Open Thread – Thursday 7 October 2021

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  1. mh says:

    The UK have a “super cold” sweeping through the nation:

    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/how-avoid-super-cold-thats-21837984

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    More likely it’s just the regular common cold virus, but the covid shots have eviscerated their immune systems.


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  2. mh says:

    Ragu says:
    October 14, 2021 at 8:15 am

    Woot! Victoria = 2297 cases. 11 deaths
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    Congrats, Dan 🥳 🎈


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  3. Vicki says:

    “Or live with all wealth confiscated and private property gone.”

    Yes – friends believe a Wealth Tax and Death Duties will be a certainty if Labor is elected. But I think these will be on the cards with any conservative government in view of the perilous accounts of the nation.

     


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  4. Vicki says:

    “The UK have a “super cold” sweeping through the nation:”

    Everything is couched in hysteria these days. It is a global psychosis.


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  5. mh says:

    World’s longest lockdown ✅

    Mask mandates ✅

    Curfews ✅

    Mass Covid vaccination programs enforced ✅

    How’s it working out for you, Dan? 🤔


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  6. Ragu Ragu says:

    Considering the susceptibility of Victorians to this virus, we need to start seriously thinking about carpet bombing the state, for the good of the nation.


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  7. mh says:

    Dan knows how to tackle this “wicked, absolute beast” of a virus:
    Topher Field ARRESTED for ‘incitement’ in Melbourne
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFscO1gHONs


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  8. mh says:

    Westpac and CBA mandate COVID-19 vaccines for staff

    The country’s two biggest banks, which employ about 75,000 Australian staff between them, said the mandate was needed to protect the safety of staff and customers.
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    The golden rule: If you don’t want to get jabbed DO NOT QUIT.


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  9. egg_ says:

    Mr Kerry Chant
    You’ll Be Wearing Masks For Years Says Scowling Authoritarian”

    What about talking to your neighbour at the Supermarket?

     


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  10. caveman says:

    I always thought Dan should have done a double lockdown, you know science :-j


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  11. Shy Ted says:

    Excellent start to the day on BraveCat. I’m with you lot. It is war. Thought that for a long time. Terrible start to the day, turning on the TV it was accidentally tuned in to Ch7 Sunrise. Cheerful voice Sharon Godawful I think, rewards cards being replaced by QR code, needless injections. Stubbed my toe racing to the remote. Might have to switch to CH9, they’re better dressed. I hope these xunts die. Soon. Publicly. Horribly.

    Anyway, when it’s over I’m moving here.   I reckon the sandy neighbors are my kind of people.


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  12. Shy Ted says:

    Suppose I ought to go and have a look at ScaredyCat. Where they feed crocodiles soy milk.


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  13. Top Ender says:

    Dan breaks through!

    Victoria smashes the 2000 daily cases mark!

    Chairman Dan to try next for nuclear self-immolation; desalination plant to flood local suburbs, and all schools to have daily praise for Dear Leader sessions….

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10089945/Victorias-Covid-outbreak-skyrockets-2-000-cases-11-deaths.html


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  14. mh says:

    Saw someone last week who watches all the covid propaganda on tv, mostly the ABC.

    He said that the vaccines seem to be making things worse not better.

    So there must be others coming to this viewpoint.

     


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  15. Black Ball says:

    Get a load of the way the Hun reports.

    ‘Scientists trying to help the world overcome covid-19 say they have been threatened and trolled on social media for speaking to the media.

    A survey of 50 scientists interviewed in the media about the pandemic found one in 5 subsequently experienced death threats or threats or physical or sexual violence.

    Of the 50 who responded to the Australian Science Media Centre’s survey about whether they had faced a backlash for speaking publicly, 31 reported being trolled.

    AusSMC director of news Lyndal Byford said the results showed scientists were facing “pandemic levels of abuse for simply trying to help us all wrap our heads around covid-19”. An international examination with the journal Nature found even higher levels of abuse, with 15% of scientists across the UK, Germany, Canada, Taiwan and New Zealand reporting death threats and 22% saying they received the threats or physical or sexual violence.’

    Now which scientists have been threatened is curiously omitted from this report. Putting it out there that those who are in lockstep with Big Pharma aren’t the ones being harassed.


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  16. Ragu Ragu says:

    Definitely no agenda from that list of supporters


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  17. mh says:

    Checking vax status ‘like asking about contraception’
    Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry says she doesn’t expect residents to show vaccination proof and that the question is inappropriate.


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  18. Bons says:

    I sent a note of thanks to the Mufti for his brave challenging of white Australian stereotypes by hosting our Taliban brothers for the forthcoming Australian Isl mic developmental guidance seminar.  Photios’ virtual PM Morrisson will be virtually attending from Glasgow apparently.

    I’ve been busy.  I also thanked Morrisson for engaging in the greatest act of anti-democratic treason in Australia’s history.  His automated said that any matters related to 2050 should be addressed to President Photios.

    I also thanked Graeme Wood for his generous donation that has permitted the Greens to move to a more salubrious wing of the North Richmond Motel.  An automated response told me to get fucked you fascist, sexist, racist, transphobic,TERF, believer in nuclear families and parental rights, pro-life, non-public service, taxpaying class enemy; and to be very fearful and to hug my children.  “We have some very scary operatives working in our ASIO wing you know”.


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  19. Black Ball says:

    Nicely done Ragu.


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  20. Vicki says:

    https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/10/victorian-documentary-film-maker-topher-field-arrested-by-vicpol-for-incitement.html#tpe-action-resize-349

    Everyone needs to be aware of the arrests of those who are doing their best to keep the world informed of the attacks on freedom in Australia.


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  21. Ragu Ragu says:

     

     

    no worries, Black Balls.

     

    Every scientist going through that joint needs to declare a conflict of interest. But that won’t happen.

     


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  22. Shane says:

    Is anyone in Newcastle in the NSW able to refute this rather horrific tweet

    https://twitter.com/clif_high/status/1448378356672524289/photo/2


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  23. Black Ball says:

    In Other People Run This City noos:

    ‘Australia must dramatically boost its climate change targets ahead of the looming Glasgow summit or face being left stranded by its international trading partners, the International Energy Agency has warned.

    The IEA, which advises Western governments on energy policy, said Australia’s plan to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade needs to be substantially lifted to ensure the country does not become a climate laggard.

    “I would like to see a significantly stronger commitment from Australia than what we have today,” IEA executive director Fatih Birol said. “Failure to act would see Australia’s economy face the risk of being left behind compared with other countries.”

    Countries that have already signed up to net zero could pile pressure on countries like Australia which have yet to officially sign up to the same pledges through imposing emissions certificates and carbon border taxes, the IEA said.

    Australia’s role as a major commodity exporter of iron ore, coal and LNG meant it must embrace the chance to develop similar capabilities in clean energy given the threat of fossil fuel demand rapidly falling by the end of this decade under net zero policies.

    Energy Minister Angus Taylor has rejected a move to sign up to net zero targets.’

    So expect SloMo to admonish Taylor after Glasgow, in which he will throw himself at the feet of the other leaders assembled in order to have his tummy rubbed by saying all the things they want to hear.


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  24. JohnJJJ says:

    Well it impressed me. According to yesterday’s PR,  NASA’s Artemis program aim is to “land the 1st person of color on the moon”. Now what colour will it be?  Perhaps we need a spectral algorithm to sort it out. But it does raise the obvious question of why the moon is white most of the time.


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  25. Old School Conservative says:

    Let’s hope the freezing weather in Glasgow makes the “leaders” think twice about reducing the availability of electricity.

    I don’t hold out any hope though, as the emissions scam is well and truly locked into world decision making.


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  26. shane says:

    ”Ragu says:
    October 14, 2021 at 12:34 pm………..
    Every scientist going through that joint needs to declare a conflict of interest. But that won’t happen. ”

    Are you by chance referring to Dan’s CHO, Brett Sutton whose sister in law happens to be Chair at CEPI ,a  Gates  backed foundation that invests in vaccines …….& sat at Event 201 the UN/GATESApandemic exercise for a Global Coronavirus Ooutbreat OCT 2019

    https://xyz.net.au/2021/10/stunning-admission-well-scrap-vaccine-mandate-if-we-cant-enforce-it/

    Just asking,  thats all.. it might help explain why no other CVm treatment has been permitted Trump complained about the Deep Administrative State in the USA , it really looks like we have an even more pervasive tentacled monster here in Oz


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  27. Black Ball says:

    No hassles Old School Conservative. If the power happens to extinguish in Glasgow, they will get thousands of plebs to get onto exercise bikes to generate electricity in a warehouse. Plebs will be masked of course and whipped if failure to display enthusiasm is observed. For the planet


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  28. Ragu says:

    Um, yeah. Definitely.

     

    Wow. One really does not have to scratch beyond the surface to find nepotism and cronyism endemic in this country.


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  29. kaysee kaysee says:

    When I have the time, I travel the internet to learn as much as I can, across a range of topics.

    I started coming to the Catallaxy blog (Cat2) not because of a social need, but because it added to my learning process. It was also an opportunity to share what I was learning.

    Sadly, over the past few months, the landscape has changed. A few of us have stayed on with this site. I have no idea how long Cat3 will continue to exist. I sensed a déjà vu coming up, and took a break away from the blog for a few days.

    I was watching that brilliant documentary Monopoly – Who owns the world? (Thanks, struth, for posting it.) It was quite depressing and presented the bleak reality. But, the end of the doco carried this hopeful message:

    《 This is where our journey starts and it will be a difficult one, but we will undertake it together, and we will help each other get up when we fall.

    We will not be afraid.

    We are the 99%. 》

     

    It may be that this blog is headed to its end stage. I do not know. I hope not.

    But, instead of giving up already, I decided to continue my contributions here (when I am able to), in the hope that it will make some small difference. I am part of the 99% that Tim Gielen speaks of in his documentary, and I want to keep fighting to save this world. It may only be a very, very, tiny offering, but I live in hope. And I want to do what I can do, from my humble, limited abilities.


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  30. srr says:

    Zipster says:
    October 14, 2021 at 3:39 pm

    They Were Planning This All Along! | Aldous Huxley & The Fabian Society
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDg7L-dFdw

    And there has always been counters to it.

    Eugenics and Other Evils:
    An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

    by G.K. Chesterton, Michael W. Perry (Editor)
    In the second decade of the twentieth century, an idea became all too fashionable among those who feel it is their right to set social trends.
    Wealthy families took it on as a pet cause, generously bankrolling its research.
    The New York Times praised it as a wonderful “new science.”
    Scientists, such as the brilliant plant biologist, Luther Burbank, praised it unashamedly.
    Educators as prominent as Charles Elliot, President of Harvard University, promoted it as a solution to social ills. America’s public schools did their part. In the 1920s, almost three-fourths of high school social science textbooks taught its principles.

    Not to be outdone, judges and physicians called for those principles to be enshrined into law.
    Congress agree, passing the 1924 immigration law to exclude from American shores the people of Eastern and Southern Europe that the idea branded as inferior.

    In 1927, the U. S. Supreme Court joined the chorus, ruling by a lopsided vote of 8 to 1 that the sterilization of unwilling men and women was constitutional.

    That idea was eugenics and in the English-speaking world it had virtually no critics among the “chattering classes.”

    When he wrote this book, Chesterton stood virtually alone against the intellectual world of his day. Yet to his eternal credit, he showed no sign of being intimidated by the prestige of his foes.
    On the contrary, he thunders against eugenics, ranking it one of the great evils of modern society. And, in perhaps one of the most chillingly accurate prophecies of the century, he warns that the ideas that eugenics had unleashed were likely to bear bitter fruit in another nation.
    That nation was Germany, the “very land of scientific culture from which the ideal of a Superman had come.”

    In fact, the very group that Nazism tried to exterminate, Eastern European Jews, and the group it targeted for later extermination, the Slavs, were two of those whose biological unfitness eugenists sought so eagerly to confirm.
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184421.Eugenics_and_Other_Evils

    Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton – FULL Audiobook | Free Audiobooks
    [timestamped to each Part & Chapter]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PnObznbDs

    Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing.
    Say to them “The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females”; say this to them and they will sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles.
    Say to them “Murder your mother,” and they sit up quite suddenly.
    Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same.”


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    All those who come in here to comment, share information and news updates:
    Thank you.

    To block the main site disruptor, please do the flagging, the moment you spot it.

    If necessary, use this, as well.


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  32. kaysee kaysee says:

    Ben and Jerry’s co-founders interview

    Israeli boycott vs ice-cream in Texas.

    If you add politics in your marketing policies, try to be consistent.


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  33. kaysee kaysee says:

    UC Has Put Me on Leave for Challenging Their Vaccine Mandate
    Aaron Kheriaty, MD

    《 Instead of waiting for the Federal court to decide my case, the University of California has banned me from working on campus or working from home 》


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  34. caveman says:

    William Shatner looks good for 90.

    It has to be done

    Rocket Man by William Shatner


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  35. kaysee kaysee says:

    Steve,

    Catching up.

    Condolences.


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:

    Thank you, Adam.

    Thank you, Team Cat3.


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  37. johanna johanna says:

    Hi kaysee, I also hope that this blog continues. I think it is different from dover’s, and that is a good thing.

    Like you, been feeling a bit of blog fatigue lately and not contributing much – although I do read it every day. I am tired of COVID arguments and doomsaying – thank goodness for the lame pics and Steve T’s contributions, as well as your own, which provide a bit of variety and humour.

    I flag the creep whenever I notice him, and others should do the same. He has done a lot of damage around here. Apparently that’s how the sicko gets his kicks, pathetic loser that he is.

     


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  38. caveman says:

    “Damn. Astra-Zenica on the way out in Oz. Best of all of the vaxxes so far.”

     

    CSL should sue Janette Young


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:

    johanna, Covid is the centrepiece of the great reset plan and hence can’t be ignored. Otherwise, it would be like burying our heads in the sand and not seeing what is happening around us. There is so much on that topic every day.

    To dilute the serious stuff, I try to add in some other topics, as well as some funnies. it helps pace out the content on the thread.


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  40. Eyrie says:

    kaysee, thanks for your contributions. This site is mercifully free from the bitch fight (ongoing) on the other Cat and one or two obnoxious posters.


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  41. Ragu says:

    If we are looking to grow the blog, does anyone have family and friends whom are a little bit liberty curious?


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  42. mh says:

    ‘Let’s hope the freezing weather in Glasgow makes the “leaders” think twice about reducing the availability of electricity.’

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    The leaders as in the likes of Scummo?
    They are just puppets.
    The puppet masters don’t want you having electricity.
    I hope they all catch the ‘worst cold ever’ that the vaxxed poms cannot shake off.

     


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:

    Eyrie, I like the campsite here. Sometimes, it is quiet. Sometimes, there is some activity. A few logs get added to the fire.

    The site doesn’t have shiny buttons. Some buttons don’t even work. But we are here for the content. The layout is simple and it is easy to navigate.
    Scroll, Skim, or Stop-and-Read a comment.


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