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    Skepticynic

    Summary:

    Klaus Schwab was forced out of the World Economic Forum after whistleblowers exposed years of financial misconduct and abuse of power.

    Leaked accounts revealed Schwab used WEF funds for personal luxuries, while promoting austerity and control through globalist policies.

    His replacement, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, built a legacy at Nestlé marked by human rights violations and ruthless resource monopolies.

    The leadership change signals a deeper entrenchment of the WEF’s agenda, not a shift in direction or values.

    Nations must cut ties with WEF-driven initiatives to halt the spread of surveillance, corporate control, and digital oppression.

    Source:
    Nation First, by George Christensen
    Also in X

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      David Maddison

      Why am I not surprised?

      Typical hypocrisy of the Left.

      I wonder if any Aussie taxpayer dollars went to the WEF? Australian Governments have been and are enthusiastic supporters of that evil organisation and those who run it.

      And Government officials and others get to fly there on VIP flights or private jets on taxpayer funded “holidays” (for bureaucrats and politicians) to the luxury ski resort at Davos.

      Australia’s chief censor, the e Safety Kommisar, a position created by the fake conservative Liberal Party, is an enthusiastic participant at the WEF.

      https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/40000-of-taxpayers-money-spent-on-online-content-moderators-trip-to-wef-5634275

      Taxpayers Pay $40,000 for Online Content Moderator’s Trip to World Economic Forum

      Australian taxpayers have been billed over $40,000 for the eSafety Commissioner’s four-day trip to the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024 annual meeting, where she pushed for tighter rules on online safety.

      In January, Ms. Inman Grant, accompanied by a staff member, spent four days meeting senior executives in the artificial intelligence and immersive technology field at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland.

      At a Senate estimate in February, One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts asked Ms. Inman Grant in what capacity she was present at the WEF meeting, what was the cost to taxpayers, and whether staff travelled with her at public expense.

      The total bill was revealed to be $40,971.41 (US$26,350).

      “I achieved more in four days than I could in four years,” Ms. Inman Grant told Mr. Roberts at the Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee on Feb. 22.

      “I asked directly the decision-makers what they are doing to make their platforms safer. I was sharing our leadership and our model in terms of how we’re tackling online safety.”

      SEE LINK FOR REST

      https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/julie-inman-grant/

      Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online.

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        Skepticynic

        And why am I not surprised also?

        >”I achieved more in four days than I could in four years… I asked directly the decision-makers what they are doing to make their platforms safer. I was sharing our leadership and our model in terms of how we’re tackling online safety.”

        She asked a question and gave a report.
        She could easily do that over zoom or skype.
        It shouldn’t cost the taxpayer $40,000 for a 4 day all expenses paid luxury trip to Switzerland for two!
        Anyway, why does she need an assistant just to ask a question and give a report? What was his name and exact role?

        If that is more than she could achieve in four years then she is just a useless office decoration and a waste of money.

        Since the President and Vice-President of the USA are trying to combat censorship in the interests of freedom of expression both at home and internationally, why do we have an ex(?)CIA representative of the USA over here trying to kill freedom of expression?

        The whole thing stinks like a hidden barrel of mackerel.

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      OldOzzie

      Nestlé Australia switches to 100% renewable electricity

      Wind to help power the company’s Net Zero Roadmap

      Favourite Aussie brands including KitKat, Milo, Allen’s, Nescafé, Uncle Tobys and Purina pet food will now be made at factories where 100% of the electricity is sourced from wind power.

      The move comes as Nestlé Australia announces it is now switching to 100% renewable electricity, four years ahead of its global target of 2025.

      The company has partnered with CWP Renewables to make its first renewable power purchase agreement (PPA), bringing the company one step closer to reducing its net emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050.

      The 10-year agreement covers Nestlé’s six Australian factories, two distribution centres, three corporate offices, 20 retail boutiques, and laboratory.

      CWP Renewables’ Crudine Ridge and Sapphire wind farms in NSW will generate enough electricity to cover the electricity used across Nestlé’s sites each year – the equivalent of powering approximately 19,000i households per year.

      The switch to 100% renewable electricity in Australia will mean Nestlé will avoid around 73,000ii tonnes of carbon emissions each year.

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        David Maddison

        Of course, it won’t be 100% “renewables”.

        It will be an accounting trick just like they use for Canberra.

        The simple test for if they run on renewables or not is, if there is no sun or wind and the battery (if any) is flat, do they still get power?

        Also, if it were truly 100% renewables there would be no need for a connection to the grid, just connections to the wind, solar and battery (if any) plantations.

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        Ronin

        How do they separate the replaceable power form the permanent power, is there a filter.

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          Sambar

          Don’t know how they seperate the power source. I know my shire council proudly spends more of the rate payers dollars to buy “green” electricity, meanwhile other things like roads or reducing rates can just whistle in the wind!

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        Skepticynic

        Nestlé, the company that poisoned Flint, Michigan, stole their clean water, and “switched the city’s water supply from one of the largest and cleanest water supplies in the world to the highly corrosive Flint River”
        https://actions.eko.org/a/while-flint-drinks-poison-nestle-is-pumping-out-200-gallons-of-fresh-water-every-minute.

        While their CEO, (now the new head of the WEF, Schwab’s replacement), Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said, “Water is not a human right”.

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    Skepticynic

    Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors

    Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

    Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds.

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/

    …even if user A opts out of Recall, all the users he’s interacting with may not, opening the door to a long chain of potential privacy violations:

    “That means anything User A sends them will be screenshotted, processed with optical character recognition and Copilot AI, and then stored in an indexed database on the other users’ devices. That would indiscriminately hoover up all kinds of User A’s sensitive material, including photos, passwords, medical conditions, and encrypted videos and messages.”

    The simple act of creating this additional massive new archive of detailed user interactions may thrill Microsoft in the era of unregulated data brokers and rampant data monetization, but it creates an entirely new target for bad actors, spyware, subpoena-wielding governments, and foreign and domestic intelligence. In a country that’s literally too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law.

    It’s all very… Microsoft.

    https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/21/microsoft-is-dedicated-to-building-a-dodgy-new-database-of-every-windows-11-users-online-behaviors/

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      David Maddison

      I can’t wait until I make the move to Linux.

      I recently got a new laptop and had no choice but to get Win 11 and I absolutely hate it and its constant popups and “suggestions” and spying, even though I have disabled as much of the “features” and AI as possible.

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        I will shortly need a newer computer – desktop. Mine is almost 8 years old, and the support ends in, IIRC, October ’25.

        I don’t have the skills of many here, so will look for a Linux one – like DM, I do not want another MS Windows.

        But, frankly, I have a fear of the unknown, and no confidence in being able to get started.
        Can anyone recommend a good 101 guide?

        Thanks,
        Auto

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          David Maddison

          For the purpose of trialling it, you can try Linux Mint which you can download to a USB stick for free and run on your Windows PC and it won’t change anything. Linux Mint is designed to be similar in look and feel to Windows. Make sure you back up critical data in any case.

          I plan to do that but haven’t yet done so.

          Also, many people I know, including some commercial organisations, will stick with Windows 10 even after support finishes and will rely on third party antivirus programs to keep them safe after that.

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        John Connor II

        Yep, W11 sucks without serious debloating and tweaking. W7 was the best OS ever.
        However, NO OS will protect you online.
        Every call, every email, every social media site, every site visited can be monitored, traced and stored and the internet backbones are in the USA, home of the trustworthy NSA…

        Note: W10 support will continue but on a paid basis.

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        RexAlan

        I use Linux Mint and have done for about 7-8 years and I find it very easy to use. There are 3 versions that you can use depending on your hardware specifications. I use the Cinnamon version. Just be aware that it will not natively run any windows applications. The installation process is very simple if you do decide to fully install after testing it from a USB. Linux uses a different file system to Windows, Windows uses the “NTFS” file system whereas Linux uses the “Ext 4” file system. There is a huge official app store for you to download from and use, all for free.

        I use the Cinnamon version on my latest PC but it also ran, although a bit slowly on my old Dell Optiplex 755 which was made around 2010.

        https://www.linuxmint.com/

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    David Maddison

    Here’s yet another story in the category of “just when you thought the Left couldn’t get any more crazy”.

    Britain to approve £50m Sun-dimming experiments in bid to prevent runaway climate change

    Scientists are increasingly concerned that further action may be needed to prevent climate change

    Britain is set to approve funding of up to £50million for outdoor experiments to dim sunlight as part of efforts to combat runaway climate change.

    The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) will announce the funded projects within weeks, making Britain one of the world’s biggest funders of geoengineering research.

    Professor Mark Symes, Aria’s programme director, confirmed there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.

    The controversial technology aims to reflect sunlight back into space, potentially providing a temporary brake on rising global temperatures while emissions reduction efforts continue.

    The experiments could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine away from Earth.

    One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection, where tiny particles are released into the stratosphere.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

    https://www.gbnews.com/science/science-news-latest-britain-approve-sun-dimming-experiments-climate-change
    .

    What size of fleet of aircraft, how much energy and how much material do you think has to be launched into the upper atmosphere to have any discernible effect, not that there’s any problem in the first place?

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      Steve

      I guess there aren’t any ‘Snowpiercer’ fans at the Advanced Research and Invention Agency.

      https://snowpiercer.fandom.com/wiki/The_Freeze

      Climate scientists who want to try to terraform/geoengineer the climate of earth have the same blinders on as virologists who want to modify viruses through gain of function in order to create vaccines. They have a total lack of ability to see anything beyond the first order effects that they wish to create, and have no concern whatsoever about unintended consequences.

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      Annie

      Remembering how cold, wet and windy it was in the south of England in early December the last thing they need is to reflect the sunlight away. In the two weeks we were there we had a glimmer of sun the day we arrived and no more until the day we drove to LGW for our flight to Spain.
      They’ve gone mad there, thanks to Microbrain and co; we’re heading the same way here.

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      Jack01

      So they want to tamper with and destroy nature in order to protect the environment. Do these insidious numbskulls have no self awareness or are they so drunk with power they don’t care that their plans are being revealed anymore?

      Climate change is yet another fake “disaster” they’ve invented in which their “solution” will produce an actual, real disaster. Tampering with how much sunlight reaches the earth, what could POSSIBLY go wrong!!!

      We actually have evidence to show that blocking sunlight will absolutely wreck the planet, just search “year without a summer” which was caused by a massive volcanic eruption that blocked the sun and essentially prevented crops from growing in the northern hemisphere and lead to huge famine.

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      Paul Cottingham

      The BBC sacked all scientists who disagreed with Greta, and replaced them with environ mental activists who are described as the ‘best scientific experts’. These experts support injecting aerosols into the atmosphere or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine away from the nations solar panel farms.

      Meanwhile in the last three months, Britain has experienced runaway climate change. Professor Mark Symes, expects to stop the climate from changing by September providing a temporary brake on rising global temperatures until at least January of 2026, when global warming is expected to restart when the small controlled outdoor experiments end.

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    David Maddison

    I must say, I am disappointed that the TRUMP effect hasn’t caught on in other Western countries.

    Just as the United States is returning to reason, common sense, freedom, anti-censorship, pro-energy, traditional morality, cutting Government waste and regulations etc. the woke countries of the world such as Australia, Canada and Western Europe are becoming even more insanely taxed, regulated and controlled.

    There appears to have been no spillover whatsoever.

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      Skepticynic

      Such is the power of the opinion-shapers who own the corporate mainstream media, the big-tech social media, the big corporations and the governments.
      And sadly, such is the gullibility of the masses, as Stanley Milgram showed many decades ago.

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      el+gordo

      The Trump Effect has given Labor a boost and should see them over the line comfortably, according to Exit Polls.

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    David Maddison

    This was posted by Senator Babet on Farcebook:

    There are some people who somehow after everything that has happened still believe that the Liberal party is vastly different to Labor – this is a falsehood – make no mistake there is no difference between Labor/Liberal and on almost every single issue they are identical.

    Both major parties are big spending, big government entities that love to censor the people. They both support Net Zero and the implementation of a Digital ID, putting the privacy and freedoms of everyday Australians at risk.

    The mis/disinformation bill was originally a Liberal Party idea, and both major parties have recently voted to entrench the two party system through amendments to the Electoral Act. This is clear evidence that they have no intention of allowing any real competition or alternative voices to rise.

    Both Labor and Liberal are beholden to international globalist organisations. They are the WHO, the UN, and the WEF’s best friends. These unelected, unaccountable entities have far too much influence on Australian policy, and it’s only through the duopoly’s support that they continue to push their agendas on us.

    Let’s not forget: it was the Liberal Party that signed Australia up to the Paris Agreement, committing us to policies that threaten to cripple our industries and raise costs for hard-working Australians.

    Both major parties have made deals that benefit global elites while leaving the average Australian behind.

    It’s time to break free from the stranglehold of these two parties, who are more concerned with their own power and global agendas than with the needs of the Australian people.

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    John Connor II

    The site is being swamped with requests that started on Saturday.

    Do you mean DDOS?

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    Custer Van Cleef

    As the mass slaughter in Gaza continues, a conservative asks “What would Jesus do?”.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-would-jesus-do/

    . . . with links to historical events — for the ill-informed among us.

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      David Maddison

      The Hamas terrorists started it on October 7th, 2023 with the mass murder of 1200 Israeli civilians plus, rape and torture of those and others plus 240 hostages taken.

      No nation on earth except Israel is expected to not respond to such an atrocity.

      All the Hamas terrorists have to do is return the hostages and it will be all over.

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        OldOzzie

        Palestinian Authority’s Abbas Calls Hamas ‘Sons Of Dogs’ & Demands Release Of Hostages In Fiery Speech

        Political fractures on the Palestinian side have become more and more public as the Gaza war persists.

        On Wednesday Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a strong declaration demanding that Hamas release all remaining Israeli captives in order to prevent Israel from using “an excuse” to continue destroying Palestinian homes and waging war in the Gaza Strip.

        In the unexpected statement, Abbas went so far as to call Hamas militants “sons of dogs”. He said while chairing a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, “You sons of dogs, hand over what you have and get us out of this. Don’t give Israel an excuse. Don’t give them an excuse.”

        “Every day there are hundreds of deaths. Why? They don’t want to hand over the US hostage,” Abbas said, as cited in regional media. This was in reference to US-Israeli captive Adi Alexander. His family has been imploring President Trump to help gain his release. Alexander was born and raised in New Jersey.

        Abbas highlighted that Israel sees itself as justified in erasing Palestinian identity so long as the hostage crisis continues. Fifty-nine hostages, living and dead, remain in the Gaza Strip. Abbas urged Hamas to hand over the hostages in order to “be done with it.”

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      John Connor II

      “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
      – Mark Twain

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        Strop

        Custer’s point isn’t dependent on the bible being the truth. His comment is aimed at those who are Christian and are supporting Israel’s action.
        If he was using Jesus’ example to convince you then the bible being truth or not would matter.

        However, as a Christian I can support Israel’s actions. Even if the article tries to portray it as not what Jesus would do.
        Using Jesus as an example of how we should act would mean when someone tries to kill/crucify us then we just accept it as God’s plan and don’t fight back.

        We know that the Israeli’s have been quite careful in their attempts to get hostages back and defeat Hamas. Yes, there is collateral damage. That’s on Hamas.
        The Israeli’s would live peacefully if that was possible.

        It’s funny how collateral damage has not broadly mattered in many conflicts. But it apparently does when it’s the Jews.

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          John Connor II

          Yes, but “what would Zeus do?” has the same value.

          More people have been killed in the nane of religion than any other cause.
          Deep seated hate and intolerance to non-believers of any faith will only end when religions cease to exist.

          If the punishment for non-believers for any faith is hell, and as everyone only believes in one faith, then logically everyone’s going to hell.

          Only dogs go to heaven.😁

          I wonder if Noah’s wooden ark took on 2 woodpeckers and 2 beavers..

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            Strop

            What would Zeus do doesn’t have the same value in Custer’s argument because it’s aimed at Christians.
            What would Zeus do has the same value if the argument was aimed at Atheists.

            Lots of people have been killed over religious matters. That doesn’t make religion bad per se. It just shows people can be.

            Lots of people have been killed by those who opposed religion too.

            So where does that leave us? Every option is bad?

            As for the “logic” that everyone is going to hell, except dogs. There’s no logic in the premise that everyone only believes in one faith.

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    John Connor II

    Global amyloidogenic health disaster with Dr Kevin McCairn

    Last month, in a presentation given to Health Alliance Australia, systems neuroscientist Dr. Kevin McCairn discussed his analysis of the unusual fibrous white clots retrieved from deceased, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein which is in the covid “vaccines.”

    Dr. McCairn’s laboratory offers tests to detect amyloid burden through blood samples. Ninety per cent of blood sent to Dr. McCairn has the spike protein-induced amyloidogenic peptides. It is very concerning that clots taken from the body of the deceased still contain prions with a very strong signal months after they have been removed from the body; there are severe implications for public health, particularly concerning infected blood used for transfusions.

    His latest laboratory findings and research have revealed a global amyloidogenic health disaster, where misfolded fibrin (protein) is causing multi-organ dysfunction, neurodegeneration, cancer, heart disease and other health issues.

    https://healthallianceaustralia.org/webinars/dr-kevin-mccairn-health/

    https://rumble.com/v6sforn-spike-prions-what-dark-secret-are-they-hiding.html

    With next year shaping up to be the year for Disease-X, get your surgeries done now!
    /Outside of Oz if you’re vaxxed. 😉

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    John Connor II

    “Nothing is easier than to have good intentions but, without an understanding of how an economy works, good intentions can lead to disastrous consequences for a whole nation.”
    – Thomas Sowell

    Vote away…

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      Robert Swan

      John Connor II,

      Since you’re in good form today, and the server problems stopped me responding to you yesterday, I’ll give it a go now.

      Yesterday you quoted an article that used a flywheel as an analogy for human progress. Here’s part of what you quoted:

      Due to the inertia of the wheel, each turn of the engine makes only a small impact on its speed; at first not much seems to be happening at all. But the compounding investment of energy into the wheel eventually accelerates it to enormous velocity.

      It seems the author has no idea of how flywheels store energy. It’s nothing like the exponential growth he’s trying to explain. Each doubling of a flywheel’s speed takes a quadrupling of the energy input. Each additional rpm is *harder* to achieve than the one before.

      You went on to say:

      …and as I’ve said about AGI, it’s not decades away, it’s imminent, and this is why.

      Ironic, because the analogy *is* pretty good for this. How much more energy has been sunk into AI recently, and how little progress. Still good for pretty pictures, nice sounding words and wrong answers.

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