Apparently the Taliban were not waiting for a US President to gift them with helicopters and guns and then run away. What they really needed was climate change:
How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban
Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry. And the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.
According to the CBS News article, titled “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban,” “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry. And the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.”
Wake up to the new reality that Solar Panels can stop the Taliban. When you see the crying children in Kabul, feel guilty because you eat meat, drive cars, and heat the world! Then go make yourself a Fairtrade Organic cup of Cocoa and know that you’re helping.
According to CBS News, the farmers were destitute, abandoning their children to extremist influences. They didn’t have enough food to eat or enough water to put on their crops, so they turned to farming poppy seeds for opium. Not that they’ve ever done that before…
Thanks to James Taylor of Hearthland for finding a graph of just how much crop yields have fallen lately.
Crop yields Afghanistan.
Clearly Climate Change causes better crops…
Or maybe climate change is irrelevant, and well, “follow the money”.
Lara Logan points out that the US funds Pakistan which funds the Taliban and they could turn off the tap anytime:
Logan explained that the Taliban’s main base is not Afghanistan but Pakistan … She said the U.S. helps fund a good portion if not all of the Pakistani defense budget in terms of military and intelligence services, like the ISI.
“For example, you could stop the money. You could stop the remittances of Pakistanis living in the United States. You could put on sanctions. You could have visas [withdrawn], you know,” Logan said of one potential action the U.S. government could take quickly to counteract the catastrophe in Kabul.
The three Taliban “Shura,” or councils, she added, are all in Pakistan – the Quetta, Peshawar and Miramshah. The Shura all benefit from the “warm embrace of the ISI”, she added.
“The United States has known this from day one.”
This disaster appears to be exactly what the US Swamp wants — they could stop it, yet they don’t.
A very sobering account of the ineptitude of the US govt in pulling out troops and not anticipating the surely obvious collapse of the Afghan army
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/20/biden-afghanistan-kabul-chaos-taliban-evacuation-505600
The US marines are under orders to stay at the airport and not to go into Kabul to bring in nationals and Afghans at risk and must watch as other allied troops do just that.
Biden has left its allies in the lurch having promised Nato they would leave enough infrastructure to allow things to continue but pulled the plug suddenly to the fury of Boris Johnson and the other Nato allies.
I would hope this would show Biden for the dithering idiot he so apparently was, even back last November. How is this all playing in Australia?
This is a significant moment in World History and probably signals the end of the American century as that country hands over the Baton to China..
Perhaps a young, dynamic, tough President serving 2 full terms can retrieve the situation for the US and the West but I don’t see anyone like that on the horizon.
China must be emboldened. Taiwan next? Israel? Ukraine? Does Australia feel threatened?
441
If Australia was threatened, most likely Dan Andrew’s and his belt and road pact with the Chinese will be the start of our capitulation.
200
Of that there is no doubt.
But, when you look back over the last 40+ years it has suited us to ignore the fact that China has a communist government, because we expected that in the longer term as society became more prosperous Communism would just fade away.
Since COVID19 arrived on the scene our relations with China have deteriorated substantially. But I don’t believe that CV19 had much to do with that, although I believe that it was created in a lab and released accidentally, which is bad enough. I think the biggest burr under China’s saddle would be Australia’s calling out their “Belt and Road” program.
That call in its turn was driven by China’s alarming military annexation in the South China Sea. How much more might they seek to annexe?
In the event of any conflict with China there are already a lot of Chinese people living in Australia. There are a lot of Australian citizens with a strong Chines heritage.
A lot of Chinese capital has been invested in Australia. A lot of Australian citizens clearly are not aware of our responsibility to honour those investments, and have not the slightest comprehension of the significance of the economic cost of the CV19 lockdowns in its effect on our capacity to honour those investments..
Chinese scholars have almost open access, including capital invested in our universities. Many of our top medical doctors are Chinese, and practice both in Australia and China. For mutual benefit.
Communism is showing no sign of just fading away. How much longer are we going to be able to live with it?
90
Biden has claimed that none of the allies in Afghanistan (like Oz) have made detrimental comments about the US rout.
It’s about time ScoMo raised his head above the parapets to tell us about his conversation with Biden and whether Biden’s comments are accurate (for once).
I am receiving SMS messages for ex-servicepersons to contact mental health services if the withdrawal is affecting us. Our illustrious leaders are very quiet, as usual, regarding the affect of all of this on those that served over there. No lessons learned from the Vietnam days (my era of service).
By the way, It’s NATO, not Nato
190
The UK have definitely spoken out against Biden. Maybe not Bozo but other senior people have.
200
There has been scathing comment in the UK Sunday newspapers and media about Biden, Johnson is said to have called him Doddery whilst Tony Blair has excoriated Biden.
Can we ever trust the US again? They have left their NATO allies in the lurch and never bothered to consult with the UK who have the second largest concentration of Troops and Nationals over there. We should have seen the writing on the wall when they abandoned Bagram air base in the middle of the night, without warning, several weeks ago
Biden’s apparent disdain for others is reflected in this speech about Vietnam when he was also dismissive about the responsibilities to locals
https://neonnettle.com/news/8030–floppy-joe-biden-fought-to-keep-vietnam-war-refugees-out-of-america
If you have a joint defence pact with the US you had better start looking at repeating that with other nations with similar interests.
90
“Can we ever trust the US again?”
Yes,but not when democrats hold power! US Democrats have zero integrity and historically have abandoned allies.
Taiwan and Israel beware.
160
Britain loses patience with Sleepy Joe: Tony Blair brands Biden an ‘imbecile’ over ‘tragic, dangerous and unnecessary’ decision to quit Afghanistan amid claims Boris remarked ‘we would be better off with Trump’
40
Trump’s Greatest Lines at Alabama Tour Stop: ‘Everything Woke Goes to S**t,’ ‘Vietnam Looks Like Master Class’
Trump certainly had more strong words for Biden as he shared his own thoughts. “This is the greatest humiliation I’ve ever seen,” he said, also offering predictions for the legacy of such a disaster. “Biden’s botched exit in Afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation’s leader. Perhaps at any time that anybody’s ever seen. Name another situation.
He also made quite the comparison to Vietnam, saying “Vietnam looks like a master class in strategy compared to Joe Biden’s. Catastrophe. And it didn’t have to happen. All he had to do is leave the soldiers there until everything’s out.”
60
Looks like the criticism was across the board but Boris wouldn’t comment
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/17/uk-politicians-decry-joe-bidens-defence-of-afghanistan-pullout
50
“I would hope this would show Biden for the dithering idiot he so apparently was, even back last November. ”
Even further back – see Analitik’s comment at #46 here
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/08/weekend-unthreaded-374/#comment-2457212
Seems bin Laden rated Joe more use to the Taliban alive than dead
150
Afghan debacle planned with China in July 2015
https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/afghan-debacle-planned-with-china-in.html
……………………………………
DARPA granted Pfizer and Moderna $32.7 million in 2013 to research mRNA vax https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/darpa-granted-pfizer-and-moderna-327.html
100
China-US Cooperation 2013 plan of Atlantic Council-China Inst. Intl. Studies https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/china-us-cooperation-2013-plan-of.html
00
meet Jake Sullivan, key government player
https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/meet-jake-sullivan-key-government-player.html
00
O say can you see? https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/o-say-can-you-see.html
00
The Taliban would have started planning this in November last year. They knew with Trump. If they crossed the line, a decision on the response would be made with-in minutes.
With the Democrats/swamp back in charge. They would have time to take over the entire country. While the swamp was still holding meetings, to decide what meetings needed to be held, to decide who should be at the meetings, to decide what response (if any) might be best politically.
251
Oh come off it, it was a minor insurgency and the USA decided it had enough of hanging around wasting money and is/was de-emphasizing all entanglements in the ME, including a confrontation with Iran, and is reorganizing forces in Europe, and the USA, plus is moving to consolidate in the Western Pacific between now and 2028, in order to serve longer-term US national interests which fortunately just happen to be very closely aligned to Australia’s national Interests, and are likely to remain that way for the next few generations in the Pacific.
The Chinese get a free-pass from Islamic extremists for now, but that will absolutely be reversing at some point, the only question is when? These are not natural buddies any more than Moscow and Beijing are natural buddies. They are in fact strategic competitors and the Islam fanatics want to control every state, and turn them all into Islamic States, and China will be a major target soon enough.
Endless hyperbolic predictions of the pending demise of the USA as a global power are just boring noise.
56
Wxcycles
Hardly minor. There is actual power and there is the myth of power which together combine to forge a reputation that intimidates or impresses others and projects their culture, trade and political power on the back of the military
We had a pax romana pax brittanica and pax Americana.
The first ended as power and infouence declined when the barbarians first threatened the empire as they wanted to be part of it but we’re excluded and ended in the sacking of rome
The belief in British invincibility faded after the fall of Singapore and that of America we are likely watching happen as American influence visibly weakens with the rout in Saigon the failure in Iraq and to be chased out of a country by nomadic goat herders.
It’s difficult to respect a country who are visibly failing . A strong president serving two terms could probably arrest the decline but it has been happening since Reagan and there is no one on the horizon to rectify it. Is there the will to do so anyway? America has been tearing itself apart the last few years with wokeism challenging its history, BLM and climate fanaticism. It’s traditional values are crumbling.
Hope for a strong leader.
61
Wxcycles
This article explains more eloquently than I can as to why what we are currently witnessing in afghanistan has far more ramifications than you appear to believe
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17670/western-diplomacy-imploring-terrorists
22
Like I need it explained to me by you, and your little link.
Quit the concern-trolling about the status of the USA, no one needs to hear such garbage, people were saying the same rot in 1973, all of it was wrong, and it will be again, the USA has natural power advantages that are not going away any time soon, and China is in a terrible strategic position with no allies and no one who trusts them, with not a lot of good options. The only way they get anywhere from here is with a WWIII level global attack and forced global takeover, which they would be utterly destroyed by. Wake up.
00
“ dithering idiot”
Tony, aptly put. The problem is we have tens of millions of dithering idiots who would vote for him in an instant because he is not Trump. They are the same dithering idiots who have bought “the no MWP narrative” and consequently every weather and non weather event are laid on the doorstep of AGW.
No amount of education Federal funding will help. The problem is a cultural phenomenon in a declining civilization.
140
Biden is not driving anything.
Look at that circus, theater. They left 85,000 military vehicles, 30 aircraft including Black Hawks, stingers, enough equipment to arm an army with the latest military equipment. The Taliban are now flying around in Black Hawks cause they learnt to fly by riding Vespa’s.
I do not think the local Vespa dealer is authorised to do repairs on Black Hawks, probably a warranty thing.
You buying that, they had no experience at withdrawal, they can’t hold the line.
The Taliban were armed for what comes next, the military industrial complex feeds on war.
50
Perhaps a young, dynamic, tough President serving 2 full terms can retrieve the situation for the US and the West but I don’t see anyone like that on the horizon.
How about the best POTUS the US has had, Trump, with the current best GOP politician, DeSantis, as his deputy.
2 years ago the US was the most powerful nation on the planet; it took 4 years of lies, treason and unbelievable corruption by the swamp, big tech and the vile msm to undermine Trump. These fools thought they could resume their parasitic behaviour with a demented liar as their front man. After 7 months of biden the US is a mess and the bad actors of the world, China, Russia, Iran and now the taliban are back in business.
Biden is finished. The extent of the mid term losses to the demorats will depend on how long this despicable man hangs on. But the problem for the demorats is his replacement, camelia, is hated even within her own party.
The problem for the GOP is stopping the inevitable cheating which lost Trump his presidency being repeated at the mid term.
If the GOP win both houses the nonsense of alarmism will again disappear.
110
Of course this time round-unlike Saigon- the internet can be used to promote your victory
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9914793/Taliban-soldiers-MOCK-iconic-World-War-II-image-American-Marines-raising-flag-Iwo-Jima.html
A mocking take on the famous Iwo Jima moment with the Taliban dressed in US military equipment, some of the $80 billion left when America withdrew.
Hoe the Chinese must be smiling at the wests humiliation. There are rich deposits of lithium in Afghanistan and China is in pole position to get it
When we further destroy ourselves by spending trillions on putting together a far inferior energy system in order to combat so called climate change that smile might become outright laughter.
Mind you, the destruction of the Muslim Uighurs by China will surely not sit entirely happily with the ultra religious Muslim Taliban?
63
I agree that climate change has strengthened the Taliban because the policies surrounding it have weakened its adversaries. The whole green new agenda plays into the hands of the Taliban and China and Russia and any aggressors who wish to realign the social and economic landscape. With the help of the UN the use of climate change commitments has rebalance economic and global power from the west to the East. The Taliban and other have been gifted the moral high ground as socialists create a” better more equal “ society. Unless the politics of the west can be shifted back towards a more conservative right evil forces including the Taliban will wreak havoc.and Climate change policy is fundamental to allowing this to happen.
440
The Biden/Harris/Pelosi Administration was never going to cut it in the real world. All they ever had was a hatred for The Donald and anything he was for. This was evident when Nancy Pelosi called on the international community to protect women and girls from the “inhumane treatment by the Taliban.” The President is clueless and Harris is incognito.
There might be a few people in the Democratic hierarchy that know what is happening. We haven’t heard from them. They should resign.
480
l agree that their hated for the Don is all they ever had 😉
even their MSM fan club is starting to turn on them
150
Yes, TDS is a horrible brain disease which seems to damage the part of the brain that makes rational decisions where choice becomes doing the opposite of what Trump would do.
Unfortunately, the opposite of America first is America last.
Either the left doesn’t realize it, doesn’t care or are purposefully destroying the American experiment in freedom and personal responsibility. If they succeed, it will harm more than just America, since it will embolden the anti-freedom forces in other freedom loving countries.
This can easily get away from us since freedom is at a disadvantage and not guaranteed to win. Freedom allows anti-freedom ideologies to be freely expressed, even through the use of blatant lies, while anti-freedom ideologies can only propagate by suppressing dissent.
210
Isn’t it a bit late?
Now that the Taliban have control of all Afghanistan, presumably they will have all the income they need – they can loot their own country, and make deals with other nations such as China.
It’s hard to understand what the US Deep State is thinking and strategising … their level of incompetence, and incapacity to learn anything after decades of failure, is quite breath-taking.
it’s really pathetic to see President Biden defend and even praise the “intelligence community” and the defence brass – buffoons in khaki suits.
[Snip – LVA]
244
” their level of incompetence, and incapacity to learn anything after decades of failure, is quite breath-taking.”
That’s the hard-left for you.
Do you really want to be seen as being one of them ?
202
All the Afghani money has left the country to places like America and Europe and I can’t see it being returned to the Taliban. China will step-in with all sorts of initiatives. Twenty years ago, American geologists quietly wandered the Afghan mountains and stated that there were billions of dollars of minerals ie iron ore. This was before the hunt for rare earth minerals began on a global scale.
80
I’m fascinated by what got snipped after such a reasonable start
70
I don’t know; but I’m going to guess some names best left unsaid were spoken.
00
See ABOVE: “Lara Logan points out that the US funds Pakistan which funds the Taliban and they could turn off the tap anytime”
The rather sinister conclusion, as explained by Lara Logan is that the black hats actually want this out come. Not incompetence. They let it happen it this way.
The next question is why would they do that?
Likely reason is that a Crisis can be manipulated to suspend civil liberties and democracy. The 2020 Presidential election fraud is getting too close to the surface. Those pushing for a review are getting too close to success for comfort.
150
Exactly right, Peter C. The suspension of civil liberties is already happening via the Covid bogeyman, and we’ve been seeing this recently with the protests in Melbourne. Eventually governments will introduce a version of Social Credit, and we’re seeing this as banks are already developing a social credit system, so if you want to own a home the bank will investigate your past texts and online comments.
60
The results being as they are, could only have happened if they were being done intentionally. There’s no way this was an accident or miscalculation. Too many people know exactly what’s going down to mess up this bad. Impossible.
30
The real fear in the Western Nations is that they have NO leadership.
Come on, Prime Minister Trudeau phoned Hillary Clinton to try to get some information on Afghanistan.
How is that for Emergency Contact in an actual crisis?
Our politicians never admit their is any errors or mistakes and as a consequence will follow bad or incorrect policies to it’s conclusion.
Lockdown countries that make no sense in what or politicians are doing…
Hence our governments could take weeks or months to come to decisions.
180
Trudeau phones Hillary for advice,
Trudeau to Canadian embassy “Sorry you’ll have to fend for yourselves while I try to cover my ass”
90
PM Trudeau can’t ask any of his military generals as their all being investigated for sex harassment charges individually.
So, he staying away from any military advice.
40
Sorry I meant allegations.
I believe 2 are receiving charges.
20
I’m old enough to remember when they tried this before …
Oct 9, 2009: Taliban, al Qaeda helped by warming
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/taliban-al-qaeda-helped-global-warming-us-intel/story?id=8786346
130
President Joe Fraud was no doubt paid many $$$ millions to get out & leave all those lovely weapons & other “toys” behind. Deal negotiated by Hunter!
260
HeathLand? I asked, sucking on a cigarette, also supported by the real institute, Heartland, behind this rubbish
New readers please note the following – the graph shown in the post is not in the link, which talks solely about Africa.
Greening (which is just the increase in chloroplasts) is not in any way linked with better production of crops.
The biggest crop increase in Afghanistan is opium, which the USA and its allies did nothing about in their 20 year pillage of that country.
147
Argue with data.. no, not PF.
Make up non-facts, un-backed by data.. that’s the better way for the leftist troll..
Afghanistan gross rural agriculture
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/chart_thumb.png
Get over it.
And Heartland is a far more trustworthy source of real information , than the far-loonie-left CBS will ever be.
And yes CO2 induced plant growth is indeed closely linked to increased crop production
So PF is wrong on every non-point he attempts but fails to make. Its his MO. !
413
Don’t you get sick of your infantile posts always being provably wrong, PF?
343
Peter F, you don’t have a clue. Anyone with any nous can find the Crop Production Index for all countries
By the way the global greening phenomenon has been widely documented, does increase crop yields because it’s associated with increased CO2 AND slows down global warming.
Have a look and be educated PF or do us all a favour and GO AWAY!
390
according to Reuters
“The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan’s GDP, the UNODC reported.”
That is way more than what the [SNIP] above are posting.
As to your link about greening and I will quote directly
“While our study did not address the connection between greening and carbon storage in plants,” So sad to be you then
by the way for the [SNIP!} , carbon storage is sciencey talk for growth, increase the storage increase the growth.
[No more insults from you either PF!]
228
[SNIP insults]
poppies..Only 7% of GDP.. 9,900 tonnes
Whereas wheat is the main food supply 2.7 million hectares 3,000,000 MT in 2018.
Does PF think the Afghan people live on opioids, like he does?
And yes PF CO2 does increase plant growth.. well done.. you got something correct !
233
Clarification….. 3,000,000 MT is 3,000,000 Metric Tonnes
And it was actually more like 3,500,000 metric tonnes
83
which about half of its pre invasion levels – whereas opium is around 10 times that.
315
“half of its pre invasion levels”
Wrong again, [SNIP]
2008, only about 2,600,00 metric tonne of wheat.
Highest level was 2014 under US peace occupation, around 5,200,000 MT.
US starts to draw out, Taliban start to take over, crop reduces.
Absolutely nothing to do with climate.
[Please stop with the personalised insults. If we let you do it, we have to let everyone do it, and before long there is no content left, just insults. It wrecks the threads. OK – J]
143
One day, if you try really hard, you will figure out that 3,500,000 tonnes is a large multiple of 9,900 tonnes.
Its simple maths, so it will take you a while, if you ever become capable.
134
This is not a fraudulent vote.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/08/how-climate-change-helped-the-taliban-dont-blame-joe-blame-fossil-fuels/#comment-2457290
But yes, we’ve been through this before.
00
What are you arguing? Global warming helped a relative increase in opium production compared to wheat? Hence, the claim that global warming led starving Afghans to side with the Taliban is correct?
Even without the large increase in wheat production in the past 30 years, such analysis was extremely rickety.
10
NASA says that greening means more vegetation. No idea about this chloroplasts concept. How would you even measure that and why?
Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming
Increased amount of leaves
Increased green cover during the recent decades
NASA satellites have been observing increased green cover on land, which is thought to be due to intensive agriculture to feed growing populations and ambitious tree-planting programs
Short of saying Greening means more trees, what more can they do? Count them?
220
Is this one of Willis’s positive thermal moderators and climate stabilizers? i.e. evapo-transpiration cools the lower-troposphere and provides consistently higher relative humidity, and higher potential for rain over more area, to produce more evapo-transpiration with time, and more biomass with time? Hence a greening world which does not get much hotter, because it gets wetter and more lush, and creates cooling in the process.
Looks like the earth saving itself, completely naturally, no human intervention was required to moderate and restrain a slightly warming trend. Sans the need for self-appointed green ‘saviors’ with dumb exploitative parasitic legislation, plus tax imposts and a constant attack on production and jobs which defies all logic. As far as the earth is concerned growth is good, human growth is doing not net harm to the biota. The planet did evolve us, we are meant to be here, and to do the things humans naturally do, like build cities. Looking out side right now and the birds and other animals about seem to love our suburban life. I have healthy tropical coral reef growing only 5 km away from the city center. Finding it hard to see humans, cities and heavy-industry as unable to coexist with little problem. Some how 1.3 million people can live in mostly Eastern China, and it’s sustainable.
What amazes me is greenies only see damage and degradation, they never want to acknowledge that damage or degradation are naturally and rapidly healing, and recovery is practically certain. Happens all the time.
I was watching this home building show on TV recently and this sincere bearded hipster type was waffling about the environment and how his project needed to use manual traditional tools that take ~30 times as long to do the same job, and how bad it would be to make cuts with a chainsaw, as it creates so much, “nasty pollution”.
It never entered his mind that the pollution does not accumulate endlessly, the earth is in fact self-cleaning, it de-pollutes itself, it’s a self-‘saving’ planet. No need for greenie hipsters, just go ahead and use the chainsaw, the atmosphere, water and biota are stubbornly healthy, it seems to like us. Most of what we do just provides a home or food for something else, and new opportunities for growth, and regrowth.
We’re doomed!
60
“Looks like the earth saving itself, completely naturally”. Sure except as I point out so often, this group of mathematicians have predicted the past and the future with great accuracy. Simply by blind Fourier Analysis. Two cycles only were necessary and as confirmation they turned out to be well known and the biggest two. To me that is great science. A blind prediction met with established fact where the computer models have never been right and cannot explain the past let alone predict the future (which after 33 years of this is now the past)
So this idea that we humans have any effect at all is close to preposterous, except on the very smallest scale for a short time. There is no evidence at all of our influence, volcanoes, bushfires, global shutdown on the graph of CO2. It is busted. Rather, I would suggest we are insignificant until proven otherwise. If we can see little seasonal bumps in CO2, why can’t we see anything else?
The massive oceans and sun dominate our planet and the oceans do not release their energy quickly, so unlike the land. And at 3.4km deep, the great ocean masses are insulated by kms of water which rarely even comes in contact with the air and our world. So 1400x the heat capacity of he air and always above 0C, the oceans are the biggest solar battery on the planet and store thousands of years of solar energy. And they have well known cycles which dramatically affect our world. Surface effects like La Nina, the Indian Dipole, the PDO and Atlantic oscilations, Gulf Stream, Humboldt Stream and such. So we humans study the thin air, which can change 40C in one day. This is a water planet. It’s about time the upper atmosphere physicists like James Hansen realised they are almost irrelevant instead of being Climate Gods. We came from the oceans and they control this planet and its atmosphere.
While the proponents of man made Global Warming and man made Climate Change are looking to tiny CO2 and a 50% increase in CO2 over 150 years, it is much more likely that warming oceans simply release a little more CO2 than that tiny CO2 produces any detectable effect at all. One is simple, obvious science and the other is completely unproven and unlikely, even outrageous conjecture.
So it’s going to get colder quickly. And somehow the Global Warming will become Global Cooling, caused by Climate Change caused by a 0.3% increase in CO2 per year over 150 years, caused by man. Pull the other leg.
70
Pleas note, PF, if you click on the link Jo provided, then look in the upper RH side, you’ll see a link dated 20 Aug 21, “No, CBS News, Global Warming Did Not Create Taliban Victory”.
The graph provided by Jo is at that link. Same author.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/08/no-cbs-news-global-warming-did-not-create-taliban-victory/
Let’s be a bit more charitable, shall we?
170
The biggest crop increase in Afghanistan is opium, which the USA and its allies did nothing about in their 20 year pillage of that country.
Indeed – and it’s worth considering who in the US Establishment might have benefited enormously from the opium/heroin trade that starts in Afghanistan.
[Snip. LVA ]
48
Hunter…. and 10% for the “Big Man”?
154
Wrong father & son … try Bush Senior and Bush Junior.
00
China-US Cooperation 2013 plan of Atlantic Council-China Inst. Intl. Studies https://balance10.blogspot.com/2021/08/china-us-cooperation-2013-plan-of.html
00
The only thing that sticks out, a negative AMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_multidecadal_oscillation#/media/File:Atlantic_Multidecadal_Oscillation.svg
21
Still 5he winds blow back to the West at the surface. No incursions of cloud even though SSTs are warm contiguous to WA.
10
“Just an increase in chloroplasts”. Good heavens !!! Chloroplasts are where light energy is converted into chemical energy. This is where the molecules formed by photosynthesis provide food for the plant. The more chloroplasts -the more food produced -the more the plant grows.
00
PeterFitzroy is correct, in part.
Afghanistan’s most significant crop is opium.
The money receipts do not, did not go to the Taliban or any Afghani, they went to the US CIA, not the US government. It was a private venture run by and for staff only, off the books. The CIA ran the supply chain.
That is why the CIA was so hysterically anti-Trump as he stated the intention to withdraw.
Data on this is not in economic statistics compilations.
22
In other words, you have no evidence supporting it, we must just take your word on this.
The CIA is a strategic intelligence agency, that’s all it is. It runs intelligence operations in close relationship with diplomatic and military operations, a system of agencies tasked with getting Washington policies done. Pretending it’s something else doesn’t make it true. That’s what books and movies do, publish click-bait versions of reality. Best leave in in the Cinema.
11
“Afghanistan’s most significant crop is opium.”
If you want to say “export” crop. ok there may be an argument for that.
But their most significant crop by far is Wheat, by a factor of some x 250 !
41
Note new readers, Peter Fitzroy is trolling. The link is to the blog of the guy who came across this from a reputable source.
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Afghanistan/cereal_yield/
The link is to the cereal yield plot as claimed. It’s a strong positive trend as claimed. Jo is not misinforming.
20
How Climate Change helped the Taliban — don’t blame Joe, blame fossil fuels
‘The ride against the stupid never ends.’
150
I have a rule when dealing with the Left.
Never say “how more stupid can they get”.
They see it as a challenge.
392
Yeah but if they didnt have things with constantly moving goal posts, they would actually have to have to upstanding normal citizens….most of us grow out if the teenager stage and become mature.
190
Solar panels can stop the taliban? Are they bullet proof?
The British, Russians and Americans have all tried to tame afghanistan, all failed.
I had this russian turn up one day back in 1995 to repair a computer. I asked why he emigrated to Oz. He said all his mates in the military had been killed in Afghanistan so he wanted a change.
232
The opium crop is doing fantastically well. Too bad they don’t put the same effort into growing food.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/frontpage/2021/May/afghanistan_-37-per-cent-increase-in-opium-poppy-cultivation-in-2020–while-researchers-explore-novel-ways-to-collect-data-due-to-covid-19.html
132
Note that is for illicit drug use, not legal medical use which comes from places like Tasmania, Australia.
82
They do! Afghanistan produced more than double the total cereal crop in 2018 compared with 1961.
However and according to Reuters last week:
70
Jo you’re always on the money with a timely article. Blaming the insurgent Taliban on climate change is all the alarmists thinkers have left in their tank. From a recent commentary in the Epoch Times:
The new reality is that more people are waking up to climate alarmism. The wilder the claims (like How Climate Change helped the Taliban) the worse it becomes for the alarmist cause. One of my friends has a son who worked in mining for years and made good money, investing in property. He met a girl who happened to be a climate alarmist and now he’s joined Extinction Rebellion and sports a wild black beard. He looks like a Taliban without the keffiyeh!
50
That one dynamically uprising graph of Crop yields in Afghanistan, on its own, is sufficient to undo the current Leftist ‘Climate Change’-Taliban lies. If the Leftists had any spare time, they could look into the real cause of violence in Afghanistan which is Islam. Islam came to Afghanistan between the 8th and 10th, Centuries and finally completed its hold on the country as late as the 19th. Century.
140
What is not being mentioned, apart from this transparently silly idea is opium.
When Russia invaded Afghanistan, they did it to stop the opium, the major cash crop of Afghanistan. It is killing tens of thousands of young people every year. And supplies 80% of the heroin which is devastating countries throughout Europe.
However America did not like Russian expansion, so they armed and trained the Taliban/Mujadaheen. Especially a young Osama Bin Laden. Much as four decades before they trained Ho Chi Minh to eject the French from Vietnam. And in every city in Russia there are poignant memorials to the Black Tulips, the transports which brought the coffins home from Vietnam. Young men often killed with American weapons. The Russians left and the Mujadaheen became a major threat, resulting in 9/11 which finally brought the wrath of the world down on Afghanistan. But slowing the heroin trade at its source remains a major motive.
None of this is mentioned.
170
TdeF this far more nuanced history is worth a read.
In the spring of 2002, British officials floated an irresistible offer. They agreed to pay Afghan poppy farmers $700 an acre — a fortune in the impoverished, war-ravaged country — to destroy their crops.
Word of the $30 million program ignited a poppy-growing frenzy. Farmers planted as many poppies as they could, offering part of their yield to the British while selling the rest on the open market. Others harvested the opium sap right before destroying their plants and got paid anyway.
Patrick Fine, who served as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director for Afghanistan from 2004 to 2005, said these are just poor peasant farmers. “If we treat them like enemies then we are just making enemies. If we are trying to stabilize the country we don’t want to turn the populace against us. They’ve been growing poppies for a thousand years here and if we rip out their fields we are impoverishing them. ”
80
Yes, there is a lot more to the story, but opium poppies are the cause of the problem, not oil, not islam, not the people and certainly not Climate Change. And if Russia and America and the EU cooperated in terms of helping the people instead of fighting these proxy wars, the world would be far better off. Not least the Afghan people. The idea that the problem is Climate Change is tragically st*pid.
100
And what has been achieved in Afghanistan will not be forgotten quickly. Perhaps half the women were educated or in school and while still Muslim, saw what life could be like. This is also true in Iran, which is still a minority Arab controlled military dictatorship. The Persians in contrast were ultra sophisticated people whose religion and arts far predated even Judaism, as with the Hindu in India who begat Buddhism. And their brand of Islam is different again, Shiite, not Sunni. And Opium is a curse for every society.
As with the 1960s cold war, people see that life is much better in Western democracies and consumer societies. The genie is out of the bottle.
In so many Arab (male) dominated countries, the local people can see a better life than endless misery and eternal violence. It is hard to deny people their freedom forever, at least half the population. So I am optimistic that the sacrifices made have not been in vain. It will become harder and harder for violent dictators to maintain control with 6th century dark ages logic and the oppression of their own people. I hope.
31
Time to look at the DATA of the real planet Earth AGAIN.
Willis has begged the LW loonies to show him their EMERGENCY but no takers AGAIN. And Ditto Biden’s EXISTENTIAL threat.
BUT they just love their fantasy planet and retreat again and again by yapping about more of their BS and FRA-d.
BTW check out his crops etc and many graphs proves his case AGAIN.
We’ve never been so well off than we are in 2021. Even with the annoying pandemic.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/25/wheres-the-emergency/
101
And Dr Christy also puts their so called emergency to the test.
Many graphs that show the actual data and a very thorough investigation of their so called HOT SPOT. Please WAKE UP.
https://www.thegwpf.com/putting-climate-change-claims-to-the-test/
71
O/T 8-19-21 Then I found an article on an experiment done at none other than the University of California, which just so happens to include one Professor Robert (Bob) Hunt, who by pure coincidence is Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt’s brother and who receives funding through a foundation called The Hunt Lab, as does his other brother Professor John Hunt at the University of NSW.
UNSW has coincidentally received millions in grants from Greg Hunt and the Federal Government. UCI ‘grant funded’ experiments discovered they could remote control the heartbeat of a mouse, speeding it up or down remotely by way of graphene. https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Biointerface_Optically_Controls_Heart/a63489 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26960413/
…Google Mind Medicine a ‘foundation’ created by Greg Hunt’s other brother, Peter Hunt and Mind Med, a friend of big pharma.
And his other brother Steven Hunt is the Director of graphene company Sparc https://sparctechnologies.com.au/about-us/directors-and-management/ and sits on the board of the ‘Graphene Enabled Industry….
https://cairnsnews.org/2021/08/19/health-minister-hunts-family-involvement-in-graphene-and-vaccines/
90
The Taliban have declared that the official name of Afghanistan is the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the same name it used when it brutally ruled the country in the 1990s.
I notice the Left don’t seem to have a problem with the Taliban, especially with their treatment of women. Well, it’s because Leftists like Yasmin Abdel-Magid declared the religion of the Taliban “the most feminist of all religions”.
It was pathetic watching a CNN reporter don a hijab and then stand to the side of the road because only men can walk in the middle of a road/footpath/sidewalk.
https://youtu.be/W-omY20pMNM
122
The left conveniently ignore the video tapes of stoning women buried up to their necks in Afghanistan.Yet they scream sexual abuse when an imagined verbal slight to women shows up on video in America.
50
Crops? You’re all missing the elephant in the room, namely Lithium.
Afghanistan has deposits worth around $1 trillion making them the #2 source on Earth or maybe even equal the #1 of Bolivia. And Beijing sock-puppet Biden just handed it all to China. So maybe the massive eff-up wasn’t one in reality…
150
The last mining boom Afghanistan had was 2000 years ago under Alexander the Great. The country has been mostly dysfunctional since then except for a few slave operated lapis lazuli mines and some other minor operations.
However, because of the geology of Afghanistan there are a large concentration of useful minerals there. It is due to a past tectonic plate collision and upheaval of the Indian-European, Asian and African plates.
The Chinese know this and will strip it bare. They will not pussyfoot with the Taliban but ruthlessly slaughter them if they don’t cooperate.
Most people are unaware that China has a border with Afghanistan.
202
where do you get your information? Afghanistan doesn’t rate in the top six lithium reserves…
Reuters
My intel has it that China is very nervous about Taliban lest they train the Uighur.
30
Nigel Farage in Newsweek claims a minimum of $1 trillion lithium reserves.
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-just-handed-afghanistans-mineral-wealth-china-opinion-1620722
51
https://www.mining.com/1-trillion-motherlode-of-lithium-and-gold-discovered-in-afghanistan/
71
Increasingly as much Chinese/Manchurian candidate as leftist sock puppet. His appalling run away, mumbling performance where his holidays are more important than his job is a disaster for his promoters and VP Harris is making an unexpected quick trip to Vietnam. Which has a great measure of irony given the last rooftop embassy evacuation. You can write in the Republicans for the mid term 2022 elections, even without Wuhan Flu. Plus many of the lockdown State Governors. And already the fake news outlets are attacking Trump.
And our very own leftie Bob Carr (of missing First Class pajamas fame) on the front page of the Australian is blaming George Bush for what has happened in Afghanistan. Perhaps he should blame Abraham Lincoln too?
121
We can’t really complain about the Taliban too much. Australia is heading in the same direction, as is most of the West.
This is an overseas report of what happened in Australia yesterday.
As Australia descends even further into dictatorship, the police will progress from rubber bullets and tear gas to real bullets.
https://www.opindia.com/2021/08/australia-police-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-thousands-protest-against-lockdown/
145
I found the most interesting aspect of yesterday’s protests was the police response. I cannot remember any similar response to any other protest during the virus era. What ever happened to the usual stand back and wave them through police response?
It’s not like there were two rival groups to keep separate. The aggressive police response may well draw more to the next protest. And as the wise men say, nothing happens by accident.
241
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
These famous lines, which open A Tale of Two Cities, hint at the novel’s central tension between love and family, on the one hand, and oppression and hatred, on the other
110
Enjoy this.
50
This will brighten anyone’s day
http://newtube.app/user/MyAmericana/pg7jyZ3
an excellent response to the covid dictatorship.
50
Nice ! 🙂
11
Maybe advertise it as a “People’s Lives Matter” protest ?
73
Your opindia link delivers fake news. It was pepper bullets not rubber bullets.
18
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/hundreds-take-to-melbourne-streets-as-part-of-antilockdown-protest/news-story/5770791e6f045137851fd1c91087838b
113
I have to agree with Peter on this one. The photos show the gun used is very similar to the pepperball guns here: https://www.pepperball.com/products/vks/ They are widely used overseas.
10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04fqSIGSwo&t=18s
10
like these rubber bullets at the VicDanistan Melbourne protest yesterday David 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd3dNmHgcMw
80
So fill me in. I see the pepper spray (the fluffy white stuff) yes? I can hear some pops (maybe) but it’s not clear what they were. Were you there? Can you tell us what happened?
10
I wasn’t there but the rubber bullets were widely reported as were pictures of guns to fire the rubber bullets. In the video Marksman posted you can see rubber bullets fired at the ground.
You can see pics and confirmatory text of the guns used to fire the rubber bullets here.
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/hundreds-take-to-melbourne-streets-as-part-of-antilockdown-protest/news-story/5770791e6f045137851fd1c91087838b
92
Australia is being turned into a full-on dictatorship in a failed attempt to fight a virus.
It won’t end well.
132
Rebel news was in the thick of it and there were thousands of people not hundreds. They also contrasted the July rally, where the police stood calmly aside. This time the police were armed and dangerous and in full riot gear with tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, batons . We have watched the police in Britain, Germany, Brussels etc escalate the violence. The Victorian police are one step away from shooting people.
This all part of a grand plan and it is worrying.
70
this report from Avi shows a guy who was shot by the police with a rubber bullet from 1m away at 4:52
https://www.rebelnews.com/the_world_needs_to_witness_what_police_did_in_melbourne_yesterday?utm_campaign=ay_melbteargas_8_22_21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
having a background in firearm safety l particularly have big problems with anyone menacingly pointing firearms at anyone or anything,
from watching through several videos l can say l saw police taunt protesters while intimidatingly pointing these automatic rifles at them,
these rifles are real and are not toys, the rubber bullets will ricochet causing severe harm
l do not believe how unsafe these police have been trained to be, its unbelievable
we can see why Dandemic recruited 3000 more police as well as buying the 600 AR rifles for the police
of course it is all for the public health LOL
200
It’s only a matter of time before the police kill someone, either accidentally or deliberately, and I am absolutely not joking. And those 3000 extra police weren’t recruited to fight crime, existing police are not even allowed to do anything about the various ethnic crime gangs. The focus will be on people control such as enforcement of lockups or revenue raising such as booking motorists for trivial offences like speeding 2kph over the limit.
143
Jo
More here
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/08/dear-mr-glare-your-response-to-a-sub-officer-who-said-here-we-go-boys-come-on-pussies-here-we-go.html
40
Pepperball launchers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04fqSIGSwo&t=18s
20
Agreed.
Even though the Covidiots were very dumb to have a potential super-spreader event, and therefore prolong the lockdowns, I thought the police response was very aggressive and not necessary.
Even relying on the public health order doesn’t fully explain their military tactics. As a veteran of some pretty wild Vietnam Moratorium demos from the 1970s, I don’t recall anything as aggressive.
88
There was certainly no similar response for the Melbourne BLM protest held last year during the height of that lockdown.
200
Good grief. Such hyperbolic over-exaggeration is ridiculous.
618
The rubber bullets are already there, and pepper spray.
Dan wants complete control,
… nothing can be allowed to get in his way,
… nothing is beyond what he will do.
165
The Sydney march was interesting, the police went after the big right-wing fellas, takes half a dozen constables to bring one down.
‘… nothing is beyond what he will do.’
Stick to climate change, you’re failing political science.
There are limitations on what the Premiers can do in regards to crowd control, they have an arsenal at their disposal, but I think they’ll settle for tackling the right wing thugs to the ground.
25
“you’re failing political science.”
And you are only pretending you have a clue. !
Everyone sees through the facade though, El G.
31
Beyond the facade is a Realpolitik Utopian Socialist.
20
Even that is a facade.
00
No rubber bullets, not yet anyway. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A04fqSIGSwo&t=18s
10
so, hard plastic balls filled with pepper.
Fired at velocity from close range….
Ok , that sounds totally reasonable 😉
61
it certainly does look like you are right PeterS they do look like the less lethal rifles
just wondering, how did you know about them? LOL
and because they can use a variety of different ammunitions including rubber bullets
how do you know they were not using rubber bullets?
anyway as you would know they are still a firearm
the police were using unsafe firearm practices pointing them at peoples faces or even chests,
having been an attendee at the Belgian armorers from FN Herstal promotion a few years ago l have been informed how deadly the less lethal firearms can be if used in an unacceptable unsafe manor
50
after seeing this report about the Qld protests l am not wondering why so many from Vicdanistan have gone to Qld to live, it certainly makes us wetbacks down south look like fools in a communist state
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoJnFkfjiN4
10
When you see posts that inexplicably seem to support Dictator Daniel Andrews it is likely because he spends vast amounts of money paying people to write nice things about him (such as in the post above saying his personal police force didn’t fire rubber bullets).
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/daniel-andrews-spends-nearly-800000-on-facebook-pushing-cult-of-dan/video/08b54d4ed8b9b0827cd092bb4e77f307
172
Victoria taxpayer’s monies for a politically based public relations campaign preparing for the next state election.
Reserve the usual union donations for the official campaigning period.
130
I think they were pepperball rounds not rubber bullets, using something like this: https://www.pepperball.com/products/vks/
30
Ok, but they do have a number of projectile options.
https://www.pepperball.com/product_cat/projectiles/
Rubber was widely reported in the media.
But whether it was rubber projectiles or some other type of projectile, they were still firing at people. It’s not what we are used to in Australia.
61
I tried to have a close at the video and the photos to see what they used. It’s impossible to tell for sure but it does appear to match closer a pepperball launcher than a firearm that fires rubber bullets. In any case, it’s not good. There is no excuse to use such weapons as there was no danger of a riot or damage to property. It’s another example of the states going overboard. The police are instructed by thugs in high office. If they did that sort of thing to a truckles blockade people would most likely be dead on both sides. Truckies don’t typically put up with that sort of thuggish behaviour from the police.
70
the pepperball rifle does shoot rubber bullets PeterS
in fact the pepperball rifle even shoots projectiles that will break glass
https://www.pepperball.com/product_cat/projectiles/
a paintball gun shoots at a velocity of 180fps
where these tactical less lethal pepperball rifles can shoot projectiles at 425fps,
the pepperball shoots up to 20 shots per second up to 150ft accurately
https://www.pepperball.com/products/vks/
these are not toys that you would be pointing at peoples faces
its quite funny reading the safety data sheets it explains how you should avoid breathing dust/fume/gas/mist/vapours/spray from the Live X tm pepperballs LOL
as well as to wear a face shield and safety glasses, very amusing
40
It’s hard to decide whether the Afghan situation is the fault of the left, or the far right. The only reason there has been a continuing war there since 2003, is it has been a wonderful money laundering facility, for the military-industrial complex. Few of those billions actually crossed the Potomac. Any that made it to Afghanistan were channelled into the pockets of the grateful local power elite. The 300 000 army was probably 50 000, who the commanders didn’t bother to pay. Billions went into Dubai banks from ghost soldiers, and rampant corruption. This could well be history’s greatest clusterf, presided over by rabid greed in both countries. This is capitalism at it’s most venal. Maybe the problem is not terrorists getting into the west; maybe the worse infection for us, will be the corrupt escaping?
Afghanistan is the poster child of the US’s far right! Here is a country with no government, women are slaves, and everyone has a gun – utopia!
And then we have the left’s welcoming arms, crying out for thousands to be allowed into our cesspits of racism, colonialism, greed, sexism and islamophobia. Why are they fleeing a regime and culture, that the left snuggles up to? (the enemy of my enemy is my friend)
Why should young western men go and die, for people who are unwilling to help themselves?
One of islam’s best hooks is :- you do what you are told, and we will give you control of the women. (also, you can keep some of the loot, and you can get your family to heaven!)
Clusterf thy name is Afghanistan.
70
The fault is everyone’s. The West, East and Russia have no business being there in the first place.
21
And exactly the same thing could be said about the Pakistani originated Taliban invaders.
00
Interesting clip of Julian Assange and his take on the Afghanistan war 2011.
http://uploads1.newtube.app/TonyHeller/Goz4EH7
20
One of the reasons China invaded Tibet was so they could control most of Asia’s water supply.
I assume they will soon be building dams in or near Afghanistan to control its water supply and that of surrounding countries like Iran and Pakistan.
There are already actual or emerging water disputes between Iran and Pakistan and Afghanistan.
China is ideally placed to play one off against the others and gain control of all three.
Also, the Chicomms are much smarter, better educated, more organised and more forward planning than the Afghans.
152
And Pakistan and India. China has built a dam on the Indian side of the border for Pakistan. I suppose their aim is to gain Indian territory and control of the water supply. The belts and road show in Ethiopia is building a dam across the Nile for water conservation and electricity generation and stuff Egypt down stream. Countries along the Mekong are being starved of water by Chinese dams,Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are all under water pressure.
50
The Chinese communist party is getting away with ZIP reduction in co2 emissions until 2060.
Amazing that China and all the so called DEVELOPING countrie’s emissions have SOARED for at least 20+ years and will for decades to come.
But Aussies’ emissions are just 1.1% of the TOTAL and YET WE’RE HOUNDED by the corrupt, clueless MSM + pollies all around the world. JUST UNBELIEVABLE but TRUE.
And China is against any emissions changes to COP 21 via COP 26 in Glasgow in NOV.
Of course Aussies are already NET ZERO and so is the ENTIRE SH. So why fall for their BS and FRA-D?
https://www.thegwpf.com/cop26-china-warns-it-wont-accept-changes-to-the-paris-agreement/
80
“History is made by stupid people”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDAJsrcbVGsa4&v=AJsrcbVGsa4&feature=emb_rel_end
30
DON’T FORGET that even the KERRY DONKEY understands the FUTILITY of their so called NET ZERO.
EVEN IF the USA and CHINA went to NET ZERO it WOULD NOT CHANGE ANYTHING.
And the Royal Society + the US NAS report tell us it wouldn’t make any difference for climate or temp if EVERY COUNTRY changed to NET ZERO today. FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
SEE the Zickfeld study and even maths guru Nic Lewis partly agrees with the Zickfeld study.
And the very LW Conversation also agrees that it wouldn’t make any difference. WAKE UP and of course their definitely is NO CLIMATE CRISIS at all. DUH?
https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/04/21/john-kerry-again-admits-u-s-china-cuts-do-nothing-to-solve-climate-crisis/
101
H (“Henri” continued from last unthreaded)
This one must be super serious!
“Hurricane Henri Silences New York City’s Star Studded COVID Comeback Concert”
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/08/21/hurricane-henri-silences-new-york-citys-star-studded-covid-comeback-concert/
40
No Climate Catastrophe- Travis T. Jones & the Missing Heat
https://travistjones.bandcamp.com/releases
It’s a protest song.
I suffered for my music, now it’s your turn.
60
Too Cool. . 😎. 👍
00
Money being changed for money for another side. All are laughing all the way to the bank. Not so the tax payers and those innocent lives lost.
This is nothing more than a weak diversion by the left to a critical error made by the administration.
Well trained operatives will gain access to American soil which is the continues plan of the IS to use the chaos as means to infiltrate.
Give it few years IS will rise better organised in our own backyards. No war ever ended, it just keeps rolling and oppression of any kind is just the subtle hint that it still exists.
Death by “the science” if you haven’y noticed yet.
30
There is something fundamentally wrong with the troops withdrawal strategy. Why on earth would you pull the troops before evacuating the civilians, unless you wanted to risk the lives of civilians and end up with a giant cluster F…?.
And then we see the Democrat’s MSM propaganda-arm pile on Biden, instead of asking what ice cream he’s eating and Kamala Harris running away to Vietnam. The only sensible conclusion anyone can draw is that the Dems have decided to pull the trigger on old Hidin Biden and made him sign off on the flawed withdrawal strategy to then use the fallout as justification to replace him with Harris. As we have seen, the CNN lead MSM only write what they are told to write by their political masters and to see them pile on is a sure sign that his use-by-date has arrived. Setting him up for failure was all too easy but needed to justify moving him to the nearest nursing home to full time care and moving Harris to the ‘Woke House’.
Watch this space, because I’m betting he’ll be gone by Xmas.
110
I forgot to add..
The only thing missing from this saga was for Joe to offer free art works to the Taliban leaders, from his son’s reserve collection – in exchange for their cease fire and retreat back to their caves.
70
One theory is the US had arranged for the Taliban lords to have an orderly exit for the US and civilians. Then those lower down the chain either didn’t get the right instructions or were too zealous so they took over Kabul sooner that they were supposed to.
50
The way this is collapsing – which bit of the US (dis)organisation, did they tell other parts and did those listen?
40
One thing is for sure. If this was under Trump’s watch he would have either made sure the withdrawal was done much better and even if the same thing happened he would have re-invaded Afghanistan to protect foreign personnel at all costs with all guns blazing. I wonder how many US and other country innocent men, women and children have already been raped and murdered thanks to Biden. I suppose we will never know.
130
Absolutely. Trump and Pompeo had a detail plan laid out to first withdraw US civilians and SIVs and then pull back troops and equipment in a controlled withdrawl while maintaining airstrike capability to ensure the Taliban kept back.
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pompeo-trump-admin-afghanistan-taliban-biden-1619968
90
I hear there are thousands of Americans still over there. Only time will tell what will happen to them. I also see that Trump had a plan but Biden terminated it. Biden has blood on his hands, and possibly PM Morrison does too for not following Trump’s plan alone instead of trusting Biden.
80
TENS of thousands and the US troops are restricted to defending the perimeter of the airport.
The Brits and French are sending out soldiers to escort their expats to to the airport to be flown out and the commander of the US 82nd Airborne asked the commander of the Brit paratroopers to stop because it made the US look bad (Get Stuffed was the essence of the response)
Meanwhile the White House has issued an advisory note for US citizens not to approach the airport for their own safety.
You couldn’t make this stuff up
100
This is turning into a major disaster. PM Morrison must come clean and explain what the hell is going on and stop pretending it’s all OK.
50
Its all okay, the Chinese are coming.
42
Forgot to put in some links
https://www.realcleardefense.com/2021/08/21/general_tells_british_special_forces_stop_rescuing_people_in_kabul_790962.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/21/us-americans-kabul-airport-security-concerns-biden-austin-pentagon-taliban
70
Yes agreed !!!
Trump would have ordered a final strike to weaken the Taliban before the exit, to make sure the new forces had a head start and also to ensure a smooth exit for civilians, which would be removed before the troops.
80
Malicious compliance.
The plan for Afghanistan was that the war should go on forever, and to this end they want to ensure greatest pain for whoever wants it to stop.
60
Pre- and Post-Covid I guess
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!”
Last verse of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Young British Soldier”
50
Hasn’t anyone noticed how Trump was banned from Twitter for allegedly leading an insurrection yet the Taliban who successfully conducted an insurrection have their own Twitter accounts and are permitted to keep them. I suppose that’s just another example of where companies like Twitter hold their allegiance. I wish I could say we will one day have Nuremberg 2.0 and see leaders of companies like Twitter and all Western political leaders brought to trial (yes including our PM Morrison in spite of his likely excuse “I’m just following orders”) for crimes against humanity for perpetrating two of the biggest scams ever started and currently in play but somehow I doubt that will happen given the power these people have.
140
Yes, unbelievable that President Trump had his Twitter account cancelled but some of the world’s worst terrorists and most evil people are allowed to keep theirs.
161
Anyone know if this is for real? If it is then we better take his advice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Dv5TCXf_g
Date of event
70
I don’t know if it’s for real but I have seen much “chatter” to that effect on social media.
41
Charging in to Afghanistan sounds great, rescue westerners. Yeah!
What happens when the Taliban start taking hostages??
Some media person reckoned 95% of American people will be happy getting out. And 95% of the media hate it. He’s taken on the establishment, and is copping it, like Trump did. The establishment is happy sending poor people to wars.
Good luck with doing ‘getting out’ better. This conflict has been a shambles forever, with those running it, just bare-faced lying to the public.
There’s a new book – The Afghanistan Papers – that proves the commanders knew what the situation was, and they just lied to keep it going. That’s what the outcry is about now. They wanted another 20 years. How many young Americans do you think should die, fighting for people whose main interest is ripping them off?
60
How many should die? Not enough according to the way Biden is handling the crisis. He must be so mentally sick he wants thousands of them to die now. If anyone is to be impeached, it has to be him.
70
WTF???
11
Judge Jeanine Pirro not mincing her words in eight minutes of powerful truth telling which can be extrapolated to cover just about anything that has gotten worse rather than better in this century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCOMrgD2lg
50
It’s articles like this where Climate Change is blamed for anything from hangnail to global terrorism that have completely undermined my faith in journalism and most of the people calling themselves “science”. There’s astoundingly little pushback and if you mention to people how ridiculous it all is, they act like you farted in the elevator but then won’t even try to discuss the problem. Telling big lies has become a kind of social and religious activity, a bit like singing hymns or ritual cleansing.
Probably a mix of factors … Biden isn’t the most competent leader right now, and it would not surprise me in the least if the military brass deliberately made the messiest withdrawal they could think of in order to make civilian leadership look bad.
There’s a Scott Horton interview here Matthew Hoh explains that a heck of a lot of the military command knew perfectly well that Afghanistan was a failed strategy but shrugged and went along with it anyhow. In private they didn’t even bother contradicting him, but in public they kept right on waving the flag and sending in their reports where everything was going great. Classic political corruption … only the “Yes Men” get promoted.
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/8-17-21-matthew-hoh-on-the-systemic-failures-behind-americas-loss-in-afghanistan/
I think that big organizations attract that kind of jobsworth style of evil banality where disasters just happen and it’s no one’s fault. The military is one such example, but our medical system is not a whole lot better.
100
So who fills the vacuum? Is that not the real reason? Its not incompetency, it’s “what the swamp wants.”
70
You’d have to be living under a rock to think that US occupation in Afghanistan would change a thing with their culture. It was in response to 9/11. That’s all. It was not a war for ownership, far from it, the US doesn’t do that. Any country we would take over would be 75% welfare state recipients. No thank you.
90
What are they feeding the poppies with? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Those evil white men … Irony, as it is a key ingredient in explosives, WWI might not of taken place without this discovery which was plant food for the masses.
20
At first they came for the dogs …
Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to COVID-19 restrictions
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/rescue-dogs-shot-dead-by-nsw-council-due-to-covid-19-restrictions-20210821-p58ksh.html
60
Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honored distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19
“Since March 2020, when IVM was first used against a new global scourge, COVID-19, more than 20 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have tracked such inpatient and outpatient treatments.
Six of seven meta-analyses of IVM treatment RCTs reporting in 2021 found notable reductions in COVID-19 fatalities, with a mean 31% relative risk of mortality vs. controls.
The RCT using the highest IVM dose achieved a 92% reduction in mortality vs. controls (400 total subjects, p<0.001).
During mass IVM treatments in Peru, excess deaths fell by a mean of 74% over 30 days in its ten states with the most extensive treatments.
Reductions in deaths correlated with extent of IVM distributions in all 25 states with p<0.002.
Sharp reductions in morbidity using IVM were also observed in two animal models, of SARS-CoV-2 and a related betacoronavirus.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297521000883
80
A twofer, stops covid, worms, and microscopic mites that lay eggs under your skin.
20
Ivermectin will definitely kill the the Lamb -da …
SARS-CoV-2 lambda variant escapes immune response via spike mutations
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210820/SARS-CoV-2-lambda-variant-escapes-immune-response-via-spike-mutations.aspx
50
Do you have a reference Travis? I can see no mention of Ivermectin in that paper.
21
Sorry.
I was attempting satire, as Ivermectin can be used as a sheep dip, and the name of that variant has ‘lamb’ in it.
40
Ever had acne @40? Huh?
11
Must be an allergy to dairy products …
02
What were the circumstances pre-1944 Rachael Carson?
11
Or how about Russia or Napoleon’s time pre 1900?
02
Get me off here Jo
11
What are you doing blip?
40
Blip is going “blip, blip… blip”…. at random 🙂
21
Is blip a bot?
00
Afghanistan: Helping Biden Be Even Worse!
20
there is no one better at telling the truth through comedy than JP Sears 😉
l especially like the speaking “Bidenese” language comment LOL
thanks for posting
10
Off of here Jo
03
Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen talks about Afghanistan, China and lithium. (10.5 mins)
https://youtu.be/5FlTfuMapFE
It’s all coming together for the Left.
The Chicomms provide the means of the West complying with the Western Civilisation destroying anthropogenic global warming fraud such as solar panels and windmills.
In Afghanistan the Chicomms will soon get control of two important elements to do it such as lithium for batteries and cobalt as used in many permanent magnets for windmills and also used in batteries.
Plus the leader of the West, the United States is further degraded and humiliated to the benefit of aspiring super power China.
61
Are Lebron, Oprah, and Michael
Jordan emigrating to China soon?
Remember that billionaires in China don’t last too long. Crying victimhood there has a different cadence.
70
Biden has taken the Military Industrial Complex’s toys, and thrown them out of the sandbox, causing the Establishment to go into a grand mal seizure. If Trump was a real man he would be supporting Biden, having experienced years of that backlash. I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t a lot in the actual military, happy to have that gangrenous limb amputated?
012
“Biden has taken the Military Industrial Complex’s toys, and thrown them out of the sandbox …”
Fact: Biden incompetently abandoned all those “toys” for the taliban to control.
“If Trump was a real man he would be supporting Biden, having experienced years of that backlash.”
Just like Biden supported President Trump?
Uhm … President Donald Trump | “Everything Woke Turns to SH!T” | Live Cullman, AL | August 21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyBs9XbYDc&t=78s
Trump is correct. See Afghanistan.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if …”
Surprise, surprise.
90
Travis, I’m not sure Biden, or more correctly his handlers since he is incapable of independent thought or action, did it due to incompetence.
It was done as part of the organiaed strategy Obama accelerated to bring America down and greatly reduce and ultimately eluminate the power, prestige, wealth, technological superiority and the mostly good social harmony America once had.
It was malice rather than incompetence but disguised as incompetence.
101
Yes, I can only agree.
70
Billionaires whining …
21
ok, let’s play some songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuKHzh4zkMM
11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuKHzh4zkMM&list=RDZuKHzh4zkMM&index=1
11
Take your bride to Yankee stadium
02
Hammond Organ 7th inning stretch
02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdCiqsFUI&list=RDZuKHzh4zkMM&index=9
21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PghOffQ-BrI&list=RDZuKHzh4zkMM&index=33
11
Ken Stewart has been checking historical temp data for decades and his latest data are from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores.
Many graphs from his last 3 essays and he also finds no climate crisis today, but he still wonders about the next full glaciation.
Certainly billions of people will die if the temp dropped to levels experienced between the end of Eemian inter-glacial and the start of our current Holocene.
Anyone NOT understand how billions could NOT survive for 90,000 years with very low temps and ongoing crop failures?
And Ken reminds us that co2 always FOLLOWS temp in the ice core records. And sometimes the LAG can be thousands of years.
https://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/climate-change-in-context/#comments
40
These are the toys I’m talking about, get over some rusting hardware. Afghanistan was shite long before it was woke.
“How the CIA ran the Afghan drug trade.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vOtB46ncyU&t=190s
30
The Taliban are hostile to vaccinations so it may make Afghanistan a useful test case of the efficacy of covid vaccines vs no vaccines if decent statistics can be obtained.
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210820/Experts-fear-rapid-spread-of-COVID-19-in-Afghanistan-given-Talibans-hostility-to-vaccinations.aspx
81
Iran is doing that already. Hospitalisations and deaths appear to have increased as a result but they also are not using FLCCC Allliance style preventatives and treatments with ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine etc.
The Delta strain will cause more hospitalisations and deaths in Australia if we continue to ignore the preventatives and treatments that have been clinically proven, although not proven by the RCT standards due to lack of interest/funding by drug companies and western governments.
100
Willis once again shows the BS and FRA-D behind their so called Green Steel lunacy.
More wasted trillions of $ for a SFA return on their so called GREEN INVESTMENT.
And of course ZIP change on temp or climate. Will these idiots, politicians, MSM and so called scientists ever WAKE UP?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/08/22/the-real-cost-of-green-steel/
50
This is probably what they said to the people being loaded into those train cars …
“Your children will be perfectly well looked after” …
24,000 children will be vaccinated in a stadium in Australia next week. No parents will be allowed access – Brad Hazzard
“When they arrive they will be literally “ushered.”
We’ll have nurses, we’ll have some of the Youth Command, we’ll have the youngest police officers …”
https://twitter.com/YouKnowMares/status/1427667193915969543
>> The Youth Command? Do they wear brown shirts?
https://vymaps.com/AU/Youth-Command-Pcyc-Nsw-Police-Force-636034963110367/
Italian student, 22, who tattooed Covid certificate barcode on ARM becomes TikTok star after scanning into McDonald’s.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3515655/tattooed-covid-certificate-barcode-arm-tiktok-star-mcdonalds/
>> It’s been done before in Europe kid, trust me.
90
There is a mention of three that have died.
Disturbing video there of police separating a child from her father.
https://europerenaissance.com/2021/08/20/two-children-dead-after-being-herded-into-australian-arena-for-jabs-without-their-parents/comment-page-1/
Another mention of two deaths
https://rumble.com/vlde24-report-2-kids-dead-after-24000-children-herded-into-stadium-for-jab.html
30
Did that actually happen? I doubt it.
32
PeterC
There videos of the Minister of Health for NSW explaining the mass jab session of the kids and trying to reassure the parents that the kids would be looked after.
20
Peter C
There are few photos coming through with kids waiting and big TV screens playing prerecorded messages from premier saying things like : good decision, congratulations, saving the community and the like.
There are Tik Tok videos as well but have not seen them yet.
As a parent better option would be own GP clinic. But who am I to judge.
10
Doctors and specialists all over the world are coming out warning people the COVID-19 vaccines are not safe and some are even claiming they could be exposing people to serious illness or death due to future virus outbreaks. I am so glad I am not vaccinated, not yet anyway until I am convinced there is a safer vaccine available, and that could be months if not years away.
100
Polio will make a resurgence under the Taliban. I expect that will soon spread world wide.
https://theprint.in/health/why-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan-is-bad-news-for-global-battle-against-covid-polio/717250/
Why Taliban takeover of Afghanistan is bad news for global battle against Covid, polio
Afghanistan is one of just two countries in the world where polio remains endemic. Also, only 0.6% of adults are fully vaccinated against Covid, as compared to global average of 23.6%.
ABANTIKA GHOSH
18 August, 2021
SEE LINK FOR REST
61
Monday 23 Aug. 2021
Day 5 of our sliding 7 day lockdown. (More info this arvo, I think.)
Now 107 cases of Delta. Definitely in Wellington.
Haven’t had any update on the state of play yet, but my guess is it will go on ad infinitum … maybe until Covid dies out for lack of victims.
(/sarc)
60
“Australian Police Beating More People in the Streets Than the Taliban
August 22, 2021 | Sundance | 8 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/22/australian-police-beating-more-people-in-the-streets-than-the-taliban/
80
Not to worry. NSW Police have told service stations they will be fined and shutdown if they serve truck drivers.
It’s as obvious is can be. Our state governments have gone one step closer to shutting down the whole economy. So who are the real terrorists? Even the Taliban wouldn’t be going as far as what our state governments are doing. Where is PM Morrison in all this? Supporting all this of course. They are all evil.
110
If you shut down service stations they would then not be able to put petrol into Police cars.
61
This gentleman here explains in great detail how the state governments are going to abolish property title ownership https://rumble.com/vldmxu-urgent-news-abolition-of-property-title-ownership-nsw-au.html
The legal claims are quite astounding even if you knew some of it, we’re in for a rough ride.
I highly recommend people watch this as it links directly to the Great Reset which I believe we are seeing implemented in this country right now.
20
What!
And does that mean I will then owe my bank nothing?
10
I figure so, consider yourself as a law abiding citizen and you’re confiscating the proceeds of crime from criminals.
00
It’s a test of resolve on both sides. The more angry the people get the more viscous the retaliation from our governments. There is no turning back. The question is whether it’s like a dam ready to burst or will it hold and things remain under some semblance of control using spillways. If the former then civil war is on the cards.
80
Oh, and if the latter then expect a slow grind towards a Naz1 Germany style rule where resistance fighters will form.
70
I wonder which side the Taliban would take in either case if given the opportunity.
50
A test for you –
Which side do you reckon is more familiar with Eureka Stockade?
10
Speaking of sides, respectfully, what polygon do you have in mind?
21
The truckies obviously and people like Aussie Cossack. In a strange sort of way Putin would be a far better ally right now than Biden.
50
The reason I say that is at least Putin is a converted Russian Orthodox Christian and I know their beliefs very well as they are very similar to the Greek Orthodox, which I am part of. I don’t agree with everything the churches stand for as no church is perfect but they are certainly by far closer to the Apostolic and Early Church Fathers and disciples of Jesus than most Western churches.
20
I really think that they would all be in it together and we, the voters/workers, would be on the outside again.
When you look at the collapse/invasion of Europe over the last 30 years it all makes sense.
Now both Britain and the United States are stuffed and Australia is on the precipice.
Not looking good folks.
10
In Vicdanistan the police just announced they had yet to deploy other more terrible, but supposedly non-lethal weapons they have on their arsenal.
I was surprised they used the term non-lethal because I didn’t think any professional used that any more.
“Less lethal” is the preferred term as these weapons can still kill and likely will kill if misused as they will be by VicPol who are now no more “the people’s police” but Dan Andrews’ private army.
101
There is an abundance of psychopathic malevolence behind this procurement program our beloved vicpol is pulling the curtain back on. Is the police minister still on sick leave at holiday resorts for a disease she has been managing for over a decade?
80
It goes to show they are megalomaniacs. It will only make matters worse and the whole show crumbles as the nation crashes and burns. I sometimes wonder if the vaccines have something to do with it to drug them into some sort of insanity.
70
See my link above David, the state governments and police are corporations do an ABN lookup and ask them for your contract of compliance, you’ll get a blank stare.
00
Australian refugees are going to Afghanistan LOL
Australia is a joke to the world
70
please excuse me for playing songs once in awhile, just the way i am, can’t stop it but mean no harm.
22
No worries.
As soon as you figure out what’s going on, let us know too.
00
In history, a number of rulers have been mad, or in psychological terms they have suffered psychosis with delusions or hallucinations. But how many have suffered dementia at or before the time of their installation as Biden does?
141
He had a clear understanding that he was not to speak to the public or make decisions and he could spend most of his time at home, in his basement or on holidays. His minders will not be happy that he has combined these ideas. He is clearly out of control, but that happens with senile dementia. And he could have his dog, which has also become a problem.
And Kamala Harris is in Singapore. Then off to praise the rulers of Communist Vietnam. It is unfortunate she is not in Washington either. People keep calling and the White House is on holidays. Permanently.
90
Scomo can call Trudeau for Hillary’s number.
50
What’s interesting is it’s widespread to varying degrees. For example, all our state premiers and certain officials are already showing clear signs of megalomaniacal tyrannical attributes. No need to mention who are the worst as we all know. Let’s see how far they go before someone snaps. To be honest the best thing that can happen now, and I know it won’t happen, is for PM Morrison to step in and take control over the states in the name of national security. He won’t because he’s part of the evil scam.
90
And there was I thinking that the PM was coordinating the show through the national cabinet weekly round table; seriously PeterS he’s more likely he’s giving hoppy badges to the most repressive each week than pulling them up for their excesses.
60
That may be so but the real culprits are still the state leaders and their cohorts. PM Morrison as far as I’m concerned is just a m0r0n, perhaps as you say worse.
80
ENSO looks to be negative until Jan 2022 and probably a moderate la nina. Should mean more rain for Eastern OZ.
And IOD looks to be negative until mid Nov this year. This should mean more rainfall south of the line drawn from Broome to Wollongong.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/#tabs=Pacific-Ocean
40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgEELSShrU
20
In case of any confusion
“Blip” is the name of our pup. She is definitely not a keyboard warrior.
00
More idiocy about how to lower the temp and fix the climate. GM has had to recall their Chevy Bolt disaster and fix the batteries at a cost of 1.8 billion $. And ditto for the Tesla TOXIC disasters as well.
These Lithium Ion batteries burst into flames in garages while charging in family homes or on the freeway and require 100,000s of litres to douse the entire TOXIC mess, EVENTUALLY.
And little kids live brutal short lives in the Congo Cesspits making a few $ a day so that wealthy loonies around the world can drive their TOXIC EVs.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/gm-recall-of-chevy-bolts-will-cost-1-8bn/#comments
60
Maybe this will help the CAGW lot find their missing heat?
https://www.ise.ufl.edu/capehart/darksuck.html
(Via a comment at SDA)
40
If it wasn’t so serious, it would be hilarious. I recently read an article which stated that, in Victoria, you can drop your mask if you are drinking coffee, but not if you are imbibing alcohol. The sooner society places less importance on non-expert public servants (who don’t have to worry about where their next paycheck comes from), the better for everyone. Would the snout-dippers who earn more than $150K p.a. be willing to take a 20% pay cut? LOL
120
what article?
07
It’s called GOOGLE GEEEYE!
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/andrews-bans-people-from-removing-masks-to-drink-outdoors/video/8f664dfc9eb0c2a0401c53295eeb9d66
80
In Vicdanistan you can still visit brothels but not elderly relatives.
Alcohol shops remain open as well.
I guess brothels and alcohol provision are regarded as essential services.
81
Brothels are still open because had to get the vote of the Reason Party in the upper house to pass SOE legislation. The Reason party are the old Sex Party. That was one of the conditions the leader voted with Labor to pass the SOE stuff- brothels to remain open.
60
..because the Andrews government had….
20
Peak insanity has now been reached by the Victorian government. Andrews, Sutton, et al, are now looking seriously rattled. With only one tool in their box – lockdown – they should all have their (hugely exaggerated and undeserved) salaries frozen the instant restrictions are announced. They can then feel at least some pain and be secure in the knowledge ‘we are all in this together.’ Absolutely had it up to pussy’s bow with this shower of sh-t.
60
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/resources/public-service-chief-executives-take-pay-cut/
That deserves some begrudging respect at least.
I doubt you would ever see that in Australia.
20
“With Pfizer Likely to Get FDA Approval Monday It’s Worth Remembering Pfizer and Moderna Lost The Clinical Trial Control Group Testing Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
August 23, 2021 | Sundance | 67 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/23/with-pfizer-likely-to-get-fda-approval-monday-its-worth-remembering-pfizer-and-moderna-lost-the-clinical-trial-control-group-testing-vaccine-efficacy-and-safety/
50
That would be “Dog ate our homework” on “vaccine”!
And yet they are demanding “gold plated control data trials” for HCQ and IVM etc!
60
People seem upset because the taliban are nasty. I dont care about that at all. I dont care about the Afghan people one bit. We should pull out, its just how hopelessly it was done and the loss of all that equipment. Got nothing on the Anzacs.
60
Interesting death stats for Australia from the ABS for year 2020. This could change but some interesting data to try and understand. This is from 1st JAN 2020 to 29th DEC.
Here’s some of their summary and 2020 0.2% below the baseline average and winter deaths lower than normal and summer deaths higher than normal. Deaths from normal flu + pneumonia were down by 36% and some heart disease deaths down by 10.7% and 7.8%.
Cancer, diabetes and dementia deaths were higher than normal.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/jan-dec-2020#australian-deaths-by-week-1-january-to-29-december-2020
2020 in review
Numbers of deaths throughout 2020 by month are shown in the table below. This table provides counts of deaths for all of 2020 (rather than only to 29 December), for deaths that were registered by 28 February 2021. Some deaths that occurred in 2020 may not have been registered and reported as yet.
Key points relating to 2020 deaths include:
141,116 doctor certified deaths occurred between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2020 and were registered by 28 February 2021. This equates to an average of 385.6 deaths per day, in line with the baseline average of 385.8.
The seasonality of deaths in 2020 was less pronounced, with numbers of deaths being higher than historical averages in summer and lower in winter. There were also substantial differences in numbers of deaths for some causes when compared to historical averages.
Deaths due to respiratory disease were 16.2% lower than historical averages. Decreases were recorded in both chronic and acute respiratory diseases.
Influenza and pneumonia deaths were 36.0% lower than the historical average with this result heavily influenced by a particularly mild flu season.
Deaths due to ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases were below average for every month of 2020, and were 10.7% and 7.8% below average for the year respectively.
Deaths due to cancer, dementia and diabetes were above historical averages by 4.0%, 7.3% and 9.1% respectively. Numbers of dementia deaths did not reach the usual peak during the winter months but higher counts of deaths between January and April contributed to the increase overall for 2020. Diabetes deaths were above average for most of the year and particularly high in April with 33.7% more deaths than average.
10
CBS News: It is not the Taliban’s fault – It’s Biden’s Change of Political Climate!
There CBS I fixed it for you!
20