A landmark Covid-19 vaccine injury class action lawsuit has been filed against the Australian government and the medicines regulator. The nation-wide suit, which reportedly has 500 members including three named applicants, seeks redress for those allegedly left injured or bereaved by the Covid-19 vaccines. One of the applicants who suffered a severe heart condition after getting the Pfizer jab is even claiming there was 'cover-up' during the vaccine rollout which hid the potential risks. The federal government, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Department of Health - in addition to a number of senior public servants - are all named as parties to the class action, which was filed in the New South Wales Federal Court. The named parties are accused of negligence in their approval and monitoring of Covid-19 vaccines, breach of statutory duty and misfeasance in public office. Instructing solicitor Natalie Strijland, of Brisbane law firm NR Barbi, said the action would argue the TGA caused considerable harm and damage by failing to regulate the COVID-19 vaccinations properly. The class action names three applicants, one of whom is 41-year old father-of-two Gareth O'Gradie. Mr O'Gradie, a teacher from Melbourne, was left with a 20-centimetre scar down his chest after developing severe pericarditis inflammation of the lining around the heart following his first Pfizer vaccination in July 2021. In February 2022 doctors performed open heart surgery to remove his the pericardial sac lining his heart.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on coronavirus vaccines from reliable major media sources.

The original coronavirus lockdowns had 'little to no' effect on pandemic death tolls in the US, UK and Europe, a controversial report suggests. Economists who carried out a meta-analysis found draconian restrictions imposed in spring 2020 including stay-at-home orders, compulsory masks and social distancing only reduced Covid mortality by 0.2 per cent. They warned that lockdowns caused 'enormous economic and social costs' and concluded they were 'ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument' going forward. The review, led by a Johns Hopkins University professor, argued that border closures had virtually zero effect on Covid mortality, reducing deaths by just 0.1 per cent. There has been a growing consensus that draconian restrictions have led to a rise in non-Covid deaths, thought to be people whose conditions worsened during the pandemic when they could not access healthcare. In the latest report, the researchers admit their review does not answer 'why' lockdowns didn't achieve their ultimate goal in saving lives but they float a number of explanations. They claimed the best explanation for differing Covid death rates in countries was 'differences in population age and health' and the 'quality of the health sector. But they could not rule out 'less obvious factors, such as culture, communication, and coincidences'. Covid deaths are also skewed by the volume of testing each country carries out, which many scientists have highlighted as the driving factor behind Britain's large toll.  

Note: Why did other major media completely ignore this vitally important news? You can find this critical study on the Johns Hopkins University website at this link. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.

QLD Minister for Women @ShannonFentiman answers Q what is a woman? Lets be inclusive. Anyone that identifies as a woman is a woman...It's not one group advancing at the expense of another." Tell that to the actual women whose rights you are giving away under self-ID laws. pic.twitter.com/ZaiiI917Bz Rachael...

Lets assemble a panel of regular Aussies to test the impact of the budget The ABC has assembled, three women (of course): 1. A Triple J announcer - abc cool leftist 2. Georgie Dent - a left wing feminist activist running a Parenting website that gets its funding from...

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Media release

On 20 July 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense published a media release titled "DoD Announces the Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office." The text of the release reads:

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"On July 15, 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence [DNI], amended her original direction to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security by renaming and expanding the scope of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group [AOIMSG] to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office [AARO], due to the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, which included a provision to establish an office, in coordination with DNI, with responsibilities that were broader than those originally assigned to the AOIMSG.

Today, USD (I&S) Hon Ronald S.  Moultrie informed the department of the establishment of AARO within the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and named Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, most recently the Chief Scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center, as the Director of AARO.

The mission of the AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the Department of Defense, and with other US federal departments and agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space,...

If youd told me at the start of 2020 that before the middle of the year, the streets of all of the worlds great cities would be empty and billions of people would be locked in their homes, sometimes for months on end, I would have told you that was unthinkable.

But thats the funny thing about unthinkable things. Theyre only unthinkable until unthinkable things happen, then theyre extraordinary, before theyre ordinary.

With that in mind, the notion that the United States of America might collapse under the weight of its own violence is also hard to imagine. Its been the worlds only superpower since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. But history tells us at least two things about great empires: They all, eventually, fall; and the rot almost always comes from within.

Over the weekend, there was yet another mass shooting in the US. A man aged in his 30s opened fire outside a shopping mall in the community of Allen, in the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. In a matter of minutes, eight people were dead, including at least three children. The shooter, an extremist with ties to right wing hate groups and white supremacy, was killed by police.

Twitter purchased earlier this year in service of free speech by the worlds richest man was soon awash with the blood of those children. Three different videos, all of them unedited, dominated the gore: the first showed the gunman opening fire at the mall; the second, with blood everywhere, zoomed in close on the victims and featured what looked like the brain matter of a small child on the footpath; the third video showed close-up footage of the dead gunmen, shot in the head by police, with a large pool of blood seeping from the back of his skull. More than 48 hours after the slaughter, the videos were still being widely tweeted.

Elon Musk sacked about 80 per cent of his staff when he took over Twitter,...

The ACT Government has been criticised for its failure to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 right away, with justice advocates saying the welfare of 12- and 13-year-old children cannot wait until 2025.

The ACT Government has today tabled a Bill that would see the age of criminal responsibility raised from 10 to only 12 years old, in a delayed process to eventually raise the age to 14 in July 2025 with exceptions.

Medical, legal, and human rights experts have been unequivocal in calling for governments to raise the age to at least 14 with no carve-outs. Yet the ACT has flagged that children accused of serious offences will continue to be subject to police investigation including strip-searches, being dragged through courts, and locked in prisons.

By keeping the age of criminal responsibility as low as 12 until 2025 and neglecting to protect all children from a harmful system, Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury have failed some of the ACTs most marginalised children. 

Prison has devastating impacts on childrens and young peoples health, development, mental health and wellbeing. Evidence shows that the earlier a child is locked up in jail, the more the child is at risk of being entrenched in the justice system and re-engaging with the system later in life. 

Instead of locking up kids in prison, Chief Minister Barr and the ACT Government must fund community-led solutions which are supported by evidence and keep our children and communities safe.

Karly Warner, CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT):

In the extremely rare instances when a child does something seriously wrong, its because theyve been let down and need our help. We have abundant evidence that locking up children causes ongoing harm for them and their families, and the whole community. The ACT Government is well aware of this evidence. Politicians have no excuse to sacrifice 12 and 13-year-old children for political expediency.

Lets be clear: by failing to raise the age to 14 urgently and without exception, the ACT Government is failing Aboriginal children. Aboriginal kids are over-represented at every stage of the system, from police to court to prison. The ACT imprisons Aboriginal children at 12 times the rate of non-Indigenous children. Its Aboriginal kids and families who will be most harmed by the governments refusal to fully accept the evidence about what works. 

Cheryl Axleby, Co-Chair, Change the Record:
While the commitment from the ACT to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility is a promising step, it is disappointing that yet again our little children must wait. Governments have the capability of acting now and raising the age to 14 now and adding exceptions for certain offences is deeply worrying. The ACT's commitment t......

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On the eve of the federal budget, a great deal is being made of the expected $15 billion surplus, something that hasnt been seen for 15 years. How can this be when the demands on the governments responsibilities are rising, along with the gap between this and the revenue coming in? More on this later.

The details have not been public yet. But custom has been followed with some telling leaks. so far there are few gains and the promise of a lot of pain.

Even with some small improvements for the parenting payment, and a small increase in the Jobseeker base rate for those over 55, the rising poverty faced by those on social security will not be addressed. They will continue to fall further below the poverty line.

Photo by Lukas Coch/AAP: Treasurer Jim Chalmers will deliver the budget tonight.

The bigger issue is the matter of the rising cost of living. A $4 billion package over four years is included in this budget. This includes rebates up to $500 for households on government payments, or $9.60 a week, which goes nowhere near covering the recent surge in energy prices. There is the additional low-income and rental household electrification package, forced on by the Greens during negotiations. A small improvement in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will be provided. A change in the dispensing rules will make it possible for pharmacists to sell up to two months worth of certain medications under a single prescription.

Most of the unemployed, those on disability support,...

Alan Fisher and CityNerd are likely household names to anyone with a passive interest in urban design and a YouTube account. With over 300,000 subscribers between them, both channels have carved out an online community not only questioning the North American development pattern, but mobilizing to make change where they live. 

Strong Towns is thrilled to welcome both YouTubers to the Strong Towns National Gathering (May 3031) in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Alan Fisher and CityNerd will join Tiffany Owens Reed of Cities Decoded, who has likewise been a regular Strong Towns contributor asking tough questions and offering thoughtful answers. Also on the panel is John Simmerman of Active Towns, which puts out podcasts, videos, and other media to inspire the creation of communities that promote a Culture of Activity for All Ages & Abilities. 

These creators will share their experiences reaching people using video, social media, podcasts, and other forms of media to build a movement. In a panel moderated by Strong Towns video producer Mike Pasternock, youll learn how to get started on content creation, with pro tips to leverage various platforms and content types to reach new audiences receptive to the Strong Towns message.

Learn about the panelists below and get your tickets to the National Gathering here.

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CCS has been slow to take off due to the cost of capture and the limited salability of carbon dioxide as a product. Thirty-nine CCS facilities capture CO₂ around the world today, totaling 45 million tons per year, or about one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of industrial emissions produced globally.

The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would set stringent limits on carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from US power plants. Utilities would be required to retrofit existing plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology or to switch to hydrogen fuel. Others call for the use of CCS to decarbonize heavy industry. But the cost of capture and the amount of CO₂ that proponents say needs to be captured crush any ideas about feasibility.

Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from an industrial plant before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it for centuries to millennia. Capture may be accomplished by filtering it from combustion exhaust streams. Pipelines are proposed to transport the captured CO₂. Underground reservoirs could be used for storage. For the last two decades, advocates have proposed CCS to reduce emissions from coal plants and steel, chemical, and other hard-to-decarbonize industries in order to fight human-caused climate change.

CCS has been slow to take off due to the cost of capture and the limited salability of carbon dioxide as a product. Thirty-nine CCS facilities capture CO₂ around the world today, totaling 45 million tons per year, or about one-tenth of one percent (0.1%) of industrial emissions produced globally. Of these, 20 reside in the US or Canada, six in Europe, and five in China. Twenty-four of these facilities use captured CO₂ for enhanced oil recovery. Captured CO₂ is injected into oil wells to boost oil output,

The news from these facilities is mixed. Many are not meeting their carbon-capture goals or are incurring costs well over budget. Nevertheless, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, the US, and nations of Europe now offer billions in direct subsidies or tax breaks to firms for capture of CO₂ emissions and to build pipelines and storage. Over 300 large and small capture projects are...

The calendar may not have ticked over yet, but the wintry weather has arrived and forecasters say the frosty conditions are far from over. Large parts of southern-eastern Australia were plunged into freezing conditions on the weekend, as icy air from Antarctica was pushed across the eastern states by a strong cold front. The strong winds disrupted flights in Sydney, while people from New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT and Tasmania took to social media to share photos of the swathes of hail and snow blanketing the streets and mountain tops.

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KRISTIN OCONNELL AND her colleagues at the Antipoverty Centre are on a mission to break the poverty machine. OConnell talks to No Fibs about pre-budget kite flying, raising the rate and explains what the poverty machine is. I wish I could say something optimistic on that front. Im a very cynical person and I feel []

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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Ali Breland [Twitter]. Ali writes about the internet, politics, and disinformation for Mother Jones. His most recent contributions to the zine include The Website That Wants You to Kill Yourselfand Wont Continue reading

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I dont stand for these sort of views Im proud to be working with trans and gender diverse Queenslanders Im proud to be Queenslands Minister for Women.....regardless of any stickers on my office or hateful comments Insanity.

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Amongst the appointed experts, peak climate hysteria appears to have been reached, with the unexpected cold snap we are experiencing.

Krakatoa exploded in mid-1883 and the micro-particle pollutants spread around the world causing unusual sunsets including as far away as Norway. One or more of these sunsets deeply affected the painter Edvard Munch during a period of alleged psychological fragility but from his visual record, it appears to have created anxiety widely among the God-fearing people of the time. There was no TV and no parade of experts to explain that the sunsets originated in the biggest volcanic explosion of modern times, so left to the popular imagination they became an other-worldly threat.

More rugged individuals obviously would feel less concern than the highly strung.

The weather this year, 2023 seems to be the coolest in the long run of cooler years since 2016.

Have a look in real-time at the wintry weather being thrown off Antarctica during what was formerly known as Autumn:

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Months before Zuckerbergs big announcement in October 2021, Dave Karpf explained that virtual reality was the rich white kid of technology: no matter how many times it failed to live up to expectations, it would always get another chance and more investment. Just as the VR hype has come and gone multiple times in the past, the metaverse looks to be following the same trend. I wonder how long until it rears its head with another set of inflated promises for how it will forever transform society.

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They rarely come more courageous than this: Left-wing activist, man-hater and committed unionist Brave Tracey Spicer has been on the Long Covid bandwagon for a while. But its OK. Long COVID and the mask wearing has been put on hold for TV appearances and a chance to slander men and...

By Dave DeCamp Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration over the Biden administrations efforts to convict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen....

Australias PM Frustrated US Wont Drop Charges Against Assange

It all seems so horrible and racist - and perfectly within the ABC's "Australia's a rotten place" narrative. A sob story about two brothers held in immigration detention because of a lingering decision by the very mean Scott Morrison government. Very ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-05/sudan-immigration-detention-refugees/102304520?fbclid=IwAR3kIW-qBsdMM3gDYlt5rSQk_8OKQQ2GOOauQSuCci_aAwwvldIquFCEpc4 Detention has cost $5m so far Dinka...

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Referendums in Australia are notoriously tricky to succeed. You need a majority of votes in a majority of states, for a yes vote to get up. In Australian history, only 8 out of 44 referendums have succeeded.

We remember the failed 1999 attempt at a republic. The last referendums succeeding in Australia were in 1977 when Australians voted yes on the following issues: Senate Casual Vacancies, allowing residents of Australian territories to vote in referendums, and introducing 70 as the retirement age for judges.

Will the coming referendum be the next successful one?

Very soon well vote on an alteration to the Australian Constitution to allow an indigenous Voice to the Federal Parliament, and Government, on matters impacting on indigenous Australians. Not a particularly radical proposal, and something that should have been in place a long time ago.

Much of corporate Australia, and leaders in civil society support a yes Vote for the Voice. Should we, the overwhelming majority of Australians go along with this?

Leading the opposition appears to be role for the News Ltd Media, and the usual rag-tag bunch of parliamentary reactionaries, and their hangers on. This does not deny there are many Indigenous Australians who want a no, as they consider a Voice limited, preferring Treaty. In their view, the referendum is a distraction.

A considerable proportion of Frist Nation Australia is opposed to the referendum for genuine reasons mostly ignored by the media

At this point it appears the yes vote has the stronger support...

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COMMENT: The reason there are no Democrats on Mount Rushmore is because they are anti-American, by pretending to be fair, they seize the wealth of everyone who has more than they do. You are right. The United States will fall. As Abraham Lincoln stated, a house divided cannot stand. Marx has destroyed civilization. I sold everything and leaving this hell hole called California.

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ANSWER: Oh, it gets worse. There are people in Australia talking about it is not fair that you leave your children more wealth than the guy next door. The solution, all wealth is to be confiscated and put into a fund for everyones retirement and everyone should start from zero.

The problem, a farm cannot continue beyond the founder or a small business. Nothing would ever become like General Motors or Ford if everything must be confiscated to be fair.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Anyone who votes for socialism is against the very founding principles upon which this nation was established. This is also why the United States will collapse. It is deeply divided and we will see secession as this agenda toward authoritarianism progresses. I have also actually...

QUESTION #1: why no information on CBDC. Need help fast. Feds are suppose to call in the dollar in July.
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COMMENT #1: This whole thing reminds me of the movie The Omen and we will be accepting the number of the beast and without it we will not be allowed to buy or sell. I dont know about a person being the infamous anti-Christ, but it sure looks like the government is trying hard to fulfill that role.

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ANSWER: The FedNow is the system that will be for CBDC and the elimination of all paper money. However, they will not cancel the dollars in July not just yet. This is why they are rushing 5G before testing to see if the radiation is harmful. This is all about total control and 100% tax collection. They will be able to turn off the ability to buy and sell categories as well as individuals.

I will do a private post on the timing for the end of paper money. That is coming. It is part of their authoritarianism into 2032.

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The former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has been somewhat of an absentee in the Federal seat of Cook. Since losing the May 2022 election, he has been aggressively chasing up contacts and deals on the consultancy circuit, bellyaching about the usual talking points: the gruesome China menace; defence matters; and, just to round it off for good measure, additional iterations of the China menace.

In March, he proved particularly jingoistic, telling Sky News Australia that Canberra needed, not only its own capability but the interlocking alignments and alliances that actually provide the counterbalance to the threat. This was code for a further renting of Australian sovereignty, a concept that has become increasingly irrelevant.

Morrisons movement to the world of the consultant-lobbyist is a seamless one, unsurprising given his innate incapacity to understand the broader public interest. It is even questionable whether he ever left that cosmos, being very much a colluder and conniver in murky, unaccountable transactions forged in a mates world.

From the other side of the policy aisle, he engaged the Liberal Party lobby firm Crosby Textor in 2005 during his disastrous stint as director of Tourism Australia. Crosby Textor also gained much during Morrisons prime ministership, having its advisors, including Yaron Finkelstein, posted to positions in the Prime Ministers office. For Finkelstein, access to the PM was plum and exclusive.

If recent reports are are correct, Morrison is staying true to form, heading to work for a UK business with ties to the defence sector. As one source put it, He wont go until it is locked in but it is fair to say he is actively seeking life after politics. That same source also revealed that the defence business was involved in the AUKUS space.

When asked to comment on the issue, the habitually mendacious MP for Cook claimed to be very engaged with things in my local electorate and enjoying being back in my local community. Such enjoyment was evidently being shared alongside his role as advisory board member for the US-based Hudson Institutes China Centre, a position he was appointed to in December last year.

The latest revelation...

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If you thought Prince Andrews now infamous BBC interview where he was quizzed about his sexual abuse of a 17-year-old girl was a train wreck, then youre definitely going to marvel at comedian Jon Stewarts interview with a US state senator on gun control.

It is, to put not too fine a point on it, the mother of all train wrecks. Where the BBC took almost an hour to unravel and then annihilate Prince Andrew, Stewart executes Oklahoma state Senator Nathan Dahm in under 10 minutes. Its quite something to watch particularly if you consider who Stewart is, or rather, who he is not.

Stewart, in case you dont know him, was the long-time host of the US comedy program The Daily Show. Were using air quotes here because The Daily Show was also once one of the highest rating news shows on cable television. And were using air quotes again because well, Stewart is a comedian and The Daily Shows lead-in program used to be Crank Yankers, a foul-mouthed US adult puppet television show.

Stewart retired from the program in 2015, just as Donald Trump was ascending the throne to the US presidency, prompting widespread (and increasingly desperate) demands for Stewarts return. He finally did come back, in September 2021, with The Problem with Jon Stewart. And the problem with that? The show is only available on Apple TV, one of the smaller of the online streaming services.

Even so, you can occasionally get some of his better interviews on Youtube. And on that note, without spoiling any of the one liners, its over to Stewart, who delivers what is almost certainly one of the truly great interviews of 2023 and were not even halfway through the year.

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The National Union of Students the nations peak union for university students has called on the nations tertiary education sector to boycott the provision of training or technology for the AUKUS submarine program.

NUS Education Officer Xavier Dup, said the partnership increased the risk of war or nuclear environmental damage, and universities should not participate in it.

The AUKUS deal escalates the threat of war in which students and workers will suffer, Mr Dupe said. The government wants universities to provide research and skilled workers for this war drive, but students have a right to education thats for the public good, not an arms race that threatens our future.

In March, the Albanese government formalised its support for the development of a new security partnership between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. It followed the cancellation by the previous Morrison government of a $90 billion French contract to build military submarines in Adelaide.

The AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pathway means that in partnership with the US and UK, Australia will become one of only seven countries world-wide the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, India and Australia to operate nuclear-powered submarines.

In a joint Australia-US-UK statement, the governments claimed the pathway would deliver significant long-term strategic benefits for Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. It strengthens the combined industrial capacity of the three partners, with increased cooperation making trilateral supply chains more robust and resilient, the joint statement read.

It will also cost Australia hundreds of billions of dollars: eight nuclear-powered submarines will be built in Adelaide, to begin service in the 2040s, and the Albanese government has revealed the full cost, including maintenance, will run anywhere from $268 billion to $368 billion, by 2055.

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The Albanese governments new National Net Zero Authority a body that will help workers in fossil fuel industries to transition into other employment has won high praise from two key bodies that savaged past governments over their climate change policies.

The Mining and Energy Union, which represents workers most affected by a reduction in fossil fuel mining, and the Climate Council of Australia, an independent community-based organisation, have both thrown their weight behind the federal governments announcement that it will create a new authority to help smooth the transition to renewables.

On Friday, the Albanese government announced the creation of the Net Zero Authority to ensure the workers, industries and communities can seize the opportunities of Australias net zero transformation.

The role of the Net Zero Authority will be to:

1. Support workers in emissions-intensive sectors to access new employment, skills and support as the net zero transformation continues.
2. Coordinate programs and policies across government to support regions and communities to attract and take advantage of new clean energy industries and set those industries up for success.
3. Help investors and companies to engage with net zero transformation opportunities.

General President of the Mining and Energy Union (MEU), Tony Maher described the Authority as a game-changer and said it would have workers backs at a time of rapid change in the energy sector.

Workers in coal-fired power stations and associated coal mines are living with the reality that the timeline for closure of coal-fired power stations is accelerating, Mr Maher said. Until now, co-ordinated federal support for coal-power workers and communities has been the missing piece when it comes to climate and energy policy.

[Fridays] announcement means that the future of workers in emissions-intensive facilities facing closure wont be simply left up to patchy employer programs and struggling local jobs markets.

The Authority will have powers to support workers into new jobs and to facilitate investment in affected communities to create the good jobs of the futur...

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It is becoming so overt. We reported before on the Covid-19 Diagnostic tests bought in 2018; and now Redacted reports on the hiring of a Covid-19 Researcher in November 2019. (Wow, and these researchers get fat salaries!). And then Ivan Hecko comments on Tedros trying to search the bat cave for the origins of Covid-19.

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Once the ABC was the place to turn for major events - like last nights Coronation. The Stan Grant Australia hating attitude has ended that. ABC last night was a flop. Stan bullied his way on to the ABCs coverage because it needed an Aboriginal voice. Weakling executives like ABC...

Nothing has changed. Bill Shorten certainly rates her.

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Dear Readers, the Russell Pridgeon case is moving fast. He was arrested in October 2018 and for two years it moved too slow but as of February 2021 he was committed for trial. The trial will begin on June 5, 2023 at the Brisbane District Court.  I am very hopeful that the charges will be dropped before then. Already 5 of the 7 charges have been withdrawn. The two remaining have to do with conspiracy.

This is not to say that success is guaranteed. Dr Pridgeon thinks he may end up doing the Jailhouse Rock for many years. So he needs your support, please.  In the article at hand, I discuss yet one more illegal trick of the authorities, this time concerning a suppression order. It is described in Pridgeons book,...

The Albanese Governments new National Net Zero Authority has been praised as a game-changer for workers and communities affected by the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables, according to the Mining and Energy Union (MEU).

The new statutory authority, announced on Friday, is aimed at providing support to workers in emissions-intensive sectors and energy regions to help them access new employment, skills, and other support as needed.

MEU General President Tony Maher said that the new Authority would provide a coordinated federal support system for coal-power workers and communities during a time of rapid change in the energy sector. He added that the future of workers in emissions-intensive facilities facing closure would not be left up to patchy employer programs and struggling local jobs markets.

The Authority will have powers to support workers into new jobs and to facilitate investment in affected communities to create the good jobs of the future, Maher said. The Government has listened and taken action to make sure that workers and communities reliant on emissions-intensive industries arent left to bear the brunt of national efforts to address climate change.

The Net Zero Authority was designed based on extensive consultation with workers, unions, and community representatives in energy regions already grappling with the massive changes caused by decarbonisation.

The MEU General President said workers in coal-fired power stations and associated coal mines were living with the reality that the timeline for closure of coal-fired power stations was accelerating, and until now, coordinated federal support for coal-power workers and communities had been the missing piece when it comes to climate and energy policy.

With [Fridays] announcement, Australia is setting out on a path of doing energy transition well. The benefits of the Net Zero Authority will flow through our regional communities in terms of jobs, economic activity and positive social outcomes for generations. We look forward to contributing positively to the Authoritys work in the years ahead, Maher said.

The post Mining Union Backs Albaneses New National Net Zero Authority appeared first on New Matilda.

Selfies inside The Abbey. No doubt about Julie's priorities.

Microsoft not only should be in the courts for anti competitive behaviour but also fined for it.

Microsoft has (deliberately) not addressed a piece of code that was killing Firefox performance.

MANY people may have thought that Mozilla's Firefox product was inferior in quality to the alternative Microsoft product or that the programmers were lazy or incompetent.

The truth was that Microsoft was (deliberately) sabotaging Mozilla's product.

Too many calls to the Windows kernel were stealing Firefox's thunder.

Why it matters: Microsoft has released a crucial bug-fixing update to its Windows Defender antimalware application. Its arrival means that some unlucky Firefox users should now get a much smoother and better-performing experience while browsing the web.

Update (April 11): The Mozilla developer who worked on fixing this performance issue and reported it to Microsoft added the following on a Reddit thread, clarifying the nature of the bugfix:

"The impact of this fix is that on all computers that rely on Microsoft Defender's Real-time Protection feature (which is enabled by default in Windows), MsMpEng.exe will consume much less CPU than before when monitoring the dynamic behavior of any program through ETW (Event Tracing for Windows)."

"For Firefox this is particularly impactful because Firefox (not Defender!) relies a lot on VirtualProtect - which is monitored by MsMpEng.exe through ETW. We expect that on all these computers, MsMpEng.exe will consume around 75% less CPU than it did before when it is monitoring Firefox."

The original story follows below:

For more than five years, the security protection provided by Microsoft Defender was negativel...

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In December 1936, love won out for the British king Edward VIII, and he gave up the throne to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite.

What is socialite? According to Google Dictionary: a person who is well known in fashionable society and is fond of social activities and entertainment. Typically, this term is applied to a female. Think Paris Hilton, Ghislaine Maxwell and their social activities.

Regardless of Simpsons vocation, Edward abdicated his throne as a penance for marrying a divorcee.

This was considered a no-no for the royal family back then. Nowadays, we have a divorced king/adulterer married to his divorced queen/adulteress. No pejorative is attached to the terms adulterer or adulteress. This merely signifies that they were not faithful to their wedding vows. But, oh, how times have changed.

Probably the biggest argument for keeping the inegalitarian institution of the monarchy extant is tradition. When Charles married his first wife, Diana, she had to submit to a gynecological examination to verify that she was a virgin. Man, how times have, indeed, changed.

With the modern monarchy we became privy to Charless secretly recorded fantasy of being Camillas Tampax. Camilla responded mirthfully to Charless bawdy words of vaginal habitation: You are a complete idiot! (Laughs) Oh, what a wonderful idea.

The coronation of Charles has been revealed to cost 250 million (US$316 million). How many homeless people in Britain would that have housed? It was reported in January 2023 that at least 271,000 people are recorded as homeless in England, including 123,000 children. Priorities?

How did these two salacious characters attain status as the heads of state in not only the United Kingdom but also Canada, Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Jamaica, and ten...

US President Joe Biden has been exposed as a hypocrite for continuing with the persecution of Julian Assange based on trumped-up espionage charges while at the same time Biden is accusing Russia []

Protesters in Port Sudan Call to Expel UN Envoy

May 4, 2023 (PORT SUDAN) A group of demonstrators largely made up of former regime supporters held a protest in the Red Sea capital calling for UN envoy Volker Perthes to leave Sudan, before storming his office.

Perthes has been operating from Port Sudan since the eruption of armed conflict in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, 2023.

The demonstration began at the Alumni Club and ended at the Coral Hotel, where the UN envoys headquarters is located. Protesters chanted slogans against the UNs involvement in Sudanese affairs and demanded the envoys departure.

Eyewitnesses told Sudan Tribune that the majority of protesters were affiliated with the former regime, while others belonged to the tribal body of the Supreme Council of Beja Chiefdoms and independent groups.

Sources also reported the involvement of remnants of the former regime in the Red Sea State, who had previously organized several protests in Khartoum after the October 25, 2021 coup against the UN envoy.

Sayed Abu Amna, the spokesperson for the Beja tribal body, has refuted any connection between the council and the group that stormed the residence of the UN envoy in Port Sudan.

The Supreme Council is a peaceful civilian organization that does not condone violent means and respects the United Nations and its institutions and missions, Abu Amna added.

He pointed out that their objection to Volkers presence in the region was due to his exclusion of the regions representative in the political process, which was limited to a few fictitious individuals and entities that do not represent the diverse peoples of Sudan.

The UN envoy is part of a facilitation panel that includes the IGAD and the African Union. The role of the Trilateral Mechanism is limited to facilitating the political process, which is led and run by Sudanese parties.

Mohamed Terik, the head of the Beja Chiedoms Council, is a member of the People...

Warning sign at United Nuclear spill site at Church Rock, N.M.Canadian company now endangering Dine' in New Mexico, and Aboriginals in Australia, with new uranium miningBy Brenda NorrellCensored NewsApril 3, 2023French translation by Christine Pratt:https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/Update: Dine' in Church Rock were not told about the new uranium miningRead the update at NM Political Report:https:

Ken Ham was asked if Muslims are going to hell. His answer:

Well, it doesnt matter if one is a Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Catholic, Mennonite, Muslim, Methodist, Hindu, Sikh, Orthodox Jew, or any other denomination or religious groupif a person has not repented of sin and received the free gift of salvation offered through the Lord Jesus Christ (being born again), they will be separated from God for eternity in a place the Bible calls hell. And sadly, the majority of people will go there as Jesus warned, Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many (Matthew 7:13).

Shorter Ken Ham: yes.

My exams look nothing like this. I must be doing them wrong.

Ive been giving open book, open notes, online exams with no proctors, no timing, nothin but heres some questions, have fun answering them for the last few years, prompted in part by the pandemic. I like it this way. It de-emphasizes rote memorization and requires them to understand the concepts (it also requires me to ask questions that cant be answered with a recitation or regurgitation.) I also encourage them to study together and collaborate on figuring it all out although they are required to write answers in their own words, no copying and pasting.

Anyway, all of my final exams are now written and posted to our Canvas site, and I have nothing more to do. Until Friday at 6pm, that is, when all these exams come winging back to me, demanding my immediate attention.

I think Ill go for a walk.

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• Australian study supporting mask mandates earns expression of concern
• Leading primate researcher demoted after admitting he faked data
• Hindawi shuttering four journals overrun by paper mills
• Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images
• Nature editors retract influential cancer paper with unreliable data 

Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. There are nearly 40,000 retractions in our database  which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, ...

Selected days for commemoration serve one fundamental purpose. Centrally, they acknowledge the forgotten or neglected, while proposing to do nothing about it. Its the priests confession, the chance for absolution before the next round of soiling.

These occasions are often money-making exercises for canny businesses: the days put aside to remember mothers and fathers, for instance. But there is no money to be made in saving writers, publishers, whistleblowers, and journalists from the avenging police state.

World Press Freedom Day, having limped on for three decades, is particularly fraught in this regard. It remains particularly loathsome, not least for giving politicians an opportunity to leave flimsy offerings at its shrine. These often come from the powerful, the very same figures responsible for demeaning and attacking those brave scribblers who do, every so often, show how the game is played.

Every year, we see reactions often uneven, and almost always hypocritical. The treatment of US journalist Evan Gershkovich is the stellar example for 2023. Here was the caged victim-hero scribbler, held in the remorseless clutches of the Russian Bear.

It gave US Secretary of State Antony Blinken an opportunity to do the usual cartwheel. Far too many governments use repression to silence free expression, including through reprisals against journalists for simply doing their jobs, goes his May 3 press statement. We again call on Russian authorities to immediately release Wall Street reporter Gershkovich and all other journalists held for exercising freedom of expression. What, then, of the Australian publisher and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange?

With unintended, bleak irony, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) also thought it fitting to rope in the Secretary at a World Press Freedom Day event organised in conjunction with the Washington Post. Talking to his interlocutor, the Posts David Ignatius, Blinken spoke of efforts to fight back and push back around the world to help journalists, who in one way or another, are facing intimidation, coercion, persecution, prosecution, surveillance. This seemed grimly comical, given that the United States, through its agencies, has engaged in intimidation, coercion, persecution, prosecution and surveillance against Assange, whose scalp they continue to seek with salivating expectation.

In the course of the event, Ignatius and Blinken encountered Code Pink activists Medea Benjamin and Tinghe Barry. Both were keen to test the Secretarys lofty assessments about Washingtons stance on free expression and journalistic practice. Excuse me, we cant use this day without calling for the freedom of Julian Ass...

Are you an avid sports fan who loves to bet on your favorite team? Or are you just looking for a way to make some extra cash while enjoying the thrill of the game? Either way, TOTO betting might be the answer youre looking for.

TOTO is a popular form of sports betting in many countries around the world, particularly in Asia. It involves picking the winning teams or outcomes of multiple sports events, with the chance to win big payouts if youre successful. And with the rise of online betting sites, its easier than ever to get started with TOTO.

But if you want to maximize your winnings and become a master of TOTO betting, there are a few tips and tricks you should keep in mind. Here are some key strategies to help you succeed:

1. Do Your Research

Before you place any bets, its important to do your homework. This means researching the teams or players involved in the games youre betting on, as well as any other relevant factors like weather conditions or recent injuries. The more you know about the sport and its players, the better equipped youll be to make informed betting decisions.

2. Understand the Odds

In TOTO betting, odds determine the payout for each bet. Understanding how odds work is essential if you want to maximize your winnings. Essentially, odds represent the likelihood of a particular outcome happening. The higher the odds, the less likely that outcome is, but the greater the potential payout if it does occur. Conversely, lower odds indicate a higher likelihood of a particular outcome happening, but a smaller potential payout.

3. Manage Your Bankroll

One of the most important aspects of successful TOTO betting is effective bankroll management. This means setting a budget for how much youre willing to spend on betting, and sticking to it. It also means being smart about the size of your bets and not risking more than you can afford to lose.

4. Take Advantage of Bonuses and Promotions

ASIA:

High prices are starting to put pressure on small and midsize businesses in Japan, forcing a record number of them into bankruptcy as the country lags behind the West in passing along the increased costs to customers.  Fiscal 2022 saw 463 companies file for bankruptcy over rising prices or an inability to pass along costs, according to Teikoku Databank. The figure was 3.4 times the 136 cases of fiscal 2021. This March alone had 67 cases a record high for a single month. Comparing the July-September quarter of 2020 with the October-December quarter of 2022, the pass-through rate in Japan was 20.3% less than half of the 48.5% in the U.S. and the 58.1% in Europe.

The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:

• NIKKEI 225 closed
• Shanghai decreased 15.96 points or -0.48% to 3,334.50
• Hang Seng increased 100.58 points or 0.50% to 20,049.31
• ASX 200 increased 26.90 points or 0.37% to 7,220.00
• Kospi closed
• SENSEX decreased 694.96 points or -1.13% to 61,054.29
• Nifty50 decreased 186.80 points or -1.02% to 18,069.00

The major Asian currency markets had a green day today:

• AUDUSD increased 0.00627 or 0.94% to 0.67557
• NZDUSD increased 0.00261 or 0.42% to 0.63041
• USDJPY increased 0.407 or 0.30% to 134.677
• USDCNY increased 0.00126 or 0.02% to 6.91626

Precious Metals:

Gold decreased 34.85 USD/t oz. or -1.70% to 2,016.26

Silver decreased 0.431 USD/t. oz or -1.65%% to 25.635

Some economic news from last night:

China:

Caixin Services PMI (Apr) decreased from 57.8 to 56.4

Australia:

Home Loans (MoM) increased from -1.2% to 6.5%

Some economic news from today:

India:

Bank Loan Growth increased from 15.7% to 15.9%

Deposit Growth remain the same at 10.2%

FX Reserves, USD increased from 584.25B to 588.78B

Hong Kong:

Foreign Reserves (USD) (Apr) decreased from 430.80B to 427.40B

EUROPE/EMEA:

The European economy avoided recession over the winter and pic...

BY DR ROGER WATSON | THE DAILY SCEPTIC |  MAY 5, 2023

Paradigm shifts in science are rare, but it seems we may have just had one. The RCT (randomised controlled trial), an experimental method used to test if medical procedures and drugs work, has long been considered the gold standard method of establishing the relationship between cause and effect. But it may just have been knocked off its perch and usurped by a new approach to seeking evidence.

Based on the first such study by James Lind in 1774 when he rid the Royal Navy of scurvy, the method in its simplest form involves giving one group of people a treatment and withholding it from another group and seeing if the treatment group fares better than the other (control) group. There is no evidence that Lind randomised the sailors on which he tested lemons as a cure for scurvy; randomisation, to avoid bias in who does and who does not receive treatment, was introduced much later. There are many modern variations on the theme of the RCT but, essentially, they are all designed to achieve the same thing.

As an experimental method for trying to settle whether treatments worked, the clinical trial took a while to catch on with the first RCT being published in 1948. Until that time, what was purported to work was based on power and opinion and, therefore, largely on who said it. Other, weaker designs based on observation and correlation abounded but, eventually, were superseded by the RCT.

Of course, not every RCT produces the same results due to an annoying phenomenon called regression to the mean whereby observed effects are often obtained one day and inverse effects are obtained on another day. To account for regression to the mean, it is considered necessary to combine the results of similar studies to be able to pinpoint, at any time, where the true effect lies. Thus, the science of meta-analysis arose which does precisely that and the most rigorous repository of such analyses is considered to be the...

During the Covid hysteria, weve lost nearly all of our basic principles of medical ethics, and thats only the beginning. 

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 1, 2023, Patrick talks with Dr. Ahmad Malik in a stunning interview as Dr. Malik speaks frankly about his experience as a medical professional during the Covid-19 global pandemic, and the repercussions he faced after speaking out against the Covid narrative whilst many doctors remained silent or compliant fearing for their livelihood. Dr. Malik goes on to give his take on mandatory vaccination mandates by breaking down the basic pillars of medical ethics and emphasising the importance of informed consent. All this and more. Listen:

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