Potentially The New Cat – First Open Thread 31 July 2021

Hi Cats,

As you can see I have created a copy of the Cat for you to continue to bicker, argue and occasionally make a reasonable point.

I do hope a solution is found with the original Cat but just in case Sinc doesn’t want to transfer the site to a new generation I have built a replica before the closure so we can migrate as many of the community across as possible.

Programming Note: I rushed out the site so there will be bugs. I can get them fixed but did not want perfection to get in the way for progress.

Community Note: Please let as many cats know of the new blog as soon as possible so we can capture the magic of the original. In particular would love for the original posters to continue their great work here.

Ideological Note: I am an infrequent poster but long time reader of the Cat. The discussions there have been a huge part of my own ideological growth on many issues. In particular free speech is key for me so will have a very similar light touch to the original Cat, potentially adopting my one policy on an earlier forum I built: “No D***heads” which is subjective but surprisingly easy to implement.

Website Note: I will run the Cat as close to possible as the original because I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel. However if the community so wants I am happy to make changes to improve the experience so if you have any ideas let me know. For anything specific hit me up at the contact form, else go nuts in the comments.

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  1. mh says:

    Biden gets it right, possibly for the wrong reasons:

    Breaking911
    @Breaking911
    ·
    3h
    PRES. BIDEN: “I think [Cuomo] should resign”

    https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1422661349302226947?s=20


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  2. Top Ender says:

    Peter Slipper’s surprise midnight visit to Melbourne church

    Canberra reject Peter Slipper can now add “Bishop of Australia” to his CV, alongside failed politician. Andrew Rule and Mark Buttler with the latest crime buzz.

    Peter Slipper has been ordained as “Bishop of Australia” by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

    Time slips away and so does Peter Slipper, alias “Slippery Pete”, the former Parliamentary Speaker who left Canberra a decade ago under a cloud of interesting allegations, some about using taxpayer funds for taxi fares running into thousands of dollars.

    Exactly what Slippery got up to is not so much secret as folklore among political groupies. His CV is now as chequered as Jacob’s coat of many colours — a Biblical reference that Slippery will get because as well as being a barrister and failed politician, he has dabbled in exotic religious denominations for years.

    In his latest incarnation, the one-time High Anglican has been ordained as “Bishop of Australia” by the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.

    In that capacity, perhaps, he has made a surprise appearance at a Melbourne church.

    Bishop Pete, now 71, attended a midnight mass at the St Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church in St Albans, which is split on issues including the future of parish priest Irinaos Koikas.

    It is not clear whether he was there to give spiritual guidance or legal advice to Fr Koikas, who is facing moves to move him on.

    Bishop Slippery declined to elaborate on his involvement when contacted by probing Herald Sun political scribe Kieran Rooney.

    But Fr Koikas is clearly grateful, judging from a post on the church Facebook site, accompanying photos of Bishop Slippery’s midnight appearance.

    “I would like to make special mention of my dear friend, the Hon. Peter Slipper, former Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia and Bishop of the Brazilian Apostolic church in Australia who came and attended our Resurrection service all the way from the Sunshine Coast,” Fr Koikas gushed.

    “I thank him for his attendance and his personal friendship for some time now. As well as his duties as Bishop, he is also a much-respected barrister in Queensland and Hobart.”

    Not everyone is so happy.

    The church’s community president Georgina Papafotiou resigned in May. Ms Papafotiou, a former Brimbank Council Mayor, has declined to comment.

    It is rising 10 years since Slippery was in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

    Back then, one of his parliamentary colleagues told the Herald Sun: “I don’t want to be the focus of a vendetta against him but the bloke is an absolute weirdo and a nut.”

    After that, the fellow Queenslander really sank the slipper into Bishop Pete. Who is now, incidentally, also Brazil’s consul to Tasmania.

    There is a joke there about the Bishop and the map of Tassie but we’re not touching it with a barge pole. Herald-Sun


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  3. srr says:

    White People Are Posing as Non-White People for Clout
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=478bRUGzElc&t=196s
    Aug 4, 2021
    The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters


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  4. twostix says:

    Not sure about the conservative adoration for Blainey, read some of his books, reads like late 1980′-1990’s era university activist ideas packaged up into dry, sniffy but palatable to upper middle class conservative 2000’s form.

    “Captain Cook didn’t even discover Australia so suck that patriotic losers!” in 1985, 30 years later becomes “and ere on the great eve of the great navigator Cook’s exploration of the coast of Australia that had already been explored forty times by ten different superior explorers whose exploits I will carefully detail here, did johnny-come-lately Cook finally see an area that was decided by various previous explorers from all over the earth was of no significant value to anyone…”, etc, etc.

    If he survived long enough in 20 years he’d be writing books about the foundation of Sydney and the unconventional approval of gay marriage there.

    Also he’s also ultimately responsible for the creation of the abominable national museum.

    I get that there’s literally zero actual sensible historians any more so you take what you can get, but at least see it for what it is.


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  5. struth says:

    Libertijiblets, get with the program. We dubunked that bullshit site last year.


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  6. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    What is the point of that that comment all in Islamic writing? It takes you to a site where I clicked on English but was none the wiser.


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  7. woolfe says:

    Good news for travelers. Perth – LHR one way $10,000 plus $3,000 quarantine. No guarantees on flight.


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  8. mh says:

    Jimmy Dore’s Experience with Vaccine Side Effects
    (Joe Rogan)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiLGSVH_UPA


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  9. Vicki says:

    Sorry if you have already been alerted to this.

    The Daily Telegraph published a story 3 days ago (sorry, am not a subscriber, so cannot access) claiming that Greg Hunt is expected to sign a new contract with Pfizer within days that will supply Australia with Pfizer’s shortly to be released “anti-viral” tablet therapy for Covid infections.

    Pfizer has been developing this treatment (similar, it seems to Ivermectin) – probably recognising that the punters will baulk at requiring regular “boosters” for their vaccine which has a short life efficacy of just months.

    I wonder if Hunt has known all along that vaccines are of dubious worth. I understand that Dr. Tom Borody, who has developed a triple drug treatment with Ivermectin as its mainstay, has approached Hunt with his study. I also suspect that contract arrangements with Pfizer probably prevented the official approval of Ivermectin, as has probably been the case throughout the western world.

    They may go slow on it, however, foe fear it will discourage the “hesitant” from relenting and accepting vaccination.

    https:www.pfizer.com/…pfizer-initiates-phase-1-study-oral-antiviral

    https://verywellhealth.com/pfizer-developing-covid-19-at-home-treatment-pill-5184029

    https://pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/antiviral-efforts


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  10. Lizzie:
    “It does indeed. Hate to get conspiratorial, but I wonder what they knew or saw.”
    This is what happens when governments lose the trust of the people – they start to question.
    I also am suspicious of these ‘suicides’. It sounds like they were Arkancided. I wonder what they knew?
    Perhaps they should have left a stashed document somewhere…


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  11. srr says:

    “– https://theconversation.com/whats-the-delta-plus-variant-and-can-it-escape-vaccines-an-expert-explains-163644
    This site is rapidly becoming bullshit central.”

    Becoming?
    The Conversation has been bullshitting central from it’s conception.
    🙂


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  12. Top Ender says:

    Young going all out for the post of Australia’s post idiotic CMO:

    Queensland’s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.

    Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9858329/Queensland-Covid-outbreak-continues-grow-19-new-cases-announced.html


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  13. K2 says:

    Libertijiberrjabber sounds like Bob.


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  14. srr says:

    It’s not Islamic –

    TELUGU
    Majority: Hinduism
    నిజ సమయంలో తాజా వెబ్ వార్తలు
    Translation – Latest web news in real time

    One of the articles at the site –
    When, Why, How and How Not to Start Investing in Cryptocurrencies
    2021-08-04 Blockchain …

    When, Why, How and How Should I Start Starting Investing in Cryptocurrencies, Victor Kochetov, Kirex CEO, Digital Wallet and Professional Cryptocurrency Trading Platform, I shed light on crypto investing, leading illusions and sound investment methods. Around crypto …


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  15. Vicki says:

    “SMH:
    Wealthy pockets of Sydney and Melbourne have some of the country’s highest vaccination rates, while poorer parts of Sydney’s west and south hit hardest by the latest outbreak have among the lowest coverage in NSW.”

    I live part of my life in northern Sydney (although very little over the last 18 months & not in the foreseeable future) & I can tell you why they have a very high vax rate. Yes – there are many, particularly around Mosman/Cremorne/Neutral Bay etc who are in the older age group. But many other parts of Nth Sydney – e.g. Crows Nest, McMahons Point etc are populated by young careerists in advertising, marketing,”human resources” etc etc. Both groups are very into LIFESTYLE. They especially like to travel OS and to populate the many cafes, restaurants, gyms etc in the district.

    Lockdown is definitely NOT THEIR STYLE. Consequently,they are jumping over each other to get vaccinated in the forlorn hope that will allow them to live the life of old.

    The Northern Beaches, which has a lower rate of vaccination, are populated by people who are very very content with the lifestyle of their locale – primarily a beach orientated life. They are much more “laid back” and less likely to move out of their much loved areas. There are also a lot of laid -back “tradies” who are fairly typically Australian sceptics.


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  16. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Pertains not so much to people displaying flags and such, but also to collectors. I have three edged weapons in my collection which would have to be destroyed if it ever happened.”

    Never destroy. Donate to a museum if they really do come after your collection, although I think a case may be made for private collections by validated historians. There’s a private museum we visited in Norway that is full of this sort of stuff.


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  17. mh says:

    Pauline Hanson ‘CENSORED’ for saying things that are “not government approved” | FULL AUDIO

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMkIpVvJ54


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  18. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Libertijibbit says:
    August 4, 2021 at 10:33 am”

    Hi Bobby boy…couldn’t stay away could you?


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  19. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “K2 says:
    August 4, 2021 at 10:52 am
    Libertijiberrjabber sounds like Bob.”

    It’s him.


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  20. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.”

    She really is going ballistic on the stupid. Yet this woman, as Alan Jones comments, is on $12000 per week, three thousand more than Palacechook herself. Young is the highest paid CHO in the country. How could she manage to wrangle that? I ask Hairy, who knows things. Probably self-organised and getting extra because she has a management qualification, he says wearily, possibly making claims about what she could get in the corporate sector as a reason for higher pay.

    It would be better if she had some epidemiological qualification, I say.
    She is an MBBS medico who dipped out of working in Emergency.
    She did some management thingo and went into administration.


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  21. Terry Pedersen says:

    Howard Hill says: August 3, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    You all froth at the mouth when someone even mentions taking away your freedom of speech, yet when someone comes on here doing exactly that you assemble yourselves into band of witch hunters wanting to throw anyone that exercises the very thing you supposedly hold sacred onto a pyre of death.

    Yep. That, and everything else you said in that comment is spot on. Pretty much what I referred to on the now dead and gone catallaxyfiles.com when people were jockeying for the role of chief arbiter on a new site.

    Everything you said


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  22. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “It’s not Islamic –

    TELUGU
    Majority: Hinduism
    నిజ సమయంలో తాజా వెబ్ వార్తలు
    Translation – Latest web news in real time”

    Thanks ssr, I should have looked more closely. I was operating on the mode of all squiggles that I don’t understand look the same. Of course on inspection it is full of circles, quite different to the Islamic. Guess too I have a suspicious mind about Meusli conspiracy theorists maybe landing here, colouring my immediate perception. Will try to pedal back on the suspicion. Happens when the blog is new. I didn’t pick Pancho as our sunglassed Bespoke, for instance, although I was suspicious of the fractured English disguise from the start, as well as the Panzer surname. lol


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  23. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Yep. That, and everything else you said in that comment is spot on. Pretty much what I referred to on the now dead and gone catallaxyfiles.com when people were jockeying for the role of chief arbiter on a new site.

    Everything you said”

    LOL….this is the same hypocrite who once complained to Sinc when I called him a pervert.


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  24. Diogenes says:

    “Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.”

    Well We know that furniture removalists are pox carrying disease spreaders


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  25. egg_ says:

    ,blockquote>Queensland’s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.

    Didn’t Glad say everyone had 4 weeks of groceries in their pantry?

    We’re all doomsday preppers?


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  26. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Good news for travelers. Perth – LHR one way $10,000 plus $3,000 quarantine. No guarantees on flight.”

    The wife of one of our neighbours had to return to the UK recently to see her very sick mum. He told us it cost $13K for the one-way flight over there from Sydney, then quarantine costs, plus special pleading for permission to leave.

    This has to end. I’ve always given the date of December 1 for Australia to open up completely with everyone who wants the vax having been offered it.
    We can do it, it just takes political will.

    Keeping an eye on what’s happening in Israel though re Delta strain.
    They are wanting to avoid a September lockdown. And to booster vax.


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  27. Farmer Gez says:

    At the current death rate of Covid in the UK, it will take out 0.043% of the population per year.
    Armageddon is a long slow grind.


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  28. rickw says:

    RickW did you pick-up on the Olympic cyclist handle bar breakage as a 3d printed part. No doubt polycarbonate, head temp not hot enough? Would love to get into 3d but too many other things to do.

    Didn’t catch that one, there’s literally a million things that can go wrong with 3D printing!


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  29. rickw says:

    This has to end. I’ve always given the date of December 1 for Australia to open up completely with everyone who wants the vax having been offered it.
    We can do it, it just takes political will.

    The last two words are the problem. The idiot politicians and health officials are going further down the rabbit hole rather than climbing out of it.


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  30. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “At the current death rate of Covid in the UK, it will take out 0.043% of the population per year.
    Armageddon is a long slow grind.”

    Yes, the UK is doing really well with the opening up. Not surprising as many would have plenty of natural immunity, and also they relied mainly on Astra-Zenica for the vax. I have always favoured the AZ over Pfizer because of rarer side effects, mainly treatable clotting, and far fewer neurological ones; maybe it is better in ways we don’t yet know.


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  31. miltonf says:

    Does anyone here know about Matthew Guy changing planning laws to over rule Vicco councils during the Failyou-Napthine era?


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  32. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Israel has depended almost entirely on Pfizer for its vax.


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  33. yarpos says:

    Thank you bigly , Mr Adam. For all its foibles a place worth saving.


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  34. John H. says:

    “Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.”

    A health officer with a paranoia and\or anxiety disorder.


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  35. Terry Pedersen says:

    this is the same hypocrite who once complained to Sinc when I called him a pervert.

    Try again, crazy one. I never did complain, to anyone, about the rubbish that you post.


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  36. Lee says:

    “Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.”

    You can sense the superciliousness in her voice.
    The authoritarian old hag knows “what is right for you better than you do.”


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  37. rickw says:

    FYI

    Medicare form IM017 “Australian Immunisation Register Ceasing Correspondence and Release of information” doing the rounds at work. People getting the information on it from multiple sources.


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  38. Carpe Jugulum says:

    “And WTF is “Bob”?”

    It’s Numberwang


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  39. John Brumble says:

    Let us all welcome entirely new and not at all a dishonest renaming of a returning troll, Libertijibbit. Their discerning eye for misinformation will surely be of great use in the days ahead when they apply the same slightly-dishonest pedantry to government releases or even their own postings.

    lol.


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  40. Bruce of Newcastle says:

    This lady is an absolute shoo-in for a Nobel in Physiology/Medicine.

    After 60 years, scientists find the missing link in our body’s blood pressure control (3 Aug)

    University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have determined the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside our bodies that have eluded scientists for more than 60 years.

    The new findings, from UVA Health’s Dr. Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez and colleagues, finally reveal where the barometers are located, how they work and how they help prevent high blood pressure (hypertension) or low blood pressure (hypotension). The researchers hope the insights will lead to new treatments for high blood pressure.

    Well done to her and her team!


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  41. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “about the rubbish that you post.”

    Creepy one…I don’t post rubbish.


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  42. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    Queensland’s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.

    Anything ordered online this week won’t arrive until the week after next or later.
    Yet we’re told the lockdown ends on Sunday.


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  43. mh says:

    ‘NSW man in 20s ‘felt fatigued, died suddenly’
    Gladys Berejiklian issues a warning to Hunter region as state records 233 new Covid cases and two deaths.’

    Sure. In their twenties. I’m tired, I think I’m about to die. Thud.

    Later: This is why we are making vaxxxines mandatory.


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  44. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “It’s Numberwang”

    Indeed it is…..he can’t even create a sock properly.

    I should remind people that last week everyone including Monty and Grigs, thanked Sinclair for his Herculean efforts…but “Libertijibbit” came on and was his usual graceless, mean and gauche self, he didn’t thanks Sinc and just spat on the blog that had tolerated him for too long.


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  45. lotocoti says:

    “No, they’re not essential to me.” should be Dr Jenny’s epitaph.


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  46. johanna says:

    This sounds very suss to me:

    ”A man in his 20s has died from COVID-19 as NSW records 233 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases.

    He died at his home in Sydney’s south west yesterday and he was not vaccinated.

    The man had reached day 13 of his home isolation and was being checked daily by staff from the South-Western Sydney Local Health District.

    Chief health officer Kerry Chant said the man had no underlying conditions and “suddenly deteriorated”.

    “He did complain of feeling a little fatigued but the deterioration happened suddenly is my understanding,” Dr Chant said.
    LIVE UPDATES: Read our blog for the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “We are aware that with COVID you can get sudden deaths and I think that is important to understand that your health status can deteriorate and you can have sudden death with COVID.”

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-04/nsw-records-233-covid19-cases/100348094

    If he was on day 13 of his home isolation, had he or had he not been diagnosed? It sounds as though he hadn’t, but the lack of clarity is suspicious.

    Also, what’s with declaring the cause of death the next day, when there has to be an inquest. Have they done an autopsy? Again, all very murky.

    I find this story hard to believe, especially as it fits the narrative so neatly.


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  47. Bruce of Newcastle says:
  48. miltonf says:

    Yeah you can sense the venom and spite


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  49. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “‘NSW man in 20s ‘felt fatigued, died suddenly’”

    Very strange.

    Surely that would warrant an autopsy and the coroner being involved?


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  50. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “I find this story hard to believe, especially as it fits the narrative so neatly.”

    Agree.


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  51. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Maybe the flibbery thing is not Bob, but Steve from Brisbane, a well known troll from the past here. The style is more like him, as is the silly name. Gab has begged Doomlord Adam never to let him in. I’ll do a test. If it is Bob he won’t be able to resist answering this:

    There were no conscripts ever sent to Vietnam against their will.

    Let’s see now. lol 🙂


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  52. a reader says:

    NSW has not exceeded 0.25% of all tests being positive since this bullshit began. I have fully vaccinated relatives who now have to self isolate for two weeks because one went to a supermarket 45 minutes before a positive “case” went and the wife went hours after the positive “case” had left. According to the NSW Idiots they’re supposed to wear masks if their children are in the room.


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  53. struth says:

    Anything can escape the vaccines because the vaccines don’t work, and the Delta variant is not deadly, the people are being reclassified as they were back at the start of this.
    The clue for dumb fucks, is the term “with” covid.
    The tests can’t distinguish between viruses let alone strains of Covid and the bloke who invented these genetic spike proteins is warning against taking the untested concoctions.
    These are facts.


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  54. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “I find this story hard to believe, especially as it fits the narrative so neatly.”

    “Agree.”

    So do I. We need more information on this case.
    It is being used purely for political purposes at this stage.


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  55. Terry Pedersen says:

    I don’t post rubbish

    Lol, “Holocaust denial is illegal”.

    There is no law in Australia that specifies “Holocaust denial” as an illegality.


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  56. Rorschach says:

    I find this story hard to believe, especially as it fits the narrative so neatly.

    I’ve been trying to find coroner’s report on the mum of the two removalists in headlines a couple of weeks back. It is a similar case where apparently COVID kills you in seconds. [Does not give you even time to call for help!]

    Be interesting to see autopsy results / coroner’s findings. [Hint to any journalists out there!]


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  57. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    I guess on trolls Adam has to simply move at his own pace. Also, he is probably terribly busy simply keeping the tech afloat and improving.

    All we can do is advise from past experiences, and put in a word about legals, but it is Adam’s site.

    Nice site you have here, shame if anything should happen to it – might apply though as Cassie has warned up above.


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  58. Grigory M says:

    I should remind people that last week everyone including Monty and Grigs, thanked Sinclair for his Herculean efforts

    Grigs did no such thing.


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  59. srr says:

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
    August 4, 2021 at 11:10 am

    Yeah, I’m suspect of foreign links to so went via translation first, then found the mention of crypto & blockchain which I suspect is what brought the poster here, associating it Catallaxy Files with Sinc’s new phase of life.


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  60. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Lol, “Holocaust denial is illegal”.
    There is no law in Australia that specifies “Holocaust denial” as an illegality.”

    Wrong creepy…Holocaust denial in Australian is prosecuted under various laws that deal with “hate speech” and “racial vilification”.


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  61. Gilas says:

    It’s Remarkable says:
    August 4, 2021 at 8:29 am

    It is perhaps time for people to learn about the difference between relative risk reduction and actual risk reduction.
    We should be shown actual reduction in risk not relative reduction.

    Correct.
    Almost everyone without formal training in statistics is clueless about the overwhelming importance of population-wide case incidence and prevalence, much more important than the claimed RR or HR (Hazard Ratios) would suggest.

    Pharmacological trials are full of this stuff.

    And note how alarmist rent-seekers use percentage increase/decrease in the rate-of-whatever their pet-cause is.
    When one looks at the whole population, the issue is always totally insignificant, but the massive % change claimed fools most people.
    The ACOSS advocates are world experts at this.


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  62. Roger says:

    “I find this story hard to believe, especially as it fits the narrative so neatly.”

    If CHOs are distorting facts to create a narrative they are acting unethically.

    That is cause for referral to the Medical Board of Ausralia.


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  63. mh says:

    ‘Surely that would warrant an autopsy and the coroner being involved?’

    Der Coroner’s in town.
    Not.


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  64. Cassie of Sydney says:

    “Grigs did no such thing.”

    Yes you did.


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  65. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    I am four weeks now from my AZ jab and apart from on the second day after, I have had no discernable side-effects. Debating with myself now whether to cop the second jab at 12 weeks or bring it back to 10. I will probably stay with 12. Hairy got plugged in for ten for his second when he had his jab, a week before me. So he will be way ahead in vax antibodies and can still do the supermarketing. Actually, the jab thing has nothing to do with his supermarketing. He goes because he can purchase freely no matter the cost without me breathing down his neck beside him saying that’s rather expensive isn’t it? He also doesn’t see any risk to himself re Covid, which is perhaps a useful way to proceed. In lockdown, he also enjoys the outing!

    I was brought up in a different school to his. The school of parsimoney about small things, he believes. But it really is a matter of his money, his choice.

    Dance class was fantastic this morning. Lots of fun with our usual instructor. You should join in, I tell Hairy. We do some weights at the end, for conditioning. He’s missing the gym so much he just might join in at the end just for the weights section.


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  66. Libby Zee says:

    Nice site you have here, shame if anything should happen to it

    Unfortunate comment. Not surprised that you made it. That sort of sentiment got Memory Vault banned from the former site.


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  67. John64 says:

    Queensland’s top doctor has bizarrely called for locked-down residents to not even order online shopping for the rest of the week.

    With Pluckaduck languishing in (five star) hotel quarantine; the Governor-in-Waiting has been totally off the leash these past few days.

    Some of her offerings have come across as borderline unhinged.


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  68. jupes says:

    Pauline Hanson ‘CENSORED’ for saying things that are “not government approved” | FULL AUDIO

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptMkIpVvJ54

    Wow. “Not government approved”.

    This is escalating very quickly.


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  69. Moonshiner says:

    “Neuro-divergent”? I think that means “brain-dead”.

    Via Charlie Kirk


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  70. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:

    “There were no conscripts ever sent to Vietnam against their will.”

    What’s been written, in the past twenty years, with access to the North Vietnamese archives, reveal just how completely certain people, who saw themselves as “intellectuals” fell for the Party line, at the time.


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  71. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Correct.
    Almost everyone without formal training in statistics is clueless about the overwhelming importance of population-wide case incidence and prevalence, much more important than the claimed RR or HR (Hazard Ratios) would suggest.”

    First MPH lecture in Epidemiology P/G for medicos in SU Faculty of Medicine was incidence and prevalence. Second lecture was on Relative Risk and RO. Third session was using RR calculate whether the cream puffs or the salmon in this complex tracing example caused this exemplar outbreak of bacterial gastro at a large wedding. Fun times, moving on then into types of epi study and study designs. After a full year of such lectures in epid methods, biomed stats, communicable diseases, rare diseases, population demography etc etc. on which we had to sit some crippling examinations, we were permitted to forge ahead with a thesis.


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  72. mh says:

    Correct, Jupes.
    We are having democratically elected members of parliament censored, de-platformed, and silenced.

    Kyle Sandilands should have made a bigger deal out of it.


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  73. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    I was one of three non-medicos in that cohort of around fifty. There was me (a rank outsider), a nurse specialist, and an optometrist, all women, all became friends. The rest were ‘doctors’, mostly male. I have never really used the qualification as I had a good academic position elsewhere. But I am glad I did it. It demanded some quite rigorous thinking and critiques.


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  74. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:

    Whinging Pom Mrs Michael Harding (nee Holgate) has plundered the taxpayer even more, with a million dollars to ease her pain for being sacked after being discovered as just another fragile powerful wymminses having a giggle being profligate with other people’s money.

    Poor Christine (chief postman for Pete’s sake!)cried and cried about being “bullied” by blokes, ran off and sobbed for that Wong chap in Senate hearings about being a victimised wymminses, driven to silverside by her difficult daily life teaching dullards to lick postage stamps!

    Its married to the hideously wealthy chairman of Downer Group.

    Why do they keep employing these useless dumb cows?


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  75. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Unfortunate comment. Not surprised that you made it. That sort of sentiment got Memory Vault banned from the former site.”

    Oh fucking hell, that’s Grigory Sock Supremo back again in his imitative iteration of me and my avatar some years ago. Sinc axed him from it.

    He can’t even tell when I am being apostrophic – in making the comment above he is being worse than stupid to attribute the sentiment to me. It’s a sort of meme, Grigs.

    You are not really very bright, are you? What a dunce.


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  76. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    cohenite says:
    August 4, 2021 at 11:59 am
    Mildly amusing:

    Cancelled: Anthem-Protester Gwen Berry Fails to Medal at Olympics

    She claims to have beenset up by the playing of the national anthem at the US olympic qualification trials.

    Following the trials, Berry told reporters that she was “set up” with the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
    “I feel like it was a set-up, and they did it on purpose,” Berry said of the anthem being played. “I was pissed, to be honest.”


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  77. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    I’ll always remember the lectures on parasitology – ‘the last resort of the diagnostically desperate’. lol. Since then, Ivermectin has been performing miracles in that field.


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  78. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Griggsy Dizzy Liz we will have to call him if he uses that sock again.

    Head in a spin, as ever. You going to leave your brain to science, Grigs?


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  79. JC says:


    Tom says:
    August 4, 2021 at 9:31 am
    JC, what’s a “topper alert”?

    Tom, a topper alert is to make you aware when someone says something they’ve done etc and then the Rones comes in trying to top the previous commenter.

    It’s like
    “Oh, I can top that”

    It’s one of his many, many Tourette’s syndromes. No biggie.


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  80. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:

    Cassie of Sydney says at 10:58 am:

    “Libertijibbit says:
    August 4, 2021 at 10:33 am”

    Hi Bobby boy…couldn’t stay away could you?

    I read it and the turd might just as well have autographed his work – that’s him alright!

    PS testing for “quote” and “bold” per Calli’s HTML education link.


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  81. JC says:

    This gets more interesting by the day.

    Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems have both refused to comply with a subpoena from the GOP-controlled Arizona state Senate demanding that representatives from the county and the company produce materials as part of its audit of the 2020 presidential election.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/565999-dominion-maricopa-county-refuse-to-comply-with-state-senate-subpoenas-in


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  82. Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closure says:

    There were no conscripts ever sent to Vietnam against their will.

    The spending of tens of thousands of dollars on rural one-teacher schools was a total waste of taxpayer money that achieved nothing except some dodgy surplus to requirements school lunch sheds.


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  83. Gab says:

    Mick

    PS testing for “quote” and “bold” per Calli’s HTML education link.

    To quote, write the following without spaces, I have to do spaces otherwise the coding won’t appear here:

    insert the words to be quoted here

    To bold:

    insert text to be bolded here


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  84. Gab says:

    Oh shoot! Even with spaces it didn’t work!


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  85. Vicki says:

    Lizzie,

    I have tried to post a news item on Pfizer’s current development of a Covid treatment that may be similar to Ivermectin. It appears that Greg Hunt has pre-ordered batches when they become available. This was a couple of hours ago.

    I also included links to internet articles (which you should be able to find on the net) about Pfizer’s development work for this new (oral) drug. But, for some reason it was placed in suspension, & has not appeared.

    Why? I did speculate that this drug may put a spanner in the vaccination program if it is widely known.


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  86. Gab says:

    Try again.

    Coding for quotes:

    Type the less than sign followed by the word blockquote, then type greater than sign. insert the words to be quoted then type the less than sign, then the backslash symbol/ then the word blockquote then the greater than sign.


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  87. Bruce O’Newk:
    “This lady is an absolute shoo-in for a Nobel in Physiology/Medicine.
    After 60 years, scientists find the missing link in our body’s blood pressure control (3 Aug)
    University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have determined the location of natural blood-pressure barometers inside our bodies that have eluded scientists for more than 60 years.”
    You’re right, Bruce.
    This is very good information.
    I remember when working in Renal and Liver Transplant that we had to remove otherwise healthy kidneys on three occasions due to uncontrolled blood pressure.
    One of them was a young bloke about 25? with a BP of 320+/180. On his way to a massive bleed somewhere if the kidneys weren’t removed.
    IIRC due to a viral illness.


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  88. srr says:

    “Maricopa County and Dominion Voting Systems have both refused to comply with a subpoena from the GOP-controlled Arizona state Senate demanding that representatives from the county and the company produce materials as part of its audit of the 2020 presidential election.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/565999-dominion-maricopa-county-refuse-to-comply-with-state-senate-subpoenas-in

    LAW? WHAT LAW?
    THERE AIN’T NO STINKIN LAW IN A DICTATORSHIP!


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  89. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    Well there goes the atrocious Bird, laying it on thick.

    I’m outta here while this sort of thing is going on.


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  90. woolfe says:

    The holocaust is an outrageous lie.

    OK that’s enough. Piss off.


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  91. Mick Gold Coast QLD says:

    I would appreciate some guidance on how to install my avatar (“Endless Summer” film poster) image in the grey and white silhouetted head space in the top left hand side of my post.

    It is merely a familiar and welcome reminder for me of idyllic days in my past. 😂


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  92. twostix says:

    Chief health officer Jeannette Young told locals to ask themselves if they ‘really needed’ to even open their front door, go to the supermarket, or buy furniture online.

    These people, through their monomania, are getting close to contriving a situation which kills people to ‘save’ us – and them from being ‘responsible’ for an outbreak.


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  93. Vicki says:

    Extract from one of the internet articles on Pfizer’s new anti-viral therapy:

    “Pfizer moves towards an oral anti-COVID-19 therapy

    By Sally Robertson, B.Sc.Aug 2 2021

    Researchers in the United States have described a novel antiviral agent against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) currently being evaluated in clinical trials as a treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

    “Alongside vaccines, antiviral therapeutics are an important part of the healthcare response to counter the ongoing threat presented by COVID-19,” says Dafydd Owen from Pfizer Worldwide Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and colleagues.
    The team has now described an orally bioavailable inhibitor of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) that cleaves viral polyproteins into the shorter proteins needed for viral replication.

    The inhibitor – called PF-07321332 – also exhibits in vitro pan-human coronavirus antiviral activity and excellent in vivo safety profiles.

    A pre-print version of the research paper is available on the medRxiv* server, while the article undergoes peer review.

    Study: An Oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Inhibitor Clinical Candidate for the Treatment of COVID-19. Image Credit: NIAID
    Study: An Oral SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Inhibitor Clinical Candidate for the Treatment of COVID-19. Image Credit: NIAID
    Novel human coronaviruses pose a significant threat to global public health
    Over the last two decades, the emergence of novel human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-1, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and SARS-CoV-2, has highlighted the significant potential threat that this class of viruses poses to global public health.

    Since the COVID-19 outbreak began in late December 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has infected almost 200 million people and caused more than 4.2 million deaths globally.

    The virus infects host cells when the receptor-binding domain of its surface spike protein binds to the human receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).

    While effective COVID-19 vaccines targeting this spike-ACE2 interaction have been developed and rolled out within record time, a substantial proportion of the population is either unwilling to be vaccinated or unable to due to existing medical conditions.

    “Oral SARS-CoV-2 specific therapeutics that are applicable for treatment of the broad population upon COVID-19 diagnosis are urgently needed,” writes Owen and colleagues. “Such a treatment approach may prevent more severe disease, hospitalizations and deaths. Indirectly, it may also reduce further transmission from infected individuals.”


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  94. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:

    “Catallaxy was an early example of the decline of libertarianism into what we can now call Trumpism. By the end, the comments threads and quite a few of the posts were a toxic mix of racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories comparable to Sky After Dark or even Alex Jones

    Catallaxy outlived its usefulness by quite a few years. But it was once a valuable contributor to Australia’s intellectual life, as was the early flowering of blogs in general.”

    This is John Quiggin’s ‘Obituary for Catallaxy’. He is a full on leftie who wouldn’t know anything about the reality and perspicacity of much of Sky After Dark. There is no racism there at all, nor misogyny nor even conspiracy theorists; only Alan Jones at times gets the closest to any conspiratorial stuff, and he rarely.

    Sadly, if nothing is done about the sorts of posting we are seeing from Bird, then the new Catallaxy will deserve the reputation that it will very soon be getting as a place of anti-Semitic appreciation.

    In which case, Sinc might like to consider taking back the name.


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  95. twostix says:

    “You aren’t doing lockdown properly!”.

    Bossy shrew female CHO’s.

    Imagine what the likes of Young and Chant were like back at school.


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  96. struth says:

    https://www.countdowntothekingdom.com/following-the-experts/?fbclid=IwAR13Pa-VL89s1700C6SagIlnL6_RYkrFeGqplN4Bn5Hi_ydNC5Fk4PSZI6k This is the most comprehensive video i can find that puts it al in perspective.
    For those of you considering the jab, or have just had the one, again I implore you, for god’s sake, please watch this video ALL THE WAY THOUGH. ……….WAKE UP PEOPLE WAKE UP.
    You owe it to yourself and your loved ones and your country to know what is presented in it, before you submit.


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  97. Tom says:

    Hahaha. Googleory has emptied the old sock drawer and out tumbles Grigory M and Libby Zee. And “Terry Pedersen” gets killed in the rush.

    Trollscum love a vacuum.


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