Popular and very centrally located Soho haunt known for its friendly staff and jukebox of 80s and 90s hits. Has a quaint provincial-neighbourhood feel despite its hot location, with outdoor drinking (in a cordoned-off area) overlooking Old Compton St a bonus. A good old-fashioned drinking hangout, with cabaret introduced into the roster in 2012. Gets quite crowded, especially on Saturday nights. On 30 April 1999 a neo-Nazi nail-bombed the pub, having targeted London's black and Bangladeshi communities in the two previous weeks. The explosion killed three Admiral Duncan customers and seriously injured many others. As of September 2020 the pub is shut, presumably owing to the fact that the narrowness of the bar is not COVID-friendly.
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raiderfra Over a year ago
Relaxed atmosphere. Friendly staff
LondonGuy123 Over a year ago
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The Admiral Duncan is the quintessential idea of a British pub but with a mostly gay clientele. The pub is heavily embraced gay culture and is named after the Adm. Duncan who was the one to defeat the Dutch fleet in 1797. This pub has an amazing past and real history in London as it was attacked in 1999 by a neo-Nazi group. Today you can see a chandelier which was hung in memory of those who were injured in this attack so many years ago. This attack paved way for broader relations between local government and police with the gay community and since these grievous actions took place the community has grown into something absolutely beautiful that needs to be seen to believed. This historic day bar is truly one of the must stop locations for any gay tourist in London due to its elaborate history and beautiful atmosphere.
androo Over a year ago
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An important place
This friendly bar is surprisingly attitude free given it's Soho location. The target of a bomb 'in' which several people died, the memorial to them is a bronze sculpture which is suspended from the ceiling 'in' the bar.
Dazcat Over a year ago
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Great Pub
When traveling through London this is a pub in which I always make a stop. Nice staff. Friendly crowd.
DavidRaif Over a year ago
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Small things
They say the best things always comes in small packages, and this is the worlds best, Plus you meet some great guys in here.
Koeiseun Over a year ago
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Nice local pub
Friendly crowd....wish the beer was colder
mascguy Over a year ago
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Loud, fun and cruisy
WillyAm Over a year ago
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Lots of Fun
Friendly bar staff and not to many poesy guys, Monday is Karaoke night which is always a laugh
tfcfan Over a year ago
Loves it
Intimate local feel to this pub
Small bar on Old Compton Street. Good for a drink or two in the evening. Attracts an eclectic crowd. I've never been quite able to see the particular attraction of the place, but it seems to have carved out a niche.
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Boris Johnson has been criticised after he lost his place in a speech to British businesses leaders and referred to the children's cartoon Peppa Pig.
Speaking to the CBI conference, the PM also quoted Lenin and performed an impression of a car.
Halting his speech led to an awkward 21 seconds of apologies and paper shuffling from the Tory leader.
Labour's shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, called the speech "shambolic".
She added: "No one was laughing, because the joke's not funny anymore."
A senior Downing Street source told the BBC: "Business was really looking for leadership today and it was shambolic."
They added there was "a lot of concern inside the building" about Mr Johnson.
"Cabinet needs to wake up and demand serious changes otherwise it'll keep getting worse. If they don't insist, he just won't do anything about it."
A Downing Street spokesperson pointed out that CBI head Tony Danker had welcomed the PM's words on the private sector working with the government.
Mr Johnson's 25-minute speech to assembled business leaders focused on levelling up, but also took some awkward turns as the prime minister tried to fuel enthusiasm for his green industrial revolution.
After saying government "cannot fix everything" and that "the true driver of growth is not government but the energy and dynamism and originality of the private sector", Mr Johnson turned to CBI chief Mr Danker and said: "Yesterday I went, as we all must, to Peppa Pig World."
He asked the audience for a show of hands for who had been to the Hampshire attraction, and after saying "not enough", the PM continued.
"I was a bit hazy about what I would find at Peppa Pig World, but I loved it," he said.
"Peppa Pig World is very much my kind of place.
"It has very safe streets, discipline in schools, a heavy emphasis on mass transit systems I noticed, even if they are a bit stereotypical about Daddy Pig."
Mr Johnson added: "The real lesson for me going to Peppa Pig World... was about the power of UK creativity.
"Who would have believed a pig who looks like... a Picasso like hairdryer, a pig that was rejected by the BBC, would now be exported to 180 countries and theme parks both in America and China, as well as in the New Forest and be a business worth at least £6bn to this country and counting.
"I think that is pure genius don't you? No government in the world, no Whitehall civil servant, would have conceivably come up with Peppa."
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said: "Businesses are crying out for clarity. Instead, all they got was Boris Johnson rambling on about Peppa Pig.
"It is a perfect metaphor for Johnson's chaotic, incompetent government as it trashes our economy, but it is not worthy of a British prime minister."
During the section in the speech on electric cars, accompanied by a potted history of his career as a motoring correspondent, Mr Johnson launched into a seemingly well-practised impression of a car.
"[Electric vehicles] may not burble like sucking doves," he said. "And they may not have that 'vrrrom vrrrom raaah raaah' that you like.
"But they have so much torque that they move off the lights faster than a Ferrari."
The PM then moved onto his personal 10 point plan to support businesses going greener in the future.
But he made an ambitious jump when he appeared to compare himself to Moses as he "came down from [Mount] Sinai and [told] my officials [about] the new 10 commandments" - pledges including more investment in wind power and hydrogen technologies.
That was still less of a surprise than a Conservative prime minister, known for his quotations, turning to a Russian revolutionary to drive his point home.
"Lenin once said that the Communist Revolution was Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country," he told the crowd.
"Well, I hesitate to quote Lenin before the Confederation of British Industry, but the coming industrial revolution is green power plus the electrification of the whole country."
'Forgive me'
After urging people back to office, saying there were "reasons why Mother Nature does not like working from home", the PM then lost his place in his speech
What followed was 21 seconds of silence, filled with the occasional mumble of "forgive me" and much ruffling of papers.
But he returned to his script to talk about building up skills and the government's Integrated Rail Plan, which despite a raft of critical coverage, he claimed it would be "transformatory".
After questions on other issues of the day - the government's announcements on rail, and criticism of plans for the social care cap - Mr Johnson left the stage.
But later, before heading back to Downing Street, the PM gave an interview to a reporter, who simply asked: "Is everything OK?"
Mr Johnson said he thought people had "got the vast majority of the points" he wanted to make and that the speech "went over well".
Watch: The prime minister is asked if he's OK after talking about Peppa Pig in a speech to business leaders
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The Ancient Egyptians were the first civilization to create a calendar which organised the year into 365 days and the days into 24 hours. The ancient civil Egyptian calendar, known as the Annus Vagus or "Wandering Year". The Ancient Egyptian astrologers had long studied the stars which helped them in forecasting the seasons of flood and sowing which was vital to the prosperity of Egypt. The astronomers identified the planets in the solar system and also took great interest in the stars.
The brightest star in the Egyptian sky was Sirius. Sirius disappeared for a 70 day period and reappeared on the eastern horizon on July 19th which also coincided with the Nile floods. This was therefore the date of New Year's Day for the Ancient Egyptians. The Ancient Egyptians had a great interest in the passing of time and how this effected vital events such as the annual flooding of the Nile. The Ancient Egyptian calendar initially started with a lunar calendar.
Egyptian Lunar Calendar
The Ancient Egyptian Lunar calendar was organised into 12 lunar months and 354 days which were divided into three seasons consisting of four calendar months for each season and based on the cycle of the moon. A similar lunar calendar was in use in Babylonia. The Egyptians placed great importance on the sun and the astronomers realised that the solar year was 365 days.
The religion of the Ancient Egyptians focussed on the sun which determined the patterns of the seasons, as opposed to the moon, and a solar calendar was developed.
Egyptian Solar Calendar
The Ancient Egyptian calendar is believed to date back to the 3rd Millennium BC which spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age. The Ancient Egyptian calendar and year was divided as follows:
10 days = 1 week
3 weeks = 1 month
4 months = 1 season
3 seasons + 5 holy days = 1 year
The 5 holy days were dedicated the gods Osiris, Isis, Horus, Seth and Nephthys. To measure the hours in a day the Ancient Egyptians used a water clock. The Ancient Egyptian calendar was known to be imperfect as the true solar calendar has an extra quarter of the day. This discrepancy was eventually addressed by the Romans who introduced the 'leap year'.
Ancient Egyptian Calendar
Each section of this Egyptian website addresses all topics and provides interesting facts and information about the Golden Age of Egypt. The Sitemap provides full details of all of the information and facts provided about the fascinating subject of Egypt, the Ancient Egyptians and of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, King Tut.


BUGS performs MCMC updating one scalar parameter at a time, Stan uses HMC which moves in the entire space of all the parameters at each step
Differences in tuning during warmup
The Stan language is directly executable, the BUGS modeling language is not
Differences in statement order
Stan computes the gradient of the log density, BUGS computes the log density but not its gradient
Both BUGS and Stan are semi-automatic
Licensing
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35.2 Some differences in the modeling languages
35.3 Some differences in the statistical models that are allowed
35.4 Some differences when running from R
35.5 The Stan community
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35.2 Some differences in the modeling languages
The BUGS modeling language follows an R-like syntax in which line breaks are meaningful. Stan follows the rules of C, in which line breaks are equivalent to spaces, and each statement ends in a semicolon. For example:
y ~ normal(mu, sigma);
and
for (i in 1:n) y[i] ~ normal(mu, sigma);
Or, equivalently (recall that a line break is just another form of whitespace),
for (i in 1:n)
  y[i] ~ normal(mu, sigma);
and also equivalently,
for (i in 1:n) {
  y[i] ~ normal(mu, sigma);
}
There’s a semicolon after the model statement but not after the brackets indicating the body of the for loop.
In Stan, variables can have names constructed using letters, numbers, and the underscore (_) symbol, but nothing else (and a variable name cannot begin with a number). BUGS variables can also include the dot, or period (.) symbol.
In Stan, the second argument to the “normal” function is the standard deviation (i.e., the scale), not the variance (as in Bayesian Data Analysis) and not the inverse-variance (i.e., precision) (as in BUGS). Thus a normal with mean 1 and standard deviation 2 is normal(1,2), not normal(1,4) or normal(1,0.25).
Similarly, the second argument to the “multivariate normal” function is the covariance matrix and not the inverse covariance matrix (i.e., the precision matrix) (as in BUGS). The same is true for the “multivariate student” distribution.
The distributions have slightly different names:
BUGS
Stan
dnorm normal
dbinom binomial
dpois poisson
… …
Stan, unlike BUGS, allows intermediate quantities, in the form of local variables, to be reassigned. For example, the following is legal and meaningful (if possibly inefficient) Stan code.
{
  total = 0;
  for (i in 1:n) {
    theta[i] ~ normal(total, sigma);
    total = total + theta[i];
  }
}
In BUGS, the above model would not be legal because the variable total is defined more than once. But in Stan, the loop is executed in order, so total is overwritten in each step.
Stan uses explicit declarations. Variables are declared with base type integer or real, and vectors, matrices, and arrays have specified dimensions. When variables are bounded, we give that information also. For data and transformed parameters, the bounds are used for error checking. For parameters, the constraints are critical to sampling as they determine the geometry over which the Hamiltonian is simulated.
In Stan, variables can be declared as data, transformed data, parameters, transformed parameters, or generated quantities. They can also be declared as local variables within blocks. For more information, see the part of this manual devoted to the Stan programming language and examine at the example models.
Stan allows all sorts of tricks with vector and matrix operations which can make Stan models more compact. For example, arguments to probability functions may be vectorized,50 allowing
for (i in 1:n) {
  y[i] ~ normal(mu[i], sigma[i]);
}
to be expressed more compactly as
y ~ normal(mu, sigma);
The vectorized form is also more efficient because Stan can unfold the computation of the chain rule during algorithmic differentiation.
Stan also allows for arrays of vectors and matrices. For example, in a hierarchical model might have a vector of K parameters for each of J groups; this can be declared using
array[J] vector[K] theta;
Then theta[j] is an expression denoting a K-vector and may be used in the code just like any other vector variable.
An alternative encoding would be with a two-dimensional array, as in
array[J, K] real theta;
The vector version can have some advantages, both in convenience and in computational speed for some operations.
A third encoding would use a matrix:
matrix[J, K] theta;
but in this case, theta[j] is a row vector, not a vector, and accessing it as a vector is less efficient than with an array of vectors. The transposition operator, as in theta[j]', may be used to convert the row vector theta[j] to a (column) vector. Column vector and row vector types are not interchangeable everywhere in Stan; see the function signature declarations in the programming language section of this manual.
Stan supports general conditional statements using a standard if-else syntax. For example, a zero-inflated (or -deflated) Poisson mixture model is defined using the if-else syntax as described in the zero inflation section.
Stan supports general while loops using a standard syntax. While loops give Stan full Turing equivalent computational power. They are useful for defining iterative functions with complex termination conditions. As an illustration of their syntax, the for-loop
model {
    // ...
    for (n in 1:N) {
        // ... do something with n ....
    }
}
may be recoded using the following while loop.
model {
    int n;
    // ...
    n = 1;
    while (n <= N) {
        // ... do something with n ...
        n = n + 1;
    }
}
Most distributions have been vectorized, but currently the truncated versions may not exist and may not be vectorized.↩


Every household could have to pay an extra £21 on their energy bills to compensate for the number of customers who are getting into debt due to coronavirus.
The regulator Ofgem has proposed raising its cap on the maximum amount the UK’s 11 million bill payers can be charged from next April and has started a consultation.
It would mean those who can still pay their bills would pay more over the summer of 2021 because the energy companies are receiving less money overall.
The extra £21 cost would be spread out over the year but could yet be raised further with another review due in six months time.
Energy giants have warned they face serious financial difficulties because so many customers are unable to pay their bills during the pandemic.
Citizens Advice recently estimated there is around £200 million worth of ‘unrecoverable’ debt owed to companies by people who can no longer pay after losing their job or facing other financial difficulties.
An Ofgem document outlining the proposed change said: ‘The Covid-19 pandemic, and the measures put in place to limit its impact, have significantly
affected the energy industry.
‘Workers have been laid off, furloughed, or are working from home, increasing domestic energy use. Some customers are struggling to pay their bills.
‘These impacts could increase over winter, as consumers use more energy.
The cap already allows for a degree of uncertainty, and accommodates certain types of cost change. However, Covid-19 is an unforeseen and unprecedented event.’
Energ costs are currently low because of a lack of demand during the pandemic (Picture: PA)
Ofgem said it is ‘erring on the side of caution’ to protect bill payers but admitted bills may have to rise again in future because the scale of the problem is currently unknown.
The £21 cost per household has been calculated based on estimates of what the level of debt is likely to be and will be adjusted once the actual costs are known. Another review of the cap is due to take place in six months time.
The cap had fallen to its lowest level since it was first introduced at the start of last year because the cost of sourcing energy has dropped due to a lack of demand during the pandemic.
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The energy market may have recovered again by April, Ofgem warned, meaning bills may need to rise.
The document continued: ‘Suppliers recover the costs of people not paying their
bills from people that are paying their bills. In that sense the costs are always spread across customers that did not cause the problem.
‘In addition, customers may have cancelled direct debits and transferred to standard credit. We therefore propose to recover any adjustment for debt-related costs from all default tariff credit customers.’


The IRS recently reminded taxpayers that home testing for COVID-19 (coronavirus) is a qualified medical expense for various medical spending and savings accounts. The cost of home testing may be paid or reimbursed with tax-protected funds from an eligible account. Specifically, you may use a health flexible spending arrangement (FSA), health savings account (HSA) or certain other cafeteria plans to pay or receive reimbursement for testing expenses.
Other COVID-related eligible medical expenses include the cost of personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks, hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes. The equipment must be used primarily to prevent or reduce the spread of coronavirus in order to qualify for FSA, HSA or other medical cafeteria plan reimbursement.
You can maximize the tax benefits of your FSA or HSA by making expenditures or accepting reimbursements at well-chosen times. A tax advisor can help you formulate the best strategy for using your account.
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Pavilion, formed by Michael Guthrie (the former CEO of Mecca Leisure), bought the service areas previously owned by Rank in December 1991 for £86m. The working title for the new operator was Brightreasons II, before it legally became Pavilion Group in Spring 1992.
They called themselves "Britain's newest and most innovative name on the motorways", saying that they wanted to create a "holiday atmosphere". They had bright green branding inside, and areas called 'STORE', 'Snack Cafe' and 'Pavilion Restaurant'.
Curiously, of the 11 service areas they owned, 5 had their names changed. Some were changed by Pavilion, and others by their successor.
Investment
Commenting on the deregulation of service station planning in 1992, Pavilion wrote off the idea of a sudden wave of new services, saying "no one is going to take that sort of investment decision lightly". However, by 1995 it was estimated that they had 24 pending planning applications. They were also rumoured to be interested in purchasing Strensham.
As part of their opening publicity, an event was held at Hilton Park where part of the car park was turned into a beach, with ice cream, deckchairs and donkeys. In a separate event, massages were offered to drivers. In total, £20m was spent on refurbishment, turning around what they called a "distinctly tired estate". Large signs promoted the name of each service area next to the Pavilion symbol.
Pavilion spoke highly of HGV drivers, and continued to invest in dedicated facilities for them, even after other service areas had stopped doing this.
Michael Guthrie purchased his former brands Pizzaland and Prima Pasta. This allowed him to introduce Pizzaland to Pavilion services, alongside Burger King, making Pavilion one of the first operators to embrace High Street branding.
Guthrie described his vision of Pavilion services as being a "continental-style eating emporia". He said he was passionate about turning struggling businesses around and wanted Pavilion to be a brand people came to trust.
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By 1995 the cost of planning new and refurbished services had hit them hard, and Pavilion were soon approaching potential buyers. With all four main operators at the time expanding rapidly, they feared they could be about to be squeezed out of the competitive market.
In April 1995 all of Pavilion's services were bought by Granada for £125million. A rebranding exercise lasted until June 1996. Granada said that they could increase each site's profitability by utilising economies of scale. As part of the takeover, Granada agreed to sell their Magor and Pavilion's Bolton West and Severn View.
The move, for the first time, knocked Welcome Break to second position as the UK's largest operator. They said that they had considered buying Pavilion but backed off because they didn't want to be investigated by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Only a few months later, Granada bought Welcome Break and consequently featured in a lengthy investigation by the Commission, who told Granada to sell off many sites.
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I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had a gutful of people telling me the current covid vaccines in Australia have gone through all the trials (albeit expediated) that other, more traditional vaccines have. It just isn’t true, and Health Department ads in major newspapers saying so, doesn’t automatically change that.
Government departments and government-funded organisations all over the country went into PR overdrive with these vaccines, none more so than the NCIRS (National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance – a close cousin of AusVaxSafety and PAEDS). This organisation is “primarily funded by the Australian and New South Wales governments”.
They came out of the gates strongly with a webpage explaining both the ‘traditional pathway’ for vaccine development and the ‘pandemic speed’ development of Covid-19 vaccines. You have to look carefully to notice the most relevant bit around ‘provisional approval’ in the pandemic speed pathway.
NCIRS: Phases of Clinical Trials
NCIRS: Phases of Clinical Trials
Right, so according to these diagrams, they’ve both gone through Phase 3 testing before release to (or on) the public. Bless them, they even tell us how this could be, in such a short timeframe:
NCIRS: Phases of Clinical Trials
But the very next paragraph reveals the unavoidable truth:
NCIRS: Phases of Clinical Trials
However, as there are limited safety data, full registration of the vaccine will only be given after extended safety monitoring, which will take several years (refer to Figure 2).
Hmmm……yes. Sounds like an acceptable standard under which to introduce mandates for its use…not!
It appears, from Figure 1, that an inherent and desirable part of the conventional Phase 3 Trial, is the ‘extended safety monitoring’. The time it takes under ‘conventional’ conditions is a feature, not a bug. They imply that themselves by the ‘provisional approval’, and no amount of prevarication can change that. They even state it in the accompanying wordage: “there are limited safety data”.
THE COVID VACCINES ARE STILL BEING TRIALED…on us! Worse still, we are being forced to participate. For the vaccine boosters out there, don’t bother coming at me with the line, “you’re not being forced”. It makes you look dumb, pathetic and desperate.
What does the Australian Government’s National Health and Medical Research Council say about trial participation?
Ref: National Health and Medical Research Council
Despite the coerced consent given at the vaccination hubs (a fig leaf of legal coverage), you can hardly call being put out of work, and socially ostracised, a the basis for ‘completely voluntary’. As for “no adverse effects” on their “relationship with their doctor”, what a shame it doesn’t include ’employer’. Many of us might still have a job.
Author MaterPosted on November 25, 2021 November 25, 2021
57 thoughts on “Mater’s Musings #42: Stop the mendacity…it’s in black and white”
Petros says:
November 25, 2021 at 5:51 am
Is it true that the Pfizer vaccine trial only went for eight weeks?
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Plasmamortar says:
November 25, 2021 at 5:51 am
Everything is voluntary.
Including being bundled into an army truck by the ADF and taken to COVID prison…
At some point, people will have to find the Will to say “No” to the government…
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Mater says:
November 25, 2021 at 5:58 am
Petrol, I have no idea.
Genuine facts about this stuff is a rare commodity nowadays.
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Brushcutter says:
November 25, 2021 at 6:06 am
It’s concerning how many people think that the jab is out of its trial phase. When I explain it’s not, it either goes two ways, horrified or they are so worn out by it all that they’ve already thrown the towel in long ago. My days at the moment are educating people how big the last protest was in Melbourne, their reactions are of shock to see the shear number of people there and that maybe we may still have a fighting chance.
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Baba says:
November 25, 2021 at 6:31 am
Mater, typo.
However, as the are limited limited safety data, full registration of the vaccine
I don’t wish to be picky but it’s a blemish on an otherwise excellent post.
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Mater says:
November 25, 2021 at 6:43 am
Mater, typo.
Thanks Baba. Fixed
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bemused says:
November 25, 2021 at 6:46 am
The early literature (probably removed now) was clear that the vaccines were approved after about six months of testing and no more than 12 months. Compared to the usual 10-151 years.
What was also part of the deal world wide was the implementation of legislation that made it impossible to sue pharmaceutical companies if something went horribly wrong with the vaccines. Without this, there would be no vaccines (if you can call them that) at the moment.
And it’s governments now that are paying out for unforeseen health issues, not Big Pharma.
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bemused says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:15 am
That’s 15 years, not 151 years.
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Petros says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:22 am
Another example of privatise the profits and socialise the losses, bemused.
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Vicki says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:44 am
In what seems an eternity ago – but is only perhaps 8 months ago – I was at a social function and was asked by a medical friend whether I had booked (as you did then) a vaccination (AZ only available then). I said no, to which, he replied with some surprise “Why not?” I replied that he of course would know that safety requirements required years of clinical trials. He merely nodded, & he and his wife changed tables. Said it all.
BTW we still maintain the friendship & communicate by phone, but “the war” is never mentioned.
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Angus Black says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:51 am
Does anyone remember the final season of Torchwood?
Prescient or what?
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Barry says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:53 am
I think that this is a massive gamble by the elite, a gamble with billions of lives.
They may be lucky this time. If so, then they will be even more bold with the next vaccine – the one for obesity, and then the one for anger, and then the one for non-compliant thoughts. With the new mRNA technology, there are no limits to the target malady.
Eventually a calamity WILL occur, and the lack of testing will let through death on an unimaginable scale. Like I say, maybe not this time, but it will occur, now they are off the lease.
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132andBush says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:56 am
A lot of precedents set in the last 20 months.
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Megan says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:08 am
Where clinical trials are concerned I much prefer my spot in the control group.
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John Michelmore says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:20 am
A thought crossed my mind, having adverts saying that “these “vaccines” have been tested and approved like all other vaccines”, is false advertising and it appears the governments can get away with that!
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Aaron says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:42 am
“And it’s governments now that are paying out for unforeseen health issues, not Big Pharma”.
Only if you can prove without doubt the cause.
Israel now approving kids after a 4 month trial.
Not one “expert” on the planet knows where we will be 24 months and 3 shots (mixed and matched in various combinations)! later.
If you tolerate this, then your children will be next.
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CharlieP says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:42 am
An endocrinologist I have been visiting for nearly 20 years has told me that if I am not fully vaccinated by the next time I see him, I can no longer be his patient. Given that my last two consultations have been over the phone this strikes me as laughable. I have continued to see him over the years more because of his friendship with my previous GP than for any other reason – but to me the thinking behind this is utterly wrong. Hippocratic oath, anyone? Relationship with doctor indeed!
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:56 am
Mater, I think the mendacity really kicked in when Scummo appointed General Frewin as the head of the vaccine roll out.
In converging military capability building, logistics and goal setting (forgive my obvious lack of understanding of the right military expressions) with a plan for a widespread “medical” intervention of the population, has to re-balance safety toward efficiency.
When old style propaganda is thrown in – a significant tool of the military- truthful reporting and adherence to advertising standards tend to become less of a concern.
And on the messaging side of this debacle – the military oversight and depicting the country as (almost) on a war footing – may begin to answer why no msm outlet will make any negative report on the vaccines’ risk to human health: “loose lips sink ships.”
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:00 am
CharlieP, same with us.
If anyone’s interested in Pfizer’s negotiations with various govts, do a search of WION (an Indian news channel) and Argentina & Brazil. (I still can’t link).
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mem says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:35 am
13 young women went to a restaurant in Melbourne. all 13 were double vaxed. 11 of the 13 have now contracted covid. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-25/covid-exposure-warning-dinner-party-superspreader-risk/100624140
This makes a mockery of mandated vaxines to keep your job.
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Kneel says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:42 am
“What was also part of the deal world wide was the implementation of legislation that made it impossible to sue pharmaceutical companies if something went horribly wrong with the vaccines. Without this, there would be no vaccines (if you can call them that) at the moment.”
Don’t blame ’em – I would have done the same thing. If you don’t have “standard” trials/testing, you can’t know your exposure to risk and may be setting yourself up for going broke. Not a good look for an international multi-billion dollar company!
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bemused says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:46 am
Not a good look for an international multi-billion dollar company!
I wonder what the level of graft was to get this protection through?
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Bushkid says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:47 am
Eventually a calamity WILL occur, and the lack of testing will let through death on an unimaginable scale. Like I say, maybe not this time, but it will occur, now they are off the lease.
I think we’ll find that a calamity IS happening already.
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Bushkid says:
November 25, 2021 at 9:54 am
John Michelmore says:
November 25, 2021 at 8:20 am
A thought crossed my mind, having adverts saying that “these “vaccines” have been tested and approved like all other vaccines”, is false advertising and it appears the governments can get away with that!
This may be an avenue for legal action against the pharmaceutical companies, the government, or maybe against the media as the publishers of the adverts?
The data is out there that these jabs are not “safe and effective”, nor are they either “fully tested” or “approved” in the normal sense of the word. Anyone with even a scrap of conscience can see the truth and would not support advertising the lies. On the basis of what a reasonable person would understand, they are peddling dangerously false and misleading crap.
So those peddling these untruths should be held responsible for their lies, their false and misleading advertising. Isn’t that the case under the Nuremberg Code?
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Mark M says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:04 am
Meanwhile, in Israel …
Health minister suggests fourth vaccine dose amid rising fears of fifth COVID wave
“It’s not unreasonable [to think] we’ll need a fourth vaccine,” said Horowitz in an interview with Channel 12, after Health Ministry data indicated that 9 percent of the new cases diagnosed Tuesday had received the third booster dose.
Some commentators have referred to the current rise in infections as the “children’s wave.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-minister-suggests-fourth-vaccine-dose-amid-rising-fears-of-fifth-covid-wave/
Fauci could always get a job at the MCG moving goalposts …
Fauci Prepares to Move the Goalposts—AGAIN
“Previously, Fauci said that being “fully vaccinated” meant receiving two shots of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines or a single shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Fauci is now saying that being “fully vaccinated” may mean getting a booster shot as well.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/11/23/fauci-may-move-the-goalposts-on-what-constitutes-a-fully-vaccinated-person-n1535687
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CharlieP says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:12 am
Bar Beach Swimmer, it’s only the knowledge that there are likeminded people out there that keeps me sane. Pressure from family and friends increases. I will not be bullied by Dan Andrews and there is so much information out there that these vaccines are not as advertised. Yet try to argue the case with the converted and you hit a wall. They don’t want to know because it calls their decision to take the jabs into question.
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Miss Anthropist says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:28 am
Why would any right thinking person get that poison injected into them?
It’s unAustralian.
Swidt?
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lemmiwinks says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:31 am
FDA (which is a revolving door for ex-pharmaceutical CEOs and the like) is looking to seal the Pfizer Comirnaty “trial” for 55 years. It’s totally fine, nothing to see here.
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Eddystone says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:33 am
From mems link
For Ms Webster, confronting the fear and stigma attached to catching the virus was almost more challenging than the mild symptoms she experienced.
A pandemic of fear and stigma pretty well sums it up.
“Mild symptoms” aren’t enough to declare a pandemic.
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Mark M says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:44 am
This digger, at the freedom march, is a hero …
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463198215923290113/pu/vid/1280×638/USFJ5GVY7YpnN_Su.mp4?tag=12
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:52 am
This may be an avenue for legal action against the pharmaceutical companies, the government, or maybe against the media as the publishers of the adverts?
Bushkid, what’s the bet that under the health emergency legislation all bets are off on that one!
CharlieP, +1 – sorry to hear that.
The NSW Premier decided to change the goal posts and not let us re-emerge from our government imposed ostracism until 15 Dec to “unify the community.”
What sort of government blames one citizen over another for their right to decide what medical experimental treatment to accept, impose restrictions on those who won’t and threaten their livelihoods to try to force their acquiescence, remove important safety measures to expedite total acceptance, waiver controls that are designed to protect people from untried and not properly tested products and take away the right of everyone to go about their lives as they wish and without fear and reprisal?
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Bushkid says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:13 am
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 10:52 am
This may be an avenue for legal action against the pharmaceutical companies, the government, or maybe against the media as the publishers of the adverts?
Bushkid, what’s the bet that under the health emergency legislation all bets are off on that one!
Yes, that’s been their get-out card all along, or so they would have us believe.
At some point though, there has to be a reinstatement of decency, common sense and actual (even retributive) justice. Yeah, I know I’m dreaming, but we have to keep pushing for that. Without it, we’re truly stuffed.
There is no longer any excuse for any politician, bureaucrat or anyone at all in the media to be unaware of the harm being done by these jabs. No excuse at all. They are now all complicit.
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Mark M says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:15 am
At first they came for the Aboriginals, but I said nothing, as I wasn’t Aboriginal …
Dave, representative of the Sovereign Tribe Confederation, united in their call for universal assistance, as the government is using army to detain them in quarantine and force jab the un-jabbed …
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463439013835153409/pu/vid/880×496/pYhhOUUGL1VDktTO.mp4?tag=12
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bemused says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:16 am
What sort of government blames…
A totalitarian one that not so long ago was criticising the like of China, North Korea et al for their human rights abuses.
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Fat Tony says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:20 am
What would all these (Western) governments be doing differently if they intended to murder 90%+ of their citizens (kids included).
Serious question.
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:36 am
Bushkid, the only real answer to this is the thread that begins with the marches is fed through the ballot box and presents at the law courts.
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kae now a SFR says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:39 am
Mark M
The army coming for aboriginals is bullshit.
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/11/24/nt-traditional-owners-deny-reports-army-forcing-vaccinations?fbclid=IwAR1tg1mbq7iSopw6L_atmd64aYzQB2keg9V7Q0MCenuHUpAarZaeAsv7okk
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DDinAus says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:49 am
It may all be moot.
Dr Vernon Coleman – An Old Man in a Chair.
Video: https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/finally-medical-proof-covid-jab-murder
Transcription:
It’s the 22nd November 2021 and this is the moment when the jabbing has to stop.
A couple of hours ago Darren Smith, the editor of the excellent The Light Paper, sent me a paper from the medical journal Circulation which proves that the covid-19 jabbing experiment has to stop today. I believe that any doctor or nurse who gives one of the mRNA covid jabs after today will in due course be struck off the appropriate register and arrested.
The journal Circulation is a well-respected publication. It’s 71-years-old, its articles are peer reviewed and in one survey it was rated the world’s no 1 journal in the cardiac and cardiovascular system category.
I’m going to quote the final sentence of the abstract which appears at the beginning of the article. This is all I, you – or anyone else – needs to know.
`We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy and other vascular events following vaccination.’
That’s it. That’s the death bell for the covid-19 mRNA jabs.
The endothelium is a layer of cells lining blood vessels and lymphatic vessels. T cells are a type of white cell.
We always knew these jabs were experimental. My video in December 2020, just under a year ago, warned about these specific risks. I read out a list of possible adverse events published officially by the American Government.
But now we have the proof of the link.
The mRNA jab is, remember, known not to stop people catching covid. And it is known not to stop people spreading it. I don’t believe anyone disputes these facts.
And yet vast numbers of deaths and serious injuries have occurred among people who have been jabbed. Look at the item entitled ‘Updated: how many are the vaccines killing?’ on my websites.
Now we have the evidence to stop the jabbing programmes.
In the study quoted in Circulation, a total of 566 patients aged 28 to 97 were tested. They were equally divided among men and women.
‘At the time of this report,’ says the author, ‘these changes persist for at least 2.5 months post second dose of vaccine.’
At the very least, the use of these jabs must stop now. Immediately, until more long-term tests are done.
If there were any journalists left in the mainstream media, this news would be lead item on all TV and radio programmes and be on the front pages of all newspapers.
Thank heavens for free speech platforms such as BNT which enables me to bring you this news.
I’ve said for a year that this jab was an experiment – certain to kill and injure.
We’ve always known that to experiment on people without their full consent and understanding – after disclosing all the risks and potential side effects – is a crime.
Now the evidence exists that must stop this experiment.
If the covid jab experiment continues after today then we know for absolute sure that this is not a medical treatment, it is a cull.
Please share this video immediately with everyone you know.
Thank you.
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Brian says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:50 am
If the powers that be do not fully inform the aborigines of their risks from all angles, then treating them like children and withholding food and travel, etc until they get it means that “forced”is an appropriate term for administering the jab.
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Jay352 says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:51 am
How about this? Fuck you and your vaccine. Fuck you and your mandates. Fuck you and anyone who looks like you.
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lemmiwinks says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:11 pm
For anyone wondering about where this is headed, this lady hits the nail right on the head:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/A1i3YtzVzKXf/
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Boambee John says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Bar Beach Swimmersays:
November 25, 2021 at 8:56 am
Mater, I think the mendacity really kicked in when Scummo appointed General Frewin as the head of the vaccine roll out.
I am not entirely confident that Frewen knows the difference between taking the initiative and exceeding his authority.
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Boambee John says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:17 pm
lemmiwinkssays:
November 25, 2021 at 10:31 am
FDA (which is a revolving door for ex-pharmaceutical CEOs and the like) is looking to seal the Pfizer Comirnaty “trial” for 55 years. It’s totally fine, nothing to see here.
How long did it take the FDA to assess the trials information before giving EUA? It should take less time to clear the reports for release.
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Wyndham Dix says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:26 pm
DDinAus at 11:49 am
I am as interested as any other thinking person to bring to an end this experiment with mRNA vaccines so called. But let us take a breath for a moment and read AHA’s Expression of Concern about the article in Circulation:-
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001051
It is to be hoped there is substance after all in the original article.
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Cliff Boof says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Not so fast Dr Vernon Coleman. The American Heart Association has a problem with the Circulation paper.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001051
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Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 1:11 pm
BJ:
I am not entirely confident that Frewen knows the difference between taking the initiative and exceeding his authority
On the Department of Defence website. Mission: to get us all vaccinated 2/7/21
The federal task force charged with delivering the COVID-19 vaccine rollout has set an ambitious target: that every eligible and willing Australian is vaccinated by the end of 2021.
That’s the plan of Coordinator General of Operation COVID Shield Lieutenant General John Frewen, who was appointed to the position in June.
Lieutenant General Frewen and his team of military planners are supplementing Health Department staff with their proven understanding of large-scale logistics and contingency planning.
Appointed with three key priorities – improving optimisation and coordination of the rollout, building public confidence and ensuring a safe and efficient rollout – Lieutenant General Frewen said the team was pushing the limits of its plan to find potential points of failure.
“I’ve set the team an ambitious goal, which far exceeds the minimum. By giving them that, we’re stress-testing and validating the current model,” he said.
“In a few weeks, you’re going to start seeing ad campaigns to motivate people who are now eligible.”
Into August and September, there will be additional places to get the vaccine. By October through December, Lieutenant General Frewen said he would use every possible means of getting the bookings completed.
“We want to inspire the nation to get it done this year – get it done in 21,” Lieutenant General Frewen said.
He said the team was fully engaged with the Health Department public servants and contractors who had been “living the rollout” to ensure it was optimised and where it could be accelerated, using the military appreciation process.
Lieutenant General Frewen said military planning and understanding of large-scale logistics was essential to achieving his goal, because there was no “one-size-fits-all approach” to getting vaccines into “every corner of our vast land”.
The rollout would be underpinned by increased transparency, including supply projections, stock-holding figures and demographic statistics, which the government intends to make public soon.
Lieutenant General Frewen said it would help build confidence and enthusiasm in the vaccination program, allowing Australians to “get back on with their livelihoods” and the freedoms they enjoy.
Communicating the program to Australians, along with stakeholder engagement, was one of the responsibilities that came with Lieutenant General Frewen’s appointment by the Prime Minister.
“We’re finishing the initial stages of the information campaign, with the campaign moving into a ‘rallying and inspiring’ phase,” Lieutenant General Frewen said.
Although fronting cameras at press conferences is not Lieutenant General Frewen’s “preferred environment”, he recognised the need to be able to reach directly into people’s homes, and that the sight of a uniform may be reassuring.
He said like with Operation Sovereign Borders, which was led by now-Chief of the Defence Force General Angus Campbell, the Prime Minister recognised the “cut-through” a military operationalised model could achieve.
“I think the PM’s view is that the military approaches problems and speaks to the nation from a position of complete neutrality. We just want to get the problem fixed, no matter what it is,” Lieutenant General Frewen said.
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flyingduk says:
November 25, 2021 at 1:28 pm
because there was no “one-size-fits-all approach” to getting vaccines into “every corner of our vast land”
Apart from ‘a jab in every arm’ being itself a “one-size-fits-all approach”
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November 25, 2021 at 1:31 pm
Bar Beach Swimmer says:
November 25, 2021 at 11:36 am
Bushkid, the only real answer to this is the thread that begins with the marches is fed through the ballot box and presents at the law courts.
You can hope, but hope doesn’t get things done. We all have to stand up in any way we can. Not everyone can get to a protest, not everyone now has the reserves of energy or courage to raise their voice, or feels sufficiently literate to write to their MP or council (even if it seems pointless). There is genuine fear of “drawing the crabs”, of being targeted for speaking out. Everyone has seen what resistance can bring down on a person. But whatever resistance any one person can offer is worthwhile.
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bemused says:
November 25, 2021 at 1:38 pm
California County Issues Mask Mandate for Private Homes Ahead of Thanksgiving
The mandate went into effect at 11:59 p.m. on November 21 and requires “all individuals to wear a face covering when indoors regardless of vaccination status.”
The vaccines are doing what?
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Rod Stuart says:
November 25, 2021 at 1:48 pm
Cliff Boof
Well, that’s it then
“Soon after publication of the above abstract in Circulation, it was brought to the American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program’s attention that there are potential errors in the abstract. Specifically, there are several typographical errors, ………….”
Can’t have that.
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Old bloke says:
November 25, 2021 at 2:29 pm
Vicki says:
November 25, 2021 at 7:44 am
I was at a social function and was asked by a medical friend whether I had booked (as you did then) a vaccination (AZ only available then). I said no, to which, he replied with some surprise “Why not?” I replied that he of course would know that safety requirements required years of clinical trials. He merely nodded, & he and his wife changed tables. Said it all.
Wifey had a phone call from an interstate friend earlier this week and she inquired whether wifey had had her vaxxinations. Wifey said “no” to which her friend inquired why.
Wifey said that she wanted to live for a few more years yet.
Stunned silence, a brief pause in the conversation, then onto some other topic.
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Mark M says:
November 25, 2021 at 2:34 pm
@ kae now a SFR @11.39am:
Thanks for posting an update link and good news for our indigenous folk.
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Old bloke says:
November 25, 2021 at 3:13 pm
lemmiwinks says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:11 pm
For anyone wondering about where this is headed, this lady hits the nail right on the head:
Here we see the same thing happening in Australia with the push for the Digital Identity framework. They must get everyone vaxxed for this to happen, without 100% compliance then they can’t get complete ownership of your lives.
Resist the vaxx, protect your families and find some way to protect your assets, this is what they are after.
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Damon says:
November 25, 2021 at 3:31 pm
“without 100% compliance ”
Second attempt after the Australia Card. They won’t stop.
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DDinAus says:
November 25, 2021 at 3:58 pm
Wyndham Dix says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:26 pm
… read AHA’s Expression of Concern about the article in Circulation…
Cliff Boof says:
November 25, 2021 at 12:59 pm
Not so fast Dr Vernon Coleman. The American Heart Association has a problem with the Circulation paper.
Carefully omitted from these two comments:
Circulation in an American Heart Foundation journal.
So the AHA received a paper and after review published it.
The AHA then received a third party query on the original paper and record the fact of this query so that readers are up to date.
In time the query will be fleshed out, analyzed and further correspondence will ensue.
This all seems normal to me.
What is NOT normal is to suggest that the AHA has a problem with a paper in Circulation.
It is, of course, just a coincidence that two comments are received by the New Catallaxy within an hour of my posting the link and transcript. They both seek to muddy the waters, call the reputation of Circulation into question and lay the blame on Dr Vernon Coleman.
It smalls like a bot monitoring the New Catallaxy, picking up triggers and calling on two tame Morlocks to cast FUD around.
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Homez says:
November 26, 2021 at 4:19 am
From the CDC’s own Prison Study conclusion abstract
As this field continues to develop, clinicians and public health practitioners should consider vaccinated persons who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 to be no less infectious than unvaccinated persons.
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BMJ and Yale on the letter head although it is a preprint and not yet “peer reviewed”.
I don’t fully understand the stats and jargon in the main piece but hopefully more ammunition for a political/litigatory weapon we’ve yet to design and assemble.
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Winston Smith's Keyboard. says:
November 26, 2021 at 9:52 pm
Jay352:
How about this? Fuck you and your vaccine. Fuck you and your mandates. Fuck you and anyone who looks like you.
Wot about the horse I rode in on?
Are you some kind of Equinophobe?
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Tokyo Olympics: Games not right place for athletes on 'soapboxes', former star Fatima Whitbread says
Whitbread, who competed in the javelin in the 1980s, says that today "there seems to be more soapboxes and people expressing how they feel - and I really don't think the Olympics is that place".
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The Olympics is not the right place for athletes to get on their "soapboxes", former British star Fatima Whitbread has said.
Whitbread, who won bronze in the javelin in Los Angeles in 1984 and a silver in Seoul four years later, said the Games should be free of "people expressing how they feel" and "creating a divide".
Sprinter Dina Asher-Smith had earlier said that stopping athletes taking the knee in Tokyo would be "completely unenforceable".
But Whitbread, 60, appeared unimpressed with the activism in sport at present.
"In the 80s we were concentrating on getting on with the business," she told Sky News.
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Image: The Olympics is not the right place for 'soapboxes, says Fatima Whitbread
"Today there seems to be more soapboxes and people expressing how they feel - and I really don't think the Olympics is that place.
"There's a time and a place for it and I don't think the Olympics is about that.
"The Olympics to me is about bringing people together. Sport really is an equal playing field."
She added that the event needed to remain "pure" and "keep focused on what sport's all about".
While not saying whether she would be taking the knee herself in Tokyo, Asher-Smith said that "protesting and expressing yourself" are a "fundamental human right".
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) had "no choice" when it decided to roll back restrictions banning demonstrations, the track star said.
The IOC lifted its Rule 50 earlier this month. The regulation states that "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas".
Had it remained in place, Asher-Smith said there would have been "loads of athlete protests at the Games and it would have been very embarrassing for them".
Image: Asher-Smith will be competing in the 100 and 200 metres. File pic
Bad publicity would have been beamed into televisions across the world, she added.
"If you were to penalise someone for standing up against racial inequality, how on earth would that go, how on earth are you going to enforce that?" she said.
"Would you revoke someone's medal for saying racism is wrong? But I think it's good they have lifted it. How would you police that, particularly when people feel so strongly about that right now?
"Also, if you were to penalise someone or revoke a medal, how would that go optically?"
Footballers have been taking the knee as part of worldwide protests against racism which began following the murder of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer in Minneapolis last year.
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Asher-Smith, who will compete in the 100 and 200 metres, said that leaving the IOC rule in place could have led to a farcical situation.
She explained: "I did see it as completely unenforceable and I think they had no choice but to lift it otherwise they would have been faced with loads of athlete protests at the Games and it would have been very embarrassing for them.
"Unless they want to say they are against people being against racism I didn't see how that was going to happen."
She also invoked history. "Some of the Olympics' most iconic moments have been the black power salute by Tommie Smith (in 1968)," she said.
"That is something people remember the Olympics for, something they're very proud to see at the Olympic Games.
"So to think they're suddenly going to get up and say 'absolutely not' - I think they'd be shooting themselves in the foot."
Asher-Smith begins competing on 30 July - the first morning of athletics - in the 100m heats, with the semi-final and final the following day.


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