Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recently approved a new COVID booster. The shot was developed by Pfizer and targets the JN.1 sub-variant of Omicron.

This is now the fifth iteration of the COVID vaccines, which have been updated regularly to keep up with the rapidly evolving virus, SARS-CoV-2.

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For adults aged 65 to 74, a booster is recommended every 12 months, but they’re eligible every six months. For adults over 75, a shot is recommended every six months.

Adults aged 18 to 64 are eligible every 12 months, unless they have a severe immune deficiency. Many conditions can cause immunodeficiency, including genetic disorders, infections, cancer, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and lung disease, as well as having received an organ transplant. For this group, it’s recommended they receive a shot every 12 months, but they’re eligible every six.

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In 2019, the Middle East supplied around 17% of Australia’s crude oil imports around 1% in refined products. However, the three largest suppliers to Australia of refined products, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, sourced 20, 35 and 44%, respectively, of their crude oil from Saudi Arabia and Iran.

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Australia is supposed to, by international agreement, have 90 days of petroleum reserves. Even using dodgy calculations by the Australian Government (the IEA does not accept them as proper), which includes in its reserves the fuel at sea on its way to Australia, our current reserves are 51 days.

Our real current reserve figures are at 31 days for petrol, 24 days for diesel (which keeps the country supplied with food and medicines) and 21 days for aviation fuel.

https://lemmy.zip/post/23962195

FYI I'm on an instance that is slow to federate stuff from lemmy.world accounts, I may not see your reply for some time.

Seems to be working for me now. Perhaps others can let us know if it happens again and remember to grab a crash report just in case.

A rough transcript of Norman's contribution below:

Well there is a, as historians like to say, there's continuity and there's change with what preceded it. I think if one uses the metaphors of, that Israel has invoked, if you use their metaphors, what you can say is up until October 7th Israel periodically launched these high-tech killing sprees, what they call operations. And the main purpose of these killing sprees, as they they said it not me, their metaphor was to mow the lawn in Gaza. And that basically meant, well it had several different features to it, but it didn't mean total annihilation.

Come October 7th, there was a new goal set by Israel, namely this time we're not going to mow the lawn in Gaza we're going to extirpate, pull out by the roots, every blade of grass in Gaza and that took basically three forms.

Originally, and I should point out these are overlapping forms they're not discreet, entirely discreet, the first form was an attempted mass ethnic cleansing of Gaza, namely forcing all the people to the south and then hopefully the gates of Rafa would be opened and they would flood into the Sinai desert. That didn't happen because the president of Egypt said no and it seems that the US deferred to president Sisi's decision and the ethnic cleansing didn't in total occur, but I think it's not widely known it has in large regards, it has succeeded.

The estimates are somewhere between 300 and 500,000 Gazans are no longer in Gaza, they by hook or by crook they were in Egypt. It seems Egypt doesn't allow more than 60,000 Gazans to stay at any one given time. So you could say 300, we'll take the low estimate, 300,000 have been expelled, they will certainly never return and they are finding a way, finding a way to get past Egypt, that is Egypt is a transit point to some other corner of the world.

So if you take the low estimate that would mean one seventh of Gaza's population has been successfully, and one might add surreptitiously expelled, if you take the higher estimate of 500,000 that would be about one quarter of the population. So even though the kind of ethnic cleansing that was conceived in the early days has not succeeded it must be said that in part it has succeeded.

The second possibility, leaving aside the ethnic cleansing, the second possibility was to make Gaza unlivable, and that goal has succeeded. There's a lot of nonsense in my opinion and I have to emphasize in my opinion because I don't make any claims to infallibility, there's a lot of nonsense being said about what has happened and continues to happen in Gaza.

Number one as you know every headline has to have as its subhead the Israel-Hamas War. There has not been any meaningful substantive Israel-Hamas war, there has been an Israel-Gaza war and the aim of the Israel-Gaza war is to make Gaza unlivable, uninhabitable. I'm using the language of the Israelis, this is not my embroidery or embellishment, that's what they say. As the former head of the National Security Council Giora Eiland, and he's not the only one, he's one of the defense ministries advisors, defense minister Gallant's advisors, he has said we're going to leave the people of Gaza with two choices, one to stay and starve or two to leave. And that goal which in my opinion was the main goal, that goal has been achieved.

I don't like to be a bearer of bad news on the other hand if we're speaking to adults, we should treat them respectfully as adults, Gaza is no more, Gaza is gone.

About the estimates are, if you take the whole of Gaza, one half of the infrastructure in Gaza has been destroyed. That means for somebody who doesn't quite grasp that, if you're saying a major thoroughfare, let's say in New York City where I happen to reside, and you're walking down 6th Avenue, just imagine every second building is gone. Or just imagine your walking down 6th Avenue, one side of the street is there the other side of the street is no longer there, that's Gaza. There are no universities left in Gaza, there are no schools or university hospitals, there are barely any hospitals left in Gaza at this point.

And so you might say well what about rebuilding. There can't be any rebuilding of Gaza that's just not true. First of all the estimates are by now they about 45 million tons of rubble in Gaza. It's estimated it'll take 10 to 15 years to just remove the rubble, the rubbles mixed with a lot of unexploded ordinance, toxic substances and also a lot of dead bodies.

And even if you manage to remove the rubble there's no question in my mind what's going to happen. Israel is going to say we're not letting cement into Gaza. It already did that after Cast Lead, it said that Hamas will use the cement to build tunnels, we're not going to let cement in. And nobody in the International Community is going to quarrel with that. Hamas they say build 430 miles of, 450 miles of tunnels which I consider completely nonsense complete nonsense.

All these numbers that everybody repeats moronically from the state of Israel. If they had built 450 miles of tunnels that would be more, since Glenn I know you lived for a while in New York City, that would be larger than the tunnel system of the New York Subway system. New York Subway system has 430 miles of tunnels. Are you're going to tell me that Hamas built 450 miles in Gaza, 26 miles long and three and five miles wide, no. But that's the excuse that Israel is going to use and everybody will accept it.

So between the 45 million tons of rubble and the fact that Israel won't let cement in there is no Gaza anymore.

Black Cops Won't Save Us

By F.D Signifier

Edited by ‪@NeedlessNick‬
Intro by ‪@OverthrowMedia‬

Special thanks to :
‪@SkipIntroYT‬
‪@olurinatti‬
‪@BABILA

Skip Intro on Copaganda playlist - Copaganda

Olay on Eric Adams - Eric Adams: The Worst Mayor in America

Pevious video on the justice system - Why the Justice System is Broken

Other info on cop city - Help Stop Atlanta's "Cop City" Community Movement Builders - https://communitymovementbuilders.org.

00:00 The Boys in Blue
08:30 Black Cops
39:31 Dem Dirty Red Dogs
52:29 All Skin Folk Aint Kin Folk

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13718685

Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13718685

Ten things workers need to know about the CFMEU - Overland literary journal

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22774303

The state is grappling with the legacy of a surgeon who allegedly mutilated an Aboriginal man's remains.

So the title info is cribbed from the Wikipedia link which I looked into after noticing a few fledglings in a park being fed by half a dozen mature birds. Very communal creatures.

Alternative title 'Twister 2: Geoengineering can save lives and is good actually'.

That's all I have to report. I had no idea this 'sequel' to the 1996 film Twister was some light geoengineering propaganda. Weirdly, climate change isn't mentioned once (correct me if I'm wrong). Which begs the question, why even introduce the idea of geoengineering as a solution to your tornado problem? Oh right, to provide some meaning to your characters otherwise meaningless lives. 'We have to help the townspeople', 'I want to make a difference' blah blah blah. I'm sure I'm butchering the actual dialog.

The only returning 'character' is Dorothy the scientific tornado instrument (a term pinched from a google search which pinched it from some wiki).

The film could also work as a stand-in for a very boring country and western mix-tape (or spotify playlist). I don't remember the original films soundtrack being so dull.

This movie blows.