Open Thread – Saturday, 6 November 2021

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  2. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 2:55 pm

    What is this Council of Europe?

    The Council of Europe is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.

    Here is how they uphold human rights. With wokery labelled as “Anti-hate speech campaign”.

    It was pulled by Council Of Europe after French politicians claimed it was promoting hijabs.
    Pro-hijab campaign pulled amid uproar from French politicians


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  4. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 3:11 pm

    Now here’s a story for an investigative journalist.

    Will need to find one like James O’Keefe, but he is now in trouble with the FBI. He must have done something wrong.

    FBI and Southern District of New York Raid Project Veritas Journalists’ Homes

    James O’Keefe:

    It’s all about accountability. Without accountability, freedom itself is an illusion.


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  7. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    Some good news:

    They are heart-warming stories.

    With all the unpleasant news from around the world, it is a reminder that the old values of love and caring and helping others are still around.


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  8. egg_ says:
    November 7, 2021 at 3:43 pm

    ‘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

    “Sovereign” citizens?


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  9. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 3:48 pm

    I’ve added two new words to my vocabulary today, after watching this video interview with Fr James Altman, the priest cancelled by his bishop for speaking the truth.

    1/ I used to refer to Covid pandemic as scamdemic.
    Now, I can call it feardemic

    2/ All those rules and health orders that we have it follow are called Man-dates.
    But they are not God-dates

    Fr. James Altman breaks silence, calls out bishops who pushed ‘the feardemic’ by closing churches


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  10. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:07 pm

    Piers Akerman:

    ‘French President Emmanuel Macron and his Australian supporters Malcolm Turnbull, Julie Bishop and the ALP’s Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong are contemptible.

    The duty of every government is to protect its citizens and the French submarine deal Macron and company are seeking to defend was rotten from its conception, as this column has detailed over the past five years.

    It was beyond stupid to enter a contract with the French group DCNS (now Naval) which required the complete redesigning of a nuclear submarine, scrapping its nuclear power in favour of already obsolescent diesel engines which furthermore would be built in South Australia when there were offers of off-the-shelf submarines from Germany, Japan and the US that were more than capable of meeting Australia’s requirements.

    The fault doesn’t lie with the politicians alone though. A great deal of the blame must fall upon the flawed thinking of the Australian defence establishment that has shown time and again it is not equipped to enter negotiations over equipment, be it submarines, ships or aircraft.’


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  11. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:08 pm

    “Our” ABC has devoted as much air time over the past week to Macron’s defamatory claim that he was lied to by Prime Minister Scott Morrison as it has to the failed Glasgow COP26 leaders summit.

    Those doomsday clocks will just have to keep ticking now that the claimed critical 1.5C temperature reduction by 2050 can’t possibly be met — not that this hopey-wishy goal was ever realistic.

    That won’t deter the global warming activists from conducting more stunts in the hope of gaining even greater subsidies for their financiers, the investors in green industries like unreliable wind and solar technologies and unproven
    green hydrogen.

    Macron’s foot-stamping tantrum captivated the Left but in reality was just an explosion of irrelevant hot air matching that expelled at the chilly Scottish summit.

    Former foreign minister Julie Bishop was quick off the mark to denounce the cancellation of the contract with the Naval group as “deeply regrettable” as she claimed the government had “reneged” on the $90 billion submarine deal.”


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  12. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    Given the deal signed by Turnbull in 2016 had blown out from $50 billion to $90 billion and that the French had failed to meet three key terms and conditions of the contract: the concept studies, the systems requirements review; and the preliminary design review, it would seem that she learnt nothing about contractual obligations or budgets when she was shadow treasurer. As for Turnbull, his claim that he has always known Morrison to be a liar has not been supported by a single person, not even Christopher Pyne, who stood to gain the most through creating submarine jobs in Adelaide. “In my experience,” Pyne told The Australian, “Scott Morrison has never lied to me.”

    Asked if Morrison had a reputation within government of being a liar, he stated: “Not in my experience.”

    The petulance displayed by French ambassador Jean-Pierre Thebault at the National Press Club last week was akin to the pathetic displays we’ve seen from bullying Chinese diplomats, not that the ABC, which reported his humbug with breathless appreciation, would make that comparison.

    Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong told the national broadcaster that Morrison’s disrespect for an ally matched that of former US President Donald Trump.

    She didn’t mention and neither did her supportive ABC host that the most egregious failure in Western diplomacy in recent times was the abject failure of President Joe Biden to let US allies know that he was pulling the Americans out of Afghanistan with zero notice, ensuring chaos and death.

    Nor did she mention that Biden admitted that “we”, the AUKUS partners, Australia, the UK and the US, had been clumsy in the way they broke the news to the French.

    In siding with the French, Labor leader Anthony Albanese has shown he is prepared to put the pettiest party politics ahead of the national interest and is unfit to lead the nation.

    As for hapless Malcolm Turnbull, he would probably like to be expelled from the Liberal Party but the party would be reluctant to add to his delusion that he has been martyred.

    Morrison was fully entitled to ensure that the facts were laid out when he was grossly insulted by the disappointed French leader.’


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  13. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    Prepare for a tragic story.

    It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This by: Lisa Wilkinson

    Lisa Wilkinson has lived much of her life in the public eye. One of Australia’s most respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has graced our television screens for many years, where she has shared, shaped and even shifted many important national conversations. But it all could have been so different …

    Subjected to horrific bullying as a teenager, Lisa survived by making herself as small as possible. But she swore when she left school that no one was ever again going to determine who she was – or limit what she was capable of. That determination and drive led to Lisa blazing an unprecedented and enormously successful trail through the Australian media and cultural landscape for more than four decades.

    An early ground-breaking career in publishing – at 21, Lisa was the youngest editor ever appointed to take charge of a national magazine, Dolly , before spending ten years as editor of the iconic Cleo magazine – then led to a stunning television success story. This included spending more than a decade as co-host of the Nine Network’s Today show, before she caused a media storm across Australia and the world on the issue of the gender pay gap, when she moved to the Ten Network as co-host of its prime-time award-winning program The Project.

    It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This is the story of how a young girl from Sydney’s western suburbs came to be such a force in Australian cultural life. It is a story that is honest, funny, engaging – and powerfully inspirational.


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  14. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:14 pm

    Florida Covid Summit is here

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

    Robert Malone gives an excellent presentation. I can’t believe he got two shots of Moderna.


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  15. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:17 pm

    Just in case you thought you were born here…

    Somebody’s LandWELCOME TO OUR COUNTRYBy: Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing, David Hardy (Illustrator).

    An accessible picture book for young children that introduces First Nations history and the term ‘terra nullius’ to a general audience, from Australian of the Year, community leader and anti-racism advocate Adam Goodes and political adviser and former journalist Ellie Laing, with artwork by Barkindji illustrator David Hardy.

    For thousands and thousands of years, Aboriginal people lived in the land we call Australia.

    The land was where people built their homes, played in the sun, and sat together to tell stories.

    When the white people came, they called the land Terra Nullius. They said it was nobody’s land. But it was somebody’s land.

    Somebody’s Land is an invitation to connect with First Nations culture, to acknowledge the hurt of the past, and to join together as one community with a precious shared history as old as time.

    Adam Goodes and Ellie Laing’s powerful words and David Hardy’s pictures, full of life, invite children and their families to imagine themselves into Australia’s past – to feel the richness of our First Nations’ history, to acknowledge that our country was never terra nullius, and to understand what ‘welcome to our country’ really means.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:19 pm

    The fault doesn’t lie with the politicians alone though. A great deal of the blame must fall upon the flawed thinking of the Australian defence establishment that has shown time and again it is not equipped to enter negotiations over equipment, be it submarines, ships or aircraft.’

    That is a very important point.

    Politicians keep changing, but one would expect the defence top brass to be well-versed with the security needs of the country and the kind of equipment most suitable to safeguard it. Or was their advice ignored by the country’s political masters?


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:27 pm

    Prepare for a tragic story.

    It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This by: Lisa Wilkinson

    The Description page is headed:

    The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia’s most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson.

    Long-awaited by whom?

    Most popular? Much-loved? Enduring?


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  18. John A says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:34 pm

    Black Ball says: November 7, 2021 at 4:10 pm

    As for hapless Malcolm Turnbull, he would probably like to be expelled from the Liberal Party but the party would be reluctant to add to his delusion that he has been martyred.

    Couldn’t someone lose his membership renewal in the post or something?


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  19. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:36 pm

    Rage over Bisexual Superman sees illustrators and producers call for police protection

    Unspared from the woke reimagining that has swept across classic comics, the latest incarnation of Superman – actually his son, Jon Kent – ‘came out’ as bisexual three weeks ago when a panel depicted the 17-year-old smooching a purple-haired “hacktivist” reporter named Jay Nakamura. It’s not clear why the alleged threats are only becoming a problem now; TMZ’s law enforcement sources merely said cops were “recently” dispatched to keep the illustrators’ and production staffers’ homes safe.


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  20. John A says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:37 pm

    Muddy says: November 7, 2021 at 4:12 pm

    Prepare for a tragic story.

    It Wasn’t Meant to Be Like This by: Lisa Wilkinson

    Lisa Wilkinson has lived much of her life in the public eye. One of Australia’s most respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has graced our television screens for many years, where she has shared, shaped and even shifted many important national conversations. But it all could have been so different …

    Uhh, does that constitute an admission that the media elite actually manipulate things?


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  21. JohnJJJ says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    she has shared, shaped and even shifted
    A sibilance of superficiality, sly lies and insincerity.


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  22. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:17 pm

    Re. threats to the new Superman: What better way to gain publicity for what you fear will be a commercial failure, than to claim the nefarious far-far-far-right are upset with you?

    By the time anyone with integrity looks into your claim, the media cycle will have moved on, and any debunking will feature only on outlets your target media does not even know exist.

    All the hyp* new heroes smollett themselves now anyway.

    *Sic; intentional.


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  24. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:18 pm

    target audience, not target media.
    *Sigh*


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  25. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:29 pm

    Courier Paywall

    ‘Home and Away star, pilot among anti-jab mandate protesters
    Hundreds of people are at an anti-Covid vaccine mandate protest on the Gold Coast as the state government continues to urge the public to get the jab ahead of borders reopening.’

    Pic


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  27. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:32 pm

    Random military history snippet:

    The only Victoria Cross awarded to a member of the R.A.A.F. in the Southwest Pacific Area in WWII was to Flight Lieutenant William Ellis Newton of No. 22 Squadron, for the bombing of Salamaua, New Guinea, on the 17th & 18th of March, 1943. His Boston was shot down on the 18th, and he and one other crew member, Sgt. John Lyon, were taken prisoner, Newton being executed at Salamaua on the 29th of the same month, Lyon, perhaps the following day at Lae, and in less graceful circumstances.

    The V.C. was awarded posthumously.


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  28. cohenite says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:37 pm

    Re. threats to the new Superman: What better way to gain publicity for what you fear will be a commercial failure, than to claim the nefarious far-far-far-right are upset with you?

    By the time anyone with integrity looks into your claim, the media cycle will have moved on, and any debunking will feature only on outlets your target media does not even know exist.

    All the hyp* new heroes smollett themselves now anyway.

    Yep, I’m calling bullshit on that claim. Attacking people is what the left do. As for the woke fucks at DC this also from the article:

    Kent’s sexuality is not the only potential woke angle the new Superman may pry open in future issues. DC writer Tom Taylor suggested the caped icon could hardly “battle robots while ignoring the climate crisis,” nor could “someone with super sight and super hearing ignore injustices beyond his borders [like] the plight of asylum seekers.”


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  29. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:40 pm

    Expect the Home And Away er, star, to quickly renounce their action in attending the rally and fall back in line.


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  30. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:43 pm

    Sgt. Basil Gilbert Eastwood was the crew member of Newton V.C.’s aircraft who perished when the plane went down. Both he & John Lyon are normally forgotten when their boss is mentioned. Lyon was stabbed by a bayonet at least three times & is suspected to have been still alive when buried.


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  31. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 5:57 pm

    Kent’s sexuality is not the only potential woke angle the new Superman may pry open in future issues. DC writer Tom Taylor suggested the caped icon could hardly “battle robots while ignoring the climate crisis,” nor could “someone with super sight and super hearing ignore injustices beyond his borders [like] the plight of asylum seekers.”

    Permit me to summarise the above:

    The new Superman rejects the old ways of helping only the elite and privileged, and commits his services exclusively to a new group of elite and privileged.


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  32. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:03 pm

    Sorry, let me correct that: Lyon (see above) was stabbed WITH, not BY, a bayonet. Obviously there was a human directing the bayonet. Two humans, in fact.

    Both Newton’s and Lyon’s bodies were found, separately, but Fl. Lt. Newton V.C.’s skull has never been located. (Which suggests that the diary entry describing his execution used more than a little poetic license).


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  33. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:14 pm

    Last comment on the Superman issue:

    Why would anyone be enraged by revelations the new version of the superhero is *Gasp* much like every other hypster in Hollyweird, Instantgran, Metafaceache, etc.? Isn’t it a bit twee now to declare yourself as ‘different & special’ when all those you are trying to impress are ALREADY ‘different & special?’ Is anyone impressed by that anymore?

    Maybe ‘rage’ has, like many other words, been redefined to mean ‘a yawn and an eye roll?’

    It all seems pretty blah, really. Hence my scepticism that the far(x3)right is frothing with rage and determined to lash out.

    Meh.


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  34. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    Justin Clarke
    @justsee
    1/ In a press conference on October 31st, 2021, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan revealed the state’s hospital system is under extraordinary pressure.

    And they don’t know why.

    https://twitter.com/justsee/status/1456215828345475081?s=20


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    1/ In a press conference on October 31st, 2021, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan revealed the state’s hospital system is under extraordinary pressure.

    And they don’t know why.

    They don’t need to know the reasons.

    Klaus has told them what they need to say. It helps to include the other states, too. That way the public will believe that We’re all in it together.

    “This is the same in Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.”

    “Enormous Pressure. This has been something no-one has ever seen before. The growth in demand in our hospitals.”


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  36. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    From Justin Clarke via mh’s link above:

    (The state has recorded 1,112 Covid cases in total since the beginning of the pandemic).

    How many of those were CONFIRMED cases of COVID-19 though?

    As I’ve noted previously, there are three categories of case, as directed by the World Health Organisation: Suspected, Probable, and Confirmed.

    The state health systems may be categorising the cases as advised (though I think there is some difference in terminology, in Qld. at least), but it is misleading to publicly lump all three categories into the one ‘case’ label.


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    The problem is not just with the other side. It is the traitors on your side.

    ‘Traitor!’ 13 Establishment House Republicans Face Backlash for Enabling Joe Biden’s Radical Agenda

    Thirteen establishment House Republicans are facing backlash for enabling President Joe Biden’s infrastructure agenda, including the far-left’s reconciliation package.

    If the 13 Republicans had not voted for the infrastructure bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) would not have had enough Democrat votes to pass the bill. But 13 Republicans did vote for the bill, which removed the leverage to block the reconciliation package from moving forward.

    Ryan James Girdusky tweeted the breakdown of the 13 Republicans. According to Girdusky, eight Republicans are in red districts and face a tough reelection year. Two are retiring, and three are in blue districts:


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  38. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    Three possible causes of a state hospital system becoming strained (assuming the terminology has not been redefined without informing us) involve (a) the quantity of testing for COVID-19 – the slightest symptoms and you are directed to a test site (initially, many of these test sites were in the public hospitals), (b) the direction for staff who exhibit any symptoms even vaguely suggestive of COVID-19 to stay away from work until they can produce a negative test, and (c) most recently, the mandatory staff vaccination campaign which has exacerbated the rates of sick leave, and now, seen large numbers of staff simply placed on involuntary leave or terminated.

    One wonders if the ‘under pressure’ remark may have been meant in a financial sense? It would be interesting to know how much the administration of the ‘mandatory jab’ directives has cost in dollar terms.


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    One wonders if the ‘under pressure’ remark may have been meant in a financial sense? It would be interesting to know how much the administration of the ‘mandatory jab’ directives has cost in dollar terms.

    It is in the news overseas.

    Something Very Weird Happening in Western Australia

    Obviously something is very wrong:

    COVID-19, or any variant therein, is non-existent in the Western Australia population.

    The Western Australia population is being vaccinated.

    The hospitals in Western Australia are now overwhelmed, and not by COVID-19.

    What else could the problem be other than the vaccinations causing hospitalizations?

    Premier McGowan looks like a politician in a very difficult position…..


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  41. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    Reading an article on the American Airlines crew protest.The comments that follow it:

    Commenter EMJ

    Solidarity here. I work for a Fortune 100 company and have so for 14 years. The CEO told us all more than once he would never mandate the vaccine, but today they did a 180 and are forcing all US employees (about 45,000) to get it, or an accommodation, or get fired on Jan 4. I have a family of 6; our only income. I say: Pound Sand and #LetsGoBrandon. Time to STAND.

    Response 1 to above comment:

    Name the company so we can boycott. Or harass on Twitter because they are scum.

    Response 2

    Yes, please disclose ( if possible)

    Do not want you to be in harms way.

    Commenter EMJ

    I will say soon when I have my plan completely thought through. I can say this is a Silicon Valley based company… a name everyone would probably recognize.


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  43. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    While we are distracted by the zombie apocalypse, Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch keeps track of the trivial issues we should pay no attention to:

    Niger: Muslims murder at least 69 people in jihad massacre in village, targeting anti-jihad defense force.

    Bulgaria sends 350 troops to Turkish border as illegal Afghan migrant crossings triple

    Germany: Muslim ‘refugee’ stabs three people on train, has ‘psychological problems’

    European Union Will Still Not Ban Hezbollah In Its Entirety

    Tunisia: New Palestinian Authority embassy displays huge map of ‘Palestine,’ erasing Israel altogether

    Canada: Muslim population triples in three years, Islam now fastest-growing religion in the country

    Nothing to see here. Move along.


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  44. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    Belarus President.

    We have no mandate that allows you [the Police Minister] to catch and touch people, and check their muzzles.


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  45. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    Via Black Ball’s link above:

    This is like putting your knee on their chest, to get them to vaccinate!

    Put your hand up if you enjoy being Floyded?
    (Many, many hands rise).


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  46. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    Here’s the real reason Comirnaty is not available

    It’s all about liability. It will magically become available when the vaccine for children is fully approved, not before.

    The reason Comirnaty isn’t available is because those shots would expose the company to liability since the fully-licensed product doesn’t have the liability waiver of the EUA product.

    But once the Pfizer vaccine is fully approved in kids, then Pfizer gets liability waiver on all age groups due to a “feature” in federal law for child vaccines (NCVIA). At that time, they are done. They can market the COVID vaccine products under full approval for all age groups and face no liability when it kills or disables you.

    This is why they are focused on the kids. This is why there is a reformulation at a 1/3 dose and they changed the buffer and the storage conditions (low temperatures not required). All of these will weaken the protection, but result in a safer vaccine (since it is ineffective).


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  47. Entropy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    What else could the problem be other than the vaccinations causing hospitalizations?

    The problem is that with closed borders there has been no placement of overseas doctors and nurses these weasels depend on as they do not train enough locally, which of course suits the local unions as it keeps price up.


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  48. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    Belarus President

    Seems to be a role reversal here.

    Presidents of countries like Russia and Belarus, instead of being high handed about Covid and vaccinations, seem to be focussed on the rights of their citizens, in this one area.

    While so-called Western democracies have taken away the freedoms of their citizens and used tyrannical methods to impose mandates re Covid.


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  49. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    Some may need clarification of the timing here:
    Before or after you get the tikes jabbinated?

    (Links to twatter. H/t Black Ball in a roundabout way).

    I must go and do something constructive. Thanks to the troopers (balers?) keeping AdamCat afloat. Wishing all a healthy coming week.


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  53. Muddy says:
    November 7, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    Back again for the briefest of guest appearances.

    The following is an extract from an email by the Director-General of Queensland Health, dated the 5th of November, 2021. There is the usual blah blah about planning for future COVID-19 outbreaks, and then this:

    There will be increased demands across Emergency Departments and we plan to treat COVID-19 patients in a different way—through Hospital in the Home.

    To balance the clinical safety, transmission risk and resource availability, state-wide specialised care pathways are being established to support the system under an acute COVID-19 surge phase.

    What piqued my interest was the phrase … Hospital in the Home.

    Hmmm.


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  56. kaysee kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    NASA plans to crash spacecraft into an asteroid to test planetary defence system

    NASA is planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022 to see if its impact will change the asteroid’s course. That’s even though Earth faces no such immediate danger. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the space agency’s first test mission of a planetary defence system. According to NASA’s website, no known asteroid larger than 140 metres in size has a significant chance to hit Earth for the next hundred years.


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  59. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    ‘You thought last week was bad, Boris? Just look ahead

    The latest sleaze scandal has triggered a deep crisis for Boris Johnson. John Major has labelled the government politically corrupt, with Commons set to launch a new attack.’

    ***

    Of course the government is ‘politically corrupt’.
    Any government that throws around terms like ‘Breaking Back Better’ has been corrupted by Klaus Kissinger and his Davos ‘Great Reset’ mates.

    Fvck Boris. Fvck Morrison. Fvck Brandon.


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  61. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 9:20 pm

    Oops, Building Back Better.


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  62. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    Hard to believe the great Gilchrist is 51.


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  65. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    The COVID World post date: November 4th, 2021

    GERMANY – A 12-year-old boy from the district of Cuxhaven has died two days after receiving his second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Initial evidence suggests that there is a causal relationship with the vaccination. The district had decided to make the case public after rumors surfaced on social media. The news comes just as the US has started vaccinating 5-11 year olds with the Pfizer vaccine.


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  66. mh says:
    November 7, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    Public hospitals are caught in an unending cycle of crisis caused by a funding formula, which has failed to arrest a decline in performance over a decade, the Australian Medical Association says in a new report.

    “Our hospitals are full – there simply aren’t enough hospital beds or enough doctors and nurses – and tragic stories of deaths, deterioration and delayed care are becoming increasingly commonplace,” the report says.

    The AMA report, “Public hospitals: Cycle of crisis”, was released on Friday and says a shortage of hospital beds, overcrowded emergency departments and longer waits for elective surgery are “risking the lives of all Australians”…

    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-s-public-hospitals-in-crisis-ama-report-says/1f3a9086-ff5a-4d1f-b8fe-a59ef9526df3

    ***
    I know. Let’s sack more nurses!


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  67. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 11:42 pm

    Fucken just dandy isn’t it mh? It should give a parent pause to do this shit even though there are multiple reports of injury and death in kiddies around the world. But politicians here are complete fuckwits.


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  70. Timothy Neilson says:
    November 8, 2021 at 9:05 am

    “Our hospitals are full – there simply aren’t enough hospital beds or enough doctors and nurses – and tragic stories of deaths, deterioration and delayed care are becoming increasingly commonplace,” the report says.

    A doctor who works in a major hospital told me that’s bullshit – there are plenty of doctors, nurses and hospital beds (at least in Vic). What there’s a shortage of is rehab clinics where people who no longer need to be in hospital (and in fact need to get out of for the good of their recovery) can be moved to to get the therapy they need to complete their recovery.
    Not sure what the root cause is – presumably not a strong enough union at rehab clinics.


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  72. Shy Ted says:
    November 8, 2021 at 9:50 am

    Hospital in the Home is just a phrase for being at home with the highest level of care. Usually involves a nurse or similar turning up for 5 minutes twice a day.
    As with all gummint stuff the reality is far removed from the fancy title. In my experience it’s just a different way to spread germs and if your immune system is hanging in there you’ll be fine.
    I believe they’re introducing a new system for the unvaxxed called Fuck Off You Unbelievers It’s Only The Politicians And Their Enablers Who Are Meant To Survive So You’re Going To Of Something Not Caused By The Vax And Die Without Any Healthcare.


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  73. cohenite says:
    November 8, 2021 at 9:52 am

    Happy days, Mark A’s lame pics:

    https://imgur.com/a/DrdrcAE


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  75. Shy Ted says:
    November 8, 2021 at 10:05 am

    When they “remodelled” the local hospital S of Adelaide to cope with an increasing and ageing population the number of beds in the ED and hospital overall was reduced. Important changes were made such as changing the Day Surgery name to DOSA, Day of Surgery Admissions. With lots of new signs. There was a massive new reception for both the admin staff (8-5 then closed). And so on. More unionised building workers than you could poke a stick at. Then Jay Weatherill went to WA.
    Everything had previously worked very smoothly until there was a multi MVA or similar and then it was treatment in corridors. So they introduced a new system called something like Right Patient, Right Hospital, First Time. So ambos with their limited equipment had to guess what the conditions and/or internal injuries might be and always erred on the side of safety so went straight to the larger hospitals. So the larger hospitals then had the problems that the smaller hospitals could have coped with and so ramping became a problem and then the ambos had to take the next casualty to an available place no matter what.
    It’s called “progress” in the public service.


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  76. mh says:
    November 8, 2021 at 10:08 am

    Courier Mail

    ‘Big change to vaccine rollout from today

    Aussies are being asked to roll up their sleeves once again as the Covid-19 booster program officially begins.’

    ***
    Looks like I am three shots behind now.
    Soon to be four.


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  78. mh says:
    November 8, 2021 at 10:26 am

    ‘Putting their backs into national lampoon
    The annual comedy show is back with George Christensen, Gladys Berejiklian and Donald Trump in its sights.’
    ***
    Stunning and brave.


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  79. mh says:
    November 8, 2021 at 10:31 am

    Robert W Malone, MD
    @RWMaloneMD
    Can anyone from Australia please clarify what is going on with the hospitals?

    https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1456350338152284161?s=20

    ***

    Nope.


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  80. jo says:
    November 8, 2021 at 11:09 am

    kaysee says:
    November 7, 2021 at 4:19 pm
    The fault doesn’t lie with the politicians alone though. A great deal of the blame must fall upon the flawed thinking of the Australian defence establishment that has shown time and again it is not equipped to enter negotiations over equipment, be it submarines, ships or aircraft.’

    That is a very important point.

    Politicians keep changing, but one would expect the defence top brass to be well-versed with the security needs of the country and the kind of equipment most suitable to safeguard it. Or was their advice ignored by the country’s political masters?

    Daughter is manager of a small team mostly ex defence. Defence saw no benefit in having them on defence pay book. Defence now pays 4x the cost of having them, do contract work for them. I know too many in the ADF, all specialists in their differing fields say the same thing.


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  81. johanna johanna says:
    November 8, 2021 at 11:29 am

    A doctor who works in a major hospital told me that’s bullshit – there are plenty of doctors, nurses and hospital beds (at least in Vic). What there’s a shortage of is rehab clinics where people who no longer need to be in hospital (and in fact need to get out of for the good of their recovery) can be moved to to get the therapy they need to complete their recovery.
    Not sure what the root cause is – presumably not a strong enough union at rehab clinics.

    Yep, and a variation of that problem is the old folks who should be in a nursing home but there is nowhere available for them to go, so they just stay in hospital – sometimes for months.

    Hospitals have become dumping grounds for people who should be somewhere else. Meanwhile, people who might benefit from a longer stay get booted to make room, simply because they have a home to go to.

    As well as blocking beds, those who should be in rehab or nursing homes are costing the system a fortune, much more than if they were where they should be. But the inflexibility of funding arrangements means that the waste and misallocation of resources continues apace.

    It’s a mess.


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  83. Old bloke says:
    November 8, 2021 at 11:54 am

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

    1/ In a press conference on October 31st, 2021, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan revealed the state’s hospital system is under extraordinary pressure.

    And they don’t know why.
    *************************************************
    There’s no Covid-19 in Western Australia and I’d guess that the backlog in elective surgery has now been cleared, so why are the hospitals under such strain?

    So much strain in fact that the hospitals are being expanded to cope with the patient numbers.

    What other answer can there be apart from huge numbers of vaxxine injuries.


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  84. Old bloke says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:09 pm

    Black Ball says:
    November 7, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    Belarus President

    *****************************************

    Thanks BB. Most of the world, including Eastern Europe, haven’t gone down the mandatory vaxxine path, the tyranny in varying degrees is limited to Western Europe, the British Isles, and the Anglosphere.

    Everywhere else they are using cheap and effective anti-viral treatments which are much more effective than the vaxxs and much cheaper too.

    The persecution is limited to the R1b1a2 Y-DNA nations.


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  85. cohenite says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    Some great memes in this video of joe poopy-pants biden; in first 5 minutes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnz-u_fvdx4


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  86. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Shy Ted says:
    November 8, 2021 at 9:50 am

    Hospital in the Home is just a phrase for being at home with the highest level of care…

    I believe they’re introducing a new system for the unvaxxed called Fuck Off You Unbelievers It’s Only The Politicians And Their Enablers Who Are Meant To Survive So You’re Going To Of Something Not Caused By The Vax And Die Without Any Healthcare.

    Thanks, Shy Ted. If they’re going to crank up the program to accommodate a large number of expected COVID cases, the actual administration of the program could take just as much time and other resources as the clinical care delivered. (One practical aspect is maintaining a transport pool for the clinical staff to use when accessing the community. If we’re talking about hundreds of COVID-19 ‘cases’ in the one health service district, that’s probably more than the standard district transport pool can cope with).

    Also, providing clinical care in the community involves a differing set of risks that have to be managed (or ignored).

    The most important part, however, is that Fuck Off You Unbelievers It’s Only The Politicians And Their Enablers Who Are Meant To Survive So You’re Going To Of Something Not Caused By The Vax And Die Without Any Healthcare is an easy to remember acronym: FOYUIOTPATEWAMTSSYGTOSNCBTVADWAH.

    If you need HitH services, all you need to do is type FOYUIOTPATEWAMTSSYGTOSNCBTVADWAH on your mobile’s keypad (within five seconds; no mistakes permitted).


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  87. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:25 pm

    Black Ball.

    Have you received my email? Do you have any thoughts on the idea? Yea? Nay? Adam sent it to you last Wed. I believe.

    For some reason, it often goes straight to peoples’ spam folder, so if you haven’t received it, it may have been jettisoned.


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  88. mh says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:47 pm

    Shy Ted says:
    November 8, 2021 at 11:51 am
    Hmmm. Pesky citizen journos upsetting the narrative.
    ***
    Interesting.
    I didn’t even think of the vaccines.


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  89. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 1:01 pm

    miltonf over on DoverCat posted the following this morning. It’s lengthy, but fascinating reading. It suggests to me that ‘we’ are still somewhat naive, not about what our opponents are willing to do, but about what is required to challenge that, and WIN. (Not simply make a token appearance, but justifiably claim an undeniable victory; metaphorically stand atop a mound of our opponent’s skulls and inhale the last wisps of smoke from the ashes we have created).

    miltonf: This guy is brilliant. The article below is enlightening and frightening. I hope is conclusion is correct.

    NEVER TRUMPERS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER HAVE THE SAME BACKER
    Daniel Greenfield November 06, 2021
    The press releases went out on schedule and the media rewrote them into news stories. A group of “principled” Republicans was going to fundraise to support Democrat congressmen.

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    The stories rolled out on schedule from different media outlets while appearing nearly identical. And the real story, as usual, was not what was on the page, but what had been deliberately left out. Reuters described the Renew America Movement as a group of Never Trump Republicans “whose leadership includes former Republican Governors Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey and Bill Weld of Massachusetts.” Hardly a single story mentioned the actual leaders.

    The Renew America Movement was co-founded by Evan McMullin (pictured above) and his running mate Mindy Finn. Its national political director, Joel Searby, who is quoted in the media’s writeups, was the chief strategist for the McMullin campaign. Donations to RAM go through Stand Up Republic, which is the anti-Trump group that McMullin and Finn originally set up. The press release for the new pro-Democrat campaign even came from Stand Up Republic. The media actually had to work not to mention McMullin or Stand Up Republic in its stories about the RAM campaign.

    And the media did a fine job of lying by omission to the public in order to elect Democrats.

    Why not mention McMullin and Stand Up Republic? McMullin launching another anti-Republican effort wouldn’t be news. His presidential bid was a pathetic disaster and his current Utah Senate campaign isn’t likely to fare much better. In 2017, he was described as owing $670,000 from his presidential campaign. That still appears to be the case. By 2018, there were still complaints that he still owed staffers tens of thousands of dollars and that the financial mess was due to “frivolous spending by McMullin and his campaign manager Joel Searby.”

    You can see why the media is playing up the former GOP governors and burying the basic information about the exciting new plot by Never Trumpers to help Democrats win elections.

    Stand Up Republic’s anti-Trump fronts multiply like rabbits or Communist front groups during the Cold War. Searby also created Christians Against Trumpism & Political Extremism whose leadership includes David French’s wife and Vincent Bacote: a theologian who suggests that all white people are racist. Then there’s the Centrist Project, where Searby was a senior strategist, which was renamed United America, and whose site closely resembles Stand Up Republic.

    McMullin is also on the board of advisers for Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (REPAIR) alongside Anthony Scaramucci and Michael Steele, who are also on board RAM, and Miles Taylor, the “Anonymous” co-creator of RAM. McMullin and Finn are the founding signatories for A Call for American Renewal which was promoted by Republicans for Integrity. Some of these groups are little more than a website. Sometimes not even that.

    As the New York Times recently noted, there seem to be more anti-Trump groups than anti-Trump Republicans. Like their leftist fellow travelers, there are a plethora of PACs and groups that do little more than churn out social media clickbait while cashing in on Trump.

    It would be hard to pretend that this house of cards that seems to exist to do little more than collect names for mailing lists and solicit donations is in any way newsworthy.

    But there is also a more important reason that goes to the rotten heart of the operation.

    Stand Up Republic had scored $800,000 from Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund Voice and $750,000 from the Hewlett Foundation. Omidyar, a Franco-Persian billionaire, is the richest man in Hawaii and the digital version of George Soros. His projects include the pro-terror site, The Intercept, and a plan to “Reimagine Capitalism”. Hewlett is a more conventional leftist setup.

    The “principled” Never Trumper network championing “moderates” to “heal our country” is actually backed by the same money as Black Lives Matter radicals and racists.

    The Hewlett Foundation is one of the backers of the Democracy Frontlines Fund which poured tens of millions into a variety of black nationalist groups including the Movement for Black Lives.

    The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) is a BLM umbrella group which is backed by billion-dollar leftist foundations like the Ford Foundation. Considering its wealthy anti-Israel backers, it’s unsurprising that M4BL has embraced the antisemitic BDS movement, falsely accused Israel of genocide, and tried to oust any Jewish groups that wouldn’t join them in destroying Israel.

    The Omidyar Network promised last year that it was committing $500,000 to “racial justice” and focusing on 5 groups including the Movement for Black Lives. It also couldn’t let the anniversary of September 11 pass without announcing a joint initiative with Soros, the Ford Foundation, and other leftists to pour money into Islamic groups fighting against America’s counterterrorism.

    Omidyar is also the sugar daddy of the Never Trumpers, funding The Bulwark together with the Hewlett Foundation. Omidyar’s Democracy Fund has provided $1.6 million to Bill Kristol’s Defending Democracy Together. It’s all just Democrats funding Democrats… together.

    Never Trumpers keep insisting that they’re fighting against “extremism” and “insurrection”, but the money that funds them is dirty cash that backs terrorism and insurrection against America.

    The motto of the Black Lives Matter racist movement comes from Assata Shakur. Shakur, a wanted cop killer, was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a Marxist terrorist group, and is hiding out in Cuba. To black nationalists her slogan is the equivalent of the white supremacist “14 words” and it was dedicated to black nationalist terrorists including Mark Essex.

    Essex opened fire on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans killing, among others, a honeymooning couple. Betty Steagall was shot in the back of her head while embracing her murdered husband. The racist terrorist left a Black Liberation flag lying near the corpses of the doctor and his wife.

    This is the gang of racist cop killers and violent murders that Never Trumpers are allied with.

    Shakur and her motto are used by a variety of the black nationalist groups that share funding sources with Stand Up Republic including BLM. But it just gets worse from there.

    The Hewlett Fund provided funding to Repaired Nations whose virtual Virtual Pan African Solidarity Conference included speakers like Inem Richardson of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party. The AAPR, which recently sent congratulations to “the Communist Party of China for 100 Years of Existence Fighting to Liberate China and the Whole of Humanity”, has a mission of “unifying” Africa under “scientific socialism”. It also recently declared that “Palestinians have every right to militant resistance to the apartheid regime of ‘Israel’”.

    That is what happens when foundations get into the black nationalist and terrorist business.

    It’s also the sewer in which Never Trumpers swim, occasionally surfacing to scold and tout their principles, without addressing where the money financing their operations really comes from.

    Stand Up Republic and The Bulwark claim that what they stand for is moderation.

    But the sorts of lefties who fund Black Lives Matter and groups that embrace Marxist terrorism are not moderates. Never Trumpers don’t draw their support from moderate Democrat funders, but the billionaires and foundations who fund the very worst extremists and radicals on the Left.

    Why are they funding Never Trumpers? Because the Biden administration, like the Obama administration, is running their program of racial division, socialism, and authoritarianism.

    Renew America Movement is working to protect a Democrat legislative majority to enact a radical agenda that includes federalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Senate and the Supreme Court while warning about the Republican “threat to political norms”.

    The latest Never Trumper shell game depends on trotting out old Rockefeller Republicans as fronts for a radical operation of racists and terrorists whose goal is destroying America.

    No one was fooled the last time around. They’re even less likely to be fooled now.


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  90. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 1:26 pm

    My apologies for post-knapping again, but Brislurker over on DoverCat has provided a link to a Tucker Carlson documentary which is (I know I’m over-using this term) a must-see:

    Brislurker says:
    November 8, 2021 at 12:29 pm
    https://tv.gab.com/channel/redbottomresistance/view/tucker-carlson-patriot-purge-part-2-6181621391bd862727223f1b


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  92. Steve trickler says:
    November 8, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    Probably the best audio quality on sussietube? The string section has been accentuated.

    Great ‘ole classic custom remastered for your enjoyment. Now you can hear the terrific orchestra like never before. No ok got to post nor monetizing this, owner is entitled to any gains this might create but if prefers it removed, just holler.

    Bobby Womack ~ Across 110th Street (HQ)


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  93. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 4:50 pm

    From cohenite’s funnies link above:

    @antonydavies: The 550 US billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we’d raise enough to run the federal government for less than 8 months.

    Perhaps our problem isn’t how much billionaires have but how much politicians spend.

    (Asking questions like that could get this dude listed as a far-far-far-right extremist).


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  94. Black Ball Black Ball says:
    November 8, 2021 at 5:06 pm

    I replied Muddy. I haven’t had much of a chance to peruse it in any great detail but that will change in short time


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  95. Steve trickler says:
    November 8, 2021 at 5:18 pm

    Make up your own mind.

    Peter Santenello:

    For the last 1.5 years, I’ve tried to get a cop on camera and have failed every time. Finally, we have a cop serving in Dearborn, MI willing to speak out without a filter. Learn what the police think about policing today, and what every American should know.

    The Only Cop In America Speaking Out 🇺🇸


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  96. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 5:22 pm

    Thanks, Black Ball. There’s no hurry, I just wanted to ascertain if it had reached you.


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  97. A Suggestion says:
    November 8, 2021 at 5:22 pm

    @antonydavies: The 550 US billionaires together are worth $2.5 trillion. If we confiscated 100% of their wealth, we’d raise enough to run the federal government for less than 8 months.

    If we confiscated the lot, it would prevent the 550 billionaires from effecting government policies.
    Which would be infinitely preferable.


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  99. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    Nancy Pelosi is a prime example of why the ‘glass ceiling’ for women is bollocks. One of the most powerful people in U.S. politics, she can destroy businesses and lives at a whim. She has been a politician – where productivity is not measured – for how many decades now? Yet ALL women remain victims of male dominance.

    Uh-huh.

    (One wonders if Pelosi would have done a more effective job against the puny rebel alliance than Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise?)


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  100. Muddy says:
    November 8, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    Vader was pretty inept when you look back at it. I’m only considering the original trilogy, of course, not the torturous prequels and sequels.

    I’d love to see a Star Wars – Dilbert cross-over. Would Darth Vader make it through just one day in a cubicle?

    Even better: Nancy Pelosi replaces Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss.


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