‘DINO SKIN FOUND BUT NO FEATHERS, according to University of New England News 10 September 2021, also reported in Science Alert and SciTech Daily 13 September 2021, and Cretaceous Research, published online 13 August 2021 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104994. Palaeontologists Phil Bell of University of New England (UNE) Australia, and Christophe Hendrickx of Unidad Ejecutora Lillo in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina have studied fossilised skin from a large theropod dinosaur named Carnotaurus sastrei, which included six pieces from the shoulder, chest, tail and neck The skin was covered in scales of various sizes and shapes. Christophe Hendrickx described them as “large and randomly distributed conical studs surrounded by a network of small elongated, diamond-shaped or subcircular scales”. The cone shaped scales varied from 2 to 6.5cm in diameter. Researchers suggest the knobbly skin scales would have been useful for thermoregulation, as they gave the skin a large surface area for losing heat and preventing overheating. According to UNE News the skin “was entirely scaly, with no evidence of feathers”.
ED. COM. These findings fit with all known specimens of actual fossilised dinosaur skin. They are covered in scales which vary in size, shape and thickness, but are typical of scales found in living reptiles. The suggestion that thick raised scales were used for thermoregulation is a good one, as living reptiles use scales this way. Reptiles are “cold blooded”, so thick knobby scales can be used to absorb heat when the animal needs to raise its body temperature and lose heat when they get too hot. Therefore, the scales are an example of good design, well integrated into the whole body function.
Once again, evolutionists are disappointed there are no feathers. (See our previous report Featherless Dinosaur Surprise here.) We predict that no dino feathers will be found, since all feathers are found in the fossil record, are either isolated specimens, unattached to anything, or they are attached to a fossil bird. There are some feathered creatures in the fossil record (e.g. Archaeopteryx, Microraptor) that are different to living birds, but these were not dinosaurs. They are now extinct and a reminder there was once a greater variety of birds than exists now – a sign that the world is going downhill and losing complexity, not evolving upwards.’https://mailchi.mp/creationresearch.net/enews-20210929?e=ce21bf0337https://creationresearch.net/
Just what our kids need in school; LGBTQ+ history of sodomites!
‘Scotland has officially become the first country in the world to implement a required LGBTQ+ curriculum in schools after a new teacher toolkit launched this week. Educators now have access to a website offering an e-learning course on teaching topics related to the LGBTQ+ community, as well as a host of inclusive lesson plans and educational support materials, according to Scottish news outlet The Scotsman.
While LGBTQ+ subjects will be taught explicitly, the new curriculum also seeks to integrate inclusion into everyday learning. Lessons offered on the website range from exercises on discrimination to a math problem involving a young girl purchasing Father’s Day cards for her two dads.
While the new curricula were created, in part, for students to receive a more well-rounded education, the Scottish government also hopes the lessons will help reduce bullying. LGBTQ+ youth in the U.K. are twice as likely to have been bullied in the past year than their straight, cisgender classmates, according to a June study released by the youth advocacy group Just Like Us.
Scotland’s history-making curriculum is in large part due to the efforts of Time for Inclusive Education (TIE), an LGBTQ+ advocacy group that successfully lobbied the Scottish Parliament to implement nationwide inclusive learning. In 2017, the country’s government created the “LGBTI Inclusive Education Working Group,” which consisted of TIE and several other pro-LGBTQ+ groups, to investigate deepening inclusion in schools. A year later, the government accepted all 33 of its recommendations.
“Everything we’re trying to do here is all very, very Christian,” TIE Co-founder Liam Stevenson told them. in 2019. “It’s about looking after one another, it’s about respecting one another, and it’s about caring for and loving one another and producing healthy young people.”’
We received this in an email the other day from https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/ and it outlines the freedoms an unvaxxed person has and the freedoms a vaxxed person has! This is what it is like in a democracy!?
While this means some easing of restrictions for people who are fully vaccinated or have a medical exemption, stay at home rules will either continue or reapply for people who are unvaccinated in rural and regional NSW.
Why the rules are changing
As NSW starts to reopen, to keep us all safe you’ll need to be vaccinated.
COVID-19 vaccines reduce your chance of being infected with COVID-19 by around 80% and significantly reduces the overall spread of COVID-19 to others.
To reopen NSW safely, a large proportion of the population needs to be vaccinated. This will help stop the spread and also protect vulnerable members of our community who are unable to be vaccinated.
For this reason, at the 70% full vaccination target, easing of restrictions will only apply to people who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine or have a medical exemption.
Increased vaccine supply
Three COVID-19 vaccines are now available in regional and rural NSW. Moderna (Spikevax), Pfizer (Comirnaty) and AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) have all been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia:
The Modernavaccine is available for people aged 12-59 and is available in pharmacies.
The Pfizervaccine is available for people aged 12-59 and is available in pharmacies, GPs, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and NSW Health vaccination clinics.
The AstraZenecavaccine is available for people aged 18+ and is available in pharmacies, GPs, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services and NSW Health vaccination clinics.
If you have any questions about which COVID-19 vaccine you should receive, speak to your GP.
Where you can get vaccinated
Some GPs and pharmacies may accept walk-ins or you can call and make an appointment directly.
Use the vaccine clinic finder to search for a vaccination provider in your local area with the earliest availability and book your appointment.
Alternatively, you can call 1800 020 080 to find out what’s available near you.
If you’re not yet vaccinated, now is the time to protect yourself, your family and your community. Let’s do the right thing and help us all to stay open, free and safe.
Boy, are there a lot of different names thrown at those who have not received one of the Wuhan virus vaccines yet! They are being called Nazi’s, right wingers, anti-vaxxer’s, murderers and many more. Now, I have not received the vax yet but I do believe the virus exists. My eldest daughter is a nurse on the Covid floor in her hospital and has seen patients die with or of the virus. However, I also believe there is something devilish behind all that our elected officials have done to individuals and businesses. If anyone has acted like a Nazi in handling this Wuhan virus it is the government. Now, our elected masters have produced a ROADMAP TO RECOVERY and here is how it looks for the Australian state of New South Wales.
What a roadmap for a so-called democracy! Note the second line concerning places of worship. As a born-again Bible believing Christian and preacher I find this amusing and anti-Bible. Firstly, the Chief Shepherd “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” and one reason He left us believers here after He ascended into Heaven are to be “witnesses” Acts 1:8. Most of that witnessing for Christ takes place in everyday life but it also takes place in the assembling together of the local churches where the Gospel is openly preached. In fact, this Wuhan virus seems to be the joy of those who know not the Lord as they have been able to stop most if not all local churches from meeting together as they once did before the virus and the draconian government rules were imposed. Our elected officials probably do not know it but God’s Word says in Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.The government in a true free society would never have closed down local churches due to a virus! They may have advised social distancing, masks and hand sanitizer but this state government has deemed themselves above God and are saying ONLY THE FULLY VACCINATED MAY ATTEND WORSHIP SERVICES AFTER OCTOBER 11! Our elected Masters have put themselves above the Creator and His Word!
Secondly, this elected state government will not allow the UNCLEAN non-vaccinated people entry to worship their Lord and Saviour until LATE OCTOBER WHEN 80% HAVE TAKEN THE KOOL AID, I mean the vaccine! It isn’t until the 1st of December that our elected “public servants” allow singing in the worship services! What SCIENCE is behind all this?
Well, what are we to do? One thing we should be doing is to “pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you“. This government is not only treating Christians poorly but all citizens of New South Wales! This so-called ROADMAP TO RECOVERY isn’t promised to last forever either. Lockdowns and draconian rules could be imposed on the citizens whenever the elected officials deem it necessary for our HEALTH AND SAFTEY!
As far as I know there will be elections again in New South Wales so there is hope!
However, the real hope is found in Titus 2:13 where it tells us that we are to be “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ“.
Been busy this Monday morning doing those things I may still do while unvaxxed. The 11th of October is the freedom day for the vaxxed BUT we UNCLEAN ones must wait until 1st of December. After 11 October the things we unvaxxed could do we may not do until 1st of December. Figure that?! Oh, the joy of living in a FREE society!! Anyway, here is an article of how an outsider looking in sees us here in Australia.
‘Aside from the Internet spying, the militarized riot police, and the detention camps, everything is fine Down Under…
Oh yes, 70 percent of Australians were agreeing “sometimes people’s freedoms need to be restricted to keep Australia safe.” Land of the unbrave, home of the unfree.
Someone asked me after the first Australia post what I meant by a democratic police state. Pretty much this. If Neil and Karen are not just not standing up for their rights but begging for kneepads, their leaders are almost duty-bound to provide them. Give the people what they want, especially when what they want is more power for me!
Welcome to the Pandemia in its purest form, no pandemic required.
Scholars have noted that anti-Semitism runs hottest in Arab countries where Jews for all intents and purposes don’t exist. Similarly, the fear of Sars-Cov-2 appears strongest in places that haven’t seen it. (The same trend is clear in the United States, by the way. The nursing home workers who have seen Covid’s real impact more closely than anyone else are the least afraid of it, at least based on their unwillingness to submit to vaccinations.)
In any case, Australia has been happy to be a modern-day hermit kingdom, with its states competing to impose the strictest Covid rules.
Keep in mind, these are internal borders – these states are closing themselves to OTHER Australians. But hey, when the plague with the 99.7% survival rate comes calling, anything goes.
Insane as they were, the restrictions appeared to work. Australia had minor Covid outbreaks in 2020, but lockdowns quelled them. By early 2021, Australians were fetishizing their Covid-free lives, celebrating “doughnut days” – in which the number of reported cases was zero. A CNET article from March was headlined “After coronavirus: Australia offers a strange glimpse of life post-pandemic… life, in at least one country, feels oddly normal.”
For much of 2021, the citizenry’s main complaint was that the government hadn’t moved fast enough to get mRNA vaccines. But with those arriving, the federal and state governments promised a “path to freedom” – as long as 70 or 80 percent of adults consented to be vaccinated. Australia appeared on its way to a bright, shiny Covid-free future.
But Covid plays jokes on all of us (except the original comedians in the People’s Republic of China, somehow… but that’s a story for another day). You’ll never guess what happened this summer, just as Australia ramped up its mass vaccinations. Or will you?
Yep, the country’s biggest outbreak to date. Cases went from 10 a day in June to 40 in early July to almost 2,000 by mid-September. This rise came as a complete shock to everyone (except those wise fools who read my Twitter feed back when I had a Twitter feed). The post-first-dose spike, it’s a thing.
Back most of Australia went into lockdown, and just to prove they have learned nothing in the last 18 months, the doctor-dictators (doctators?) went whole hog, right down to closing playgrounds. (The story below is from Sept. 1.)
They also doubled down on mandatory vaccinations. Just get to 80 percent adults vaccinated, baby! Just like the United Kingdom, and everything will be fine.
But for the first time, Australians are pushing back in significant numbers. Last week, thousands of people repeatedly took to the streets of Melbourne, the capital of the state of Victoria and the second-largest city in Australia (about three-quarters of Victoria’s 6.5 million people live in Greater Melbourne). The immediate catalyst for the protests was a vaccine mandate for all construction workers in Victoria, but broader lockdown fatigue is clearly playing a role.
But the authorities are in no mood to compromise. The government of Victoria deployed black-clad riot police known as the Special Operations Group to fire rubber bullets and beat protestors.
Just how large the protests have been is hard to know, in part because the government has not exactly encouraged media access. Another issue is that much of the Australia media – like its American counterparts – is squarely on Team Apocalypse and insists on pretending that the protestors are all neo-Nazis.
Also, Melbourne residents late last week reported that their Internet service had mysteriously ground to a halt, which made both organizing and reporting protests very difficult. Normally I would write this off as a conspiracy. And I still lean that way. Except it turns out that the Australian government just passed a law giving itself incredible powers to spy on and control the Internet.
Called the “Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt)” bill, the legislation allows the Australian federal police to take over accounts in secret and “modify or delete the data of suspected offenders.” In theory, the police are supposed to use these powers to target serious dark web offenders like child pornographers, but they are not required to do so.
Whether or not the police are now trying to disrupt would-be protestors from organizing online, the new law shows just how aggressively Australia intends to police the Internet going forward. A little freedom is a dangerous thing.
Yet it is not clear at this point that the protestors have momentum. They numbered in the thousands, not the tens of thousands, which in a region of 5 million is not overwhelming. And among the favored chants in Melbourne last week was “Everyday!” – a promise to be back on the streets each morning. Yet even by Friday the protests had fizzled.
This has been a pattern all over the world for the last 18 months. Whether from unfavorable media coverage, difficulty organizing because of Facebook censorship, or fear of Covid, anti-lockdown protests have never grown large enough to force policy changes.
What will change that passivity – in Australia and everywhere else?
‘Here are his credentials: Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FCRSA, FCCP, FNKF, FNLA Professor of Medicine, Texas A & M College of Medicine Board Certified Internist and Cardiologist President Cardiorenal Society of America Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Cardiorenal Medicine Senior Associate Editor, American Journal of Cardiology For more information about Dr. McCullough, please visit: heartplace.com/dr-peter-a-mcculloughPeter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC, FAHA, FCRSA, FCCP, FNKF, FNLA Professor of Medicine, Texas A & M College of Medicine Board Certified Internist and Cardiologist President Cardiorenal Society of America Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Editor-in-Chief, Cardiorenal Medicine Senior Associate Editor, American Journal of Cardiology For more information about Dr. McCullough, please visit: heartplace.com/dr-peter-a-mccullough‘ https://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/Vaccine-No-Longer-Recommended
The generous New South Wales government has your health and safety in mind when they say you must be vaccinated to enjoy a picnic! Yes, that’s today’s freedom in New South Wales, Australia!
‘The NSW government is hoping picnic freedoms for fully vaccinated residents will encourage more people to take up the vaccine after Byron Bay and surrounding areas were plunged back into lockdown.
Stay at home orders were reintroduced for Byron, Tweed and Kempsey LGAs at 5pm yesterday, just two weeks after the areas were freed from lockdown.
The regions have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, but there are hopes a slight adjustment in the lockdown rules could change that.
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