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Banner on a tractor on Monday in Germany:
Without blood you are white
Without air to breathe you are blue
Without brain you are green.
😀
https://debeste.de/upload/ce61ba7b433fc8fd074559362b057c099818.jpg
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Not sure if it’s this year’s first case of dirty politics but –
Green MP stands down after accusation of shop-lifting from high-end (?) women’s clothing boutique in Auckland, NZ during Christmas holidays.
I won’t mention a name (though it won’t be hard to find) because the crime may be similar to the theory of cAGW – merely a whiff of hot air.
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That reminded me of this oldie.
When I was born, I was black,
When I grew up, I was black,
When I’m sick, I’m black,
When I go out in the sun, I’m black,
When I’m cold, I’m black,
When I die, I’ll be black,
But you,
When you’re born, you’re pink,
When you grow up, you’re white,
When you’re sick, you’re green,
When you go out in the sun, you go red,
When you’re cold, you go blue,
When you die, you’ll be purple,
And you have the nerve to call me coloured!
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Over the next few days, the polar vortex in the lower stratosphere will completely split into two vortices, the stronger of which will be over Siberia.
https://i.ibb.co/VCQbKY5/gfs-z100-nh-f120.png
https://i.ibb.co/JxFCYkL/gfs-t100-nh-f120.png
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Renewables v Coal
From 2021 to 2022 Primary Energy production from “Renewables” increased from 39.97 to 45.18 ExaJoules – and increase of 5.21 or 13% – sounds impressive.
However, Primary Ennergy production from Coal increased from 162.5 to 174.56 Exajoules and increase of 12.06 which is more than double that of the increase in “Renewables”.
So much for “Renewables” replacing Coal!!!!
The death of Coal has been greatly exagerated.
The plants of this planet are celibrating!
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Lord of Science Fauci testified before US Congress yesterday for nine hours* …
behind closed doors … in private …
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/8/lawmakers-question-fauci-in-private-over-his-handl/
can’t have it in public … people might develop theories.
Wouldn’t want the uneducated developing theories.
Theorizing is only for professionals.
*(82 … the man must have a prostate of ste
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… a prostate of steel.)
I got cut off in mid correction.
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You’ve had another incorrection.
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Fauci just admitted to Congress that the six-foot social distancing rule was completely made up and had zero scientific basis. Incredible.
So many people — scientists included — were completely ostracized, silenced, and prevented from even talking about the sketchiness of the rule.
The public is right to be skeptical of any health mandates.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1745151149681095084
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What Is Going To Happen To Our Society As AI And Robots Take Most Of Our Jobs?
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If you survive the military viruses and vaxxes, you’ll get a UBI, a nice government uniform, an EV you can’t charge and get to live in a crime ridden & diseased 15 minute city with 10,000 cameras per square km, but at least you’ll get 1 plate of locusts and worms to eat per day.
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As AI And Robots Take Most Of Our Jobs?… We won’t have to work at all!
Why should we?? Feeling of satisfaction of ‘job well done’? Go and spend time in the garden.. This has been hashed out in SciFi since the 1960s, and I think its a great idea. Be born into a world where you can educate yourself as you feel, never be forced to work, live a life of pleasure and have all the drugs you want.. Isn’t that the ideal of mankind??
You can become a 200kg living corpse, a brain-burned idiot living virtually, a world-famous painter.. With populations dropping now, who would bother to have children in an even richer, more decadent world, so the useless eaters will solve their own problem.
Of course life may change when robots invent new robot brains that are far smarter than humans and THEY define new philosophies. But one great plus is that we won’t need politicians or bureaurats at all!
I’d worry about robot soldiers first!
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Hera ya go.
https://youtu.be/y3RIHnK0_NE?si=-Dp_1KJtTMNjgHDW
Fake but achievable now.
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“Be born into a world where you can educate yourself as you feel,’
It seems that world is here given the inability of so many Australians to spell and to use apostrophes correctly and to know the difference between and when to use here and hear and there and their and affect and effect and among and between and averse and adverse and complement and compliment and many many more.
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Hear here!
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Some more on that 737 door blow out
https://youtu.be/ubCQZtLTAug
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Boeing share holders must be big believers that Boeing is too big to fail OR the fed will ride to the rescue. Their SP was up a little O/N and is up $100 compared to the gloom after the initial news of the grounding of the Max.
I am unaware of any good news since and their defence contracts are not immune from poor quality control.
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Daily sarcasm.
“As one door closes, another door opens”
– Boeing
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More on why two new 737 Maxes crashed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2tuKiiznsY
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So you know –
“Bloomberg: “Don’t be Fooled, Snow is Becoming a Thing of the Past” ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/10/bloomberg-dont-be-fooled-snow-is-becoming-a-thing-of-the-past/
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Maunakea Weather Center, Hawai’i –
Summit Access Road CLOSED:
32F / 0C and snowing
(it is ‘winter’ after all).
Snowing and freezing from coast to coast in the USA and in northern Mexico; widespread freezing across Europe and south to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains; Asia & Siberia ditto; snowing and freezing in Antarctica; “Snow to 1,300m” Sunday 14 January for southern New Zealand, via MetService.
Freezing is the new Boiling™, says the UN.
In an insane world, a sane man must act insane to appear sane. George Orwell (?).
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MetService have updated their settled science consensus 97% voodoo:
Sunday 14 January
Southern Alps, NZ
“Snow to 1,000m”
It’s getting lower by the hour thanks to ™Carbon Boiling™.
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I’m sticking with my old guess – ‘Michelle Obama for president’. Any odds?
If she runs she wins, hands down. If they have to, they’ll brain wash her.
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The first transexual President?
At least Michael Obama was born in the USA! Chicago.
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Maybe. My head says a Big Mike V Donald contest will have a low voter turnout, perfect for ballot stuffing to work again. My heart says the Trump turn out will overwhelm the machine.
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Oh look – a 100% fatal Coronavirus has been developed
The research group of former PLA scientist Yigang Tong has published a new paper showing a “pangolin” coronavirus (GX_P2V) variant is 100% fatal to hACE2 mice likely due to infection of the brain
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1744376423723221197
If it was
released from a lab “accidentally”found in a Chinese wetmarket, it could make the Deagel predictions way more likely than they are now.😉We’ve gone from bats to pangolins. What’s next? Chihuahuas?
Roll up your sleeves. Your immune system isn’t done yet, so more shots coming.
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full.pdf
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Spain reintroduces face mask rules after seeing a surge in Covid and flu cases
Spain is bringing back face masks in hospitals and healthcare centres from today after a surge in Covid-19 and flu cases in the country, the Health Ministry said.
The new leftist minority coalition government is imposing the measure despite opposition from most of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions.
‘We are talking about putting on a mask when you enter a health centre and taking it off when you leave,’ Health Minister Monica Garcia told Cadena Ser radio.
‘I don’t think it is any drama. It is a basic and simple measure of the first order,’ she added.
Spain’s hospitals have come under immense pressure in recent weeks following a spike in cases of flu, Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12947265/Spain-reintroduces-face-mask-surge-Covid-flu-cases.html
It’s almost time to dust the cobwebs off the mannequins and put them in ICU beds again, then roll the fake journos.
Maybe some dancing nurses for Tiktok too as packed hospitals ensure you have the time for that.
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With COVID-19 cases running out of control in North Dakota in mid-November 2020, Gov. Doug Burgum intervened, installing a statewide mask mandate. A month and a half later, the state’s pandemic status is nearly unrecognizable: Active virus cases have descended from more than 10,000 at the time of the mandate to fewer than 2,000.
But neighboring South Dakota, which had vied with North Dakota for the worst-in-the-nation per capita metrics for much of October and November, has experienced a similarly remarkable turnaround, and without any significant state-level intervention.
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Flying on a Boeing 737 Max?
Bonza and Virgin Australia’s 737 MAX 8 fleets are reportedly in the clear after last Friday’s Alaska Airlines incident temporarily grounded more than 170 larger MAX 9s.
QANTAS operates 72 Boeing 737-800 puruchased in 2002.
Me? I am sticking with Jetstar and Airbus (Jestar does operate 11 Boeing 787-8s)
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The Communists hate Musk!
“eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant said the significant headcount reduction in safety and public policy teams locally, alongside the widespread reinstatement of thousands of previously banned accounts, have created a more toxic and unsafe environment for X’s users.
“You’re creating a perfect storm”, she said. “A number of reinstated users were previously banned for online hate. If you let the worst offenders back on, while at the same time significantly reducing trust and safety personnel whose job it is to protect users from harm, there are clear concerns about the impacts on user safety.”
In December, the eSafety Commissioner launched legal action against X alleging a failure to comply with a legal notice requesting X to provide information on how it was tackling online abuse relating to children under the Online Safety Act.
Two months prior in October, eSafety hit X with a $610,500 fine for failing to explain how it was fighting child abuse, a fine it is yet to pay and is seeking a judicial review of in the Federal Court.”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/musk-s-x-cuts-creating-perfect-storm-for-online-hate-esafety-commissioner-warns-20240110-p5ew7u.html
..and that’s how free enterprise (and free speech!) dies in a Socialist world!
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Ransomware now affecting power tools
Researchers have discovered over two dozen vulnerabilities in “smart” cordless nutrunners (i.e., pneumatic torque wrenches) manufactured by Bosch Rexroth that could be exploited to make the devices inoperable or their output unreliable.
“We were able to make the device completely inoperable by preventing a local operator from controlling the drill through the onboard display and disabling the trigger button. Furthermore, we could alter the graphical user interface (GUI) to display an arbitrary message on the screen, requesting the payment of a ransom,” the researchers shared.
“Given the ease with which this attack can be automated across numerous devices, an attacker could swiftly render all tools on a production line inaccessible, potentially causing significant disruptions to the final asset owner.”
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/09/vulnerabilities-bosch-rexroth/
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6eba7384b1a19ef654d21e7a4f125da7/f37ba5f2eeb24279-fc/s640x960/17904dccc1eeb13ec5be61f01853fc027155398c.jpg
Drillcrypt 😁
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China’s Nightmare is Coming for You – Not for me but I understand the situation.
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Scientists develop mini brains made out of aborted fetuses that could ‘revolutionize neuroscience’
Scientists have developed the world’s first mini brains in a breakthrough they hope could revolutionize neuroscience.
The 3D organs – which are about the size of a grain of rice – were grown in a lab using human fetal brain tissue from healthy abortion material.
Scientists at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology in the Netherlands aimed to grow a a brain in early-mid development and so used the brain tissue from aborted fetus’ that were in the gestational period of weeks 12 through 15.
In the first four to eight days, researches noticed multiple 3D structures forming and continued to grow, while still resembling brain tissue in appearance.
The team found that by splitting the fetal brain organoid, it would reform at twice the original size within 20 to 30 days of culture.
This full process continued over eight months, with the mini brains eventually growing to 1,500 cubic centimeters in size, at which point its growth slowed down but could be maintained.
‘We work together with passion and without limits every day to improve the survival rate and quality of life of children with cancer. Now, and in the long term, Princess Máxima Center said, adding: ‘Because children have their whole lives ahead of them.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12939271/Scientists-mini-brains-fetuses-neuroresearch.html
Mini brains – ready for inplantation into lefties and climate loons.😉
Do mini brains have consciousness or souls?
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The comments that follow the above linked article, such as this one, “Does no one think this is horribly wrong and immoral?”, are worthy of consideration.
And where the article ends with, “Because children have their whole lives ahead of them.’”, just screams of irony.
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‘Futurama’ immediately springs to mind!
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FAKE PANDEMICS: Ten Years Before Covid, the WHO Staged a Dry Run: Swine Flu
Now, all but forgotten, the Swine Flu pandemic of 2009 was a test balloon for 2020. New evidence recently uncovered by US researchers shows that H1N1 didn’t even exist, and that the entire ‘pandemic’ was a fraud, staged to see just how far they could push us.
The similarities between the H1N1 and Covid-19 pandemics are staggering. The same people, the same lies, the same victims involved in the 2009 pandemic were those perpetrating the same scam in 2020.
The World Health Organisation deliberately fomented Swine Flu Hysteria. That’s not the random conclusion of a conspiracy theorist, that is the conclusion of The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Chairman of its influential health committee, epidemiologist Wolfgang Wodarg, declared it a “false pandemic” and “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century.”
PACE were not the only ones to designate the SWINE FLU pandemic a hoax within the agency, the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology in Munster, Germany, Dr. Ulrich Kiel, has essentially labeled the pandemic a hoax. “We are witnessing a gigantic misallocation of resources [$18 billion so far] in terms of public health,” he said.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/fake-pandemic-ten-years-before-covid-the-who-staged-a-dry-run-swine-flu
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FWIW
” ‘Woke culture’: NSW govt calendar celebrates ‘every group imaginable’ ”
https://youtu.be/lur4m3MBTLc
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Amazing breakthrough for electric trains!
Throughout last summer, 37207, a former regular on Cornish China Clay services, was used to test an electric powertrain that Meteor Power had installed in a Class 08 diesel shunter and is now ready to receive its own electric conversion.
As part of its test programme, last June it successfully travelled 1½ miles (2.5 km) within Wolverton Works on battery power.
A whole one and a half miles! Wow!!
According to Meteor Power, this development of a battery conversion system for the locomotive provides a “greener, cheaper, and quieter solution for freight or ‘super shunter’ work”.
https://principia-scientific.com/new-merseyside-battery-trains-falling-short-of-expectations/
In 50 years it may do 100km!
/sarc
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But, But, But electric trains have been around for donkey’s years – power via overhead wires or live rails.
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OR perhaps
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/try-hornby-trains-next-time-liverpool-they-might-be-more-reliable/
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Yesterday, all trains in Wellington, the capital of Nut Zero (NZ), came to a grinding halt: some pax were stuck in their carriages for 1-2 hours before they were rescued, then diesel buses were put on to get commuters home. NZ Railways said ‘the glitch’ had nothing to do with the ‘extreme temperatures’ the city was ‘suffering’ from.
Today they admitted the ‘heat’ was the cause of the widespread breakdown and ensuing traffic chaos. Temperatures ranged from 25 to 29 Celsius (max). Mickey mouse infrastructure. Imagine the fun & games if ‘global warming’ was real.
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I’m disappointed Kiwis would stand in a train for 2hours without opening the door and walking out, or pushing a window out.. Stuck in there sounds like an OSHA violation! But I suppose its Wellington and they are all good little Govt drones with no hurry to get anywhere.
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“In 50 years it may do 100km!
/sarc”
Or maybe go a lot further – as scrap
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Randall Carlson: Holocene Temp Variations
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Shocking 93% of countries in world – including UK and US – face threat of ‘underpopulation’ by 2100, as set of fascinating charts and maps lay bare world’s impending baby bust crisis
Nine in 10 countries face the threat of ‘underpopulation’ by the end of the century, scientists have warned.
A report revealed that 93 per cent of nations won’t be having enough children to replace people who die by 2100, leaving them with too few young people to work, pay tax and look after the elderly.
The International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS) warned the global fertility rate — the number of children born per woman — is falling dramatically.
It has issued a call to action, warning that Governments are failing to recognise the risks underpopulation will have on societies and economies and calling for better education so people can assess when is best to start a family.
They have also urged health authorities to highlight the risk of modern populations drinking too much, being too fat and being exposed to too much air pollution and chemicals in the environment, all of which reduce general fertility.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12947149/Shocking-93-countries-world-including-UK-face-threat-underpopulation-2100-set-fascinating-charts-maps-lay-bare-worlds-impending-baby-bust-crisis.html
I watch CNN, I know it’s man made climate change.😁
2100? Try ten years.
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The stupid thing is that the west gets in massive illegal immigration rather than investing their pension funds in businesses in the illegal immigrants’ home countries and boosting them that way. That would be a win-win.
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” leaving them with too few young people to work, pay tax and look after the elderly.”
See Kim at #5.. This is what robots are for! Lets see how far their depopulation vaccine goes first, but it looks to me if we don’t embrace robots we lose Western civilisation & culture to our immigrants, wherever they come from. You can have 15million Australians with the cultural mix we have now, or 15million of a 35million population all speaking Chinese or Indian or whatever. Its not just the language, how have our immigrants done so far in adopting our business ethics, our morality, our way of shopping, our political system? When you come from a culture with endemic corruption paying you way forward seems quite normal. When you come from a culture that treats women as chattels, you won’t give that power up to become an Australian. When a slight against your family means you all gang together to get revenge, are you going to the Police instead?
Populate or perish? Adopt a robot now? Learn Chinese/Indian/Arabic and hope..?
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Nothing to worry about – in nice bits of Africa birthrates are still between 4 and 5, so the future won’t be so dark after all.
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African birth rates are down from 6-7 50 years ago. Urbanisation will do it. The various fundamentalist groups are maybe the only people really multiplying?
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Robots and new tech weapons and such…. Russia is starting manufacture of its new DREL bomb this year. Its a container packed with smaller independent bombs, so your 550Kg bomb may have 10 sub-munitions of 55Kg each. The original bomb gets dropped, glides away to target area then releases the smaller ones. They have independent targeting and glide off looking for their targets. All can have radar/infrared countermeasures. They have infrared seeking optics, inertial navigation, GPS coordination or radar. They can blow up tanks one by one, a building, a field gun or an armoured position.
I expect the Americans have them or are working frantically to get them up to this level of sophistication. All we need to do is hook our AI up to a drone swarm to give a complete 3-D view of the target area and have the AI control the glide bombs… No soldiers needed!
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FWIW
“SITREP 1/9/24: Latest Leading-edge Tech-war Updates”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-1924-latest-leading-edge-tech
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“Global- Interior Health drops all COVID-19 rapid tests at facilities
“(The rapid tests) are not reliable for diagnosis of COVID-19,” the memo stated.
“As such COVID-19 RAT testing can no longer be used to direct clinical care or infection prevention and control measures, and must be discontinued immediately in Interior Health affiliated emergency rooms, hospitals, long-term care facilities (and) outpatient settings.” ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/01/10/sda-been-sayin-2/
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“Florida Set to Protect Its Citizens Against the Pfizer/CDA/USDA/Biden Cabal”
Dr John Campbell – “DNA and Florida”
https://youtu.be/019L4_MDNlg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/01/10/florida-set-to-protect-its-citizens-against-the-pfizer-cda-usda-biden-cabal/
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Dens Energy Storage System Fire: Helmond Incident
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Chinese EVs on Fire
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“Anthony Fauci Finally Admits the Truth About Evidence Behind COVID Guidelines”
“Americans who trusted the science when Dr. Anthony Fauci told them to be six feet apart to prevent the spread of COVID-19 learned Wednesday there was no science behind the edict.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/anthony-fauci-finally-admits-truth-evidence-behind-covid/
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Considering that SARS-CoV is spread by free virions released in earlier stages of infection and the evidence indicates a dose-related risk of sustainable infection, then we should expect social distancing to have some reasonable scientific justification.
Beware of anything said by Anthony Fauci.
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Which means beware of anything that agrees with Fauci then?
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Dr Fauci has a wealth of experience in misdirection.
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“Tucker Carlson Outlines the Farmers Protest, the Biggest Protests in German History
January 11, 2024 | Sundance | 11 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/11/tucker-carlson-outlines-the-farmers-protest-the-biggest-protests-in-german-history/
Today’s update is that Polish truckers have come across the border in support and the German rail unions are on board
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FWIW
“How Much Of The World Is Covered By Croplands?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-much-world-covered-croplands
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Still rainfall in Australia. Tropical depression (tropical low) in the north.
https://i.ibb.co/CB4s686/Zrzut-ekranu-2024-01-11-115219.png
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