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.
Holy crap. The new Catallaxy-Files has now morphed into the Anti-Vaxxi Files. I’m all for dissident or questioning voices but we’ve now jumped the shark and about to jump the Blue Whale.
Adios
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Thanks Adam. Doing God’s work.
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Then we are in furious agreement.
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Hang in there Adam, Rome wasn’t built in a day and other assorted cliches. It’s a start and your efforts are completely appreciated by my good self.
Now to go figure out how to get my avatar in board the move.
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Alba
One site is enough. I’m a one site man…
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Test 10pm
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Aaaand we have our 1st flounce of Cat 2.0. That didn’t take long.
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“You are what you do” Not what you talk about
Adam., you have done that, admirably. Thanks
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Well this is a bit crap.
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Adam D
Trust me, I trust you otherwise I wouldn’t have come over. I just have a questioning mind. No sleight intended, I don’t take anything at face value and it is troublesome at times to my mental constitution and one of my many flaws.
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Thanks for an incredible effort, Adam. Magnificent effort in 2 days!
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“Anti-vaxxer”. What a slam dunk. I’m absolutely destroyed.
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That was a rather mediocre flounce though, Bear. No style, no passion, no expletives.
Can we come up with a Flounce Scale?
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It is now.
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From a Murdoch germalist-
‘Maybe the messaging to the vaccine hesitant shouldn’t focus so much on health, but should instead focus on the burden to taxpayer. No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge. But that’s exactly what vaccine hesitant are. A massive fucking burden’
This newscorpse slag can fuck off. Who the hell do they think they are to lecture and insult citizens?
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“Anti-vaxxer”. What a slam dunk. I’m absolutely destroyed.
Read up thread to see what that was about. Got sick of looking for any comment on vax.
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Gladishocklian seems to have taken more than one page out of the dick tator’s book.
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“Well this is a bit crap.”
Shut the door on your way out, then, monty.
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Gladishocklian seems to have taken more than one page out of the dick tator’s book.
Anything you can do I can do it worse…
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this place seems to be kicking off.
.. but I liked discord!
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“miltonf says:
August 1, 2021 at 10:12 pm”
I’ve decided that most at News Corp are no better than the SCUM at their ABC, Nine Newspapers and The Guardian.
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‘Aaaand we have our 1st flounce’
Terrible flounce. No theatre.
‘I’m all for dissident or questioning voices but’
Yeah righto. ‘I’m not racist but’
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It’s not a matter of being an “anti-vaxxer”, rickw.
It’s about opposing the implementation of a totalitarian Fascist regime.
Or haven’t you woken up to what is actually going on yet?
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Look at what we’re missing out on. Australia is so fucking shit, even Europe looks good by comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irXrxHZ6PAA&pp=sAQA
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“Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
· 10h
Maybe the messaging to the vaccine hesitant shouldn’t focus so much on health, but should instead focus on the burden to taxpayer. No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge. But that’s exactly what vaccine hesitant are. A massive fucking burden.”
Wow. Just wow.
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The meja are getting hysterical about citizens deciding about what’s injected into their bodies. I wonder what’s really going on.
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Or haven’t you woken up to what is actually going on yet?
Completely woken. Was in reference to the anti-vax flounce.
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Dear oh dear.
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I spent a lot of pocket money sliding coins into the arcade machine – 1942 – at my local deli. This is the plane.
Check this out.
<a href = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MlMlNGaq1Y"P-38 Lightning Aerobatics – Steve Hinton – EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021
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“dover_beach says:
August 1, 2021 at 10:21 pm
“Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
· 10h”
Not surprised DB…long thought that Ms Lehmann was a bit of a lightweight…don’t have much time for Quillette either…quite a tedious publication. One thing is clear from the above, Lehmann isn’t an independent thinker like Bret Weinstein…she’s a follower.
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Lehmann is going to turn a lot of people off from Quillette with this latest turn.
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Read this garbage from the BA (first class honours like Wayne swan wow)
‘If you have to be hospitalised in the ICU for Covid, the average stay is ~8 days. An ICU bed in Australia costs $4375 per day, so an 8 day stay costs taxpayers $35,000.
Compare that cost to that of an AstraZeneca jab, which is $3.’
Why the heavy promotion of this particular franken vax which I thought was now only recommended for over 60s?
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The economy will not recover because the next phase, not that the chunk virus mutations will end any time soon, will be the alarmist’s reset. Just imagine the lockdowns with no electricity.
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Why the heavy promotion of this particular franken vax which I thought was now only recommended for over 60s?
Because ScoMo bought a couple of billion dollars worth off Bill Gates before it was even approved.
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“Maybe the messaging to the vaccine hesitant shouldn’t focus so much on health, but should instead focus on the burden to taxpayer. No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge. But that’s exactly what vaccine hesitant are. A massive fucking burden.””
I suppose she’s paying market price for her taxpayer funded “jabs”.
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Compare that cost to that of an AstraZeneca jab, which is $3.’
Half the people in hospital have been vaccinated
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Why did discussions with CL break down?
I am happy to post but would prefer a few of the old bloggers to share their insights. Hoping the lure of an engaged audience will bring them back, or unearth some new blood.
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Woops — no formatting available (yet).
Just keep doing what you’re doing, Adam.
Personally, I would like to see more feature posts from JC on his vast knowledge of the stock market and asset values — once a week would be excellent.
And I can’t get enough of CL’s writing. It’s not just his clear thinking about strategic issues, but his moral clarity, which is refreshing and otherwise unavailable.
And the beauty of the online community we reach is that there are dozens or hundreds of professional specialists with much knowledge and expertise to contribute.
As I have said elsewhere, I am also a gun for hire as a subeditor and, in my previous life at Fairfax Media, was a professional online blog moderator/mediator.
Let us known if I can help.
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Oops above. Mistakes happen.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome • We Don’t Need Another Hero • Tina Turner
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Proudly vaccine hesitant.
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See what I mean; the alarmists are indefatigable; this bullshit never ends:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/29/14000-scientists-warn-of-imminent-climate-tipping-point/
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See how in realtime the establishment class – the media, and “influencers” openly war-games narratives that they can push onto the normal people, which governments then pickup and use, which the media then ‘reports’ as news.
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“It’s about opposing the implementation of a totalitarian Fascist regime.”
Methinks it’s more like a bunch of cranks more dangerous/insidious than the Greens have been allowed too close to the levers of power.
“Zigzag our way out the other side*”.
*How many times did we hear that mantra in reference to da curve?
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I might owe them a bit then.
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I’m surprised.
Here is someone filling a gap with a near identical blog in record time, the very same people posting here about the same issues and some others already complaining.
I have read at least 90% of the guest posts, mostly those I had interest in, and the comments rarely exceeded a 100 if that, some more for sure but most of them a lot less.
Also a lot of people failed to comment on those special interest post while very prolific on the open threads.
The OT always carried the day hit wise.
Let sort out the technical problems here first.
This is a good format, I cannot use Discord.
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“No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge.”
Does that include public servants?
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*“Claire Lehmann
@clairlemon
· 10h
Maybe the messaging to the vaccine hesitant shouldn’t focus so much on health, but should instead focus on the burden to taxpayer. No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge. But that’s exactly what vaccine hesitant are. A massive fucking burden.”
Wow. Just wow.*
Get fucked Princess.
The testing regime in NSW alone has thus far cost us 1.7 bn AUD.
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Proudly vaccine hesitant.
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Me too. The more that people like Lehmann push, the more anti I become.
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I spent a lot of pocket money sliding coins into the arcade machine – 1942 – at my local deli. This is the plane.
Check out Greg’s Airplanes video on the P-38. Gives a real insight into just what Lockheed achieved. Also interesting is Kelly Johnson’s layout concept sketches. All configurations considered!
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In an exciting development in this plague cursed land an older couple I know have just returned from an 11 day cruise. Smallish 75 passenger ship. He’s 90 and his wife is 85 years old.
The ports were not especially exotic-Cairns to Darwin with day trips ashore along the way. They were both experienced sailors when they were a little younger( he captained a boat in the 98 Sydney-Hobart) and I thought it may have been a bit mundane for them but seemed to enjoy it.
They were just outside the Sydney lockdown area so drove up to the airport, flew to Cairns and then flew back from Darwin.
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“Methinks it’s more like a bunch of cranks more dangerous/insidious than the Greens have been allowed too close to the levers of power.”
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A bunch of cranks pretty much simultaneously implement the same totalitarian measures in all five of the UKUSA Pact countries, plus a lot more places as well.
What a coincidence!
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I decided that Claire Lemon is a lefty trying to pass herself off as maybe centrist, so she could get righties on her site and convert them slowly to correct thinking. It doesn’t work, the fact is she’s not very bright. She buys her ideas wholesale.
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“Compare that cost to that of an AstraZeneca jab, which is $3.’
Why the heavy promotion of this particular franken vax which I thought was now only recommended for over 60s?”
The government is spending over 5B for the vaccines. The deployment costs would only add more. That’s 1,142,857.14 days in ICU. Or 114K Australians in ICU for ten days. I doubt we would have ever got there.
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Why the heavy promotion of this particular franken vax which I thought was now only recommended for over 60s?
Because ScoMo bought a couple of billion dollars worth off Bill Gates before it was even approved.
Massively overstocked on Frankenvax, gotta move it even if it kills them!
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Rastan was one of the best arcade games, ever, on the music alone.
EPIC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT4fI6bfrMg
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Test – fail.
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The government is spending over 5B for the vaccines
$3 a jab, two jabs, 26million people = 156million worth of jabs.
Where the fuck did the other 4.8B go? Grand theft?
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““Claire Lehmann @clairlemon · 10h
Maybe the messaging to the vaccine hesitant shouldn’t focus so much on health, but should instead focus on the burden to taxpayer. No-one wants to be branded a free-rider or a bludger, or a sponge. But that’s exactly what vaccine hesitant are. A massive fucking burden.”
Wow. Just wow.”
Yeah I was thinking the last time I saw her write something, that either her success had gone to her head or she was a Leftist plant from the get go.
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Put together the national cost of vaccines and the NSW cost for testing – 6.7 bn AUD.
That could fund 1,914 eight day long intensive care stays.
Claire Lehman’s diatribe is just patently bloody ridiculous.
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“DrBeauGan says:
August 1, 2021 at 10:52 pm
I decided that Claire Lemon is a lefty trying to pass herself off as maybe centrist, so she could get righties on her site and convert them slowly to correct thinking. It doesn’t work, the fact is she’s not very bright. She buys her ideas wholesale.”
Yep.
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That anyone complaining that this blog may not live up to the old one is insane because the old one is closed down..
The old one is gone.
Instead of boo hooing that this one might not live up to it is ridiculous as the old one is closing down.
What fucking choice have you got?
What Adam has done here is fantastic and it’s been done in a short time.
He has toldvus it’s not completely up and running yet.
Just like last time Sinc closed the blog down and NFA did something about it to ensure we didn’t lose contact…and got sneered at for doing something.
It’s a real sickness in the Australian psych and plays well into the hands of the tyrants now enslaving us.
Keep up the good wofk Adam. It is very much appreciated.
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“$3 a jab, two jabs, 26million people = 156million worth of jabs.”
I think the Pfizer shot is at leat 4 times the cost of the AZ.
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And the cost of all those who are being hospitalised from thevjab itself and will be in the future which already well exceeds the number hospitalised by the rona.
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“$3 a jab, two jabs, 26million people = 156million worth of jabs.”
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The $3.00 a jab is the “Medicare cost”, not what we actually paid.
Second, we bought over 100 million of them, not 52 million.
No, don’t ask me why, I haven’t got a clue.
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struth says:
August 1, 2021 at 11:03 pm
Struth, can I PM you your site without becoming a member?
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There seems to be a Mexican stand off occuring and it’s sending those who tried to send us insane with fear around the twist themselves.
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“we bought over 100 million of them, not 52 million.”
Several courses per person?
What’s the shelf life?
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To sleep, perchance to dream.
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“A bunch of cranks pretty much simultaneously implement the same totalitarian measures in all five of the UKUSA Pact countries, plus a lot more places as well.”
The perfect storm?
Fauci’s bug, Oxford’s hysterical modelling – hey presto!
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“we lack medium and long term safety data on the vaccines.”
Nevertheless there is good scientific intelligence that has gone into development with a lot of care taken regarding any later possible kick-outs regarding immunoligical changes/overkill/whatever. Similar vaccine work had been going on with testing for quite a while due to Sars and Middle East Sars previously; not just a quick grab and run operation. I’ve taken the position that I just have to trust this science, and would put it to flyingduk (an anaesthesiolgist) that he is regularly using some very dangerous compounds to knock people out and, incidentally, save human lives; compounds where the longer term effects may also not be known. They don’t make you sign all those sign-your-life-away forms for nothing when they put you under.
All medicine is like that.
Dont trust it, don’t use it. The choice is yours, as it always should be.
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You’ll have to type slower for me Mark A.
I’d love to be PM.
I’d sort this joint out quick smart.
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Many people see professional footy players as the privileged elite, given special rules for travel and quarantine and such. Not so. The poor bastards have to put up with much more of this Covid shit than most people. Consider:
They had to take a pay cut to allow for lack of crowds.
They have to be tested frequently (an invasive procedure). Every couple of days I think.
Their games get shifted on a whim. Sometimes with a few hours notice.
They have to live apart from their families on a whim. Sometime with a few hours notice.
They have to put up with more stupid, inane and useless rules than just about anyone else, such as singing the team song after a match with masks on.
They get huge fines for breaking stupid rules. Remember Nathan Buckley was fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing tennis with Alicia Molic. At the time he was allowed to dine or run with her but not play tennis.
Good on them for persevering.
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Adam deserves a ride in both cars.
WILDEST Burnouts Ever, in a 600hp Corolla!? Lynchy Goes Insane With Help from ULEGAL
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*Remember Nathan Buckley was fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing tennis with Alicia Molic. At the time he was allowed to dine or run with her but not play tennis.*
It’s just absurd. A great big lefty pantomime to run interference for hysterical modelling and then later postal voting fraud in the US.
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Ivermectin triple therapy – approx $2.75
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My heart bleeds jupes.
If they had any class they would refuse to play until Australia was free.
They’re playing because it’s the opium of the masses or else they too would be completely unemployed like many in the private sector.
They are in effect helping the enemy.
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I will still pop into Discord too, because it is colourful, but the flow of the comments is, as with our dear old Cat, much better in this mode.
I remember Adam commenting quite a bit during 2016, because I wrote a piece about our trip round the Horne on a cruise, and Adam chimed in about that. In particular he found the story of one dinner party on board quite appealing. This was when we had Gypsy Susan from the trailer park trying to snaffle Hairy, two aging and firmly right-wing ladies from Texas, an obnoxious Brasilian ‘educator’ of the poor, and two teachers who sided with the Brazilian creep regarding ‘improving the world’s poverty’ without any mention of economics. Adam came in and said that was a dinner party he would have liked to attend.
From what I recall at that time Adam seemed a pretty good Cat guy.
He’s certainly come good getting us a new home here.
Thank you, Adam. Sterling work, Sir.
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The death rattle.
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2021/07/31/final-forum-july-31-2021/comment-page-9/#comment-3948171
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Mark A it is not my site but I believe you can comment over there but need to be a member to start a thread.
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Cat1 now closed.
Interesting article. I think Rex Mango was asking someone about this on Cat 1
Brandon Smith: Why Are Globalists And Governments So Desperate For 100% Vaccination Rates?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brandon-smith-why-are-globalists-and-governments-so-desperate-100-vaccination-rates
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struth says:
August 1, 2021 at 11:20 pm
Sorry Struth, I meant, “send you a Personal Message” that is available in the FreeForums menu/functions but I can’t remember if only for members.
I’d rather not join.
NVM it wasn’t important, I only wanted to offer my thoughts about this sudden opposition to this blog.
All good.
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Adam has his own blog as well and has been at the cat for many years on and off.
Seems to me a switched on bloke with real decency and I remember reading the articles on his blog.
We are lucky.
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Aust Gov has signed 5 contracts for Covid vaccines.
Total projected cost is $5.0b.
Total doses over 200 million (Must be expecting this to stretch out a bit)
Contracts for the supply of:
– Pfizer:50 m doses
– Astra Zeneca: 53.8 m doses
– Novavax: 51 m doses ( yet to be approved for use)
– Moderna: 25 m doses
– Covax Facility: 25 m doses for Aust plus an additional $80 m for poor countries.
– An additional $350m has been committed to R&D for vaccines. Not sure who gets that money
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“struth says:
August 1, 2021 at 11:27 pm
My heart bleeds jupes.
If they had any class they would refuse to play until Australia was free.
They’re playing because it’s the opium of the masses or else they too would be completely unemployed like many in the private sector.
They are in effect helping the enemy.”
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Don’t be silly. Being unemployed helps no one. Have you quit your job until Australia is free?
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While being concerned about oppressive government, on balance it is hard to be aggrieved at any punishment doled out to Bucks and Collingwood. Gillon’s ponies have got to eat.
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My son with Hairy proved his excellence again today. We met up outside our place and walked sociallly-distance-chatting to the beach. There is a long walkway with bush on each side you have to traverse. My son was pushing our grandson in the stroller. Then Hairy catches sight of a moving tail high up in a low tree on the left. Hairy has eyes like Finan (Last Kingdom fanciers will know how good that is). We all stop, because Hairy has determined it is a cat, and that the said cat is scared and can’t get down. So I go to try to encourage it with kindly words, bringing it down to a lower branch with great encouragement, for it is now wailing and crying, and my son comes up on the other side of the tree (all of this in slippery bark undergrowth) and on tiptoe with his foot on a raised tree root to gain height grabs puss firmly by the leg then neck and brings him down. I comfort the little thing who spreads himself out in a friendly manner for a stroke and a tickle, as it is clearly relieved to be down. Son rings the number on the cat’s collar and relieved owners will come to collect kitty.
This was thus an exciting day. A small crowd had gathered.
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And people had been saying call the fire brigade.
Not when my son and I are on the job.
Hairy of course had been left minding the fascinated child. 🙂
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You’ve got to love the two sisters…
PhD – I Won’t Let You Down (HQ)
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Mark A.
It’s interesting when we talk about who’s the fruit cakes on different blogs.
They’re on all of them and always will be.
The truth is I went to the furniture shop when the hysteria about covid wouldn’t stop at the cat.
It was insane and overwhelming.
Many still are lost to it.
They still discuss covid as if it’s a scary virus.
Then some of them dis others on other sites.
My prime interest is to find the real news and discuss it with people with right wing insights and find like minded people to bounce off of.
that’s all.
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Yep. Old Cat is closed.
It’s a wrap.
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The Cat is Dead.
Long Live the Cat.
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Let it be known that the very last comment on the original Catallaxy Files was by Dot – Just another bloody libertarian – saying “Last”.
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I would not play gigs for a liberal party bash.
They are also entertainers.
Helping tyrannical government keep people they want distracted…distracted.
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Good to see you here Sinclair.
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A taste of the above opinion piece:
‘But what if the elites know exactly what the side effects will be? What if the vaccines are a pivotal part of their “Great Reset?”
The infertility question in particular is drawing the most fire from the establishment, and I would point out a particularly insidious narrative being implanted in the media. Whenever people question the chance of sterility caused by the vaccines, bureaucrats and media talking heads go on the attack, and then say “There’s no evidence that the vaccines cause infertility, but Covid-19 might cause it…”
And
‘If a large population of millions of people remain unvaccinated after the next couple of years, then they will represent a sizable and undeniable control group. A control group is a group of subjects that act as a pure sample untouched by a drug or vaccine experiment. If the vaccinated group becomes ill or dies from specific conditions and the control group does not have those same conditions, then that is a pretty good sign that your vaccine or drug is poison.
The 50% of Americans and smaller percentages in other nations are a control group for the experimental vaccines. If something goes wrong with the vaccines, then we will be the proof. I suspect this is what the elites are really afraid of.
They have to force us to be vaccinated as well – ALL of us, so that there is no control group and thus no proof os what they have done. They could simply blame mass health disorders on covid itself, or some other false culprit.’
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Lame pics.
Hope it works?
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FACEBOOK CENSORS THE CDC
BIBLICAL.
This is a CDC notice to all labs to stop using the Feb 2020 RT-PCR test and switch to a multiplexed method that can distinguish between various Covid viruses and influenza.
https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
FALSE DIALECTIC UNDER THE LIGHT SELF-IMPLODES, CABAL IS NOT JUST BEING DESTROYED, THEY ARE DESTROYING THEMSELVES.
This is seriously a game changer.
This is an ADMISSION by the CDC that since Feb 2020 the ‘covid stats’ have been a total fabrication.
Almost everyone who tested positive had the flu virus not covid-19.
THIS EXPLAINS WHY ‘COINCIDENTALLY’ THE NUMBER OF FLU CASES COLLAPSED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE NUMBERS FOR COVID WENT UP.
THE TESTS ARE A TOTAL FABRICATION.
Holy ****, it’s just like how they rig voting.
The cases and votes are what they are, but who controls the COUNTING?
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Hey Professor!
Thanks so much for introducing me to all these people. May your head hit the pillow with a massive smile on your face.
Stick around.
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Source for CDC post:
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/google-play-store-ban-sugar-daddy-apps
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