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@craigkellyAFEE He’s unlikely to apologise. Lefty, self righteous academics dont do logic, they do ideology.

Hey Ian Musgrave, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide — have you apologised to the Australian people yet for getting it so catastrophically wrong on COVID? Have you looked the families of the dead in the eye and apologised for the lives that might have been saved if you’d had the basic courage and intellectual honesty to open your eyes and follow the evidence? You arrogantly declared in the SMH on 5 February 2021 that hydroxychloroquine was “totally useless” and “doesn’t work as a prophylaxis.” I warned in that same article: “The truth will come out … the truth always comes out.” Well, that truth has now finally come out — loud and clear — with the publication (hidden for over 800 days) of a large-scale, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study that concluded: “HCQ is well tolerated and safe and provides a moderate beneficial effect in preventing COVID-19. It could have been deployed with benefit earlier and might have value in future pandemics.” So, Ian — how about it? Come out publicly and apologise for the damage & death your dogmatic pronouncements helped cause. Or is our health bureaucracy so malfeasant and corrupt, that you have to maintain your silence ? smh.com.au/politics/feder… c19early.org/schilling3.html

@DrewPavlou Great news! You certainly deserve every cent!

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Never stop talking about what Iran did to some 40,000 of its own people.

But it was even worse, it was a vaccine for a pathogen that was developed in a lab. Then efficacious existing treatments were effectively banned and demonised so that the vax could get emergency regulatory approval. Then they hid data proving it had dangerous, even fatal side effects.

@BrivaelFr Qu'en est-il du vaccin contre la COVID ? Quelle aurait été l'opinion de Friedman dans ce cas ? Bon, je pense que la théorie de Friedman est juste, mais à l'envers ! Des citoyens en bonne santé ont été contraints de se faire injecter un mélange expérimental d'ARN messager !

Milton Friedman (prix nobel d'économie) a dit un truc il y a 50 ans qui est encore plus vrai aujourd'hui. Et quasiment personne ne le comprend. 🧵 On lui pose la question : "Sans régulation sur les médicaments, des gens pourraient mourir en prenant des produits dangereux. Vous ne trouvez pas ça grave ?" Sa réponse est un des retournements logiques les plus brillants de l'histoire de l'économie. Oui, dit Friedman. Un médicament non régulé peut tuer des gens. C'est visible. C'est dans les journaux. C'est un scandale. Tout le monde le voit. Mais ce que personne ne voit, c'est les gens qui meurent parce qu'un médicament qui aurait pu les sauver a été bloqué pendant 10 ans par le processus de régulation. Ce mort là, personne ne le compte. Personne ne fait sa une. Personne ne connaît son nom. Parce qu'il est mort de l'absence de quelque chose qui n'a jamais existé. C'est l'asymétrie fondamentale de la régulation. Le régulateur a deux types d'erreurs possibles. Erreur 1 : approuver un médicament dangereux. Résultat : scandale public, procès, le régulateur perd son poste. Erreur 2 : bloquer un médicament qui aurait sauvé des vies. Résultat : rien. Personne ne sait. Personne ne proteste. Les morts silencieux n'ont pas de porte-parole. Du coup, le régulateur rationnel optimise pour éviter l'erreur 1. Toujours. Il rajoute des études. Des phases. Des comités. Des délais. Chaque couche de "sécurité" supplémentaire le protège, lui, au détriment des patients qui attendent. Friedman estimait que la FDA avait probablement tué plus de gens en retardant des bons médicaments qu'elle n'en avait sauvé en bloquant des mauvais. C'est impossible à prouver précisément. Mais la logique est imparable. Un exemple concret. Le bêta-bloquant Propranolol était disponible en Europe des années avant d'être approuvé aux États-Unis. Pendant ces années, des Américains mouraient de crises cardiaques qui auraient pu être évitées. Combien ? On ne le saura jamais. Parce qu'on ne compte pas les morts de l'inaction. C'est le même principe partout. Pas que dans la médecine. En France, les taxis autonomes sont bloqués par la régulation. Chaque année de retard, ce sont des accidents de la route qui auraient pu être évités. Mais personne ne compte ces morts là. On compte uniquement le premier accident d'un taxi autonome, qui fera la une de tous les journaux. L'IA dans la médecine est ralentie par des processus d'approbation qui prennent des années. Des diagnostics qui pourraient être faits en secondes par un algorithme attendent des validations pendant que des patients attendent des mois pour un rendez-vous. Le nucléaire a été bloqué pendant des décennies par la peur. Combien de gens sont morts de la pollution des centrales à charbon qui ont tourné à la place ? Personne ne les compte. Le pattern est toujours le même. On voit le risque de l'action. On ne voit jamais le risque de l'inaction. Et comme le risque de l'inaction est invisible, le régulateur choisit toujours l'inaction. Parce que l'inaction ne produit pas de scandale. Friedman résumait ça en une phrase : "Les gens qui ont été sauvés par la FDA sont visibles. Les gens qui sont morts à cause des retards de la FDA sont invisibles. Et dans une démocratie, le visible gagne toujours contre l'invisible." La prochaine fois que quelqu'un vous dit "il faut plus de régulation pour protéger les gens", posez une seule question : combien de gens meurent en attendant que la régulation les autorise à vivre ? La réponse est toujours plus grande que ce qu'on imagine. Mais personne ne la calcule. Parce que les morts de l'inaction n'ont pas de visage.

Something is really bothering me about the Ben Roberts-Smith case. Nobody likes being a hypocrite. Unlike most, I actually go for a walk when I suspect myself of being one. On one hand, this prosecution stinks of liberal bias. Out of thousands of potential war crimes cases the social justice warrior police chief could have pursued, she picked THE most decorated soldier on the entire continent. That isn’t justice. That’s a public humiliation ritual. On the other hand, I do believe actual war criminals should stand trial regardless of rank or honors. And I know what’s coming: “John, Roberts-Smith already lost the 2023 defamation case. Justice Besanko found he committed the murders.” Yes. On the balance of probabilities. 51 percent. That’s the civil standard. Criminal conviction requires 99 percent. The same fragile evidence that barely cleared a coin flip is now supposed to send a man to prison for life. Here’s why my post is not hypocrisy. When the school got hit in Iran weeks ago, I said mistakes aren’t war crimes, but if it was intentional or grossly negligent, someone should be court-martialed. That strike is recent. Physical. Investigable. The Roberts-Smith allegations are 20 years old. And here’s what the Brereton Inquiry, for all its 510 witnesses & four years of work, could never get: No crime scene access. The Taliban didn’t let investigators into Uruzgan. No Afghan witnesses interviewed. No secured scene. No blood-spatter analysis. No DNA No autopsies. No recovered bodies. No weapons tied to victims. The investigators themselves admitted they “lacked access to Afghan crime scenes and were missing the physical evidence that would normally anchor a murder prosecution.” So what’s left? Memory. Twenty-year-old memory from men in the fog of war. The science is unambiguous. Countless research studies confirms memory is reconstructive: later suggestion, media exposure, and repeated questioning distort it. This is the textbook misinformation effect. Confidence and accuracy decouple within months, let alone decades. Studies on soldiers who suffer PTSD show the gaps get even larger. I admittedly don’t know 🇦🇺 law but US courts admit decades-old testimony but warn juries it is inherently fragile, not scientific proof. Australia is treating it as load-bearing concrete. The media says “20 former soldiers testified against him.” Fine. Was all their testimony actually against him? How clear was it? Did 20 people watch him murder a civilian in broad daylight? And even if they did, you still have to prove the dead man wasn’t Taliban. In Uruzgan. In 2009. Without a body. Some will say I’m being pedantic. Yes. I. Am. Because Ben Roberts-Smith was charged with murder, and under war-crimes law the same act can be framed as murder, willful killing, or killing a person hors de combat depending on the framing. How it gets framed sets precedent for every future war. And here’s the question nobody in Canberra wants asked: Why is the trigger-puller in the dock while the officers who wrote the rules of engagement, approved the missions, and signed the after-action reports keep their pensions? The Victoria Cross winner hangs. The chain of command walks. Past “War crime” cases with more hard evidence remain “unsolved” That isn’t accountability. That’s a scapegoat ritual. You do not get a Victoria Cross just for killing. You get it for extraordinary gallantry, valour, self-sacrifice & devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. And here is what Australia just told every soldier watching: the reward for a VC is fame which will make you a target for future show trials built on 20-year-old memories, prosecuted by a police chief with no combat but more ribbons on her uniform than you. If murder can be proven without hard evidence decades later. That isn’t justice even if he is guilty. Proof of guilt matters. That’s a Marxist humiliation ceremony leading to national strategic disarmament by lawfare.

@RennickGBR Woma python most likely

I’m out on my brothers property this week in Western Queensland with limited reception so taking a short break from politics. We came accross this guy this morning. At first I thought he might have been a venomous breed but Dad reckons he’s a python. He’s certainly much better looking than the kind found in Canberra. Anyone got any ideas?

@JakeBeer11 @RennickGBR @PORTABLEAIRSYD No Tiger snake sin western Qld

@RennickGBR @PORTABLEAIRSYD Tiger snake. Highly venomous

It’s personal for Veteran Sam Bamford who goes ballistic over the arrest of decorated war hero Ben Roberts- Smith. He describes the horror of losing 3 mates shot by Taliban soldiers who had infiltrated the Afghan army working along side the AFD. With the first responders to make the scene safe being Ben Roberts-Smith and his team. ‘You don’t get to send us into that type of war zone and then judge us for what happened over there when we get home.’

Ben Roberts Smith is being accused of being a bully. That’s right. A man whose job it was to hunt down and kill other men is being accused of being a bully. Does it occur to anyone that many of the best people at that kind of work might be prone to what we in our therapeutic society would now call bullying? The campaign against BRS seems like just another mode of civilisational suicide to me.

This is Hekmatullah, the Taliban sleeper agent who killed Australian soldiers while disguised as an ally. He fled to Pakistan and was eventually captured by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate more than a year later, in early 2013. What actually happened during the Darwan raid is that the SAS had intelligence that Hekmatullah was in the village. Roberts-Smith removed his armour and swam across the Helmand River pursuing an insurgent - who might have been Hekmatullah - seen carrying a rifle on the other side. Roberts-Smith pursued the man through boulders and shot him. That man was later identified as Mullah Ghafur, an armed Taliban fighter - not Hekmatullah himself. Later in the same village he was accused of killing Ali Jan. Now Roberts-Smith is being dragged through the Australian courts, while Hekmatullah lives as a hero in Afhanistan.

This is the part to the Ben Roberts-Smith story that makes my blood boil. On the night of August 29th, 2012 a Taliban sleeper agent in the Afghan National Army massacred three Australian soldiers in cold blood as they prepared to sleep on their own base. Their names were Private Robert Poate, Sapper James Martin and Lance Corporal Rick Milosevic. The rogue Afghan soldier was named Hekmatullah. It was the fourth insider, or ''green-on-blue'' attack by Taliban sleeper agents in the Afghan National Army against Australian soldiers in 15 months. Out of the 41 Australians who died in Afghanistan, 7 died by way of these insider attacks - attacks which technically constitute the war crime of perfidy. Hekmatullah's attack was a war crime under Article 37 of Additional Protocol I (1977) to the Geneva Conventions which prohibits perfidy as an act of war. By enlisting in the Afghan National Army and wearing its uniform, Hekmatullah presented himself as a co-belligerent fighting alongside Australian forces - not against them. He invited the confidence of Australian soldiers so as to lead them to believe that they were entitled to protection under international law, and then betrayed that confidence to massacre them as they prepared to sleep. Ben Roberts-Smith was one of the first on base after the attack. He was ordered to find and apprehend Hekmatullah in order to bring him to justice. Acting on intelligence, Roberts-Smith and his men were led to the village of Darwan, where Roberts-Smith is then alleged to have committed a war crime, supposedly kicking a farmer named Ali Jan off a cliff and ordering his execution. Roberts-Smith has always maintained that Ali Jan was a Taliban spotter in a village that was a Taliban stronghold. It is a matter of historical fact that there was confirmed armed Taliban presence in the village of Darwan the day of the raid. Robert Poate's father Hugh defended Ben Roberts-Smith and his actions: ''These citizens in the village could well have been a civilian one day and pulling the trigger the next, that‘s the way the Taliban operated. This perspective should have been included to provide some balance and context.'' The Taliban fought by blending into the civilian population. They pushed sleeper agents into the Afghan National Army and murdered our soldiers in moments of vulnerability. Where is Hekmatullah today? He lives in Afghanistan as a free man, feted as a hero by the Taliban. They don't give a fuck about international law or human rights or war crimes. They openly boast about the way they slaughtered our soldiers through acts of betrayal and perfidy. So my proposal is this: Australia can put Ben Roberts-Smith on trial when the Taliban hand over Hekmatullah, preferably dead, his head on a silver platter. Until that time, FREE BEN ROBERTS-SMITH.

I stand with Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith. 🇦🇺

After watching commentary on the current operation against the IRGC by some from the upper echelons of the ADF, I have an even lower opinion of the ADF. They don’t seem fit to lead an army into war. They’re process driven, lilly livered bureaucrats. How they have encouraged this witch hunt to occur and fester is beyond deplorable.

I'm Iranian. My family in Iran and I fully support this war and endorse President Trump's resolve to obliterate the murderous Islamic Republic regime. Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING is scarier for Iranians than the regime surviving—not bombs and not the destruction of any infrastructure. We know that this war is not against the people of Iran but against one of the most dangerous terrorist regimes ever existed. Iranians have made up their minds: we want this regime gone and Prince Reza Pahlavi to return to his country to help us make Iran great again. #DigitalBlackOutIran #KingRezaPahlaviForIran #KingRezaPahlavi

A common sense, relatively quick solution to Australia’s fuel storage crisis. But sadly our government doesn’t do common sense.

The truth is not so called ‘islamophobic’. The Jews are clearly a remarkable people. Envy and hatred of them is real and evil.

Weak beta cowards destroy countries in record time.

@HotSotin Another interesting comparison. What happens when one country moves from communism to capitalism and the other one moves in the other direction?

Crazy idea: Let's split a country in socialist and capitalist halves and check in on them in 75 years.

No doubt about it, the movie will be all time! I have never been a fan of the far fetched badly constructed story lines of Hollywood’s so called blockbusters, but this is surely life imitating art.