Open Thread – Tuesday 17 August 2021

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  1. Baba says:

    Oh, I came in late.


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  2. rickw says:

    <em> 25 days after the shot and probably a little late to hospital – but here I am – diagnosed with pericarditis – or inflammation of the heart due to the Pfizer vaccine… </em>

    Someone honest enough to admit a huge mistake with severe personal consequences.


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  3. rickw says:

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    Same with Melbournites and Sydney siders and anyone in lockdown.

    YOU PUT YOURSELF THER YOU FUCKING CRETINS. </em>

    Prisoners to their own fear.


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  4. areff says:

    This is by the bloke the FBI tried to stitch up for sending anthrax through the mail after 9/11. It’s understandable he has no faith in the authorities. His is probably the most easily accessible explanation of how the Kung Flu works and what we know and don’t know about the mRNA vaccines.

    https://drstevenhatfill.com/the-covid-19-spike-protein-and-the-still-uncertain-side-effects-of-the-mrna-vaccines/?fbclid=IwAR0l1R9koLIZUre0inuMqrb7plwC9LEONcK9gwQ3gisb5_NTYcWc2nRX5gY

    (Posted to both BirdCat and PoliteCat)


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  5. Vicki says:

    “<em> 25 days after the shot and probably a little late to hospital – but here I am – diagnosed with pericarditis – or inflammation of the heart due to the Pfizer vaccine… </em>

    Someone honest enough to admit a huge mistake with severe personal consequences.”

    Oh my God, rick, I am so very, very sorry!

    It has been so, so hard to resist the concern of family, and the rancour of vaccinated friends & not succumb to the immense pressure to be vaxxed. So I understand and am in awe of your honesty

    Are you on Dexamethasone? Prednisone?

    I am sure you are in good hands, and you know enough to monitor your own treatment.

    Thoughts are with you and prayers.


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  6. Vicki says:

    Oh…didnt read initial post….it is not you rick (thank the Lord) but denhamhitchcock .

    But ditto my remarks for you DH.

     


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  7. cohenite says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 26, 2021 at 3:27 pm

    Test 2

    Trump Just Released DEVASTATING New Ad That Will End Biden’s Whole Career

    In a just world it would; but in a just world Trump would still be POTUS.

    As I’ve said I don’t know how much of biden’s cluster-fucks are due to him having control, in a demented way, or whether he is just a Quockerwodger.


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  8. Indolent says:

    Behind the scenes, two companies own the supply chain

    2 Giant Investment Firms Control Almost Everything You Buy — Here’s Why You Should Care • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

    Another article on Blackrock and Vanguard, who seem to be our puppet masters.


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    Can anyone link to BrandNewTube?

    All attempts have been futile. The posts just disappear down the forgettery hole. [ Head scratch ]

    Nothing suggests they are in moderation. Hmmm.

    I’ll try again later on. I don’t wish bother Adam just yet. Probably glitches.


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  10. Top Ender says:

    The Project’s Lisa Wilkinson part of complicit media amid power grab

     

    THE MOCKER

    Follow @Oz_Mocker

     

    When it comes to responding to pandemics, have you ever thought we could be regressing? Last week the South Australian government instructed residents in home quarantine to install an official sign at the front of their houses to warn off the public. “Nothing personal,” the bureaucrats probably say when they check the lepers are complying with regulations. “Just letting anyone and everyone know that you are unclean.”

     

    This latest directive was announced by SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, a man emulating the 17th century Mayor of London Sir John Lawrence. In 1665, when plague was felling Londoners en masse, he decreed “That every house visited [by the disease] be marked with a red cross of a foot long in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual printed words, that is to say, ‘Lord, have mercy upon us,’ to be set close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening of the same house.”

     

    It is perhaps befitting for Adelaide, otherwise known as the City of Churches. Their current restrictions remind me of John Wyndham’s classic book ‘The Chrysalids’, a post-apocalyptic depiction of an ultra-religious and superstitious society terrified of outliers and fringe-dwellers. Remaining within the state and observing Covid restrictions do not necessarily guarantee one’s liberty. Only last month South Australians at two exposure sites, including a restaurant, were herded into hotel quarantine, despite having returned negative tests.

     

    But thankfully health officials there base their decisions on science. For example, telling the population that pizza boxes and footballs are bad juju. Bizarre I know, although by no means the weirdest thing to happen in Adelaide. As for the arbitrary decision to brand the residences of those in home quarantine, no thought appears to have been given to winning hearts and minds for this measure. They could have emphasised to the residents concerned the positives of displaying this sign. No charity collectors, no Jehovah’s Witnesses, no Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young knocking on your door. The only hassle for officials would be having to wrest the sign from householders at the end of the quarantine mandate.

     

    It is only a slight exaggeration to say some commentators regard the virus as a vengeful and jealous god that must be appeased. Only through great suffering and quivering in fear before it can we hope to be spared. As Nine’s political editor Chris Uhlmann observed last week, the media has not so much acquiesced in Australia’s “supine acceptance of rank authoritarianism”. Rather it “has become a cheer squad for the blunt instrument of lockdowns”.

     

    Last week The Project co-host and Sydney resident Lisa Wilkinson castigated the NSW government for its management of the pandemic. “Gladys Berejiklian makes no restrictions, she’s doing nothing, the soft lockdown continues,” Wilkinson fulminated. “She’s stuffed this”.

     

     

    It was a theatrical performance, delivered with Wilkinson’s trademark look of imperious disdain. “If Gladys Berejiklian isn’t up to the job, then she needs to step aside,” she declared, adding “I think I speak on behalf of just about everybody that is watching these press conferences … they are almost unwatchable. The whole situation is completely farcical”.

     

    Indeed, I cannot think of anyone better qualified than Wilkinson to speak on behalf of all of us. Who could forget her sanctimonious open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison on the night of the 2019 federal election? “Prime Minister, you may have noticed we’re all feeling just a little broken right now — broken-hearted in fact, at how toxic the Australian body politic has become — and a return to basic civility in public discourse would be a great start to that healing,” she wrote. You know, informed and civil public discourse such as saying on national television “she’s stuffed this”.

     

    Greater Sydney has been in lockdown for the last two months. Businesses have been destroyed, residents have been confined to homes, families have been separated from loved ones, and thousands are without income as they are not allowed to attend their workplace. Apparently, this constitutes in Wilkinson’s mind a “soft lockdown”.

     

    But it may be Wilkinson possesses far more resilience than your average Sydney resident. You do not hear her complain, for example, of being cooped up in her palatial North Shore home. She does not publicly lament the closure of her up-market local gym. Being the trooper she is, she probably copes with these privations by doing pilates in her leafy and spacious garden overlooking Sydney Harbour. Hell, I bet she has even had to make do without the domestic hired help.

     

    Swap these luxurious digs for a dingy one-bedroom Liverpool flat in Sydney’s far west and your attitude would soon change. Imagine for example, an out of work migrant couple with two young children being confined there for months on end. Try telling them this is lockdown-lite. I do not recommend they aggravate their fragile mental state by watching The Project, but if they did, they would have a few choice words to say about the pampered white woman who purports to speak for them.

     

    Commentators demanding last year’s lockdowns in response to today’s Delta variant are virology’s equivalent of the saying “Generals always fight the last war” It is a fact lost on many. “Victoria keeps proving every time that the minute you get an outbreak there you stamp on it, and you get back to normal life again,” Wilkinson told her fellow panellists earlier this month. “It’s just a pity it’s happening to you for the sixth time now,” she added, totally devoid of any self-awareness.

     

    The elimination model is to Covid what the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company was to influenza – its claims are all puff. Announcing a nation-wide hard lockdown last week based on a single case, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern smugly gestured in Australia’s direction and told journalists she wanted to avoid Sydney’s “light and long” lockdown. So much for that. Today, New Zealand recorded 68 new cases, bringing the total to 277 across six sub-clusters. On Sunday, the country’s Covid response minister, Chris Hipkins, all but admitted the strategy of elimination had failed.

    “Once the source of admiring headlines, we are now the subject of mocking incredulity,” observed New Zealand journalist Andrea Vance this week. And while Australia’s vaccination rate could be a lot better, New Zealand’s is worse. Only 24 per cent of Kiwis are fully vaccinated, compared to 32 per cent of Australians.

     

    “It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment so many of us started to fall in love with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,” wrote Wilkinson for 10 Daily just two years ago, calling for her to “adopt us”. What are the chances of her telling viewers in her next televised editorial that Ardern has “stuffed this”? Probably around the same as us eliminating Covid.

     

    Journalism, for the most part, has served Australians poorly during the pandemic. Far from speaking truth to power, it now speaks for power. Its so-called progressive members deride those questioning the need for lockdowns. They regard with adulation officious and egotistical chief health officers, and they duly parrot loaded and authoritarian political terminology such as “ring of steel”.

     

    Think of Michael Palin’s institutionalised dungeon character in Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’. “Terrific race, the Romans,” he says adoringly of his captors, grateful for the privilege of being suspended on the wall. “Terrific.” That is your average journalist and commentator reflecting on Covid restrictions.

     

    You were supposed to question and force governments to justify every so-called health measure that impeded our civil liberties. Instead, you did the opposite and became complicit.

     

    You have well and truly stuffed this.

     

    THE MOCKER

    The Mocker amuses himself by calling out poseurs, sneering social commentators, and po-faced officials. He is deeply suspicious of those who seek increased regulation of speech and behaviour.


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  11. Steve trickler says:

    cohenite..

    No way is the prick in control of anything. He’s a mess.

    Which then begs the question. Who is?


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  12. srr says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 26, 2021 at 3:27 pm

    Test 2

    Trump Just Released DEVASTATING New Ad That Will End Biden’s Whole Career

    Dinesh D’Souza  Published August 24, 2021
    https://rumble.com/vln3jf-trump-just-released-devastating-new-ad-that-will-end-bidens-whole-career.html

    rmcs_1517, 1 day ago
    Can we please have the election this November? At this rate we won’t make it to 2024.


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  13. srr says:

    Steve trickler says:
    August 26, 2021 at 4:09 pm

    Can anyone link to BrandNewTube?

    All attempts have been futile. The posts just disappear down the forgettery hole. [ Head scratch ]

    Nothing suggests they are in moderation. Hmmm.

    I’ll try again later on. I don’t wish bother Adam just yet. Probably glitches.

    ___________________________________________________

    I’ve been finding a lot of links don’t go through here


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  14. TailgunneR says:

    No jab, no job has come to my door already. As I thought last week.

    Fuck the fascists!

    Resist!

    I’m toying with a mental health episode to milk the xunts for some more $$

    Freedom ain’t Free

    😎😎


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  15. cohenite says:

    Interesting to see the talifucks believe in climate change as they announced in a recent press release, covered in blood and entrails. That should tell us all we need to know about alarmism.

    In renewables, the flip side of this idiocy is that recently for 25 seconds renewables produced more electricity then fossils. This was reported with great acclaim in this bit of toilet paper:

    https://esdnews.com.au/solar-outperforms-coal-for-fleeting-moment/

    A couple of points: from the article:

    <em>The milestone moment lasted for only a few minutes, as low demand and sunny skies on Sunday meant the contribution from coal dropped to a low of 9,315MW just after noon, while solar provided the majority share with 9,427MW.</em>

    Coal didn’t drop at all: the basis of the grid now is if renewables are producing power they get preference to sell that already subsidised power to the grid. At this ideal point renewables produced 9427MM from an installed capacity of nearly 30000MW. Coal was producing all of its 30000MW of installed power but had to cut back to 9315MW because of what the renewables were producing with demand being only 9315+9427=18742MW.

    Demand peaks at >30000MW which renewables can never support..

    <em>Unlike more nimble solar and wind producers, coal generators are particularly hurt when prices turn negative. The costs associated with shutting down and restarting coal generators are prohibitive, meaning operators will choose to keep running even at a loss.</em>

    Renewables are not <em>nimble</em> because they are weather dependent. If there is no wind or sun they’re as nimble as a corpse.

    Prices only turn negative because renewables overproduce when demand is at its lowest, the middle of the day. And coal producers are hurt because renewables get huge subsidies and preferential treatment of supply plus coal has to pay direct to renewables Large-Scale Generation Certificates (LGC), mandated under the RET. These certificates average $85 per MWh2 that the renewables actually produce. So renewables get paid twice: firstly for the power they do produce, about 20% of the time unpredictably; plus $85MWh2 from the coal producers. The coal producers only get paid for what they do sell after the renewables get first preference (the coal plants have to continue to produce to back up the renewables during these periods effectively for nothing plus pay the renewables).


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  16. Steve trickler says:

    Skip to 42:20. Andrews, is fast becoming hated and well known.

    Sydney Watson Brought to Tears Over Australia’s Collapse | Ep 180


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  17. mh says:

    I can tell, seen before
    Know the way, I know the law
    I can’t believe, can’t obey
    Can’t agree with all the things I hear you say
    Oh no, ask me why
    I can’t go on with all the filthy white lies
    Stay clean
    Stay clean
    Stay clean
    Stay clean

    Motörhead – Stay Clean
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eilzQSthLCY


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  18. JC says:

    “Interesting to see the talifucks believe in climate change as they announced in a recent press release, covered in blood and entrails. That should tell us all we need to know about alarmism.”

     

    Cronkite, I’m shocked that you took their comment at face value. They don’t give a rats about gerbil warming as they’re just sucking up to the western left.


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  19. Zipster says:

    <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MWCpYpr-l4″>What can you do to punch back?</a>


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  20. cohenite says:

    “Cronkite, I’m shocked that you took their comment at face value. They don’t give a rats about gerbil warming as they’re just sucking up to the western left.”

    Head prefect, the commies and spivs running alarmism don’t give a rats about it either.

     


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  21. TailgunneR says:

    “Gunner to the no jab/no work automaton”

    Perfect, Axl.

    Stolen&shared 👍👊👊

     


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  22. Runnybum says:

    G’day JC my good buddy, any need to run off to the blog owner today?

     


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  23. srr says:

    Thanks for this Steve –

     
    Steve trickler says:
    August 26, 2021 at 5:13 pm

    Skip to 42:20. Andrews, is fast becoming hated and well known.

    Sydney Watson Brought to Tears Over Australia’s Collapse | Ep 180

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_jh7_Af8x4


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  24. Black Ball says:

    Reading the sports section of the Hun, I come across this bit of cranial flatulence from the NBL.

    “The NBL is considering introducing replacement players at away games for players who choose not to have the covid vaccination in the coming season, which starts in November.

    NBL Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger said officials had started conversations with the players association about options for unvaccinated players.

    “That’s one idea that we’ve canvassed with players, teams and the players association,” Loeliger said.

    “We are not a legislative government, so we are not going to mandate that someone puts something into their body if it is against a cultural or religious belief, for example. Instead, we would try and look at alternatives for both the player and the team to lessen the extent of the issue.”

    Kind reader, digest that final paragraph. It sounds very much like the Commissioner is trying to have it both ways. Sounds like a thinly veiled coercion attempt in my book.


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  25. Bons says:

    Credlin, Credlin, Credlin. Repeat after me – Paul Kelly is a moron and does not deserve being on television.


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  26. Whalehunt Fun says:

    So if the government says it is legal for a business to refuse access to a person who is not vaccinated, even if they may not be infected with Chinese Virus, surely that empowers any busines to refuse entry to any person infected with AIDS. The latter person is definitely infected and definitely infectious. The former person is probably not infected. How will the violent thuggist rainbow alliance juggle the twisted lunacy they call their “ethics” to justify banning non-vaccinated persons?. I bet you they will come up with something. I do not see any reason to ban AIDS infected people, but by heavens if they can enter my store, so bloody well can a non-vaccinated person.


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  27. H B Bear says:

    Carbolic Smoke Ball Company

    My preferred supplier.  Vote 1 Lieboral.


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  28. JC says:

    We’re not buddies and will never be pals, Ted. There’s a need to have you thrown off the site , yes. Go pick bananas, you ameba.


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  29. TailgunneR says:

    The War is here. Now.

    Yellow Stars will be our symbol.

    The Black Flag is rising the pole.

    *spits on hands*

    Hehe, never thought I’d live in such interesting times!

    What a time to be alive!


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  30. TailgunneR says:

    Stay Clean, get Mean.

    We Fight!


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  31. vr says:

    Which online bookstore do folks here use to buy books? I used to use Amazon and that website seems to have deteriorated. Thanks!


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  32. caveman says:

    I don’t read much cause I’m semi illiterate, but when I do need to read I go to Booktopia.


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  33. rocinante says:

    Test Thursday

     


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  34. Axl Rosé says:

    Time to screw the DPLRBLs onto a light blue F-100 flat bed.


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  35. TailgunneR says:

    ”
    i appreciate you have an option, I respect that
    but I’m just a health worker that’s trying to get my colleagues through this shit storm with the slightest sanity left in tact, I’ve watched people reach breaking point far too often over the last 18 months
    It’s them I dedicate my energy too”

    “Dr(Jill Biden) of Nursing” when I asked if we we’re in a real pandemic. What are the treatment protocols?

    Don’t say observation &then ventilators!

    Have you been played?

    The medical crew are complicit, if not criminal?

    Hippocratic Oath?

    Do No Harm?

    Lol, Tinderlyfe

    These people are fuckwits of the highest order.

    Traitors the lot of them.

    Joe Bidans.

    No questions!

    Only one way out now, mates.

    😈😈😈


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  36. TailgunneR says:

    Why won’t blood banks take donations from the Transhumans?

    Antibodies fully depleted!

    Fkn hell, good luck in the near future, transCats!

    Don’t say the revolution didn’t warn youse!

    #Flulyfe


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  37. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    Which online bookstore do folks here use to buy books? I used to use Amazon and that website seems to have deteriorated. Thanks!
    ——————————————————————————————————-

     

    Booktopia or Abe Books.


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  38. TailgunneR says:

    Q always said “Israel is first”

    Killshot Holocaust?

    Fully Vaxxed, fully compromised!


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  39. shatterzzz says:

    Which online bookstore do folks here use to buy books? I used to use Amazon and that website seems to have deteriorated. Thanks!

    I’ve been using .. https://www.betterworldbooks.com/ .. for years ..

    Good thing about them is lots of the books are FREE delivery (from USA) ..


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  40. TailgunneR says:

    Notice the medical criminal doesn’t mention her patients – only her fellow criminals, for her sympathy.

    Scum.

    No answer yet on the treatment protocols for the Coof.

    Like Bidan – No Questions!

    straya is a shithole.

    We just realised too late.

    Oh well – MadMax it shall be.

    Buy gold&crypto&lathes.

    Nice one, Rick!


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  41. Rabz says:

    “Paul Kelly is a moron”

    Ahem, Bons – his full title is: Paul “is wrong, again” Kelly*.

    *That is, not the Mackeyesque medical imbecile or the whiny self-righteous semi-musical numptie.


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  42. TailgunneR says:

    Reading books while the War starts?

    Armchair generals never won shit.

    Resist.

    Ghosts of Tobruk

    Else the gulag, comrades!

    Choose wisely

    See you at the gallows, motherfuckers


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  43. Rabz says:

    Bluddee hell – I should have noted that the latter two are also wrong about everything all the time as well. Very remiss of me, Cats.


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