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Free Food Adelaide South Australia
Updated 26 May 2020. This guide is becoming more reliable. 

Fred's Van current timetable 
​This link may be broken as Fred's Van changes its location every few days. The latest link is usually on this page  The good news is that they have now operate at Gawler Place on Saturdays at 6:00pm.

Free showers 

Free Laundry

Free Dentistry and Homeless-Friendly Doctors 
The SA Dental Service open for emergencies only.

Semi-useful list of Adelaide welfare joints 

Free Hairdressing in Adelaide 

Unemployed Workers Union Rights Guide

Adelaide Zero Project homeless statistics
      https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/ ​

(above) Anglicare Elizabeth has kept this clean unit with a new air-conditioner empty for 18 months. Anglicare said the units were due for "redevelopment" 16-months ago, but has become Incommunicado. The white tenants are in limbo, but refugees arrive, stay six-weeks then are transferred to something better. Meanwhile, a 93-year-old white tenant can no longer get up her front steps and uses a plywood ramp at her back door.

(above) It was a big day at the $8.1 million Playford Council carpark at Elizabeth last week. There were nine cars in the station at lunchtime. Most were Council cars. The Council said the parking station was for the failed skating rink project across six lanes of the Philip Highway. The real reason was for a proposed and now delayed hotel by a foreign chain.

(above) A media star fiddles with her phone below the empty $8.1 million Elizabeth carpark. Why doesn't the corporate media uses their access to expensive data bases and expose to who the Playford Council mortgages public property to build unused projects. Does dirty money from Chinese companies making precursor chemicals for crystal methamphetamine and other drugs play a role? Is anyone in the Council getting kickbacks?

(above) The elevator shaft of the new Grenville Centre senior citizens building at Elizabeth. It will cost an extra million dollars to build as it is on a smaller site than the old building and requires two levels to get the same floor space. The larger site was allocated by the Playford Council to a foreign hotel chain.

(above) The new Grenville Centre building will boast fewer green places for the geriatrics, more difficult parking for disabled people who use both the Grenville Centre and the library and more difficult access for delivery vehicles. There was little wrong with the old building on the better site, but the Playford Council decided to give it to the foreign hotel chain. The Playford Council built an $8.1 million empty multi-floor carpark for the hotel chain that has yet again delayed construction.

(above) Two soup kitchen elderly men claim that drinking Tonic Water will help fight the virus. They say the Quinine in Tonic Water both helps prevent getting the virus and then fighting it if you get it. They aren't fools: they don't claim it is a vaccine. It costs 75-cents a bottle in Coles. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Coming Soon: Kilburn and Gawler Fred's Van reopen next week: takeaway only; Hutt Street Centre with 70 employees refuses can of soup to rough sleeper; Woman with brain cancer living outside; Virus lady bitten by spider; Adelaide Zero Project still hasn't published monthly homeless stats: what do they actually do except run homeless conferences?; Ruf Us closed until June (why do they bother opening at all)?; Is Prince Andrew a scapegoat to shield Geoffrey Epstein's handlers?; Why doesn't Stephanie Richards get out of the office?; Lifepoint good takeaway service; Orange Sky Laundry restarting; Drug addicted son ruining soup kitchen man's life; What will the new Hutt Street Centre toilets and shower room look like?; SHRT cancelled their silly meetings; Inside the burnt-out Smithfield Plains High School; Decent Dennis (formerly Dennis the Menace);  Hire a drug thug: why the homeless joints back the dealers.
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Baptist WestCare leads the pack
 
Clients say WestCare has hired unemployed chefs to make their free takeaway lunches. And that the curry wurst and rice with flatbread is a big winner. The meals have been described as “outrageously good” and that WestCare serves 250 a day.
 
Perhaps after the virus goes away, Baptist WestCare should maintain a permanent takeaway service that runs parallel with their dining-in service. Some homeless people fear being around other diners with communicable infections or tendencies to violence and might prefer getting a quick takeaway container.
 
Of course, the dark secret of Baptist WestCare is kicking out a non-violent man for life who had been going there since he was a child in the 1950’s. What was the offence? WestCare won’t say.
 
Baptist Westcare Adelaide
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide
Takeaway only. Currently high quality.  Monday to Friday 11:30am to 1:00pm. Sundays 10:30 to 1:00pm. Free. No I.D. or registration required.
 
29 May 2020

Angry Elizabeth homeless man
 
He’s in his fifties, doesn’t get welfare and lives outside. Conversations with him are nearly impossible as he’s quick to anger. He has a beard and carries bags. You don’t see him too often because he stays in one position for long periods though he does go to the library.
 
He went to Centrelink to get on welfare, but became angry and walked out. An observer said the Centrelink employees didn’t care and that “They wouldn’t care if he died.”
 
For all the welfare money that is splashed about, much of it used for drugs, this man cannot get it for housing or anything.
 
29 May 2020
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(above) Anglicare tenant Bryn Hardiman dead for 16 months after being hit by a car outside the Elizabeth RSL. Despite being dead, Anglicare and the Housing Trust have chased him for a $200 bill for rubbish removal from his unit after he died. They've spent perhaps $1500 so far in the SACAT Tribunal and with a debt collector. What dark motive do these bureaucrats have to waste public money that could be spent on housing repairs? (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Playford Community Fund open
 
The Playford Fund is open for business. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 then collect frying pans, blankets and food at front door depending on what you need and what they’ll give. Sometimes furniture.
 
Regular clients place request over phone then pick up at a specified time. New clients have to sign a simplified application form. The Playford Christmas hamper application form was painless, but I didn’t believe for a moment their pledge to keep my name, address and birth date confidential.
 
Their address is in the Elizabeth shopping centre next to Anglicare on the side of the complex that faces the Elizabeth Library and $8.1 million empty parking station.
 
28 May 2020

Fred’s Van in the city
 
“I’m a bit wound up,” the man waiting for the van at Hemmings Park says. He slumps on the ground against the tennis-ball wall of the Department of Education building.
 
He says his 27-year-old son won’t move from his house and had threatened him with a baseball bat earlier in the day. He says his son’s whole life is about getting drugs and with the dole being paid double the normal rate, he’s using even more.
 
The father has tried to get a transfer from his Housing Trust unit, but without the right contacts and legal knowledge nothing will happen. It’s all about who you know.
 
He stops talking to me, his black cap pulled low over his face, his sunglasses and a black scarf covering most of the rest. But his lower lip hangs low like a sulking child, or an adult in deep depression.
 
Fred’s Van City at Gawler Place
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm.
Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm for an indoor sit-down higher quality meal. Toilets available only on Wednesdays.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.
 
28 May 2020

(above) A scene at the Gawler Salvation Army after 4:00 pm on a Thursday afternoon. A brand new building with one car in the parking area. They can't blame the virus: this place is nearly always empty. Too many real estate assets and not enough soldiers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Housing Trust putting office in Mellor Court complex

The Housing Trust (South Australian Housing Authority) plans to use a unit in the Mellor Court complex on James Street, Gilberton where a man was murdered last week. The Trust will make this unit an office.
 
Michael Buchan, the Housing Trust C.E.O., put on a compassionate voice for Leon Byner of radio station 5AA, similar to Anglican boss Peter Sandeman’s compassionate voice. But Buchan has no plans to change the Housing Trust’s policy of dumping drug dealers in the middle of aged housing complexes. Nor is he planning to change the policy of moving out or ignoring long-term tenants whose lives are wrecked by the drug junkies rather than moving out the junkies themselves.
 
However, Buchan is continuing the policy of knocking down larger units on larger blocks of land and plonking five new ecologically-unfriendly gutter-to-gutter hot boxes together so that when one person flushes the toilet, the other tenants hear it. Or if one tenant smokes dope or cooks up a batch of crystal methamphetamine, others breath in the fumes.
 
Buchan told Byner that “…we have swift decisive action. We take people to SACAT [South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal] when they actually break leases. We seek for orders from SACAT whether they be eviction or to the alternate to effectively protect existing other tenants and the community…” What a deceiver. This may happen occasionally to drug dealer and junkie tenants, but so rarely that Buchan’s statement is meaningless.
 
Byner asked Buchan what changes he’d made since being appointed C.E.O. two years ago. Buchan said they’d established a feedback line directly to his office. What a deceiver. Tenants have complained about the violence, threats, property damage and noise from drug dealers operating in Housing Trust complexes. Buchan has done nothing except have his staff warn the offenders that someone complained about them, which has brought repercussions. Buchan is effectively a supporter of the drug dealers and meths cooks and an enemy of quiet tenants who pay the rent and keep their properties in good order.
 
Buchan’s plan for Mellor Court is spending $2.5 million dollars improving security plus kicking out a tenant to make that person’s unit an office. However, a man representing twenty tenants in the complex says the office will be open during office hours only while the drug psychopaths operate from 3:00pm to 2:00am. He says Buchan’s plan will change nothing. He said in one month they had 100 emergency vehicles attending the units. This included police, ambulance and fire trucks. He said tenants evicted simply returned and “bullied their way back in” or slept in sheds around the back.
 
27 May 2020

China Envoy’s death in Israel, Mink COV, Leeching clots
Part 24
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/china-envoys-death-in-israel-mink-cov-leeching-clots-part-24.php
 
27 May 2020

From the anonymous contact page

“Adelaide Homeless Journal wrote:
 
‘Why doesn’t the Australian government publish a monthly list of deaths and their causes? We could discover how many died each month from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, heroin overdoses, murder, A.I.D.S., car crashes, the flu, suicide, prescribed medications and the SARS 2 Covid-19 virus.’

What about the truly murderous killers ?

ALCOHOL and ICE

Nar a word is heard...

Boozers Loosers
Smokers Chokers
Dopers NoHopers
Gamblers Ramblers
Beggars Buggers
Buggers Burglars
Fags Skags…
 
Anonymous
27 May 2020

(above) UCare on Tod Street at Gawler give away a bag of old food to anyone approaching them from 9:30am to noon on weekdays. They currently prefer clients to be from the Gawler area and require an application form to be completed, but they don't require I.D. to see that it matches your details on the form. You can also get Health Care Cards from Centrelink that don't show an address. UCare has a shower and washing machine. The food is sometimes stale and rotten.

Modbury Uniting Church free food
 
Free food upon supplying Health Care Card and submitting to an interview.
 
One client said it was the most excruciating process they’d ever been through and it’s a replay on every visit. They keep a file on clients forever and photocopy your Centrelink card and dissect your finances. The client advised Adelaide Homeless Journal not to send clients there unless you like being angered.

However, when I phoned a woman at the church said they ask only name, address, how many people in the household and why you need their help. She didn’t mention presentation of I.D. and was quite keen for me to provide the information and pick up the hamper on Thursday.
 
Clients should phone earlier then pick up food and ten-dollar Coles card on Thursdays at 10:00am.
 
Modbury Uniting Church
576 Montague Road, Modbury North
(opposite Tea Tree Gully Council Chambres)
Phone 8117 2219
 
26 May 2020

Tea Tree Gully Uniting Church free food
 
Hamper contents donated by church people. “People bring the food on a Sunday when they come to church and put it into a basket…but without church services we’re a bit lighter on with what we got,” said a kindly man form the church.
 
No I.D. or appointment required. No questions asked except first name. “We don’t need any Centrelink paperwork or anything like that. It’s purely on a trust basis. We’re only set up for the occasional help,” the church man added.
 
A client who got a bag of food said it was “in and out”, no fooling around for being questioned.
 
Tea Tree Gully Uniting Church
600 Milne Road, Banksia Park
Up the road from LifePoint and Pathway.
Maybe best to phone first on (08) 8396 3252
 
26 May 2020
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Adelaide Day Centre soup van
​back in operation 

Good homemade soup. Nice staff. Nice park. Some clients from Manos Doss House, Crazy Cottage and Lazy Cottage. Lots of disabled clients. Occasional bank robbers released after doing time.
 
Adelaide Day Centre Soup Van in the City
Hurtle Square at 6:30pm and Whitmore Square at 7:00pm
Variety of quality soups and bread every evening except Saturdays. Also occasional hot meals and blankets.
1st Monday in May to early October. Free. No I.D. required or questions asked.
 
26 May 2020
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Krishna mob back at Hurtle Square with changed dates

The Hare Krishna’s from the Kilburn temple have resumed serving free vegetarian food at Hurtle Square.
 
They don’t require I.D. or ask questions, they just hand out free food in plastic containers with a spoon.
 
Their 6:30pm time hasn’t changed, but their new days are Mondays and Fridays.
 
26 May 2020

 Adelaide Day Centre respectful free food
 
Adelaide Day Centre on Queen Street, Adelaide offers free food parcels to anyone who turns up Monday to Friday from about 9:00am. They might ask questions informally, but don’t require I.D. and don’t add your name to the government’s Eternal Shame File.
 
It’s a men’s program, but they also give food parcels to women. One older woman from the outer suburbs said they treated her very kindly.
 
Adelaide Day Centre
Queen Street, Adelaide (behind the unmarked women’s shelter)
Phone (08) 8232 0048
You can also enter via the laneway off Moore Street if drug dealers are waiting for you on Queen Street. Mainly a homeless men’s place, but they give food parcels also to women.
 
26 May 2020

Heart and Soul free food

Morphett Vale Community Hall, William Street, Morphett Vale 12pm Tuesdays, starting 26 May.
Para Districts Masonic Centre, 77 Philip Hwy, Elizabeth South  12pm Wednesdays starting 27 May.
Western Suburbs 10am every Friday at Heart & Soul Group Warehouse, 30 Fourth St Wingfield.
No I.D. or registration required.

26 May 2020

From the anonymous contact page
From Vic Tim

“Mallor Court (GILBERTON)

Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye...
All rise
Mallor Court is now in session

Judge Bunting **nting Wagner Fagner presiding.

Ye may be cheated.

Offendant: 63 year old fella
Innocence accused of: Public Housing Tenant

Verdict: GUILTY
Sentence : Death by beating stabbing etc

Capital Punishment against innocent people is hereby a reality in South Australia public housing.

NOTE / BEWARE:

Corporal Punishment inflicted against innocent people is a regular occurrence if these people are tenants within Housing SA.

Executions and tortures are carried out by official South Australia Government approved and positioned

Prison Population
Criminally Insane
Detention Illegals
Outback Savages

Reporting from

HellRiot Hostile Hostel for Homeless
(formerly "Elliott Lodge")
40 Park Terrace
GILBERTON SA 5081

P.S. Am currently on Death Row, having been sentenced 6 years ago for the offence of keeping to myself, SEPARATE from Ice Dealers + Drunky Munky Junkies + Frosted Farts (LOUD ASS BIKIE SCUM on Ice) + Hip Hop Rap Crap Boom Box Bombers etc.

In past 12 months a sociopath psychopath tenant killed a couple close friends by deception then neglect.

Recently same human alien probably interfered with others nearby, killing them after uprooting abduction disposal etc.

Whats the use of living when so much is dying ?

And Human$ inmanity to man is so common.
 
Vic Tim
 
26 May 2020

(above) Playford Council wasting more money on Fremont Park, its showcase park across the road from its $8 million empty parking station at Elizabeth. Yet small suburban parks near where people live are left without seats, toilets or playground equipment. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Elderly woman targets house
of released paedosexual
​released from prison

A elderly woman is placing leaflets into mailboxes at Rosewater. The leaflets show the name, address and photograph of the man who lives in a certain house that was also photographed.
 
Neighbours and the wider community have responded by throwing faeces at the house and leaving bags outside the front door.
 
The man is believed to be under a form of house arrest where he can leave the property only when accompanied by a government guard.
 
It is also believed the man has been sexually neutered with a hormonal drug such as Depo Provera. This was also used on Aboriginal teenage girls in the Kimberley and Great Sandy Desert who gave birth too young in life to children who were deemed by welfare authorities as being neglected.
 
Depo-Provera has some nasty side-effects, both short and long-term so he will be having a hard time as do the desert girls.
 
One cannot have much sympathy for the man and can understand the motives of those lives he harmed. It is fair behaviour for them to want further revenge. However, is it right that he should be tormented by people who haven’t been affected by him?
 
The background players should also be considered. They are the fashion industry that sexualises children; the so-called anti-bullying programs in Australian schools that promote deviant sex to 12-year-olds; the food industry that upsets children’s hormonal systems with food additives and leeching from plastic containers; and the pornographic industry supported by credit cards, Bitcoin and the major corporations that provide internet connections to it.
 
The problem is both systemic and at the individual level of responsibility.
 
25 May 2020 

Police command do their usual cover-up
 
Updated late 25 May 2020

The South Australian police have assured the public that the murder of a 63-year-old man on Saturday night at the Mellor Court Housing Trust units on James Street at Gilberton was not random. This was the police way of assuring us that an indiscriminate murderer wasn’t on the loose. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation supported the police view by describing them as neighbours. And that assaults are usually kept inside the drug industry.
 
However, another view from those much closer to the culture was that the alleged killer did not live at Mellor Court, thus making it an attack from outside the Housing Trust complex. 

For those who live in the junkie suburbs like Elizabeth, life is a low-level nightmare the drug junkies and their controllers ruling the streets day and night. The police are reluctant to act against both addicts and dealers, but show less tolerance to those who keep effective weapons for defense.
 
But the sinister aspect of this is why the Housing Trust places dealers and crystal methamphetamine cooks into rental complexes of old people who don’t use drugs. Tenants never before having used illegal drugs are then subjected to their new druggie neighbours cooking up batches of crystal methamphetamine, the fumes of which pass across the complex and through open windows and into air-conditioners.
 
And even more profound is why the upper levels of the police and government hierarchies won’t breathe a word of cricisim against the Chinese government that actively allows their factories to export the precursor chemicals for making crystal methamphetamine to Australia.
 
25 May 2020
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From the anonymous contact page

Comment

Good Policy X 2 :

1: "Ask questions later..."

2: "Let God sort em out..."
 
25 May 2020
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 Rough sleeping in the city?
 
From the anonymous contact page
 
“Rough sleeping in city…go to "street to home" - they go into a hotel.  Only people who have already been registered with street to home (Neami) get helped. They are on the "outreach" service.
 
“Other people who have been roughsleeping in city, but not recorded on outreach. do not get assisted into a hotel.”
 
“Also - with Street to Home - I got told that information by the homeless gate way a couple days ago.   Although when I told Nat Cook Labour MP this information, they said there is help for families, and help for homeless - so stuff knows what planet she is on, as the Gateway told me, no there is f all. 
 
“It was the [Homeless] gateway themselves who said, people have been wandering around in town, then hoping to get accommodating - but they've old been there for two days, and so they don't get to go into a hotel. Not sure what happens to them, or if they are totally turned away.  She said people who are genuinely homeless in town, are already part of outreach, and outreach services are "well aware" of who they are etc etc,.. and so those people get the help. The new ones dont…”
 
Name supplied

25 May 2020

​From the anonymous contact page

Comment
Oz Harvest has link to

www.askizzy.org.au  

Could be worthy portal.
 
WizArd

25 May 2020
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(above) The public might wonder why a 42-year-old homeless woman allegedly spat a mouthful of drink into the face of a nurse wearing scrubs on Hindley Street. They are unaware that nurses in scrubs have visited the homeless family camping near this discarded clothing next to the West Terrace Cemetery. These visits are not always welcome. And nurses humiliate homeless people in hospitals with loud personal questions asked in front of strangers. Hospitals resemble prisons for some homeless patients. Not that spitting in this era is okay. (Photograph taken in May 2020).

From the anonymous contact page

Comment

"I have been told that the is a new service of free food for people who live in the Modbury area by Uniting church but I am unable to find anything about it. Do any of the readers know any thing about it?"
 
Editor: The Uniting Church at Modbury provides free bags of “groceries. You have to phone them on (08) 8117 2219 earlier in the week and pick it up on Thursdays. The church address is 576 Montague Road, Modbury North. More information tomorrow. We will also ask around for other services. 
 
24 May 2020

From the anonymous contact page

Lookin forward to more on

"Hire a drug thug: why the homeless joints back the dealers"

FrankEin$tein$ are possible Drug Thug$...FrankenNo$e Bro$...$ickening.

"What goes around comes around..."

Just like 911
Just like Covid 19

ZALLAM
 
24 May 2020
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From the Street
 
Damian H. from Semaphore Hostel resembles a victim of an African famine: skin and bone. He eats food, but his body is unable to absorb the nutrition. Damian stands in a swirling fog, the ground rising upward while he looks on, wide-eyed, surprised, but not afraid.
 
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Meanwhile, the other Damian who shared a unit with Claxton Montgomery in the Wesley Social Enterprises complex also lives at Semaphore Hostel. His brain damage leaves him with a small highly functioning part of his mind that surges forward into the land of genius then retreats back into confusion.
 
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Peter Dawson had a stroke on Wednesday evening. Peter collects cans at the Salisbury railway station where he stays until late at night. The dangerous alcoholics near the Stockade Hotel carpark protect him.
 
Peter grew up partly at Minda homes and was once locked overnight in the walk-in fridge.
 
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We were eating outside the Beacon of Hope church where they offer free soup and sausage rolls. Two ambulances sped up Main North Road. A man checked an app on his phone and said: “Overdoses at Davoren Park.”
 
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“CB radio is dead. You only have to listen. Nothing, it’s dead.”
 
Old man at soup kitchen who switched to computers.
 
 
*
 
The Australian ghouls who get transplants of organs from Chinese prisoners killed on demand have recently had trouble obtaining their flesh.
 
The prisoners have gotten a short reprieve thanks to the SARS virus.
 
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“As to Nat (Natalie Fleur) Cook, the South Australia Labor opposition shadow minister on Human Services, she speaks as if everything is going fine. She is so ignorant and out of touch with this issue as if she were living on another planet.”
 
An insider account of Cook’s belief that all is fine in the homeless industry.
 
*
 
The police are cruising free food venues to observe whether staff and clients are observing “social spacing” regulations.
 
*
 
Book publishing on paper is dead, but couldn’t Ian Cox change that? He’s got the inside information on the homeless racket for the past thirty years. When released from career bondage, he might write his account of the fascinating and demonic people at the Hutt Street Centre. The worse will be the deep state operatives that determine policy that harms those living outside.
 
*
 
A soup kitchen man bought an 80cc petrol motor bicycle for $100. They once cost thousands. They’re illegal now. He rides it at night when he can see cars ahead. When a car approaches, he gets off and pushes it.
 
An electric bicycle has higher speed capabilities, but is legal and doesn’t require a license. Strange laws.
 
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“Drug addicts are people to. They deserve respect. They’re people with issues.”
 
Homeless man at Elizabeth Fred’s Van
 
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Bruce Kurtzer is an unsung hero of the free food scene. Apart from his yelling into his microphone at the Influencers Church, he has been instrumental is starting free food venues at One Life Church at Parafield Gardens, Beacon of Hope at Elizabeth, Faith Works, Lutheran Ark and another church at Ingle Farm.
 
Faith Works free food venues have maintained their services better than the big money food services like Anglicare that have closed down.
 
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A man in the know says there is a special psychiatrist at the Lionel McEwin hospital who treats Facebook addicts. This psychiatrist gives patients fake phones so they can fill their hours in the ward tapping out messages that don’t transmit.
 
*
 
An older man who goes to Chat and Chew at Port Adelaide says he discovered why he had been acting senile. “I don’t like breathing,” he said and explained how he became oxygen deficient.
 
*
 
Chat and Chew got only seven or eight clients for its free takeaway food last week. Some sat around for 90-minutes talking while Collette provided coffee and biscuits. She hinted they should leave when one man began shouting about “asswipe”.
 
*
 
The free hampers ran out at the Baptist Port Church at Largs North 45-minutes after the official opening time last Wednesday. The church staff still offered some nice odds and ends to those who arrived after this time, but the bread was six or seven days old.
 
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A soup kitchen man said he doesn’t believe in life after death. He said when his uncle died, the light went out of his eyes “like turning off a light switch. I didn’t see his soul leaving his body.”
 
*
 
The dangerous attraction of the homeless scene is that you don’t have to be cheerful or talkative. Being depressed and withdrawn is a successful adaptive model. The danger is that it becomes an unconscious habit and you get shunned elsewhere.
 
*
 
An elderly soup kitchen woman delivers junk mail to keep her car going. She doesn’t quite make three-dollars an hour and can hardly move when she gets home. Arthritis.
 
24 May 2020

(above) Overflowing African donation bins across Elizabeth Way from the Elizabeth Cash Converters. Drug addicts have gone through what's on the ground for their children and themselves, or to sell to Cash Converters and on Ebay. (May 2020).

(above) African donation bins next to the pokies joint and across the road from the Elizabeth swimming pool. Aggressive scavengers have dragged the contents from the bins. We are drowning in Chinese clothing, some manufactured by slaves and prisoners while the once proud, but consciously destroyed Australian textile industry can barely make a pair of socks. (May 2020).

An occupational hazard of homelessness
 
An occupational hazard of living outside is an exhaustion so deep that it is impossible to make rational decisions. This is when life on the streets becomes dangerous.
 
Monasteries have for centuries been a refuge for street people, better than work houses, night shelters or rehab joints. Below is an example of a homeless man taking a few months off to live in a Hindu monastery.
 
 
Ashram: a true story
 
Our Ashram has a Master with a mind at least one-hundred times stronger than other humans. He has meditated and lived the monastic discipline for thirty-five years.
 
Today, the Master with a name too long and complicated for the average person to remember and his four loyal students are going to town, a place of six thousand souls in the Granite Tablelands of Queensland.
 
The Great Master is using his personal vehicle donated by one of his many departing students. This white van has done 428,431 kilometres.
 
The Master’s van does not start like vehicles owned by ordinary people with weak minds – you wouldn’t expect that. It requires roll-starting using the Master’s four loyal students pushing from behind.
 
It is a great opportunity and privilege travelling with the Master. We push from behind starting from a hill at the edge of the Great Meditation Hall where the Master parks his vehicle. He sits behind the steering wheel. The Master has driven various vehicles in many countries for many years. He is a veteran and nothing surprises him.
 
We push hard running after the retreating van as the Master gently releases the clutch. It fails the start. We try again, same result. The Master in His Wisdom, ignoring shouts and distress from his weaker minded students turns off the ashram road and onto a steep muddy track past the apple orchard. That is another sore point. The orchard yielded no apples last season because one devotee released Siesma and her calf into the orchard to eat the thick grass under the trees. Sadly, the animals preferred apples to grass and thus no crop. The van reaches the bottom of the gully, the motor still cold and dead, despite the Master releasing the clutch every fifty metres.
 
We catch up flustered and discouraged. The Master shows his mental equilibrium by remaining absolutely composed. On witnessing this edifying sight one student is inspired to run up the hill and fetch the Master’s Special Instructor, a junior teacher recently arrived from Bali after finishing the gruelling training in chanting, yoga and eating just three pieces of fruit a month. He, too, retains an equanimity under many various stresses both natural and artificial in preparation for the Great Change when everything will work right. Only occasionally, not having the perfect control of The Master, does he verge into tirades of frustration.
 
The sound of the farm tractor reaches our ears and the sight of the Special Instructor cresting the ridge lifts us from our despair. The tractor’s forks are inexplicably raised to chest height, but there would be a reasonable reason for this. As to the student who fetched him, he doesn’t return, in fact, we never see him again.
 
The Special Instructor applies the brakes strongly as he approaches the van and the tractor slides sideways. The remaining three weak-minded students shout and scream as the tractor swings around and slides to a stop with its forks inside the van an arm’s length from the Master’s head.
 
The Master, having transcended the bondage of success and failure maintains a dreamy composure and only slightly winces at the forks near his head. The Special Instructor changes gear and revs the motor to back away, but he mistakes first gear for reverse and charges forward, the forks moving to within a hand width from the Master’s head. The Master, beyond the crude mind of a harsh response says nothing apart from making barking and squealing sounds like someone with Tourette Syndrome shouting with their mouth closed.
 
But the Special Instructor has brought jumper leads and redeems himself by starting the van and we hit the road. We reach the town without apparent problems though the exhaust has leaked fumes into the van, but no one else seems bothered. We park on a high hill overlooking the town and walk with the Master who is in an apparent daze possibly from an overdose of exhaust fumes. After ninety minutes we stop at a health food store. The Master, dressed in his orange flowing robes buys a small box of vitamin pills and herbal tonics. The Master has bad kidneys and liver though numerous doctors say there is nothing wrong with him.
 
We return to the van after more shopping. The Master delegates the difficult task of starting the vehicle to a young student who doesn’t have a driver’s licence and who only started driving two weeks previously. He spends five minutes fitting the key into the lock then starts the motor which stalls and then he drains the battery trying to restart it.
 
He stays in the driver’s seat, the Master next to him while the other student and I push the vehicle downhill in the short, busy street. We push and push and each time the student driver releases the clutch nothing happens.  We turn at traffic lights down another steep hill. Local people don’t laugh at us as they’re used to such spectacles. And the Master has taught in the town for ten years and is highly respected.
 
After twenty minutes of this charade, the Master in his superior wisdom, notices he had taken the ignition key from the student and put it in his own pocket and that’s why the motor hadn’t started. Using karmic principles perfected over thousands of years he blames the two-week driver for not asking for it.
 
He hands me the key, trusting me with the task. This is my first break and I don’t want to disappoint him. I turn the key the right way in the ignition while the others push. The motor roars to life and we are on our way home.
 
“The steering needs some minor adjustment,” says the master as the vehicle lurches half a metre to the right then one metre back, not in wobbly drifts but sudden shifts as if the driver is deliberately trying to roll it and kill us. “It unsafe,” I say, my voice louder to overcome the holed muffler, “And the fumes are making me sick.” The others are not concerned.
 
The Master discovers we are low on petrol so we stop at the Ashram’s petrol station. I don’t take any chances and leave the motor running. A new problem arises due to the petrol funnel. It is unusually shaped so we are unsure what fuel it requires. The Master goes inside to consult.
 
The student driver attempting to make up for his previous mistake decides to check the owner’s manual locked in the glove box. Instead of using the key, he groans and jumps about trying to open it without success. He finally achieves his objective by slipping two fingers behind the box door and with a Kung Fu shout pulls it until the latch snaps and the little door falls open. The manual proves inconclusive and the glove box door won’t stay shut. The student seals it shut with Blue Tack putty that he found inside.
 
The Master returns with a broad-faced Fijian Indian woman who gazes at the funnel and tells us in a manner of settling all doubt that, “It may take leaded or it may take unleaded or perhaps diesel.”
 
The Master won’t risk using the wrong fuel so we begin the final three-kilometre gravel drive to the Ashram Community. He sits in the front passenger seat where each bump dislodges the blue tack on the lid that bangs on his knees. After the fourth time his in-articulate sounds represent something approaching disbelief. It is here where weaker minds would lose their cool, but the Master, with a mind one-hundred times stronger than normal people, utters his words of wisdom, in a melancholy tone, “We should not have gone to town.”
 
Permission was given to publish this story from the author who wishes to remain anonymous.
 
23 May 2020

(above) A folded blanket gone mouldy left by a homeless person in Sherwood Forest near Homo Hill. Some Adelaide City Council workers are kindly and respectful to homeless campers and won't touch their bedding or camping gear. (May 2020).

Two homeless people at Fred’s Van Elizabeth

There are more than two, usually, but most pretend they have homes. The blue-eyed elderly woman has a home, but she can be seen pushing a shopping trolley in the rain, her top blanket absorbing the moisture. She said it was unsafe to stay at home so she’s living outside. There wasn’t any self-pity in her voice.
 
A younger man was living in his elderly Excel car. He’d paid rent at a rooming house, but the landlord had become threatening so he’d left, just after paying the rent. He had a thick cut on a finger from installing a used starter motor in his car. The cut needed stitches and was covered in dirt and motor oil.
 
The Indian woman whose mother was killed in India last year said she’d been put off work due to the virus. The recovered virus lady was there, but not the man whose father had the virus. And not the fascinating and good-natured Moslem man.
 
We saw an elderly man with thin legs limp into the methadone joint across the road. He is a relative of AJ’s (Allan Junior” family. “He doesn’t look like a drug addict,” I said. Ten minutes later, he emerged from the building carrying a yellow needle box. It was for his diabetes needles.
 
He showed us a long cut on the heel of one foot. He said it just appeared and was getting larger. He said in three years he wouldn’t be able to walk. Allan Junior’s family are a pleasant extended family. They speak nicely and protect each other.
 
A tall well-dressed Maori man stood in the queue. He was enquiring about becoming a volunteer. He didn’t believe that Tonic Water prevents people getting the virus. He said it was a mental health placebo.
 
The numbers waiting for the food were one-third that of those who used to arrive for the meal inside the café. Some are afraid of the virus while others went there for the social occasion. It’s takeaway only these days.
 
The takeaway bags this day were huge. They included frozen salmon, Coke, sparkling mineral water, yoghourt, chestnuts, frozen homemade meals in plastic containers, good fruit and vegetables. Three bags per person and more for those who waited until closing time to grab what was left over. The staff were friendly and communicative. Some Sundays are winners.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
Still operating Sundays. Ceased on Wednesdays.
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. Free. Takeaway food only. No I.D. or registration required. Very good.
 
Editor: The homeless man and woman were not at Fred’s Van the following week so with luck they found shelter.

22 May 2020

(above) The Beacon of Hope Church of Christ offers hot homemade soup and sausage rolls with sauce from Tuesdays to Fridays from 11:30am to 12:30pm. All free and they don't collect names for the Eternal Shame File. They're at 38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth, behind the BCF and Office Works stores.

Fastest and most horrible Elizabeth Fred’s Van ever

They didn’t open the gates until 12:00 noon, but by 12:14pm they were closing the doors of the café. This was at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Sunday.
 
They also placed a spy outside the side door. He squatted against the wall, partially hidden by a car, listening and watching.
 
Clients were lining up for seconds nine-minutes after opening time.
 
The bags weren’t nearly as good as last week, but included eggs and containers of pasta with sauce and grated cheese. I took out the pasta and gave my bag to a disabled man.  
 
As we were leaving at 12:16pm, volunteers followed us to the outer gates. They were also leaving.
 
Many people who arrive at 12:30 pm would have found the gates locked and the building empty.
 
Why the staff did this is anyone’s guess. Perhaps they feared us standing around and talking during the hour that Fred’s Van is usually open. Anyway, it was horrible.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
Still operating Sundays. Ceased on Wednesdays.
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. Free. Takeaway food only. No I.D. or registration required. Very good.
 
21 May 2020
 

Beacon of Hope free lunches
 
The chef at the Beacon of Hope is called “Big Al”. He’s a real cook who makes his own sausages for their sausage rolls. He likes people to tell him if the quality of his cooking is inadequate. Large Al says, “It doesn’t matter if the food is free or not, I want it to be well-cooked.”
 
The Beacon of Hope doesn’t get government funding. Large Al collects the food on Mondays from growers, Pathway and the Salvation Army in Elizabeth East. That’s why the place is closed on Mondays: he’s collecting food for Tuesdays to Fridays.
 
The Beacon of Hope began their free lunches when they had to close down their cheapo restaurant inside the church building, and when they noticed the Anglicare Food Barn has shut down completely, had even cancelled takeaways.
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth
(Church of Christ)
​Open and going strong.
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) ph 08 8255 2467
Free takeaway hot food 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. No I.D. or registration required.
Two bags of food every third Saturday of month from about 9:30am to 11:30am.
 
21 May 2020

Piano Player Wayne fears war
 
Wayne says the Chinese government is furious that the Chair of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is changing from itself to India. He says India will remove Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from the Director-General position. Wayne adds that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was a high-ranking member within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a revolutionary terrorist group beholden to China who supplied it with weaponry in his battle against the Ethiopian government of the day. Wayne unsurprisingly says Tedros as the Director-General of the WHO has been a mouthpiece of China.
 
Piano Player Wayne says India is close to war with China not only for their current WHO and border disputes. He says India hasn’t forgotten that China helped Pakistan build its nuclear bombs in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
 
Wayne says that war between India and China will become closer when India gets the WHO to recognise Taiwan as a member for its superior control of the SARS 2 Cov virus on its island.
 
21 May 2020

(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council has expelled the homeless campers from the carparks at Semaphore. The Council employees gave various reasons including the SARS 2 Covid-19 virus and that the campers "made a mess" in the toilets. Because the campers aren't in the Adelaide CBD, they don't qualify for the free hotel rooms. They're now camped in various locations in the Port area. Meanwhile, Anglicare has kept some retirement units at Elizabeth empty for more than a year. Same with the Housing Trust. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

(above) The car on the left is filled with camping gear and might be owned by the ailing old man who has regular stints in hospital. A Port Adelaide Council employee said the campers were expelled due to being too close together whereupon they might transfer the virus if one got it. However, during the day, foreshore walkers are just as close together. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Are scammers and welfare favourites getting hotel rooms while the genuine homeless stay outside? 

You might have heard politicians and welfare administrators say that homeless people are being accommodated in hotels. All that homeless people needed to do was phone the Homeless Gateway or Street-to-Home.
 
Well, this isn’t quite the truth. Many homeless people are being refused hotel accommodation because they hadn’t previously signed up for “case management” and given anonymous social workers access to their medical, legal and personal files held in a multitude of agencies and organisations.
 
An insider with the Homeless Gateway said,
 
“If you’ve been sleeping rough in the city for a long time, Street-to-Home could assist with that. If it’s only a few nights or just recently or you might be [only] at risk we refer people to a shelter.
 
“There’s a men’s shelter and a women’s shelter…unfortunately with the women’s shelter it [has] a waiting list…it’s unfortunately so hard if you are a female…
 
But don’t the media report that homeless people can move into hotels during the virus scare?
 
“That’s what people are hearing, but it’s a lot different what can actually be done…the government, the media has said ‘all homeless people get a motel’, but really that’s not the case, unfortunately.
 
“With Street-to-Home…they work with people just in the city area and if you’re rough sleeping in the city – for a few weeks – that’s when the motels come in…that’s what the extra funding is for…
 
“They [Street-to-Home] won’t work with people who come into the city [from the suburbs] to get assistance. They’re just helping people sleeping in the parklands and the city and all that sort of area. It’s a lot worse than shown…unfortunately.”
 
Where does this information leave us? If only those who have been sleeping rough in the CBD and parklands are placed in hotels, then how could the Adelaide Zero Project say that the “Actively Homeless” in the Adelaide CBD jumped from 201 to 361 in one month? Where did they come from? Why would they provide 211 hotel beds for those living in “couch-surfing, crisis, emergency & transitional accommodation or boarding houses” situations in the city when, according to the Homeless Gateway, they are refusing hotel rooms for genuine rough sleepers from the suburbs or those newly sleeping outside?
 
The answer is that we have no idea what criteria is used to determine whether those sleeping outside get a hotel room or not. All we know is that those submitting to allowing the details of their personal lives put on the Eternal Shame File are given preference.
 
One commentator not connected with the Homeless Gateway observed that, “It's exactly about giving up all your privacy to them, isn't it? I find it all hideously leeching and parasitic, too. The person who needs help, gets data mined and then all these services applied to them - so creating a virtual economy all around the vulnerable person - and everyone gets paid, doing their job, etc., instead of just helping the person with cash and a home.”
 
20 May 2020

An inaccurate and vague, but still useful list of free food joints in Adelaide’s southern suburbs

file:///C:/Users/stand/AppData/Local/Temp/Free%20Food%20and%20Low%20Cost%20Meals%20in%20Onkaparinga%20May%2014th.pdf
 
20 May 2020

(above) The Elizabeth Shopping Centre removed the huge stones and benches where the homeless and wine drinkers sat. Shopping centres are hostile environments with minimal seating, but plenty of predatory lighting and music compared to those smaller groups of stores built in the 1950's.

The joy of getting a Covid-19 virus test at the Lionel McEwin hospital clinic in Salisbury

“I woke up gasping for breath. It had to be the virus, I thought. The virus lady at the soup kitchen said she had the virus, but it was cured by God. That meant she was virus positive when she bought us the pizza in Salisbury. The disease branch told us she was false positive, but what would they know?
 
“I phoned the Salisbury Covid clinic. I wanted a test. The receptionist thanked me for my cooperation.
 
“The Covid crowd have taken over the Muna Paiendi Aboriginal Clinic where staff watched dirty videos on Friday afternoons instead of doing further training, according to an Aboriginal elder.
 
“A nurse greeted me outside the front door. She wore a mask. She said to sanitise my hands and put on a mask. A fat white guard watched in case I got stroppy.
 
“The nurse asked if I didn’t have any friends when I wouldn’t give a contact person in case of emergency. “Refuse,” she wrote in big letters on the form. The guard scanned his device into a sensor and the front door opened. The nurse told me to sit in a chair. This wasn’t as friendly as the receptionist had been on the phone. It was more like that Port Adelaide parole joint I attended to work off a speeding fine when I was homeless. I wasn’t a criminal; I was a neurotic cooperating citizen.
 
“Anyway, another nurse called me into a room. She checked my oxygen levels that reached 96%. My temperature was fine. She called out the numbers to another nurse waiting in the hallway.
 
“Then came the nasty part. She stuck a swab inside my mouth then up one nostril.  She pulled it out then back through my nose into my mouth to the gag flex area. I momentarily gagged, but there was no problem. She was quick, maybe two-seconds for each procedure and it didn’t hurt, which is praise from someone afraid of doctors and nurses. She snapped the wooden rod off the swab and put the gooey part into a plastic tube.
 
“Then came the bad news. Results would take 3 to 5 days and I couldn’t leave home. I’d thought it was a one-hour turnaround. She gave me some paperwork that said it might be out-of-date. No phone numbers, they were through with me.
 
“I phoned the next day to hurry along the results. The registered nurse said it would take about 48-hours, not 3 to 5 days. A few hours later the results came through. It was been one day and one hour since the test. The caller said, ‘Your results have come through and you’re negative.’”
 
Name and address supplied
19 May 2020

(above) Bob Briton from the Communist Party of Australia and the comrades provide a free lunch at Whitmore Square, Adelaide every Sunday from 12:00 noon to 2:00pm. Best to arrive early. Meanwhile, most of the big money "charities" are still in lock-down and "working from home".

Heart and Soul resuming free food service at new locations
Eman Rahim

“Just letting you know Heart & Soul Group Free Food Markets are set to resume.

Morphett Vale Community Hall 12pm every Tuesday, starting 26th May

Para Districts Masonic Centre 12pm every Wednesday, starting 27th May

Western Suburbs 10am every Friday at Heart & Soul Group Warehouse, 30 Fourth St Wingfield

“We will also keep our delivery service for those that are unable to attend our free food markets. Orders can be placed at www.heartandsoulinc.com.au

“We do have a delivery fee of $20 per order, or $12 click & collect. These fees cover warehouse costs, wages & diesel.”
 
Editor: A good feature of Heart and Soul's free food giveaways is that they don't require I.D. and don't record clients' names.

18 May 2020

Anti-poverty Network video link-up
 
https://www.facebook.com/antipovertynetworksa/videos/236245937447123/
 
Pas wants $120 increase in dole, but why do they feed Facebook, which is one of the nastiest surveillance networks on this earth?
 
18 May 2020
​

Australia adopting China model
​of freedom

It started with the voluntary CovidSafe surveillance app for your phone. Then talk of people visiting relatives in nursing homes required to prove they’d had a flu vaccination. Then media celebrities saying travel should be restricted for those refusing in install the CovidSafe app on their phones.
 
We got the virus, then the Chinese immigrants, then the foreign temporary workers, then the 99-year lease of Darwin harbour and now the Chinese model of freedom based on surveillance and compliance.
 
And Adelaide psychologist Chris Hamilton saying anyone assaulting “front line workers” should be micro-chipped and followed around for life.
 
These are smokescreens for something else.
 
18 May 2020

(above) An abandoned homeless camp used by tribal desert people. They grab bags of clothing from charities then use it as makeshift mattresses on cold nights. They travel light. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

(above) An empty insulin needle box in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Diabetes from denatured food causing kidney failure, vision loss and amputated limbs is common in the Aboriginal homeless culture in Adelaide. (May 2020).

​From the Street
 
The social distancing rules are ignored by druggies near the back of Port Adelaide Cash Converters. The druggies are essential workers as they work nights breaking into houses then supply Cash Converters through the back door.
 
The druggies also create customers for the Ladder rehabilitation hostel on one side of Cash Converters and the Salvation Army store on the others side.
 
The current problem is that Port Adelaide Cash Converters has been closed so there is a backlog of stolen property. Addicts also show a reluctance to break into houses because they can’t unload the goods the next morning.
 
Yet an anomaly looms large: many of the drug addicts and small-time dealers are kind and generous people, better in some ways than average citizens because they know hardship and discrimination and that state of desolation between deliveries.
 
*
 
A Beacon of Hope free lunch man said he’d lived in Elizabeth Grove since the 1950’s when it was farmland and Main North Road was dirt. Meanwhile, the church’s free lunch is gathering momentum and got 25 people last Tuesday.
 
The quality has improved and includes homemade soup in paper cups, sausage rolls including non-meat sausages, heated buns filled with meat, cheese and tomatoes. There is also takeaway two-day old bread on Tuesdays. This Church of Christ is on Ashfield Road, Elizabeth, near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last year.
 
*
 
Playford Corps of the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East were desperate to give away frozen meat pies last fortnight. They supply hampers from their nearly shut down complex, but can’t unload their regular supply of pies from Balfours.
 
They gave bags of pies to the Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth to give to clients at their third Saturday morning of each month free food giveaway.
 
*
 
A Beacon of Hope client said he’d been hit twenty times by men, but says when his girlfriend hit him, “I saw white; I’ve never had that before. I thought I was in Heaven.” He couldn’t hit her back because if he did he’d be treated as a domestic violence perpetrator. She is now an ex-girlfriend.
 
*
 
Someone stole the fruit trees at the Port Church in Largs North. Trees were also stolen further up Carnarvon Terrace at the RSL where cameras recorded two middle-aged women.
 
*
 
It's a depressing sightseeing people wearing “Thread Together” clothing lining up outside Cash Converters at Elizabeth. Cash Converters’ loan interest rate is 68% a year.
 
Much of the stock has been stolen by drug addicts, which means customers are rewarding those who break into their houses.
 
How did Cash Converters’ gain a foothold in Australia, like a social cancer?
 
*
 
A drug addict in Salisbury said his ambition in life was to go to jail.
 
*
 
Why doesn’t the Australian government publish a monthly list of deaths and their causes? We could discover how many died each month from heart attacks, strokes, cancer, heroin overdoses, murder, A.I.D.S., car crashes, the flu, suicide, prescribed medications and the SARS 2 Covid-19 virus.
 
*
 
The Christian Life Centre at 245 Angas Street, Adelaide has been operating the Friday Fred’s Van service at Gawler Place for years.
 
*
 
The Concubine restaurant has recommenced its supply of takeaway food to Fred’s Van at Gawler Place.
 
*
 
The elderly Salisbury woman who was diagnosed positive for Covid-19 still claims that God cured the virus and that the second test on the swab that came out negative was irrelevant.
 
However, the claim by Wheelman Wayne that the virus lady looks healthier than ever is debatable. She appears to have lost weight.  
 
The strange thing is that two men at the same free soup kitchen also had mysterious illnesses that lasted a month. They’ve recovered though one says he now wakes up during the night gasping for breath. He’s the one who was quarantined for being around the virus lady.
 
17 May 2020

(above) The Seventh-day Adventist Church on Peterswood Road at Elizabeth Park say they've stopped their free food handouts due to "panic buying" and Second Bite having shut down. But Second Bite was open last Wednesday. And an employee said they are able to supply the Peterswool Road Church, no problems. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

(above) A cheerful Second Bite worker brings out a trolley of fruit and vegetables to members of the Port Church. The food was given away that afternoon in the church's parking lot at Largs North. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2020).

Doctor

A true story of a long-term Adelaide homeless man who thought he had numerous life-threatening diseases.
​

“My ears have grown,” I tell Dr Kirpal. “Can you fix them?”
“When did you notice them getting bigger,” he asks.
“After getting a haircut yesterday,” I reply. Dr Kirpal gazes as if examining someone through a magnifying glass.
“Can you shrink them?” I ask.
“No,” he says, not displaying his usual sympathy.
“What about this one?” I ask, pointing to my smaller left ear. “Can you enlarge it to match the big one?”
“You can’t do anything with ears,” he says, sadly.
The receptionist is more helpful. “Try walking with your head tilted,” she says, “so your ears appear the same height.”
 
But I’ve other medical problems.
“It’s a fact,” says Vince, at the night shelter that evening, “Bugs in dirty mattresses can crawl up the urinary tract, causing stabbing pains. A blood test will spot them.” Vince had penis surgery in Broken Hill.
 
I once had sex with a woman in a seedy St Kilda rooming house in Melbourne. My penis tingled the next day. I ran 6kms to a special clinic where thirty silent men sat on benches surrounding the waiting room. The receptionist handed me a numbered ticket and said, “From now on you’ll answer to this number.” 
 
The doctor talked about World War 2 while holding a looped piece of wire. I thought he’d wrap it around my member and choke the bugs, but a searing pain raced up my penis as he shoved the loop deep inside then yanked it out hard. I cried so loudly that the silent waiting room burst into nervous conversation. The tests were negative.
 
Vince might be right so I visit the blood clinic. The nurse escorts me to a cubicle where she pokes and pokes, failing to find a vein.
“Have you done this before?” I ask.
“I’ve worked,” she says, haughtily tilting her head back, “Seventeen years in Woolworths.” She tries my other arm, again without success. “I could take it from tissue,” she says, “but they told me to stop it or I’d get sacked.” Finally she gets a vial, and off it goes to the lab, but my real problem is loss of eyesight.
 
“I’m blind,” I tell Dr Vuksan, the following week. “Sight disabled as a bat.” His feral waiting room makes you feel nervous. Even the receptionists sit low, out of sight behind a high counter, as if expecting drive-by shooters.  A TV plays videos of smiling actors dressed up as doctors, advising patients to take more drugs.
 
Dr Vuksan has a referral machine. You describe your illness symptoms and he presses two buttons and out pops a referral.
 
“Can you see me now?” he asks.
“Perfectly,” I reply. It’s always best to be honest with doctors.
“And you say you’re blind?”
“Intermittently,” I reply. “Neurologically originating with after images, floaters, dark patches, scotoma, and appearances of rain after viewing CRT computer monitors.” Dr Vuksan appreciates scientific explanations and out pops a referral letter. I store it for a rainy day.
 
“It’s your optic nerve,” says Vince, at a soup kitchen that afternoon. “Nothing you can do about it.”
 
My new Vietnamese doctor, Dr Siaw, appreciates a good illness. “A book,” he says, excitedly, looking at the tests from my nine days in the cardiac arrest ward.
“I had a heart attack,” I say, saving him the trouble of reading further.
“It says they couldn’t find anything,” he replies, affecting an American accent.
“They missed it,” I correct him.
 
 I present him with a jar of Kambucca Tea. It’s a water mushroom from Siberia that turns tap water into a healthy vinegar. He unscrews the lid, but fermentation has created internal pressure that flings the lid and vinegar over his starched shirt.
“Why,” he asks, plaintively, “Did you fill it so full?” He recovers quickly and as I leave he dances and sings two sentences from a Broadway musical.
 
Dr Lippman, from the richer side of town, is one of my three migraine doctors. “What do you do with your life?” he asks, kindly.
“I search out salary levels of charity executives,” I say, proudly, “and write the details on toilet doors.” I name one.
“He’s one of my patients,” he says, staring oddly. “I’ll write you a script for Prozac.”
“I don’t want to be damaged by side-effects,” I say.
“A doctor would never do anything to harm a patient,” he replies.
“What about psychiatric patients?” I counter.
“That’s different. Psychiatrists are a law unto themselves,” he absolves. I decline the pills.
 
My next stop is the Skin Cancer Clinic. It’s not a real doctor’s surgery – the receptionist wears a revealing formal gown. I lie on my back in my underpants on the examining table. The doctor soaks her hands in oil to make them soft like a baby’s skin, using the sensitivity to detect skin lesions that indicate early signs of cancer. She caresses my chest and stomach with her incredible hands.

“Oohoohoo,” I warble, nervously jumping up.
“Just my hands and face, thanks,” I say, and again, involuntarily shudder as her hands stroke my face. Her assistant flashes me a dirty look. The doctor finds minor melanoma and zaps it with freezing carbon dioxide.
 
Lone derelicts may go years without human touch so a doctor’s caressing hand is a powerful sensual and emotional experience: like having two mugs of strong black coffee after abstaining for years – the rush is like a powerful drug. Old derelicts often hone in on dogs and children because they’re unconsciously desperate for touch.
 
That afternoon my huge Chinese screwdriver bends into a U-shape as I try to lever the 1980 official opening plaque from the Port Adelaide Centrelink building. A strange headache and a numb left foot interrupt the task: cerebral hemorrhage.
 
I run across the Motor Registration car park; through the shopping mall; past the prostitutes opposite the Wheelchair Sports gambling kiosk; past Dr Vuksan’s surgery, and into the Post Office. I pay $48 for ambulance insurance, asking the cashier, “When is it valid?”
“Now,” she replies, stamping the form.

I collapse with relief on the derelicts’ seats outside. I’m not going to get caught with an ambulance bill like when I had the heart attack.
 
Published with the permission of the author who wishes to remain anonymous.
 
16 May 2020

(above) The free showers at the Gawler Visitors' Centre near Pioneer Park are again closed. But they are open to Gawler homeless people only. The Visitors' Centre that controls them keeps the opening times secret and say that even homeless people from Elizabeth aren't welcome. However, if a homeless person from Elizabeth gets a referral from UCare or the Salvos or St Vinnies in Gawler then maybe the showers will be opened for them. This is typical of the complexity of homeless services. (May 2020).

(above) The high-quality toilet rooms remain open. These are better than anything offered in Adelaide, especially the germ and virus-ridden ablution rooms at the Hutt Street Centre. (May 2020).

(above) The taps and shower head in one room have been removed. This is a shame because there aren't any free showers for homeless people in Adelaide's northern suburbs so people travel to Gawler for them. (May 2020).

Good news on Fred’s Van
 
Kilburn and Gawler Fred’s Vans may be opening next week or the week after.
 
Gawler Fred’s Van have regained access to the recreation centre to do their cooking. The Kilburn Community Centre will give access to Fred’s Van next week, possibly, or the week after.
 
This means other Fred’s Vans including Salisbury will soon be reopening some of their services. At last, good news.
 
Meanwhile, the other Fred’s Vans that kept going during the shut-down are continuing their wonderful service.
 
Fred's Van current timetable 
​This link may be broken as Fred's Van changes its location every few days. The latest link is usually on this page  The good news is that they have now operate at Gawler Place on Saturdays at 6:00pm.

​15 May 2020
 ​

The $43 million Salisbury Community Hub

The building was locked up, the cameras recording our every move. The well-dressed aggressive beggar was doing the rounds, the twinkle of threat in his eyes.
 
Brett slept on the mound with his shopping trolley until the rain woke him. Three homeless men sat under the giant TV screen. A security guard had earlier photographed them.
 
A hundred African and Afghanistan immigrants shopped on John Street. One gave a white one-legged beggar some money. Wheelman Wayne sat under the eaves of the bank across the road.
 
The rain strengthened. The cameras recorded.
 
15 May 2020

Child symptoms came from Nuke Test site plus COV at Wuhan Military Games
Part 23
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/child-symptoms-came-from-nuke-test-site-part-23.php
 
15 May 2020

A slightly unreliable , but useful guide to free services in Adelaide's southern suburbs

EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE IN ONKAPARINGA as at APRIL 29th, 2020 (at 1.30pm)
SUMMARY: SERVICES OPEN week 27thth April to 3nd May (new changes highlighted for a week)
Please note services may be operating with restrictions to comply with COVID-19 requirement
 
COVID-19 RELIEF CALL CENTRE Housing SA. Call 1300 705 336 from 8am to 8pm 7 days/week. Provides food relief (Foodbank delivery) only if client has been placed in emergency accommodation due to COVID-19 symptoms.

In alphabetical order:
ABERFOYLE PARK BAPTIST CHURCH  70 Manning Rd, Aberfoyle Park 8270 4316 Postcode 5159 Only. Open Mon and Wed from 1-3pm.  Phone the church or come in at those times.    *F

ABERFOYLE PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE 1 Jessica St (car park entrance Sandpiper Cres, Aberfoyle Park.  8270 5377 Selling Let’s Eat Takeaway meals for pick up. Call to pre-order and pay over the phone. No cash.
 
ADRA COMMUNITY PANTRY Seventh Day Adventist Church, 130 Pimpala Rd, Morphett Vale 0403 680 179   Mon and Fri 12pm-2pm. Concession and Centrelink card holders. Basic food at low cost, free bread and fresh food when available. One person at a time in the pantry. Home delivery as appropriate. Card payments only.

ALDINGA BEACH CHILDRENS’ CENTRE: 1 Evans Street (cnr McKenzie St), Aldinga Beach 8557 6208 Tue only during school holidays 1-2pm.  Oz Harvest delivery.

ANGLICARE SA 111 Beach Rd, Christies Beach 1800 748 149 Open Mon to Fri 9am-12pm. Call before attending.     *F
Currently have fruit available for community members.

CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH 5 Windsong Crt, Morphett Vale. Call in advance on 7285 9588 Thurs 9am for appointment for food hampers. Postcodes 5162 & 5163 only. All are welcome to takeaway lunches – rolls & soup - on Thurs 12-1.   
CARE & CLOTHES CENTRE  8 Aldersey St, McLaren Vale 8323 8779 Call 10am-1pm. Small amounts of emergency groceries. Will meet clients outside in the street.

CHRISTIAN CARE SUPPORT CENTRE:  7 Stewart Ave, Aldinga Community Centre 8557 7707 Mon & Wed Phone interviews only and food hamper pickup outside between 8.15-12pm. Thurs Bread collection, one client at a time between 8.15-8.30am.   Postcodes 5172-5174 (Arrangement to operate even though Community Centre is closed.)

ELIZABETH HOUSE

FRED’S VAN, Wardli Youth Centre, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs, open Wed & Sun 7pm. Note Aldinga Friday service is closed.
 
FOODBANK EDWARDSTOWN & FOODHUB CHRISTIES BEACH: In addition to existing services, Foodbank are offering home-delivered hampers for clients of registered agencies. Agencies need to register online and be approved for this new service - called Edwardstown Home Delivery (EHD); then order on behalf of the client using agency-pays or customer-pays method. Delivery normally two business days from receipt of payment. Small hamper $20, larger $35.

HEART & SOUL GROUP:  Care Hampers provided. Online ordering only. Public website is closed at the moment to clear the backlog. For the agency-only website contact info@heartandsoulinc.org.au or chair.ofsc@gmail.com

MarionLIFE: Emergency relief service is still operating with modifications. Offering phone appointments & ‘in-person’ visits through an external window. Mon to Thu 9am-12 noon. *F

 Neporendi Aboriginal Forum clients - please call 8322 1120. Providing free frozen meals for families in need, until the end of April or until further Government restrictions.

NOARLUNGA UNITING CHURCH: 23 William Rd, Christies Beach. 8384 3868 Mon to Fri 9.30am-12 midday. Use entrance into the main Church building.   *F

PUDDLE JUMPERS INC Drive-by Food Collection Fri 5:30-6:15pm at 9 Greenbank Grove, Hackham West and 6:30-7:30pm at Christie Downs Community House, 65-95 Morton Rd, Christie Downs.  Check the Puddle Jumpers Incorporated facebook page for full details.
 
SALVATION ARMY 186 Elizabeth Rd Morphett Vale.  8384 6014 Phone Mon to Thurs, from 9am -12.00 noon. Phone interviews for Food hampers and vouchers.
 
SEAFORD CHRISTIAN CHURCHES (SEM) Cnr Main St & Grand Blvd, Seaford 8392 4522 A prepacked emergency food parcel can be provided if Urgent during Office Hours - Mon to Thurs 9am to 12pm

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI ANGLICAN CHURCH  Cnr Dyson Rd and Kenney St, Christies Beach. 8382 1410. Mum's kitchen is supplying packed lunches.
 
ST HILARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Ministry Centre, 1 High Street Morphett Vale. Community Soup Kitchen open for takeaway soup and toasties. Fridays 11.30am to 1.30pm. Social distancing applies.
 
ST LUKES CATHOLIC CHURCH Operating from Noarlunga Parish House, behind Cardyne College, Cnr Honeypot Rd & Goldsmith Dr, Noarlunga Downs 8382 1717 Mon ring 9am, open 10am-12pm   *F

ST VINCENT DE PAUL    ALL SUBURBS   1300 729 202 Ring any day, 9am- 1pm. 
Willunga opening from Fri 17th for phone interviews. Can drop off Foodbank and Coles vouchers to Aldinga, Sellicks, Willunga and McLaren Vale suburbs.   *F 

THE PEOPLE’S PANTRY Christ Church, 1708 South Rd, O’Halloran Hill 0451 742 014 Online Hamper option $25. Open to all.  Conditions apply. See Facebook page

THE STABLES CHRISTIAN CENTRE  Piece 12 Brodie Rd, Huntfield Heights 8326 4455 ring Mon, Tue and Thurs at 9am for an appointment.  Open from 9 am to 12 noon, one person at a time. Food parcels and vouchers. OpShop closed.
 
UNITING COMMUNITIES Southern Suburbs phone interviews. Call 8202 5846 or text 0482 797 121 for phone back. Monday to Friday.  Phone between 9am – 1pm for a same day appointment. Phone assessment and e-Vouchers for Coles, Foodbank, Chemist - PBS, clothing.    *F               

Wakefield House, 65 Acre Ave, Morphett Vale. 8384 6158 Is providing takeaway meals for families, older clients and people with disabilities.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS – CONTACT THE RELEVANT PEOPLE
 
FOOD 4 FUTURES with Baptist Care SA and CHO: Pre-prepared meals for those in emergency accommodation and DV families. Has capacity to provide additional meals. Contact Richard from CHO on 0416 578 143
 
The Vines Uniting Church (Woodcroft) including Seeds Uniting Church (Aberfoyle Park) Considering setting up an Emergency Food Hub. Contact: Rev. David Prior 8322 866 who will be leading these conversations.
 
THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES MAY BE CLOSED / VOICEMAIL MAY NOT BE UPDATED
- PLEASE MAKE CONTACT BEFORE ATTENDING
 
ARISE CHRISTIAN CHURCH *Closed* 171 Main Rd, McLaren Vale 8323 7788 9.30am-12pm by appointment. (Closed
School Holidays)  
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CHRISTIES BEACH BAPTIST CHURCH *Closed until renovations complete* 8 Fowey St, Christies Beach 7200 2501 9.30am to 11am. Ring at 9am for appointment on the day. (Closed School Holidays)           *F
 
CHURCH OF CHRIST *TBC* 165 Beach Rd, Christies Downs 8326 1153 10am-12pm, ring 9am. (Closed School  
Holidays)                                                                                                                                                               *F                                                                     
FRED’S VAN Aldinga Friday service is *closed*, Wardli Youth Centre is still open, *see above*
 
GRACEPOINT AT CHRISTIE’S *Closed during COVID* 9 McKinna Rd, Christie Downs 8326 2244   *F           
 
HACKAM WEST COMMUNITY CENTRE *Closed* 44 Glynville Dr, Hackham West 8384 1065        *F             
 
THE VINES UNITING CHURCH *TBC See above* 152 Reynell Rd, Woodcroft 8322 8661 For residents in area bounded by 
Kenihans, Piggot Range, Wheatsheaf & Main South Rds. 9.30am-10.30am ring and leave a message        *F               
                                                                                                               
WOODCROFT CHRISTIAN CENTRE *TBC* 444 States Rd, Woodcroft 8325 0484    *F              

15 May 2020

(above) Fred's Van Semaphore heroically continue their free takeaway food service on Sundays at 6:00pm at 200 Military Road, Semaphore. St Bede's church has kept the hall open for Fred's Van. Anglicare shut down the free breakfasts, but Jill Rivers delivers generous free food hampers to their clients and others.

Why is the Salvation Army willingly losing money?

Why did the Salvation Army close down its Op Shops across Australia? It’s costing them millions of dollars paying rent on commercial space. Their paid employees fill in their time by pottering about the stores rearranging items. St Vincent de Paul has made the same decision.
 
Yet the Red Nose Savers stores in Adelaide have stayed open. Yesterday, their Modbury store threw out five industrial rubbish bins of sorted donated items, but business was raging inside the store. Savers is an Op Shop chain owned by an American hedge fund and uses the Australian so-called charity, Red Nose, as a front to pretend it is also a charity.
 
The Cash Converters store in Elizabeth, posing as an essential service, has also stayed open to meet the demand for stolen goods brought in by drug addicted house breakers. Maybe it is an essential service for the Adelaide drug dealers importing from China.  
 
But the Army and St Vincent de Paul are suffering huge losses by closing down. These losses that will take a year to recover and in the short term will be covered by donations.
 
14 May 2020

(above) A good place to camp next to the Little Para River despite its visual exposure. People use the walking and cycling path the other side of the muddy ditch so rarely venture across to your blankets. But you have to be careful of sudden rising of the river from rain in the hills. (May 2020).

(above) The ledge on the left is not a good place to sleep due to constant foot and bicycle traffic. The thin rough ledge across the dry river bed is better as few people venture that way. However, you should never leave valuables there during the day as kids might toss them into the river bed when it is flowing. (May 2020).

UCare Gawler adapts to the virus
 
Just four of us waited when the door opened. The pancreatic cancer man was first. He indicated his current social status by holding his hands in the air and said, “I was once up here, but now I’m down there,” as he lowered his hands to the ground.
 
A single employee pushed a table against the opening to stop us entering. She handed an application form and a pen to each person. The questions included name, address, birth date and form of income for the Eternal Shame File. But they didn’t require I.D. so you could have said you were Xi Jinping or Margaret Thatcher or even Vince de Paul.
 
The employee held out a bottle of hand sanitiser for us to use, but it included liquid soap. Most welfare places are substituting soap and bleach for genuine alcohol-based sanitiser.
 
The employee passed out two filled bags to each person: bread and semi-rotting vegetables plus very nice pastries from Coles. Why we didn’t get any of the huge piles of canned or packaged food stacked on the tables behind her was anyone’s guess. It might have been reserved for “special cases”.
 
It was quick and efficient and we weren’t humiliated by the process apart from the spectacle of standing alongside the street. When you’re old and have lived a life on welfare, this isn’t much of a problem, but for others it is excruciating and stops them from turning up.
 
Takeaway bags only from side door on Tod Street until virus infection controlled. Application form must be completed, but I.D. isn't required. No questions asked. 
 
UCare Gawler (Uniting Church of Gawler)
10 Tod St., Gawler. ph 08 8522 4522.  Everything free. Open 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday. Good shower and washing machine.
Free bread, pastries, fruit and vegetables. Best stuff gone within an hour of opening. Every day visit okay.
No I.D. or registration required, but for better stuff you must live in Gawler area and supply Health Care Card.
Also, free prescription vouchers.
Free coffee, cake, egg and bacon burgers on Mondays 9:30am to 10:30am excluding school holidays.

13 May 2020

(above) You might see bedraggled and exhausted men walking along roads at dusk and wonder where they're heading. Inspecting the terrain by foot during the day will often turn up what appear to be rags on the ground. This is where someone lives, but who maintains a different lifestyle during the day, and uses a fake address for welfare purposes. (May 2020).

(above) A long-abandoned campsite or a cleverly disguised occupied site. Surviving while homeless in Adelaide requires a wide range of life skills. It hones the senses to perfection. These skills must be subdued when talking to welfare workers as the welfare model requires clients to be broken and degraded. (May 2020).

Salvo stores reopen

“Just letting you know that most Salvos stores will be open to shoppers as from 11 May, and they are accepting donations as well.”
 
From Second Hand Fan

​Editor: Playford Corps Salvo store at Elizabeth East still closed. 
12 May 2020
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Two soup kitchen men cut their fingers accidently 

“Did you notice any change,” the Magnificent Martin asks.
“No,” I reply.
Martin explains that when he cut his finger his blood came out pink and fizzy. Then I remember I cut my finger on the aluminium food container from Elizabeth Fred’s Van. The blood spilt on the white cardboard lid. It kept bleeding; it wouldn’t stop. And it was watery and pink instead of the usual crimson.
 
Martin explains that pink blood has more oxygen than dark blood and this will reduce our vulnerability to getting the virus. He says the Tonic water we’ve both started drinking has increased our oxygen. “It’s the quinine,” he says, and one of us mentions Donald Trump.
 
“But how can a 75-cent bottle of Tonic Water from Coles have such a dramatic effect on the blood?”
 
12 May 2020

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
 
Ahmed moves down Langford Drive in a psychic bubble. Nothing else exists except his destination. A security guard greets him as he enters a building across the road. Ten minutes later he crosses back to us drinking from a brown paper cup and smiling.
 
He tells us how our bodies are composed of endless universes like a Mandelbrot set, that our cells are 99% empty space and forming tiny universes within that go on for infinity. “All this,” he says, casting his arms over the soup kitchen, the 4G tower, the job search contractor building, “isn’t real.” He says money means nothing and that he burnt a $600 cheque in front of someone to make the point. He says peyote is a great teacher, but can “leave you ragged around the edges.”
 
Ned tells me the black pole that Torrey said was a breathing vent for the secret city under Elizabeth is nothing more than a pole that previously held a huge sign. A clever disguise, I think, but don’t speak.
 
Another diner says a woman sitting behind him on a bus coughed on his neck, but made no apology. “An Elizabethan, been too long in Elizabeth. They’re so rude.”
 
The old man who wears pink sunglasses and rides a bicycle asks for flowery apples as he’s missing a few teeth. He spent a small fortune at a private dentist getting teeth removed for a new plate, but he doesn’t like it.
 
Ahmed says the father of the man at the front of the free food queue had the virus. A Fred’s Van woman says they keep the gates locked until serving time because they’ll get a $5000 fine for allowing people to congregate on the property. They had been opening half an hour early to avoid congregating both inside and outside the gate.
 
The food includes frozen takeaway meals impossible to eat on the footpath, good vegetables, sparkling mineral water and small bottles of Coke. “Battery acid,” Ahmed says when The Magnificent Martin offers the Coke to him. The free food has improved in quality and quantity since they’ve reduced opening times to one day a week, Sharka Bryant says.
 
After nearly everyone has gone and it’s near closing time, the volunteers became desperate to get rid of the remaining bags so those hanging around get another three or four.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays only. Quality takeaway food. No I.D. or registration required. Anyone can go there.

12 May 2020

(above) The Hutt Street Centre with 70 paid employees is in partial lock-down while unpaid volunteer groups such as the Communist Party, Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters provide food for those living outside or without incomes. (May 2020).

Charities drowning
in money, food and blankets
The Night Talker

Charities are drowning in increased funding, but won't tell you zip. YOU need to CONTACT them....

Its no secret to those of us who work in the welfare system that charities are drowning in funds at the moment. Pretty much every charity, large and small has been given massive money hits due to the impact of Covid-19. What is not so obvious is that, none of them, are going to OPENLY advertise this.
 
So what this means, to the average jo/joette on a benefit etc, is that YOU need to approach them. Like the editor and myself keep banging on about, you need a REALLY GOOD STORY AND PERSISTANCE! It might take you a few phone calls before you get through and yeah you might need to make an appointment, but nothing comes from nothing.
 
So don't think you can just waltz into these places right off the street. Organise yourself and the rewards will be worth it. A good story, can get your bills paid, vouchers (e.g. for groceries and shoes, clothing) electrical goods, blankets, pre cooked meals/pet food and the list goes on and on and on.
 
Remember to make yourself look like a sack of shit and cry a lot. my friend " the friendly welfare informant on the inside," said that many of these charities have excesses of everything from woollen blankets to tinned food to petrol vouchers to supermarket e cards. Its getting in and getting out with the goods.
 
And don't feel bad as financially these places are DOING EXTREMELY WELL, THANKS TO COVID-19 and the fact they remain some of the wealthiest charities in the world (aka, that's you I am talking about Salvos and Red Cross!) Even the good book says, "Ask and yea will receive!"

The Night Talker
11 May 2020

The Salisbury Lutheran Ark
 
Just two of us waited when the doors opened. Two others arrived soon after. We were Wheelman Wayne, Old Val, a Volkswagen driver and myself. It was raining so we were allowed inside where tables had been placed three-metres back from the door entrance.
 
The Styrofoam takeaway containers were filled with sausages, hamburger patties, boiled peas, beans and vegetables, but no sauce or salt and pepper. There was also bottles of Coke, bread and caramel-filled Easter eggs.
 
Old Val and myself sat outside to eat on six-dollar folding chairs from Big W that I’d brought. The Ark volunteers viewed us sternly.  Wheelman Wayne left in a huff. The Volkswagen driver wasn’t waiting around.
 
The Ark is the only functioning free food service in Salisbury, a northern hub of homelessness.
 
Takeaways only until virus restrictions are eased.
 
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark)
cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Clean toilets.
Free meal using fresh food once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2020 are May 30, June 27, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 31, Nov 28, Dec19.
 
11 May 2020

(above) The Adelaide City Council is progressively removing vegetation from the Adelaide parklands. This is to remove private areas where people can camp. It is called hostile horticulture. Do we hear homeless industry executives speaking against this practice? (May 2020).

Jasmine restaurant free Thursday meals recommence​
From the anonymous contact page ​

Jasmin's restaurant has reopened in hindmarsh square for Thursday 5pm to 6pm.
 
From the Quiet Thinker
 
Editor: Thanks very much for this.
 
Served in Hindmarsh Square across from the RAA . every Thursday. Free.
From 5:00pm diners pick up a ticket, boiled eggs, salt, pepper, cordial, fruit and buns.
At 6:00pm, Jasmine staff cross Grenfell Street from the restaurant to distribute containers of high quality Indian curry and meat in exchange for the tickets.
 
10 May 2020

Nanna’s $5 deliveries at Semaphore
 
Nanna’s Free Food Basket will deliver $5 parcels of free food to people in the Port and Semaphore areas. Phone 0476 663 652
 
10 May 2020
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Semi-voluntary installation of CovidSafe app

“I have personally downloaded it and have encouraged our 190,000 Australian team members to do likewise.”
 
Brad Banducci
CEO
Woolworths Group
 
10 May 2020

Meals on Wheels gets fat funding boost

“Meals on Wheels, big fat funding boost so now needs more clients. Maybe that client is you? Read on.

“Meals on Wheels, has got a major money suppository from the Commonwealth Government, (re Covid-19) so is looking for more clients to support by providing a more affordable service. You do not have to be referred to meals on wheels by a Doctor or social worker.
 
“If you are interested in getting onto their distribution list, phone the Meals on Wheels Client Coordinator (SA) Irene Dawson on 0419717591. Please remember though that persons with a health care or blue pension card are entitled to concession rates. If you do not have either you will need to pay the full cost. Meals on Wheels provides lunch and dinner and can also provide frozen meals, to last over the weekend and or public holidays.
 
“Meals on Wheels has also had a substantial increase in the number of younger WFTD [Work for the Dole] participants taking the place of older volunteers, who have been impacted by Covid-19.
 
“Meals on Wheels was founded by a disabled Australian woman Doris Taylor (MBE) in 1954, to relieve food insecurity issues amongst elderly and disabled persons living alone and or unable to cook for themselves. Meals on Wheels is funded by the Commonwealth Government via the Home Support Program.
 
“The increased funding since Covid-19 restrictions have been put in place, equates to around 53.9 million dollars. Other than the Client services officer and certain administrative/welfare related staff, meals on wheels does not employ anyone and has no political and or religious affiliations, though I believe that back in the 1950's, the founder was viewed as a "Commie" by the then Menzies Government and the organisation tracked by ASIO. Whether this was a result of the Cold War paranoia rampant at the time or some other reason. you be the judge.”

The Night Talker
10 May 2020

From the Street
 
Café Coco staff happily accepted the $10 raffle-style tickets in exchange for coffee and food. These were given to Chat and Chew clients via Phil Jones when he moved from UnitingSA to Neami National.
 
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Homeless people in Salisbury sit despondently outside the Community Hub, the football park grandstand and under the fig tree near the Salisbury Institute. The free food places have closed down, just when they are needed.
 
*
 
The Grace Point free café at Christie Downs and HYPA free semi-rotting vegetables at Elizabeth East have both closed down until the virus sanctions are lifted.
 
*
 
Jarvis Subaru staff told an owner that his two year and three-month-old car needed a new battery. They said two cells were dead and a replacement would cost $489. They were angry when the owner declined their offer. A subsequent check by the RAA reported it was nearly perfect and hadn’t any dead cells.
 
Two years later the owner had an $800 service at Jarvis Subaru. The mechanic made no comment on the state of the battery that is now five-years-old and still working perfectly.
 
*
 
“Love your shirt,” an ice addict staggering through the Elizabeth shopping centre shouted at a man wearing a $7 flannelette shirt.
 
*
 
Wheelman Wayne said the woman at Salisbury diagnosed with the virus is looking healthier than ever.  She was diagnosed as virus positive until a second test of the swab came up negative whereupon medical bureaucrats declared she’d never had it.
 
However, she says she did have it and it was cured by prayer.
 
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The Karoonda Council is delivering pre-cooked meals to homeless campers on the Murray River. Karoonda is in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, east and north-east of Murray bridge in some rather dry country. It has a population of 1100 and covers 4500 square kilometres.
 
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The South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute on North Terrace is doing a behaviour modification program on ten homeless people using cognitive behaviour therapy. It isn’t known who commissioned the program or whether it includes drug tests.
 
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Anglicare at St Bede’s is delivering free food hampers to existing guests of their closed-down Tuesday and Wednesday free breakfasts at Semaphore.
 
10 May 2020

What doctors are learning from autopsy findings of Coronavirus (COVID-19 Patients
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzKvIYwqQkE
 
10 May 2020
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(above) Left behind items from a homeless camp at Sherwood Forest near the Hutt Street Centre. Why do the police, the Adelaide City Council and the Street-to-home psychiatric police push campers from the parklands onto city footpaths? (May 2020).

Lutheran Community Care rolling in virus money
The Night Talker

“Lutheran Community Care (LCC) flush with money...so give them a call for a handout.

“(Lutheran Community Cares, during Crisis, Two Wells Echo newspaper, May 2020)

“Lutheran Community Care (LCC) has been given a nice fat funding boost and a plethora of stockpiled items (The friendly informant told me) their head office looks the bunker that is alleged to be used by American President's under Mt. Rushmore, during times of national crisis, its so well stocked!
 
“However, as per usual, other than one single newspaper article in a freebee community newsletter that comes out of Two Wells, nobody knows about this. However the article states that LLC is there to help people in need re Covid-19. So give them a ring on 08-85622688 Monday to Thursday. Support available includes supermarket e cards, fuel cards, bill payment, clothing and free financial counselling and related case management services.

“Good Luck!”

The Night Talker
9 May 2020
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Retirement Cottage

Moving into housing after five years homeless in Adelaide.
 
“Don’t sit with your back to the wall,” lisps Morris, my frail next unit neighbour. “It gave me two strokes before I moved out,” he says, adding conspiratorially, “Feng Shui.”
 
 He points to my outer wall blaming the power metres on the other side. “Clifton was next,” he continues, referring to the previous tenant. “Cancer. They shipped him out last month. He wouldn’t listen to me.” He adds as a minor aside, “He firebombed Parliament.”
 
 I’ve just moved into a church-run retirement complex after five and a half years living outside. It proved surprisingly easy. I simply fired off two-dozen emails to various housing associations and, bingo, this one came up. There isn’t a bond or lease; the rent is sixty dollars a week and
Rent Assistance returns fourteen dollars. My mostly women neighbours are aged from 65-98. I’m 52, under the minimum 55, and a bit of a ring-in.
 
 The complex consists of eleven cream-coloured, small-windowed, uninsulated concrete pillboxes surrounded by a two-metre, see-through Alzheimer’s fence.
 
 “To keep people out rather than in,” emphasises Debbie, the church-employed rent manager. She was formerly a ruthless commercial property agent, but now leads a caring and sharing lifestyle. But she is still hardnosed enough to evict tenants, dragging their belongings to a waiting trailer: like the two women who stopped paying rent.
 
 They had many friends, mostly intoxicated men streaming in each night: tripping over shrubs, cursing, knocking on wrong doors, asking for “Fancy Nancy”.
 
 My one-bedroom self-contained unit is nice enough except for the smelly carpet. “Professional Steam Cleaning” did little to freshen it up: it merely warmed up the bugs.
 
 A tiny spider crawled from the woodwork one night stinging me in the crook of the arm. A scarlet blotch swelled to the size of a half-dollar then formed a crimson path that snaked up to my armpit. “Yeow”, said my veteran Chinese doctor. But it got better.
 
 There were twelve units. A crashing semi-trailer making a late-night delivery to the supermarket at the end of the street destroyed unit No 1. The resident was visiting his niece. Morris phoned him. “Don’t come home”, he said, adding helpfully, “You don’t have one.”
 
 This is the group consensus view. One resident says the unit never existed and the others are making it up.
 
Living indoors after years outside required changes to my derelict survival skills. It was suffocating the first night sleeping within four walls. I opened all the doors and windows then used a fan to create artificial wind. Gradually this has reduced to three windows; the fan is back in the closet.
 
 Isolation is another factor: familiar faces, familiar urgencies are replaced by security and aloneness. And the noise: people chancing upon a sleeping figure on the ground lower their voices and politely veer away so a derelict’s night is relatively quiet. But late night drinkers, walking home from the pub, shout abuse at each other as they pass my window. The first night so frightened me that I stumbled half-asleep to the kitchen, grabbed a heavy German pumpkin knife, and put it under my pillow. Ironically, I’d never armed myself while a derelict and sleeping outside. During the day I find myself wistfully gazing from the windows as if I were still camping on the hills overlooking the city.
 
 Meredith is one of the younger residents – just seventy, and a retired Salvation Army officer. She is huge despite losing twenty-five kilos last year. She has the eyes and voice of a fifteen-year-old. Physically, she is different. Her grey and purple elephantine legs are wrapped tightly in thick bandages from ankles to knees. “So the blood doesn’t crystallise”, she cheerfully tells me, adding, “They’re black underneath.” Her mauve and gristly feet appear like those of a hoofed animal. “Can’t feel them,” she says. Meredith also smells, terribly. “Blood cancer,” and she reels off a lengthy Latin name.
 
 Her blood cells are decomposing as with a gangrene disease. Her body flushes them out, but despite swallowing a handful of pills each day, she is losing the battle. “My doctor’s wife says I might not make it to Christmas,” she says, without a hint of fear.
 
 Meredith is invariably cheerful. She has ten children, three of them exceptionally successful. She is also garrulous: most mornings you can hear her piercing voice coming from the back of someone’s unit.
 
 The retirement cottages are disastrously located smack dab in the middle of a suburb devastated by Hysteresis – a sociological phenomenon. Those affected by this illness, or condition, suffer one major symptom: they live to annoy others.
 
 The local car exhaust shop caters for Hysteresis sufferers by selling “cannon mufflers” for $199 fitted. This makes a four-cylinder micro-car sound like a raging semi. Those who can’t afford $199 poke holes in their mufflers with sharpened screwdrivers. Hysteresis people aren’t lacking in motivation. Day and night the sound of thumping cannon mufflers and squealing tires shake the windows of the units and the nerves of us residents.
 
 Hysteresis pedestrians express themselves by shouting dirty lyrics of American rap songs as they walk by the Alzheimer’s fence. They whack the fence with metal bars and kick over rubbish bins and spread verbal graffiti by shouting, “dole” or “drugs”. But when I confront them they say sorry: they’re just a class of kids deprived of options and hope. I like them already.
 
 The police arrive just as I am trying to vacuum the stink from the carpet. They have a summons for Clifton Moss, my unit’s previous tenant, aged eighty and dying in a hospice.
“Firebombing?” I ask
“No, new stuff”, says the officer in an admiring tone and trying to hide a smile.
 
 Meredith and Morris arrive from opposite directions as he leaves. She gives me the low-down on Clifton. “He entered federal Parliament in 1992,” she says, with a twinkle in her eye, “In his four-wheel drive.”
 
 She tells how they whacked him with a $55,000 damages bill. Then, in 1999, aged 75, he threw two Molotov cocktails at the South Australian Parliament. Police grabbed him as he was lighting the third. News reports of the day say he was overall pleased with the result. But he shouldn’t have sat with his back to the electricity metre wall and got cancer.
 
“I warned him,” says Morris, then adds ominously, “I’m going to die here. Don’t you.” With a sneaky glint in his eyes he shuffles back to his unit. I return inside and begin pulling furniture away from the power metre wall.
 
Published with permission from the author who wishes to remain anonymous.

9 May 2020
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(above) A tent complex in an Adelaide park. The homeless children laughed healthily and the parents talked to them constructively in kindly tones. (May 2020).

(above) The camp has become silent, the family gone. (May 2020).

Communist Party free food at Whitmore Square

“Why the volunteer "Pinko's" soup kitchen/food handout at Whitmore as run entirely by volunteers, runs rings around the wealthier charities.

“Its been reported on this website that the Communists have stepped into the void of feeding the homeless/transients who congregate around Whitmore Square, whilst the larger charities have gone into lockdown and cancelled their services.

“The Communists within Australia have a long history of helping the most marginalised, when other charities and support has gone bush. (So to speak)
 
“They were there feeding the unemployed during the economic crisis of the 1890's, and then again during the coal workers strikes during the early nineteen twenties and then again when the Great Depression began in 1928.
 
“Both my parents were born during the Great Depression and then lived through the second world war and then the misery of a post-war Europe. Both stated emphatically, that only two groups remained supportive and could be relied up, when everyone else had fled. The Communists and the Catholics (e.g. Caritas)
 
“The communists (despite mass persecution in Germany) were the first to set up soup kitchens in the bombed out ruins, they volunteered to fight and or provide medical and nursing aid, during the Spanish Civil war and they remained loyal and steadfast when employers sought to exploit employees.
 
“The two greatest Communists in Australia were women. One was called Augusta Zadow and the other, Vida Goldstein. Augusta Zadow was a poor Polish Immigrant all of 4 foot nine inches, who became the single most powerful Union leader of the United Women's Garment Industry in Australia from the time of the first world war through to the 1940's. She abolished piece work at home, and collectivised woman to join the union to fight for better wages and conditions.
 
“For this, her life was threatened on several occasions and she was physically assaulted on numerous occasions. It was rumoured that the Menzies Government, had her movements tracked by ASIO or the better part of her adult working life.
 
“Vida Goldstein, was a prominent political advocate for the marginalised and disadvantaged in this country from the 1900's, through to her retirement in the 1950's. She fought tirelessly for payments to single (unmarried mothers) and child endowment payment and the need for fathers to make financial contributions to children they had fathered (all of this which we now take for granted).
 
“She was also instrumental in getting the vote for women in 1921 and for public schools to provide a free school card system, so poor children could afford to go to school. Ironically, aside from a few historical buffs (like me) these women are not remembered, yet what they managed to achieve, should not ever be forgotten.
 
“So when I heard that the communists were feeding the derelicts at Whitmore Square, it did not surprise me. They have more backbone than any other single group and know what it is like to be persecuted and marginalised.
 
“Before you write me back a nasty reply, you might want to chew on this one, the worlds greatest Communist was a guy called Jesus Christ. He abhorred wealth, he gave away everything he owned, he was born poor, remained poor, believed in collectivisation and sharing resources equally amongst all. He was persecuted relentlessly for his belief system and finally murdered because of them by a corrupt Capitalist System (e.g. the Roman Empire).

“I rest my case!”

The Night Talker
8 May 2020

Baptist Port Church good
​takeaway food

Last week, they gave away bottled ginger tea, soft drinks, old bread, good canned soup, very good tomatoes, other decent vegetables, yoghourt and other stuff. No I.D. or registration required. You just drive or walk to the carpark where they will meet you.
 
Takeaway bags only 4:00pm to 5:00pm every Wednesday except during school holidays.
 
The Port Church (Baptist)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling.
Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread.
No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Open during school terms.
Phone 0414 693 218 to get on their message list. No Ice Dealers.

8 May 2020

​Piano Player Wayne and Coco-Cola
 
“Now that I’m not drinking any Coca-Cola or any soft drinks, my diet is fine, my stomach has repair itself nearly all the way from the damage done from the Coco-cola over the years. And I’m losing weight as we speak.
 
“I have only one word foreveryone that has ever crossed me, and laughed in my face, and never taken me seriously or anything, just one word, “Resurgam”.
 
That word was made famous by the most famous and renowed Salvation Army brass band composer of all time ever. There was never been anyone who can match this composer now passed away. His name will live forever in the annals of Savation Army music. ERIC BALL.
 
Piano Player Wayne
8 May 2020

Self-righteous Pompeo – ER Doctor “Suicided” by “Too big to Fail Health Syndicate – Cov

Part 22
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
 
https://rense.com/general96/self-righteous-pompeo-and-er-doctor-suicided.php ​

(above) The Community Union Defence League, part of the Communist Party, provides a healthy free lunch every Sunday from 12:00 noon to 2:00pm at Whitmore Square in Adelaide. (Photo taken in April 2020).

(above) The Communist Party organised free food during in Adelaide during the 1930's Great Depression. And in 2020 they brave the virus unlike Anglicaire and the Salvation Army who abandoned us and ran to their bunkers. (Photo taken in April 2020).

​Free food hampers
 
While most free food joints are closed or restricted to takeaway bags only, many will deliver higher quality food hampers to people with a good story such as having a compromised immune system or aged related vulnerability to the Wuhan virus. It pays to phone around using the Free Food Adelaide page on Adelaide Homeless Journal.
 
You might also consider that some volunteers at free food joints pay for their own petrol to deliver the food. However, the larger outfits have paid employees using corporate vehicles to deliver food. 
 
7 May 2020

Not afraid of the virus
 
An immigrant came to Australia in 2013 then began sleeping on the streets. He slept in front of a police station in the Adelaide CBD for safety. The police let him store his blankets in the station during the day. They even brought him food. He got a welfare unit just before Christmas.
 
He is inoffensive, friendly and intelligent. He says he isn’t afraid of the virus.
 
7 May 2020
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(above) Fred's Van ceased operation at the Kilburn Community Centre due to the virus. But they didn't leave a notice saying they'd closed down or the reasons; they just weren't there. This is typical of welfare services: Always keeping the underclass guessing.

Unwelcome special SARS 2 treatment for some

Contributors to Adelaide Homeless Journal were notified they’d been close to a virus carrier and ordered into quarantine for 14 days since last contact.
 
Most were left alone during that period, but another had three humiliating police visits. The first was having to wave from the parking area to a waiting police car; the second when a police officer knocked on his front door.  
 
The third visit was by a police officer driving a special paddy wagon. This was after the Communicable Disease Branch phoned and emailed him saying the quarantine had been lifted because the positive test of the alleged carrier had been wrong: she was negative. In any case, the period of quarantine had passed.
 
The moral of this tale is that the man was of special interest to the police so they used the Covid scare as a means to exert extra pressure on him.
 
6 May 2020

An explanation for some empty Housing Trust units

A source inside the Hutt Street Centre said that houses and units for the homeless are allocated to organisations based on their size. He said, for example, Red Cross gets more houses than the Hutt Street Centre because it is larger.

Yet Hutt Street has more homeless. Red Cross doesn’t have enough homeless clients so their allocated housing remains empty while the Hutt Street Centre has a waiting list of homeless people from their Aspire Program.
 
6 May 2020

(above) The best volunteer at Stevo's free breakfasts from the Enfield Uniting Church shopping at Faith Works in Blair Athol. (His house on Hampstead Road burnt down three years ago).

(above) Stevo's best volunteer walking through the back door of the Enfield Uniting Church at Sefton Park. Are they having a secret luncheon meeting to discuss reopening the Tuesday morning breakfasts?

Can we trust the government’s CovidSafe app take-up statistics?

Do you remember the claims? One-million phones downloaded the CovidSafe app in the first five hours. A few days later it was four million downloads. But can we believe that these downloads were by Australian citizens and permanent residents.
 
There  were 20 million mobile phone  users in Australia by 2019, at least 16 million of these smart phones. Even by 2015, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said there were already 30 million active mobile phones. Today’s number would be much higher and nearly all these are smart phones because who doesn’t use a phone without internet capability?
 
This brings us to the Australian Bureau of Statistics census report in 2019 that the country has over two-million public servants, many of them supplied with government-owned phones. There are also corporate and business employees supplied with phones used while at work. Many of these phone users, perhaps most of them, were ordered to install the app promptly after its release.
 
So, how many of the first four-million downloaders are individual citizens and permanent residents who made the choice to install the CovidSafe app? Probably not many so the enthusing by the government and corporate media about Australians installing this surveillance program on their phones might be misleading.
 
The moral of the story is determining what functions on this app the government is hiding and whether installing it will benefit you or others ― and not to believe the media and government hype about some sort of rush to install it.
 
5 May 2020
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Fred’s Van at Elizabeth quite good
 
There were 21 adults including 7 or 8 women plus six children present. Most of the regulars were missing having stopped going to all soup kitchens and free food joints. There weren’t any homeless people there. One man said he goes there for the company.
 
Fred’s Van at Elizabeth has closed on Wednesday evenings, but remains open for takeaways every Sunday at 12:00 noon.
 
Four semi-elderly women served takeaway sandwiches, frozen meals in plastic containers, decent fruit, doughnuts and old bread. The sandwiches were made from bread bought from the supermarket that day and included good lettuce and tomatoes, not rubbish from Foodbank.
 
The sitting area under the gazebo was taped off. Clients were encouraged to leave immediately upon receiving bags.
 
The Magnificent Marten was there. He doesn’t tell others, but he collects food for disabled people elsewhere.  
 
AJ’s extended family were there. They are insular and happy, an example of a healthy family unit. AJ himself was missing.
 
There will be no worldly history of these volunteers who have stayed on during the virus pandemic, but somewhere their actions and motives will be remembered.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays only. Takeaway hot food. No I.D. or registration required. Anyone can go there.
 
5 May 2020

January furniture sale at ShelterSA?
 
The South Australian government is giving ShelterSA a three and half month extension on its current funding model. But ShelterSA wants the extended funding to continue until the end of December.
 
ShelterSA is reluctant to apply for the new funding model that would include client support rather than their current model of an analysis and promotion of new housing ideas.
 
ShelterSA’s specific reasons for asking for this extended extension haven’t been made public, but might be so the employees can limp through the Christmas annual leave period on full pay then spend January funding their salaries by selling the office furniture.
 
They could copy the response of the Unemployed Workers Union (UWU) that lost its funding in 1981 under Dean Brown after running its secretary, David Arkins, as a political candidate.
 
The UWU shrunk to one active member named Neil Bartlett who pretended the union was alive and well. He got the Housing Minister, Terry Hemmings, to provide free rent for an old government building back of an annex to the Supreme Court.  Neil turned it into an Op Shop while he drank brandy from under his desk and cut clippings from newspapers. Sadly, Neil died of a broken heart and the building was razed.
 
5 May 2020

How will Functional Zero street homelessness be measured?

This is the Adelaide Zero Project’s definition of functional zero street homelessness:
 
“Functional Zero street homelessness is achieved when the number of people who are, or were, sleeping rough in the inner city is no greater than the housing available in that month, and this can be consistently proven with data. This dashboard is our way of proving that.”
 
How do they prove what “housing available in that month”? Is it the placement rate than averages 12 people a month? If so, then they have never come close to reaching that rate as even their minimalised homeless rate rarely drops below 150. And the hotel rooms don’t count as permanent housing.
 
5 May 2020
 

(above) The brave elderly women at Fred's Van at Elizabeth are giving out extra takeaway food at Sunday lunches to make up for being closed on Wednesday evenings.

Adelaide Zero Project says Adelaide homeless number went up and down at the same time.

The official Adelaide Zero Project homeless count for the month up to 20 April 2020 dropped from 150 to 99, not that the Adelaide Zero Project people believe this. They think the number is even lower and say, “Additional analysis is being undertaken to explore this number…,” which means they hope we’ll forget about it and they’ll quietly delete the footnote.
 
The Adelaide Zero Project say the “Actively Homeless” number in the Adelaide Central Business District (CBD) jumped from 201 to 361. This astounding figure includes couch surfers and those who live in backpacker dives.
 
The temporarily sheltered number for the month has jumped from 51 to 262, a spectacular increase compared to any homeless census since counting began in 2007.  
 
To complicate the analysis even further the, “Number of people in the last month who were identified as sleeping rough for the first time” jumped from 37 for the month ending on 18 March 2020 to 139 for the month ending 20 April 2020. This is another unprecedented increase.   
 
The number seeking housing after becoming inactive jumped from 9 to 25, another unusually large monthly increase.
 
This leaves us with the question of why these extra homeless people suddenly emerged from obscurity. The simple answer is free hotel rooms, thanks to the Wuhan SARS 2 Covid-19 virus.
 
The majority of people living in cars or rough sleeping avoid the homeless count and support services, but with the introduction of free hotel rooms they’ve come forward. This includes some campers from the carpark at Semaphore Beach who were expelled two-weeks ago.
 
Previously, being homeless reduced a person’s ability to access welfare services. Welfare workers in the suburbs responded to requests for help by telling homeless people to go to the Hutt Street Centre, Catherine House or the St Vinnies Night Shelter. But many wouldn’t go there for fear of infections, humiliation and being physically attacked, and thus were missed in the homeless count.
 
But with the free hotel rooms for three months, being homeless has become an advantage.
 
Another reason for the increase is that Hutt Street Centre and Catherine House clients have invited their interstate friends to return to Adelaide to get a piece of the accommodation bonanza.  
 
This raises the question of the usefulness of the homeless count. Other than acquiring homeless people’s personal details to add to the Eternal Shame File what does it actually achieve and is it ever accurate.  
 
One might flippantly conclude that the Adelaide Zero Project should change its name to the No Change Whatsoever Project as the statistics aren’t reliable and homeless people in similar numbers each month are still visible on the street.
 
A statistical analysis that might be useful would be the cost of participating homeless agencies and government departments to collect the data each month. Would it be enough to build a new Housing Trust house each year, or a few of them?
 
But the clincher would be for the government to release former Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox from intellectual bondage and have him publish an analysis on the numbers.
 
https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/
 
4 May 2020

Food Bank at Elizabeth disappointing
 
I lied. I had intended to lie, anyway, but in a different way. I lied when they asked me if I’d recently been in quarantine for the virus. I had, but I lied. I should have told the truth if only for the entertainment value.
 
The truth was that I’d been put in quarantine then released when a second test of the swab from a friend came up negative resulting in a group of us soup kitchen clients being released. The Communicable Disease Branch deemed the friend as never having had the virus.
 
“No,” I said to the receptionist behind the huge virus-proof Plexiglass screen when she asked the quarantine question.
 
Rather than fooling around doing an interview for free food from Food Bank, I got an immediate purchase voucher allowing me to buy at their usual shelf prices.
 
Nearly all the food was weird versions normal brand names, but in flavours that failed to sell in the supermarkets. Dried apricots as paper-thin slices in plain plastic bags. Soy sauce with added sugar. Bread three days past the Best-by date. White rice the same price as in Coles.
 
If you’re getting it for free then no problems, but being registered as a welfare customer then paying top dollar for dodgy stuff didn’t seem a good deal at all. Carrots, onions and potatoes were free, that was a good deal. And the staff were pleasant to me so I left feeling good about myself.
 
I concluded my little purchase and left. An hour later, a bureaucrat from Anglicare phoned asking for my Centrelink Aged Pensioner number.
 
4 May 2020

(above) A homeless man in a park near Elizabeth. The closure of sports facilities due to the virus has resulted in more privacy for those living outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal April 2020).

On the Street
 
Heart and Soul removed a link to A.D.R.A. from its webpage. Heart and Soul operates a paid free food delivery service and is a commercial competitor to A.D.R.A. They both sell old food that previously was thrown into rubbish bins ― and newer food.  
*
 
Clem is dying in hospital. “Let’s cheer,” a homeless man laughed.  Clem spent much of his youth in jail after slashing the neck of a man who subsequently died, according to formerly homeless man from Barmera, John Andrew Green.
 
Clem hates white folk and makes the foulest comments to parents about what he’ll do to their children. He also burnt PJ’s blankets at Fred’s Van in 2008.
 
*
 
The International Rag truck parked near the donation bin back of the Playford Salvation Army building at Elizabeth East. The Corps is drowning in donations and garbage.
 
The rag truck people might pay ten-cents a kilo for clothing if it can be sold in Africa, or less if it goes for rags in automotive workshops.
 
The rag truck doesn’t want wet mattresses and furniture, stinking carpet and broken plastic toys. The Army tries to salvage the springs from the mattresses, but pays for the rest to be dumped at the Dublin tip.
 
It’s a huge expense faced by Salvo Op Shops across Australia that have closed down for the virus festival and haven’t any incoming money.
 
The wet clothing and furniture strewn across the wet bitumen each morning is a sad sight. It’s made worse by people in quarantine clearing their houses of junk designed to be unrepairable, an example of our sick society. We need a national reset with protected manufacturers mandated to make products repairable.
 
*
 
A homeless man gestured towards the crowd at Fred’s Van in the city and said nearly everyone had Golden Staph infection. “You’ll get it sooner or later,” he said. “A handshake, whatever.”
 
*
 
Another exceptionally courageous and intelligent homeless man said he was offered Housing Trust accommodation after a long period waiting and going through the extended evaluation interviews and tests. But due to circumstances he delayed accepting the flat and it was re-allocated. He said he was so disappointed he almost killed himself.
 
This is the sickness of the homeless housing system. It may take years to be allocated a unit that may have been left empty for six-months for no reason. Then the housing agency will expect the homeless person to make an instant decision to take it or leave it. This is cruel and unnecessary and shows an ignorance by welfare workers of the changed psychology when people live outside.
 
*
 
A homeless man lamented the good old days when heroin dealers cut their product using a clean knife on a stainless-steel surface while wearing surgical gloves.
 
Today, he says, Ice dealers measure out their product in toilet cubicles and addicts use old straws from McDonald’s rubbish bins.
 
*
 
A Hutt Street Centre employee told Adelaide Homeless Journal that the Adelaide Zero Project homeless statistics are a joke. The employee said they are understated and that no one in the business believes them despite the intensity of their searches. The employee said volunteers and paid searchers kick sleeping homeless people until they wake up and provide personal details.
 
3 May 2020

Hotline for free vouchers
 
Uniting Communities SA on Dyson Road at Christies Beach got a huge amount of government money after knocking out the Southern Housing Round Table crowd (SHRT). Most of the funding will be absorbed in salaries, but some will be distributed to the poor in the Onkaparinga and southern suburbs area.
 
Phone 8202 5846 or Text 0482 797 121. Onkaparinga residents and possibly others in the southern suburbs can get E-vouchers for Coles. Also, vouchers for Kmart and chemists, and help with electricity payments. They’re open Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm, but you’ll probably get an answering machine. It’s all about power.
 
Your reports on whether this outfit is any good will be appreciated and published.
 
3 May 2020

(above) A gentleman liberating donated items from the bin outside the Elizabeth East Salvation Army. Perhaps in this era of the "non-profits" drowning in unwanted donations left to rot in the rain, this man is fulfilling a useful purpose. (Adelaide Homeless Journal April 2020).

SARS 2 Covid-19 a test run?
The Night Talker
 
“Covid-19 just a test run for real crisis that is (allegedly) due to hit Australia within the next three to five months.

“I found this article online today (nine.msn.com.au) which talks about Australia's top Defence Force/Emergency Services brass, discussing the SHTF (Sh**, Hits, The, Fan) scenario that they believe is impending.
 
The article states that COVID-19 is only the beginning and there is going to be another major socio-economic crisis within Australia in less than six months.
 
“I am no hardcore doomsday prepper (the yanks have the monopoly on that) but one has to admit, that everything that is currently happening, makes it suggestive that things are going to get worse, rather than better.
 
“From a global perspective, many academics believe that that the planet has reached a tipping point where unless drastic changes are put into place (like immediately) infrastructure (e.g. water, electricity, housing, roads, gas, sewerage, schools, hospitals etc, are going to start breaking down or simply close altogether leaving no services (This has already happened in Latin America, C.A. (Central Africa) parts of the Middle East, China, Italy, (sections of the U.S) Italy, Spain, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mexico and Portugal.
 
“In Venezuela, it is reported that people have started slaughtering animals in Zoo's and national parks, because there is no other food source and they themselves, cannot feed the animals.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/coronavirus/think-of-coronavirus-as-a-test-run-australian-military-leaders-warn-we-must-prepare-for-worse/ar-BB13kM0Z?ocid=spa
 
The Night Talker
2 May 2020

​Humiliation Bunker
 
Public toilets are an important part of a fringe-dwellers life. I know this having lived half my adult life under trees and bridges. Yet I'd always avoided Adelaide's computerised toilets in Victoria and Whitmore Squares.
 
The doors would open suddenly, without warning, exposing the client sitting on the throne to a multitude of passers-by. Another tool in the government's war against the homeless, I thought. But all fears must be challenged eventually and my day of reckoning had arrived.
 
So, there I am standing in front of a three by three metre stainless steel fronted, windowless, bullet-proof, one-toilet, concrete bunker. It's strong enough to withstand a full-force cyclone lasting up to ten minutes - this being the maximum time allowed inside before the door slides open.
 
The door closes as I enter. Easy-listening music pumps aggressively from ceiling speakers, its undertone implying, "don't get too relaxed, pal".
 
The urinal is built into a wall cavity, too high, forcing me to stand awkwardly on tiptoes. I've hardly begun the excretory process when hot air blasts the end of my member. I jump sideways, startled, keeping the protuberance within the cavity. This triggers another hidden sensor to pour cold water on the sensitive part, and all over my trousers.
 
I retreat to the toilet bowl, trying not to let any clothing touch its greasy sides, and check out the interior. A vandal resistant sign reads: The light will start flashing if you have occupied the cubicle too long or if the wash cycle is about to commence.
 
Considering the state of this toilet bunker it is obvious the "wash cycle" is long overdue. An ominous 40mm pipe pokes up from a wide slit between the floor and a wall. I keep my eyes on the light.
 
Others services include a sanitary napkin chute and a thumb-thick sharps disposal hole. A sign says "Baby Change" though there isn't a less conducive place to change a nappy - no shelves, benches or seats and the floor is stinking wet. The only optional extra appears to be two coat hooks sticking from the wall - cheap, small things that hold your coat and bag for fifteen seconds. Just enough time for you to turn away whereupon they fall onto the wet floor.
 
The heat quickly becomes oppressive in this windowless, ventless box of concrete. There is no breeze whatsoever, not even through the one-centimetre gap under the door. Graffiti on the door reads: “You have to hand it to them for managing to incorporate so many nasty features into such a small space.”
 
I poke the toilet tissue dispenser button. Its electric motor hums dramatically for seven seconds producing half a metre of slick perforation-free paper. "Very impressive", I whisper, but it promptly falls from the machine into a pool of water left on the floor by the previous "wash cycle".
 
I press the button again – nothing happens, no noise, no paper. Tapping, knocking, punching make no difference. Half a metre must be each client’s ration.
The temptation to kick the crap out of the thing is tempered by the flashing red light of a movement sensor in the ceiling. Maybe there is also a camera to record “toilet abuse” like in ATMs.
 
My next stop is back at the hand washing station cum urinal-thing that I’d mistakenly urinated into due to my sight disability. A sensor rudely squirts a gob of smelly creamy stuff into my right hand. Another spurts an inadequate amount of water that hits my wrists then splashes onto my trousers. The toilet flushes splattering part of its contents onto the floor.
 
After a few false starts and another dozen flushes of the toilet I am ready for the hot air hand drier. This poses another problem. Its sensor was built too close to the cabinet wall making it difficult to avoid touching the yellow slime covering its sides. Where did this slime come from? Had other men mistaken the unit for a urinal or used it for other purposes? What do clients do when the toilet paper dispenser stuffs-up? My mind runs wild with disease paranoia.
 
I pull my pants half down pushing the top part under the drier. What man wants to leave a public loo with water-stained trousers, appearing like he can’t have a piss without going over his clothing?
 
I edge towards the centre to avoid the slime. More water squirts down - with a vengeance, it seems. The toilet flushes. The easy-listening music is getting on my nerves.
 
The LED light flashes and a berating male voice booms down: “Attention: your use time has expired. Please leave this cubicle immediately.”
 
No, this can’t be true. My biscuit-sized disability watch with its thick hands says I’ve been here just eight minutes. My stomach hurts; life is bad. My pants are still wet. I should still have two minutes. A thought flickers through my mind that I am going insane.
 
The voice repeats itself another five times: like a security guard who won’t listen to explanations. The voice stops.  Shrieking shoplifter beeps burst forth, their screeches rippling through my brain like when you hold an alarm clock against your ear. The door slides open. The toilet flushes.
 
The shrieking is louder on the outside. It shouts to thirty people at the bus stop ten metres away; to two full buses and a dozen cars waiting at the lights; to a Fijian band on an open-topped double-decker bus who stop to laugh; to dozens of lunchtime workers sitting on the grass.
 
It shrieks: look at this man who has spent eight minutes and fifty seconds in the toilet when he thought he had ten.
 
I don’t run. I am not embarrassed. Why should I be? What have I done wrong? Instead I make notes on this taxpayer-funded humiliation bunker that replaced the old brick ablution block with its covered courtyard for nursing mothers.
 
My self-hate engendered humiliation stays in abeyance; a wave of self-sympathy pours through my body. My benevolent brain releases a flood of endorphins: those natural painkillers, creators of euphoria.
 
I, no, we, the outsiders, have not committed a crime. We don’t deserve this. I return my notepad to a top pocket and casually, slowly, walk to my next destination.
 
Published with permission from the author who wishes to remain anonymous.

2 May 2020

(above) Police rushed to this multi-story Salvation Army building at Whitmore Square recently after an alarm detected movement on the property. Those living outside constantly seek entry to vacant buildings of which this one has been empty for years. (Adelaide Homeless Journal April 2020).

Are you signing up for the sucker app?
 
The Australian “CovidSafe” app on phones will tell the government when you’ve been close to a SARS 2 Covid-19 virus carrier for more than a certain period of time. They notify you by phone. This makes their tracing of those close to the carrier simple compared to physical searches. What an effective innovation.
 
But what happens when a person is “notified”? Do they text, “Hi, you’ve been close to a virus carrier so remember to wash your hands when you get home?”
 
Or perhaps, “Stay home for two weeks or we’ll fine you $1000 for each offence.” Such surveillance and control is exponentially increased at little government expense with the “CovidSafe” phone app.  
 
What could possibly stop anyone installing this little beauty? One reason might be that we don’t actually know the terms and conditions of installing it. We don’t know the implications and the government isn’t telling us.  
 
As with bicycle helmets, the government didn’t mandate their use until one-third of the population voluntarily used them giving it the moral authority to make them compulsory. And this came after a lengthy propaganda campaign we are seeing with the “CovidSafe” app.
 
And with “CovidSafe” it might be hard to remove once it becomes a social norm and mandated by decree. And its tracking capabilities might be used for general tracking so the government knows where you are at any time of the day or night and who you are close to. They might make it compulsory to carry your phone on your person at all times.
 
Well, hasn’t this been the trend with the erosion of our civil liberties and privacy rights in Adelaide’s homeless scene? The government always starts with the vulnerable and works its way up.
 
1 May 2020
 

(above) The Church of Christ at Elizabeth say they cannot get supplies from Second Bite who say they have plenty to give to them. (Adelaide Homeless Journal April 2020).

Good news at Fred’s Van
 
Fred’s Van now operates on Saturdays at 6:00pm at Gawler Place, Adelaide. This fills the gap left by the City Salvos and the Moore Street Magdalene crowd running for the bunkers.
 
St Vincent de Paul is an exceptional crowd. When other arms of the Catholic and other churches cashed in on the Job Network at the expense of the poor, St Vinnies stayed out of it.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Saturday and Sunday at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm.
Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm for an indoor sit-down higher quality meal. Toilets available only on Wednesdays.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets.
Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Slightly dangerous.

30 April 2020

WestCare kicks out black fellas
 
Via the Anonymous Contact Page
 
A man released from hospital said Baptist WestCare kicked out the black fellas from their apartments on Wright Street. He said the black fellas stubbed out cigarettes on the carpets.

​He said the place has been cleaned up and has a 24-hour medical guard to watch over black fella and white fella patients released from hospital, but too sick to go back on the streets. This service has emptied hospital beds in preparation for the rush of virus patients that didn’t turn up.
 
30 April 2020

A taste of the future
 
The South Australian government has attempted to close off another survival mode of homeless people with cars. Camping on government land is now prohibited.
 
This means government employees are wasting time and money driving along bush tracks and back roads, and ordering homeless campers to leave. But where can they go?
 
https://www.stockjournal.com.au/story/6716149/camping-ban-extends-to-vacant-sa-crown-land-parks-reserves/

30 April 2020
​

David Pearson emerges from the deep
 
Former leading employee at the Don Dunstan Foundation, David Pearson, has become the Australian Director for the Institute of Global Homelessness, that Chicago organisation spruiked by Dame Louise Casey during her Adelaide visits.
 
“Lady Louise” talked about the Adelaide Zero Project ending homelessness in a year, but after over two years nothing has changed except the “Project” has absorbed millions of dollars that could have been used for housing.  And its publication of monthly homeless figures has become so lethargic that it has without explanation delayed publishing its most recent homeless count.
 
David Pearson is also a Director of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness who publish an interesting sales pitch for the Orwellian Community Solutions’ triage questionnaire. This is the intrusive questionnaire Adelaide homeless people are forced to answer before being put on the priority housing waiting list. If they don’t answer the dirty questions, they don’t get housing.
 
Perhaps the most offensive general aspect of the questionnaire is that it apportions exhausted homeless people to the lowest common denominator of psychiatric patients, criminals, drug addicts and prostitutes or the catch-all classification of domestic violence victims?
 
What David Pearson might do is publish the triage questionnaire and explain where the interrogation results of homeless people are stored.  And how the “friendly conversation” during the interrogation is where the real invasion of personal privacy occurs.  
 
Link to the sales pitch, but not the questions at:
 
https://aaeh.org.au/assets/docs/Publications/2020-VI-SPDAT-Factsheet-and-QA.PDF
 
30 April 2020
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(above) Slim pickings at Fred's Van in the city. They are too lazy to spread the margarine over the bread to stop the lettuce and tomatoes making the sandwich go soggy. But they are admired for risking their own health by serving us.

Why most drug dealers seek out multiple support workers

Via the anonymous contact page
 
A long-term homeless man explained why drug dealers and addicts sign up for support workers. He said those with “workers” can do anything in their Housing Trust units without fear of being evicted, and even receive a degree of protection from the police.
 
He said “if a person with ‘workers’ f**ks off the neighbours,” the Housing Trust won’t evict them, but calls one of his or her support workers. He said even the police won’t fully investigate a complaint if the tenant has one of these “workers”. He said the more workers you have the better. He said you can get 15, one for each of your “issues”.
 
This means tenants can manufacture or sell drugs, operate as prostitutes from home, spend the nights breaking into houses then store the stolen property in their back yards without fear of the police or other authorities.

This protection extends to homeless joints where those with support workers are financial assets because they provide employment for a range of therapists and helpers connected with the establishment.

The homeless man said, “If you don’t have support workers, you’re a sitting duck.”
 
29 April 2020

Obama Era DHS-NIH funded TB research on UK badgers for Covid BioWar
Part 21
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/obama-era-dhs-nih-funded-tb-research-on-uk-badgers-for-covid-biowar-part-21.php 
​

(above) An abandoned tent in the hills above Beaumont. Who knows what life the mystery occupant led. (April 2020).

(above) The tent was abandoned suddenly. The mystery occupant left valuable items partially covered by dirt pushed through the floor by ants. Rotting shoes and small backpacks dangle from the olive bushes around the tent. (April 2020).

(above) The view a few metres from the abandoned tent. Who would buy houses like these? Do they question the meaning of their lives and feel the same anguish as homeless campers up on the hill? (April 2020).

(above) Homeless people feel hope and happiness when they build and equip a homeless camp. Sadly, this optimism is dashed by thefts from authorities and common thieves. The trick to maintaining a homeless camp is obscurity and by using worthless tents and bedding too horrible to steal. (April 2020).

(above) Another house seen from near the homeless camping area intermittently occupied by contributors to Adelaide Homeless Journal since 1991. What sort of people would live in such a house? Are they happy? (April 2020).

Strange situation at Anglicare retirement complex

Fourteen months ago, six Anglicare employees visited the retirement units at Elizabeth and told the tenants they’d be moved out within 12-18 months. They said the complex would be redeveloped, but wouldn’t elaborate.
 
Two tenants were transferred quite soon after while black African and Arab refugees were moved in as temporary tenants until they got something better.
 
While the remaining tenants have been on the transfer list, an elderly white man was moved into the Kill Box Lady’s daughter’s empty unit. Anglicare cleaned up the unit, but not as much as one might expect.
 
At least five units in the complex have been empty for a year so one white tenant asked if her adult unemployed daughter in her thirties could rent a unit. The answer was no due to her age being under 55 yet the refugees were also in their thirties.
 
Anglicare has not only been uncommunicative, but has blocked emails from one tenant suggesting he communicate to them only by text message.
 
Two tenants who had packed up their belongings in preparation for the transfer have unpacked everything in expectation they won’t be moving soon.
 
What is going on is anyone’s guess, but none of it is due to the virus as the refugees and old white man were moved in well into this virus pandemic.
 
The moral of the story is that those in welfare housing must adapt to instability and never knowing when change will occur suddenly.
 
28 April 2020

(above) The rented Church of Christ at Blair Athol. They threw in the towel a bit early by stopping their free Monday lunches. They could organise a takeaway lunch similar to that of the Elizabeth Church of Christ.

Cloudy with a chance of scattered cadavers: Covid fallout on urban heat islands
Part 20
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
Veteran Japanese-American journalist Yoichi Shimatsu examines esoteric data and comes to his own conclusions instead of parroting the mainstream memes.
 
https://rense.com/general96/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-scattered-cadavers.php 

Response to The Night Talker

From the Anonymous Contact Page

"Well that's a lot of ranting from a "Not" Angry-Crazy Cat Lady about someone for whom she cares not! Bwahahaha!!

Y Z on The Night Talker’s lengthy response on 26 April to AB’s post, “So sick of the Night Talker”, dated 24 April 2020.
 
27 April 2020

In defense of the Night Talker
 
From the Anonymous Contact Page
 
“To AB,
 
“Regarding your rant about being "sick of the Night Talker", let me point out a couple of shortfalls in your own statement.
 
“Firstly your statement "you don't have any kind of medical degree so f*** off with your bulls*** cut and paste health info". 
Personally I have never seen the Night Talker claim to have a Bachelor of Medicine or any other similar qualification. If you have seen her state this, please provide a date for cross reference and I will personally apologize to you. 
 
“Secondly your statement of "nobody thinks you're anything but a whiney old bin diving crazy assed cat lady" shows your own ignorance AB. 
How do you know what people think? 
Have you surveyed everyone who reads this journal, to see what they think of the Night Talker? No, I think not as I certainly wasn't asked. 
 
"FYI "crazy assed cat lady" is [in]correctly spelt, crazy arsed cat lady. Perhaps you could invest some of your time scrubbing up on your literacy, instead of tearing others down. 
 
From my own observations the Night Talker is providing information based on her own experiences and is attempting to help others by sharing this information. 
Sometimes not everything she says is factual, but I doubt she sets out to mislead people on purpose.  
 
"From no one of importance"
 
27 April 2020

Cat eats ex-religious man’s birds
The Night Talker

“The curious case of the Rubbish Tip Cat, the missing zebra finches and Spotted Dick Trilby the Third!

“My neighbour (the one who got that old time religion, then lost it again, when he rediscovered the joys of skunk, beer, Commodores and internet porn).

“My neighbour is not the smartest tool in the shed. (Let me tell you) I overheard him talking to his equally dim-witted, teenage girlfriend, that he thought that maybe COVID-19 was the reason that the birds in his aviary were disappearing?
 
The fact that the wire around the aviary was full of holes and their own dog had dug right the way underneath it, didn't seem to raise any alarm bells, with our dumb friend.
 
“So about a week later, I see RTC (Rubbish Tip Cat) trotting past me with a now (very chewed up) bird in his mouth. (Turns out its one of the neighbours zebra finches. Then about two hours later, he does the same thing, and then a couple of days later, he comes through the cat flap with a very large (and very dead) pigeon in his mouth. This bird has identification around one leg.
 
“After a bit of researching, I find out that this (racing) pigeon is none other than "Spotted Dick Trilby the Third (SDTT)," and he belongs to someone at the other end of the block. Spotted Dick Trilby the Third has been missing for a while, and his owner put up some posters, seeking his return.
 
“I contemplated ringing up, but what would I say " Hey good news old chum, I found SDTT, but I am afraid I also have some bad news for you. SDTT's racing days are well and truly over. (Well they have been since RTC chewed off his head and one leg) Sorry old son, the only place that SDTT is flying to now, is into the arms of Jesus.........
 
“Not that it matters to RTC, he continues to come through the door with all manner of things, and my neighbour, continues to think that COVID-19 is the reason his zebra finches are disappearing. I won't tell him, if you don't!”

The Night Talker.
27 April 2020

(above) While the better funded Anglicare Food Barn shut down because it couldn't adapt to the virus, the Elizabeth Church of Christ opens its free food trailer.

On the Street
 
Phil Jones left UnitingSA at Port Adelaide last week after 24 years on the job. He is moving to Neami further down Dale Street.
 
Phil is a qualified psychiatric nurse who worked at Glenside Hospital before moving into social work. UnitingSA’s loss is Neami’s gain.
 
He told UnitingSA not to buy him a parting gift, but to spend the money giving free vouchers to Chat and Chew clients for use at Café Coco.
 
*
 
A volunteer at the closed-down Nanna’s Free Food Basket was moving packages from car to car at the Semaphore beach carpark last week.
 
*
 
Rachel from the Magdalene church hall on Moore Street in Adelaide wasn’t happy discovering the Port Adelaide library was closed. She blamed it on Scott Morris, saying, “Morris couldn’t run a brothel. He’s a wanker.”
 
Rachel is famous for shouting, “Loser,” at people going through the front door of the Adelaide Casino.
 
*
 
An Asian woman removed three rolls of wrapped toilet paper from her shopping bag and secreted them onto a shelf in the toilet paper section of Coles at Rundle Mall. An observer said it wasn’t a brand that Coles sold.
 
*
 
A Woolworths employee at Rundle Mall pulled a caged load of Quilton 4-ply Gold toilet paper through the shop. When it was safe, he opened the gate and fled as the crowd rushed the stack. It wasn’t priced, but the crowd didn’t care.
 
*
 
With the Adelaide CBD streets mostly devoid of office workers, the homeless crowd have become more visible. They hide in side streets to avoid the public gaze, slumped next to their backpacks.
 
The program of putting homeless people into hotels hasn’t been universally applied.  
 
*
 
Robyn from the Hutt Street Centre is “on the warpath” after hearing that a contributor to Adelaide Homeless Journal was at Fred’s Van at Gawler Place.
 
A spy within her camp at the Hutt Street Centre said she wants the contributor gone. The spy said the news has swept across the homeless culture like a bush fire. “Nothing is secret in Adelaide,” the spy said.
 
Robyn is from Broken Hill and enlists Ice addicts to enforce her edicts. These brain-damaged young men attack without any sense of wrong or the consequences.
 
When alone, Robyn poses as a diminutive 61-year-old invalid urging homeless people to put money into donation tins at certain soup kitchens. She isn’t homeless and has rarely ever been that way, but she fools the gullible charity workers. Even veteran workers know not to cross her or there will be trouble for themselves.

Robyn could have achieved much in life if she'd been able to stick to one productive activity and not fallen into the dark side. 
 
*
 
The black fella homeless crowd are good at creating escape routes from their camps. They find a join in a chain-link fence then painstakingly roll back one side leaving a gap without sharp edges.
 
*
 
In these days of the virus and the closure of the Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn, the receptionists give helpful lists of free food joints to clients. But these lists published and compiled by Anglicare are so out of date that many places have closed down.
 
Anglicare Elizabeth has stopped their lunch bag handouts. Instead, they require applicants to phone from 9:00am to 9:30am to make an appointment for an interview to request access to Food Bank. A major result of this exercise is to keep certain redundant employees in a job.
 
*
 
The government uses nasty memes like “panic buying” and “hoarding” for sensible people stocking up on food and essentials in a time of fear.
 
Other memes include the term “flat earthers” used against those who questions the contents of vaccines and occasional negative outcomes.
 
*
 
A homeless man laughed about the triage questionnaire used by the Aspire Program at the Hutt Street Centre. He said one question was, “Have you ever been stabbed?” The man laughed, “Of course, you have been, living on the street.”
 
*
 
The Prospect Council still operates their community free buses, but refuses to take pensioners shopping for food, only to the chemist, bank and post office.
 
Each new Mercedes mini-bus carries one passenger leaving either nine or eleven seats empty.
 
*
 
A soup kitchen man said he went to WOMADelaide at the Botanic Gardens where a guard warned him to beware of the bats in the trees.
 
*
 
A homeless man said he’d been sick at his secluded camp. When he emerged, he discovered the world had changed. People on the dole were dancing in the streets, waving their arms and shouting they’d received $750 free money and dole payments were doubling.
 
*
 
The police have reportedly been visiting gay beats in Salisbury and asking men wearing dresses, “What have you got?” then arresting them.
 
*
 
An N.D.I.S. employee was recorded trying to get a woman to move into Sunnydale S.R.F. Sunnydale residents are psychiatric patients with most of them addicted to drugs.
 
The young woman is clean and doesn’t use drugs, drink alcohol, smoke tobacco or abuse medications. The N.D.I.S. worker disparaged the woman who was defended by her social worker who was also present.
 
*
 
I told a social worker that I’d read that 10% of N.D.I.S. contracts are rorted. The services billed to the government aren’t carried out. I expected him to say this couldn’t be true, but he replied, “More than that.”
 
*
 
Disabled residents at Semaphore Hostel have been encouraged not to leave the building during the virus pandemic. The building is small and crowded, and residents share rooms. Their social lives revolve around cafes and St Bede’s free breakfasts, but these have largely closed down.
 
26 April 2020

 
The Night Talker not happy

The Night Talker’s Response to AB’s post,“So sick of the Night Talker”, dated 24 April 2020.

​“What does AB stand For? (Angry Blonk?) Gosh, it must be exhausting to be so angry, all of the time? How is it working for you? Clearly it doesn't work well, as far as credible grammar and punctuation goes (because you appear to be unable to use either correctly?) 
 
“I am not perfect, never have been and never will be, but I am NOT angry. You on the other hand, appear to express all the symptoms of someone with HUGE (and I mean freaking big) Anger issues. Did your mother not breast feed you as a child? Or did the Job Network you were working for, make you redundant. If you were not an employment consultant before, it is a career, that you might want to seriously consider now.
 
“I mean, you are rude, aggressive, belittling, judgemental and angry. All the necessary skills, to move forward in a career as an employment consultant.
 
“Oh and I have eleven cats not 90, and NONE are feral (like you) They are quiet, placid, clean and non-aggressive (and all desexed) Maybe you should consider getting spayed, it might tone down your aggression!

“P.S. Find someone out there who gives a shit about you, cause I surely don't! Start taking your meds again! Keep this up and you can start trading notes with Ben Cousins. You both appear to be on the same trajectory!”

The Night Talker
26 April 2020

(above) The St Paul's Op Shop at Port Adelaide is closed indefinitely. The volunteers are mostly in their 70's and 80's and vulnerable to the virus. Some clients at their free tea and biscuits table are riddled with infections, but the Corona Virus is one bug too many.

Toilet Paper Cowboy
 
"Give it a go and let us know how you went," the toilet paper hotline lady tells me. She's promoting Kleenex Cottonelle, a single-ply answer to Sorbent's 2ply extra thick, and Quilton's 4ply.
 
Toilet tissue is historically a treasured product: Siberian schoolteachers were paid in TP during the collapse of the Soviet Union when the government ran out of roubles. In Australia it occupies equal supermarket shelf space to Coke and pet food, and the variety of roll sizes, thickness and price so numb the mind that consumers often buy on smell or feel.
 
Others don't even purchase it: "Some people make stealing toilet paper from public toilets part of their shopping trip," my just-out-of-jail hairdresser informs me.
 
I begin my search for toilet paper truth with recycled 'SAFE'. My first dilemma is how do they recycle toilet paper once it's flushed down the S-bend. The idea torments me like the years I wasted trying to understand how they taught the apes to talk in 'Planet of the Apes'.
 
'SAFE' is so thin that I can read the library computer screen through it. I discover it's made from shredded office paper, but worry that "enemies" may be using my recycled dole forms for "you know what".
 
'Bouquets' brand claims to "add a gentle, light fragrance to the air," quite an understatement, but they wisely scent the inner core rather than the tissue as many users, particularly men, don't want a backside smelling of perfume.
 
'Bouquets' turns my musty-smelling live-in car into frangipani, gardenia, and freesia heaven. It permeates my clothing making women gaze at me with respect while men want to bash my brains out.
 
But things get out of hand as my research tissue overfills my car and I'm forced to discreetly leave 90 rolls in a friend's bathroom.
"It's crap," she says, on my next visit, of my treasured Chinese brown toilet tissue, so thin you can read a book through it.
 
But my research has become an addiction and I buy 54 unnecessary rolls of Wondersoft - "strength and softness at a sensible price". It's discounted because Kleenex has new machines for cottonelle and their old machines churn out excess Wondersoft, their cheaper brand.
 
Then I buy a 48-roll pack of Wondersoft from Big W, paying through the robot checkout to avoid those irritating human operators.
 
But the robot is worse and wrongly accuses: "Item removed from the bagging area. Return item…" as if spotting a shoplifter, while other shoppers, who've stuck with humans, adopt superior smiles. The robot sucks in my fifty-dollar bill, but doesn't give change. "I've been robbed," I shout loudly until a woman behind me points to the change slot where my money awaits.
 
Their carry bags are too small so I clomp away carrying 48 rolls under my arm.
 
My purchases get out of hand - so many brands to test: 4-ply, 3-py, el cheapo. I jog down the aisles of supermarkets straight to bathroom tissue, like an addict needing a daily hit. Sorbent has terracotta colour, a higher quality version of 'Chinese Brown'. And I must get Quilton 4-ply.
 
My stock reaches 210 rolls that press against my car windows as if I'm a homeless door-to-door toilet paper salesman. But it's the packaging designs that cause my mental disquiet.
 
Cottonelle decorates their packaging with white Labrador puppies known for their bowel reaction to carpets. It reminds me of ABC-FM radio broadcaster Jaroslav Kovaricek, and Sasha, his wife, laying plush white carpets in their house. Dora, their senile-from-birth dog ate rotting fish from a rubbish bin then rushed inside and did you-know-what on their new carpet. Sasha screamed and Jaroslav laughed.
 
Purex has a wrinkly old bulldog on their packaging that looks like a satisfied old man leaving the lavatory with a Sunday newspaper. Naturale displays a leafy garden like the greenery people use when caught short in the bush. Safe is worse, its thin-leafed ferns leave too much for the imagination.  Quilton 3-ply displays a white feather as if they're trying to sell their tissue to perverts. Researching toilet paper is a disturbing duty.
 
"You are one of the few people who find it as exciting as we do," writes Ralf Huempel from Sorbent, who explains, "…the real issue is not plies but thickness and our Sorbent Extra Thick…outperforms current 3ply products."
 
But how do they test for quality: work-for-dole "volunteers"?
 
"Don't forget to mention the Canadian method," Vince, from the night shelter, tells me while twenty of us shiver in the cold waiting for 'welfare breakfast'.  "Australians fold five or six squares of tissue before using," he says, as if explaining quantum mechanics. "Canadians unravel two or three metres then scrunch it together messily, make a swipe, then twist it around for a clean section, and use it again, then drop it into the bowl whereupon it blocks the toilet." Vince lived in Canada for two weeks.
 
This method has gained popularity in public toilets," he continues, "because they put the dispenser at an awkward angle that makes the Australian method difficult to execute so the Canadian method is chosen by default."
 
But subjective truth often lurks deep in our minds and requires no external search. I ran out of toilet tissue in late 1975 when Indonesian troops wouldn't let me leave the Zamrud, a thousand tonne steamer, off Timor, so I used water, like the locals. It proved superior providing you wash your hands afterward: quite superior to tissue alone. We wouldn't clean dishes with paper so how can we expect it to cleanse this more difficult part of our bodies.
 
And so, my research ends with victory, but I still have five years supply of toilet rolls in my car.
 
Published with the consent of the author who wishes to remain anonymous.
25 April 2020

(above) Older cyclists last week in the city parklands choosing a spot to camp. Many people are giving the free hotel rooms a miss. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

Dennis the Menace and AJ

“Hi guys, wrote in last week, somehow it got misprinted......any news of Dennis the menace's condition?. Yes I got that he'd drunk too much water (hyponatremia) and then suffered a heart attack. Any news of his condition?, And yeah, AJ Stewart is still out there. PS......AJ wasn't a machine gunner in the NZ SAS, he was a medic.”
 
Ooroo, be good, Irish.
 
Editor: Thanks, Irish.
We haven’t heard about Dennis’s condition and hope someone can put us u--to-date. Dennis is a valuable character in the homeless scene. 
If AJ wasn’t a machine gunner, how did he bung up his thumb and trigger finger? He is a fine example of terrific military discipline. 

24 April 2020

Hyponatremia
 
“Symptoms can be absent, mild or severe. Mild symptoms include a decreased ability to think, headaches, nausea, and poor balance. Severe symptoms include confusion, seizures, and coma.”
Source: Wikipedia.
 
Editor: These symptoms sound like half the people working for the Red Cross.  
 
24 April 2020

Piano Player Wayne
​on W.H.O. and the virus

“The World Health Organisation (WHO) are friends of China. Trump pulled the funding. He wouldn’t do that without a reason and pressure is being exerted within the Liberal party, the National party and Pauline Hanson to withdraw our funding out of them as well. All $22 million of it. Josh Frydenberg is furious with the WHO,” says Piano Player Wayne.
 
Wayne adds that the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was a high-ranking member within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a designated terrorist group. The TPLF joined a coalition and defeated the Derg of Mengestu Haile Mariam to become the government of Ethiopia. Since then, Ethiopia has allowed China to build and take control of much of its infrastructure including the Belt and Road program.
 
While serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ethiopian government, he covered up the killing of protesters shot in the backs.
 
 Piano Player Wayne says of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front: “They got their funding from China to fight Ethiopia…so they will say whatever China wants them to say. So, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) says everything is fixed now [in China]”, there’s no need to close borders around the world and everyone says ‘you got to be joking, everything is not fine’…[it shows] WHO is a puppet of China that the U.S. refuses to support. Tadros was manipulated into the position by Chinese authorities.
 
“Tadros tried to tell the world that everything was alright and thought the rest of the world was asleep at the wheel while China destroyed the free world [using the virus]. That was the end game. The only problem was that they didn’t count on the free world being up on the mark as to being able to cope with this virus before it got out of hand and took off like a rocket, which it almost did.
 
“The WHO were telling everyone there was no reason to lock down all the countries; they could keep the borders open; everything was fine.”
 
https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/when-tedros-moves-his-lips-beijing-speaks/
 
24 April 2020

“So sick of the Night Talker”

“Night Talker you don't have any kind of medical degree so f*** off with your bulls*** cut and paste health info. Nobody thinks you're anything but a whiney old bin diving crazy assed cat lady. If you spent half the effort in your sporadic employment as you do whinging about your crack pot sh** no doubt you'd have a lot more work and a lot less time to slag off the system that supports you and your 90 feral cats.”
 
AB
From the Anonymous Contact Page
24 April 2020
​

Lots of Black Fellas
​at Whitmore Square

It’s difficult to determine what are racist descriptions of Australia’s Aboriginal people and what are not. The somewhat dated view is to call them First Nations people or Indigenous.
 
But that is what Canadian Indians are now called, either Aboriginal or First Nations. Yet Australian black fellas and Injuns are two different cultures and it might be considered an insult to equate them.
 
Aboriginals in outback communities such as Looma and Wirrimanu (Balgo) in the Kimberley call themselves black fellas and white people white fellas. Younger educated feminist Aboriginal women in the cities use the terms “black fella men” and “black fella women”. A leading family at Mindibungu (Billiluna) where the Canning Stock Route meets the Tanami Road use the surname Darkie. Other families in the Kimberley are the Billycans, Mosquitos and Killers as well as the surnames of invading pastoralists from the 1800’s.
 
Kimberley black fellas universally refer to white folk as Gudia or Gardia, which translated means “white-bellied lizard”. Even Western Australia Member of Parliament, Josie Farer, refers to white folk are Gudia.
 
Calling people racist and destroying careers for their use of words is bigotry and fascism operating under the guise of non-racism. It is exclusionism masquerading as inclusiveness.

And there are lots of black fellas at Whitmore Square. They enrich the currently depressed homeless scene. Stuff the virus.
 
24 April 2020

(above) Northern Communities of Hope on the corner of Pritchard St. and Heytesbury Rd., Davoren Park. They provide a few decent items of food free every Friday at 9:00am. No I.D. or registration required. They're still open while the salaried executives of the big money gov't-funded charities have largely shut down their free food operations.

Fred’s Van in the city
 
A muscular homeless man moves from behind me. He violently kicks his shopping trolley filled with blankets into a bench then turns to me angrily. “I’ll stab him; I’ll cut his throat; I don’t care; I’ve spent most of my life in jail.” His gestures  are menacing as he moves close enough to land a teeth-smashing blow.
 
He says a stranger on the street accused him of touching him when he was young. “I don’t even know him,” the shopping trolley man shouts and explains how a security guard called the police who hassled him just because he has a criminal record. He says all he wanted was a couple of drinks and get drunk then all this happens. He calms down, but keeps an eye on me. I feel safe around him as his anger is controllable and without subterfuge.
 
Sixty of us are waiting when Fred’s Van arrives. They serve bags containing plastic containers of large chunks of beef with white rice, an apple, a sandwich (not too bad), one serviette (of the cheap kind), a plastic fork (reasonable quality) and a Berliner bun that surprisingly wasn’t stale.
 
A homeless man told me some people won’t accept offers of housing from welfare agencies for fear of false promises that create hope that crashes into disappointment when it doesn’t work out.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
Reduced service due to virus.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Takeaway bags only and cordial served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.

23 April 2020

A cheery list of diseases
​in South Australia
The Night Talker

“Diseases current this week as listed on SA Health's public diseases notification website for the dates 13th April to the 19th of April 2020

(Gastro Related) Camplyobacteriosis

31 cases reported this week. 22 Males and nine females, with an average age of 39 years. Year to date there have been 709 diagnosed cases, with 970 cases reported at the same time last year. Endemic amongst the homeless, and those living in Supported residential facilities, shelters, cars and aged care facilities.

Salmonellosis (Food Poisoning)

Fourteen cases of salmonellosis, reported this week. Cases consisted of 8 males and six females. Median aged 45 years. There have been 313 cases of salmonellosis notified to date, compared with 499 cases reported to date last year. Endemic amongst the homeless and those who visit soup kitchens.

Shiga toxin producing Escherichia Coli (STEC).
 
There has been one STEC notification this week in a 2 year old female from a rural township. 108 cases of STEC reported this year, compared to 92 cases this year. STEC infection largely remains an issue within rural and remote Indigenous communities.

Shigellosis (Shingella Infection)

Five cases of Shingella was reported this week in three males and two females, with a median age of 30 years. Year to date there have been 84 cases of Shingella infection. Compared to 101 cases reported for the same period last year. Endemic amongst alcoholics, injecting drug users, soup kitchen visitors, the homeless and those persons living in squats, cars and or rooming houses.

Typhoid Fever

One case of Typhoid Fever reported this week (believed to be a man living in the North of Adelaide, who recently returned from a trip to regional Pakistan. Year to date there have been three confirmed cases of Typhoid fever in South Australia, compared to six last year.

Vaccination/Isolation related preventable-

Influenza (N1-H1)
One case of infectious Influenza was reported this week, in 44 year old female from a rural location in S.A. 1477 cases of N1-H1 Influenza have been reported to date, with 5607 cases reported at the same time, last year.

Covid-19

Nineteen confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported in the last week. 13 males and six females, with a median age of 44 years. There have been 429 confirmed cases of Covid-19 infection reported in SA to date.
 
The Night Talker
23 April 2020

(above) Boarded-up widows at the Avondale Housing Trust units at Elizabeth 50-metres from where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last year. When the residents get upset, they smash the windows. (April 2020).

Anglicare spy at Beacon of Hope
 
She parked her car down a side street next to the Beacon of Hope church. She walked back to Ashfield Road then stood outside the fence peeking at the free lunch trailer parked on the grass. She moved to the gate and pretended to speak on her phone, but it was held as if she was taking photographs. Then she moved behind the see-through fence as if it was opaque. Finally, she walked through the gate and innocently grabbed a lunch and made a swift exit.
 
Anglicare shut down its Elizabeth Food Barn while the less funded Beacon of Hope Church of Christ has opened a free takeaway lunch service. It puts Anglicare to shame.
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth
(Church of Christ)
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) ph 08 8255 2467
Free takeaway hot food 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. No I.D. or registration required.
Two bags of food every third Saturday of month from about 9:30am to 11:30am.

22 April 2020

From the anonymous contact page
 
"Hey guys, not everything IS homeless, many of us have had lives before AND after the scene. Question, after suffering "Hyponatremia", (water intoxication) and news of "the menace"?

"AJ's still out there, still helping."
 
Mulligan Simpson
22 April 2020
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What do Hutt Street Centre employees actually do while partially shut down?  

“What do the seventy Hutt Street Centre employees do with their time? Services have scaled back to less than half previously. Meals have degenerated to takeaway bags and those not living outside told they are no longer welcome.
 
“With approximately a hundred rough sleepers living in hotels how do these seventy employees fill in the time? They can extend their training and staff meetings. They can find excuses to use the Hutt Street Centre cars to visit clients in the hotels and elsewhere. But what else?
 
“Perhaps they can be given hard helmets and put to work building rental houses for those living outside. That would be progressive.
 
“And what about C.E.O. Chris Burns? How does he fill in his time? And how much does he collect as the Hutt Street Centre C.E.O.? He’s too old to work on a building site.”
 
22 April 2020
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Vaccinations
The Night Talker

“The three vaccinations you should get this year are:

Flu Shot (N1-H1) Quadrivent Vaccination
Whooping Cough and,
Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccination.

“All of these diseases have far worse health outcomes than the Corona Virus, although if you are already unwell, getting Covid-19, is not going to be good for you. Getting any of these on top of COVID-19, would take you to a whole new level of scary land. Remember if, you are homeless, unemployed, mentally or physically unwell, socially isolated, or emotionally fragile, then all of these vaccinations are free of charge.”

The Night Talker
22 April 2020

(above) Lifepoint Church at Modbury North still provide a fortnightly free vegetable bag, They keep going because they don't rely on Foodbank, but are still struggling. See the Free Food link below for more details.

Fred’s Van administration falling apart
 
The shaking man got to Hemmings Park at 5:30pm, 90-minutes before he thought the Fred’s Van would arrive. His body rippled rhythmically as he stood up. He sat down then firmly pushed the heels of his hands up and down his legs. It wasn’t compulsive, it was a common reaction to psychiatric medication. He lay on the bench with his pack on his stomach for safety.
 
Others sat four or five metres from each other and looked outwardly away from each other. No one spoke. A man from Mt Gambier whose daughter died at the R.A.H. after being beaten up by her boyfriend sat near the street. Street-to-Home put him into a hotel on Morphett Street. He didn’t pay a cent.
 
An Ice-addict bent his body wildly, kicking his legs out, then hiding behind trees before bursting forth. Permanent brain damage.
 
A homeless woman washed one of her feet with a bottle of water. Another smoked a cigarette discreetly and drank from a can.
 
By 7:00pm there were 18 people waiting. They wore that look of resignation of the ultra poor so they didn’t react when Fred’s Van didn’t arrive. They didn’t know that on Wednesdays the meals were served from the St Vinnies café at Whitmore Square.
 
I raced down there and got two containers of soup and half a loaf of bread. The cook said they were open from 6:00pm to 7:00pm though the St Vinnies timetable advises 6:30-7:30pm. Back at Hemmings Park I gave the soup and bread to the shaking man.
 
But why didn’t Teresa Branch, the coordinator of Fred’s Van, organise someone to post a notice or advise the clients in person that the van wouldn’t serve food at Hemmings Park on Wednesdays? Many of those waiting were either illiterate or too far gone to check the internet for times and dates. Or too alienated and frightened ask anyone else what was happening.
 
It was a silly idea to put the city Fred’s Van in two locations. It destroyed the continuity of the service.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
Reduced service due to virus.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Takeaway bags only and cordial served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.


21 April 2020

(above) The Council put up a sign to say the site has been closed except for PBA-FM, but Fred's Van Salisbury never bothered putting up a note explaining their service had ceased indefinitely. This is typical of welfare at most levels: the boundaries change without notice or explanation leaving the underclass with a continuous feeling of insecurity.

Enigma of COV Origin: Rothschild’s Riddler is behind a batty Wuhan Theory
Part 19
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/enigma-of-cov-origin-part-19.php
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Beacon of Hope free food
 
The American preacher, the chef, another man and a boy handed out bags each containing half a kilo of Easter eggs, tolerable bread, soup pack of vegetables, milk on last Best-by date, frozen apple pie, eight frozen meat pies, three glass bottles of sparkling apple juice and a couple of other items.

Also, free takeaway lunch Tuesday to Friday from 11:30am to 12:30pm. You're supposed to take it off the property, but it is tolerated if you sit two-metres apart from others and eat it while sitting on the concrete near the entrance of the church. 
 
Elizabeth Church of Christ (Beacon of Hope), 38 Ashfield Rd., Elizabeth,
ph 08 8255 2467, on the third Saturday of each month from about  9:30am to 12:00 noon. Free takeaway lunch Tuesday to Friday from 11:30am to 12:30pm. No I.D. or registration required.  
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21 April 2020

(above) Port Church (Baptist) at Largs North gives away some of the freshest free bags of food in Adelaide. And they don't require I.D. or registration. Meanwhile, Anglicare and other big money charities have largely shut up shop.

Virus swab mistake resulted in  people wrongly quarantined

A group of contributors to Adelaide Homeless Journal were put under involuntary home quarantine after a friend felt ill and tested positive for the Covid-19 virus.
 
After the swab was tested a second time and found negative, the group were released from quarantine (seven hours before it was due to end). However, a police officer arrived with a paddy wagon at the home of an assistant editor of Adelaide Homeless Journal after this period ended. This was because the police hadn’t got the right time period of the quarantine nor the fact that it had been lifted.
 
 An employee with the Communicable Disease Control Board (CDCB) kindly and openly explained what happened.
 
“A person who you had close contact with was tested positive for COVID-19 on 03/04/2020. You were identified as a close contact in the days following, resulting in the Public Health Order that you remain at home for 14 days from your last contact with the case (from 29/03/20 – 12/04/20 inclusive).
 
“The CDCB initially received a positive COVID-19 result for this case. At this point, public health action was taken as per current guidelines.
 
“Following this, routine verification testing in the reference laboratory showed a negative result for the same specimen. This prompted a series of investigations into the results, including consultation with specialist microbiologists from each laboratory, and senior clinicians at the CDCB. On the afternoon of 11/04/20, the decision was made that the initial test results should be reclassified as ‘unconfirmed’, meaning that it was likely a false positive.
 
“SAPOL have been conducting sporadic and random tests of those in self isolation across South Australia in order to follow up on compliance with public health directions. SAAS become involved when we have evidence to suggest that a person may be unwell or require medical support.
 
“We appreciate your cooperation with the isolation directives. We acknowledge the inconvenience that this caused for yourself and would like to reassure you that you did nothing but follow the best advice available at any given point in time.”
 
20 April 2020

Northern Communities of Hope offers hope

Five customers waited when a stern woman on an invalid scooter opened the gates at 8:55am. The food had been set up the previous day on tables inside the hall.
 
It included peanut butter muesli bars, frozen rice and vegetable meals, frozen beef, chicken and kangaroo meat, soft drinks, bread (two days old), pineapple guavas, dodgy vegetables, a two-kilogram sealed plastic pack of cold, shelled boiled eggs (ignored by everyone), hot cross buns, good baby carrots and milk from the fridge. It was a profitable visit as most of the ten-kilos of food I got was reasonably fresh and edible. The stern woman urged us to take as much as we wanted as anything left over would be thrown out.
 
The preacher emerged from a back room, friendly and with uncombed hair as always. One client said he only went to this free food joint and shopped at Rite Price at Munno Para. He also said the high black fence around the Church of Christ hall had been built without charge by black Africans.
 
A client asked for the donation box to be brought out whereupon he put some money into it. Two other clients each put five-dollars into the box. This is rare at free food joints.
 
A bottle of liquid soap was placed on the table. It resembled hand sanitiser. Two clients used it then found their hands slippery with soap. I laughed then expressed deep sympathy.
 
In these days of the big money non-profits closing shop and the salaried employees “working from home” it is wonderful that this humble church welfare group is still operating.
 
Corner of Pritchard St. and Heytesbury Rd., Davoren Park.
Free takeaway fruit, vegetables, bread, milk and meat at 9:00am on Fridays. One-dollar donation requested, but not enforced. No I.D. or registration required.
 
Second Editor
20 April 2020

Nanna’s free food closed down
 
A sources within Nanna’s Free Food Basket at the Bower Cottages at Semaphore Park say they closed down due to Foodbank stopping their deliveries. However, a representative at Foodbank says they have plenty of food and believe Nanna’s closed down for other reasons.
 
Nanna’s volunteers have recently attempted to get leftover pies and pasties from from a West Lakes bakery, but were chased away by an ex-volunteer. 

Posted 8:30 am
Second Edit at 10:20am 
​20 April 2020

Fred’s van closures
 
Fred’s Van at Aldinga has closed down. Fred’s Van at Christies Beach has closed on Wednesdays, but still operates on Sundays. Elizabeth has closed down on Wednesdays, but operates on Sundays. Port Lincoln is reduced to takeaways, but you got to phone first on (08) 8682 2198 to arrange a time to collect the meal. Salisbury, Kilburn and Gawler Fred’s Vans have shut down completely.
 
https://www.vinnies.org.au/content/Document/SA/Fred's%20Van%20schedule/Fred's%20Vans%20times%20and%20locations%20-%20Coronavirus%2015%20April%202020(1).pdf
 
20 April 2020
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(above) Contents of a takeaway bag from Fred's Van Elizabeth. The Wednesday evening meals have been cancelled, but it is still open for takeaway food on Sundays at noon on Langford Drive, Elizabeth next to Elizabeth railway station.

Our Street Family charges forward
 
A frail Dr Jefferis charges forward like her son, Trent, in his diminishing world. While the big money homeless joints have retreated into themselves, Dr Jefferis continues her significant Saturday breakfasts for those living outside.
 
She carefully prepares the food at home, some grown in her own garden, then delivers warm takeaway containers to a now-diminished clientele. These are her friends, often the roughest of the rough sleepers.
 
Like Trent, Dr Jefferis, known as “A.J.”, lives life to the full. Trent was born disabled and fell into the derelict lifestyle with drugs, injuries and infections. That’s what drew Dr Jefferis to this hidden world of Adelaide society. She followed Trent and his friends with food and drink.
 
She provided her coffee, food, toiletry and camping items every Saturday morning on the steps of the closed Hutt Street Centre. It had become an embarrassment to the Hutt Street Centre, then with over fifty paid employees, that a small group with practically no outside funding was supplying breakfasts while they were closed.
 
The Hutt Street Centre decided to open on Saturday mornings, strategically earlier than Dr Jefferis. Staff intimidated her with veiled threats so she moved her operation outside the more friendlier St Andrew’s medical centre building next door.
 
The Hutt Street Centre initially drew away Dr Jefferis’ diners until they realised that her breakfast service didn’t require signing onto the Eternal Shame File.  
 
And today her friends of the street marvel as this frail thin woman arrives with her boxes every Saturday morning, cheerful and attentive, knowing each person by name, and all in the age of the virus.
 
Our Street Family Matters  (Dr Jefferis)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. Either on the grass or alongside St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street. Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Self-funded. Healthy home cooked food in foil containers plus hot food from pots.
All free. Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome.  Most guests are pure street. Real authentic and tough street people who are a privilege to encounter unless you get a bad one. No I.D. or registration for the Eternal Shame File. This outfit does not collect data and operates without government funding.

19 April 2020

Wayne’s world
 
Piano Player Wayne shivered as he emerged from his $39,000 bed on an early, but not particularly cold April morning. Even his 14 tea-bags of Earl Grey in 1.8 litres of boiling water failed to warm him. “I have a strong personality that requires strong tea,” he says.
 
He uses Dilmah because the company gave its pickers free dental and education for their children. He credits his Anglo-Saxon Judeo-Christian heritage for getting him through a health crisis. And his upbringing in the Salvation Army. And he says, “God Bless the Queen, the Commonwealth saved us from China.”
 
He shivered through breakfast, his medications and insulin injection. At 10:00am his Irish Carer arrives, one of them, anyway. Wayne credits her brother with getting rid of the 16 drug addicts living in the apartment above him.
 
Wayne puts his Carers through a strict regime ― some might call it hell. He’s gotten rid of most of them until settling on three women from Ireland, Kenya and Nepal.
 
He sends them on shopping trips that might take six-hours. The honey must come from the Central Market, the sunflower oil from Coles or Foodland made from Russian and Ukraine seeds, the canned tomatoes from Foodland, the cat litter from another store and the butter had to be Black and Gold because it was made a Tailem Bend where he and Emma Hines had toured the processing plant. The meat must be from O’Connell’s butcher shop at the Central Market. Wayne says Tony O’Connell visited him at the Hampstead rehabilitation centre after doctors sawed off one of his legs.
 
But Wayne’s immediate problem was being unable to stop shivering. When his Irish Carer arrived, she suggested he wear a jumper. This was obvious until Wayne told her none of his clothing fit anymore since he’d reached 190kilograms and required 9X sizes.
 
She helped him to try on his lime-coloured jumper and despite his protests it fit. Wayne was amazed. He’d believed he’d lost six-kilograms in March after giving up Coca-Cola, but this was amazing.
 
Later, his Carer called a colleague to help load Wayne into a car. They went to the Central Markets in Adelaide and weighed Wayne on a set of industrial scales. He had lost forty kilograms since stopping drinking Coke and other soft drinks.
 
At last Wayne could see light at the end of his nightmare and a chance to get back to his old self.
 
19 April 2020

(above) A quickly assembled shelter at Port Adelaide used by western desert indigenous people. (April 2020).

Homeless Brett and his shopping trolley
 
The elderly cleaning lady’s face twists disapprovingly at the Para Banks shopping centre as she watches 40-year-old Brett. This is where a drug fiend attacked another cleaner with a knife two year ago, slashing her face and hands. But Brett isn’t violent. His body jerks up and down in extremis as he falls onto his shopping trolley filled with blankets and clothing.
 
The cleaner shakes her head for 60-seconds as Ice-addicted Brett disappears around the corner towards Coles. He’d been kicked out of the shopping centre earlier in the day, but where could he go? The welfare joints in Salisbury have shut down indefinitely, their employees still drawing salaries.
 
Brett had gone to the Salisbury Council’s new $43 million “Community Hub” where guards takes photographs of him and where citizens aren’t welcome unless participating in some big money “festival”.
 
The guards photograph other homeless and sleeping people, and those lonely and dying.
 
“The Hub” is where that fast-moving cruel man operates. He aggressively begs for money claiming he needs a train ticket. Not like the man with one leg who waits passively for donations.
 
The Wheelman goes to the hub. He watches television on the huge screen with others. Home is hell with the Council pressuring him to get rid of his wheels and tyres.
 
But make no mistake. They’re all dangerous. They carry the virus of despair, of lives of torment lost in a fog they grasp and get handfuls of nothing.
 
18 April 2020

Ferreting out SARS CoV-19 and worse at Canada’s Doomsday Labs
Part 18
Yoichi Shimatsu

While the gutless Australian mainstream media blame the virus on bats, and others say the Chinese manufactured the virus, Yoichi says it’s the British and Japanese secret services trying to weaken China.
 
https://rense.com//general96/ferreting-out-sars-cov-19-and-worse-at-canadas-doomsday-labs-part-18.php

(above) Two plastic benches made from 25,000 shopping bags and bottles. After Steve Davids died of cancer in early 2017, his sister used part of his bequest to commission the production of these benches and chairs (not shown) from recycled plastic. Steve was for years the barber at St Bede's in Semaphore who cut hair for the poor without pay.

 “We’re not coming back.”
 
Steve the Preacher said they weren’t returning the following Friday. This meant no more soup from the soup ute.
 
Steve said it was because it encouraged us to congregate and increase the risk of contracting the virus. Did he already know that one of us was sick and would be tested Covid-19 positive ― mistakenly, it proved later?
 
Steve had been tested for the virus. He had a cough. The swab came up negative. The cough was from an inflamed respiratory tract. The condition ran in his family. It made him more vulnerable to death from the Wuhan virus especially since he works in the medical field.
 
We met the following Friday on the Salisbury railway station, anyway. The virus suspect was in home isolation or in hospital. We would all be in quarantine in four days.
 
The Wilson guards at the railway station laughed at us. They snuck around behind us then talked into their two-way radios. Little do they realise they work for the Chinese in two ways: controlling Ice addicts that are injured by Chinese-originated precursor chemicals used to make crystal methamphetamine and fentanyl. And working for a Chinese-owned security corporation. Useful idiots working against their own people.  
 
17 April 2020

Free whooping cough vaccinations
The Night Talker

Both Terry White and Priceline Pharmacies are offering FREE and or low cost vaccinations to people who book online. Terry White Chemists are currently offering free Whooping Cough Vaccinations via https://www.terrywhitechemmart.com.au/​ ​ 
 
Certain Priceline pharmacies are offering FREE and or heavily discounted vaccinations including the current N1-H1 Influenza Vaccine. Book online at www.priceline.com.au . Both of these chemists also will check your blood pressure, weigh you and do a diabetes at risk check for you free of charge.

The Night Talker
17 April 2020

(above) Homeless people disguised as tourists are becoming an increasing feature of Adelaide's beach suburbs. Increasing housing prices and restrictions of use have made this insecure mode of life more attractive. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

Free hotel rooms for the homeless
 
$1500 a week with food brought in daily. $109 hotel rooms. Huge bond guarantee. Much of money goes to whoever provides the Case Managers to organise the placement and make visits.
 
This is because some homeless people have only the clothing they’re wearing and don’t know how to wash. Others scream and yell because they’re psychotic or traumatised by living outside. Many have golden staph and are near the end of their lives. Some get kicked out after one day and they’re shattered by the experience. Another problem is the fortnightly reapproval process that leaves some thinking they will be kicked out at the end of each fortnight.
 
A military veteran who has slept in squats and parks for ten years said 250 people have been placed recently in hotels due to the virus including domestic violence women and children. Another man, homeless for six years until just before Christmas, says the hotels are on North Terrace, Morphett Street near Light Square and Wakefield Street in the city, also at Port Adelaide, Marion and Kensington Park.
 
A homeless man at the Wakefield Street hotel says he has the “Presidential Suite” and that he’s filling it up with furniture and that he’s never going to leave. He said to me to bring all the homeless from suburbia to the city for free hotel rooms.
 
But the food brought in as touted by Chris Burns of the Hutt Street Centre doesn’t appear to be happening, not from residents’ reports, anyway.
 
16 April 2020

(above) The clever homeless campers at Semaphore aren't falling for the government's expensive free hotel room scheme. One camper told the Port Adelaide Enfield Council that a United Nations rule said homeless campers can't be evicted. Other campers include a former Port Adelaide parking inspector while another is a former police officer. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

She won’t remember your name
 
The elderly woman phones from the psychiatric ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She’d been a “hospital at home” patient when she tried to kill herself with her medication. She’s on suicide-watch.
 
She had found herself in the blank world of dementia, her consciousness rarely rising to the surface. A chill entered her life as friends on the street brushed past her in a hurry she didn’t comprehend. St Bede’s church free breakfasts closed down due to the virus and her Semaphore Road cafes were reduced to takeaways. And she lost the ability to turn on her television.
 
She lived in her family house where she grew old without ever having a boyfriend. And no sex, ever, but there was plenty of familial condemnation for being fat and stupid. She was fat, but not stupid.
 
Last week, she found herself truly alone and on a new medication and still pissing her pants. Her dog reflected her confusion and solidified her demented reality by pissing wherever it felt like.
 
She’s happier now in a bed cleaned regularly, adult nappies that fit, and attention from staff who keep her on suicide watch. Broken flashes of memory rise in her mind as she repeats the same anecdotes from her increasingly limited repertoire.  
 
15 April 2020

Oz Harvest list of vans in operation
 
https://www.ozharvest.org/food-rescue-covid-19-updates/
 
15 April 2020
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(above) Homeless man's shopping trolley in Salisbury. Those living outside are stunned that every free food joint has closed down in Salisbury except for the Lutheran Ark once a month. The decisions to shut down are made by those on the highest salaries.

Why did Anglicare head office stop its food service in Semaphore?

It’s the old story in homeless welfare: when they want to stop a service, they make it unattractive to discourage clients. Then they shut down for “lack of need”.
 
And so it went with the free breakfasts at St Bede’s in Semaphore. When the virus regulations bit, they closed the dining room. They subsequently allowed one client to enter at a time for takeaway food then leave through the back door. This theoretically ensured each person did not come into contact with other diners with whom they’d shared breakfast with for years.
 
What hurt with this new regime was that the staff thought “social distancing” also included emotional and intellectual distancing.
 
But even this process was a failure as clients returned to the entrance of the St Bede’s Anglican church hall and sat and talked.
 
The next stage was giving away food by appointment only. Clients were staggered into time periods so there was little chance meeting each other. This worked so well that practically no one turned up and justified ― on paper, anyway ― closing down the operation.
 
The engineering of this process appeared to originate from the powers-that-be within Anglicare and not directly from St Bede’s. The board of management sounded the retreat and rushed to the bunkers. Forget the crusade, forget the cause, forget the clients, think of survival.  
 
No doubt the service will recommence once the virus is brought under control and the same high-quality unpaid staff will return to action.
 
The St Bede’s free breakfast service has arguably been the best of its kind in Adelaide. This was achieved by banning drug dealers and their resultant intimidation, and the high quality of its employees and volunteers.
 
14 April 2020

(above) Several contributors to Adelaide Homeless Journal have been ordered by the disease police to stay inside their homes. Normal police makes visits to confirm compliance. The release of this virus has been an opportune event for others. Special note from Sunday 12 April: The Communicable Disease Control branch rescinded the quarantine order ten hours before it was due to expire. A spokesperson said they'd made a mistake with the test results.

Banks and Covid-19
The Night Talker

“Where to go and what to do, if your finances are (expletive) either directly because of COVID-19, or something else......

“If you are being financially "raped" because of the effects of COVID-19 or anything else (financial) for that matter, there are courses of action you can take.

“The first port of call is firstly always try and talk to, whomever you have a financial arrangement with. Even if you want to lodge a formal complaint against this entity, if you haven't tried to deal with the matter yourself you will be directed to do this. If you have done this and its gone nowhere (which is usually the case from my experience) this is what you can do, to push things along.

“Most banks/financial institutions are the bricks and mortar version of a "greedy old whore" standing on the corner of Hanson and Days Road, trying to flog her "wares" to an unsuspecting public.
 
“Newcomers will be sucked in by a freebee period (aka the special interest free period) and then slugged with additional fees and charges. If you keep this mental picture in the back of your head, when dealing with this pox ridden entity, you will always, stay one foot ahead of them. Remember even a "whore" requires payment, at the end of each "transaction", so entering into a financial transaction has it's legal requirements. (Don't just think oh yeah, now that COVID-19 is happening, I am going to stop payment all together. You can do this, but I can guarantee you, you won't come out on top.)

“Where this changes, is when current world economic situations change, and this all outside of your control (eg. COVID-19) This then means that you can "legally" ask for assistance, (such as a lowering or freezing of interest rates, using this as an example) Tried this and the bank/finance company told you to (GFYS?) (Well mine did)

“So, next, you go to www.productreview.com.au and you put down a really nasty spray, about how they are failing to help you, how flapping useless they are and how nobody should touch them with a barge pole. Most institutions pretty much ignore everything EXCEPT mass bad publicity. This has been a doubly touchy area for many of the major banks/finance companies, since the Banking Royal Commission and since the Government has (finally) given AFCA (The Australian Financial Complaints Authority) some real powers to prosecute, "errant" financial institutions.

“Thirdly, once you have rubbished them online (legally and within the guidelines of product review.com) you lodge a formal complaint with AFCA, which they are legally obligated to answer (within 21 days) (You can do this either online or by phoning AFCA) I did this recently to NAB Bank and got them to credit six months (and or $550.00 in money terms) from the final balance of a credit card I have with them. It doesn't mean that I no longer have responsibility to pay off the card because I do; (I am not in arrears and never have been) but it DOES mean, they have legally recognised that COVID-19 is causing people (like me) enormous financial hardship and actually done something about this. I have another credit card with another financial institution, (which doesn't have that much on it) but once again is at a very high rate, and I am going to formally complain to AFCA, about getting the interest rate reduced and or frozen. (I already applied directly to this company and was completely ignored)

“Finally, if you cannot do this for yourself (and not everyone can) then phone 1800-007-007 (salvation army national debt telephone help line) and request that a Financial Counsellor, do this on your behalf. This is a completely free service and available to anyone in all parts of Australia.”

The Night Talker
Late 13 April 2020
​

Epoch Times "Origin of the Wuhan Virus."
https://www.youtube.com/user/epochtimesdigital 
​

S.A. Department of Health get Covid-19 virus results confused and wrongly quarantine people

Contributors to the Adelaide Homeless Journal have been released from home quarantine after a spokesperson from the Communicable Disease Control branch in the Department of Health said they’d got their virus results mixed up.
 
It turns out that the Salisbury can collector known as the Horse Trainer Lady wasn’t Covid-19 virus test positive after all, but negative. She never had the virus.
 
The employee from the Department of Health said all those associated with the Horse Trainer Lady are now released from compulsory home quarantine. The police had regularly visited the homes of those on quarantine to see that they hadn’t snuck away.  
 
The Horse Trainer Lady will be relieved as she is elderly and not in the best of health.
 
3:15pm Sunday 12 April 2020
 

(above) There isn't any baby in the pram pushed by this woman at Queenstown in March 2020.

(above) The government and mainstream media (MSM) lament those newly unemployed having to queue up outside Centrelink to apply for the dole doubled in size. But the 5% underclass have been doing this for four decades while being scorned by this same MSM.

On the Street
 
Dennis Owen Brown is in hospital. Affectionately known as Dennis the Menace for his successful tormenting of the Adelaide City Council, he has suffered a heart attack. This was caused by excessive water in his body according to a friend of Horse Trader Steve. “The Menace” drank 3 or 4 litres a day, which was too much for an old man.
 
He had heart surgery, but after an initial improvement he took a turn for the worse and according to friends in Kilburn isn’t expected to last the month.
 
Dennis was a school teacher for most of his life before moving into a huge camper van that he parked in the Adelaide CBD.
 
With luck, he will make a miraculous recovery and continue his life on the streets.
 
*
Nanna’s free food basket of Semaphore Park stopped their Friday free breakfasts at the Port Adelaide Masonic Centre in Dale Street because the Masons kicked them out due to the virus.

*
 
The Salvation Army has closed its Op Shops across Australia. Volunteers have been dismissed though the paid employees remain working inside the locked stores. They will qualify for the Job Keeper program, but the lack of sales while paying high rents will be a huge loss. The Army has responded with a prime-time radio advertising program asking for money to help the poor and ― indirectly ― pay rent on their inactive shops. But they don’t mention the store rent in their advertising.
 
*
 
The Hutt Street Centre has adopted extreme measures to fight the Corona Virus. They’ve decided to clean the toilets. And to keep them clean, they’ve restricted entry to the building.
 
*
 
The government closing down parks has been a reprieve for those living outside. The constant agonising passive surveillance from normal people has become a trickle. Peace at last.
 
*
 
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard referred to the “dignity of work”. Those living outside in Adelaide face a continuous job of finding alternatives to free services that start out nice then incrementally add oppressive terms and conditions. This includes camera surveillance and having their personal movements added to the Eternal Shame File. Eluding these demons is hard work.  
 
*
 
FoodBank has cut off certain groups from its donated old food program and have redirected it to supplement its own retail operations. Will they disclose the criteria that determines which groups get cut off and others supplied?
 
*
 
Seven of us waited at Salisbury Fred’s Van like a dog on the tucker box knowing it had shut down indefinitely. A homeless druggie and a homeless beer drinker walked by, the latter saying we were waiting for a miracle.
 
Then a kindly soup kitchen woman walked up to us with a hot pizza from Maranello’s. She had the virus.
 
We talked about poker machines, adult nappies and wasted lives. We returned the next week when the police and ambulance officers confronted us.
 
*
 
Job Search Australia (Job Network) contractors are showing favour to clients who submit to sometimes dangerous drug trials with the Japanese-owned CMAX outfit in Adelaide.
 
The job contractors are paid by the government when a client joins an “approved activity” so they push the CMAX trials. The drug companies are happy, CMAX is happy, the job contractors are happy and the guinea pigs are happy unless something goes wrong.
 
*
 
Leon Byner of 5AA said he couldn’t help “shedding a tear” seeing images of people lining up outside Centrelink due to the virus shutdown.
 
Doesn’t he know that this is a major part of the poorest 5% of the population year after year? Byner has touted the interests of authority for decades in exchange for secret payouts and permission to perform his puppet routine.
 
*
 
Robyn from the Hutt Street Centre allegedly has gone into self-isolation. How long? Six months would be good, maybe a year or two.
 
*
 
Trevor at Salisbury says homeless people in the Adelaide CBD sleep during the day and stay awake at night for safety. Night is when they are attacked. But these days, many live in hotels and face a new nightmare: the hotel room.  
 
*
 
The wall-mounted hand sanitiser outside the toilets at the Elizabeth shopping centre is often empty. Those coming out of the toilets press the button and get nothing except microbes and virus from the last person.
 
*
 
Gawler Fred’s Van closed down because the Council recreation centre has closed. This is where they prepared the food. If they owned their own building, like at Elizabeth, they could theoretically have continued their excellent service. The moral of the story: a church should own the buildings it uses.
 
*
 
A man at Fred’s Van said his mother was in the police. He talked about the perfect murder for 15 minutes. And being followed around Adelaide by a group of informers he calls, ‘The Nine’. He lets them know he sees them by screeching like a bird.
 
*
 
A Port Adelaide man from Chat and Chew is in the Adelaide Clinic. He became spooked after the places he visits shut down. And his can collecting business collapsed due to cafes closing down and people staying off the streets.
 
12 April 2020
​

Job Keeper and rental demons
The Night Talker

“Thousands excluded from the "Job-Keeper" payment scheme, so how long before we see 2km long lines, of soup kitchen recipients, aka Great Depression footage.

“Although I do commend (most) of the stimulus programs that have been launched by SCROTOMO and his mob of Hench men and women, the "Job-Keeper" payment scheme, appears to have been put together by a monkey chained to a desk.

“It allows all private businesses, (including sole traders who have effectively earned zero in the last six months, to apply for payments up to $1500.00 a fortnight for their employees (even those who previously earned a third of that, prior to COVID-19 kicking in) but does not cover ANYONE working for a Government Department (this includes teachers, nurses, TAFE employees, Government employed librarians, social workers, youth workers, child care workers, doctors, dentists lawyers and the list goes on and on.
 
“Effectively if you were working in a Government Department prior to COVID-19 (be that State, Commonwealth, Federal and or Local Government) and you lost your job and OR your hours were severely curtailed, (e.g. went down to virtually nothing) you are not entitled to apply for the "Job-Keeper" payment and you can only apply for the "Job-Seeker" payment, if you have lost your employment altogether.
 
“This also is a MUCH smaller payment than "Job-Keeper" ($550.00 a week as opposed to $750.00) which still isn't a lot when you consider that some people in the Eastern States are paying weekly rents, in excess of $450.00 a week (which is the medium average rent for a two bedroom unit, 40 minutes from the Sydney CBD. So, when April the 27th comes along, and both "Job-keeper" and Job-Seeker" payments begin, this cohort of people are going to miss out altogether.
 
“Also, how long before we start seeing mass evictions? The media has already started reporting that Landlords and Rental Agencies have started evicting persons, who are in arrears. There have also been media reports that Rental Agencies have been sending renters letters, stating that they should dip into their super to pay the rent, to avoid falling into arrears.
 
“I personally cannot see rental agencies putting rents on ice for the next six to twelve months. What I can see is mass evictions, a tightening of the rental availability in affordable rents (which currently sits at around 0.01% nationally) and an increase in the practice of renters wanting properties bidding against each other (Real estate companies swear black and blue this isn't happening, but sources leaked to the media, claim it’s a common practice and heavily encouraged by the real estate industry).
 
“As for SCROTOMO's repeated diatribe about giving people a break by freezing rents and the interest on financial transactions (e.g. credit cards, personal and or home loans) what it really sounds like to me, is something similar to a Goose, slowly drowning in a vat of wet cement!”

The Night Talker
12 April 2020

(above) Food Bank at Bowden doing their hand sanitiser routine. You can sign up on site for four visits to buy food at reduced prices. Some clients said there are huge bargains including adult nappies and very cheap toilet paper. There are also free fruit and vegetables. And Listerine if you're a dipsomaniac.

(above) Spaced-out clients waiting outside Foodbank on Gibson Street, Bowden. The Night Stalker says some are homeless people put into hotels. He says it appears the daily food deliveries to the hotel rooms have been hijacked, prompting the residents to buy at Foodbank.

Fred’s Van in the Adelaide CBD
 
Review of Thursday 2 April 2020
 
Where was everyone? Only fifteen people were there ten minutes before the van arrived. This included a friend of Horse Trader Steve from Kilburn Fred’s Van. Everyone appeared poor both in dress and demeanour. The days of social workers and students infiltrating Fred’s Van are over.
 
Two shopping trolley men included one who said he wouldn’t go into the free hotels because he’d in in there with 25 mutts, some of whom were after him.
 
A homeless man smoked tobacco from butts through a tiny hole placed on a partially flattened drink can. He breathed through the larger hole where the drink comes out. He said the aluminium oxide provided a more powerful hit, but if he went without it for three days, he was ready to break someone’s neck.
 
He was a typically astute drug addict who spoke eloquently, but his words blurred into each other and when asked a question he sidestepped into another subject. Maybe a genius who had slipped over the edge. He said retired greyhounds are sent to abattoirs and made into dog food for the more successful greyhounds. That sounds the procurement process for the Aspire program.  
 
The New Zealand man who couldn’t get the dole and was living outside for years waiting for the Aged Pension was more withdrawn than ever. He appears of pension age now, but perhaps has become too habituated to change his lifestyle despite most of his support joints having closed down. He edged around us then watched the rats collecting food.
 
The Vitamin Derelict and others have gone into self-isolation while most clients have moved into free hotel rooms arranged by the Hutt Street Centre.
 
There were 25 in the queue when the food van arrived. They set a table behind the van and gave a bag to each client who approached the table separately. Some got four bags due to so few clients present. Fred’s Van don’t like to return to base with anything or, at least, the diners don’t like the van to leave with anything of value. The bags contained a sandwich, vegetarian rice and stew (not hot enough), yoghourt, a can of Pepsi Max, doughnuts and a plastic packet of cheapo chocolates. Thursday is a no meat day since they stopped providing sausages and onions on bread.
 
They gave away synthetic blankets in baby colours to homeless people appreciative due to the cooler nights.
 
There weren’t any old volunteers with the van as St Vincent de Paul has stood them down due to their vulnerability to the virus.
 
A quiet woman ate alone then left a banana, two containers of yoghourt and a can of Pepsi Max neatly stacked on a bench. An old man arrived after the van had left and nearly every remaining person gave him part of their bags including the man wearing a kerchief face mask.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
Reduced service due to virus.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Takeaway bags only and cordial served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.

11 April 2020

Cracking into your superannuation

​The Night Talker

“For those of you, who have the ability to dip into your super account (aka you actually have some superannuation to raid) this becomes reality, as of the 20th of this month.
 
“However, a little bit of advice, don't broadcast this to anyone, for your own safety. Family members and errant "friends" who haven't bothered speaking to you for the last 20 years, are going to suddenly appear, like flies around dog shit. (and not all of these persons, are going to be the kind of people, you suddenly want appearing on your doorstep, waving the flag of friendship).
 
“Also, don't be fooled by the tears of your children or grandchildren etc that they need a new car, stereo system, Xbox, money for a new business venture or wedding etc. (remind the loved-up couple that it still only costs $169.00, to get married at the Registry Office in Grenfell Street and then if they are lucky, you will shout them to the drive through at Macca's before divesting yourself of the responsibility of them from this point onwards).
 
“If you are lucky enough to be able to access this money, use it to immediately pay down debt or repair your (own) home or car or buy yourself a really good quality laptop, internet connection and at least six months worth of non-perishable food and emergency survival gear.
 
“Nobody wants to hear this, but if we ARE actually heading towards a FULL BLOWN SHTF scenario, food, fuel, survival gear and perhaps a weapon or two (e.g. a good quality crossbow etc, might be what saves (and or feeds you) when others are so hungry they are considering chomping down on their neighbours cat or even the neighbours themselves).
 
“It's funny but it is not. Hunger is the first to arrive and the last to leave and has decimated armies that were originally in their thousands. (Think of what happened to Napoleons Armies in 1812 and or what happened to the Germans on the Eastern Front, during the dying days of WW2.
 
“If the worst comes to the worst, any decorum that people once had, is going to go straight out the window, when their is nothing left and hungry neighbours are looking over the fence at your full vegie patch or through your front window to see what they can steal and/or eat, and you can forget about being protected by the Police because they will be too busy trying to fend for themselves and their families. It will be each person for themselves and their will be nothing that anyone else can do about this. It's just human nature at its worst.”

The Night Talker
11 April 2020

(above) Fred's Van downplays bad news. And what is happening to all that extra money flowing into St Vincient de Paul homeless services?

“The Feral” looking for welfare information

Paul Farrell is an investigative Journalist with the ABC and always on the lookout for information relating to Centrelink, the Welfare Industry and Job Network Australia. He can be contacted via email; paulfarrell@protonmail.com

The Night Talker
10 April 2020
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Lutheran Ark at Salisbury
​goes takeaway

Five Lutherans sat outside the church behind a table. “Oh, no, they’ll look at me,” a homeless man with me said as he flattened his hair. He’s a tough fellow who keeps himself in good shape and he had no reason to feel uneasy. But he did, and we do because being homeless carries a shameful stigma both within and without.   
 
They offered a Styrofoam container of fresh salad and another of meat and boiled potatoes. The meat included bacon, hamburger patties and sausages while the vegetarian version was two excellent garlic flavoured non-meat sausages.
 
But there wasn’t any dressing for the salad or condiments for the other food. But their kindly act stood in relief to the other joints that have closed down in fear.
 
Terry, Wheelman Wayne, Old Val and a few others sat in the Aboriginal area at the Salisbury railway station. Adam told another man he’d lost his leg from diabetes and not taking care of himself. No self-pity there. Wayne said he and his sister had bought a wheelchair for one-legged Ken, but he’d sold it. Adam said he uses a wheelchair as his stump has swelled and he needs more surgery before he can use his artificial leg.
 
An old man talked of buying large baby nappies instead of adult nappies so people wouldn’t think he was incontinent. But the baby nappies slip and stain his trousers.
 
Terry folded his blankets and asked if the next morning would be cold or warm. “Warm,” someone said. It would be warm except for those sleeping on the ground. African teenagers had challenged him on John Street, but he played the harmless old man and they let him go. Little did they know what he could do to them.  
 
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark)
cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury.
Ph 8281 2976. Clean toilets.
Takeaway food once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2020 are April 25 May 30, June 27, July 25, August 29, September 26, October 31, Nov 28, Dec19.

10 April 2020

Nasty treatment plans
The Night Talker

“What you need to know about REMDESIVSAR the new novel, anti-virus drug, that it is going to handed out to doctors/hospitals around the world, very soon (like within days) to treat actual and or suspected COVID-19 cases.

“REMDESIVAR and or GS-5734 is the latest novel, anti-viral drug, from the Pharmaceutical company GILEAD, (yes the name is the same as the fictional country that Margaret Alston's acclaimed novel the Handmaid's tale is set in) that is due to be released world, wide within the next few days, to treat the novel, virus COVID-19.

“Within Australia is has only allegedly, been tested on animals (Sheep) although on the CMAX (Adelaide) website, there is information that "suggests" that they want HUMAN applicants to apply as test subjects, to take this drug.
 
“Upon googling the side effects of this drug (and or in medical speak, contraindications) the following information came up;

* acute nausea
* acute vomiting
* elevated liver enzymes
* liver failure
* death
* (cytogenic- e.g. possible risk of multiple birth defects and or death to mother/child during pregnancy)

“Prior to COVID-19, this drug was used primarily in Africa to (unsuccessfully) treat the Ebola virus. (All patients treated with this drug died, but to be fair, the death rate from the Ebola virus alone, sits at around 89%, so its unclear if REMDESIVAR killed the patients, or Ebola did or both drugs together were a lethal cocktail)

“According to information I have tried to google online, the Australian Pharmaceutical and Therapeutic Goods Board (PTGB), is going to allow this drug to go onto the shelves, despite its (very nasty) side effects. The PTGB states that to not allow this drug to be used, would not be in the best interests of the community and the health sector. After reading what it can do to you, I'd rather die from COVID-19, than acute liver failure.
 
“My own mother passed away from Liver Cancer (Metastatic, Hepatic Carcinoma) (which caused complete liver failure in the end) and I can tell you honestly, few ways to die, could be slower or more painful.
 
“Death isn't what you should be afraid of (think of it as the lights in the room being switched off and then the power is permanently, disconnected) it's HOW you are going to die, that should worry you more. We here in our modern Western Society, are so distanced from death, we cry and publish the death of a 98 year old woman from COVID-19 (This is ridiculous, this woman was 98 and if COVID-19 wasn't going to kill her, normal old age would have, as is the normal life trajectory of birth and death!) We are all heading in the same direction, but I'd rather not head in that direction with the help of REMDESIVAR!!!!

The Night Talker
10 April 2020

(above) Northern Communities of Hope. Corner of Pritchard St. and Heytesbury Rd., Davoren Park. Free takeaway fruit and vegetables at 9:00am on Fridays. No I.D. or registration required. It might close down due to lack of clients. The regulars fear the virus. It is supported by Baptist Pathway up at Modbury.

Those free hotel rooms for the homeless
 
Isn’t it incredibly generous of the government to provide $1500 a week free hotel rooms and food to the homeless? It is a remarkable event in the lives of those living outside in Adelaide.
 
The government and the homeless joints say it is to protect those especially vulnerable to the Covid-19 virus. But why don’t these same homeless joints protect their clients from the drug dealers infected with other diseases? Why don’t they clean the toilets and showers?
 
It appears another reason for sequestering the homeless in hotels is to prevent them catching Covid-19 and both using up limited medical services and transmitting the virus to the rest of the population.
 
It is also a business stimulus for hotels lacking customers.
 
9 April 2020

On-line courses
​and other welfare “top-ups”
The Night Talker

“Now is a good time, to organise some concession payments and or to go charity hopping..........

“With everything happening re COVID-19, don't forget, that their are still concession payments that you can claim (here in SA) via www.DCSI.concessions.gov.au

“Feeling stressed by Covid-19 and can't control your bowel or bladder any longer? Then the Bowel-Bladder Payment as run through Medicare, is what you need. Simply download the application form via, www.bowelbladdergrant.com.au and take to your G.P. then mail back to Medicare via the address on the form. It is a yearly payment of $600.00, that increases by 3% annually.

“The Medical/Heating cooling concession, is run through www.dcsi.gov.au/concessions and is for anyone with a medical, psychological and or emotional problem that requires, that they need A/C and or heating in their home. It is backdated from the time of your diagnosis (e.g. if you were injured in 1980, the payment is backdated from that date onward) you will receive a lump sum payment and then a payment of $60.00 a quarter from that time onwards.

“On Newstart or the disability pension or aged pension and stuck at home all day. Then you can apply for the Pensioner Educational Supplement. An initial payment of $200.00 will be made to you, once you have enrolled in an approved (online course) and after that, you will receive a further $69.00 a fortnight, for the duration of the course. You can find the application form online by typing in Pensioner Education payment Supplement into a google search.

“Need help paying for your next electricity bill? The $400.00 EEPS (Emergency Electricity Payment Scheme) will pay $400.00 off your electricity bill) You need to go through a registered Financial Counsellor, which you can get free of charge via the Salvation Army's Online Debt Helpline phone: 1800-007-007.”
 
The Night Talker
9 April 2020

(above) These thieves have reportedly operated in numerous other Adelaide suburbs.

Police visiting soup kitchen clients put into home quarantine
​(House Arrest) 

The police are today parking out front of soup kitchen clients’ residences then phoning and asking each person to come outside and wave to them thus identifying them to their neighbours.
 
8 April 2020

Fruit and vegetables replaced by Easter eggs at Lifepoint
​on Thursday

Lifepoint Church at Modbury have been unable to obtain enough free fruit and vegetables for their fortnightly Thursday giveaways, but they will still give some Easter gifts to anyone who visits the church tomorrow at 10:00am.
 
A church member at the front of the church will guide you to the back of the church where you’ll be handed the bag.

Lifepoint Church
Corner of Milne Road and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North.
Ph (08) 8395 0888. 10:00am to 12:00 noon.

8 April 2020

Soup kitchen crowd ordered
​into self-isolation

The Community Disease Control branch has ordered a number of clients of Salisbury and Elizabeth soup kitchens into self-isolation after one of them proved positive for the SARS 2 Covid-19 virus.
 
The free food services included Fred’s Van Salisbury and Elizabeth, Lutheran Ark, the soup ute at the Salisbury railway station and others. Since these are all takeaway services, close proximity to the infected can collector has been limited.
 
The seclusion period is for two-weeks since last contact with the well-liked woman. This means the seclusion will end this Sunday at midnight for some. It isn’t known how many are affected and whether this includes homeless people in Salisbury and Elizabeth.
 
The biggest fear is for the elderly woman with the virus. She hasn’t been admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital so that is good news.
 
8 April 2020

WestCare free takeaway meals
 
A client at WestCare said the Baptists were giving away takeaway lunches without the usual $2.50 charge. This includes Thursday roasts and Friday fish and chips.
 
That Chinese man who plays the pokies was overjoyed when he heard the news.
 
Baptist Westcare Adelaide
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Free takeaway lunch. Not sure whether other services are cancelled or not.
No I.D. required. Free showers and washing machines. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables in Food Hub store from 10:00am-3:00pm Mon to Thurs. Centrelink card required. Free showers and smelly towels. Lots of other stuff.
​
8 April 2020

Get  a free copy of your children’s home records

“The Records Service program is on the first floor of the Catholic Diocesan Centre, at 39 Wakefield street, Adelaide.
ph (08) 8210 8275;
Email: receptionprofessionalstandards@adelaide.catholic.org.au
 
“It maintains all the records of children within South Australia, who were placed in catholic institutions or adopted or fostered out via Catholic charities etc, between the years 1880 until 1980.
 
“It operates from 8.30am until 1.00pm on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Access to records of former (SA) Catholic children in care and or their immediate family members, is free of charge and counselling can also be provided if required.”

The Night Talker
8 April 2020

Fred’s Van Sunday Elizabeth
 
Outside the gates, white fella and black fella patrons were hoping their enemies would get the virus. One wanted Trump to get it. Another wanted to “blow his head off”.
When the gates opened, The Magnificent Marten (formerly German Marten) was studiously ignored as he attempted to marshal queued diners into 1.5 metre spacing near the front door. The black fellas looked at him as if he were crazy.
 
The three Fred’s Van unpaid workers served small containers of takeaway food with a plastic fork, cups of cordial and loaves of bread.
 
Signs on the picnic tables under the gazebo ordered us not to sit there.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. (Wednesdays cancelled). Takeaway hot food. No I.D. or registration required. Anyone can go there.
 
6 April 2020

(above) A cleverly disguised abandoned homeless camp that is not abandoned. It was a sunny day in early March, but last night was windy with rain. You can rarely escape waking up wet and cold when homeless in this weather. And the homeless joints have locked their doors except for takeaway food. But the salaried employees are doing fine.

Sad truth of charity begging?
The Night Talker
 
“Need food, clothing or supermarket vouchers? Try a country or urban charity or church group that is still open as opposed to all those, that have shut down, in the metro area. Some have lots and lots of hoarded supplies (the one up around my area has enough food supplies to survive a 90 day siege) and few persons to access these supplies as they are so far out. It might be a bit of a drive, but the rewards could be very lucrative.
 
“Remember that a really good story (e.g. broke down 12km south east of wherever and now living in my van, with CHUMMBLES the Cat, MY ONLY TRUE FRIEND, works wonders as does crying, pissing your pants and looking like a sack of crap...).”

Good luck.
The Night Talker

8 April 2020

(above) The pre-dawn view over the Gulf of St Vincent from the beach at Semaphore. Many homeless people at the beach and in the city have no interest in the government Covid-19 offer of a free $1500 a week hotel room with food. One man pushing a shopping trolley of bedding around the city said last night that he didn't take up the offer as he didn't want to "sign onto the program".

Toilet paper argument at Coles Greenacres

Decrepit pensioners converged on the toilet paper aisle from both ends. There was swearing when they discovered only 4-packs of double length rolls for $7.00. Last week they’d paid ten-dollars for twenty standard rolls. Coles was milking the shortage.
 
Those arriving first at the shelves were jostled and unable to escape as other pensioners used trolleys to box them in.
 
Coles staff entered the aisle and told the pensioners if the commotion didn’t stop, they’d return the toilet rolls to the storeroom.
 
The swearing and complaining about the price continued at the checkouts.
 
One man later said a friend had purchased 15,000 rolls. A supermarket spokesperson said that the usual annual sales of toilet paper had been done in the four weeks from mid-February to mid-March.
 
From the toilet paper incident witness
7 April 2020

CoV test kit fail: bad blood from Alibaba; Fauci-Kawaoka; The Bio-weapons Treaty
Part 17
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/cov-test-kit-fail-bad-blood-from-alibaba.php

Who actually gets the money
given to “charities”?
The Night Talker

“Why are charities shutting down all over the place, when SCOMO and the Feds, have given them a $221,000,000 dollar funding boost!

“I have been following the depressing saga of COVID-19 since everything went majorly pear-shaped about a month ago. I am sure I heard SCROTOMO state that all (major) charities have been given a HUGE funding boost (in the millions) to assist all the newly unemployed and other such similar persons disadvantaged, that have been either directly or indirectly affected by COVID-19. Okay, great, good thing to do (I am actually not knocking you for a change, even though you are still a MUPPETT God bothering (expletive) (rhymes with hunt).
 
So, explain to me, why pretty much nothing is OPEN??? Who the hell is left to assist all the vulnerable persons? Other than Fred's Van and some online counselling services, every other charity has gone to ground. So, I ask? What the flapping hell has happened to all the funding you lot have been given (That includes from the Bushfires, a few months back) Flapping hell?
 
“I mean with the amount of money that the Red Cross was given, they should be able to feed and house, half the population of Sydney!!! OMG! Someone needs to shout and KEEP SHOUTING BECAUSE THIS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Handing out a three-quarter empty bag of (often) borderline rotten produce from a hole in the wall, WTF?? You should hang your fekking heads in shame.
“With a crisis of this magnitude, mobile soup and emergency supplies should be cruising the suburbs throughout SA, day and night, handing out food, clothing and vouchers to anyone that needs it. Why the hell is this not happening!”

NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

The Night Talker.
7 April 2020
 

Fred’s Van Elizabeth shuts down
​on Wednesdays

The takeaway meal on the 25th of March was vegetable and meat stew in plastic containers. There wasn’t any fruit and vegetable takeaways. No coffee or drinks. They give give away some nice homemade cupcakes and cake. Three friendly volunteers served a depleted crowd of ten or so clients, down from the usual 60. Lots left over. One client left with part of the furniture. It was a melancholy gathering not helped with the furniture incident.
 
Note: Fred’s Van has stopped its Wednesday meal at Elizabeth. One client said he saw just two diners there last Wednesday. The Fred’s Van offerings have become so small that it isn’t worth the cost of public transport or a 5km walk. Volunteers warned us that donations had collapsed.
 
This is happening across the homeless service scene. Money is pouring into organisations paid to serve the homeless when these services have ceased operation? Are the paid employees of “charities” still being paid while “working from home”? Fred’s Van along with Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters are amongst the best still operating.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays only. Takeaway hot food. No I.D. or registration required. Anyone can go there.
 
7 April 2020

(above) Tools of the trade at Rosewater: support underwear, needles, homelessness.

Police say soup kitchen woman has the Covid-19 virus

Three of us were waiting for Fred’s Van Salisbury to open their front doors despite knowing it was closed indefinitely. We heard sirens and watched ambulances moving to and from the Salisbury police station.
 
A few minutes later, two ambulances and multiple police cars stopped in front of the Institute hall in Wiltshire Street where we were sitting under the projection room.
 
Two paramedics and two police officers approached us, keeping their distance. They said the Horse Trainer Lady had the Covid virus. They used her legal name, which isn’t the ‘Horse Trainer Lady’.  
 
Wheelman Wayne tried to run away until someone called him back. He shouted, “Val, Val, Val,” and said he didn’t have the virus. He said Val might have it as she was sitting next to the Horse Trainer Lady as if the police were looking for a single person to arrest. We’d been with the Horse Trainer Lady the previous week when she’d brought us a pizza. We’d all touched the box. We’d been close to her at Fred’s Van Elizabeth, also. The Lady collects cans from rubbish bins.
 
A paramedic took our temperatures and said none of us were running a fever. One asked if I had any symptoms. “Yes,” I said, and she recommended getting a Covid-19 test. Wayne rushed towards the paramedics and police who shouted, “Keep back, keep back.”
 
The police made a quick exit while the paramedics shut themselves in their ambulance. Wayne grabbed his bottle of ‘So Good’ and fled down a laneway to John Street. The man with the high-pitched voice left on his bicycle.
 
6 April 2020

Is ShelterSA boss a land developer?

​From the Anonymous Contact Page
 
“Maybe you could also write about how Shelter SA and it's good doctor have embarked on an ass kissing campaign to survive, but what for? What have they actually done other than for many years now tread a fine line between stating the bleeding obvious "we need more social housing" and calling for government to be accountable? While at the same time enjoying free lunches and working holidays at various conferences and reconciliation events around Australia, on tax payer's money.

“And now I see they're spending their dwindling funds on yet another new staff member who looks to have been recruited specifically to help with their online social media PR campaign for survival.

“There's a reason why Lensink wants to but the kybosh on Shelter. The good doctor didn't stay in her lane. She got too political. She became a property development partner and buddy buddy with one of the Shahins. They all use homelessness as the platform for their careers but the good doctor made it too obvious that she was in it for herself.”
 
Anonymous via the Anonymous Contact Page
6 April 2020
 

Fred’s Van in the city last Monday
 
“Look,” says the man 1.5 metres in front of me as he points to an old man hiding behind a power box across Gawler Place while secretly taking notes. “He came from the Education department building,” he adds.
 
“Look,” the white fella says again. “Lesbians.” Two beautiful young Aboriginal girls sit on the footstep of the travel agency. One has the classical jawline of the western desert people. They cross the street and join other indigenous people including a muscular man shouting and trying to punch others in the face. An older Aboriginal woman (must have been 35) tries to calm the atmosphere. These are richer more disciplined black fella people compared to those living in the parklands.
 
An old Ice Head jumps about in front of us. This grey-haired man sinks to the footpath twisting and turning and snarling, a danger to no one. He frequented the City Salvo Duo free Saturday meals in Pirie Street before it shut down indefinitely. His girlfriend shifts from foot to foot.
 
The Viking Can Collector pushes his bicycle to The Ghost’s station wagon and loads a slim bag of cans reflecting the deterioration of the can business. The Viking is no longer a strident young man, but middle-aged and a senior figure in the can collecting business. They leave for Puddle Jumpers over at Hurtle Square.
 
This is my first visit in three years and instead of meeting friends and foes alike, nearly everyone is new. I am merely another fading old man from the past, unsteady on my feet, memories drifting in and out of consciousness.
 
We all have our time in the sun and I’m glad mine is over. Those terrible years of destitution starting with camping in the parklands  in 1972. And nearly everyone from that era dead.
 
There are sixty of us when Fred’s Van arrives with three women and one man. The man keeps us ten metres back from the van. Two young women put one bag at a time on a table then stand back while one client at a time walks to the table and takes the bag. Another table holds open glasses of cordial subject to coughs and sneezes.
 
Seven or eight diners eat at the benches occupied by government bureaucrats smoking cigarettes during the day. The rest of us scatter.   
 
The St Vincent de Paul crowd have stayed with us while others have fled.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
Reduced service due to virus.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Takeaway bags only and cordial served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.
 
6 April 2020

(above) The agony and the ecstasy in the carpark at Semaphore beach. The closure of St Bede's breakfasts is a blow to some homeless campers, but not to others who avoid charities. Will these campers have access to free hotels like those camping in the Adelaide CBD? (photo March 2020).

(above) An upstanding citizen of The Port tells Alinta outright that he won't ever pay his electricity bill. They sent him a letter saying they'd written it off, but continue to send updates of the ever-increasing bill. He's on medical electricity. But this amount is peanuts compared to his phone bill of $120,000 run up phoning those expensive astrology-style numbers. And getting ten fabulously expensive phones delivered to his house. He's a master of getting his money's worth from foreign corporations and it's all legal.

St Vincent de Paul has cash to restart cancelled Fred’s Vans so what is the hold-up?
From the Night Talker

"Vinnies there for the Long Haul.

“St. Vincent De Pauls new CEO, Louise Miller (Former CEO of the Homeless women's shelter, "Catherine House") states in this article, that despite COVID-19 the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, will not be shutting down, because people now need us more than ever.
 
“Ms. Frost said that the Vinnies Bushfire appeal (within S.A.) has amassed more than $1.6 six million dollars from a generous public, and a generous Catholic community in particular.
 
“100 percent of the donated funds, are being re-directed back to those persons who are homeless, hungry and or need other such (immediate and or ongoing) practical support.
 
“Vinnies will be there for the long haul, just as we have been for 135 years. Anyone requiring urgent or ongoing support is urged to ring 131812 or go online to wwww.vinnies.org.au/SA Emergency.
 
“Vinnies emergency appeal within S.A. is providing food, bill payment services, counselling/spiritual care and outreach health care services via Calvary Catholic Hospital (little Company of Mary Nursing Nun's)

“(It is good to see that money collected during the Bushfire appeal is actually going back to the Community, unlike other Charities, that have chosen to sit on the money (aka the Red Cross, Anglicare and the Salvation Army).”

www.southercross.org.au
Page 20 dated 4/04/2020
The Night  Talker.
 
Editor: Oh, good. Maybe they can give bigger bags at Fred’s Vans and reopen the service at Gawler, Salisbury and Kilburn quickly, not next month.
 
Early 5 April 2020

On the Street
 
The Viking can collector lost a pair of tongs three months ago. Collectors use tongs to avoid putting their hands amongst the contents of rubbish bins. He found the tongs three months later on the top of rubbish in a bin. He recognised them because he’d added an extra bolt. He figures another collector found them, used them for a few months, then either lost or threw them away.
 
*
 
Gary, known as Gazza, coughed and spluttered over a woman at Baptist WestCare. The coughing got her “going off her brain” for fear of getting Covid-19. Gary seemed near death 25 years ago and his survival resembles a miracle.
 
*
 
Ian Cox was scheduled to speak at the Southern Housing Round Table (SHRT) organisation’s “Strategic Group’s” monthly meeting in February at the Junction housing office in Marion. His topic was “Discussions on the Housing & Homelessness Reform”.  This means linking all housing service providers so if a person gets a loaf of bread or whatever at the Hutt Street Centre, then it goes on a data base accessible by other organisations hooked up to the surveillance system.  
 
Attendees were looking forward to him speak, but his visit was cancelled.
 
*
 
A ShelterSA employee was also scheduled to speak at the SHRT meeting to talk about their Research on “Tenant outcomes & Social Housing”.  Why this research report hasn’t reach the ShelterSA website for public viewing is a sign of the secret machinations of these bureaucrats. Nor does ShelterSA’s financial budget appear in their 2019 on-line Annual Report.
 
 
*
 
Trent Jefferis is alive and kicking, but in deteriorating health, sadly.
 
*
 
A Salvation Army counsellor said he’d met numerous clients who said they’d tried to help someone then found themselves in more trouble than they’d ever had in their lives. The counsellor was subtly hinting to a client to be careful.
 
*
 
Bruce coughed in Port Adelaide so Sandra told him to move away. Bruce got angry and said he had emphysema and that made him cough and he didn’t have the virus. He added that people in stores were acting the same way as Sandra. Bruce said he’s going to get a letter from a doctor saying his lungs are bad and he is free from the virus.
 
*
 
A homeless black man in the city was sent to a motel for one night. “How useful was that,” a friend commented. “One night.”
 
*
 
A veteran in the homeless scene says his knees are playing up, his back hurts. He says “My joints going belly up. I asked the vet, but he didn’t give a f**k. I want the virus to get me”.
 
*
 
The professionality of National Disability Insurance Scheme (N.D.I.S.) workers is in question due to their propensity to form business or personal relationships with clients. Some also steal money from clients.
 
It is also estimated than 10% of claims by contractors are for services never provided. No one is charged because the thefts are too widespread.
 
*
 
Centrelink at Arndale have been referring clients to the Salvation Army across the road. The clients have waited two-hours in the queue and got nothing then told to go to the Army.
 
By the time they reach the Salvation Army they are screaming mad. Staff make them wait an hour in the reception area so they can “cool down”.  A Salvo employee said they have nothing to offer them.  
 
*
 
The young druggie couple entered the Elizabeth shopping centre at 7:00am one morning last week then slept on the lounges in front of Coles. They were without their bicycles and fluffy toys.
 
Early 5 April 2020
​

(above) The uplifting Outsiders band at the Hutt Street Centre (before the virus). From back: Sir Rodney Voerge, the famous Gerry Bonk, Rodney Richardson (played in the Salvo band), Craig Richards, John Latten, Joao de Sousa in the yellow raincoat (deceased), Alycia (The Bud) Budd and the cheerful Atha Stevenson. The Outsiders are the most uplifting feature act in Adelaide's homeless scene. Time for a virtual tour.

Michelle Lensink’s plan to knock ShelterSA out of the game

Michelle may get the odd bout of the munchies, but she is a seasoned political operative. As the South Australian Minister for Human Services, her plan to knock Dr Alice Clark and ShelterSA out of the housing game is a classic political tactic.
 
As a smokescreen she will double the state government grant theoretically available to ShelterSA from less than half a million dollars to one million.
 
But the new funding will require that ShelterSA works with vulnerable clients rather than being solely a peak body representing other housing organisations.
 
The ShelterSA employees are researchers and political advocates and not social workers so even if they apply for the new funding, it is unlikely they will get it.
 
ShelterSA also leans towards the Labor and Greens political parties while Lensink is a Liberal from way back. She’s snuffing out opposition power in welfare housing advocacy.

Dr Clark said that Lensink’s move would silence “the voices of people living on low incomes and experiencing homelessness”.
That might have been true in the earlier years. While homeless and camping in a tent in St Helen’s park in Prospect in 1984, ShelterSA printed a ream of leaflets for me.

At night, I glued the locks of the front door of Centalet rental agency while during the day handed out these leaflets warning prospective customers to avoid it.

Centalet was a sleazy rental agent that charged people a week’s dole money to view their secret list of cheap rental properties. But the vacancies didn’t exist and those seeking accommodation lost their money. Soon after, John Bannon put Centalet out of business.

But in later years, ShelterSA seems little more than another agency that remains silent while civil liberties and privacy are stripped from the lives of welfare tenants. It says nothing about the Housing Trust leaving units empty for months, even years, or the preference given to refugees over Australian citizens. Or the humiliating inspections.

ShelterSA was formed during the residual idealism from the Whitlam era by political activists more naïve than experienced. That was 43 years ago, but today who cares if ShelterSA in its present form disappears? To the homeless, it’s a group of paid employees and members representing vested interests that don’t represent the homeless or Housing Trust tenants.

Quote from Dr Clark is from Stephanie Richards’s article at https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2020/03/24/shelter-sa-faces-axe-in-state-govt-housing-reform/

Second Editor
​4 April 2020

From the anonymous contact page

"We're going to have maybe 30 sourdough rolls. Who should we donate them to?"

bletford@comunet.com.au

​Second Editor: It depends where you are. Most places hand out sealed or tied up bags or boxes so might be reluctant to accept anything. In this case, you can arrive at an outdoor "soup kitchen" when people are standing around and hand them out. Or keep an eye out to where homeless people congregate and offer the rolls to them. It is nice that you're doing this. 

Fred's Van at Hemmings Park in Gawler Place near Wakefield Street t in the city is always a good bet except on Saturdays. 7:00pm on weekdays and 6:00pm on Sundays. 

​4 April 2020

Heart and Soul shuts down
 
Heart and Soul cancelled their Wednesday free food evening at the Masonic Hall in Elizabeth South last Wednesday. The place was deserted at 8:30pm.
 
Heart and Soul has shut down its total operation due to the virus.
This is a huge blow as they have hundreds of people at each of its weekly events.
 
Eman Rahim has done a terrific job over the years and hopefully she will have a nice rest and return stronger than ever.
 
4 April 2020
 

(above) Tradesmen renovating the doctor's surgery to extend Anglicare's Fairfield Road office in Elizabeth Grove. Anglicare will operate a social centre where the underclass will be taught to cook according to the Kill Box Lady's daughter. Elizabeth Grove is one of the nastiest suburbs in Adelaide.

Don't complain Be proactive

​From the anonymous contact page

Comment

“I initially found this blog when I became homeless and found it useful to direct me to places to shower, get support and places I could find a meal. Eternally grateful to the inner city service that continues to support me.

“It may be of interest to the publisher of this blog, that in the very early days of the emergence of COVID-19 and its creep from China, I wrote to the the Premier seeking assurances for the safeguarding strategies that would be implemented for rough sleepers during this pandemic.

“I got a very prompt response and a meeting with Premier and Cabinet advisers. At that time there was no plan but options were being considered. Within the hour I had confirmation of accommodation booked at a serviced apartment for me in the CBD. This has since been offered to many rough sleepers and even those living in vans. Some have taken the offer, others have declined. Their choice.

“Some cannot follow the basic ground rules of accommodation providers and acceptable behaviour. Don't drink and smoke in their public areas, no guests or visitors. Simple. Some have already been asked to leave. The majority are grateful and compliant.

“It's not just a bed. It's providing shelter, safety and as best possible protection available to the rest of the community. - a home, temporarily or not. It is my understanding it is not for 2 weeks, but an indefinite period while COVID is a public health issue.

“The issue of feeding people while accommodated is a separate issue being addressed, and one that I personally pushing on the agenda. Perhaps if some didn't waste their "pay checks and stimulus payments" on drugs and alcohol, they wouldn't complain about the scarcity of food. Being grateful for a hotel room or similar is a luxury and shouldn't being considered an entitlement, as is this attitude of many homeless. Be f***ing grateful.

“I don't want to be homeless and I certainly didn't choose it as a lifestyle. But while these are my circumstances, I am doing my best to help myself and others in the same boat by advocating for the wellbeing of the homeless during this pandemic with the skills experience I have - respectful communication skills being one and establishing a direct line with the Premier's office.

“To you the publisher, keep up your informative blog. I do encourage less losing scepticism and negative vibes in some aspects of your reporting.”

Regards
Blue Black Blue
 
Second Editor: Thank you for your report. It is hard to be helpful when nearly everything for those living outside has closed down. You must be the most powerful person in the homeless scene. What else do you know? Anything about CMAX and SAMHRI and those living outside? 
​3 April 2020

GM – Trump made in USA, FDA on Serum, Cholesterol vs CoV, Wenzhou – Italy
Part 16
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/gm-trump-made-in-usa-fda-on-serum.php

Japanese corporation seeking more Adelaide human guinea pigs
The Night Talker

“CMAX is looking for volunteers aged between 45 and 79 who have been diagnosed with Oesteo-arthritis of the knees. They need to attend the CMAX clinic a the New RAH, 14 times. On the last visit, they will be given a certified bank cheque for $2495.00. I have no idea what the procedures involves on the fourteen visits, I just know you need to have OA of the knees to qualify. (Which I don't have, so I don't qualify) They run other trials now and again, but you would have to go onto their website to check what they are, and what the qualifying criteria is. Remember however with these programs, there is always some compromise you have to make, in order to be paid.”
 
The Night Talker
 
Editor: CMAX is owned by Japanese corporation I'Rom Group. It currently runs a chloroquine drug trial using Adelaide guinea pigs and pays $1800 for eight visits. As the Night Talker says, they don’t give money away for free. You could be injured.
 
3 April 2020
​

Lifepoint Church at Modbury
 
A church woman guided stood near the front entrance and guided cars and pedestrians to the back of the church. Others wearing surgical gloves and keeping a “social distance” rushed out with 12kg bags of mostly good bread, fruit and vegetables. Some cars got four bags.
 
The church people were hurried yet friendly and professional. There are strict virus rules they must follow and a constant flow of walkers along a ridge outside the back fence prompted the thought that the government might have spies surveilling free food joints.  
 
The continuous flow of cars lasted 40 minutes then slowed to a trickle.
 
There were three separate people who came by bus or walked. Marten the Magnificent (Formerly German Marten) was collecting for another person. He did a German gig whenever anyone came closer to him than two metres.
 
At first it seemed those picking up food drove rather nice cars, but then drivers had to shout through windows that were frozen shut or from doors that wouldn’t open. These weren’t rich people nor were they homeless. This isn’t a homeless area and the drive up from Elizabeth was too expensive for those with cars. And for homeless people without cars, the thought of catching is bus is too daunting.
 
Lifepoint Church
Corner of Milne Road and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Ph (08) 8395 0888. No I.D. or registration required. 
10:00am to 12:00 noon every second Thursday during school terms for free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables. All other services cancelled until the Sars Corona virus pandemic ends. 

3 April 2020

(above) Playford Salvation Army more frequently collects donations left in front of their donation bin on Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. This prevents the items from been taken by scavengers or damaged by the weather.

The former Victory Church BBQ
​at Salisbury

The Jujutsu fellow from the church brought packets of chocolate wafers. He handed two to each person present. There were seven or eight of us at best including Old Val, Wayne the wheel man, the Horse Trainer lady, the cousin of a police officer, the man who can’t talk, Ruel and the girlfriend of the man with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Half a dozen alcoholics sat further along towards the Stockade Hotel.
 
The Jujutsu fellow gave Wayne a pair of Egyptian shoes to give to Ken the one-legged man. Wayne said Ken wouldn’t like them and didn’t want them himself so he gave them to me. I gave Wayne ten-dollars for the shoes even though I don’t wear shoes. Wayne said he’d leave it at the Salvo store and tell the manager if a one-legged man came in looking for shoes and his name was Ken then to give the money to him. Ken could buy two pairs for ten-dollars even though he only wanted half a pair. Or he could find another person with the opposing leg missing and make a deal.

​Wayne also suggested Ken could visit shoe shops with displays of single shoes outside and grab the right one. The store wouldn’t be too concerned as they could put the other shoe on display. And would they chase one-legged Ken down the street?
 
The indigenous elder who has been around the world three times asked the Jujutsu fellow for a prayer and blessing for protection. He said Jesus would protect us. The Jujutsu fellow said fear is the work of the Devil, but didn’t elaborate on who created the virus.
 
An older woman passing by farted so badly that bystanders held their breaths to avoid vomiting. She has an intestinal disorder and can’t stop eating. However, this wasn’t as annoying as the Islander man grabbing and coughing on us.
 
Some regular patrons are avoiding these free food services for fear of contracting the virus.
 
It isn’t known what will happen next week with the restrictions on public gatherings, but we will be there at 5:30pm at the station, in groups of two.
 
2 April 2020

How much does your job agency make off you?

Have you ever wondered why those government-contracted employment joints make you do certain things? It has nothing to do with your well-being, it may even harm you.
 
They do it to make money from you. Putting you on work-for-the-dole or into a wrong job may result in your suffering, even personal disaster, but they still get paid thousands to do it.
 
The trick to avoid being a victim is to politely persuade them that pushing you into anything you don’t want will be more trouble than it’s worth.
 
One method is to engineer a minor penalty then use every review and appeal procedure available including an F.O.I. request. It’s treading a razor’s edge and there might be failures, but you’ll soon learn the knack and they’ll realise it is best to leave you alone.
 
A less successful method is using a hammer and chisel to gouge huge holes in the walls of their lavatories. That doesn’t achieve optimal results.
 
https://unemployedworkersunion.com/whats-job-agency-making-off/
 
2 April 2020
 

Another Black Death haunts Italy – Tulane denial redux CoV and the folly of cat food
Part 15
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/another-black-death-haunts-italy.php 
​

Port Church has problems
​sourcing free food

Port Church are getting smaller amounts from Second Bite and Food Bank. Church members are supplementing their free offers by buying food they purchased with their own money.
 
One client last week was a woman who lives in her rusty white van at the Semaphore beach carpark. She was genuine. Only a minority of recipients genuinely deserve or need the free food.
 
The Port Church (Baptist)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church)
Wednesdays. Takeaway bags only from 3:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling.
No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Open during school terms.
Phone 0414 693 218 to get on their message list. No Ice Dealers.

2 April 2020

(above) Most of us didn't notice the light rain we had during a night three weeks ago. We often have patches of nightly rain not registered by weather stations.

(above) But the rain on one particularly night was enough to take away the insulating quality of this quilt on a baby mattress at the back of St. John Apostle and Evangelist Anglican Church at Salisbury.

(above) The camper left the wet mattress, but took the quilt to a partially covered area at the tombstone side of the church. This is business as usual for most homeless people in Adelaide: a camp is never secure or permanent.

​COV double whammy ― Hantavirus death In China has links to Unit 731-CIA BioWarfare
Part 14
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/cov-double-whammy-hantavirus-death-in-china.php

Phone licker
​at One Life church free food

There was a roped area with space markings for clients waiting to pick up bags of rotting free vegetables. Each person waiting in the queue was told to wipe their hands with an alcohol sanitiser.
 
One client was talking on her phone. She held out one hand for the church volunteer to squirt sanitiser into her hand then put the phone in her mouth while she wiped her hands together. She returned the phone from her mouth to her hand and continued talking.
 
A Corona virus germ-phobic client was outraged, but also laughed at the absurdity.
 
One Life Church free takeaway food
13 Ormsby Ave, Parafield Gardens, Ph 08 8258 3865 on Wednesdays at 1:00pm. Free bread, vegetables, fruit and hot coffee. No I.D. or registration required. Most clients over 60.

1 April 2020

Can collectors suffer downturn
​in earnings

The Viking can collector is out before dawn. He sleeps during the afternoon then returns to the bins in late afternoon. He’s getting less bottles from bins. None from places shut down. No more out-of-date Mars bars.
 
He could get $1100 a fortnight from Centrelink, but he won’t accept welfare. He says, “No,” when the idea is suggested. A friend says he’s “doing it tough”. There won’t be any supplement or special anything for the Viking can collector.
 
You see him in the city of Adelaide, but he doesn’t see you.
 
1 April 2020

Free food joints having trouble obtaining supplies

The grower told the church volunteer worker not to return for free broccoli because everything was going to the markets due to the current high price.  
 
Other growers weren’t planting because of the high price of fertiliser and other inputs due to the block in trade with China. One grower ploughed a good crop back into the soil as a form of fertiliser. Thus, the high price of vegetables in the supermarkets.
 
1 April 2020

Why the average house cat
will survive COVID-19
​better than you or me

“It's no real secret to anyone that knows me, that I own 11 legitimate cats and also feed a couple of cats that don't actually belong to me, but either live in my yard or visit me on a daily basis.

“Being affected by COVID-19 like everyone else, I have had to cut down on the amount of mince I feed my cats and more particularly the ones that live ‘outside’.
 
“It worried me somewhat until I saw something a few days ago, that ended my worry. One of my rescue cats (whom I will refer to as Rubbish Tip cat) because that is exactly where he was found as a tiny kitten, was seen several km from my house, casually strolling through an empty paddock with something in his mouth.
 
“This turned out to be a rather large and very dead (wild) Rabbit. This was also confirmed by several Rabbit skins and odds and ends I found in my shed, when I went looking for something the other day. It seems that "RTP" has been going on thrice-weekly hunting expeditions, bring back the spoils and then casually eating (and possibly sharing) what he has been hunting with the other two cats that live in the shed with him.
 
“None of them look malnourished and all look at the food I leave on the back porch each night, (Kibble, sardines and powdered milk) with distain. So for RTP and his mates (Chewy and Crabby) Covid-19 doesn't really mean that much. They are just closer to nature than we are.
 
“Economies might crash, but so long as they can hunt and have somewhere safe to bring back what they have caught, life goes on. Beside Rabbit, Pigeons and rats and mice, are also on the menu.
 
“Even my indoor cats have got in on the act. One of my indoor cats doesn't hunt but has worked out if she heads down the back lane and goes to the elderly lady at number 9 and meows a bit, she will get a nice plate of mince. Then she heads back home and eats whatever I have put out for her. Honestly these creatures are far smarter and more adaptable than we will ever be”

The Night Talker
1 April 2020

(above) “It’s heartbreaking,” an employee at the Salisbury Salvo store says of sorting clothing ripped from garbage bags left at the back door. She says they check for dirty needles, but won’t say they threw out what was scattered on the dirty footpath after a light night rain. She says they’ve recently bought a washing machine.

(above) Competition for bags of donations left behind the Salisbury Salvation Army store is ferocious. Ragged men watch from hidden vantage points ready to pounce on each new arrival.

Fred's Van current timetable
All services operating except Salisbury, Gawler and Kilburn.
https://www.vinnies.org.au/content/Document/SA/Fred's%20Van%20schedule/Fred's%20Vans%20times%20and%20locations%20-%20Coronavirus.pdf 

Homeless move into motel rooms
 
Chris Burns at the Hutt Street Centre says they’ve relocated 68 homeless people into motels after contacting 109 people. He says they hope to get “another 19 in this week”.
 
Food will be delivered daily to the residents. The cost per person being approximately $1500 a week for food and the room. The South Australian government is footing the bill. The initial periods of accommodation are for two weeks.
 
The official reason for housing those living outside is that they are more at risk to the Sars Covid-19 Corona virus due to bad health and damaged immune systems. Another reason is that homeless people touch others when talking making the transfer of the potential virus higher than with the general population. The habit of a small minority of homeless people of spitting into people’s faces is another factor.
 
One might question what sort of “agreement” the homeless people signed to get this accommodation. And whether they can leave the motels any time during the day or night. And whether the hookers can ply their trade inside the rooms.
 
31 March 2020

Jasmine and Krishna meals cancelled

The Jasmine Indian restaurant has closed down at Hindmarsh Square in the city so the Thursday evening free takeaway meals have been cancelled. 

The Hare Krishna outfit has stopped supplying free vegetarian food on Mondays and Wednesdays at Hurtle Square in the city. 

31 March 2020

Fred’s Van in the city
From a veteran diner
 
“…They’re going to put lines down where you gotta stand to get your takeaway meal. It’s all takeaway, no sausages, just sandwiches, f***ing, cake, an apple, see you later, no coffee, spill out this cordial, put it at the end of the table and come and help yourself.
 
“Fred’s Van Mondays and Tuesdays packed, packed every day now, Hindmarsh Square, that shut down, the restaurant, Jasmine.”
 
“Concubine restaurant still going, used to get it Tuesday, feef and chicken and rice, now they’ve changed it, Thursday, [at Fred’s Van, Gawler Place, Adelaide], takeaway pack with rice and a bit of beef on it, only a small pack, starving.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service
This is the pre-Corona Virus schedule. Much has changed. It changes by the day.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm for an indoor sit-down higher quality meal. Toilets available only on Wednesdays.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.

31 March 2020

Orange Sky Laundry
​throws in the towel

Will those camping outside or in their cars be concerned that Orange Sky Laundry has stopped its complete free washing service across Australia? Not many because hardly anyone uses it.
 
Big bright trucks parked in public places; volunteers checking your underwear as they load it into the machines; you sitting on those silly orange chairs then being asked personal questions; volunteers turning away and talking to someone else in the middle of an outflow of pain. And then they make reports and put it on the internet saying how many positive conversations they’d had with clients.
 
And now they’re gone, “paused” as management likes to say, the first to run away in the homeless industry. They should stay away or revamp their service to allow people to wash their own clothing and not be watched like specimens in a human experiment. And they should paint over that stupid orange colour and park in more discreet locations.
 
31 March 2020

Fixer went to jail after incident
​at Scotty’s Motel

The fixer isn’t someone you want to tangle with. He appears innocuous and powerless, that’s his power. He hasn’t any power until you feel it.
 
He said he’d been inside after an incident at Scotty’s Motel on Main North Road in Prospect. Someone had been “ripping off” other tenants, mostly from the homeless or domestic violence scene. The fixer had “fixed” the antagonist, a little too well, and did a stint in the slammer.
 
Small stuff, but that’s the strength of the fixer. He can fix people either by his own hand or by contract. You don’t mess with the fixer. I don’t like the way he smiles at me.
 
31 March 2020

(above) Locked down in a prison is a nightmare, but the good news is that inmates due soon for release or on small charges will be released. This includes a former worker at Nanna's Free Food Basket.

No Covid-19 at Hutt Street Centre?

Two employees said this morning they know of no instance of anyone having the SARS Covid-19 Corona virus at the Hutt Street Centre. 

However, a third employee in the day centre said that anyone appearing ill will not be admitted though it isn't clear if this includes being refused a takeaway lunch bag.

30 March 2020

Fred’s Van City open tonight, Monday 30 March 2020

Fred’s Van is open tonight at 7:00pm. It is one of the last to stay open in this era of engineered disease.
 
They don’t require I.D. or payment or anything. Be very polite to others as everyone is one edge as their sources of food have mostly dried up while salaried bureaucrats in the Hutt Street Centre and other welfare joints bunker down in their offices and homes while on full pay.

This Fred's Van sets a selfless example compared to those hundreds of Adelaide homeless agency bureaucrats getting full pay while hiding in their offices or "working" from home. 
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City Outdoor Food Service

This timetable may not be accurate and subject to change day by day.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm.
Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. No service on Saturdays.
Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays.
Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm for an indoor sit-down higher quality meal. Toilets available only on Wednesdays.
Everything is free and they don’t require I.D. or registration.
They might also have socks and blankets. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen.
Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.
These are the good Catholics.

30 March 2020

Cruel Hutt Street Centre
 
The Hutt Street Centre is offering a takeaway lunch to “rough sleepers” only, but not to anyone homeless and living under bushes without I.D. and not willing to provide personal details for their computer. This is according to a Hutt Street Centre day centre employee. 
 
The reason given is that the Hutt Street Centre can better help a homeless person once they get them on their data base and call the Street-to-Home homeless psychiatric outfit for an assessment.
 
Anyone not submitting to this documentation is refused food.
 
All that government and church funding the Hutt Street Centre gets to pay 70 employees and they won’t give a free takeaway lunch to a “rough sleeper” unwilling or psychologically unable to provide I.D. and other personal details.
 
What cruel people operate this place!
 
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace)
 
30 March 2020
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Free motel rooms for homeless
From a veteran in the city homeless scene
 
“All homeless entitled to free motel in town. A guy I know got a motel in town. Two weeks [for starters], anyone who is homeless, sleeping in your car, whatever.
 
“I see Stuart [Baptist WestCare] was talking Aboriginals. You can to go to a motel now, free motel. Saw him come out with these Aboriginals, night time, tea time. Stuart must be tied up with the church [Baptist, Flinders Street].
 
“If you sleep in your car you get free rego, unbelievable, eh?
 
“One guy O.D.’d and slashed his wrists, from Hutt Street, goes to Hutt Street [Centre].
 
“You can only go if you’re homeless. They’re kicking them out [non-homeless] like crazy. Once you get a motel, then you lose it, don’t you? They don’t need f***ing Hutt Street. They can buy food on $1100 a fortnight. Drugs. Wipe ‘em all out.”
 
From a veteran in the city homeless scene.
30 March 2020

Adelaide Zero Project saved
​by the virus

The Adelaide Zero Project was late filing its monthly homeless statistics for the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands? Was it the virus?
 
Their data collecting has become weaker by the month as homeless organisations have become increasingly reluctant to allocate labour to a scheme that has had no effect on housing homeless people.
 
The numbers have become increasingly embarrassing to the bureaucrats who use the Broadley Trust money to collect statistics that show no significant change year after year. Last month, the official statistics went from 151 to 150 in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands. The primary result of this statistical collection is to give workers and observers alike their monthly cynical laugh.
 
But the Adelaide Zero Project has been rescued by a knight in shining armour. The SARS Covid-19 Corona virus has come to the rescue and given the Adelaide Zero Project an excuse to reduce the intensity of its the annual May search for new people to add to its homeless list.
 
And the South Australian government is the de facto aide-de-camp to the virus by plonking homeless people into motels so they are no longer classed as “rough sleepers”?  
 
The SARS Corona virus has given the Adelaide Zero Project another six-months reprieve from cementing its reputation as a diverter of money from housing into “support services”.
 
30 March 2020

China’s fake virus death statistics
 
Does anyone believe the official Chinese government statistic of 3287 deaths over three months in China from the Covid-19 virus?
 
Consider the welding shut of doors of apartment buildings, crematory workers screaming of too many corpses and videos of bodies in the street.
 
Metropolitan Wuhan has a population of perhaps 11 million people. If Wuhan’s per capita death rate is similar to Australia’s then we could expect at least 1000 people to die each week. Add 3287 over 12 weeks, which is about 274 a week and you get an approximate 27% increase in the numbers of people dying.  
 
This relatively small amount wouldn’t overwhelm the crematoriums to the extent reported in various videos coming out of China. Nor would it spark such a savage response from the government.
 
Below is an imperfect estimate of what might have been the situation.
 
https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-hiding-covid-19-death-toll-21-million-cell-phones-disappeared-why-41580
 
30 March 2020

(above) Even the takeaway St Bede's free breakfasts at 200 Military Road, Semaphore have been cancelled. A limited free takeaway food service remains for regular local clients on the phone list. Also, for those homeless people sleeping in their vans at Semaphore beach. The virus and doctor phone numbers are very valuable.

City Salvos on Saturday finished?

From the anonymous contact page

"Last City Salvos meal tonight 28/03/2020. No more until quarantine is lifted."

Posted 29 March 2020

Drunk coughs on soup ute clients
 
The 40-year-old Islander man grabbed me in a hug and coughed twice near my neck then let go.
​
This was at the former Victory Church free BBQ at the Salisbury railway station. It had declined to soup and coffee then last Friday evening to chocolate wafers delivered in sealed packets.
 
The Islander man wasn’t threatening as he walked onto the bus platform and grabbed an Indian bus driver, doing the same to him and then over to a group sitting on the benches.
 
A woman with him put her arm around the bus driver for three for four minutes then walked off. The driver jumped in the air and grabbed a rafter in the overhead canopy and did chin-ups.
 
While the coughing wasn’t any big deal, some clients have stopped attending soup kitchens for fear of the virus. But the young Victory Church fellow wasn’t worried about being coughed upon. He said fear was the work of the devil. I can’t remember whose work he said produced the virus.
 
29 March 2020

On the Street
 
Peter Dawkins told us at the Salisbury railway station soup ute that nursing home staff stopped him from visiting his wife of 30 years.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise said another nursing home had stopped him from visiting a friend named Clive.
 
*
 
An older soup kitchen woman followed a young Moslem drug addict to his home in Elizabeth. She walked through his front door and stuck her tongue into his mouth. He was disgusted.
 
*
 
People’s Choice credit union in Flinders Street have removed their coffee machines and no longer provide newspapers for customers. The Frankenstein Brothers won’t be impressed by that. They don’t care about the virus.
 
*
 
“One other client, sanitiser as soon as you walk in the door. No newspapers. One guy outside, up against the wall. He looked like he died then he moved a little bit as I walked by.”
 
A customer visiting the Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge the day before it was closed down.
 
*
 
George the Elder said the Fred’s Van people at Gawler Place, Adelaide told them to bunch-up rather than form a queue. George wondered how that could curb the virus when people were even closer together in a bunch. George thinks logically.
 
*
 
The Prime Minister of Australia condemns citizens for stockpiling food and other supplies. But won’t he and his family survive on stockpiled food if the supply dries up.
 
*
 
“I’ve shot people. I was sexually abused by a paedophile. He’s dead now.”
Older man at an Adelaide CBD soup kitchen for homeless people.
 
*
 
“A take away meal is dreadfully isolating for so many vulnerable lonely people.”
 
An observer and participant in the homeless free food culture.
 
*
 
A customer back of the Modbury Salvation Army store asked the man loading furniture into the Army’s rubbish truck whether his load would be recycled.
 
“Yes,” the driver said as he pulled the compactor lever as the crunching of the load drowned out further conversation.  
 
*
 
Lurch from Sunnydale Supported Residential Facility in Semaphore got a Soda Stream machine from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (N.D.I.S.). He’ll use the syrups then exhaust the gas cylinder and then it will either sit in a corner until thrown in the rubbish or with luck he’ll find someone who wants it.
 
*
 
Kelly-with-the-Bad-Leg got kicked out of the CK Community Hub in St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide. She came out of the toilet pulling a needle from her arm then she sat in a chair shaking. She was attending a class on maintaining mental health.
 
*
 
“Ruthless,” was the word used by a senior Anglican cleric when the name Peter Sandeman arose.
 
*
 
A client said that Food Bank has responded to reduced donations by cutting out their less profitable clients. Those who buy their donated groceries and resell them will also get the free fruit and vegetables. Those who only give away food have had their allocations cut.
 
*
 
Shaky Robert said that Care Works in Torrensville gave him multiple trays of beef and three bags of groceries. The Night Stalker gets prescription vouchers from them, sometimes $200 worth from a single visit.
 
*
 
A woman who goes to free food joints has been in seclusion for some weeks due to the virus. Her action seemed extreme a few weeks ago, but now appears an act of prescience.
 
*
 
“I’ve seen a lot of sorrow in gay clubs.”
 
Former minder of a brothel madam and now a soup kitchen client.
 
*
 
Rosaline’s medical specialist son advised her to stop working as the cashier at the Op Shop in St Paul’s Church in Port Adelaide. Too big a chance of catching the Corona Virus that would kill the 83-year-old.
 
*
 
Do can collectors work hard? A homeless man named Terry works the streets from early morning to late at night collecting cans, butts and fallen coins.
 
Others, like the Viking Can Collector in the city, work from pre-dawn to early evening with a rest during the afternoon, checking the industrial and street rubbish bins. The Viking won’t collect welfare.
 
*
 
Does Mrs Judith Telstra rest easy with her hoard of stolen toilet paper collected over twenty years? She’s sitting on a gold mine, but selling or giving it a way would be dangerous. The Street-to-Home psychiatric police could take her away for behaving out of character.
 
29 March 2020

The Tokyo Subway Gassing Remains A Media False Narrative 25 years on
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
In these days of dominant narratives for a mysteriously appearing engineered virus, it might be useful to read of previously accepted narratives that proved not wholly true.
 
https://rense.com//general96/the-tokyo-subway-gassing-remains-a-media-false-narrative-25-years-on.php
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Russia blames Porton Down, DARPA – Pirbright, CQ vs India’s Golden Cow urine

Part 13 of the Covid-19 series
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/russia-blames-porton-down-darpa-pirbright.php
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How CoV BioWar by Japan-UK-Israel Hit The World Military Games
Part 12
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/how-cov-biowar-by-japan-uk-israel-hit-the-world-military-games-part-12.php

Rejoinder – Lancet’s Disingenuous Rebuttal Is Itself A COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory
Part 11
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/lancets-disingenuous-rebuttal.php
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TB in HIV-COV Shuts Down The Brain Plus The Korean Cult Role
In Wuhan
Part 10
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com//general96/tb-in-hiv-cov-shuts-down-the-brain.php 
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HIV-Laced COVID-19 Targets Human Testicles. Its TB Strand Blocks The Immune System
Part 9
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/hiv-laced-covid-19-targets-human-testicles.php
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COVert-19: Bats in the belfry, barbarians at the gate
Part 8
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/covert-19-bats-in-the-belfry.php
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Protect your family from COVert-19 pharma fraud
Part 7
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/protect-your-family-from-covert-19-pharma-fraud-part7.php
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Wuhan nCoV Proves Useful For A Malthusian Cull of Aging Societies
Part 6
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/wuhan-ncov-proves-useful-for-a-malthusian-cull-of-aging-societies-part6.php
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The nCoV Death Ship in Tokyo Bay Swine Flu As Round 1 and More
Part 5
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com//general96/the-ncov-death-ship-in-tokyo-bay-swine-flu-as-round-1-and-more.php
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Japan’s Demon of BioWar Kawaoka Inserted HIV Force Multipliers Inside The Wuhan Virus
Part 4
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com//general96/japans-demon-of-biowar-kawaoka-inserted-hiv.php
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Wuhan Contagion – giant Bat-Delivered Coronavirus Was from Japn’s New Unit 731
Part 3
Yoichi Shimatsu
https://rense.com/general96/china-outbreak-part-3.php
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Wuhan Coronavirus Was Activated by Swine flu in Filth
Part 2
Yoichi Shimatsu
https://rense.com//general96/china-outbreak-part-2.php
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  A Lethal Virus Erupts Downstream From China's Three Gorges Dam
Part 1
 Yoichi Shimatsu

https://rense.com/general96/a-lethal-virus-erupts-downstream-from-chinas-three-gorges-dam.php
 
Early 1 March 2020

Rosanne Haggerty’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool at the Hutt Street Centre
(permanent post)

The Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) is being introduced at Adelaide’s Hutt Street Centre during what they call “Connections Week” from 14 to 18 May 2018.
 
Those seeking most services from the Hutt Street Centre will be required to answer intimate questions, the answers to which will be entered into an international data base.
 
The rational of applying this algorithm is that by identifying people requiring huge amounts of medical and police interventions, then by taking control of their lives, the government can save money.
 
This solid argument belies the injustice that occurs in its broad application where bureaucrats will put every person living outside, or in their cars, through this intimate interrogation, then share the details with all and sundry. 
 
The manner of questioning will be through an electronic drip-feed with the client not seeing the complete list prior to agreeing to answer the questions. The mysterious owner of the algorithm says the sequence of asking the questions is vitally important. This is because the questions become increasingly intrusive and offensive as the client progresses through the list. Clients will not be given a copy of the completed answer list or be told who will have access to their most personal details.
 
While the clients will provide excruciating personal details of their lives, those collecting it will identify themselves in the diminutive form of their first names such as Ben, Liz or Trish. Any further enquiries will be met with a stern rebuke citing privacy issues.
 
The initial questions include a homeless person’s nickname, hospital attendances, instances of cooperation with or incarceration by the police, suicide or self-harm attempts, sexual prostitution, difficulty locating toilets, incidents of being kicked out of housing and why, and where doctors have refused medication.
 
The interrogator will also smell the clients, look for rotting flesh or puncture wounds, note whether their clothing is fashionable or mismatched, ask if the person drinks mouthwash, has been to a psychiatrist, considered suicide, was a slow learner at school or suffered “abuse”. All of which will be added to the secret file kept on the client.  
 
These questions are reasonable in certain circumstances where a person has consciously approached a professional for treatment. However, the plan is to subject every homeless person to them, that is, treat every person living outside as if they have been sexually abused, use Ice and sell themselves as prostitutes.
 
Answering such questions may subjectively feel like emotional vivisection for those already wounded and fearful. For the interrogator, it will be a pornographic experience where the wound will be tweaked at dozens of subsequent interviews, like a knife twisted in a wound. For the homeless person, the tightening of the interviewer’s smile, a hardening of the voice, even a wink will feel like a punch in the solar plexus.
 
The reader may agree that the test is for the greater good and that this increased suffering by the homeless class is a small price to pay. While there won’t be any pain for those conducting the interrogation, those undergoing it will come out feeling disgusted with themselves and fearful of the consequences of providing such personal details to total strangers. And fearful they should be, as the concept of privacy and dignity has gone from our society.
 
The interrogators will also be mandatory reporters legally required to pass on to the police or psychiatric authorities certain answers given by the homeless person.
 
For housing purposes, each positive answer to a question gets 1 point. Anyone scoring 3 or less is told to leave; 4-7 progresses the client to another series of questions to assess them for “rapid re-housing”. However, scoring over 8 points wins the dubious prize of “supported housing”, which means having their personal life monitored and controlled and may include compulsory medication.
 
The drip-feed method of asking questions is designed to immerse the homeless person in the interrogation process, making it harder to withdraw for fear of incurring the displeasure of the interviewer and the sickening feeling of having given sensitive information to a stranger who has suddenly adopted a hostile countenance.
 
Aggressive street beggars use a similar technique with their initial ultra-friendly approach while asking for a dollar, which upon receipt of the coin progress to a threatening demeanour while subsequently demanding a larger amount.
 
The last question asked by the VI-SPDAT interrogator at a homeless joint such as the Hutt Street Centre is, “OK, now I’d like to take your picture so that it is easier to find you and confirm your identify in the future. May I do so?”
 
This artificial intelligence algorithm tool is a progression from the Social Inclusion Adelaide CBD homeless count initiated by Monsignor David Cappo and administered by bureaucrat David Waterford in 2007.
 
We in the homeless scene laughed at the absurdity of that inaccurate count, which continues to this day, but it was Cappo, Waterford and the government bureaucrats who had the last laugh. The count was camouflage to disguise personal data collection on those living outside. The pledge of anonymity was deceit as the provision of initials and partial birthdate were enough to identify the responder across multiple private and government data bases. In this exercise, Baptist and Catholic homeless charities ran with the wolves.
 
The Don Dunstan Foundation is the current sponsor of the VI-SPDAT algorithm tool. In a media release offering a briefing on the results of their data collection onslaught, they advertised that, “During Connections Week, dedicated workers and volunteers across Adelaide will get to know every person sleeping rough by name…”
 
This newer and more powerful personal data list created using this algorithm, along with photographs, will be handed over to a psychiatric services provider called Neami National, a Melbourne-based corporation posing as a non-profit organisation with 900 employees.
 
Neami is contracted to replace Adelaide’s Street-to-Home psychiatric service that conducted interviews with homeless people in busy cafes. Armed with the data base and photographs in their tablets, Neami employees will be able to search out and identify homeless people in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands.
 
Where the Hutt Street Centre’s C.E.O., Ian Cox, comes into this is not clear. Ian has for decades championed the right of self-determination for his clients.
 
Yet David Pearson, the executive director of the Don Dunstan Foundation, said, “The Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide are going to help us run Connections Week where we go out and make a connection with every single person sleeping rough.”
 
Pearson added, “It starts with knowing every person sleeping rough in the city by name and creating what we call a ‘by name list’.”
 
This means that the Hutt Street Centre will deliver its clients to Neami, a private psychiatric corporation, which must give Ian Cox sleepless nights.
 
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https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn
  The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity.

www.predatorsandfriends.weebly.com 
The story of Sherri Robinson
and Tony DeKort

Work-for-the-dole crowd outside the Elizabeth Food Barn buildings
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7150258,138.6721448,3a,90y,3.33h,91.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFNhD3h0UhuZo6k4rcAeIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

https://www.lccare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-SA-ER-Directory_v2.pdf

Photograph of Ngongotaha Coward (Mark Arstall, 39) given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage.

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c

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The Decent Man

The Decent Man formerly from Kilburn breaks up a fight in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Room where he lived for two weeks. (see also 18 May 2016 post)
Video 1 https://youtu.be/79zVvg3HfWs
Video 2 https://youtu.be/VmCSZk13aBc

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The sad world of corporate bullies Verity Kate Edwards
and Frank Pangallo

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