Bloodletting for fever. Confident. Standard practice.
Mercury tablets for syphilis. Confident. Widely prescribed.
Radium water for low energy. Confident. Sold in pharmacies.
Lobotomies for anxiety. Confident. Won a Nobel Prize.
Thalidomide for morning sickness. Confident. Distributed to millions.
Cigarettes for throat irritation. Confident. Doctor-endorsed advertising.
Heroin for coughs. Confident. Marketed by Bayer.
DDT sprayed in children's schools. Confident. Government-approved.
Margarine instead of butter. Confident. Heart-healthy alternative.
Dietary fat causes heart disease. Confident. Fifty years of guidelines.
Statins for everyone over fifty. Confident. Best-selling drug in history.
Seed oils are safe. Confident. Endorsed by every major health body.
Meat is carcinogenic. Confident. WHO classification still stands.
Every generation of doctors was confident.
Every generation was wrong about something they were certain of.
The question isn't whether to trust doctors.
The question is which part of the current list turns out to be the thalidomide.
Chris Bowen says that the decision for Australia to drill for oil should be based on the “economics, engineering and environmental approvals” yet doesn’t apply the same standards to renewables. I hate this retard.
I thought is was an April Fool’s Joke, but the AFP actually struck medals and handed them out for "service in response to Covid"
So we handed out medals to police for harassing old ladies on park benches, forcing people to wear unless masks outside, and enforcing vaccine mandates thereby aiding & abetting abuses of human rights.
Idi Amin would be proud.
When do we start arresting politicians, police and bureaucrats for their human rights abuses during covid ?
PM Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore today to discuss fuel supplies.
In times like these, wouldn't it make more sense to hold a meeting on Zoom and save all of that fuel from his private plane?
“RULES FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME.“
The Federal and State Government holds corporate Australia to the highest standards of accountability. Miss a target and your share price drops. Cook the books and you go to jail. Fail your customers and you lose your job.
But who holds the government to the same standard? No one.
Because in politics there are no consequences, this must change.
Government compliance with Senate orders for documents has fallen from 92% to 33%. Australia’s corruption perception score has dropped 8 points since 2012. Former ministerial staffers are setting up lobbying firms within months of leaving office through loopholes in rules they helped write.
If we ran a business the way this country is governed, we’d be shut down.
It’s time for the same rules to apply to the people who make the rules. Ministers should face the same personal accountability as company directors. Every portfolio should have published KPIs measured against outcomes not announcements.
Every program over $100 million should have an independent cost-benefit analysis before it’s approved. Every dollar should be tracked and published so ordinary Australians can see where their money goes and if a program fails, the person responsible should answer for it the same way a CEO would.
Same standards. Same consequences. No exceptions.
What’s your thoughts…?
🇦🇺Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
@craigkellyAFEE@Damo__T I'm currently running a generator in south australia because sun is not enough to cover load. Which it is in event of normal weather
I have been called a cunt multiple times by men in the last 2 days for supporting Ben Roberts Smith. Fuck off you bunch of fucking pussies. Those of us who have never been to war should never judge the heroes who have. Now eat a bag of dicks and shut the fuck up
With respect @OfficialACLN - you have missed some important points.
It’s been widely reported that 21 former SAS soldiers lined up to testify against Roberts-Smith during the civil defamation trial.
Because what is routinely ignored is that the defamation case was not just about alleged war crimes—it also centred on claims of “bullying” within the SAS.
How many of these twenty one testified about the bullying allegations and how many about the war crimes?
And “Bullying”?
In elite combat units?
By commanders in war zones?
By that standard, you could indict most of the officers in the history of the Australian and British armies.
And let’s not forget—this was a civil case, not a criminal one—where powerful interests opposing Roberts-Smith were secretly paying witnesses hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for their testimony. That’s not justice. That’s a stacked deck.
And those that testified that he killed people ?
That was his job.
That’s what he was awarded the Victory Cross and Medal for Gallantry for.
Read the citations;
ordered to "kill or capture"
"resulting in the death of an insurgent"
"killing two"
"engaged and killed further enemy"
"locate and neutralise the Militia"
"effectively employ his sniper weapon"
So you bet he killed people - it was kill or be killed.
But Taliban or "civilians" ?
This wasn’t a conventional battlefield. The Taliban didn’t wear uniforms. They blended in. They hid among the population.
So what exactly was an Australian soldier supposed to do—wait until a weapon was pointed at him before acting?
So some killings were worthy of a Victory Cross - but others were "war crimes" ?
Any fair-minded Australian should see this for what it is—a grim, dispiriting moment for the country. A Victoria Cross recipient dragged through a process that raises more questions than it answers, while Defence Force morale sinks and recruitment struggles deepen.
And if he is to face trial, then it must be exactly that: a fair trial. Not a show trial. Not a political spectacle. But already we’ve seen Channel 9 cameras placed at the airport ready to film his arrest.
And any fair trial—must be by a “jury of his peers” , people who have experienced the brutal reality of combat, not those whose greatest daily risk is a nasty paper cut.
@sszinglehead For holding Politicians to account, exactly like he’s meant to?
Bowen needs to front up
Good on @LiamRBartlett for chasing this weasel down, more journalists should do it
FINALLY!
I got the autopsy results!
After threats of legal action, phone calls, emails, etc, I just got the email with the report, which I have read and run through AI for the parts I didnt understand.
Dads official cause of death
Multi organ liver failure due to undifferentiated sepsis infection.
They treated the sepsis for 3 days.
Only 3 days!
The standard is 7 - 10 days or longer depending on the response and infection
They took him off the antibiotics when they knew I wasn't going to be there on the 19th as I had to take Peter in for cataract surgery.
No where in this near 15-minute phone recording I have with the treating doctor does she mention she was stopping all treatment.
I recorded it that day as I was tired and worried I would miss something. There was no expectation of privacy as she was talking in the ward in front of patients, visitors, and nursing staff.
They waited until I wasn't going to be there to stop the treatment.
Dads cancer was in the liver, but it wasn't what killed him and it wouldn't have if I could have gotten him home.
Im so angry right now, angrier than I have ever been.
🚨 Australia is about to pass laws that massively expand government power
You could be detained and interrogated
Without being charged with a crime
Refuse to answer
Face prison
You may not even be allowed to tell anyone
This isn’t small
This is a shift
How much power is too much?
A real Muslim ..
doesn’t attack people.
He doesn’t exploit his religion
for political or worldly gains
or steal donations!
A real Muslim doesn’t go to other
countries & insult their beliefs or
way of life !
He doesn’t break the law,
he respects everyone, regardless
of race or faith.
That’s why..
we, the original Arab Muslims
never migrated. We stayed in our land
even when it was only a desert!
Any Muslim living in the West must
respect its laws & the values of its
original people
or go back to their own countries!!
18-21 year olds don’t get discounted bills, why should their wages be discounted too? That’s why Labor’s delivering a pay rise for workers on junior wages.