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massive range of vaccines to choose from!
and the largest assortment of bugs available anywhere.
… they won’t be beaten on price
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there’s a place on NZ south island by the same name
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“Leigh Lowe, that’s Adam’s concern.”
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You sure Professor Higgins is LL? I don’t see it.
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It does. That is why I’ve had nothing bad to say about Adam’s efforts, or anyone’s.
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Okay. It had to happen, so I’ll get in with the first one.
Baked Beans recipe.
Take that! cheffie Cats!
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massive range of vaccines to choose from!
Grand Sale! Grand Sale!
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calli says:
August 7, 2021 at 9:54 am
First, I’m quite chuffed that I now know how to do this tincy, wincy bit of “programming” – I use the term in its loosest sense.
Yes, I know, having it done for us is always much better…but…
Sometimes and for our own good[edit: I speak in my father’s voice now], we all need to become a little bit stronger and a bit more self-reliant.
So here we are on our own and, like those “sisters,” we’re “doing it for ourselves,” rather than have someone else hold our hands and do it for us.
Enter Monty.
He’s been in and out of the place checking on us to see that things are going well while simultaneously reminding us that there’s his place with, as I understand it, some new bells and whistles. He’s saying he’ll be just like Sinc – a light handed Doom Lord [edit: time to chant, “All hale the Great Benefactor,” and make it snappy, now. Sorry, did I say, “now,” I meant, “please.”]
Yet in the background I see a great mountain with fire and brimstone belching forth and out of which one of the great story lines in LOTR. For those who don’t know the book or who’ve forgotten some of it, let me quickly explain.
At the beginning of the story, Gandalf tells Frodo that Frodo’s ring is the Great Ring, Sauron’s own ring, and that long ago before these current events, along with this ring Sauron helped forge other rings of power with promises to divulge his knowledge.
Those other rings, which numbered seven and nine were given to the dwarf kings and to the mortals – the kings of men. But once the Great Ring was forged, the others fell into eternal thrall to the One Ring of Sauron.
But there were three other rings. These rings, the three elven rings, in their forging were made independent of Sauron so their power was never dominated by the One Ring and it was these three rings that gave Middle Earth light and life.
Question: will our path lead to Monty and to the…
One ring to rule them, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them?
Or do we keep “doing it for ourselves” and hold onto this ring that was made independent and currently stands alone?
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Very high levels sodium in baked beans as delicious as they are.
A fake health food.
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It does. That is why I’ve had nothing bad to say about Adam’s efforts, or anyone’s.
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Turning up here at Catallaxy Files advertising a ‘new’ Catallaxy and providing a link to it said it all.
Let me be clear, I couldn’t care less what blog you set up, Dover. What you did lacked integrity.
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I see Armidale is now locked down.
*hands in air*
It wasn’t me wot dun it.
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The first step to tackling any issue is to understand the true nature of it.
Do we have a virus problem or a government problem?
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Daily death porn from the Health Hazzard still hasn’t scared me. I’m still waiting for Novavax, if I choose to have one of the “vaccines” at all
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Is someone trying to herd Cats?
Good luck.
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Pray tell, if there is no legal (ie enshrined in legislation) distinction between “trading” and “savings” accounts, how will the government determine which accounts to pillage?
Look, I think it is clear you have been caught out “embellishing” your case with a bit of “truthiness” to add credibility.
For God’s sake, there is enough incompetence in this government to attack without making stuff up.
PS. I am not sure why you are trying to insult me by calling me LL. From my readings of the Old Cat over recent months I found him/her and annoying repetitive git.
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Actually, to be a bit less esoteric about it.
It’s like Arky’s argument about manufacturing in this country: do we keep making things or do we send it all offshore to something like the Middle Kingdom with, perhaps, in the future the same strict controls?
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Do we have a virus problem or a government problem?
It is a government problem. Pressure cleaning is required.
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“Do we have a virus problem or a government problem?”
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We have a corrupted and wakened institutions problem.
It’s Weimar Republic time.
What comes next? Horror.
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*dammit … convenience buttons for HTML … grrr
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Sorry if already posted. Mr Frydenberg has a piece in the dead tree Hun.
‘Yesterday I received an email from a Year 12 student in my electorate.
It was heartfelt and heartbreaking.
As a young person, he said, “each lockdown hurts me more than the last,” creating ” a massive toll on my mental health”.
Disillusioned and concerned, he’s not alone.
Many Victorians, young and old, while remarkably resolute and resilient throughout this pandemic, are now in lockdown number six, fatigued and weary.
But we must stay the course as there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Every day, tens of thousands of our fellow Victorians are getting vaccinated, with the program rapidly gaining pace.
Recent days have seen a record number of doses delivered, including more than one million in the past six days.
This is a stark contrast from just months ago, when it took 45 days to deliver the first million doses.
More than 40 percent of the eligible population have received their first dose, and more than 80 percent of those aged over 70.
Our focus on suppressing the virus and vaccinating the most vulnerable has helped save 30,000 lives, and seen Australia avoid the fate of other nations.’
How he came to that number is a mystery. There is more of course to the oped
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Catallaxy Files died when Sinc pulled the plug. The community will decide which of the various options takes the mantel of the new forum over the next month or so as it should be. Sinc did not pass the baton to anybody as Soon did. I posted a link once Tues morning following the events of the previous day but have not posted links to subsequent posts/ goings-on since so far as I can remember, only at Discordant Cats.
BTW, who were you at the old Cat? Ruprecht is unfamiliar to me.
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rickw says:
August 7, 2021 at 11:34 am
Do we have a virus problem or a government problem?
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Well, it certainly isn’t a virus problem, not the medical kind, anyway.
As to the other, perhaps you should ask their paid agent here. Address your query to Ruprecht, aka Leigh Lowe, aka abacab, aka Geoff Lawrie, aka Izen, aka God knows who else over the years he’s been operating.
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‘In Canada, more than 26000 people have lost their lives, and in Britain about 130000.
The focus from here must be on vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, with modelling from the Doherty Institute identifying a 70% vaccination rate as a key threshold to reach.
At this point, it says, lockdowns become less likely and the transmissibility of the virus reduces, as does the chance of serious illness for those who are vaccinated.
Just as the health outcomes improve, so do the economic ones, with Treasury analysis estimating the cost to the economy from moderate restrictions and early action to get on top of our brakes less than a fifth of that in curd by longer and more severe lockdowns.
This is why everyone must get the jab, to not only protect the health of themselves and their loved ones, but also the security or their jobs.
The reality is that until we reach a 70% vaccination rate, we are likely to see state governments respond to outbreaks with short and sharp lock down, as we’ve just seen in Victoria.’
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Novavax has been found to be contaminated. Production suspended.
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“Well you know the answer to that. For some reason they have always constituted a problem.”
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OK, now we’ve got it right out in the open. We’ve come a long way from 8.19 pm 6 August’s “factory towns” to the “yes they were prisoners, but….” of now. The Jews were made prisoners because they were Jews.
Now we can address how they were treated as prisoners at Belsen.
We know that they were starved to death at Belsen and that they were kept locked up while they were starving.
You’ve given 0.0000…[recurring to infinity] actual evidence – using your own standards of proof as to the Holocaust happening – that there were any food shortages in Germany except in the camps, let alone that anyone other than the Jews in the camps actually starved.
And even if there were fears of food shortages, that would explain why the Germans starved their Jewish prisoners to death, but it still proves exactly what I’ve been saying all along – the Germans deliberately killed the Jews, starving them to death rather than treating them equally with everyone else.
And we’ve got no explanation as to why, when the Jews were in danger of starving, the Germans didn’t just open the gates. Any sort of “well it’s because they were Jews” rationale just confirms what I’ve been been saying all along – the Germans deliberately killed the Jews, starving them to death rather than treating them equally with everyone else.
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He had time on his hands for writing whilst glued-in by the Stinky Rebels?
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‘Yesterday I received an email from a Year 12 student in my electorate.
It was heartfelt and heartbreaking”
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I bet he did not just yesterday receive an email from a year 12 student in his electorate.
He’s probably had hundreds asking if the government has a plan and is the vaccination safe for everyone.
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We’ll, mUnt is doxxing posters over at his Catallaxy clone, and banning users left and right. He’s also editing posts. Beware Cats!
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rickw says:
August 7, 2021 at 10:51 am
+1
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… says an anonymous commenter who just changed his nickname.
I would love it if Adam’s site made the rest of ours irrelevant, but he can’t lob once every day or two then let Bird run free the rest of the time. It’s not that kind of community.
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“‘Yesterday I received an email from a Year 12 student in my electorate.”
Written at Frydenberg’s request from one of his mates kids. Promise of a choice internship somewhere perhaps? This country is becoming a totalitarian propagandized shithole.
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dover_beach says:
August 7, 2021 at 11:49 am
Dover, you are being subjected to a deliberate discrediting campaign by someone who is paid to be here and disrupt, divide and conquer.
Ignore him and his useful fool sycophants, knuckle Dragger, Nick and Notafan, aka Rosie.
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A government problem. This alleged virus doesn’t have to exist. They only have to say it does. Like Climate Change™.
I am still waiting to hear from a family member, a friend or work colleague that knows or has heard of someone who has had this thing*, like I am waiting to observe evidence of Climate Change™.
Both are like Trojan horses for the implementation of the dystopian future they have planned.
If you have been jabbed, or are considering which one to take; or you want Ivermectin or HCQ to be allowed to be used etc; you are already a useful idiot.
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‘Where these lockdowns occur, the Morrison government is quick to provide support.
This includes payments to individuals in Victoria of up to $750 a week for those who have lost work.
Applications can be made through Services Australia and, in some cases, are processed in under an hour.
The federal government has also agreed to jointly fund a 400 million dollar support package for small and medium-sized businesses in Victoria, including for sole traders.
It builds on a 400 million dollar package that we announced for Victoria just last week.
Gyms, hairdressers and cafes are among the nearly 100,000 eligible businesses, with grants of up to $20,000 to be made to larger hospitality venues disrupted by the lockdown.
The federal government is also working with the banks to see that their customers are provided with relief on loan repayments as a result of hardship caused by the lockdowns.’
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It’s not that kind of community.
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On the contrary, i think we are getting a good look at exactly what kind of community it is.
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“Albatross says:
August 7, 2021 at 11:56 am
We’ll, mUnt is doxxing posters over at his Catallaxy clone,”
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Bullshit.
He noted that you “Albatross” had posted a comment under the name “Sinclair Davidson”.
Leave it to others here to work out which is worse.
Posting under a real name which is not your own, or letting readers know the blog name (not the real name) of someone slandering a known public figure.
Now fuck off, whoever you really are.
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Cardimona, excellent letter in the Cairns Post (as quoted by Struth at 10.29am):
https://catallaxy-files.com/open-thread-thursday-5-august-2021/comment-page-17/#comment-5893
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PH,
“truthiness”
Maybe that just gave it away? 😊
btw, to those who have changed their aliases, personally I would like to know if you had another at the ole place just to save a bit of time with the introductions..
https://youtu.be/4MNANgFCYpk
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K2 says:
August 7, 2021 at 11:58 am
I am still waiting to hear from a family member, a friend or work colleague that knows or has heard of someone who has had this thing*
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Maybe they all got drowned by those rising sea levels, k2
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Tom says:
August 7, 2021 at 12:06 pm
+1
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Oh hi mUNT. Sorry, I mean “ikamatua”. It’s hard to keep track of all of your shill-socks.
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BTC up some 47% today from 20 July. And bankster Jamie Dimon at JPM quietly doing a 180 and now offering all manner of BTC investments to it’s bestie clients.
“On the sly, JPMorgan Chase has launched access to six crypto funds for its wealth management clients – the first major US bank to do so. From the end of July (that’s last week for those of us who are in lockdown and have lost all concept of time), CNBC reports these clients will be able to select from:
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust
Grayscale Ethereum Trust
Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust
Osprey Bitcoin Trust
A new fund from NYDIG, the Bitcoin subsidiary of asset manager Stone Ridge”
Europe now following suit;
“Meanwhile, if you spin the globe a little bit, French fund manager Melanion Capital has created a Bitcoin price-tracking ETF by using a “picks and shovels” approach to crypto.
According to the Financial Times, the fund will hold up to 30 stocks cryptocurrency-adjacent sectors, such as mining and blockchain. Melanion has said these are up to 90% correlated to the price of Bitcoin. It’s the first of its kind and will be listed on the Euronext exchange. ”
Worthless piece of shitcurrency, right mOron?
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“Albatross says:
August 7, 2021 at 12:11 pm’
So you admit he hasn’t doxxed anyone.
Otherwise you’d post proof.
Correct?
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This place really requires fumigation.
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Given the Poms and Canadians are struggling to get to 60% vaccinated, how the fuck does the Health Hazzard, St Gladys, Dictator Dan and Feckless Foley expect to get to 70 or even 80%?
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Ok.
Gentlepeoples who dont think the boxheads slaughtered the jews out of all proportion to their population.
Available at a library near you.
Arad, Yitzhak, Israel Gutman, and Abraham Margaloit, editors. Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. (D 804.19 .D63 1999) [Find in a library near you]
Compiles translations of over 200 sources documenting the destruction of Jewish communities under the Nazis. Compiles official decrees, speeches, military orders, diary excerpts, and other primary sources. Includes indexes of names, places, organizations, and individuals. [English]
https://www.worldcat.org/title/documents-on-the-holocaust-selected-sources-on-the-destruction-of-the-jews-of-germany-and-austria-poland-and-the-soviet-union/oclc/41468679
And theres a shedload more here.
https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/primary-sources
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‘Similarly, I have spoken to the Australian tax commissioner who through the ATO is seeking to be flexible and practical in assisting taxpayers during this difficult period.
As was the case last year during the height of the pandemic, it will take a Team Australia effort, government and business working together towards the one goal of helping our fellow Australians get through covid.
I am confident that despite the challenges we face today, we will be stronger on the other side.
As recently as June, unemployment in Victoria had fallen to 4.4%, and the national unemployment rate was at a 10-year low.
Business and consumer confidence was up, job advertisements were at a record high, and employers spoke or their desperate need to get more workers.
Australia, ahead of any advanced economy in the world, had more people in work, and an economy that was bigger than before covid-19 began.
This proven ability of the Australian economy to bounce back from the lock down should give Victorians confidence about their future.
As the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia said just yesterday: “There is a pathway out of the current difficulties”.
” Australia’s experience is that once restrictions are lifted, spending recovers strongly”, he said.
And the bank is forecasting a “return to strong growth in 2022”.
There is no doubt this is a difficult time for Victorians, as it is for the nation. But we must stay strong, we must stay safe, and we must look after one another.’
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“Oh hi mUNT. Sorry, I mean “ikamatua”. It’s hard to keep track of all of your shill-socks.”
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Albatross, ikamatua was formerly known as Arky. If you can’t tell the difference in style between Arky and m0nty, you aren’t firing on all cylinders.
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“Given the Poms and Canadians are struggling to get to 60% vaccinated, how the fuck does the Health Hazzard, St Gladys, Dictator Dan and Feckless Foley expect to get to 70 or even 80%?”
By removing most of your freedom if you don’t. As “incentives”. Kind of like the old adage “”Arbeit macht frei” “.
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Another list complied from various databases.
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/
Dachau, primary sources… (and that was a work rather than death camp)
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0050_DachauIndexing.html
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Given the Poms and Canadians are struggling to get to 60% vaccinated, how the fuck does the Health Hazzard, St Gladys, Dictator Dan and Feckless Foley expect to get to 70 or even 80%?
If we achieve 70% we will have set up the perfect open air lab for creating mutant strains when 50% appears to be enough to do it.
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Where does the 70% come from? Is it 70% double or now as per Israel triple jabs? If you have had your jabs why can’t you be free now?
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I think that is way off the mark.
This obsession with current vs previous blog IDs and “sockpuppets” is intriguing.
If the argument advanced is worth engaging with (for or against), do so.
It speaks volumes that people need to know who a poster is before formulating a response.
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Knuckle Dragger says at 7:58 am:
They surely have. The worst of them here – the most proudly insane – wouldn’t last a minute in normal human company before being dropped and kicked into the street.
I am reminded my first venture into discussion blogs, to seek out explanation for the madness of politics in 2007, had me discover Bolt’s site.
It was a useful indicator of topical issues until the entire Murdoch family embraced “soft in the head”. Bolt eventually fell into line and failed. Tim Blair’s went the same way – the buck ‘n a half hookers of the press started moderating posts, he lost his good humour and his bite.
So much for the press.
sayeth Lord Northcliffe, media owner, 120 plus years ago. That holds true now, even as I must prepare to sign up again for a newspaper subscription so I can stay in some sort of touch. I haven’t routinely read a newspaper for 15 or 20 years – I’m doing it for the centrefold model, not the news analysis.
Lord knows the internet has spawned a swarm of idiots and unscrupulous, cruel manipulators. It is the battleground for commos, Getup’s disguised lobbyists, “sovereign citizen” conspiracy morons (Catallaxy has/had a couple – even here), learned anonymous amateur Chief Medical Officers howling – swearing muscularly – at the moon and snarling at dissenters – day after day after day for near 18 months now!
It is also a fabulously successful alternative to conventional conversation, a vital medium for “influencers” to profit – young blondes who root as many famous rich sportsman as they can find, marry a famous rich sports cheat and instantly become intellectuals with hundreds of thousand “followers”. Just press “like” and change your world!
I reckon suicide – as fashionable as it has become – would fall away markedly if the fragile simply reached for the laptop “off” switch and rejoined life.
Professor Davidson, to his credit, lasted a very long time until his effort was eroded and fell away over the past couple of years. Now he has better things to do.
I cannot see that success being repeated.
I have had a quick look around at the replacement sites with no high expectations and have been unsurprised – AdamD, Dot, Monty, nilk (couldn’t find it, not interested in signing up to the new Faceplant/Twit-fer-brains/eHarmony Discord site). They can try as they might but they are a long way short of the decade or so necessary to build a credible reputation.
I heard this from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, during an advertising campaign in the mid ’90s.
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More good information on Ivermectin at Dark Horse
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By fudging the statistics of course.
For example, they will define “the population” as people over 60, plus a few under 60 who have illnesses which require protection against the virus, and exclude all under 30.
Hey presto, 80% of vulnerable people get the jab and politicians go back to counting their money.
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Mick Gold Coast QLD says:
August 7, 2021 at 12:21 pm
Good comment, Mick.
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couldn’t find it, not interested in signing up to the new Faceplant/Twit-fer-brains/eHarmony Discord site
Muck, it’s actually quite easy to get onto discord.
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It speaks volumes that people need to know who a poster is before formulating a response
PH, it may do. But, equally, to know that you’re not wasting time (h/t Mick) on some dumb puppet or someone with a kangaroo loose in the top paddock is, I was going to say ‘like gold,’ but is better than gold.
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“Mick Gold Coast QLD says:
August 7, 2021 at 12:21 pm”
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I think you’ve said it best.
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Who is Ruprechet?
How could anyone forget him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF8QAeQm3ZM
Though this is probably my favorite scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nilke-mtQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14nilke-mtQ
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*Terry Pedersen says:
August 7, 2021 at 11:54 am
I’m still waiting for Novavax
Novavax has been found to be contaminated.
Production suspended.*
Citation needed!
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Monty should rename his site Whole Lotta Rosie.
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mUnt is doxxing posters over at his Catallaxy clone
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That’ll scare the Hall Monitors orff.
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how the fuck does the Health Hazzard, St Gladys, Dictator Dan and Feckless Foley expect to get to 70 or even 80%?
“Incentives” aka, coercion. Every meeja moron I hear screeching “the only way out of this to get vaccinated” goes onto my list. Which is pretty much all of them.
No sardines or gypsum for them. But they will get to participate in HOP Time.
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Graeme – Graphene is in everything since it’s a product of frying, roasting and grilling. It’s in soot and smoke. It’s in dirt. You are swimming in it, pretty much.
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“So the allies were the war criminals and the Germans should have released prisoners that could not be fed.”
As I’ve noted repeatedly, you’ve given zero evidence – of the standards that you demand for the Holocaust – that there was any food shortage in Germany except in the camps. So your statement that the Jews in the camps “could not be fed” must be filed in the “unsubstantiated assertions” basket.
In any case, we’ve now got FGR into the position of saying “the Jews were imprisoned because they were Jews and were deliberately kept imprisoned while they starved to death – but the Holocaust didn’t happen”.
I think we can end the event there and wait for the judges to hold up the scorecards.
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Don’t you just love recalcitrant italics tags?
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I think that is way off the mark.
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It speaks volumes that people need to know who a poster is before formulating a response.
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Yet, you’ve managed to form an opinion.
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A friendly reminder from Dot’s GP.
A vaccination rate of 70% with a 60% efficacy rate, effectively is a 42% vaccination rate.
It is assumed in public health that 80% is required for herd immunity.
Ergo, even with coercion, they are aiming for literal half measures that cannot work.
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hmm, I believe we have a people problem.
the populace has been schooled to use very woolly thinking for decades.
as they march through the institutions they start dishing out rewards for the woolly-hats and negative feedback for anybody not seen to be woolly enough
It aint your politicians … its your neighbors, your kids and your colleagues
Worth reposting.
Why I’m working towards escaping to the country. Put as many miles as I can between myself and the idiots.
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Great article by Steve Waterson in Paywallian
Politicians have abdicated responsibility for this Covid crisis
Well, that was worth waiting for. Finally a tiny glimpse of the modelling that has underpinned government decision-making on our Covid response, and very convincing it is too. And unbelievably, literally unbelievably, precise.
Let’s not go through the various conditional predictions of the virus’s impact, especially the “worst-case” scenario, which happily generates a number far short of “everybody dies”, which I would regard as the worst case.
Instead here’s what the Doherty Institute says could happen if we suffered a six-month uncontrolled outbreak with only 60 per cent of the population vaccinated: there would be 737,971 infections and 5294 deaths. Note the super-scientific accuracy: not 737,970 or 737,972 infections; why, that would just be sloppy guesswork.
I’m teasing, of course (it’s one of the few pleasures not yet forbidden in these joyless times), and have no doubt the statisticians are doing their very best with the data; so let’s assume they’re correct that almost three-quarters of a million would be infected, of whom 5000 would die.
Many of us in the anti-lockdown corner are asked how many lives we would sacrifice to see the country open up again, our accusers triumphantly certain there is no decent answer because, as the NSW Premier told us in May, “no death is acceptable”.
She and her interstate counterparts would rather smash our lives and livelihoods in pursuit of their ridiculous, hubristic ambition.
If a foreign power were causing damage on this scale we would regard it as an act of war, when deaths in defence of the country would become acceptable again.
Perhaps we should bite the bullet and say 5000 predominantly old people taken prematurely is a sad but tolerable price to pay for the restoration of our freedoms and the repair of our society – as long as it’s not my precious grandparents. Oh wait, mine have already died of old age, like all my ancestors since humans first wandered out of the African Rift Valley. It happens a lot, I understand. And by the way, those 5000 projected deaths assume we could find no other way of protecting the vulnerable, which is hard to believe.
The Prime Minister’s proud boast is that our closed borders and hyper vigilance have “saved 30,000 lives” since the start of the epidemic last year. More unverifiable modelling; but again, let’s assume he’s right. I wonder how many of the saved have succumbed to other ailments in that time; or will next week’s census reveal a Cocoon-like bubble of healthy nonagenarians, 30,000 strong, laughing at Covid and death in all its other guises?
At best, we’ve dragged their lives out for a few more lonely months sequestered from their families, just as we’ve kicked the whole pandemic a little way down the road, at an almost inconceivable cost. As our leaders and their worker bees finesse their incarceration strategy, in the background the cries of misery grow louder.
The politicians look on, stern-faced and witless, bleating their platitudes about feeling our pain, and urging us to get vaccinated as the only way to escape the shackles on our lives, as though they had nothing to do with the sinister emergency powers they have granted themselves and aimed against us. “A surge in cases has closed restaurants”; “the latest outbreak means tradesmen can’t go to work”; “thanks to some selfish cab driver we must stay at home for the next month”.
No, ladies and gentlemen, the virus hasn’t done this to us; you have, cosy in your luxurious offices with your index-linked financial cushions, surrounded by sycophants and shoving people around like demented puppetmasters.
It may come as a shock to those snorting and gobbling at the trough of public money, but not everyone makes their living by opening a spreadsheet on a laptop, reaching out to a stakeholder and unmuting themselves on a Zoom call.
There are people who pay taxes (rather than recycle them) by travelling every day to places where they make actual things with their hands, who build home offices rather than work from them.
Some then have the audacity to consider their manual or menial work essential, as though they are under some obligation to put food on the table for their families.
And these ungrateful wretches, instead of praising the wisdom of their superiors who imprison them in their unfashionable suburbs, have the nerve to march in the streets in complaint, thousands of people engaged in reckless superspreader events that have led to a massive zero new infections.
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” wails Shakespeare’s King Lear. Echoing him, our politicians and bureaucrats, parents to their infantilised population, are “disgusted” (NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian) with these “filthy” (NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Gary Worboys) “boofheads” (NSW Police Minister David Elliot), “wankers” (NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner) and “hooligans, dropkicks” (WA Premier Mark McGowan). Treasure the eloquent, statesmanlike rhetoric of these latter-day Ciceros; that’s the way to bring the people along with you in difficult times.
Instead they govern by regulations that grow daily more ridiculous. Sit down to drink, but stand up near a park bench; exercise, but don’t rest; go shopping but don’t browse, even though the sadists at Coles have moved everything you wanted into different aisles; under no circumstances talk to anyone you know, despite the masks that afford magic protection from nanometre Covid dust; the list is a never-ending carousel of hilarity.
The latest inanity from the future governor of Queensland (remember her, the one who did more than anyone else to dissuade people from receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine?) is to warn against online shopping.
“Do you need those people out in the community delivering packages and things?” she asks. No, your excellency, of course not, let them park their vans and bikes and get a well-paid, non-executive board position like your pals do.
What begins as absurdity soon turns dark. In NSW you must carry evidence of your address at all times when outside your home, and produce it to a police officer – “Papers please!” – on demand. You must carry a mask on your person, even to walk the dog around the block. Cold War Berlin-style police checkpoints have appeared on our streets to confirm cars are within 10km of their homes, and their occupants not intending to protest against their rulers. The army is on patrol in areas whose citizens are often refugees from regimes where camouflage battle-dress is rarely a welcome sight.
Do Western concepts of freedom no longer matter in Australia? Is it a trivial matter that we are commanded not to leave our homes? Does it seriously not bother anyone in office that we are being compared – accurately – to North Korea in our legislated refusal to allow our citizens to leave the country, or overseas Australians to return? This is very bad company we find ourselves in.
The politicians say they’re faced with tough decisions, but they’re not making decisions at all. They defend their abdication of responsibility by loftily declaring they are acting on the health advice they receive. They don’t evaluate that advice, mind, they simply follow it.
And it leads always to the same destination: lockdown. It’s “horrible”, Berejiklian said this week, “but we know we have no option”. In Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews parrots her: “There are no alternatives to lockdown”, he said on Thursday. Unless of course you don’t order a lockdown, which I think does qualify as an option, and a much more appealing one.
Lockdowns certainly work in the crudest sense, in that by isolating people you limit viral transmission, but that’s not the point.
It’s the cost-benefit analysis that’s missing, absent from the moment our governments panicked and abandoned our sensible national pandemic plan to follow the brutes of Communist China into a policy of dystopian oppression, to “keep us safe”.
Let’s turn the acceptable casualty question around and direct it to our leaders: how many fruitful young lives are you happy to waste to keep those Covid numbers low?
How many small businesses are you ready to see disappear? How many suicides will you tolerate? How many bankruptcies? How many children should forgo their formative primary education and socialisation? How many deaths from other untreated illness are acceptable to you?
How much sorrow are you willing to impose on your subjects? How many grief-stricken families must bury parents and children without ceremony, like backyard pets? How many tears will soften your stony, self-righteous hearts?
Whether born of stupidity or callousness, the effect of our current aimless course is the same. State against state, city against country, suburb against suburb, office worker against tradesman, old against young, vaccinated against unvaccinated: it is a heartless, divisive and dehumanising policy. And worse, it doesn’t work.
The very people we elect to safeguard our freedoms are shredding them, causing fractures in society that may never be healed.
Surely there are politicians in every party who are silently appalled by this mounting despair and devastation. If their leaders cannot find a path out of this madness, perhaps those others should speak up and think about taking the reins, before the electorate’s frustration turns to fury.
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“we must look after one another”
Why? It is an individual’s responsibility to look after his or her own health. Nanny statism at its finest.
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“the Jews were imprisoned because they were Jews and were deliberately kept imprisoned while they starved to death – but the Holocaust didn’t happen”
The sad thing is Tim, he’s not alone in possessing that “unique insight”.
Although it does take a special sort of dunderhead to deny the Holocaust ever happened.
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A brilliant article in The Oz from Steve Waterson (commercial editor). He puts the cost-benefit analysis of Covid restrictions powerfully.
A couple of excerpts:
Many of us in the anti-lockdown corner are asked how many lives we would sacrifice to see the country open up again, our accusers triumphantly certain there is no decent answer because, as the NSW Premier told us in May, “no death is acceptable”.
She and her interstate counterparts would rather smash our lives and livelihoods in pursuit of their ridiculous, hubristic ambition.
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How many small businesses are you ready to see disappear? How many suicides will you tolerate? How many bankruptcies? How many children should forgo their formative primary education and socialisation? How many deaths from other untreated illness are acceptable to you?
How much sorrow are you willing to impose on your subjects? How many grief-stricken families must bury parents and children without ceremony, like backyard pets? How many tears will soften your stony, self-righteous hearts?
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The moon might suit.
Example – told my 90yo mum I’d call in tomorrow for a chat and cuppa. Oh, are you allowed to? sez she. She then went on to say she was worried about the neighbours reporting visitors to the police.
Now, my mum isn’t an idiot, just a worried old lady. But her concerns speak volumes about the toxic cloud that has enveloped Australia.
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Hollywood star Barbra Satreisand has praised President Joe Biden for “his honesty, his integrity,” and his “love of facts,” despite a long list of lies and false statements he has made both before and since taking office.
These people are grotesque and evil. Another corpse trying to look like a dolly bird. Like the foul old cadaver, the mafia princess, from Baltimore.
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By fudging the statistics of course.
For example, they will define “the population” as people over 60, plus a few under 60 who have illnesses which require protection against the virus, and exclude all under 30.
Hey presto, 80% of vulnerable people get the jab and politicians go back to counting their money.
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Let’s hope they find some kind of fudge to get themselves out of their self-painted corner and end the schlockdowns for good.
Looks like the modelling Prof was hinting at “living with the virus” that Murph was pushing on Insiders weeks ago.
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Why I’m working towards escaping to the country. Put as many miles as I can between myself and the idiots.
My plan as well, Rick. Figuring out where to relocate will be the most difficult part.
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I think the only opinion I have formed is that someone was inventing evidence and couldn’t support an assertion with facts.
In fact, that isn’t opinion.
I searched all legislation passed in 2018 on Hansard and couldn’t locate anything like what rocinante was talking about.
Then followed some obsfucation hinting at “secret legislation”.
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Spamminator may have eaten some replies i posted with a couple of links
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Lol. I appear to be “speaking volumes” too.
Better keep my comments short. 😀
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Sorry for the duplication woolfe.
In my defence I blame the nano second between “post comment” and seeing it on screen.
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Move over Tom and Week in Pictures.
We now have a real comedian on board.
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Sorry for the duplication woolfe.
Not good enough (slams door and flounces off to one of the 1000 cat duplicate sites)
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Is there a one link limit?
“But her concerns speak volumes about the toxic cloud that has enveloped Australia.”
I rang to report a crashed vehicle to the WA cops last week.
Got put through to the police communications line which makes you sit through a “DOB ON CORONA PEOPLE HERE” bit before you are offered any access to areas you need to go to.
Not that they picked up anyway.
Dredd wasnt supposed to be an instruction manual.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CO79VVXWoAAR518.jpg
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Perfesser Higgins – Malcolm Roberts has been trying to have a bill passed in the senate that prevents bank account deposit bail ins.
I’m assuming he would only be doing this if there was legislation that allowed bail ins of deposits. See the following:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2020B00026/Explanatory%20Memorandum/Text
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=s1257
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Perfesser Higgins – Malcolm Roberts has been trying to have a bill passed in the senate that prevents bank account deposit bail ins.
I’m assuming he would only be doing this if there was legislation that allowed bail ins of deposits. See the following:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2020B00026/Explanatory%20Memorandum/Text
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And this:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=s1257
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“Novavax has been found to be contaminated.”
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Nah.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/politics/novavax-coronavirus-vaccine.html
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Oh. You kind of hope an electric car was involved.
“ The host of ABC’s Media Watch has tweeted a photo from a hospital bed after he was injured in a car accident.
Paul Barry wore a face mask and hospital gown in the picture and held up a bandaged hand.
“Broken hand and pelvis after a thoughtless driver backed into the road without looking and cleaned me up on my bike as I rode to work,” Mr Barry wrote.
Mr Barry, 69, said there would be no episode of Media Watch on Monday because of the incident.
He said he wasn’t sure when he would recover.”
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Thanks Rabz.
Malcolm Roberts seems OK to me on many issues, but he is jumping at shadows here.
The mere fact that he is advancing “clarifying legislation” does not automatically mean the issue he proposes to clarify really exists.
I don’t see anything in a prior Act which goes close to creating a “bail in” provision.
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Good screed Woolfe.
Deserves posting somewhere it might make a difference.
Like up the skinny arse of a chief health orificer.
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Is there a one link limit?
Indeed there is, Mole, as I’ve just discovered.
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Vicki/Calli:
“Yes, Vicki. It was only a matter of time before they hit the inevitable road block for the “vaccines” which appear to be treatments, and not very effective ones, at best.”
I mentioned previously that the vaxinaters had picked all the low hanging fruit, and now the ones left are the high priced and the stubborn ‘disobedient’ ones.
Their job is going to become more difficult now and our Lords and Masters will have to apply more pressure to get the same diminishing result. And the middle level fruit is going to get crankier and dig their heels in, necessitating even more pressure.
It was only ever going to end this way and the L&M haven’t yet realised the cost of their folly.
Maos “The guerrilla is the fish that swims in the sea of the people”.
Some of those fish have teeth and a distinctly angry disposition.
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Paul Barry was of course injured by Chinese bat flu.
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By default, yes.
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A very hollow performance by Stawman Dan.
Repeated falsehoods, patently undermined by reality.
No light at the end of this tunnel for an increasingly sullen and depressed population.
ScoMo agreed to this outrageously expensive and undeliverable vaccination/lockdown strategy. There’s many who’d like to extent the laying of hands practise.
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he is jumping at shadows here
I hope so, as the alternative doesn’t bear thinking about.
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But her unvaccinated daughter is …
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