Had an American mate at uni in Perth in the late 60’s. His old man detested that “awful English habit of gardening”, reckoned green concrete was the go.
Steve – I like the USGS map, because I can get the details in a couple clicks without taking the time to watch a video. Nice information density.
This one was near Vanuatu fairly deep (58 km) on the plate boundary. Often get quakes there. The more interesting stuff lately is the swarm of Richter 5’s along the South Sandwich plate margin. There’s been a whole bunch of them. The extra interesting thing is all the back arc volcanoes, which is what the South Sandwich Islands are. If a few of them go off due to all the shaking it could have an interesting effect on our weather since they’re located upwind of us in the Furious Fifties.
Glencore is buying up any coal assets it can in Australia. Got that from an engineer working for them. Unfortunately the green virus is inserted into engineering graduates nowadays. He’s happy to be out of working in the coal stuff as he’s in bauxite now. I wonder if he knows how much electricity that takes to turn into aluminium metal?
Troops will be deployed to the Queensland border in a bid to block New South Wales’ rampant COVID-19 outbreak from breaching the state line.
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But she (Young) prefaced her statement by saying she was aware it was necessary for some essential workers to enter Queensland as there was no one in the state that had their skill sets.
It’s an interesting problem for Queensland. How do you justify the circuses while refusing the people their bread?
Thoughtful article on Afghanistan by Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish.
Afghanistan didn’t fall because it never existed. The Afghan army laid down its arms because it also never existed. And not just because many of the 300,000 soldiers were imaginary. Its Pashtun members surrendered to their fellow Taliban Pashtuns, or fled to Iran or Uzbekistan, depending on their tribal or religious affiliations which, unlike Afghanistan, are very real.
The Afghan army was there because we spent $90 billion on it. Much like Afghanistan with its president, its constitution, and its elections existed because we spent a fortune on it. When we left, the president fled, the army collapsed, and Afghanistan: The Musical closed in Kabul.
Problem there is you don’t get the history from over a few days. You only get a 24 hour period. Dutch, the tree lopper runs rings around these people. He has saved a lot of lives with his forecasts. Pricks at the USGS haven’t. Only after the event do they chime in. Absolutely f*cking useless.
Watch the livestream on Twitch. Even I are getting good at forecasting.
It’s funny watching those who hate the site and who are never coming back, come back and respond to comments made some time previously. It’s almost like ‘the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’
Trump with Maria when she mentions Vaxxx boosters:
“You know what? That sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer,” Trump stated. “Okay?”
“Think of the money involved,” he continued.
“…Tens of billions of those, how good a business is that?”
“If you’re a pure businessman, you’ll say, ‘You know what let’s give them another shot.’ That’s another ten billion dollars of money coming in.”
“The whole thing is just crazy.”
“You wouldn’t think you would need a booster. You know when these first came out they were good for life. Then they were good for a year or two.”
“And I could see the writing on the wall, I could see the dollar signs in their eyes, of that guy that runs Pfizer. You know the guy that announced the day after the election that he had the vaccine.”
Andrew Solender
@AndrewSolender
Trump, after lauding coronavirus vaccines in a Fox interview, says the booster shot plan “sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer.”
Notice the subtle bracket creep too. Days ago it was 150 expats/contractors, yesterday that had grown to 400. Today we find out it is that plus 3000 others…
For information, the post was simple text – the complete article from the Oz print edition about Tudge telling ACARA their recommendations were rejected.
Over on the other Cat, Rosie posted a Twitter link from someone in Berlin. Here is some of the comment stream:
Jason
553 new cases of covid yesterday here in Berlin, and I had to hunt through a local papers website to find that number. No-one is bothered, life goes on as pretty much normal.
Maybe every society has to go through two waves of covid before they’re considered largely normal (with vaccination) and no longer a source of terror.
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Peking Pamela
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@AusBerlin84
How many people in Berlin died to get to this point of complacency? I’m pretty glad Australia doesn’t accept this.
Simon Rowe
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@AusBerlin84
Fuck I wish I was in Berlin right now.
SMH ? ????
@smh_ch
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I know it’s the same where I come from. Even more cases but the main thing they care about are icu patients and deaths. No one looks at case numbers any longer. When will this ever happen in Australia where all that’s acceptable is 0.
“The Afghan resistance to the Taliban begins in the Panjshir Valley
AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Anthony Loyd
Wednesday August 18 2021, 5.00pm BST, The Times
Littered with the wrecks of Soviet vehicles and the bones of the soldiers that drove them, the Panjshir Valley has for decades been an untamable heartland of Afghan guerilla warfare.
Its 60 miles of mountain terrain now stand alone as the last bastion against the Taliban — and its defenders have vowed to fight on with anyone who will join them. For the latest generation inhabiting its steep and inhospitable cliffs, the war is not over.
The valley and its namesake province were the birthplace of Afghanistan’s best known mujahidin hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who led the Northern Alliance against the Taliban until his assassination by al-Qaeda, two days before the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
The only one of the country’s 34 provinces not to have fallen to the Taliban, in the past 48 hours it has become a redoubt of resistance once more as Massoud’s followers and fighters issue the most serious challenge to a complete victory for the Taliban.
On Tuesday this week Amrullah Saleh, the Panjshiri first vice-president of Afghanistan, who was once part of Massoud’s inner sanctum, declared himself the country’s “legitimate caretaker president” and vowed to resist the Taliban.
“Join the resistance,” Saleh urged Afghans on Twitter, vowing that “I will never, ever and under no circumstances bow to Talib terrorists. I will never betray the soul and legacy of my hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander, the legend and the guide.”
Ahmad Massoud, son of the dead mujahidin leader, was filmed striding through the valley with his followers on the same day that the Northern Alliance flag was hoisted in Panjshir for the first time since 2001.
“I am in Panjshir with my people,” Massoud, 32, who was trained at Sandhurst, said to the camera. “We will stand with our people to the end.”
In recent days the 173,000-strong, predominantly Tajik population of the valley, which withstood ten Soviet offensives during the 1979-89 occupation, has had its numbers swollen by an influx of Shia Hazara families, some of whom are reported to have walked 200km to reach Panjshir, sensing it as a sanctuary from Taliban persecution.”
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The Afghan resistance to the Taliban begins in the Panjshir Valley
I can’t see them hold this time. The usurper has just gifted the Taliban with a huge armory of heavy weapons and close support helis. There is zero chance of the US under this regime giving the Northern Alliance sufficient manpads to keep the helis out of the fight. And even then the heavy weapons alone are probably sufficient.
Two doses of mRNA vaccines were 74.7% effective against infection among nursing home residents early in the vaccination program (March–May 2021). During June–July 2021, when B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant circulation predominated, effectiveness declined significantly to 53.1%.
Numbers out for Victoria , 57 today after a sex worker was tested covid positive. A homeless sex worker and mystery cases in the area, a contact tracing nightmare surely as probably no paper work or phone records kept in that line of business . However never fear our valiant Health Minister is asking for customers to ‘fess up and get tested . Then true confessions ?
“The fellows who planned 9/11, for example, were planning it before Al Gore got into his hanging chad problem down in Florida. So they don’t think about Bush or Obama. They just hate America. And if you look at it again from the point of view of people who love America, or who made the mistake of getting on the right side of America in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I was on a panel with the great Bernard Lewis a couple of years ago – actually six or seven years ago – and Bernard said that the danger here is that America risks being seen as harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend.
And if you’re someone who got too close to the Americans in Baghdad, where the most expensive US embassy, the most expensive any embassy on the planet in the history of embassies, is about to fall, if you’re someone who got too close to the Americans in Kabul, you’re about to learn the truth of Bernard Lewis’ dictum. And likewise, if, you know, the other half of that – that America is harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend – that applies to Libya, that applies to Egypt, that applies to Syria, that applies to Iraq, that applies to Afghanistan. It’s a very dangerous lesson to teach the planet.
Not just for our enemies, but for our allies, too. The Brits, Canucks and Aussies have been in these wars at America’s side for over a decade. They’re not “allies” in the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin sense, where you all get together and agree on the way forward. They’re essentially junior participants in an American war directed on American terms. They went along because they believed it was important to show support for American leadership in the world. As John Howard said a few days after 9/11, “This is no time to be an 80 per cent ally.” And the Aussies weren’t. But, 13 years later, why would they want to make the same mistake as Sirik Matak of “believing in you, the Americans”? “
Meretz’s Arab MK, Esawi Frej, says vaccination rates in Arab sector are ’embarrassing,’ emphasizes school must be in-person.
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When asked about the Arab sector’s low vaccination rate, Frej said: “I am embarrassed to speak with you about it. I’m not desperate, I believe that we will succeed in improving the situation. The percentage of people getting vaccinated is very low and that’s concerning. They aren’t ignoring the sector, there is stubbornness and a failure to provide information.”
Yup, stubbornness. And speaking of stubbornness there’s an article on the Daily Tele main page today about a rather well known Western Sydney family from the certain demographic who have been caught completely ignoring the NSW covid rules. Weird that.
I won’t make too much of any air assets the taliban have inherited.
Hit it harder doesn’t fix a lot of modern stuff.
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Nor would long quotations from the Quran do much, either, I should imagine.
I imagine Pony Girl will be taking up arms and heading to the front line of the War on Gladys in the historical military tradition. I am not holding my breath.
Baba says:
August 19, 2021 at 9:01 am
Tensions escalate between Queensland and NSW. Palaszczuk rushes troops to the border
On Sky, footage of the situation in Kabul showing a road block of vehicles separating the Taliban and British Army troops and described as “two sides in close proximity.”
Here, on the other side of the world, our Government authorises Australian Army troops to guard the border between NSW and QLD. What a disgrace.
NTG in strife again – 35 million allocated not by court order but by Department to juvenile crims locked up for committing crimes, yet victims of crime 3.5 years and still no compo.
This is bigger than the great grandstand fiasco.
From Steve Eddington member for Barkly
The below is a quote
Territorians deserve to know which Minister made the decision to pay $35 million in compensation to Don Dale detainees – and who instructed government lawyers to try and hide that figure.
Which Minister made the call to settle for $35 million? Was it the Minister for Territory Families, Kate Worden? Was it the Chief Minister or was it the Attorney-General, Selena Uibo? – or was it a cabinet decision?
This is $35 million in taxpayer funds. The Minister, or Ministers, who signed that cheque should own up to it and be held accountable.
The Gunner Government then instructed its lawyers to attempt to su
“on artificial turf”
Had an American mate at uni in Perth in the late 60’s. His old man detested that “awful English habit of gardening”, reckoned green concrete was the go.
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Steve – I like the USGS map, because I can get the details in a couple clicks without taking the time to watch a video. Nice information density.
This one was near Vanuatu fairly deep (58 km) on the plate boundary. Often get quakes there. The more interesting stuff lately is the swarm of Richter 5’s along the South Sandwich plate margin. There’s been a whole bunch of them. The extra interesting thing is all the back arc volcanoes, which is what the South Sandwich Islands are. If a few of them go off due to all the shaking it could have an interesting effect on our weather since they’re located upwind of us in the Furious Fifties.
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*sigh*……… I’ll go get the Karcher
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Glencore is buying up any coal assets it can in Australia. Got that from an engineer working for them. Unfortunately the green virus is inserted into engineering graduates nowadays. He’s happy to be out of working in the coal stuff as he’s in bauxite now. I wonder if he knows how much electricity that takes to turn into aluminium metal?
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custard says:
August 19, 2021 at 6:53 am
Vaxhole
A person who brags about their vaccination status
Thank you! My first actual out loud laugh for the day 🙂
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From ABC.
It’s an interesting problem for Queensland. How do you justify the circuses while refusing the people their bread?
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finally, a decent State of Origin match.
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Thoughtful article on Afghanistan by Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish.
Worth a look.
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BON.
Problem there is you don’t get the history from over a few days. You only get a 24 hour period. Dutch, the tree lopper runs rings around these people. He has saved a lot of lives with his forecasts. Pricks at the USGS haven’t. Only after the event do they chime in. Absolutely f*cking useless.
Watch the livestream on Twitch. Even I are getting good at forecasting.
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Libertarian position?
https://mobile.twitter.com/DifficultNerd/status/1428111754869964802
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Notafan now swallows every commie talking point.
The bakers were happy to serve anybody they just didn’t want to bake a specific type of cake.
Just like if you made violins and someone said “make me a piano” you should have the right to say no.
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Covid over in vaccinated America
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/25102/sales-of-food-services-and-drinking-places/?utm_campaign=0d201693a9-All_InfographTicker_daily_COM_AM_KW29_2021_Mo_COPY&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Statista%20Newsletters&utm_term=0_662f7ed75e-0d201693a9-314978053&__twitter_impression=true
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Hi Adam.
Just tried to post an article and got a big red screen with:
“You have reached an error page on WPX.net
If you are seeing this page, it is because there is no website installed on this domain yet.”
on it, plus ads underneath saying how good WordPress is.
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Strangely enough, it allows me to post the above and this….
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I’m worried about the look of this place.
Too Spartan.
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It’s funny watching those who hate the site and who are never coming back, come back and respond to comments made some time previously. It’s almost like ‘the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about’
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Trump with Maria when she mentions Vaxxx boosters:
“You know what? That sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer,” Trump stated. “Okay?”
“Think of the money involved,” he continued.
“…Tens of billions of those, how good a business is that?”
“If you’re a pure businessman, you’ll say, ‘You know what let’s give them another shot.’ That’s another ten billion dollars of money coming in.”
“The whole thing is just crazy.”
“You wouldn’t think you would need a booster. You know when these first came out they were good for life. Then they were good for a year or two.”
“And I could see the writing on the wall, I could see the dollar signs in their eyes, of that guy that runs Pfizer. You know the guy that announced the day after the election that he had the vaccine.”
Andrew Solender
@AndrewSolender
Trump, after lauding coronavirus vaccines in a Fox interview, says the booster shot plan “sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer.”
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1428034847646363653?s=20
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Keep commenting normal stuff, Calli, things will improve.
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Custard @ 6:53am
Vaxhole
I’m fucken stealing that!
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TE, I’ve had that WordPress glitch a couple if times too.
Clear the last hour’s browsing and try again. See if that works.
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Wow Scomo slaps us plebs again… We can’t leave even if we are a perm resident of another country but lets let in 3000 Afghans…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9904055/Pictures-evacuation-flight-Kabul-taken-Australia.html
Notice the subtle bracket creep too. Days ago it was 150 expats/contractors, yesterday that had grown to 400. Today we find out it is that plus 3000 others…
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For information, the post was simple text – the complete article from the Oz print edition about Tudge telling ACARA their recommendations were rejected.
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In a video co-produced with the Ad Council, Pope Francis urges people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, calling it an act of love toward others.
Yes, really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWf3Ji11EaU
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Over on the other Cat, Rosie posted a Twitter link from someone in Berlin. Here is some of the comment stream:
Jason
553 new cases of covid yesterday here in Berlin, and I had to hunt through a local papers website to find that number. No-one is bothered, life goes on as pretty much normal.
Maybe every society has to go through two waves of covid before they’re considered largely normal (with vaccination) and no longer a source of terror.
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Peking Pamela
Replying to
@AusBerlin84
How many people in Berlin died to get to this point of complacency? I’m pretty glad Australia doesn’t accept this.
Simon Rowe
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@AusBerlin84
Fuck I wish I was in Berlin right now.
SMH ? ????
@smh_ch
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2h
Replying to
@AusBerlin84
I know it’s the same where I come from. Even more cases but the main thing they care about are icu patients and deaths. No one looks at case numbers any longer. When will this ever happen in Australia where all that’s acceptable is 0.
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“The Afghan resistance to the Taliban begins in the Panjshir Valley
AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Anthony Loyd
Wednesday August 18 2021, 5.00pm BST, The Times
Littered with the wrecks of Soviet vehicles and the bones of the soldiers that drove them, the Panjshir Valley has for decades been an untamable heartland of Afghan guerilla warfare.
Its 60 miles of mountain terrain now stand alone as the last bastion against the Taliban — and its defenders have vowed to fight on with anyone who will join them. For the latest generation inhabiting its steep and inhospitable cliffs, the war is not over.
The valley and its namesake province were the birthplace of Afghanistan’s best known mujahidin hero, Ahmad Shah Massoud, who led the Northern Alliance against the Taliban until his assassination by al-Qaeda, two days before the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
The only one of the country’s 34 provinces not to have fallen to the Taliban, in the past 48 hours it has become a redoubt of resistance once more as Massoud’s followers and fighters issue the most serious challenge to a complete victory for the Taliban.
On Tuesday this week Amrullah Saleh, the Panjshiri first vice-president of Afghanistan, who was once part of Massoud’s inner sanctum, declared himself the country’s “legitimate caretaker president” and vowed to resist the Taliban.
“Join the resistance,” Saleh urged Afghans on Twitter, vowing that “I will never, ever and under no circumstances bow to Talib terrorists. I will never betray the soul and legacy of my hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander, the legend and the guide.”
Ahmad Massoud, son of the dead mujahidin leader, was filmed striding through the valley with his followers on the same day that the Northern Alliance flag was hoisted in Panjshir for the first time since 2001.
“I am in Panjshir with my people,” Massoud, 32, who was trained at Sandhurst, said to the camera. “We will stand with our people to the end.”
In recent days the 173,000-strong, predominantly Tajik population of the valley, which withstood ten Soviet offensives during the 1979-89 occupation, has had its numbers swollen by an influx of Shia Hazara families, some of whom are reported to have walked 200km to reach Panjshir, sensing it as a sanctuary from Taliban persecution.”
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Covid over in vaccinated America
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I didn’t bother clicking the link, but even if the title were 100% true, it still wouldn’t justify forcing people to do anything.
Ever heard of personal responsibility?
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I can’t see them hold this time. The usurper has just gifted the Taliban with a huge armory of heavy weapons and close support helis. There is zero chance of the US under this regime giving the Northern Alliance sufficient manpads to keep the helis out of the fight. And even then the heavy weapons alone are probably sufficient.
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Forced.
Only in your mind.
Maybe other people are smarter and more rational than you think
https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/nick-cave-covid/
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Im going to guess Afghan just means tribal group that doesn’t want to be ruled by Pashtun Taliban.
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Tensions escalate between Queensland and NSW. Palaszczuk rushes troops to the border.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-19/covid-19-qld-nsw-border-troops-essential-workers/100388548
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Afghanistan didn’t fall because it never existed.
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Tell that to the folks the Taliban just shot for waving the Afghan national flag in a protest in Jalalabad.
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Top Ender says:
August 19, 2021 at 8:40 am
Over on the other Cat, Rosie posted…
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Oh good. I always use musicians as medical experts.
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That was normal, Rupe.
For me, anyway. 😄
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I won’t make too much of any air assets the taliban have inherited.
Hit it harder doesn’t fix a lot of modern stuff.
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Via transterrestrial.com this morning:
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wants
Explains a lot about China.
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Berlin’s vaccination rate ?
Just over 50 percent double dose.
ps://www.statista.com/statistics/1195589/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccinations-number-federal-state-per-1000-germany/
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When did Queensland acquire an Army?
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CDC report:
Two doses of mRNA vaccines were 74.7% effective against infection among nursing home residents early in the vaccination program (March–May 2021). During June–July 2021, when B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant circulation predominated, effectiveness declined significantly to 53.1%.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/cdc-director-concerning-evidence-shows-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness-is-waning-against-delta-variant_3954466.html
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Numbers out for Victoria , 57 today after a sex worker was tested covid positive. A homeless sex worker and mystery cases in the area, a contact tracing nightmare surely as probably no paper work or phone records kept in that line of business . However never fear our valiant Health Minister is asking for customers to ‘fess up and get tested . Then true confessions ?
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Happy 200, Melbourne! 🎂🥳
‘Victoria has recorded its highest daily coronavirus case total for this current outbreak, as Melburnians mark their 200th day in lockdown.’
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From a Mark Steyn column in 2014:
“The fellows who planned 9/11, for example, were planning it before Al Gore got into his hanging chad problem down in Florida. So they don’t think about Bush or Obama. They just hate America. And if you look at it again from the point of view of people who love America, or who made the mistake of getting on the right side of America in both Iraq and Afghanistan, I was on a panel with the great Bernard Lewis a couple of years ago – actually six or seven years ago – and Bernard said that the danger here is that America risks being seen as harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend.
And if you’re someone who got too close to the Americans in Baghdad, where the most expensive US embassy, the most expensive any embassy on the planet in the history of embassies, is about to fall, if you’re someone who got too close to the Americans in Kabul, you’re about to learn the truth of Bernard Lewis’ dictum. And likewise, if, you know, the other half of that – that America is harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend – that applies to Libya, that applies to Egypt, that applies to Syria, that applies to Iraq, that applies to Afghanistan. It’s a very dangerous lesson to teach the planet.
Not just for our enemies, but for our allies, too. The Brits, Canucks and Aussies have been in these wars at America’s side for over a decade. They’re not “allies” in the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin sense, where you all get together and agree on the way forward. They’re essentially junior participants in an American war directed on American terms. They went along because they believed it was important to show support for American leadership in the world. As John Howard said a few days after 9/11, “This is no time to be an 80 per cent ally.” And the Aussies weren’t. But, 13 years later, why would they want to make the same mistake as Sirik Matak of “believing in you, the Americans”? “
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It’s not only Gladys who is having problems with a certain demographic.
MK Esawi Frej: ‘Embarrassing to speak about vaccination rates in Arab sector’ (18 Aug)
Yup, stubbornness. And speaking of stubbornness there’s an article on the Daily Tele main page today about a rather well known Western Sydney family from the certain demographic who have been caught completely ignoring the NSW covid rules. Weird that.
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I won’t make too much of any air assets the taliban have inherited.
Hit it harder doesn’t fix a lot of modern stuff.
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Nor would long quotations from the Quran do much, either, I should imagine.
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I didn’t post the Cave article because I thought he was a quotable medical expert.
And I didn’t see anything he said where he made any claim to be one.
No he’s just a normal person being grateful for a medication he sees as reducing his risk of dying.
The links to vaccination rates in Germany and the US highlight how hopelessly nannystatified Australia is
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/56 percent and life is mostly normal
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Are they getting fined $5500 each like the Melbournr engagement party attendees BoN?
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Rosie, the current deaths per day numbers in the US are higher than they were at the time of the last Presidential election.
I believe the word I’ve previously used is “parasite”.
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I imagine Pony Girl will be taking up arms and heading to the front line of the War on Gladys in the historical military tradition. I am not holding my breath.
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Good morning (maybe)
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Nota why don’t you ask Danofthedead since you’ve been vaccinated you are still locked up?
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Baba says:
August 19, 2021 at 9:01 am
Tensions escalate between Queensland and NSW. Palaszczuk rushes troops to the border
On Sky, footage of the situation in Kabul showing a road block of vehicles separating the Taliban and British Army troops and described as “two sides in close proximity.”
Here, on the other side of the world, our Government authorises Australian Army troops to guard the border between NSW and QLD. What a disgrace.
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I imagine Pony Girl will be taking up arms and heading to the front line of the War on Gladys in the historical military tradition.
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Partisan politics in a plandemic?
How we got to the “Net Zero” Global laughing stock?
Who’s in charge?
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PJW
The World Economic Forum’s Totally Not Creepy New Idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_nu7F2weBw
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NTG in strife again – 35 million allocated not by court order but by Department to juvenile crims locked up for committing crimes, yet victims of crime 3.5 years and still no compo.
This is bigger than the great grandstand fiasco.
From Steve Eddington member for Barkly
The below is a quote
Territorians deserve to know which Minister made the decision to pay $35 million in compensation to Don Dale detainees – and who instructed government lawyers to try and hide that figure.
Which Minister made the call to settle for $35 million? Was it the Minister for Territory Families, Kate Worden? Was it the Chief Minister or was it the Attorney-General, Selena Uibo? – or was it a cabinet decision?
This is $35 million in taxpayer funds. The Minister, or Ministers, who signed that cheque should own up to it and be held accountable.
The Gunner Government then instructed its lawyers to attempt to su