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https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/death-and-covid-its-personal
Our collective actions did not save us from impending doom. The COVID years were not a victory.
Instead, our actions cost everyone dearly in terms of their health, well-being, and economic prosperity.
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https://www.freedom-research.org/cp/165150251
And who cares about a tenth of a degree of warming, Lindzen asks. “When somebody says the change of a tenth of a degree, or when (UN Secretary-General António – HS) Guterres says, if it changes a half-degree, we’re finished as a species, this is an existential threat – people have to ask, what the hell are they talking about?”
According to Lindzen, all recent predictions of climate catastrophe have proven false, and future ones will be as well. “2030 will pass. 2050 will pass. Fifty years will pass. There will be no climate catastrophe,” he says.
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Engineers – any uncontrollable function that will respond to whatever you call a problem
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Another more recent interview with a non-consensus scientists on the same channel: https://www.freedom-research.org/p/professor-judith-curry-climate-science
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https://thewest.com.au/business/health/joondalup-midland-hospital-staff-encouraged-to-wear-masks-as-high-flu-and-covid-cases-hit-c-19097966
If you are unfortunate to face a health facility where the staff are being required to mask, explain that you are hard of hearing so for your overall well being, you would prefer that they all remove their masks while involved in your treatment. (I reckon so many are over masks by now that they will give you slightly better treatment and more attention if they can take them off when with you – you might get out quicker!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M4vsO5xJPc – a documentary by Smile Free on the effect of masks in Care settings
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I always made a point of ditching masks for normal deliverys.
Thankfully my Boss didn’t find out until the end of term!
The tiny amount of oral bacteria Vs the soiled perineum-
gimme a break!!!
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Multi-State lawsuit to stop wind-stopping Executive Order inches ahead
https://www.cfact.org/2025/06/23/multi-state-lawsuit-to-stop-wind-stopping-executive-order-inches-ahead/
A circus in slow motion.
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I think that science and diplomacy have a lot in common.
Both have a well educated professional specialist population.
Produced at places like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Georgetown and such.
Both utilize exclusive travel to comfortable well appointed locations where they hold conferences that produce consensus.
Plans like ‘Net Zero’.
And ‘Regime Change’.
It matters not whether these plans produce the intended results.
Nor the costs.
What matters is the quality of the aspirations which are usually based on the quality and status of the aspirants.
Determined by the media, where some of the lesser aspirants go after disappointed aspirations.
Mixed results and failure of predicted outcomes after Regime Change and Net Zero … even after years of massive effort and expenditure?
Naysayers and cynics might say “try something else”.
Not me.
I say “quitters never win”.
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In real science conferences the result is usually disagreement not consensus. This is where the fights occur between rival hypotheses. The fights are hidden from the public.
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I know.
There I go again, kept in the dark for being a public.
Not only that, no press agent, like real science.
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Video;
Topher Field discusses how the Victoriastan Liberal Party loaned John Pesutto $1.5 million to pay the legal expenses of Moira Deeming who he repeatedly defamed, as found by the court.
Also, it’s highly likely Pesutto will lose his seat at the next election anyway so what’s the point? Plus, he’s also on the Left of the already Leftist Liberals (especially the Victoriastan ones) and so it seems to be yet another self-destructive act by them.
Frankly, I think the Victoriastan Liberals, and perhaps all Liberals are quite content to stay in opposition:
1) It’s hard work winning elections and the Liberals that have existing seats are generally safe and on good salaries and conditions and get invited to lots of cocktail parties. It’s a good lifestyle for them.
2) There is little of significance to distinguish Liberal from Labor anyway. Both sides are fanatically committed to Net Zero for a start. That’s the most important issue which decides if Australia will continue to exist as a rich nation or not. And arguably the Government debt is so high, Australia’s future is already seriously comprised. Liberals are not the answer.
Victoriastan Liberals still have this cringeworthy policy from 2022:
And don’t forget they voted with Labor to ban fracking in the State Constitution.
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And in breaking news, Trump announces that Australian politicians may only be weeks away from having functional brains.
Nuke ’em! 😁
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Yesterday TdeF responded to my comment thus:
Australians ought to understand that despite traditionally incompetent governments, through accidents of history, Australia has enjoyed a standard of living way beyond what might be likely due to the incompetence of its governments.
But that is not guaranteed into the future as TdeF’s example of Venezuala shows.
As for Chinese police stations in Australia which he mentioned:
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And when Donald Horne talked about The Lucky Country, this is what he actually said and meant. You never see the full quote:
In 1964:
In 1976 he clarified:
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And Australian police are so loyal to the Chicomms they’ll even fly their flag:
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Now there’s a flag that needs burning.
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There are rumours that a new flag will be flying in Beijing next year, with the fall of the CCP.
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Amazing! The costing up to the Peoples Republic of China is one of the more disturbing features of several of the leaders of our left wing governments in Australia.
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Good catch DM.
The ‘little pinks’ of Box Hill (a fraction of the local community) persuaded the coppers that it was a good idea.
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David – thank you for that information. The existence of the Chinese police operations in this country should have been front and centre in the MSM, but this is the first I have heard about it. Their presence has been reported in OS countries especially in the US, but it is very concerning that was operating here.
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The implications of Net Zero go way beyond “merely” destroying the economy.
Implementation of Net Zero requires massive Government intervention and controls and massive amounts of new laws and restrictions on freedoms and standard of living.
E.g.
– extra taxes on large size motor vehicles further restricting the ability of non-Elites to buy them.
– people being cold and miserable in their homes and businesses.
– restrictions on travel because of high cost and artificially high cost of energy, e.g. Australia’s hidden carbon taxes TdeF talks about.
– more unemployment and poverty due to high energy costs.
– more public serpents to implement the whole Net Zero disaster.
– no or less foreign investment because who wants to invest in a high energy cost country.
– the general lack of economic productivity meaning less taxes are paid and therefore less government services such as police and defence leading to safety and security issues.
Etc..
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FWIW
“STEVE MILLOY: Trump Closes Notorious EPA Lab That Conducted Illegal Human Experiments”
“In 2011, through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I exposed the lab’s illegal experimentation on humans with air pollutants that EPA considers to be deadly. The lab’s central feature is an actual gas chamber into which EPA pumped exhaust from a diesel truck idling outside in a parking lot. You can see a photo of the twisted arrangement here.”
“PM 2.5”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/23/steve-milloy-trump-closes-notorious-epa-lab-that-conducted-illegal-human-experiments/
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FWIW
“BOMBSHELL: Study Reveals Climate Warming Driven by Receding Cloud Cover”
The recent paper by Tselioudis et al., titled “Contraction of the World’s Storm-Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth’s Sunlight Absorption”, is a fascinating—and deeply problematic—addition to the climate science canon. It offers yet another reminder that so-called “settled science” in climate modeling is anything but settled. In fact, it inadvertently illustrates how fragile the predictive power of climate models is, especially when fundamental atmospheric processes like cloud coverage are shown to be both more dynamic and less understood than previously claimed.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/23/bombshell-study-reveals-climate-warming-driven-by-receding-cloud-cover/
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MeAgain
Is it all about half a degree now? I didn’t know that. It gets more and more stupid.
I note that in Canberra the past week or so the temperature range has been around 20 in one day! Minus 7 at night to plus 13 during the day.
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The quote is at 5:41.
What a global mean temperature even is is beyond me… I enjoyed listening to the good Prof – he helped me realise I wasn’t stupid in thinking – what even is that?
Are we even talking the same measurement system for the half a degree – is it Celsius or Fahrenheit?
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Fox News will register as a Foreign Agent…
. . . if Steve Bannon gets his wish.
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FWIW
“Shayrat Redux? Trump’s ‘Invisible’ Fleet Leaves Mirage of ‘Devastation’ in Iran”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/shayrat-redux-trumps-invisible-fleet
And
“US Strike Debacle Iran Hides Uranium Fordow Survives; Trump Wants Regime Change; Russia To Help Iran”
https://rumble.com/v6v7o87-us-strike-debacle-iran-hides-uranium-fordow-survives-trump-wants-regime-cha.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
High farce – somewhere?
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The first link is to absolute garbage Ian.
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Fordow – before and after:
https://x.com/leandroOnX/status/1936820988399780123
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The photos dont texactly proove much of what may have happened underground.
But i wonder why there was no damage to the main surface building ?
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Oh dear, there was zero evidence that any B-2s overflew Iran – So they didn’t. What a load a bullsheeet!
Thats what stealthy planes do. Look at a picture of one again, it’s underside is as flat as a bed-board so cannot reflect any signal back to interrogating RADAR and the underside is all anyone would see when at the height from which they drop penetrating bombs. They say it has the RADAR cross section of a small bird.
And that Alex in the second ir a Russian troll who spends all his time on RT.
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More than likely a FSB operative.
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” They say…”
Those words do a lot of work… They Say it cannot reflect any radar signal back, who’s to know, the Yanks lie, the Israelis lie, the Russians lie…
but just going on how the Yanks have been busted lying about almost everything they’ve said, I wouldn’t believe them to start with!
Stealth is for making a poor radar return on the targeting radar of small missiles and aircraft, not for land-based radar systems where power is not a problem. The Russian and Ukies are using radar to find small drones and artillery shells, so a B2 would make quite a picture.
https://x.com/Doctor_Edge/status/1764794256420438209
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FWIW
“BREAKING: Trump Announces Iran-Israel Ceasefire”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/06/23/breaking-trump-announces-iran-israel-ceasefire-n4941104
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..but not an American-Iran ceasefire?
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In other news, WEF wrestlers agree to Kayfabe their “Fights”
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Super Callous Fascist Risky Experimental Doses
– Mary Poppins II
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During the height (or the depths) of Operation Covert-19 four years ago, some animators (Spitting Image?) portrayed our toothy PM, Comrade Jabcinda, as Ms Poppins singing those very words.
Talking of the WEF, haven’t heard much from its new Dr Evil head, Mr Nestle himself. Wherefore art thou, Oh Odd One?
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Heard somewhere recently that her of the piano key smile was still the most popular politician New Zealand has ever had. Can’t remember where I saw this but somehow I couldn’t believe it was true.
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There has been more memorialising to ‘how fantastic she looked when she met the victims of the Christchurch massacre’ than there has been to the actual victims of the massacre (RIP).
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Bilderberg just finished.
I expect we will hear the new WEF head announced soon.
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Gather around children, it’s drag queen weather report time!
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1937204563758489667
Boyce, using a flamboyant style and frequently calling the audience “honey,” misidentified a high-pressure zone symbol as a hurricane, though the mistake was quickly corrected on air.
Hotter than Mexico’s Yanet Garcia. 😆
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Taking the Darwin Awards up a notch, part 2
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_syb5gvwqok1z23obp_720.mp4
Same guy.😉
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I could do that, except for my fear of heights, water and dying
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Domestically we are told that we live on the land of the various Aboriginal “nations” such as the Yorta Yorta etc. The renaming exercise includes sites such as K’gari (Fraser Island) and Uluru (Ayres Rock) etc.
Internationally we are told that Turkiye (Turkey) and Kiev/Kyviv (pronounced KEE-eev or KEE-v) are the correct spellings/pronunciations to be used going forward.
So why is it that the (cease-fired) conflict in the middle east is between Israel and Iran rather than Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran (transliteration Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran) which is what they became in 1978/79 and continue to officially call themselves? Is this what “they” mean by the separation of church and state?
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Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’
Almost 600 people are expected to die early in the heatwave roasting England and Wales, a rapid analysis has found.
The surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, the scientists said, with temperatures boosted by 2C-4C by the pollution from fossil fuels.
More than 10,000 people died before their time in summer heatwaves between 2020 and 2024, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The government’s preparations to protect people from the escalating impacts of the climate crisis were condemned as “inadequate, piecemeal and disjointed” by official advisers in April.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/21/heatwave-expected-deaths-england-and-wales-analysis
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That’s pretty far-fetched , as a very large proportion of the population of the British isles now originate from places which experience much hotter temperatures. Also, there are many people of Anglo descent living here in Oz and we don’t drop off the twig when summer rolls around every year.
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How did the First Fleeters survive? Mostly Cockneys I believe and I doubt they routinely sunned themselves at Brighton.
❤️ Cockney slang.
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The First Fleeters would have laughed, Britain was still in the grip of a Little Ice Age.
‘Soon after Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, took residence at Fulham Palace in 1788, he recorded that the year was remarkable “for a very severe frost the latter end of the year, by which the Thames was so completely frozen over, that Mrs. Porteus and myself walked over it from Fulham to Putney”. (wiki)
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The 32C heat that will be endured by people in the south-east of England on Saturday will have been made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis, scientists said on Friday.
More likely than what? More likely than it being 10C at that time? Or being 31C? or do they mean that the Climate Crisis means it is a 100 more likely people will endure this heat and that without the climate crisis to prepare them, they would be 100 times more likely not to endure it and die?
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https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/monthlymortalityanalysisenglandandwales/march2023
The leading cause of excess death in England in March 2023 was symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions
If they can’t make it through this Summer, they don’t have a hope in hell of getting through Winter.
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Musk Wants Grok AI To “Rewrite The Entire Corpus Of Human Knowledge”
In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will have “advanced reasoning” and wanted it to be used “to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.”
“Straight out of 1984,” Marcus wrote on X. ”You couldn’t get Grok to align with your own personal beliefs so you are going to rewrite history to make it conform to your views.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/musk-wants-grok-ai-rewrite-entire-corpus-human-knowledge
We need a real AI with access to every secret and classified document ever created by anyone, to know the truth…
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Breaking: A US Federal District Judge has just ordered the Trump Administration to reverse the Ceasefire and Declare War on Iran.
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Link for that?
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Might be an OldOzzie original gag. But if you don’t think he can make up a joke like that then check the Babylon Bee website 😉
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/S is the link
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[In case there’s any doubt, it’s a reply to #22.1 – Raquel.]
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Hmmm… probably.
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‘UK testing a radical plan to refreeze the Arctic
‘The basic physics of removing snow and replacing it with ice is relatively straightforward, but the ethics and engineering are anything but.’ (Oz)
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Just as well they will soon be 100% EVs.
https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/gas-could-spike-to-8-per-gallon-as-two-major-refineries-shut-down-and-thats-not-all-are-the-states-strong-regulations-worth-the-cost
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Is the Beersheba in the news today the same town the Australian Light Horse attacked? I always thought that was in Nth Africa.
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Read all about it
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-charge-of-the-4th-light-horse-brigade-at-beersheba
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A simple post saying ’tis the same town would suffice.
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But that would be “from the horses mouth” wouldn’t it?
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Now I’m confused. I thought it was in Gaza, but Google Maps shows Be’-er Sheva as being in southern Israel, in the Negrev desert.
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I knew it was in the middle of the desert and the horses travelled a long way on minimum water. It is said they could smell the water in the wells.
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They can’t smell the water. Water has no smell. You have to splash some of the water onto the ground. They can smell damp earth.
If it’s in a well then possibly they could smell the damp walls of the well.
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Only half my comment got posted. (?Weird?)
Here’s the missing bit:
If the water was in wells they were possibly smelling the damp walls at the bottom of the well.
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My sincere apologies for asking a simple question.
Seems there ARE dumb questions on this forum.
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I didn’t think it was dumb at all. No apology needed. Very kind of you though. And I agree, there are. Dumb questions are everywhere, even occasionally here.
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Come visit the WW I monument to the light horse and the charge.
It is in Albany.
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‘US politicians who have championed AUKUS have stepped up lobbying efforts with the Trump administration, saying the defence technology pact is “critical” to deterring “Chinese aggression” and urging the White House not to dump it.’ (ABC)
Hmmm …
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FWIW
“Beyond Beyond Meat: Lab Grown Meat Has Now Arrived For Sale In 3 Countries”
“Is this what’s beyond Beyond Meat?
Australia just gave lab-grown meat the official thumbs-up, approving the sale of cultivated Japanese quail and joining the elite global club of… three. That’s right—only Singapore, the U.S., and now Australia are on board with selling meat that’s never had feathers, feet, or a heartbeat, Bloomberg wrote last week.
Sydney-based startup Vow is behind the venture and says it’ll start serving up foie gras, parfait, and other fancy dishes made from quail cells in select restaurants within weeks. This follows a long-overdue tweak to the country’s food standards code, years in the making.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/beyond-beyond-meat-lab-grown-meat-has-now-arrived-sale-3-countries
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FWIW – for the covid record
“Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Rates 43% Higher Than Expected After Covid Vaccination, New Study Finds”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/23/miscarriage-and-pregnancy-loss-rates-43-higher-than-expected-after-covid-vaccination-new-study-finds/
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And
“VINDICATION FOR THE UNVACCINATED?”
https://richardsonpost.com/david-marks/39982/vindication-for-the-unvaccinated/
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https://brownstone.org/articles/when-the-war-came-home/
Our ‘files’ are marked as “potential terrorist” instead.
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Higher than that expected by whom? The manufacturers knew, or expected, so they didn’t test.
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The study looks at the first trimester receiving jab. Very few did this, so there is a very limited study sample.
Not really possible to draw any statistical inference on such a small sample, but a red flag was there. That there was not enough evidence to recommend to all pregnant women is clear.
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Timely post as prompts latest episode of the unfortunate continuing stories that I have shared previously from the dark time, and which continue to become apparent through family and friend contacts and not the newspapers.
Son, who knew whole family through school, attended his good friend’s lunch which was being held for host’s sister who was visiting from overseas. The married friend has a 30month old, bright as a button, aware and developing well while his visiting sister has a 20month old who is exhibiting slow/under development and currently considered at the stage equivalent of a 12month old.
When not being cuddled by the parents he sat quietly on the floor alternately stroking the furniture or floor/rugs. The son’s friend and his wife chose not to participate back then while the sister had taken the shot plus two boosters.
This is a statement of fact from a lunch event and does not suggest or seek to be evidence of anything, instead it is an acknowledgment of the human tragedy that untold families are now carrying.
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And to “coincidentally” reinforce the unknowns of brain issues linked to a certain inoculation this expert “warning” – just read in Daily Mail story headed Experts issue warning that covid vaccine may trigger deadly brain inflammation – after man was struck down by just one jab.
According to the report the case “likely” occurred back in 2021 and diagnosis led to being treated with special drugs to suppress patients immune system for 6 months until his symptoms were under control. Apparently, the man has made “an almost full recovery three years after”.
The equally scary aspect is that apparently a 2023 (2023) study on 65 patients had found AstraZeneca was the most common vaccine brand linked to the reaction accounting for over a third of cases among the 65 patients.
Repeat after me safe and effective, safe and effective, rare, rare, rare, pandemic of the unvaccinated.
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Missed this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36846173/
I was thinking about the Joh files that were being kept on Queenslanders, and how people were able to request their own files when the government changed. This was before FOI / Privacy legislation – I was just pondering what the actual process was then. Pre-internet, so can’t find much now.
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https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2020/11/10/who-does-special-branch-work-now/
Barry Krosch worked in the Special Branch for nine years before being seconded to help with the Fitzgerald Inquiry in the late 80s. Maybe they got Krosch to turn on the Bagman? But what was his reward? Krosch has been awarded a PhD on the subject of the Qld Special Branch but his thesis is impounded (no one can get access).
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The State Police Special Branches kept files on subversives. Most of the Labor/communists would have a file. Bob Carr, the Labor Premier abolished the NSW Special Branch. The other states also abolished their Special Branches when they had imcumbent Labor governments
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FWIW – if anyone is looking for a new toy?
“For Sale: A WWII Japanese Zero Fighter Plane”
https://silodrome.com/japanese-zero-fighter-plane/
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Boom
“In eight days, the United States and Israel eliminated Iran’s nuclear capabilities with minimal civilian casualties. One of the greatest military achievements ever.” — Bill Ackman”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/boom
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