter Doocy drops the mic:

    “Is there discussion about giving people who came here the right way money?”

    WH Deputy Press Sec: “Why would we be giving people who came here the right way money?”

    “Why are you giving people who came here the wrong way money?”

    https://twitter.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1456706555928326147?s=20


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  5. FlyingPigs says:

    Quarterback Aaron Rogers Catches COVID, Says He Will Follow Joe Rogan’s Advice and Take Ivermectin
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/quarterback-aaron-rogers-catches-covid-says-will-follow-joe-rogans-advice-take-ivermectin/


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  6. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Excellent Flying Pigs. That will make Michael Wilbon’s head explode.


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  7. mh says:

    The Alex Jones Show

    Dr. Peter McCullough Issues Emergency Warning: Vaccine Created Spike Protein is Deadly in the Human Body

    https://banned.video/watch?id=6185b407e19ed5372ded8319


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  8. mh says:

    Perrottet, such a breath of fresh air

    ‘Rules about what to bring into an HSC exam are strict: black pens, water in a clear bottle, and an approved calculator. When exams begin on Tuesday next week, there will be one more rule. Students will have to wear a face mask.

    After flagging his hope that year 12 would not have to cover their faces during exams, which could be irritating for those doing tests lasting up to three hours, Premier Dominic Perrottet on Friday said they would remain compulsory for students.’


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  9. V I Lenin says:

    Is it true that St Fauci and the Chinese PLA are nominated for the Nobble Prize for medecine for their Gain of Function research which has caused the , elimination of the Common Flu ?
    How many people have you known who have had flu these last two years ?
    They will ignore the covid accident ,they didnt mean it to escape quite yet ,they still dont have the antidote .


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  10. shatterzzz says:

    After flagging his hope that year 12 would not have to cover their faces during exams, which could be irritating for those doing tests lasting up to three hours, Premier Dominic Perrottet on Friday said they would remain compulsory for students.’

    Can’t be too careful .. we’ze gotta protect all those double vaxxed supervisors/teachers .. LOL!


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  11. Steve trickler says:

    Make of that ( clip ) what you will. 13:42

    “If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line – starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King’s Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led – make of that what you will.”
    ― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

    Thomas Bergersen Dear Mr Alien – Amos Madar Video Music


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  12. Steve trickler says:

    Music does indeed take you places.👏

    A 10 minute trip around the world.

    Thomas Bergersen – Humanity (feat. Audrey Callahan) [cinematic]


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  13. Muddy says:

    FlyingPigs says:
    November 6, 2021 at 7:45 am

    Italy Makes a Stunning Announcement About COVID-19 Death Toll

    The source for this seems to be an article in il tempo.

    It’s all Italian to me though. Given the story’s potential importance (if confirmed), can any Italian speaker amongst us find a public statement by their Ministry of Health, and translate it for please?

    The next step will be a differentiation between the categories of ‘case’ – there are three, only one of which is ‘confirmed’, but the trend has been to lump ‘suspected’ and (I forget the middle category) into just one, broad category of ‘case’ which is very misleading.


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  14. kaysee kaysee says:

    Numeros Disclaimer 🙂

    The Past:
    Numeros were selected to cover a variety of topics, so they were not on one single theme.

    Now:
    Numeros will be randomly picked out of the box. And posted. No selection/rejection process as that takes too much time. Comment box Link function has a bug, so it is not possible to test link before posting. So, if the link doesn’t work first time around, I’ll re-post.


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  15. Muddy says:

    From cohenite’s Deadpool funnies link of late this morning:

    Branch Covidians – Naive people who have formed a cult-like following for the media and will do virtually anything they say regarding Coronavirus.

    [The visual is of a kneeling, robed and masked figure, hands in the prayer position, facing a television on which appears the text: “Remain Terrified. Question Nothing. Stay Home.”].


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  16. Muddy says:

    There’s something in all of those, kaysee. If I had to choose one, I’d vote for deux, the politician’s motto. Except I’d add a bit about possessing a fishing rod being racist.


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  17. Muddy says:

    Further to my comment above regarding the categories of COVID-19 for reporting purposes, it seems to me this is an element that has been largely overlooked.

    The WHO COVID-19 Case definition stipulates three categories of ‘case’:

    A. Suspected case of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
    B. Probable case of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
    C. Confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    Case ‘A’ requires the observation of clinical criteria (physical symptoms such as fever, cough, and others); OR a patient with severe acute respiratory illness; OR an asymptomatic person who has tested positive to a SARS-CoV-2 Antigen RDT. (MEDICAL CATS: Is this a PCR test, or something different?).

    I won’t go on to the list the definitions for the Probable and Confirmed categories, but my point is that it appears to my non-medical mind that the Category ‘A’ ‘Suspected’ definition is quite open? Meaning that for political purposes, Suspected cases who were NOT later escalated to the Probable or Confirmed categories, were still retained in the broader statistical reporting. Without publicly differentiating between the three categories of case, the public interpretation will be that ALL of the reported cases were CONFIRMED cases of COVID-19, when in fact the Suspected cases may constitute a large percentage of the reported numbers.


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  18. Muddy says:

    cohenite says:
    November 6, 2021 at 2:25 pm

    Big turnout at the melbournistan protests:

    Am I reading that viewing number correctly? Does that state 231K views? 15K comments?


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  19. Steve trickler says:

    Live – Melbourne:

    Melbourne Ground

    March On Government House


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  20. cohenite says:

    Am I reading that viewing number correctly? Does that state 231K views? 15K comments?

    Don’t know but I reckon the crowd is between 15000-20000


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    Italy’s Institute of Health now counts only those who died from COVID-19 has having died from COVID-19, reducing COVID-19 deaths in the hard-hit country from over 130,000 to fewer than 4,000.

    I’ve got out my calculator.
    130,000 is now 4000
    Thus, 33 deaths called out as Covid = 1.

    Now, onto the Australian Covid statistics
    Aus Gov site says Total Deaths is 1795

    Worldometers says 1805

    Let’s say Total Covid deaths to date: 1800
    Using Italy’s formula of 33:1

    This means instead of Covid deaths = 1800
    It is actually = 55

    So the country and economy brought to a standstill due to 55 Covid deaths.

    How many deaths due to flu in 2019?


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  22. kaysee kaysee says:

    Psaki has a replacement while she battles Corona

    When I saw that clip, my first thought was:

    Did you get selected on the colour of your skin, not the content of your brain?


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  23. Steve trickler says:

    These repetitive chants…?

    People on the megaphones should be sticking the boot into WEF – WHO – Davos 201 and Klaus. Bill Gates has yet to be uttered.

    How about: “Dan Andrews is a puppet, Klaus is the puppet master” or “F8ck Bill Gates!”… at least.

    How many in that crowd even know about their involvement?

    Great turnout.


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:

    If the Convid don’t get ya

    Like the school teacher in front of her class:

    I know who stole the candy. If you don’t ‘fess up and I find the candy in your bag, I will hunt you out.

    It is really important to keep coming out …..

    …..and fessing up even if you didn’t steal the candy {take a jab even if you are healthy} just so the teacher {government/employer} will shut up and get back to doing the job – teaching {keeping the wheels of the country/business moving}.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:

    Just rent a bunch of idiots for any lefty cause, even against one of their own – who may not as loony as they are.

    Thomas Kennedy

    Watch Joe Manchin drive his car into protestors who are demanding that he stop blocking climate provisions in the Build Back Better package on behalf of fossil fuel and other corporate interests. What an awful, selfish, greedy man.


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  26. Muddy says:

    Steve trickler says:

    Live – Melbourne:
    March On Government House

    Rukshan, Topher, etc., must have steady-cam type of rigs. You can tell the difference with whoever is filming this. (That is NOT a criticism, just an observation).


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Boris Took Private Jet from Climate Summit to London for Dinner at Private Members Club: Report

    During the United Nations COP26 climate summit conference, Mr Johnson had said world leaders must “act now” to stop global warming, saying: “Humanity has long since run down the clock on climate change.

    “It’s one minute to midnight and we need to act now. If we don’t get serious about climate change today, it will be too late for our children to do so tomorrow.”

    Unless, of course, you have to get to a reunion dinner, at an exclusive private members club and you take a private jet.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    Not to be left out of the hypocrisy contest:

    Barack Obama to Jet into COP26 Climate Summit and Tell ‘Old Folks’ to ‘Get Out of the Way’

    Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jet into Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a lightning visit to the COP26 climate conference. While there he will tell “old folks” to clear the way for the younger generation one week after 78-year-old President Joe Biden addressed the same gathering.


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  29. Steve trickler says:

    Muddy.👍


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  30. egg_ says:

    Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jet into Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a lightning visit to the COP26 climate conference. While there he will tell “old folks” to clear the way for the younger generation one week after 78-year-old President Joe Biden addressed the same gathering.

    Elite ‘Bamarama of the 200 maskless persons pardee?


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  31. Steve trickler says:

    Del Bigtree:

    A new FOIA production exposed a political motive behind the CDC shifting the goalposts on the definition of ‘vaccine’ and ‘vaccination’.

    CDC CAUGHT SHIFTING THE GOALPOSTS


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    Aussie women challenge cop

    REPORT: A directive is NOT a law. – Officer turns away when challenged by two women who know their rights.


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    VA Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears tells the story of her immigrant father…

    Winsome Sears

    August 11th is a very special day in my life. Today is the day my father first came to this country, in 1963,with less than $2 in his pocket. Even in while America was in darkness , my Father saw the light and what this Country could offer.


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  34. From the Il Tempo report:(translated from Italian to English – not an Italian speaker so used an internet translation tool)

    Big mess in the report on deaths. For the ISS most of the deaths were not caused by Covid

    According to the new report (which had not been updated since July) of the Higher Institute of Health on mortality from Covid, the virus that brought the world to its knees would have killed much less than a common flu. It seems a strange and no vax statement, but according to the statistical sample of medical records collected by the institute only 2.9% of the deaths recorded since the end of February 2020 would be due to Covid 19. So of the 130,468 deaths recorded by official statistics at the time of preparation of the new report only 3,783 would be due to the potency of the virus itself. Because all the other Italians who lost their lives had from one to five diseases that according to the ISS therefore already left them little hope. As many as 67.7% would have had more than three contemporary diseases together, and 18% at least two together. Now I personally know a lot of people, but no one who has the misfortune of having five serious illnesses at the same time.

    I would like to trust our scientists, then I go to read the ailments listed that would be not secondary reason for the loss of many Italians and some layman doubts I begin to nourish. According to the ISS, 65.8% of Italians who are no longer there after being infected with Covid were sick with arterial hypertension, that is, they had high blood pressure. 23.5% were also demented, 29.3% added to the ailments a little diabetes, 24.8% also atrial fibrillation. And it is not enough: 17.4% already had sick lungs, 16.3% had had cancer in the last 5 years; 15.7% suffered from heart failure, 28% had ischemic heart disease, 24.8% suffered from atrial fibrillation, more than one in ten was also obese, more than one in ten had a stroke, and still others, albeit in a smaller percentage, had severe liver problems, dialysis and auto-immune diseases.

    It will all be true, I do not question our scientists. But if it is not the virus that kills Italians, then can you explain to me why science has imposed everything we have seen in this abundant year and a half? From masks, to distancing, to lockdown and so on? And how could we have almost 126 thousand Italians reduced to those conditions with 3, 4 or 5 serious diseases, destined to leave anyway if the coronavirus had never existed in a short time? Those numbers would be a resounding indictment against the Italian health system from which they also come. I use the conditional because I have some doubts about what is written from day one in that report. Which suffers like any communication of the ISS or the CTS of the government directives provided gradually during the months, which have been the real and only beacon of what we continue to call “scientists”.

    At the beginning the government then in office, that of Giuseppe Conte, while Italy showed itself to be the country in the world most unprepared and also unable to face the pandemic, asked for data to reassure Italians. And I remember well the weekly PRESS conferences ISS and civil protection in which these deaths were always minimized, always placing the emphasis on the many pathologies found in those who had not made it. It had to be said that this virus did not kill in itself, but accompanied by other ailments in fragile people could hasten an end that was still near.

    Then in the period of vaccination campaign the government need became the diametrically opposite: dramatize and push anyone towards the salvation of the vial made available. But they forgot to update the instructions on the mortality ratio, which followed in its publication increasingly thinned over time and never drummed, the setting given at the beginning. A great confusion therefore, which also feeds fears and stiffens resistance still of a few million Italians who have chosen to escape vaccination. Perhaps with a little less propaganda, less rigidity and more correct information all this would not be so…


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Thanks, BBS.

    We, the public, need more such exposés that will reveal the lies told about this dangerous pandemic.


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    Instead of surrendering to employers who demand their employees get vaccinated, it can be a different outcome, if employees unite to fight the tyranny.

    Video from Proctor & Gamble Employees


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  37. Muddy says:

    Thanks, BBS.

    I’m still hoping to find an official Italian Health statement to confirm what others have reported on.

    When does misinformation or disinformation (the latter requiring intent to deceive, but I do think these are legal terms), become fraud?


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  38. mh says:

    Paywallian

    We’re attempting to appease a monster
    Where was the federal government when Victoria police were firing rubber bullets on their fellow citizens?
    By GEMMA TOGNINI
    ***

    And where was Albo? Zero leadership from Awful Albo to pull dickhead into line.


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  39. Muddy says:

    A comment about Kyle Rittenhouse from Sydney Watson’s instantgran:

    panther2.016
    Bring a large assault style weapon to any gathering like this, peaceful in intent or just an excuse to burn everything AND YOU KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO GET PEOPLE HUNTING YOU, THROWING SH!T AT YOU AND TAUNTING YOU.!!! He did this intentionally with the plan to shoot blacks,. If he was really defending the store or business then he and his white pretend soldier friends should have stood their ground. Only cowards run away and then shoot the few that have followed. NO HEROES HERE!!!!

    Where to start?
    Nope. Waste of time.


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  40. Muddy says:

    kaysee says:
    November 6, 2021 at 4:26 pm

    Aussie women challenge cop

    REPORT: A directive is NOT a law. – Officer turns away when challenged by two women who know their rights.

    Interesting. I wonder, however, if the outcome might have been different had there been more than one officer, or the members of the public were male?

    I’m not sure of the legal issue either. My impression is that under a declared state of emergency, directives such as those issued by a Chief Health Officer are equated to that of legislation passed by Parliament? Thus they are legally – for the duration of the declared period of emergency – enforceable.

    Yes? No?


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:

    Muddy, why did the cop go away, if it was the law?

    It may be that this cop was one of those who is not happy with this part of the job?


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  42. kaysee kaysee says:

    Denzel Washington Named Honorary Sergeant Major of the Army

    Mr. Denzel Washington named the Honorary Sergeant Major of the Army for his commitment and support to Soldiers and their families.


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  43. Muddy says:

    cohenite says:
    November 6, 2021 at 6:21 pm

    More funnies from Thursday.

    Hi, I’m Muddy. I’m addicted to memes. It never used to be like this, but once I got a taste …

    Seriously, the image of Greta, Supreme Toddler, and presumably her mother sitting on a 9,000 Euro chair, with another 8,000 Euro chair in the background, says it all (if you choose to open your eyes). Having written that, I have no idea of the exchange rate of the Euro compared to the Morro Dollar, and it may not be their living room, soooo …. Nah. I wouldn’t apologise anyway.

    O.K., just checked. E8,000 = about $A14,000.


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  44. Muddy says:

    Muddy, why did the cop go away, if it was the law?

    I don’t know, kaysee. He seemed an unhappy chappy when he walked away though, and he said they’d get a ticket in the mail. Maybe he’d already noted their i.d. before they started filming? So they may not have escaped a censure.


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  45. kaysee kaysee says:

    Curtis Houck

    .@BenShapiro on @realDailyWire
    fighting the Biden vaccine mandate: “We are not going to comply…We’ve already filed a federal lawsuit…to stop this mandate. It is unconstitutional. It is illegal. It violates the original enabling act for OSHA. It is…anti-scientific as well”


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  46. Muddy says:

    Steve trickler,

    I’m presently watching B & B on the BAM, as you recommended recently. This bloke is likeable: knows some of the language, is knowledgeable, doesn’t act like a tourist prat. Good stuff.

    I’m seen bits and pieces of his before, and being a history nerd, I’ve enjoyed that side of it. Thanks.


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  47. Muddy says:

    cohenite says:
    November 6, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    Neil Patrick Harris in drag

    What the? Why?


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  48. kaysee kaysee says:

    Muddy,
    Some one had posted an article here some months ago. The original link page has been taken down, but found it on another site.

    The Curious Case of the Unlawful Public Health Orders

    The writer is Peter Fam, Human Rights Lawyer, Sydney


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  49. cohenite says:

    What the? Why?

    I think he’s a fucktard; so I presented some supporting evidence.


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  50. kaysee kaysee says:

    Some quackery afoot.

    Here: With Billie Jean

    .

    And there: Papa doesn’t care


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  51. kaysee kaysee says:

    Network reporter warned not to report on super-sensitive subject

    A journalist for the BBC network in the United Kingdom says he was warned off of reporting on Stonewall, the huge LGBT-promoting activist organization.

    According to a report from the Christian Institute, Stephen Nolan said he was told reporting on Stonewall, the promoter of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ideology, could hurt him.


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  52. Muddy says:

    Thanks, kaysee. I’ve bookmarked it, and will hopefully read it tomorrow.

    Fair point, cohenite. I don’t keep up with what the beautiful people are doing, so I’m blissfully ignorant. (I know who he is though).


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  53. mh says:

    At least eight people have died and scores of people have been hurt after a crowd surge on the opening night of a music festival in Houston, Texas.
    Panic broke out after the crowd began to press towards the front of the stage at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, emergency officials said.
    Eleven people were taken to hospitals in cardiac arrest and eight died.
    Some 300 people were treated for injuries such as cuts and bruises at the event, attended by 50,000 people.
    Local politician Lina Hidalgo, county judge of Harris County, described what had happened as an “extremely tragic night”.
    “Our hearts are broken,” she said. “People go to these events looking for a good time, a chance to unwind, to make memories – it’s not the kind of event you go to where you expect to find out about fatalities.”…


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  54. kaysee kaysee says:

    On the subject of directives and laws in relation to Covid, even the legal and justice systems aren’t certain what to do.

    Senior Ashford Hospital doctor mounts COVID vaccine mandate challenge in Adelaide court

    Adelaide emergency doctor withdraws legal challenge against SA’s mandatory vaccinations for healthcare workers

    An Adelaide emergency doctor who sought to challenge the state’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers has withdrawn his legal challenge in the Adelaide Magistrates Court.

    Magistrate Kate White said ……. the Magistrates Court was not the forum.

    “I would invite you to consider whether or not I have any jurisdiction to grant the injunction relief or the broader relief your client seeks,” she said.

    “I’ve very little jurisdiction in relation to statutory claims … it certainly doesn’t include the legislation your client is seeking.”


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  55. kaysee kaysee says:

    I think DeSantis should be running in 2024. Unlike Trump, he hasn’t been involved in the pro-vaccine campaign, so he won’t have to deal with the negative consequences. The fall out from Covid and vaccines will continue for a long time.

    Michael P Senger

    DeSantis: “Those individuals who have gone through a normal vaccination series for COVID—you will be determined to be unvaccinated very soon…They’re gonna to tell you: ‘You have to get a booster, otherwise you could face loss of employment’…This is just the tip of the iceberg.”


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  56. cohenite says:

    More funnies: WIP.


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  57. FlyingPigs says:

    The Philippines recognize 2021 as the 500’th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity to their Island chain.


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  58. FlyingPigs says:

    How much money do taxpayers give to MSM?

    Not forgetting that Facebook shut down gubbmint accounts and ex- copper Peter Dutton resolved that impasse.

    Are we not glaad?


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  59. Steve trickler says:

    Have a squiz at this. 3:35

    How long before you twig as to what is going on? 🤔

    Thomas Bergersen – Wither All Life And Love [scientific]


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  60. cohenite says:

    Presenting Mark A’s Lame Pics:

    https://imgur.com/a/HtLmw8f


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  61. cohenite says:

    Biden’s daughter’s diary has been released. More evidence that joe is a pervert, a deviant and a complete shit of a human:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw9m0KB46D8&t=134s

    https://www.newswars.com/exclusive-source-biden-daughters-diary-details-not-appropriate-showers-with-joe-as-child/


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  62. Muddy says:

    I wonder how the mesozoic (extinct but they don’t know it yet) media would play the protests in Melbourne yesterday:

    Protesting ‘superspreaders’ took to the streets of Melbourne and warned they will return.

    I haven’t read the article (I don’t need to – I’m psychic with things like this), and won’t be linking to it. I saw it while checking my filter email.

    I hope we all remember, when this is over, that the legacy media was the PRIME ENABLER for the economic and social terror that was foisted upon us. Without their whole-hearted support, the reign of political psychopathy would not have been possible.


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  63. Muddy says:

    If there is even a moment of introspection after this COVID-19 disaster, the media will escape criticism. Yes, I doubt our political (*spit*) leaders (*cough. choke*) will have to endure the spotlight either – scapegoats will be the state medical systems (not the fatheads, though). The PRIMARY ENABLERS, the feral media, will escape any consequences for the damage they have willingly wrought on the people and institutions they regard as beneath them.


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  64. Muddy says:

    Public Service Announcement.

    Muddy calms (not much, but it’s measurable) by listening to and watching Trio Mandili (links to YouTube).

    They are three Georgian women in their mid 20s, who sing folk songs. The videos are brief, the scenery (beyond the women, I mean) is interesting, and the ladies themselves are charming, without being overly sexualised for the sake of it.


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  65. Muddy says:

    Correction. My post at 10:21 a.m. was intended to begin with I wondered, rather than I wonder. Past tense, not present, but no doubt you figured that out.


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  66. Muddy says:

    For those not yet intoxicated by the spell of Trio Mandili, here is a feast for the eyes, ears (and imagination).


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  67. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Get jabbed sez Peter Gleeson. The Hun:

    ‘This year’s Melbourne Cup will go down in history as the race that re-started a nation.

    The scenes at Flemington and at racetracks, pubs, clubs and parties across the nation was a metaphor for the post-Covid recovery.

    And not before time. The mishandling of the pandemic in Victoria will hurt the country for years.

    In NSW, despite hundreds of deaths, the momentum has now shifted to how do we live with the virus and ensure the economy gets moving again. The Perrottet Government remains the gold standard.

    In Queensland, it’s all about doughnut days and protecting the public from the virus. With the worst vaccination rate in the country, Queensland remains committed to opening the borders on December 17, albeit hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated people will be exposed to the Delta variant.

    The real issue for Queensland is the lack of international tourists. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she won’t lift the two week mandatory quarantine on overseas arrivals until the double vaccination rate hits 90 per cent.

    That’s absurd. Queensland may never hit 90 per cent vaccination. There is a cohort of crusty souls out west who simply won’t have the jab.

    Remember people like Clive Palmer, Pauline Hanson and Bob Katter resonate in the country. It is becoming increasingly clear that if you want to enjoy life with a semblance of normality you must be vaccinated.

    Those scenes on Cup Day were so uplifting. It’s said that the Melbourne Cup is the race that stops a nation, but in many ways it united Australia and in many ways drew a line in the sand.

    It is clear that people have had enough of the border closures, lockdowns and the dislocation to people’s lives. Some of the scenes we’ve seen at the NSW-Queensland border have been heart-breaking. There are scores of people living out of their cars in northern NSW.

    The congestion at the border is horrendous, with some people taking their kids from Tweed to a Gold Coast school being delayed by two hours every morning and afternoon. It has been a dark stain on Queensland’s hardline stance.

    That’s why this summer is so important for the country. Confidence is such a critical word for the economy’s future.

    Australians yearn for the pre-Covid days. But we’re not immune to the dangers of the virus, and how it could impact our health system.

    But we’ve been a tolerant and obliging lot. We signed up to the lockdowns and the border closures after politicians told us worse-case scenarios on death rates.

    As the champagne flowed and people let their hair down on the first Tuesday of the month, the Melbourne Cup did what it does best – brought people together.

    It’s time we took back our lives and started to look forward, not live in the past. Verry Elleegant might have won the Cup but Aussies took home the bigger prize.

    We must be careful and fully vaccinated and get on with life.’


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  68. Muddy says:

    cohenite says:
    November 6, 2021 at 10:23 pm

    More funnies: WIP.

    Thanks, cohenite. I like the ‘Sleepy Joe Action Figure.’ I’d want it to come with accessories though…


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  69. mh says:

    Black Ball,

    I know you’re a good fella, but Peter Gleeson is a moron.


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  70. Muddy says:

    Australia, that frozen chook you won in the pub meat raffle isn’t a chook.


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  71. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Yes that realisation set in quite early listening and reading his musings mh. 😂


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  72. Muddy says:

    Oh, SNAP!
    From cohenite’s link above, to Powerline Blog’s Week in Pictures:

    Babylon Bee headline:

    Pfizer Claims Vaccine Will Reduce Average Daily Child COVID Deaths from Almost Zero to Almost Zero.


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  73. Muddy says:

    Another highlight from the WiP (h/t cohenite):

    Sign outside U.S. store:

    I bet aliens ride past Earth and lock their doors.


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  74. mh says:

    At the end of this Joe Biden says America is the only country in the world to come out of the crisis better than before the crisis occurred.

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1457055598441373701?s=20

    🤡🤡🤡


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  75. Shy Ted says:

    Our local paper is worse than your local paper
    No need to read the article, pic 2, then pic 3 (Dr Shane) PhD in stupid. No doubt he’s one of those ABC experts


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  76. FlyingPigs says:

    @AdamD

    How about putting an uptick widget so we can signify agreement with a comment?


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  77. Shy Ted says:

    We’re watching a movie. When you see all the elite being humiliated one by one
    Best I can make out is CP initially supported “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about gays in the military before seeing rh effects and changing his mind.
    There’s a new vid of Pelosi giving a presser, drunk and incoherent. Seen one seen ’em all.


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  78. mh says:

    Greg Abbott
    @GregAbbott_TX
    BREAKING: The Federal Court of Appeals just issued a temporary halt to Biden’s vaccine mandate.

    Emergency hearings will take place soon.

    We will have our day in court to strike down Biden’s unconstitutional abuse of authority.

    https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1457042568332652555?s=20


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  79. mh says:

    FlyingPigs says:
    November 7, 2021 at 12:25 pm
    @AdamD

    How about putting an uptick widget so we can signify agreement with a comment?
    ***
    👎


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  80. Black Ball Black Ball says:

    Beware the seas of the USNS Harvey Milk


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  81. mh says:

    ‘A panel of top physicians and medical scientists held a summit in Florida on Saturday discussing how the American people can reclaim their bodily autonomy and medical sovereignty in the face of Joe Biden’s accelerating COVID authoritarianism in the form of vaccine mandates.’

    Florida Summit on Covid

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOAdIYxvSYU


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  82. Shy Ted says:

    Now here’s a story for an investigative journalist.
    Follow the money from the first dollar to the last. And not forget the rule that you may not offer incentives to get vaccinated.
    Last you’ll hear of it.
    SHe’s just been interviewed. if you go to the last few seconds it’s just another “get vaxxed” ad. Highly suspicious.


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