Found here. For what it’s worth, Victoria has the stupidest Premier it has ever had. His only answer to Covid unbelievably is to try to eliminate it entirely, and every time he finds it coming back, he closes the state more tightly and for a longer period of time. He is dumber than two planks. We are a law-abiding citizenry but we are coming to the end of our tether. Shame about the absence of an Opposition Party anywhere to be seen.
If they really thought there was any danger at all, do you really think they would wander around like that?
Let’s pretend, just for the moment, that discussing an issue with anyone on the left is related to the facts in play. It never is, but let’s pretend. So if you are of the view that vaxxination will help control Covid, this is something of a problem: Covid Outbreak Hits Carnival Cruise Despite Every Guest and Staff Member Being ‘Vaccinated’.
Ever since it became clear the “vaccines” seem to have little to no stopping power when it comes to Delta Variant infections, the White House, CDC, and mainstream media have attempted to paint the spike in “breakthrough cases” as a result of those dastardly unvaccinated. But nobody aboard the Carnival Delta is unvaccinated, a fact that everybody at Carnival and the media is conspicuously ignoring.
If unvaccinated people in close quarters had caused an outbreak of Covid-19, media would be screaming about it with exact numbers and obligatory scolding. On a ship with no unvaccinated people, outbreak details are kept intentionally ambiguous.
What is an even bigger scandal is that even if you get “the delta variant” you are very very unlikely to die from it. That, too, is a major secret that will never ever influence anyone on the left.
This is the description of a book that is a description of me. The book: The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World. And this is how they depict an introvert:
Some people – a sizeable minority – prefer to avoid the limelight, tend to listen more than they speak, feel alone in large groups, and require lots of private time to restore their energy. Often they feel different, not right, less than. But as Marti Olsen Laney proves, that is far from the truth.
The Introvert Advantage dispels common myths about introverts – they’re not necessarily shy, aloof, or antisocial – and explains how they are hardwired from birth to focus inward, so outside stimulation such as chitchat, phone calls, parties, or office meetings can easily become “too much”. Most importantly, it thoroughly refutes many introverts’ belief that something is wrong with them. Instead, it helps them recognize their inner strengths – their analytical skills, ability to think outside the box, and strong powers of concentration.
My wife always complains when we go out that I didn’t say a thing. But I always do, with the intention of listening to what others have to say. Of course, the place where I am most at peace is in a second-hand book shop, just browsing the shelves.
Meanwhile, TRUMP SPEAKS: ‘Like it or Not, We’re Becoming a Communist Country… We Are Beyond Socialism’.
The 45th President of the United States addressed the Turning Point Action Convention over the weekend when he weighed-in on the Democratic Party’s platform for the country; saying America is quickly “becoming communist.”
“Like it or not, we are becoming a communist country. That’s what’s happening. We are beyond socialism. When you have no press, when you have no press that you can talk to, that’s how a communist country begins. They have no press,” said the former President.
A communist society where the largest businesses hand in glove with governments seek to control both production and communication. You will be free to conform with their dictates. Other than at the periphery – we are the periphery – nothing else will be allowed.
Wait till we have vaccine passports.
I just had call to bring up the Quadrant article I had written on Sarah Palin in 2010 – Making Them Listen – and was astonished to find what I had been writing about the American media as far back as then. They were clearly just practising for Donald Trump.
The American Media
There is a malignancy in the American media. It has been captured by Left-liberal opinion to such a phenomenal extent that for those who do not share their perspectives, news shows on the traditional networks have become almost impossible to watch and newspapers an ordeal to read. As with the old Soviet press, one must unscramble and decode what is written to work out what may, or may not, have taken place. Sins of omission abound.
There is still, for all that, an expectation that the media will be objective. None of us come without our biases, but there was nevertheless an imperative at one time to try to present the news straight without embedding analysis and personal opinion within the story. Or maybe that is how it looked to me and it is my own opinions that have changed over the years. It is perhaps I who have drifted away from mainstream newspaper opinion while the media is as biased as it ever was.
But still, has there ever been a case quite the same as Sarah Palin’s? And what makes the case all that much more instructive is that her arrival almost exactly parallels the arrival at centre stage of Barack Obama. Whatever one might say about the fitness of Sarah Palin for the Vice-Presidency might just as easily be said about Obama, who was running to be the actual President. Indeed, on almost any of the criteria that one might choose on an objective basis—executive experience, decisiveness, known track record of sound decision making—Sarah Palin comes out ahead. You might like Obama’s aim to “spread the wealth around” or to end the war in Iraq, but there was nothing from his history that would have provided solid evidence that he would be capable of delivering on what he promised.
Politics, like any contact sport, is a much more difficult practice than you might think from watching the pros. The ones who get to the top and stay there have been tested to their utter limits in a proving ground that few can survive. Obama somehow got to the very top without really having had to fight such battles along the way. In large measure he can thank the American media for that. Whatever form of testing examination they might have given to Obama during his run for the President just never happened. He remains a mystery man to this day. Just try to find out his university results. It’s easy to get Sarah Palin’s, impossible to find Obama’s. Why that is I do not know.
Anyway, whatever lack of scrutiny there was of Obama, the media certainly made up for with Sarah Palin. For most of those the media wish to destroy, there is plenty of time. But with the American election imminent—the time between the nomination and the election being less than three months—the need for a proper and thorough character assassination became more urgent. It began on day one, never eased off until after the election was over, and has not ended to this day. The focus on the former vice-presidential candidate and former Governor of Alaska, who is now a private citizen, has been unrelenting.
This business with Sarah Palin having written a few notes on the palm of her hand before speaking to a major gathering—the equivalent to what someone with pockets in his clothes might do on the back of an envelope—is quite instructive. The media in the USA clearly have no shame, nor an apparent sense of irony. Not to have roasted Obama for his addiction to the teleprompter shows a leniency that would never have been extended to anyone on the other side—imagine if George W. Bush never spoke without having nameless others beaming thoughts into his head. It really does speak of someone not in command of his facts or his thoughts and who needs others to feed him directives to keep on track.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin writes a few notes on her hand and the media treats her as if she were a brainless nong, apparently demonstrating an incompetence well beneath that of Obama and his teleprompter. Does the media not think anyone will notice? Do they not even notice it themselves? It is easy to understand Sarah Palin’s take on the media: “What a bunch of buffoons”. How extraordinary it is to observe all this from the outside as the rest of us do, but how much more extraordinary it must be to be the one in the middle of such maddening criticism that never seems to come to an end.
It’s only gotten worse, and is impossible to see how it might ever get better.
Pfizer-BioNTech
This is a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, which uses a relatively new technology. Unlike vaccines that put a weakened or inactivated disease germ into the body, the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine delivers a tiny piece of genetic code from the SARS CoV-2 virus to host cells in the body, essentially giving those cells instructions, or blueprints, for making copies of spike proteins (the spikes you see sticking out of the coronavirus in pictures online and on TV). The spikes do the work of penetrating and infecting host cells. These proteins stimulate an immune response, producing antibodies and developing memory cells that will recognize and respond if the body is infected with the actual virus.
Similar to the Pfizer vaccine, this is an mRNA vaccine that sends the body’s cells instructions for making a spike protein that will train the immune system to recognize it. The immune system will then attack the spike protein the next time it sees one (attached to a real SARS CoV-2 virus).
This is a carrier vaccine, which uses a different approach than the mRNA vaccines to instruct human cells to make the SARS CoV-2 spike protein. Scientists engineer a “harmless” [their word, my quotes] adenovirus (a common virus that, when not inactivated, can cause colds, bronchitis, and other illnesses) as a shell to carry genetic code on the spike proteins to the cells (similar to a Trojan Horse). The shell and the code can’t make you sick, but once the code is inside the cells, the cells produce a spike protein to train the body’s immune system, which creates antibodies and memory cells to protect against an actual SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Oxford-AstraZeneca
Similar to the Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, this is a carrier vaccine, made from a modified version of a harmless adenovirus. The final product contains the spike protein found in SARS-CoV-2. When that protein reaches the body’s cells, the immune system mounts a defense, creating antibodies and memory cells to protect against an actual SARS-Cov2 infection.
Novavax
Unlike the mRNA and vector vaccines, this is a protein adjuvant (an adjuvant is an ingredient used to strengthen the immune response). While other vaccines trick the body’s cells into creating parts of the virus that can trigger the immune system, the Novavax vaccine takes a different approach. It contains the spike protein of the coronavirus itself, but formulated as a nanoparticle, which cannot cause disease. When the vaccine is injected, this stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies and T-cell immune responses.
More at the link.
I have still to find anyone who can explain not only why Biden is better, but what was wrong with PDT in the first place.
From Combatting Social Justice Rhetoric: A Cheat Sheet for Policy Makers. With these reminders to assist you.
When they say “Cultural Competence“, what they mean is: Cultural stereotyping, which is neo-racist indoctrination in Critical Race Theory, and an ineffective method with no basis is scientific evidence.
When they say “Environmental Justice“, what they mean is: Environmental issues are race issues, which is using environmental protection for unrelated political purposes, and an ineffective way to protect the environment.
When they say “Critical Race Theory“, what they mean is: Race-centered thinking, which is the view that racism is baked into the system and inescapable, that racism is present even if no one is racist, and the view that all disparities in group outcomes are due to racist systems.
When they say “Equity“, what they mean is: Equality of Outcomes, which is a violation of equality before the law, a dismantling of the foundations of a free society, and state management of society, including reparations.
When they say “Social Justice“, what they mean is: Group entitlements, which is a denial of social and cultural differences, of just rewards to individuals who follow the law and act fairly, and the reframing of particular political demands as universal moral imperatives.
When they say “Diversity“, what they mean is: An identity-based approach to society, which is a violation of individual identity, enforced political conformity, political quotas, an attack on merit and a form of soft bigotry.
When they say “White Privilege / Supremacy“, what they mean is: European moral culpability, which is racist scapegoating, especially against economically disadvantaged Europeans, neo-racist scapegoating reborn as “progressive” group stereotyping.
When they say “BIPOC Folx“, what they mean is: Non-European people, which is used for neo-racist policies and stereotypes, racism reborn as “progressive”.
When they say “Racial Justice“, what they mean is: Racial Favoritism, which is using anti-discrimination laws for unrelated political purposes, a violation of equality before the law, and neo-racist group stereotyping.
When they say “Inclusion“, what they mean is: Restricted speech and justification for purges, which is making people feel “welcomed” by banning anything they find offensive; an attack on freedoms of association and speech.
And every form of distortion is part of an agenda to eliminate freedom in the West.
Law of Markets 