Despite all the fannying around by politicians indicating that the Covid-19 pandemic is over and that we are in a post-Covid-19 time1, 2, and despite all the prognostications, by some people like Fabio Codswallop (i.e. Nick Coatsworth), who should know better, that the Covid-19 pandemic would end last year3, it is not over, not by a long chalk.
An active online cooker was aghast at a YouTube video (apparently his main source of information; he doesn’t trust the mainstream media). The video was from Michael West who runs a superb media organisation that pokes, prods and uncovers the nefarious financial dealings of assorted governments and other entities.
While I knew that the late, unlamented George Pell was a conservative within the Catholic church, I didn’t realise that he was actively working against the current pope, Francis. An Italian journalist, Sandro Magister, has stated Pell is the author of an anonymous memo deeply critical of the pontificate of Pope Francis. Magister published the memo back in March 2022. “Disaster” and “catastrophe” are some of the words Pell used to describe the current pope’s reign.
The malevolent Cardinal Pell has died1. In response to Pell’s demise, the idiotic Tony Abbott said: “Australia has lost a great son and the Church has lost a great leader….
Badham, V. 2021. QAnon and on: A short and shocking history of internet conspiracy cults. Hardie Grant Books, Melbourne, 469p.1
After the US mid-term elections, I wrote a piece about some astonishing data from the University of Michigan in which 94% of voters (presumably mostly educated young students) at the university voted for the Democrat rather than the Republican candidate1.