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    Skepticynic

    World Bank loses track of $41 billion handed out for ‘climate’ ideologies

    https://www.wnd.com/2024/10/world-bank-loses-track-of-41-billion-handed-out-for-climate-ideologies/

    Audit confirms officials can’t identify either the recipients or the use of the enormous sum

    Up to $41 billion of the funds distributed to climate causes by the World Bank between 2017 and 2023 are unaccounted for…

    The enormous sum represents almost 40% of the climate funds the Bank disbursed during the seven year time period, with World Bank data failing to show the recipients and uses of the money

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      TdeF

      That’s only 2% of the estimated annual expenditure for stopping or reducing CO2 growth. Which has been a dead straight line for the last 50 years, so a total waste of money, except no one in government cares.

      Here is the graph of CO2

      The real question is what has the world done with $30Tn to control CO2? Emissions are not CO2. All the laws about Clean Energy have one clear objective and world wide are a total failure.

      Why does no one notice that either?

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        TdeF

        In Australia, the theft of tens of billions a year in carbon dioxide taxes is not in the annual budget because they are illegal ‘green’ fraud and theft. So the governments, Federal and State do not have to justify them or show how they are working.

        So what has been achieved? Reducing ’emissions’ is absurd. Even if ‘The Science’ was true, the alleged problem is total CO2, not local emissions.
        How does Net Zero reduce CO2 or even stop the growth of world CO2? After 25 years of massive taxes and shutting down manufacturing, agriculture,shipping, coal, gas, oil, what is the actual effect on CO2? What effect will the $20Billion on Snowy II have? Where is Malcolm Turnbull’s gift of $444million cash without application or explanation to his wife’s friends to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef?

        There is a total lack of visibility into governments. We are being asked to fight a war in which the objective,net zero, has no logic except to control CO2 and there is no evidence of any effect on CO2. Fake science. Real massive theft. What is the world bank doing? Or Western governments? No one is accountable or responsible for all this money. And is it all going to China and the UN and EU?

        Why is there no accountabilty?

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          Kalm Keith

          That’s the ultimate summary.

          As Ted says, hopefully Trump will address this type of “Rotting Government” if he gains office.

          The concept of atmospheric heating by CO2 is scientifically unsupportable.

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          Dennis

          Similar reason as why United Nations agreements and treaties are signed and then Federal and State parliaments create legislation and regulations with compliance costs and ignore the Constitutional laws.

          Because they can get away with it.

          When the UN was established soon after WW2 and for very good reasons and purposes it was infiltrated by the global far left determined to use the UN for their New World Order purposes, Australian Labor Attorney General (far left faction) Evatt was involved and he submitted the plan to sign as many agreements and treaties as possible with member nations to be used as needed to get around constitutional laws.

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            Forrest Gardener

            Agreed except for a small nitpick. Once a treaty is signed it is the constitution which compels the commonwealth parliament to enact domestic laws to implement the treaty.

            It is very similar to the way that the corporations power has gradually consolidated the commonwealth’s position of dominance over the states.

            The mechanism compelling support for treaties is how the commnwealth has gradually ceded power to the UN and other foreign nations.

            Hey. It seemed like a good idea in 1901.

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            Geoff Sherrington

            Much damage was done in the mid-1980s by Gareth Evans when as a Senator with a rush of blood he organised Australian acceptance of more than a hundred new treaties over 3-4 years. This rate was unprecedented.
            Lord only knows how this increased workload was to be handled bureaucratic ally, let alone the work to ensure that each new treaty did not conflict with any others.
            Evans seemed to think that he who controlled treaties controlled the country. These days the thinking has moved to command centre supreme being a university chancellor. The experiments continue. Geoff S

            Geoff S

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        Ted1

        Trump will track it!

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      Greg in NZ

      There’s money disappearing all over the show: NZ’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), a non-voluntary tax set up to assist those, who through an ‘accident’, aren’t able to work and earn, went from a NZ$1 billion kitty at the beginning of 2024 to a now NZ$7 billion hole/loss. Where it goes, nobody knows. Pffft! and it’s gone. Majick™️.

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      KP

      I figure someone on here is colour-blind, or maybe they were a recipient and want more…

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      TdeF

      It’s a common story. Retired couples are commuting to tropical paradise and living far cheaper than they can in Australia. Often with warmer weather.

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        But isn’t just ever-so-slightly warmer weather going to wipe us all [except the elite] out.
        Aren’t we at all those Tippin’ Points?
        Aren’t the Oceans Boiling?

        Asking for a fat – sorry, a ‘generously-fleshed’ – communist fiend at the UN?

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      el+gordo

      Russian emigres have been there for a couple of years and reportedly trashed the place.

      ‘Russians have poured into Bali in droves since the invasion of Ukraine. In Indonesia’s most popular destination, the arrivals are finding refuge from the economic fallout of the war and the threat of conscription.’ (Al Jazeera)

      Timor is a far better choice.

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      TdeF

      No news there. Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism is a 35% Carbon Dioxide tax on all large Australian companies, even public sewage. All transport. All manufacturing. All flying and transport. And no one can explain how it is going to reduce or control CO2 except the unproven idea that CO2 is dependent on ’emissions’ and is not controlled by the vast oceans.

      All completely wrong and untrue, but who cares? As hidden taxes, governments and ministers never have to prove anything works to reduce or control CO2. And officially, there are no carbon dioxide taxes accountable to parliament. It is all invisible and in the hands of ‘Clean Energy’ public servants.

      Man made CO2 driven Climate Change/Global Warming has been an excuse for the UN/EU/Governments to steal trillions from the public with zero accountability. And hand the cash to their friends, also without accountability.

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        Kalm Keith

        Again, an extraordinary summary of this catastrophic war on citizenry.
        To think that this is all based on the concept that human origin CO2 can cause catastrophic atmospheric heating.

        Firstly there is no operating mechanism that would support this claim, and secondly, even if true, the possibility of human origin CO2 being a factor would be ridiculous because it is quantitatively irrelevant.

        Ninety seven percent of CO2 in the atmosphere is of natural origin and human origin CO2 and that’s a fact.

        There’s absolutely no basis for this continued government control.

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    tonyb

    If you don’t know who is entering your country you should not be surprised at the consequences

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-13947303/venezuelan-gang-tren-aragua-american-cities-crime.html

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      TdeF

      Same story. The destruction of Western Democracies by invasion with incompatible, criminal, uncontrolled migration. An essential demand of the EU/UN/Democrats. All border controls destroyed. The turning around of the Mongols, Ottomans, Arabs which saved Christian democratic Europe has been reversed. And the consequences are predictable. No such thing is allowed in Asia. And the response of Western governments is to hand out cash and benefits and even voting rights to non citizens while denying the cash to help their own people, as in hurricane Milton.

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        TdeF

        And in Australia, the UK and US, the Labor/Green parties who are responsible for the collapse of borders are finding that the new instant citizens are refusing to play ball and vote for them. So Biden/Harris are trying to stop Israel from winning while supplying them with arms. The same in Australia where people who object to violent Arab demonstrators in favor of the massacre of Jews are protected while counter demonstrators are harshly controlled. In the UK now jailed for ‘hate speech’ by internet. Knife crime in London though is protected as stopping it is hateful or racial profiling. All this is obvious and expected.

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    Honk R Smith

    I was just wondering how, since America, being the Capitol of The Patiarchy, and the most racist and sexist country ever … a woman of color is very close to being elected Matriarch of the Patriarchy?

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      TdeF

      And completely unqualified for the job by any measure. Kamala Chameleon is whatever she wants to be, not just racially but politically. As Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt said even before he discovered the Green route to power, “we tell them what they want to hear and when we get power, we do what we like”. It is the mantra of Labor/Communist parties across the globe. Scratch a Green and you get a communist.

      As for would be VP Tim Walz, he does not even try to hide it. He openly prefers the Chinese Communist government to America. He openly says the Tianamen Square massacre was no worse than Wounded Knee. He was in China at the time, he said. Until someone checked. Tianamen Tim is Beijing’s man on the Presidential ticket.

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        Honk R Smith

        Now TdeF, for most of human history leadership has ascended based on genetics.
        You’ve just been spoiled by that glitchy period of history were it was more based on silly things like qualifications and experience.

        You should try to be more joyful.
        It’s gonna get extra joyful here in the US come November.

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          TdeF

          What baffles me is that up to 90% of blacks voted for the party of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan and plantation owners, the Democrats. Not Lincoln’s republicans. Likewise 60% of Jewish people when the Democrats hate Israel. Or Hispanics when the gangs they tried to escape are being let into the US without restriction and targeting Hispanic people? JD Vance put it best when he said he believed the lies of the US Press. As did Musk.

          The idea in Australia and the UK of a Government funded press was to ensure factual independent reporting. Even the governmnet is prohibited from interfering.
          However nothing could be further from the truth than the reporting of the ABC/BBC/CBC. And on the ‘Climate’ con and free speech, the public servants in Canberra/London/Brussells/Washington DC are crafting their own world funded by everyone else’s cash and hard work. There is no Climate Crisis and emissions have nothing to do with CO2 which we cannot control.

          But in the UK the jailing of a woman for 2 1/2 years for her comments on the internet is a new low in free speech and democracy. As with a pregnant woman in Ballarat Victoria arrested and handcuffed in her home and in front of her family for simply posting on Facebook about protests against the totalitarian dictator of Victoria, Daniel Andrews.

          The slide of democracies into totalitarianism is rapid. As was written on the Berlin wall, Socialist is what Totalitarians call themselves.

          And free speech is rapidly vanishing, as approved totally by John Kerry who says the First Amendment is the biggest problem in America and allows people to question his Climate dogma. He believes no one should be allowed to question him. For their own good, of course.

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        Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon,
        You come and go, you come and go-o-oh…
        How to sell (to sell) a contradiction,
        You come and go – tra la la la…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw

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      Honk R Smith

      I keep forgetting the greatest of all Patriarchies founded by Elizabeth I in 1588.
      I hope Matriarch Harris’s loyal friends and relatives are able to keep their heads.
      Ex-boyfriends should maybe be a little more nervous.

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        Simon Thompson M.B. B.S.

        One of my 12th great grandfather was Sir Geoffrey Boleyn Baron of Blickling- Anne Boleyn’s great grandfather. Which makes Elizabeth I a cousin! Not bragging or anything!

        Matriarch Harris has quite a few skeletons that are prouncing about to the Danse Macabre as we speak!

        Her Brother in Laws multi million dollar fraud. Her Father (he lives in Washington). Her Husbands overt domestic violence. Her scofflaw disregard for campaign financing rules. Her appropriation of Negro accents and culture when she was an upper class girl largely raised in Canada who first registered to vote at age 29.

        I guess she will have to pop yet more Xanax with a sauvignon blanc chaser in a few weeks time.

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    Ted1

    A woman of color? What color?

    For those to whom colo(u)r matters, it probably matters.

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    another ian

    FWIW – another one!

    “The Energy Crisis Commission is Just Another Green Blob Front”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/19/the-energy-crisis-commission-is-just-another-green-blob-front/

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    Philc

    A major peer-reviewed study has revealed that people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines” have significantly reduced their life expectancy.

    https://slaynews.com/news/study-exposes-massive-life-expectancy-plunge-covid-vaxxed/

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      MP

      Well that’s a real shame.

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      Gee Aye

      This again. MDPI is a scam journal publishing pay to publish. Once again, this is an invited paper with no substance, not a major or peer reviewed study.

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        .. you mean, not a pal review study published in a journal owned by a multinational corporation which has other investments which may benefit from certain scientific papers?

        The vested interests are everywhere.

        A scientist would comment on the evidence, the reasoning…

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          Gee Aye

          Yes, it is pal reviewed. Guest editors choose the papers they want.

          It is a predatory journal.

          A scientist would check before throwing their support behind it.

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            And still you miss my point, and go for the (selective) ad hom. What’s the problem with the paper GA? I don’t care about the publisher. All publishers are biased one way or another.

            Can you reason, or is science done by “ad hom”?

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          John Connor II

          Dr Steven Quay

          Peer reviewers for the major medical journals received $1.2 billion from drug and device companies from 2020 to 2022. 59% of all reviewers….

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    John Connor II

    Another acronym for the zeitgeist

    AWFULs – Affluent White Female Urban Liberals

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Well…Huh: A Recent Surge in Global Warming Is Not Detectable Yet”

    “Our results show limited evidence for a warming surge; in most surface temperature time series, no change in the warming rate beyond the 1970s is detected despite the breaking record temperatures observed in 2023. As such, we estimate the minimum changes in the warming trend required for a surge to be detectable. Across all datasets, an increase of at least 55% is needed for a warming surge to be detectable at the present time.”

    https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/10/20/wellhuh-a-recent-surge-in-global-warming-is-not-detectable-yet-n3796048

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      Forrest Gardener

      It’s them darn unicorns what done it.

      If only their farts could be used to power the world.

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        Goodness, please don’t make suggestions that our [wonderful] Secretary of State for Energy Security – one Edstone ‘Ed’ Miliband – may take as gospel, and, thereupon, set out on a mission to find, capture, and make use of unicorn farts.
        That’s after his fixation with flywheels, and a dalliance with dams – in Scotland, regardless of devolution or available civil engineering expertise.
        And, of course, his addiction to compressed, liquified air … and hydrogen, too, I fear.

        And all paid for by the tax-payer [and electric bill-payer].
        Whether or not we think those are ‘great’ ideas …

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    John Connor II

    Dad, why does government ruin everything it touches?

    Well son, people can’t seem to figure out that government is a monopoly that has no incentive to be efficient, effective, accountable or to improve because its funded by taxes we pay involuntarily and if we don’t… Well, they put us in prison.

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    John Connor II

    Complicity Theorist
    (noun)
    A person who accepts the political narrative of the day unquestionably;
    consumes mainstream media like it was 1980; and is prone to submissiveness, outbursts of irrational fear, and public shaming of free-thinkers.

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    John Connor II

    Windows 7 was so much better!

    I’ve been setting up my new laptop with Win 11 Pro (24H2) in recent days now that my mouse and external screen have arrived.
    W11 is a lot different in look and feel but the amount of advertising, popups, fluff and spyware is just crazy!
    I’ve already disabled a lot of it but tweaking has a long way to go.
    There are a few minor issues with W11 so far but nothing annoying.
    The mouse is really nice – Logitech Master MX 3S connected via Bluetooth.
    The monitor is a Dell 27″ U2724DE QHD 120Hz with integrated Thunderbolt 4 hub offering USB 3.2, HDMI, DP, network, upstream and downstream Thunderbolt 4 with 90W charging! Sweet!
    Saves buying a separate hub and desk clutter.
    No taskbar toolbars? Gggrrr…
    M$ is taking too much power user functionality out of Windows and making it Mac-esque.
    Should be as good as Win 7 by xmas though. 😆

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      The thing I dislike on it is, it is no longer possible to just flick saved vids across to files on the side bar. What takes me 30 mins to save on my old win 10, then takes 90 mins on the win 11. The only helpful way I have found, is to sort into the particular file categories, so I dont have to jump around so much. It is still painful, as there are of course sub files.

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      Geoff Sherrington

      JCII,
      Two weeks ago I bought a new PC, a small form factor HP Prodesk, tower replaced by module of small book size. It came with Windows 11. Today, I have deleted W11, back to a tweaked W10. Main reason was W11 was naked bloatware, trying to get customers to buy miscellaneous products, even installing some without the client knowing.
      I am now enjoying clean, fast computing and looking forward to more optimising. Also, I still use a 20 year old system with Windows XP because it drives a SCSI scanner so I get reminders of what XP was like. Geoff S

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        Hanrahan

        Mac users are as popular as vegans, so I will refrain from comment. 😀

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          John Connor II

          LOL..
          I worked at a business 10 years ago that had mac’s.
          I got my own with a single button corded mouse!
          I picked it up looking for the other buttons and put it down with disgust.
          WTF do I do with this, I thought.
          Meanwhile my home Win pc used a bluetooth 7 button mouse.

          Macs are good if you’re not a power user…

          Geoff S – you CAN keep W11 , dump the bloat and get W10 functionality via 3rd party tools like Start11, WinAllBack and Explorer Patcher, although updates could negate Explorer Patcher changes.
          It’ll take time and you need the Pro version or better so you get the Group Policy Editor which gives you the power to make real changes.
          The only reason I updated was because key software I use was no longer supported on W7.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “RFK Jr. Destroys the Democrats on ‘Gutfeld!’”

    “He pointed out that the Democrats, once the party of tolerance, free speech, and anti-war movements, have become the very thing they used to fight against. ”

    More at

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/20/rfk-jr-destroys-the-democrats-on-gutfeld-n4933494

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      el+gordo

      Yep, good point.

      “Today, the Democratic Party is the party of war, it’s the party of censorship, it’s the party of Wall Street, a big pharma, big tech, big data, big banking, and the military industrial complex.”

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    Back on Wednesday, John Connor II put up this link. It had no responses. It is a 2 hr video of interviews of some of the 1300 vac victims, nurses, and Drs they encountered over 9mths, in 30 states. It is devastating. There is a book, ‘What the Nurses Saw’, that covers some of the same ground, especially hospital protocols for remdesivir and ventilation, that made a few people a lot of money, and shortened the life of hundreds of thousands. When it is shown this clearly, the brazenness of the authorities looks absolutely breathtaking.

    https://rumble.com/v5hm7ga-vaxxed-3-authorized-to-kill-childrens-health-defense.html

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      MP

      That maybe because some of us had already seen it.

      You can also get the other two from this site

      https://vaxxed3.childrenshealthdefense.org/vaxxed-3-movie/

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      Vladimir

      Just heard on 3AW a very respectable Prof P. McGorry defending selection of ex-Vic Premier to the role of Orygen Chairman.
      The interviewer passionately tried to argue that unjustified curfew, school closure and other draconian measures had severe impact on Victorian mental health, especially kids.
      The Prof (a voice of reason…) said that he knows the subject better and the stats do not support the above assumption – that is across all the states the youth suicide was the same .
      I could not believe what he said against his own cause.
      If his numbers are true, then ex-Premier actions only serve to exercise his absolute power over populace.

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      Graeme No.3

      Well, the smart ones have already switched to wood stoves to save freezing in winter if (and when) renewables blacks out the electricity grid.
      Back to the eighteenth Century? Stoves and oil lamps.

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    Geoff Sherrington

    When I was a teenager some 60 years ago, we had different types of people at the top. WWII was not long over. The pool of candidates for top jobs was depleted and those filling spots were often back from the war with ideas influenced by warfare. Some top posts were filled by high rank returners like General Monash, engineer, had done after WWI.
    (Keep in mind that not all people have similar intelligence. Half of us are below average. Monash was way up there.)
    Since my teen years after WWII, there have been some remarkable changes. People, overall, have lost the will and the ability to solve the problems of life independently. There has been a huge growth on the % of the workforce paid to tell others what they can and cannot do. We now have a dependency causing some people to hold back from useful actions in case the government might not approve. More people are bleating “The government must do something to fix this or that problem” while failing to recognise that often the government IS the problem.
    A new problem is emerging from the sector paid to tell others what to do. It is not limited in growth by a shortage of candidates. Almost anybody can apply and many types of people have. The problem is that increasing numbers of these little dictators are on the less intelligent side of the spectrum. We end up with dumb people paid to tell smart people what they can and cannot do. It is getting worse each year.
    By coincidence, Jo Nova’s video today about Elon Musk having to study the probability of a rocket harming a shark or whale is a beautiful example for this story.
    Given time and a fistful of cash, I could suggest a few ways to remedy this particular social problem. I’d start with removing harmful, dumb activists from our education systems.
    If we ignore the problem it will end with the big tears of warfare. Geoff S

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      Vladimir

      For me, as a grandfather of teenage boys this is the only problem in the world.
      The rest is work in progress, they will overcome as we did in our time.
      However , if they are not educated but indoctrinated the world is doomed.

      Jut think – there are no kindergartens anymore, there are Early Learning Centres, and what do they learn? How to praise – you who…

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      el+gordo

      ‘It is getting worse each year.’

      Its the pace of change, career politicians have a hard trot and in the end its a job like any other.

      While you’re there, do you have a chart of the Southern Hemisphere UAH?

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    Simon Thompson M.B. B.S.

    Interesting timing of large swathes of the Internet archive/ Wayback machine go offline. Hmm.

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    John Connor II

    Some good news for Monday

    Little girl missing a hand gets an amazing prosthetic.

    https://bustednuckles.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ssstwitter.com_1729407444159.mp4

    H/t nkit via TBP

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    John Connor II

    FYI – the doco “Am I racist?” will stream on The Daily Wire starting October 28.

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    John Connor II

    Spot the difference challenge

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sln9gcGZTa1z23obp.mp4

    Wow, she’s good!
    I didn’t get one before her.😮‍💨

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    another ian

    FWIW

    McKnickers in a McKnot?

    “Left McTriggered After Trump Does Fun Publicity Stunt”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/left-mctriggered-after-trump-does-fun-publicity-stunt

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Guardian Effect: Labour ‘Help’ Could Seal a Trump Victory”

    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/20/the-guardian-effect-labour-help-could-seal-a-trump-win/

    Like the “ALP Effect” in 2016?

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