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I didn’t think there was going to be an ‘open’ today, but felt this was important. Apologies for inserting it into the article before this.
How many of the public have been misled by ‘scientists’, the pharmaceutical industry and medical professionals (because they have been enabled by complicit politicians) regarding covid and the vaccines?
This clip has just been put out by Dr John Campbell, of UK MP Andrew Bridgen speaking bravely and comprehensively in a debate in parliament. Truth is being spoken here – loudly and clearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MSKzoI72eU
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It took something like 4 years for thalidomide to be withdrawn from the market across the world despite a very connection to birth defects in children born to mothers who took the drug during pregnancy. It’s obvious the lessons from that tragic era have been forgotten.
But whereas the cohort of those affected by thalidomide was quite limited, Covid vaxes are being administered population wide and its effects will be multigenerational. IMHO that prospect is truly terrifying. We could be looking at a precipitous decline in population which will have ramifications across every facet of our society. I hope to God I’m wrong.
Lastly and back to thalidomide, the Australian authorities were among the last in the world to withdraw it from the market. Something to think about…
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It is interesting that Thalidomide is brought up here, now. A forthcoming book will be published in June 2023.
https://www.jennifervanderbes.com/wonder-drug
There is a short U. S. history here:
https://usthalidomide.org/our-story-thalidomide-babies-us/
Multiple stories are on the web regarding AU.
The US company, Richardson Merrell, distributed more than 2.5 million doses of Thalidomide to more than 1,200 U.S. doctors. This via an unauthorized marketing program. Dr. Frances Kelsey, a new FDA employee declined to approve the Company’s request for approval. It was an Australian who first warned the world of thalidomide’s dangers – June 1961, Dr William McBride.
I was just finishing the first year of college when this issue hit the fan in the USA (1962).
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Excellent! You can see John Campbell transforming his viewpoint over the months from a supporter to – not
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You can also see his agony, listening to how he was betrayed by his government and peers.
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The dog on his windowsill no longer has a mask. And while he would NEVER offend YTs policy he cheerfully admits that he has not had a jab for over a year.
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Sometimes “parliamentary privilege” is used as it was designed.
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The Hypocrisy Behind the Vaccines
From Armstrong Economics –
COMMENT: Am I just outright stupid, or is something seriously wrong with the majority of people? Bill Gates had his summit on overpopulation and how this is a serious crisis. Yet then he claims he can reduce disease and save the population with vaccines. Gates especially seems to want to save humanity which he on the other hand says is the problem. Something is just not right.
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REPLY: “Look, the real problem is the media. We no longer have media organizations willing to actually report the truth on any of these political issues or ever do any serious investigation. Gates held a secret gathering to sell his agenda to reduce the world’s population. The Guardian reported that they are known as the “Good Club” which seems to be the same marketing ploy used for ensuring your death which they call life insurance. Fire, theft, and accident insurance are called by their proper name.
They could never sell “Death insurance” so they inverted the name by calling it life insurance and then everyone was willing to buy it. They have done the same thing with ABORTION. They flipped it from the extermination of a child arguing it has no human right until it is born, and they championed it as a Woman’s Right to decide her own body. Justice Ginsberg made it clear that it was NEVER about woman’s rights, it was all about reducing the population of minorities that Gates’ father championed Planned Parenthood and stuck his clinics in minority areas.
Here, they market themselves as the “Good Club” which can only mean one thing – this is the evil meeting that is more akin to a war room. The Guardian wrote:
The names of some of the members are familiar figures: Bill Gates, George
Soros, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, David Rockefeller and Ted Turner. But
there are others, too, like business giants Eli and Edythe Broad, who are
equally wealthy but less well known. All told, its members are worth $125bn.
The meeting – called by Gates, Buffett and Rockefeller – was held in
response to the global economic downturn and the numerous health and
environmental crises that are plaguing the globe. It was, in some ways, a
summit to save the world.
It was at this meeting that Gates sought to get others to join him and his real goal of reducing the population using the 2007-2009 financial crisis as an excuse to get together despite the fact it was caused by overleveraged mortgages. Instead, Gates cleverly steered the meeting to his real objective global health issues such he blended with overpopulation and disease.
I find it unimaginable how you can be so obsessed with overpopulation and then want to create vaccines to increase the population. Worst still, not a single mainstream media has the guts to ever be a real media organization anymore.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/population/the-hypocrisy-behind-the-vaccines/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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“. Worse still, not a single mainstream media has the guts to ever be a real media organization anymore.”
Always good to have some music to accompany these thoughts. 🙂
1971. Sort of prophetic . “The presses are empty ; the editors torn”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BO4FIkhu4
Enjoy 🙂
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The saddest part of this “Debate” is simply only half a dozen people sat through the speech. As is evident in our own parliament as soon as a point of view that differs from what is required is commenced the true believers just get up and walk out.
Thanks for posting GAJ.
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Yup, as it goes everything is against reason and diligence. To be branded as conspirasy theorists and peddlars of misinformation really reeks of control and bland ignorance that can be hard to separate. As most here are students of world history we conclude that we have lived through the best of times. Those times are passing and they won’t be back until all of this is forgotten. A long wait. Prepare.
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Very important video. Tucker Carlson with Aseem Malhotra ( British cardiologist) on his conversion from promoting the vax to advocating against it.
Highly recommended exposure of the power of big Pharma
https://youtu.be/w3MPnBpfrRk
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Still watching, but already hooked after his revelations to Tucker about statins. Worth watching thank you.
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At 33.20 – “Trust the science means trust the psychopath”.
I have said many times that anyone saying “I trust the science” wouldn’t know science if it bit them on the bum.
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I’m unsure how much detail I, an old, retired phart, needs to know on the topics usually covered here, hence I usually play sudoku while listening. I am never going to be asked for an expert opinion after all.
But I watched every minute of that, even backed up if I missed a word. Highly recommended!
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JP comments on senior Biden Maladministration nuclear official, the “non-binary, gender fluid” (sic) luggage thief Sam Brinton.
https://youtu.be/5et4bctK4kk
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Thinking about a recent conversation Jordan Peterson and Alex Epstein had, mainly about the psychology of nihilistic doomsters, and how it is the new religion, with it’s own original sin – being born male/white or human! So maybe they have replaced the fear and hatred of our most life giving engine, sex, with the fear and hatred of one of our world’s most life giving engines, CO2. They are behaving just like raving Christian fundamentalists!
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Listening to the same podcast, I was taken with Alex description of the Greens as anti human. They are fully aware that their demands for a world with no carbon is a disaster and they have no solutions. Maybe they hope it will work out somehow but he doubts it. They are openly afraid that fusion energy will be successful and infinite free energy will save everyone. This is likened to giving a baby a shotgun.
In other words the Greens want humans to die everywhere and the planet will be saved. But for whom? This is planet worship, human hating. There is no great vision here except that the planet, a great ball of rock, is the object of religious devotion.
As Dr Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace says, Greenpeace is the now mankind’s enemy on Twitter. “This essay describes exactly why I left Greenpeace 33 years ago. They began to describe humans as “The enemies of the Earth”.
The Greens are the enemies of all life on earth. Except then it is just a great wet ball of rock as all life on earth is made entirely from CO2.
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It’s interesting and sad hearing of the large number of people who seem to now die from sudden death, at young ages.
I’m sure this didn’t happen much before the era of compulsory covid “vaccines”.
But, of course, “nothing to see here”.
Note to Leftists: please keep taking extra doses of the same experimentsl covid vaccines you keep pushing on the rest of us. You should be up to your sixth or seventh by now, if not, get to it!
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I’m afraid that, just like blaming climate change on CO2 with no supporting evidence, the increase in excess deaths will be blamed on Covid itself, not the vaccines. And just like the evil CO2, contrary research will be ignored and/or disputed endlessly, its advocates punished.
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Western Australian man’s $580k live savings disappears from Ubank account
A Western Australian man is terrified he has lost his life savings – a whopping $580,000 – after he received two unexpected emails from his bank that the entire amount had been withdrawn and his account closed.
Yet Bruce, who did not want his surname used, never authorised any transaction and has no idea where his money has gone – adding he can’t get any answers from the “space cadets” running the Ubank customer service line.
Ubank has confirmed to news.com.au that the emails are legitimate and are not a scam.
Bruce is worried the stress of the experience could have serious health consequences as he has spent at least 20 hours on the phone to Ubank trying to get an answer.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/banking/western-australian-mans-580k-live-savings-disappear-from-ubank-account/news-story/d4ba3f60cf0ebbdecdd1f2ed88188afd
My bank doesn’t allow such transactions short of my going into a branch personally, but clearly there’s too many banks that do.
Yet another warning to the masses…
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Aussies Vote Ad Industry Least Trustworthy When It Comes To Data Breaches & Cyber Security
More than nine in 10 Australians (92 per cent) want someone to be held liable when an Australian company is breached in a cyber attack, and one in two Australians want that person to be a board director or a C-suite executive, according to the latest research from Palo Alto Networks.
The study also found that Aussies regard the advertising industry as the least trustworthy when it came to handling data breaches and cyber security.
Conducted by Savanta, the research found that 50 per cent of Australians thought board directors or C-suite executives should be liable for their companies suffering a cyber attack, compared to only 44 per cent believing that frontline tech workers should be held responsible.
Seven in 10 Australians believe not enough corporate leaders in Australia are held personally accountable after data breaches occur at their organisations, while 67 per cent believe leaders should face fines and jail time where they have not taken reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information.
https://www.bandt.com.au/study-aussies-vote-ad-industry-least-trustworthy-when-it-comes-to-data-cyber-security/
Start with those lame insecure banks…
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Russia Ramping Up Production of ‘Most Powerful’ Weapons: Medvedev
Russia’s ex-president Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday the country was ramping up production of new-generation weapons to protect itself from enemies in Europe, the United States, and Australia.
“We are increasing production of the most powerful means of destruction. Including those based on new principles,” Medvedev said on messaging app Telegram.
“Our enemy dug in not only in the Kyiv province of our native Malorossiya,” Medvedev said, using the term to describe territories of modern-day Ukraine that were part of the Russian Empire under the tsars.
“It is in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and a whole number of other places that pledged allegiance to the N#zi.”
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2022/12/12/russia-ramping-production-weapons/
Which is what I warned would happen if Oz engaged in the USA’s proxy war via Ukraine.
Oz is now a major cyber target.
Congratulations idiots in gubermint.
Got cash?🙄
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Apparently I’ve just chipped-in to another NZ$3 million – on top of $56 million already gifted – to the Dark Lord Volod, c/- the Red Princess’ Labour Government (Jacinda and her queens).
Parliament rose ‘and applauded’ Lord Volod after he appeared via technical wizardry here in NZ today, begging for more ‘funds for weapons’ to stop ‘ecocide’ – wait, what? –
Volodymyr v Vladimir
Osama v Obama
‘Tis almost a repeating pattern…
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Thats what Hitler told the german people in January 1945. Bt may everything was Kaput.
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The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
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I had an account with UBank that was closed on or around October 24 and replaced with a new account with NAB. The change occurred seamlessly and with no problems. If he hasn’t already done so Bruce should contact NAB on 13 10 12
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I hope someone tells Bruce.
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People who skipped their COVID vaccine are at higher risk of traffic accidents, according to a new study
If you passed on getting the COVID vaccine, you might be a lot more likely to get into a car crash.
Or at least those are the findings of a new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine. During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers examined the encrypted government-held records of more than 11 million adults, 16% of whom hadn’t received the COVID vaccine.
They found that the unvaccinated people were 72% more likely to be involved in a severe traffic crash—in which at least one person was transported to the hospital—than those who were vaccinated. That’s similar to the increased risk of car crashes for people with sleep apnea, though only about half that of people who abuse alcohol, researchers found.
The excess risk of car crash posed by unvaccinated drivers “exceeds the safety gains from modern automobile engineering advances and also imposes risks on other road users,” the authors wrote.
https://fortune.com/well/2022/12/13/covid-unvaccinated-greater-risk-car-crash-traffic-accident-new-study-says-canada-government-records-pfizer-moderna/
Had to laugh at that pure garbage.
I am, coincidentally, seeing a significant increase (post vaxx) in people passing out while driving with obvious consequences.
Maybe their shoelaces were too tight.(lame medical excuse #82)
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In Germany, putative vaccine-induced causes of sudden death tripled after vaccine rollout
from Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Association of Physicians and Surgeons
..there are 6 codes on death certificates that correspond to “sudden deaths”—unexpected events that happened acutely and resulted in rapid demise.
Use of these codes jumped roughly 2-3 times from their 5 year average (even including the year of severe COVID (2020) in the five year average) in 2021, when the COVID vaccines began rolling out. The data are consistent for all 5 quarters in 2021-2022 for which data are available. The vaccines are killing us. Not COVID. Simply look at the data or the press conference (in German) where they were discussed..
Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), which insures 72 million lives. Remember that if actuaries, in contrast to public health authorities, make a mistake, they and the companies they work for face consequences—including bankruptcy.
Just after the rollout of COVID-19 injections, there was a sharp, unprecedented spike in unexpected deaths, a 1,000% increase. The KBV denies a causal relationship to vaccination. The cause for the deaths is unknown, but it is not COVID-19. Authorities have not yet done appropriate studies to investigate a possible vaccine connection.
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/in-germany-putative-vaccine-induced
Cue Dr McHonk-Honk…
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Florida will hold the medical establishment accountable by:
• Creating a grand jury to investigate mRNA shots & Big Pharma
• Investigating cardiac-related deaths tied to the mRNA vaccine
• Forming a Public Health Integrity Committee to oversee the medical establishment
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) December 13, 2022
DO THE SAME HERE!!
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Members of our government and senior public serpents are incapable of independent thought or action and are fanatical followers of “the narrative”.
They are the nightmare products of the dumbed-down education system.
There will no investigation unless a member of their own family dies and even then they probably won’t care as most of them are psycophaths.
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“Members of our government and senior public serpents are incapable of independent thought or action ”
No thought or energy required – thyey could just follow Florida
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This morning’s update via Coffee and Covid newsletter on what Florida is doing –
” Convene a statewide criminal Grand Jury to investigate crimes and fraud committed against Floridians related to the covid-19 vaccines. I am NOT making that up!
Establish a “Public Health Integrity Committee,” overseen by its Harvard-trained Surgeon General, which will assess all federal public health recommendations and guidance, to ensure that Florida’s public health policies are good for Florida. In other words, we’re not slavishly following the CDC anymore.
Work with medical examiners to study autopsy results of all Floridians who died suddenly after receiving the covid-19 vaccine. The state will also work with the University of Florida to compare its research to studies from other countries.
Introduce a new bill over the next few weeks designed to protect physicians’ independent judgment, their First Amendment rights, and their independent right to dissent from orthodox narratives.”
And it is being done in a manner to stymie the usual tactics for rabbit holing such measures and results from public knowledge
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And around that territory
“CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) – A combination of Moderna Inc’s (MRNA.O) experimental melanoma vaccine and Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) blockbuster immunotherapy Keytruda cut the risk of skin cancer’s recurrence or death by 44% compared with Keytruda alone in a mid-stage trial.”
BUT
“It’s right here and proves mRNA is so profoundly dangerous that it has no place in healthy individuals, ever, under any circumstance.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247621
More at
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A BUT on that Florida campaign
“Campaign Team Behind Ron DeSantis Organize Political Stunt via State Grand Jury to Exploit Vaccine Controversy for 2024 “Win With Ron” Platform
December 14, 2022 | sundance | 131 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/campaign-team-behind-ron-desantis-organize-political-stunt-via-state-grand-jury-to-exploit-vaccine-controversy-for-2024-win-with-ron-platform/
Market Ticker has listed some where what was done in Florida headlines didn’t actually happen
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JC II, Thanks for posting the link above.
Ok All.. I have read the journal report and I am not happy.
Studies always need to be evaluated and reviewed.
In my professional career as a Fire Rescue Officer,
Stupidity, incompetence, distraction, bad decision/s, fatigue, substance abuse and peer pressure are the leading causes of motor vehicle accidents.
The problem I have is that the published study may be looking specifically at whether one involved in a mva is vaxxed or unvaxxed.
Not the real cause.
An example.
An unvaxxed person is driving a car and is distracted by replying to a text on their mobile phone.
Their car drifts to the opposite side of the road.
A vehicle carrying 3 unvaxxed people are oncoming in the opposite direction.
A head on vehicle crash occurs.
The researchers find from the
coronial, hospital and medical reports that 4 unvaxxed people were involved in the MVA.The researchers will rightly conclude that this accident was caused by and involved unvaxxed people.
From the American Journal of Medicine website: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(22)00822-1/fulltext#%20
“COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Risk of a Traffic Crash”.
Now this is concerning to me.
“Background
Coronavirus disease (COVID) vaccine hesitancy is a reflection of psychology that might also contribute to traffic safety. We tested whether COVID vaccination was associated with the risks of a traffic crash.”
The statement above shows that they have a predjudice in findings before the data is studied.
I’ll let them reiterate: “Vaccine hesitancy is a reflection of psychology that might also contribute to traffic safety”
So how do they do their statistical analysis?
“Statistical Analysis
The main analysis evaluated emergency visits for individuals injured in traffic crashes. The primary comparison used the chi-square test to analyze those who had not received a COVID vaccine relative to those who had received a COVID vaccine.”
Note that statement above. All that are hospitalised due to a MVA are counted. Not just the driver at cause.
This is a major flaw in the study.
Why?
A vaxxed driver could cause an accident involving another driver who is unvaxxed.
The unvaxxed driver (and unvaxxed passengers) are admitted to hospital whilst the vaxxed driver suffers no serious injuries requiring hospitalisation.
The driver at cause is not included in their study figures. As they only count those that are hospitalised!
The data is corrupted!
Seriously they need to research and study the actual cause of an accident.
I suggest the well credentialed researchers take the time to look at the available Emergency Service and Coronial reports for cause.
So all, read the report.
I did.
I conclude that their study is biased to pharma, government agency and a planned finding. Their study is a joke.
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The psycho-babblers are ramping up their entirely anti-scientific campaign to “sedate or negate” all non-conformists and other enemies of the “narrative”..
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I drive now, beeing 70, around 50 years different cars, never had am accident, not vaxxed, had corona last month over 4 days and will now be in car crash risk, because of a psychological harm ?
I’ll tell you who has a psychological harm, these crazy researchers publishing such a BS 😀
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will x,
I sense a bit of Richard Feynman in your comment. 👍
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Real or relative risk?
If [wild guess] 0.005% of DRIVERS have a serious accidents per year the unvaxxed’s risk rises to a staggering 0.01%
I just can’t risk driving until I get the jab.
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What a load of rubbish. And of course Lockdowns didn’t cause more suicides did it or people to lose their business’s and then suicide? How about some research on that our Guv’ment?
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Could it be that the unvaccinated were out and about more, while the vaxed cowered at home.
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“Canadian Research Group Finds Unvaccinated People More Likely to Have Severe Car Accidents – Paving Way for Insurance Rate Hikes for Unvaccinated
December 14, 2022 | sundance | 269 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/canadian-research-group-finds-unvaccinated-people-more-likely-to-have-severe-car-accidents-paving-way-for-insurance-rate-hikes-for-unvaccinated/
Hmmm! I wonder who funded that?
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Hor Germans can stay toasty warm this winter
The Namibian government has introduced a new favorable visa for Germans who want to escape the threat of blackouts this winter.
Namibia, a former German colony in the southwest of Africa, has pledged to accept any Germans struggling to pay the spiraling energy costs in the country who wish to migrate, insisting there is “no upper limit” to those wanting to escape the cost-of-living crisis.
The country’s president, Hage Gottfried Geingob, welcomed Germany’s Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck to Windhoek this week, and told German officials Namibia has ample space to host as many Germans who wanted refuge from the inflation encapsulating Europe.
The African country has introduced a new visa specifically for German citizens who can now live in Namibia for up to six months, where they can work remotely and feel at home with affordable living costs as they wait for Europe’s winter of discontent to blow over.
“You Germans are very welcome to us!” Nangula Uuandja, the CEO of the Namibian Investment Promotion and Development Board, told Germany’s Bild newspaper.
https://rmx.news/germany/namibia-trolls-germany-by-offering-safety-for-german-energy-refugees-amid-cost-of-living-crisis/
Trolling at its finest.😎
Why not get everyone in the EU to go, not just Germany, and leave their countries to the
freebies-chasing illegal immigrantsmigrants.Their countries and cultures are toast now anyway.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-14/nasa-rover-mars-captures-very-first-sound-of-dust-devil/101771710
Apparently we now know what a dust devil sounds like on Mars (spoiler it sounds the same as here) which in fact is a remarkable feat considering the atmosphere of Mars is about 0.088 PSI or <1% of Earth
Remember
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Nah, it’s proof of life.
https://youtu.be/PPlx62IK9kg
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Wednesday entertainment – cats have slaves
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rmqmo5Hub51w5pr9j.mp4
Trade-in on a dog imminent. 😆
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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
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When you have to listen to a leftie…
https://64.media.tumblr.com/bf1db33233b87ecc9eb8eaaaaf59b8aa/tumblr_nthfxaDYiM1us2fiio1_400.gif
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FEED ME. !!!!
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Apparently Airhead Occupying Congress, sorry, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a climate change documentary.
It debuted in movie theaters over the weekend, generating an abysmal $80 per theater.
The new film, “To the End“, was filmed over four years and follows four young women, Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas, as they attempt to pass sweeping climate change legislation in Congress.
The documentary debuted on over 120 screens over the weekend but garnered less than $10,000 dollars across all theaters, coming in 33rd place overall for box office.
h/t The Gateway Pundit
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UK is not well adapted to dealing with snow. The latest snow fall created some interesting situations:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20725291/school-closures-today-live-snow-uk/
So far, the power grid appears to be coping.
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Fact checked, not a joke.
New York Times names Sen. John Fetterman amongst the year’s most stylish people.
https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/new-york-times-mocked-for-naming-john-fetterman-among-the-years-most-stylish-people/
SEE LINK FOR REST
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Note- things to get right before the next pandemic is released-
*Countries should prioritize efforts to increase trust in government and public health; improve public health communication efforts; increase the resiliency of populations to misleading information; and reduce the spread of harmful misinformation.- Countries need to collaborate to anticipate that threat and prepare to combat it with their own laws and procedures.
*Countries should establish a global network of professional public health leaders who can work together to improve epidemic preparedness and response and strive for consensus on scientific issues in advance of the next major outbreak.- Political leaders, who are entrusted with keeping their citizens safe, could benefit from consensus views offered by such a group
Keep quiet and do as you’re told… Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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“The Biden administration passes a $40 Billion dollar aid package for Ukraine. Buried within that spending bill are an additional $50 million dollars appropriated for for the Department of Defense for “Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.” Why is the Department of Defense spending $50 Million dollars on research inside of an active war zone? ”
Its a Youtube, which I never watch- I can’t understand why people these days can’t write information instead of their pathetic attempts to become famous film stars.
https://sovren.media/video/ukrainian-bio-labs-funding-2212.html
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Would you prefer a computer model?
This war will modify every country’s defence budget. The US Marines have already stopped new spend on tanks. They are finding out, real time, how wise that decision.
My take is that air supremacy is still the No 1 goal. Neither side has it and without it NATO will not commit ground support A/C such as the A10 in support of Ukraine.
The US’s rapid air supremacy over Iraq in Desert Storm was text book in its clinical destruction of opposing forces. Interesting watching, alone, late at night. Baghdad was the most contested airspace in the world. F117 Nighthawks penetrated those defences and took out high value targets with precision arms.
If Russia commits one [more] totally inexcusable war crime and NATO reacts, F 35s will rule the skies and Warthogs will rule the battlefield. F18 Wild Weasels will control SAMs.
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“F 35s will rule the skies and Warthogs will rule the battlefield. F18 Wild Weasels will control SAMs….” and then he woke up as the sun streamed into his bedroom.
Oh wait, THAT’S not the sun, its a mushroom cloud.
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The sky is falling!
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Okay, weirdness on too many levels to mention.
As hard bitten military guys, you would expect them to be ….. Real Men, eh!
When the WRAAF’s got their new all singing all dancing state of the art modern and latest design living quarters at Williamtown in the mid 70’s, their old ancient living quarters suddenly became very attractive. Here was a living quarters, positively ancient, and in dire need of replacement, which happened, and with no thought to demolition. Instead 77Sqn got a number of requests from the living in members, and applied to have it designated as living in quarters for their airmen. Odd request, wonder why that came about was the thinking, but hey, let’s approve it, because it puts off demolition for a few more years, three in fact.
The thing was it had a designated recreation room, large carpeted, and nice, with an attached kitchenette, single showers and toilets, and of the most importance, single rooms with lockable doors, and as ancient as it was, THAT was what made it attractive.
So, 40 of us moved in. The kitchenette was a boon we had never had, and after installing a few couches and comfortable chairs in the Rec room, and one of those new fangled colour teles, we all gathered as a group after stand down and mess, and we all had a rollicking good time, large fridge for the beer, and life was good.
Okay, here’s the oddity. After a year or so of living there, one of the TV programs we watched as a group, (umm, other than Countdown, Python, and The Goodies) was ….. ‘All Creatures Great And Small’. Who would believe it? Each week there would be ten of us waiting for each new episode. We loved it, and there was no qualms about it. That was no vote on what to watch, and in fact the most attended TV show of the week.
Okay, scroll forward almost 50 years to now. The BEEB has revived All Creatures Great And Small, and hey, any new revival is never as good as the original. Only this one actually is as good, and evidently, it is more popular than the original. Even though the story lines are all familiar, it is worth watching. I stumbled across it, and then used one of the streaming services to watch all episodes so far.
The housekeeper has an estranged son, (long story) and in the episode where they are reunited fleetingly for a few hours, we find out that he has joined the NAVY at the outbreak of WW2, and there he is, is his uniform with his cap badge designating that he is crew on HMS Repulse.
Now, I know the history of Repulse and Prince Of Wales Off Malaya in late 41, so there’s tragedy in the offing here.
Anyway, it made me think of Singapore ….. and Raffles …… and the British at that time, early 1940s before the fall, and like I said at the top, ….. so many levels.
My good lady is subject to cramps, and her GP from many many many years back prescribed Quinate, which is Quinine based. (Hmm! Sound familiar) Stopped the cramps flat, immediately, and I was always suspicious, until I actually tried it. Now, in the times of Coronavirus, Quinine based meds are all of a sudden ….. no good for you, so our current GP, when asked to re-prescribe Quinate has mentioned that it is related to other things, and, umm, he, umm, won’t prescribe it for us any more.
So, oddly, I have started (around a year back now) having a small bottle of Schweppes Indian Tonic Water before retiring for the night, and it’s so refreshing, and also a source, albeit small, of Quinine.
Anyway, the fall of Singapore etc. The Brit population gathered for Gin and Tonic in Singapore especially, and evidently, that was recommended, as a minor source of Quinine for help with the alleviation of Malaria.
So, thinking that G&T was a, well, ladies drink only, I, umm , wondered about adding Gin to my my Indian Tonic Water.
Okay, that seems to be a long term secret they have kept all these years, as it is a seriously nice drink.
Like I said right at the top ….. soooooo many different levels.
Tony.
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Tony – Grapefruit naturally contains Quinine so if your good lady likes Grapefruit…
You can also buy capsules on eBay, filter results for Oz sellers/stock.
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Be aware, grapefruit shouldn’t be taken with certain meds (hbp). I really love grapefruit but can’t have it, except for a tiny sliver once in a rare blue moon. A pity, as we have lovely grapefruit trees here.
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Check other fruits and juices.
It is not just grapefruit, but that gets 97% of the attention.
[My wife was warned about this.]
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Link please? 🙂
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After a hard day of manual work I occasionally get cramp at night, so I might swap my 6pm ginger wine for a G & T. I know putting salt back in my diet certainly helped.
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After a hard day of manual work I can also get violent cramps, usually across the knee.
I tried salt and other anti-crampers to no effect. Then was reminded that magnesium also has a role.
My quick and dirty antidote is now a mix of about 3 teaspoons epsom salts to one of sugar. About half a teaspoon of that mix in not a lot of water, swilled around in the mouth for a while before swallowing.
Supposedly magnesium is not readily available from epsom salts but relief of the cramp from that dose is pretty immediate that way.
Definitely doesn’t taste as nice as a G & T but less preparation time.
YMMV.
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It must be two years Dr Hanrahan recommended a BBQ steak [Zn], a G&T [quinine and a relaxant – no worries] and lazing by the pool, [D3].
That wasn’t a bad start. 🙂
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Tony,
Magnesium can be a cramps solution. Works for me and others I know.
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Me too. Sometimes magnesium cream can work better than tablets.Amazing (scary) what skin absorbs.
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“Amazing (scary) what skin absorbs.’
Thinking of sun cream with all sorts of minerals and exotic organic compounds in…
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I recall watching a segment in a news/current affairs programme back in the UK, many years ago, in which an ‘expert’ explained that all the ‘miracle creams’ being sold for this and that won’t work because the skin doesn’t absorb anything. Even at the time (maybe thirty years ago?) I was sceptical, because one of my responsibilities at that time was safe use and handling of chemicals used in the assembly room of a mass spec company, in the course of which I learned how dangerous even splashes onto exposed skin could be.
Then, as now, media companies could always find an expert willing to push, and lend credibility to, any particular story.
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Might be time to mention the links between Vitamin D, magnesium and Vitamin K that have been mentioned here on earlier threads
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Update: Ectolife – video. AI controlled birthing pods
https://youtu.be/O2RIvJ1U7RE
Ooohhh..and you can control the music your baby hears via your dumbphone. 🙄
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New insights into the harms of taking medicines at the wrong time of day
Tobias Eckle, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, has been studying the relationship between circadian rhythms and drug efficacy for several years. Referred to as chronotherapy, this field of study looks to home in on how a human body responds to drugs at different times in our 24-hour circadian cycles.
Eckle said just four of the 50 most commonly used medicines in the United States have directions recommending they be taken at a specific time of the day. And there are two key reasons why doctors don’t direct patients to take drugs at certain times.
“First, many physicians are not aware that some drugs work better during a specific time of the day,” explained Eckle in an article for The Conversation. “And second, most drugs have not been studied for possible different effects during a 24-hour cycle. As such, patients are directed to take most drugs during the morning or evening primarily to ensure compliance.”
Another compelling study investigated immune system activity and circadian cycles, wondering whether common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) could negatively affect bone healing if taken at the wrong time. That research strikingly found that over-the-counter pain medicines may actually slow the rate of bone healing if taken late in the evening.
“We performed a large dataset analysis and demonstrated that administering midazolam is associated with an increased risk of myocardial injury in non-cardiac surgery when surgeries occurred at night and in healthier patients,” Eckle said. “That suggests midazolam interferes with the circadian system in humans.”
The analysis divided surgical procedures between day (6 am to 6 pm) and night (6pm to 6am). In healthy patients, the results were stark, with those patients given midazolam during night surgeries three times more likely to suffer heart damage.
https://theconversation.com/timing-matters-for-medications-your-circadian-rhythm-influences-how-well-treatments-work-and-how-much-they-might-harm-you-194906
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Plastic Rain Is a Now a Thing, And We’ve Underestimated Just How Heavy It Is
A plastic mist descends from the sky each day. You can’t see it. Or feel it. It has no smell or taste. But researchers think we are seriously underestimating the invisible downpour.
New estimates by a team of scientists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand suggest an average of nearly 5000 microplastic particles settles on every square meter of Auckland’s urban rooftops on any given day.
That dusting adds up to around 74 metric tons of plastic each year, equivalent to about three million plastic bottles.
That gobsmacking amount is much, much more plastic than was recently calculated to be drifting down on London, Hamburg, or Paris. A study in 2020 estimated an average of just 771 microplastic particles falling onto the same-sized patch in London.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean London is six times less polluted by airborne plastics than Auckland. After all, it’s a much bigger city and located in a far less remote part of the world.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c05850
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U.S. Government Planned ‘Lockdown and Wait for Vaccine’ in 2007: New Evidence
Leaked documents reveal what the ‘conspiracy theorists’ had said all along.
Lockdown Sceptics have today published an astonishing piece revealing that the US Government had planned ‘lockdown until a vaccine arrived’ way back in 2007, some 12 years before Covid mysteriously emerged.
Will Jones reports:
More and more evidence is coming to light that the ‘lockdown and wait for a vaccine’ strategy unleashed in 2020 was being cooked up inside the U.S. Government for decades before COVID-19 appeared and gave too many people an excuse to put the dreadful plan into action.
Recently the role of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) in producing key lockdown guidance for America in March 2020 came to light. Now, a pandemic plan from 2007 produced by the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) and currently hosted on the CISA website has emerged.
The plan contains the original list of pandemic ‘essential businesses’ that was used by CISA in 2020 to lock down America. The 2007 plan (which was itself based on a Department of Homeland Security plan from the previous year) clearly states the intention to ban large gatherings “indefinitely”, close schools and non-essential businesses, institute work-from-home, and quarantine exposed and not just sick individuals. The aim is simple and clear: to slow the spread to wait for a vaccine.
Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted. Strong political and public health leadership to provide reassurance and to ensure that needed medical care services are provided are critical elements. If either is seen to be less than optimal, a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/u-s-government-planned-lockdown-and-wait-for-vaccine-in-2007-new-evidence
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On Wednesday 14th, Victoria recorded the lowest ever recorded December temperature of -5.3C.
Northern hemisphere is primed to set new snowfall records for the next 8,000 years and Southern Hemisphere new cold records for the next 9,000 years.
Probably a few centuries away from sea level falling again though.
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…the situation is now very well and truly, ‘on the petri dish’..
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Out of bed at 6:00 am. First thing I looked at was the combustion heater. Still had a glow so more wood. The comfort of mans earliest modern convenience is so easy to enjoy.
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“is so easy to enjoy.”
Chopping wood on really cold mornings, ok when you are young..
But for us “more aged” … its becomes a major chore. !
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It is not only the cutting for the appliance – you may also have to go out and get the bulk wood to cut.
I noticed that when we went from wood in the kitchen to gas that I had a lot more time for other outside jobs that could be just as warming.
Though we still have wood heat for winter.
The usual firewood is poplar box which is dirty timber by the time it becomes firewood so not good for chainsaws. OK if you have access to a circular saw but we don’t.
One day I was cutting a river gum log out of a flood fence and remembered that they used it to fire paddle steamers. So I gave it a try and it is ok in the wood heater.
And even better for getting as it doesn’t have the dirt of poplar box and is mostly straight grained so splits easily with an axe.
Even better now the boys have built an hydraulic splitter.
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I am not sure if its “sadly or gladly” that I suffer from Peter Pan syndrome. While the chronology suggests that I will shortly enter my eighth decade my little boys brain keeps telling me I can do these things (whether I can or not ). I don’t do the big loads in one go any more and I whinge a lot about aches and pains but hell give it a go.
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Sambar,
Fear not. Be assured that a key indicator in the male tackle box works well as ever to at least the 90s. Unless your worry about failure causes failure.
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$55 USD for a million BTUs of Natural Gas in California? While the Texas Permian Basin is at zero dollars?
Not enough pipelines. . . (But plenty of renewables. . . )
https://rbnenergy.com/wild-wild-west-gas-price-blowouts-signal-worsening-westbound-supply-constraints
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I hope Melbournistanis are enjoying their glo-bull warming.
I know it’s just weather but not climate.
But the Bureau of Meterology’s obsession with fraudulently adjusting historic temperature data to give the appearance of warming when we may in fact, and likely are, cooling will have a devastating impact in many ways.
Plus didn’t anyone ever tell the propagandists (not real scientists) at The Bureau that a fundamental principle of scientific data collection is that you NEVER alter raw data.
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In Australia, I reckon the true rate of inflation is closer to 30%, not the 7.3% claimed by government.
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There is a rule of thumb going around that the actual rate is around 3 – 3.5 official
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My home brew batch is 120 l – i.e. 5 brew cans + 5 kg white sugar + 2 packs of crown seals.
From the last batch to the current one the “cost of living” has gone up about $10.
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I don’t know what the actual figure is, but it’s clearly waaay higher than 7.3%. As usual, some commodities have increased more than others.
One of particular importance and frustration to me currently is the cost of travel, because having recently retired, we had long-standing plans to spend our hard-accumulated savings on just that. First however, along came Covid to scupper everything and now, with most restrictions eased, the cost is simply astronomical, especially flights and accommodation. We just completed ten days in port Douglas and the flights from Brisbane were more than double what we used to pay. Finding accommodation at less than double the old cost was a challenge too, resulting in our having to stay in a resort rather than a self-catering holiday home, which is our usual preference. The cost of a half-decent holiday home is outrageous these days, no matter how you book it (with AiBnB perhaps the worst).
I also need to replace my car but there’s absolutely no way I’m paying the ransoms currently demanded. And believe it or not, some dealers expect you to place an order, wait six months or more for delivery, then pay whatever price they ask when it arrives!
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Consensus
Ninety seven percent of Aztec priests believed that human sacrifice was necessary to end bad weather.
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Look up “Percy’s Powder” for an interesting mineral mix for general health, includes magnesium, selenium etc . Cannot harm, does good.
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H P,
Please be very careful, preferably abandon this brew and rely on normal food. Selenium harms people above about 1 milligram by mouth.
When at CSIRO years ago, we killed a few sheep while studying the toxicity of Neptunia amplexicaulis, a native pasture plant around Winton Qld. This plant accumulates Selenium in proteins instead of normal Sulphur. Not nice to see the pain. Geoff S
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Selenomethionine @ 200 mcg , every day for four months has been shown to have no adverse effects .
You mentioned milligrams of selenium. (elemental?)
The blurb accompanying Percy’s Powder is less than reassuring though.
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The daily dose in a sachet is 50 mcg selenium as selenomethionine.
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Yep- didn’t take long. The latest propaganda goblin to scare the sheeple, The Far Right!
“killings a chilling reminder of far-right threat in Australia-
As bombs rain down on Ukraine, Iranian police beat human rights protesters to death and mass shootings occur with tragic regularity in the United States, …”
“Gareth Train, had been an active participant on far-right message boards,…including that the Port Arthur massacre was a false-flag operation.”
Well, read Joe Vialls book about Port Arthur & you’ll see that the Police version is quite incompatible with physics.
” it’s too early to definitively say what motivated the Wieambilla killings.” but we will blame those on the Right of politics because that’s the meme we’re running with these days.. It was all Trump’s fault!
Its too bad for these propagandists that so many conspiracy theories are turning out to be true!
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/wieambilla-killings-a-chilling-reminder-of-far-right-threat-in-australia-20221214-p5c6ac.html
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From today’s Australian Newspaper. Notice Anti-vaxxer reference. Sigh.
WIEAMBILLA SHOOTOUT
Anti-vaxxer cop-killers rigged remote house for ambush
Anti-vax conspiracy theorists who killed two police and a neighbour had rigged their property with a sophisticated surveillance network and possible ‘kill zones’.
By MICHAEL MCKENNA, ELLEN
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Sorry to duplicate Len; I hadn’t refreshed the page since watching the vid of Tucker Carson and Dr Malhotra (well worth watching btw).
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You think that’s bad? How about this disgusting headline in today’s Australian?
“Anti-vaxxer cop-killers rigged remote house for ambush”
It then goes on to say “Anti-vax conspiracy theorists who killed two police and a neighbour with a sophisticated surveillance network and possible ‘kill zones’.
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Annie
Save headlines such as those as potential ammunition and see what comes out of the just announced Florida enquiries.
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A BUT on that Florida campaign though
“Campaign Team Behind Ron DeSantis Organize Political Stunt via State Grand Jury to Exploit Vaccine Controversy for 2024 “Win With Ron” Platform
December 14, 2022 | sundance | 131 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/12/14/campaign-team-behind-ron-desantis-organize-political-stunt-via-state-grand-jury-to-exploit-vaccine-controversy-for-2024-win-with-ron-platform/
Market Ticker is no fan of de Santis and has listed some others where what was done in Florida headlines didn’t actually happen in practice
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Curdling your Christmas
https://youtu.be/i8HT1j5bVmI
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“Via Instapundit: “The Washington Post, which has lost 500k subscribers in the past year, has announced layoffs are coming to the paper. The meeting didn’t go well.” ”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/12/14/learn-to-code-11/
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