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Disgraceful EU intolerance of conservative conference.
Latest seems to be that rather than shutting it down, the police are only allowing people to leave, not enter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13314255/Gathering-right-wing-politicians-Brussels-descends-chaos-police-local-mayor-attempt-shut-conference-Nigel-Farage-lashing-monstrous-efforts-silence-speakers-warns-against-new-form-communism.html
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And, reportedly, not allowing food or ‘drink’ in …
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It’s amazing that anyone succeeds in labeling all military dictatorships in hindsight as far right when they are almost universally far left. What the left are calling Far Right is simply conservative and democratic.
Then the enduring fantasy that Hitler and friends were not really socialist racist military nationalists, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or insultingly the NAZIs. It could not be clearer. And their perpetual enemies were the Conservatives. Nothing changes.
What far right? A few skinheads? That’s a street gang, not a political movement. Given the silly outfits, you have to wonder if they are a very few paid actors playing out a fantasy for television. And as for real socialism, as was written on the Berlin wall, socialist is what totalitarians call themselves.
The major practical difference with the Communists is that they allow big business to join them in the game where the communists control all businesses. So Fascism is more profitable socialism as the communists are perpetually broke, which isn’t fun for the people at the top.
Their real opponents are conservative democrats. The sort of people trying to have an actual open public meeting. And that must not be allowed. So they have to be called extremists. By extremists. It’s all in the marketing.
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Your vote counts shows as zero, yet I gave you the green thumb half an hour ago.
I re-opened the site just now, your vote count is reset to zero, yet if I try to click the green thumb I get the duplicate vote pop-up.
How can there be a duplicate vote if your count is zero?
Mods, there’s a glitch in the machinery.
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Nazis hunted down and killed commies and socialists before they even looked at the other races/religions, so I think they were far right in the extreme. Just because they had socialists in their name and started out from the workers and unions does not mean they were not nationalistic and of the right.
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Show me where Nazi’s fought for individual rights over the state? I missed that part.
As for indiscriminate murder, Communists kill their own players all the time. The lack of ethics, morals, and human rights is practically a defining feature of the far left.
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Nigel explains fully what happened at the conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbq1W6KS7E
(8m 35s video)
And in the US, John Stossel covers the mandating of a ‘kill switch’ in all new cars. The important thing to note is the presenters’ discussion of mission creep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N29AaHnzGGM
(5m 35s video)
If they take out Trump, it will be game over for the West as the creeping authoritarianism that we find ourselves being subjected to gradually smothers our few remaining personal and economic freedoms.
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I listened to the repeat of Nigel Farage’s show on GB News, where he described the disgusting shemozzle.
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“Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF”
Headline from
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68823399
“An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the US, this year. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects Russia to grow 3.2% this year, significantly more than the UK, France and Germany.
“Oil exports have “held steady” and government spending has “remained high” contributing to growth, the IMF said. Overall, it said the world economy had been “remarkably resilient””
The BBC article notes that Russia continues to export oil [despite sanctions] – but NOT that Russia is not infected with watermelon-derived energy policies, where we all go over to ‘Toxic W&S’ in the next fortnight or whatever the latest impossible ‘legal’ requirement is.
Russia continues to use coal.
Russia continues to use oil.
Russia continues to use gas.
And the BBC doesn’t mention that this is a factor – perhaps a major factor – why its economy is likely to do well.
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All these growth figures are proportional. It’s far easier to have higher growth rates when you start low. Even so, Russia is far richer than Ukraine and Moldova, the two poorest countries in Europe. And no one asks why? Or why so many Ukrainians want to be Russians?
They could ask the Biden crime family. Hunter was paid $1Million a year for advice on energy matters in Ukraine, something he knows nothing about. And he never went there and cannot speak the language. And his Vice President dad openly bragged that he forced the President of Ukraine to stop investigating Hunter’s boss. And openly kept top secret records in plain sight in his garage. And no one says a thing. Amazing. Nothing to see here, as if it didn’t happen. Clearly the Democratic party own the press and the justice department, CIA and the rest.
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TdeF, with respect – Many Ukrainians wantED to be Russians.
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I was thinking mainly in the Donbas and Crimea, the industrial and coal rich East. Close to the worst battles of WWII with the Germans, Italians, Romanians and their allies. Around Byelgorod, Kharkiv in particular. Swedes at Poltava, French in 1812, British and French in 1855, Germans in 1918 and 1943 and now German tanks again. No one came in peace.
My view is that it started as a civil war. I was in Crimea, Sebastopol on Russia day 18 years ago. This is an area which was entirely Russian, certainly at the time of the Crimean War in 1855 when France and Britain invaded. It was the heart of Russia. Before Kruschev gifted Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, it was Russian, so 70 years ago. But when this started, more like 55 years.
Before that Kiev was the heart of Russia, the origin of the Kievan Rus. But borders in the East changed dramatically with Stalin and Polish areas like Lviv became Ukrainian. However in the Donbas and Crimea, these areas have been fighting to break away from the domination of the corrupt and brutal Kiev government for at least 15 years.
At the same time most Ukrainians and even most Russians would love to be accepted as European. It’s a very complex situation like all civil wars. And the Americans, French and British and Germans have been the enemies of Russia for a very long time if you go back as far as Napoleon.
And there are simple things, like the fact that the soldier’s pension in Russia is triple what it is in Ukraine.
Now the slaughter is terrible on both sides. For what exactly? The Crimean war was about the keys to Jerusalem. But is was like so many wars, about conquering Russia, breaking up the biggest country on the planet. And the other neighbours, China, Japan, Iran, Turkey have all had a great interest in this.
Nothing would be better than to see this war stop tomorrow! It’s become a terrible proxy war with people who are not fighting, British, French, Germans, Americans talking of ‘winning’. There is no winning. No one seems to care how many Russians and Ukranians die. The average age of the Ukranian solider is 45. It’s a terrible war. Donald Trump promised to stop it in a day. The UN could run a referendum. I think that has always been possible.
And so many Ukranians have fled the country, perhaps ten million. And many would like to go home. As it drags on, that will be impossible.
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The Conservatives should hold their next conference in Russia instead of Brussels
Putin is the leader of the free world and is anti-woke.
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Correction: Putin is Capo di tutti Capi.
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And who is the alternative? The publicity is always anti Putin, but it would be. The West, the Democrats have been anti Russia. Never Anti China. Who is the biggest potential threat to both the US and Europe? It’s not Russia. And it’s not Putin.
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Vladimir, I applaud you! What an elegant way to describe and explain it all to perfection!
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Is the global EV bubble bursting? As global demand starts to slow, share prices tank and Tesla cuts 10% of the workforce….are car giants ready to slam the breaks on electric revolution?
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ICE ICE Baby
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BP has cut over a tenth of the workforce in its electric vehicle charging business.
https://twitter.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1780151996600795299
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Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company’s name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004 Elon Musk joined as the company’s largest shareholder and in 2008 he was named CEO.
In 2015 the share price was US$13 rising to US$29 by 2020
The Tesla share price peaked at US$407 in Nov 2021 and has now fallen to $157.
Could still have a lot further to fall.
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Cybertruck prices crash – production stopped
Acceleration pedal can become stuck to the floor at full throttle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdN4kXEKHX8
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Even the Main Stream Media is picking up on the EV scam
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13314449/Is-global-EV-bubble-bursting-tesla.html
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2025 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter First Drive: Run Silent, Run … Slow?
If your delivery packages are late, Mercedes’ electric van might be to blame.
For most gearheads, driving on Germany’s autobahn is a dream—but driving it in the 134-hp version of the 2025 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter electric van is the kind of dream where everything happens in slow motion.
Mercedes invited us to Frankfurt to drive the updated-for-2025 eSprinter, which is intended primarily as a cargo delivery vehicle. It’s been a while since we’ve had to express the following sentiment, but here we go: While the eSprinter van is no doubt adequate for Europe, it’s likely too slow for American tastes.
A Smaller eSprinter (Or So We Hear)
Before we expand and explain, you might have spotted the fact we published a first drive of the eSprinter only a few weeks before this one. Well, junior detectives, that was the 2024 model, and this is the 2025 version, which goes on sale mid-2024 with an expanded lineup. While Mercedes launched the ’24 eSprinter exclusively in super-jumbo-economy size, with a 170-inch wheelbase and high roof, for ’25 there’s a 144-inch short-wheelbase version available in standard- or high-roof guise. Oddly enough, Mercedes only had the big vans at the press preview, so that’s the one we drove and the one you see in the photos.
The 113-kWh battery fitted to the big 2025 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter won’t fit the smaller van, so it gets an 81-kWh battery instead. Here’s the story twist: You can also get the small battery in the long-wheelbase eSprinter.
Why would anyone want an EV with a smaller battery? Because the lighter battery increases the long-wheelbase van’s payload by nearly 500 pounds.
Both batteries can fast-charge at 50 kW, which, frankly, isn’t very fast. An extra-cost 115-kW fast-charge option makes marginal improvements: 10 to 80 percent in 32 minutes for the 81-kWh battery and 42 minutes for the 113-kWh version. That’s not very quick, which, as we will soon discuss, suits the eSprinter’s personality quite well.
– How Far Will It Go? We Still Don’t Know.
– Fast Traffic in a Slow Van
– Enjoying the Silence
– To Fulfil Its Potential, the eSprinter Needs More Speed
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About thet “alleged” attack on the priest in Sydney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp9D_OmOLo8&t=131s
Her in the land of OZ, all we get is lock-step LSM ans pollie-muppet grovelling to a “certain group”. Why?
Cowardice or complicty; or both.
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I’d wondered where the crowd came from, and who they were. This extract is from today’s SMH and is paywalled.
… ” He might have been preaching to a small congregation when he was set upon, but thousands were tuning in via a Facebook livestream and witnessed the scenes unfold.
Almost immediately, phones were pinging across Cabramatta, Parramatta and Fairfield as the footage was saved and shared among thousands of members of the Assyrian, Maronite, Catholic and Coptic Christian communities.
Within minutes, they were arriving by the carload at the church, an unassuming brick building with fairy lights strung up on its facade. ” …
This article is from the April 17 issue of The Sydney Morning Herald Digital Edition. To subscribe, visit https://www.smh.com.au.
Cheers
Dave B
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Citizens are not permitted to know details according to the Albanese Labor Government’s highly paid e-commissioner.
Department of Censoring
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“The NSW premier has defended the decision to declare the Wakeley church stabbing as a terrorist attack, ”
WTF! A terrorist attack is an attack on random members of the public to invoke terror in the rest.
A murder is the killing of a particular member of the public for personal reasons.
An assassination is the murder of a particular person for reasons of their position. ie political or religious or military.
This was an attempted assassination, he tried to kill the Bishop of the Church.
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An ABC update.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-17/nsw-sydney-church-stabbing-lebanese-muslim-association/103733100
Cheers
Dave B
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Here is a great article on the CA floating wind boondoggle by a new voice.
“Tilting at Windmills” by K.T. Lynn
https://thejoulethief.substack.com/p/tilting-at-windmills
My observation is they propose building about 5,000 MW of giant floaters even though the biggest array in the world is just 88 MW and is not wired to land, just serving two oil rigs. Of course there is no official cost estimate but my guess is $80 billion including financing, assuming it can be made to work which is also a guess.
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Its interesting that the fact that demonstrably none of this works properly anywhere in the world at continual high % penetration, doesnt seem to bother the faithfull.
What level of expense and failure will be need to raise any awareness?
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FWIW – in case of need
“Eaton Rapids Joe brings us a very useful tip on how to put on socks if bending is a problem for you. ”
Eaton Rapids Joe brings us a very useful tip on how to put on socks if bending is a problem for you.
https://eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-might-come-in-handy-some-day.html
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Now how do you lace up your shoes?
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And I need the trick for underpants.
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Try These
https://www.ebay.com/itm/263835528268
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FWIW
“TOP ASTRONOMERS GATHER TO CONFRONT POSSIBILITY THEY WERE VERY WRONG ABOUT THE UNIVERSE”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/astronomers-gather-confront-universe
Via Instapundit
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The 10 Greatest Discoveries of the James Webb Telescope
https://www.astronomy.com/science/the-10-greatest-jwst-discoveries-so-far/
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Fascinating. Consensus science terminated by facts. You would think a review of the ‘hot spot’ was well over due too.
The significance of the hot spot is enormous. What is means is that no one really thought that a 50% increase in CO2 over 250 years would result in significant warming. The idea of a consequential warm fog above the equator, the hot spot, would cause the warming has been proved wrong. THere is no hot spot.
But the UN still carries on (boiling seas) as if a very slow 50% increase in CO2 is warming the planet. As does every Democratic Government on the planet. No one else believes a word of it.
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I knew the 1922 theory was wrong; my body expands at different rates in different parts.
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FWIW
” “Turbo” Cancer?”
Dr John Campbell
https://youtu.be/wJ8MVPHSqNU
https://www.cureus.com/articles/196275-increased-age-adjusted-cancer-mortality-after-the-third-mrna-lipid-nanoparticle-vaccine-dose-during-the-covid-19-pan#!/
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/04/16/turbo-cancer/
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Just a comment without any support. After covid vaccinations were rolled out 7 friends and acquaintances had strokes. In the twelve months prior I only knew one chap that had a stoke. ( qualifier, the cohort I move in is certainly the high risk group all of these victims were in their 70’s) Old neighbour suddenly came down with a very aggressive cancer. Oncologist had never seen this type of cancer develop in a patients facial lymph node in his 40 years as an oncologist. Friends wife recently passed away with motor neurone disease, older lady disease progressd very rapidly. Discussions with friends indicated that there are 2 more cases of MND in the district one a young man in his 40’s.
This in a relatively low density population area were a couple of years ago I had never heard of this disease in my district.
No concusions being drawn, just noting that things were certainly “out of the ordinary” over the last 2 years.
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Two new studies suggest mRNA Covid vaccines can contribute to cancer formation
A new preprint provides evidence that the spike protein of both SARS-CoV-2 and mRNA vaccinations inhibits an important tumor suppressor protein, which may lead to increased incidence of cancer.
The preprint, titled ‘SARS-CoV-2 spike S2 subunit inhibits p53 activation of p21(WAF1), TRAIL Death Receptor DR5 and MDM2 proteins in cancer cells,’ and published on 15 April, is authored by Brown University Professors Shengliang Zhang and Wafik El-Deiry. The latter is the Director of the Cancer Centre at the University.
The scientists set out to determine if the S2 component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein interacts with a tumor suppressor protein called p53. This particular protein is called the ‘guardian of the genome’ for its important role in DNA damage response and repair.
The authors found that S2 had a suppressive effect on p53, which suggests that “the SARS-CoV-2 spike causes an altered DNA damage sensing and repair response in cancer cells.”
In turn, this finding “provides a potential molecular mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 infection may impact tumorigenesis, tumor progression and chemotherapy sensitivity.”
In other words, a component of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can lead to the development of tumors and may inhibit positive effects of cancer therapeutics.
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/two-new-papers-suggest-mrna-vaccines
Who’s up for another shot or booster?
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“An Interesting Channel & News Source – VNN”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/an-interesting-channel-news-source-vnn/
Some caviats
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FWIW
“Winston Churchill Gets the Last Word on Islam”
https://pjmedia.com/raymond-ibrahim/2024/04/16/winston-churchill-gets-the-last-word-on-islam-n4928227
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FWIW
“Mike Garcia Tells FBI Director Chris Wray His Agency Has Ideologically Inverted and Now Represents the USA Equivalent of The Soviet Secret Police
April 16, 2024 | Sundance | 601 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/04/16/mike-garcia-tells-fbi-director-chris-wray-his-agency-has-ideologically-inverted-and-now-represents-the-usa-equivalent-of-the-soviet-secret-police/
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Jo your comment post on PV cacapity yesterday is interesting!
https://pv-map.apvi.org.au/historical#12/-33.8961/151.1547
PV Density by State Electoraate shows the Sydney Inner City Greens Seats to be Global Warming/Climate Change Hypocrites, with very low intallation Density of Sloar Panels
Newtown
Est. dwellings: 18128
Installations: 2104
Dwellings with PV: 11.6%
Estimated total capacity installed: 17173 kW
MP Jenny Leong
Party Greens
Namesake Newtown
vs as you said WA with for example
West Swan (East Metropolitan)
Est. dwellings: 20988
Installations: 11600
Dwellings with PV: 55.3%
Estimated total capacity installed: 64690 kW
Rita Saffioti Australian Labor Party
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Is this a true apples-apples comparison? What types of properties are being compared? I believe West Swan in WA to be mostly large acreage properties, owned by folks with a fair amount of money. And West Swan is a popular winery and tourism area, with lots of commercial properties. Not exactly a standard suburb.
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Look at who is elected. Greens are never poor. And until recently, the poor are never Liberal.
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It is probably fat to say that the % of people that have access to, and control off, their roof would be far greater in the WA seat than the high density NSW one.
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The inner city elites do not care about power prices. They can afford them.
The poorer people in the outer suburbs see solar panels as a way to save on rocketing
electricity bills, one of the biggest items in their budget. So much for cheaper electricity.
And the sad bit is that one of the reasons their electricity prices are rocketing is the cost and popularity of
solar electricity. It’s a honey trap for the poor.
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Not only are those not so well off unable to afford a solar system, in many cases they will not be able to pay it off. I recommended to a friend that due to their very low power usage, not to install a solar system, as the little savings achieved would most likely not pay off the system during the inverter’s lifetime.
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FWIW – more covid
“So Now They Tell Us (Paxlovid)”
The text leads you to
“Now here we are in 2024 and the data comes out — after being hidden for nearly two years.
This is the world we live in folks — plenty of money to be made and yet what you’re sold doesn’t have to work and nobody has a duty to tell anyone as soon as they know, via a formal study, that it doesn’t. In fact the FDA went on to give full approval nearly one year after these study results were known.
Should we expect anything different given what we know happened with Remdesivir where the government continued to pay for it and hospitals continued to push it on patients even after a huge multinational study was completed and published showing it was worthless — and using it came with the significant risk of destroying your kidney function.
I guess not.
Oh by the way, marketing something as effective when you know that it is statistically worthless is fraud. It is like selling “brake pads” that you know do not stop a car. If the law meant anything the entirety of the firm’s Board of Directors and all their officers would be under indictment since the money stolen from both the government and patients is in the billions.
PS: Have you noticed anything interesting? When did “new variants” stop showing up and getting all manner of press?
WHEN PEOPLE STOPPED TAKING MORE SHOTS.”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251135
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Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch nukes Joe Biden’s DOJ over January 6th sentences:
Gorsuch lists multiple cases of folks who “obstructed a Congressional proceeding” without receiving a 20 year sentence.
1. Sit-ins at a trial (Kavanaugh protests)
2. Pulling a fire alarm (Rep. Bowman)
3. Hecklers in the crowd (Palestine)
4. Mostly-peaceful protests (BLM)
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Its ALL Musk’s fault.. of course!! If only we could get rid of him and Trump the world would be rainbows and unicorns…
“Church stabbing, Bondi Junction highlight X’s failure to moderate.
Extreme conservative influencer Andrew Tate is among those using footage of the Wakeley stabbing to push hateful rants and conspiracies on X, days after an attack at Bondi Junction was followed by a swell of misinformation leading to the vicious harassment of an innocent 20-year-old student, prompting calls for the social media network to do more to moderate harmful posts.”
Some clown in the SMH-
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/church-stabbing-bondi-junction-highlight-x-s-failure-to-moderate-20240415-p5fjze.html
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“World In Shock As Murderous Terrorist State Ignores Warning From Impotent Old Man.”
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Heather Mac Donald
Kidneys Don’t See Color
Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.
Slayman was the first living recipient of an edited pig kidney. When he came out of the operation successfully, the leaders of Mass General Brigham (the umbrella entity for Mass General Hospital) rejoiced. The hospital’s clinicians, researchers and scientists had shown “tireless commitment . . . to improving the lives of transplant patients,” said the president of the complex’s academic hospitals. One of the transplant surgeons acknowledged the history behind this latest scientific milestone: The “success of this transplant,” said Tatsuo Kawai, is the “culmination of efforts by thousands of scientists and physicians over several decades. . . . Our hope is that this transplant approach will offer a lifeline to millions of patients worldwide who are suffering from kidney failure.”
According to STEM diversity dogma, however, none of this should have happened.
Slayman is black; his transplant surgeons were not.
The scientists who pioneered the biological and surgical advances that made the transplant possible were also nonblack.
Worse, before the mid-twentieth century, those pathbreaking scientists were overwhelmingly white.
These demographic facts mean, according to today’s medical establishment, that Slayman was at significant risk of receiving substandard care from a medical and scientific enterprise that is racist to its core.
According to the National Academies of Science, America’s most prestigious science honor society, “systemic racism in the United States both historically and in modern-day society” produces “systematically inequitable opportunities and outcomes” in medicine.
Such medical racism privileges white patients and white doctors, explains the National Academies of Science, and is “perpetuated by gatekeepers through stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.”
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute and its sister publication, Journal of the National Cancer Institute Spectrum, blasts the “systemic and institutional racism within health care” responsible for “inequities” in medical outcomes.
The best way to guard against such inequities, according to the STEM establishment, is to color-match patients and doctors.
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Well colour matching patients and medical staff just isn’t good enough, not only should they be the same colour, but also the same ethnicity, religion, deprived upbringing in the same depressed neighbourhood preferably from a war torn country. The medical team should also identify as the same gender as the patient and be the same age.
Only when all of this is achieved will I be satisfied!
P.S. When all of the above has been achieved I’ll find something else to prove that I have been kept down by a white dominated patriarchy.
None of the improvements to my lifestyle are of any value until all you white, clever, compassionate b’tards are forced to compensate me for giving me and mine the BEST life on earth since time began.
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Fifty or so years ago, I trained as a nurse at a big London hospital (now the ‘Royal London’). At that time, a majority of the patients were Pakistani, whilst most of the doctors and nurses were white. Some years later, I worked at a rural hospital in Lincolnshire, and most of the doctors were Pakistani or Middle Eastern, and almost every patient was white.
It’s all changed now of course, but it wasn’t seen as a particular issue then.
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Harvard Medical “Expert” Disqualified in Federal Court Case Due to “Overwhelming” and “Misleading” Plagiarism
“he repeatedly outright refused to acknowledge the long swaths of his report that quote other work verbatim without any quotation marks at all—instead stubbornly insisting that he cited over 1,100 references, as if that resolves the attribution issue (it does not)”
Dr. Panigrahy’s report was so bad that it made Nathan Schachtman’s Wall of Shame blog, who went over the Lockheed case, Dipak Panigrahy – Expert Witness & Putative Plagiarist, and then noted Dr. Panigrahy’s current job title:
The putative plagiarist, Dr. Panigraphy, is an assistant professor of pathology, at Harvard Medical School, in the department of pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston.
Schachtman also notes that Panigrahy had his opinion excluded in another federal court case in 2022:
Panigraphy has a profile at the “Expert Institute,” sort of an employment agency for expert witnesses. His opinions were excluded in the federal multi-district litigation concerning Zantac/ranitidine. In re Zantac (ranitidine) Prods. Liab. Litig., MDL NO. 2924 20-MD-2924, 644 F. Supp. 3d 1075, 1100 (S.D. Fla. 2022).
Looks like Harvard has more to clean up than just the DEI and President’s office.
And, I might add, it’s one thing for the head of DEI to have plagiarized, it is quite another for Harvard Medical School professors to have plagiarized. Good lord.
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NSA “Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet” Warns Ed Snowden
Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.
However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change” to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope and force nearly every company and individual that provides any internet-related service to assist with NSA surveillance.
“That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications transit. Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices.”
Additionally, the people forced to hand over data would be unable to discuss the information provided due to hefty gag order penalties and conditions outlined in the bill, added Goitein.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nsa-just-days-away-taking-over-internet-warns-ed-snowden
Maybe a looming cyberattack from Israel.
https://twitter.com/FinanceLancelot/status/1710869590606057772
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Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN services
Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide.
The researchers say the attacks started on March 18, 2024, while all attacks originate from TOR exit nodes and various other anonymization tools and proxies, which the threat actors use to evade blocks.
“Depending on the target environment, successful attacks of this type may lead to unauthorized network access, account lockouts, or denial-of-service conditions,” warns the Cisco Talos report.
“The traffic related to these attacks has increased with time and is likely to continue to rise.”
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-large-scale-brute-force-attacks-against-vpn-services/
Use STRONG passwords – letters, numbers AND symbols.
eg Wombatt6410#*&%
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World shocked by the Australian Government’s support for Islam, by ordering Facebook and X to censor a video, showing a Muslim assailant entering the ‘Christ The Good Shepherd Church’ in Sydney, to stab Bishop Emmanuel repeatedly with a knife: https://www.infowars.com/posts/aussie-govt-orders-facebook-and-x-to-remove-muslim-knife-attack-video
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Traitor Penny Wong bringing in 800 HAMAS terrorists to Australia to spread the “Religion of Peace”
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Germans can now change gender every year
German citizens will be able to change their sex on legal documents without undergoing surgery or hormone therapy, under a new bill passed by the Bundestag last Friday. It stipulates that an oral request is sufficient, eliminating the need for expert assessment, which was previously mandatory. The law comes into effect in November.
The legislation on ‘self-determination’ in gender was backed by 374 MPs, mostly from the ruling ‘traffic-light’ coalition, with another 251 lawmakers against and the remaining 11 abstaining.
The current regulations date back to 1981, and state that individuals wishing to change their gender must first undergo two psychological evaluations. The final decision under that law rests with a district court.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition argued that the existing procedures were degrading toward transgender individuals, as they had to share intimate details with officials.
https://www.rt.com/news/595997-german-parliament-sex-change-once-year-law/
Man -> Woman -> Rainbow unicorn -> Cat -> Pansexual velociraptor -> Man
Germany’s such a fun place! 😆
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I thought they liked sharing ‘intimate details’. Isn’t that the point?
Personally, I wish they wouldn’t.
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International Wake-Up Call: WHO plans insidious coup in 194 countries!
https://www.kla.tv/28776
Tedros does not adhere to regulations and is therefore not trustworthy.
Fact check 1: The sovereignty of the Member States
“The health measures taken on the basis of these regulations must be initiated and completed immediately by all contracting states.” (IHR, Art. 42)
Never should one man be allowed to be given such powers over life and limb of billions of people in the 194 Member States of the WHO!
Fact check 2: The WHO “business model”
Gigantic financial transactions are disenfranchised by taxpayers, flown into poorer countries and ultimately end up in the pockets of “Big Pharma” and private investors. Here it comes to light how insidiously the WHO and their financially powerful profiteers in the background have engineered a “coup d’état” in 194 countries.
The Tedros File – Will the Head of the WHO Become the Most Powerful Man in the World?
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Tedros should never have been elected Director General of WHO! He should have been charged with crimes against the Ethiopian people!
The violent terror group TPLF became a booster for Tedros! Government troops burn entire villages, commit public executions, rape women and girls. He accused him of genocide in Ethiopia because Tedros was one of three key decision-makers for “ethnic cleansing.”
Can we allow this disreputable man to have such powers?
Could the Corona crisis, with all its restrictions on freedom, be repeated in an even more intensified form?
Today, Kla.tv takes a closer look at the man whose powers are to be expanded enormously, and who will then be enabled to very easily declare new pandemics worldwide. We are talking about Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the current Secretary-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the first African to hold this post and also the first WHO head who is no doctor. He rose to the top of the U.S. Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2020. How did this spectacular rise come about for Tedros, who was born in 1965 in Asmara, which is now known as Eritrea, and was elected WHO Director-General in May 2017? The following 5-part Tedros file brings to light shocking facts that have so far remained largely hidden from the general public:
https://www.kla.tv/26784
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How to Contact Your Federal Members of Parliament
Has anyone ever showed you how to find the contact details for your local Member of Parliament so you can tell them how you feel?
Watch this to find out how anyone, anywhere in Australia can discover who their local MPs area and their contact details.
Members of parliament are there to service you — make your opinion heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxTq5whXvw
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Apparently the word “poli-tics” is derived from “poli,” meaning many, and “tics,” meaning blood sucking parasites.
I do not beleive that you will find many Members of Parliament who believe that they are there to service you
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Cape Byron is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, located in New South Wales.
Join the Lighthouse Keepers who dared challenge covid dictatorship: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/join-the-lighthouse-keepers-who-dared-challenge-covid-dictatorship
The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration: https://lighthousedeclaration.org/declaration
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Air NZ ™Chief Sustainability Officer™ Kirri Hannifin said, even though they are 2-to-5 times more expensive, a mandate is needed requiring airlines to use ‘sustainable aviation fuels’ to stop bad weather (via RadioNZ).
In other Flying High news, the first (freight-only) E-plane is set to launch 2026, soaring across the notorious Cook Strait from Wellington to Marlborough (tallyho chaps what oh!). What could go wrong?
“It’s completely safe…” the company rep said (ibid).
As George Carlin noted: The planet is fine – the people are f***ed.
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still produce the same amount of CO2 as those produced from crude oil when combusted to provide thrust
Aviation biofuel can be produced from plant or animal sources such as Jatropha, algae, tallows, waste oils, palm oil, Babassu, and Camelina (bio-SPK); from solid biomass using pyrolysis processed with a Fischer–Tropsch process (FT-SPK).
How much CO2 is emitted during the production process compared to regular aviation fuel?
Sounds like another scam to me.
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Welcome to the world of AI. 😁️
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Electric vehicle surge a minefield for apartment complexes
There has been a steady increase in enquiries on the location, running costs and who should pay for power infrastructure upgrades to accommodate electric vehicle (EV) chargers in older apartment complexes.
These issues will amplify as the state works towards a zero-emissions target and high-density living becomes more prevalent over the coming years.
For newer apartment complexes, those constructed in the past few years, many, if not all, have been future proofed for EV requirements. However, they are a small minority.
There are thousands of apartment complexes across Queensland facing expensive retrofits for individually metered charging stations and power load upgrades.
It’s just not as simple as a lot owner plugging an EV charger into a regular power point even if it is in their own garage or parking space that is connected to an individual electricity meter.
There are also concerns over EV chargers being a potential fire hazard, but I will touch on that later as it does not fall under the auspices of the BCCM.
A lot owner will need to check if their EV charger will cause supply issues with the electrical utility infrastructure.
It is an offence to interfere with utility infrastructure or utility services in a way that may affect the supply of utility services to another lot or common property.
Owners wanting to install an EV charger in their allotted car park, or bodies corporate wanting to install one on common property, may need professional advice about whether the existing utility infrastructure can support the power load of one or multiple EV chargers.
Be mindful that the BCCM office has received several inquiries regarding fire safety of EV chargers but cannot provide any safety advice.
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I guess BCCM is also unable to give advice about insurance costs or liability??
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Related – but not the same – I heard today about a situation in a Holiday Home complex, in the South of England, where solar panels have been installed on a few of the homes.
In some cases, certainly, without getting approval from the site owner.
And in at least some cases by cowboy installers.
Result – voltage surges for many homes on the complex.
Ruined equipment – CH boilers, fridges, TVs, etc.
Resolution unclear – still ongoing – but some residents told to leave their dwellings by the Fire Brigade.
And it looks as if the installers have ridden off into the sunset, counting their ill-gotten gains, and congratulating themselves on not paying for public liability insurance.
Right, the UK is not a great place for solar … it’s too far from the Equator.
And most people are not aware of the necessary kit to connect solar to anything connected to our National Grid.
We have little solar – though there are regular adverts …
And the BBC reports, today – at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv26l99vy3vo – on a “Green energy bid near old nuclear power plant site” – so, reasonably, there is existing infrastructure – but it is 55 degrees North; Moscow is about 55.5 North, and the Southern tip of Steward Island, NZ, is about 47.4 South, even Stanley, in the Falklands, is only about 52 South, for comparisons.
Auto, despairing of sense returning in the UK, any week soon.
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A Generation Lost To Climate Anxiety
“…it has rendered reasonable debate on climate policy impossible…”
In a far-reaching new essay in The New Atlantis, the environmental researcher Ted Nordhaus makes a damning and authoritative case that while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, it has been abused by the activist class in service of a wildly irresponsible and unscientific climate catastrophism.
This reckless alarmism, saturated across the mainstream media and endlessly amplified by it, has had profound societal consequences. It has both distorted public understanding of the massive benefits the carbon economy makes possible and grossly exaggerated the risks of extreme events it allegedly makes more likely.
As a result it has rendered reasonable debate on climate policy impossible, even as it has given cynical politicians an easy scapegoat for every social ill, drawing attention away from regulatory and institutional failures and laying blame instead at the feet of fossil fuel companies and other evil “emitters.”
Perhaps most perniciously, as Nordhaus details, the doomsday prophesying of climate extremists has created hardened skeptics on one side who are increasingly suspicious of all public “expertise”, while at the same time infecting true believers on the other side with a crippling, pathological fatalism that has come to be referred to as “climate anxiety.”
Climate Anxiety
If there’s any flaw in Nordhaus’ damning and comprehensive analysis it’s that he undersells just how much damage the advent of “climate anxiety” has done already—and how much more it’s likely to do in years to come.
Yes, there’s the obvious cases of obnoxious and lawbreaking behavior, from climate iconoclasts defacing priceless works of art, to interrupting Broadway shows and sporting events, to gluing themselves to buses and holding up traffic on major thoroughfares.
But it runs much deeper than that.
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” while the basic science of CO2 and climate is solid, ”
What! He reckons if the extremists stopped their scare tactics and we all sat down reasonably to discuss it, we would all agree the outrageous scam is quite sound science and global warming by humans is real..??
He’s as nuts as the extremists!
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Business defaults soar as Australian house prices outpace the globe
Prospective Australian home buyers are facing some of the biggest price increases in the developed world, new research shows while evidence grows the economy is struggling as higher interest rates force more businesses to the wall.
Data compiled by the International Monetary Fund, released overnight, shows that after inflation, house prices across Australia have climbed by more than 10 per cent since 2019. Only three other nations – the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Japan – have experienced real house price growth larger than Australia.
Driving that growth has been Australian debt levels. According to the fund only Norway has a higher debt servicing level than Australia at around 20 per cent of average incomes. In Britain and the United States, debt servicing levels are below 8 per cent of incomes.
Economists believe official interest rates will start falling in Australia in the second half of this year in a development that would take some pressure off a property market that is near record affordability levels.
But the fund warned the situation could deteriorate if interest rates remain high.
“Higher mortgage rates could result in higher debt-to-income ratios and a progressive deterioration in housing affordability which could spur a further home price correction,” it noted.
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A stark new report on housing affordability shows just how dire things are in Australia – for everyone
A startling new report into the state of Australia’s housing markets has revealed just how bad things have gotten – and everyone is impacted.
Mortgage stress evolving
Conventional wisdom has long considered ‘mortgage stress’ as being a state where a homeowner is forking out more than 30 per cent of their income on repayment costs.
But on the back of rising home prices, much higher interest rates and the general cost-of-living crunch, it appears that 40 is the new 30, the ANZ CoreLogic Housing Affordability Report – 20 page pdf points out.
“Based on the latest estimate of median annual household income nationally of $100,244 before taxes, and assuming 30 per cent of this income is used on mortgage payments at current average variable rates, an affordable dwelling purchase would be around $503,000.
“However, ongoing increases in housing values mean that this affordable purchase price is below most actual dwelling values, with the median Australian unit price around $640,000, and the median house price around $834,000 across Australia.”
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…and I warned here 1-2 years ago saying don’t buy into the real estate bubble, like the lemmings are doing.
Now…
Can’t afford to buy a house
Can’t afford repayments (or rent).
Can’t afford power.
Can’t afford food.
Can’t afford to have kids.
Oh well…
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In 1990 the variable home loan interest rate hit 17% – when politicians say interest rates are heading down before an upcoming election – you can bet they will be heading UP.
https://www.orangefinance.net.au/historical-interest-rates/
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‘I moved in with a pensioner for cheap rent – I didn’t bargain on the social benefits’
Intergenerational house shares are on the rise amid worsening rent and care crises
During 2020 I moved in with a widow 50 years my senior. To be clear, my arrangement with Winnie, 85, was a strictly platonic affair.
I was motivated by two things: a belief that an older person is no more likely to be unbearable than a younger one and, crucially, the prospect of paying just £150 a month in rent in London.
Winnie and I were matched by Share and Care, part of the Homeshare UK network, which pairs up younger lodgers looking for affordable housing with an older homeowner in need of help around the house.
Typically, the lodger does around 10 hours a week of household chores. In return, they’ll pay just £150 a month in rent – which is about £1,000 less than the UK average, which increased by 8.3pc last year, according to Zoopla. For that small amount of rent, I took over the top rooms of a seven-bedroom Victorian house near Wimbledon Common.
Homesharing can provide the lodger with some financial breathing space, and give the householder some practical support – plus the benefit of knowing that another person is in the house. Lodgers share not just a living space with the homeowner, but often have meals together and socialise.
My time living with Winnie was a nourishing one. She taught me about the paintings of Joseph Wright and how to make marmalade. In return, I showed her how to order a new recycling bin. It was a mutually beneficial set-up that resulted in a strong friendship.
While this set-up remains far from mainstream, the number of people from different generations becoming housemates climbed 5pc in the last year.
Here, we meet three older homeowners and their younger lodgers to learn what it’s like to share your home with a stranger from a different generation.
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https://www.realestate.com.au/news/the-secrets-out-suburbs-where-prices-have-more-than-doubled-in-four-years/
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The People’s Republic of Victoriastan is requiring “7-star standard” energy efficiency for new homes to combat “Climate Change” which will add around $50,000 to the cost of a new home.
Our politicians really hate us.
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They’ll need it to offset the skyrocketing power costs.
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But seriously, why do people live there?
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Journalist At NPR Suspended, Leading To Shocking Discovery There Was A Journalist At NPR
For Australia substitute ABC for NPR
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Meanwhile – Biden Retaliates Against Iran By Attaching Note To Pallet Of Cash That Says ‘Please Do Not Use For Terrorism’
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Why don’t rich people eat anymore?
Extreme dieting is the latest way for the mega-rich to signal their wealth and status
A person’s relationship to food has always revealed a lot about their class.
As food choices are so closely linked to status, it follows that we also view certain body types as more ‘desirable’ than others.
“Fatness used to be a symbol of wealth and lack of need – and therefore desirable – whereas thinness was associated with poverty – and therefore undesirable,”
“In contemporary times, some trends have flipped.” Our work-centric society leaves little time for people – particularly people on low incomes – to plan, purchase and cook healthy food or exercise, and as Dr Woolhouse says, “this is a key reason why fatness is now more associated with the working classes as opposed to thinness.”
Today, despite the ‘body positivity’ movement’s best efforts, Western culture continues to valorise thinness. It’s a trend which has had a devastating impact on public health: in the UK, around 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder and the number is rising sharply. Society has never prized thinness more, and yet it has never been so unattainable. “We are surrounded by so much food now, it is harder not to eat than to eat,”
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Tucker Carlson: Telegram Creator on Elon Musk, Resisting FBI Attacks, and Getting Mugged in California
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Nature Positive Plan legislation about to be tabled in Federal Parliament by Minister Plibersek …
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/media-releases/environment-and-business-benefit-nature-positive-plan
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Dumb bitch..
Will the “first ever independent national Environment Protection Agency” which is “delivering stronger protections for the environment” check over the plans for wind subsidy farming both onshore and offshore? Will it go back over the solar farms to make sure the environmental studies done were correct and things have happened as planned??
Will it even examine the effect on Australia’s environment of the whole push to ruinables from start to finish??
Thought not…
It is all about taking control of private businesses-
“will be able to issue Environment Protection Orders – or ‘stop-work’ orders – to anyone breaking the law.”
“Penalties will be increased,”
“audit businesses to ensure they are compliant”
and a new propaganda unit to make sure we can only find out about what the Govt wants us to think-
“The Albanese Government will also establish a new body called Environment Information Australia (EIA).”
Don’t expect to see any information on the destruction of the environment by the ruinables there either!
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Misfit in Moscow: British Diplomat in the Moscow Embassy
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Collapse of QENOS.
AUstralia’s QENOS is gone. Administration. The first victim of the Safeguard Mechanism and listed for 35% tax on CO2.
The land is now worth more than the output, so the Chinese owners have sold the land. 700 jobs gone.
This is Albanese’s Great Leap Backwards. We can buy it all from China.
But Albo/Bandt just spent $1Bn building new Green companies which don’t yet exist.
Green jobs! Who needs those old polluting jobs? Send them to China and we’ll be safe.
That’s the future for Australia.
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“Altona in Melbourne
103 hectare site, two plants
Australia’s largest production centre for petrochemicals and plastics
Olefins plant processes ethane feedstock from Bass Strait into ethylene for downstream polyethylene plant and other customers
Resins plant produces 105 kT of high density polyethylene per year
Botany in Sydney
37 hectare site, four plants
Olefines plant processes ethane feedstock from the Cooper basin into 250 kT of ethylene per year
Alkathene plant uses a high-pressure polymerisation process to produce 70 kT of low-density polyethylene per year
Alkatuff plant produces 100 kT a year of linear low-density polyethylene
Site Utilities provides steam and power to all plants at the site and the neighbouring Ixom Chlorine and Huntsman Surfactants plants
And with it any hope of recyling plastic in Australia.
Good one Albo! The Greens destroy plastic recycling. Now that’s Progressive for you.
Too bad about the 700 Australian jobs just lost with CO2 taxes.
And we can import all our plastics from China. If they will sell to us and be gracious enough to buy our wine.
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625Kilo Tonnes of plastics we will no longer make in Australia. That’s about $1Bn we have to buy from overseas at the best
prices we can get. But soon we will be able to make solar panels! Huge market. Exports to China, maybe.
With Labor and the Greens and two people who have never had a job now running Australian manufacturing, how can anything go wrong?
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“Made in Australia”. That’s most of a million tons of plastics which will no longer be made in Australia and 700 jobs burned while Albanese dreams of making stuff here? And how will we replace the chemical engineering skills and all that plant and real estate?
“Made In Australia” is fake. And punishing companies for generating CO2 just moves it to China. As expected?
And forcing QUENOS out of the country means a billion dollars a year missing from our Balance of trade and our independence in plastics and a ability to recycle plastics gone in one move. While Albanese and Chalmers dream of Green Aluminium? Who is going to buy their Green aluminium?
It’s what happens when every manufacturer, farmer, transport company, steel, glass and metals company is labelled a “Big Polluter” to be punished. Steel is next to go.
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A guide for your next punt –
“How to spot the next mania Each new panic follows the same playbook”
https://unherd.com/2024/04/how-to-spot-the-next-mania/
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FWIW
“Closed-Loop Fission Energy?”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251127
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Participant, studio behind ‘Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 years
https://www.cp24.com/entertainment-news/participant-studio-behind-spotlight-an-inconvenient-truth-shutters-after-20-years-1.6849557
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Canadian environment minister says farmers are more worried about climate change than the carbon tax
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-environment-minister-says-farmers-are-more-worried-about-climate-change-than-the-carbon-tax
Anybody who is politically aware in Canada knows he has been a compulsive liar all his life, going back to his environmentalist days.
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