Wake Up My Friend Wake Up My Son
Well then, my friend, the manifestations changed constantly; the grappling mouths and slow sting-ray flap of protective spirits sniffing out lies and plots was replaced by something more protective again, a healing balm, a mounting frustration, a snuffling concern. They weren't human. They didn't even try to manifest as human anymore. A sinister, overwhelming breath of passing wings was replaced by something mendicant, something that begged not for forgiveness but release, relief, understanding, for something that would take us there and release us; for something or someone that understood. The custodial concern was back. Sniffing through surrounding circumstance. Not eliminating hostiles; they were done for. But not concern. Something else. Caregiver. A warning. A fatal slip in the organic's genes. A moment when we could all see enlightenment. A moment when we could all hear each other.
They ministered to the dying.
He could feel them yet there was no peace.
There was only concern for the living.
The last rites, the last administrations, the final breaths and subservience, the final obeisance to a God, their God, who was not going to grant their dying wish: that they become the first humans to be cured of old age.
We were in a kind of pleasure dome.
The vaulting skies should have warned him that they were already here.
He came, he saw; that we were already in conquered territory.
Millions of people in Western Australia were in lockdown over one solitary case of Corona.
The ever self-aggrandising Prime Minister, the same man who had so willfully and disgracefully destroyed the country while serving the big end of town, was now trying to convince or more precisely coerce the entire population to have a vaccine shot for which, very obviously, no one knew the long term consequences.
On what many people were increasingly labelling a Big Pharma fraud.
Why was the government spruiking the interests of such widely discredited companies?
They were back, the Psyop morns and the sceptics, the people who had so proudly disserved their country; who should never have been allowed near this case.
He heard too many things. He listened to too many things.
They would snuffle around this case for a few more days and declare themselves defeated.
Daniel Andrews was also locking down his state over one case; one solitary case.
While a gormless and entirely irresponsible Prime Minister oversaw a complete, profound fiasco.
And all his acolytes in the media cheered him on.
You wonder why the centre cannot hold? You wonder why this gormless bastard needed to be shifted off into his natural paddock, the boardrooms of Australia's leading mining companies, and leave the rest of us to get on with our lives.
A multimillionaire leading a multi-billion fiasco.
Great stuff.
Go Scumo. Go Australia.
It would all end badly.
And we were being led down the witch's path by a demented God botherer who should have known better.
But clearly didn't.
Fat. Swathe. Self-satisfied. And lying to us; day after day after day.
Above the spirits swam; and would soon set out to eliminate all falsity.
Watch out, you liars and you thieves.
THE HEADLINES
Coronavirus Australia: Prime Minister Scott Morrison issues chilling warning for the coming year
The Prime Minister has issued a chilling warning that even with the COVID-19 vaccine, Australians are set for a bumpy year ahead.
The Prime Minister has issued a chilling warning that even with the COVID-19 vaccine there must be “no let up” in international border controls and quarantine over the coming year.
Outlining a new blueprint to suppress the virus and deliver the vaccine, the Prime Minister will pledge another $1.9 billion in new spending today to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine.
In one of the largest logistics exercises ever seen in Australia’s history — he will pledge to vaccinate 26 million people, having secured over 140 million doses, enough to cover the Australian population several times over.
As well as the 20 million Pfizer doses, Australia will get 53.8 million of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca doses. Fifty million of those will be manufactured by CSL in Melbourne.
Just how tied to Google and its services are we? How big an impact would there be on our everyday life if it disappeared? Australians may soon have to find out.
The web giant has threatened to pull its flagship product — Google Search — from Australia as a last resort if a decision on the proposed News Media Bargaining Code doesn’t go its way.
‘I thought we were past the risk zone’
Dual Australian Open winner Jim Courier was among the more than 500 players and officials staying at the Grand Hyatt who are awaiting the results of COVID-19 tests on Wednesday.
Mark Butler also mentioned this report in his press conference - Mortality associated with COVID-19 in care homes: international evidence
It ranked Australia as the worst performing nation (population based) when it came to deaths in aged care, during the pandemic.
Butler:
Recognising again the Commonwealth failed Australians and aged care, especially in Victoria last year and must do better.
Labor is trying to provide every possible support to the government in this COVID-19 response, that is what the Australian community expects of Labor it is important the Prime Minister faced up to his responsibilities like quarantine, residential aged care rather than continuing to shove them to the states.
The two men running the Australian economy are completely at odds, fighting each other while saying they’re not.
The one who is right is powerless, and the one with the power is wrong.
Philip Lowe, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, is trying to get wages up, but he can’t. Prime Minister Scott Morrison could get wages up but he is so deep in the habit of suppressing them that it’s an addiction.
So they’re at loggerheads. But the first rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fight Club.
Both of them made big speeches this week. Dr Lowe was explicit about trying to get wages up and said the RBA expected to be working at it until 2024, using near-zero interest rates and money creation; Mr Morrison said everything is fine and it’s time to start reducing debt.
The Australian economy is a horse with two jockeys: One is whacking it with a wet lettuce and the other is pulling on the reins. Horse confused, likely to pull up.
On Monday the Prime Minister proudly said “the unemployment rate has fallen from 7.5 per cent in July last year down to 6.6 per cent in December”.
On Wednesday Philip Lowe said “the unemployment rate is higher today than it has been for almost two decades and many people can’t get the hours of work they want.”
Morrison said “we are not running a blank cheque budget”. Lowe said “wages growth will have to be materially higher”.
Morrison talked about the “medium-term strategy … to stabilise and reduce debt”.
Lowe reiterated: We “require significant gains in employment and a return to a tight labour market.”
Pete Evans hails ‘true hero’ Craig Kelly as PM Scott Morrison finally dresses down rogue MP
The long interview shows Evans sitting in his northern NSW home, while Mr Kelly sits at a desk in his Parliament House office, flanked by a large sign reading ‘Kick Craig Kelly Out’ – a potential reference to the grassroots community campaign mobilising to oppose him ahead of the next election.
The first part of the interview sees Mr Kelly explaining to Evans how the Senate and House of Representatives work, including their systems of proportional representation.
Later in the conversation, Mr Kelly accused media of “misleading the public” and “peddling misinformation”, by not further investigating his claims about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as potential COVID treatments.
Both drugs have been repeatedly rubbished by Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration and chief medical officer Professor Paul Kelly as COVID treatments.
Mr Kelly also accused the government’s National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce – a collection of Australia’s peak medical bodies – of an “outrageous disgrace” making recommendations against those drugs. He claimed the taskforce of giving “dud advice” to government.
Mr Kelly called Health Minister Greg Hunt “a great guy and very smart”; however, the Member for Hughes said his “whole beef is with health bureaucrats”.