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Before we were all engaged with the Net Zero part of agenda 2030, the problem of smoking was the previous one tackled with much gusto by the omnipresent moral busy bodies. Fiscal anti-smoking policies are part of the SDGs.
How that’s all going then? https://theasialive.com/burning-out-how-australias-bid-to-cut-smoking-rates-exploded-into-suburban-tobacco-wars/2024/11/02
(and yes, there is a slight change in lung cancer per 100,000 in over 40s, but this is more than offset by increases in all other cancers per 100,000 – if you die of another cancer before the lung cancer gets you, then not a lot of point to all this fuss, is there? If you just get shot in the crossfire of some tobacco gang war)
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Well, predictably the left wing exploded so I shall buy the Guardian tomorrow to observe their wailing.
Kamala still hasn’t appeared to her followers concede defeat even though Trump was declared Victor around 9 hours ago. It makes her look even worse.
Some people admit to changing their minds
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/05/why-i-changed-my-mind-on-trump/
I got the impression last time around that Trump didnt really know where the Swamp was never mind how he was going to drain it. Presumably this time round he will know who to target
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Yes the idea is he will act quickly because he knows the game. Word is they are preparing 300 or so Executive Orders for immediate release in Jan. Also he might actually go after alarmist science which was blocked last time on political grounds but this time he cannot run again so has nothing to lose politically. Might even tap Happer again to red team it.
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Why would you reward this left wing rag for some morbid curiosity? The guardian will be increasingly irrelevant along with the UK under Starmer. The so-called news outlet deserves to die.
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In Britain, Europe, Australia and now it seems, America, it seems that very many people can’t afford to buy their own homes until much later in life
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/homebuyer-average-age-rises-to-56-amid-rising-homeownership-costs.html
Nothing of course to do with the unprecedented number of migrants who obviously need to live somewhere and compete for rental and permanent homes.
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In the USA, a new pickup truck can cost over $60,000 with another 10% for taxes, fees, and license. Interest rates are over 6%. Part of the high cost is to make-up the loss on EVs. That amounts to 2X the cost of our first house in 1972. I was 28.
Salaries have gone up to. Apparently not as fast as costs. I don’t need a new house or a new truck, so have not been paying much attention.
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UK Farmers are now to pay 20% inheritance taxes on land/buildings value of the farm over £1 million. Reason given is that there are wealthy people hiding inheritances in farmland.
For family farms, scuse the pun, this is a death knell.
No productive farm in the UK will be valued at less than the million. According to Charles Mallet on UK column, when you strip out grants and subsidies, average annual income per full-time UK farmer is £16,000. Dunno where they would be able to find the funds to pay taxes to pay during inheritance? If the kids stay, the farm will accumulate liens.
The land value of a farm matters little to a farmer in the scheme of their life, except when it comes to financing big investments / improvements – adding to the overall value of the plot will be a consideration. But, if this is just going to leave tax burden for the kids, the investments and major improvements will not happen.
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This was done with the Popery Act of 1704 to destroy Ireland and the farms of Irish Catholics, forcing them distribute farms equally among their large families. Which made them instantly non viable and worthless. It worked brilliantly. No primo geniture for Catholics. Or family trusts. Or co-ops.
The aim of this tax is not revenue. As you point out, there is no revenue. It will destroy the farms. Rather this is about destroying agriculture under the pretext of Climate Change. And growing useless trees not food. NASA has indirectly shown that growing trees does not reduce CO2. But that’s not the real objective.
It is a War on the West and the food supply, operated by priviliged politicians and public servants who have never seen a farm or a factory or driven a truck or tractor or actually had to make a living by hard work or grow any food. And it is designed by cosseted public servants with more loyalty to Brussels than to their own country. A fifth column inside Whitehall. No BREXIT for them. And similarly in the EU with the attack on fertilizer in the Nederlands, the most productive farmers in Europe. The fertilizer ban destroyed Sri Lanka. For a good cause? No.
The current attack in Australia at present is a hidden and massive 35% Carbon Tax on every source of CO2, CH4. All travel, trucking, factories, farms. Even sewage. Same logic. It will come to the UK. And it is not a tax, not a carbon tax. It is robbery aimed to destroy Western democracies. Power supplies and farming. Crippling. It’s what your enemy would do first.
My hope is that we see a major shift with Donald Trump and his rejection of the absurdity of 36 years of man made Climate Change as something which is real. It’s completely unproven science but a very real and present danger to Western democracies. From the enemy within.
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Unfortunately we are up for a few more years of Labour government in UK, while the areas with significant farming are generally Conservative – and even when sick of the Tories, go LibDem (large swathes of Somerset are now Orange). So I’m afraid the current government are going to give the farmers a hiding.
I reckon you are right about Climate Change being behind this move – large parts of Somerset are also identified as ‘suitable’ for wind / solar power. The wealthy will find other places to stash their wealth – the revenue is going to be minimal, and tough to collect.
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They will buy into tree farms on your land. This is the way theft is legitimized while shutting down agriculture. Money for growing trees to save the planet. Zero work. And returns the UK to the land before humans. Useless. While laundering the carbon taxes as valuable planet saving carbon credits which have to be paid by carbon criminals like farmers and manufacturers and truckers. You will be given no choice.
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‘Democracy is hijacked’: Anti-oil activists take credit for spray-painting US Embassy in London over Trump victory, ‘fascism’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/anti-oil-activists-us-embassy
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Everyone else is a Fascist except black shirted violent thugs who want to destroy society. It’s textbook Marxist social disruption to bring on their dream revolution. And empowers the fringe dwellers who have the time and money and disdain for work to lecture everyone else on their economic chastity and godless morality. You don’t see them in Tianamen square protesting against the country which produces nearly half the world’s CO2.
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With…paint products…derived from oil…
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Well done Mr Trump.
Now in Australia all we need do is to boot out Airbus Albo, Blackout Bowen, Wenny Pong, Dim Chalmers and all the other Marxists.
And give the KRudd the boot as well.
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It’s worldwide. The battle is engaged in the Nederlands, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden and now the US. The fightback. It hasn’t started in Australia.
And nowhere is it more important than in the only democratic superpower, the US. We have had Pax Americana for 80 years after WWII, despite the best efforts of warmongers. It has been a Golden Age. And the military industrial complex hate it. They will be fuming with the closing of the current wars on Israel and Russia and the end of the rivers of cash. I cannot wait for the wars to end, senseless wars. Wars are always about greed wrapped in good intentions and promoted by those who benefit.
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The Left and their Elite masters will be devastated by the outbreak of peace which will happen under Trump.
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Dick Smith – still sold on climate change, but still able to run the numbers to see renewables are not the answer: https://cairnsnews.org/2024/11/04/dick-smith-exposes-the-sheer-folly-of-wind-turbines-with-ian-mcnamara/
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Of course. Who can blame him? When have you ever read man made CO2 driven Global Warming ridiculed in the press? Forget four hundred years of Rational Science. It’s the new world of Consensus Science.
So Foxy Loxy and Loosey Goosey and Cocky Locky and Ducky Lucky and Turkey Lurkey all agree with Henny Penny/Chicken Little. The sky is falling! Send money.
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Thank you TdeF. I will use that in my usual diatribe to Letters to the Editor (some of which are published and it seems more likely with time – and less from the Greens).
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Transition …. wind turbines just about everywhere;
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/environmentalist-reveals-more-than-17000-wind-turbines-are-being-proposed-for-the-nation/video/de559058432c333deb34cfcda42f3a6d
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Call me a pessimist but until Kamala validates the election results and Trump is sworn in, I feel there are still ways to derail the process.
One only has to see that the Democrats do the very things they accuse their opponents of, to know that there are enough loonies in their ranks willing to do whatever it takes to “protect democracy”.
I do hope I am wrong.
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And in case you missed it, Donald Trump’s statement that Joe Biden hated Kamala has been borne out in Biden’s statement that Republican voters are garbage but even more dramatically in Jill Biden’s outfit on her way to vote. Is there a message? The grin says it all.
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Kamala still holds that she could have won and has still not conceded. And Joe/Dr. Jill think they could have won. What is truly amazing is that in the entire Democratic party, they could not have found a better candidate than either? But I guess Obama/Clinton/Pelosi/Schumer/Xi didn’t want a strong, competent, experienced, independent minded candidate.
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Kamala Harris simply had NO policies. She could not even answer any question put to her. A complete waste of space.
The Democrats have been put back in the box. Just lock the box and throw away the key.
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And encase the box in marine engine sound proofing.
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Kamala had no ability, no knowledge, no experience, no logic. I did not hear a single statement which made sense. And looking at her past, she ducked every exam, plagiarized and used the push for DEI to get to the top. Especially as a female.
The whole point of the movement for more professional jobs for women was that they are equal in intelligence and ability and need equal opportunity.
It does a great disservice to this movement to give women a job only because they are women. This new view of positive discrimination is a disaster for everyone. It even happens in surgery. Do you really want a less competent surgeon or pilot of Captain because they are from a minority group? This happens, as with the sinking of the NZ navy ship on a coral reef! It should be equal opportunity, not equal outcomes as is now the demand in corporations and universities and professional bodies.
Kamala really redefined the Peter Principle. She was so far above her level of competence it must be a world record. Henceforth perhaps the Kamala Principle. Or was it that Kamala was precisely what her employers wanted to replace senile old Joe?
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Sky broadcast three of her presentations to rallies simultaneously and her words and body language were almost identical
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As you all will know soon, Kamala has conceded. The work begins for Trump and co. On the other hand, his enemies may well proceed with lawfare against him. But they will only incur further dissent in the US.
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Trump is the President America deserves
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FWIW
“If Women Ran The World”
“The entire girl boss “I’m speaking” campaign sends a man out to speak for her on election night.
Perfection. 10/10″
https://x.com/redsteeze/status/1854037982413508749
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/11/06/if-women-ran-the-world-75/
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Given the Demon-rat’s electoral fraud, I wonder what the REAL margin is that Trump won by?
It is already 292 Trump vs 224 to the DEI candidate.
How many more votes would Trump have got if it was an honest election?
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I can’t wait until all the anti-Trump Hollyweirdos who promised to leave the United States if Trump was elected do so. Just like they promised at the last Trump election…
Perhaps Elon Musk, who will be part of the Trump Administration (and working for free), can send them to Mars on his Starship? They would be no use to any country on earth and not wanted
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>can’t wait until all the anti-Trump Hollyweirdos who promised to leave the United States
No!
Some of them said they want to come here.
Hey we’re already full thanks. We’ve already got more than our fair share of woke idiots.
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What have you got against Martians, David – we don’t want to upset our close neighbours and besides, their 96% atmospheric CO2 could be turned into a Death Ray and aimed at the White House (or was that from a BBC ‘climate election update’?).
And what’s that whining sound I hear… could it be all those actors/singers/fakirs* who so wanted to save the planet they’re cranking up their private jets to get the heck out of Dodge before the sheriff rides back into town?
Congratulations USA, done well, even though you’ve still got Jaded Joe and his Puppeteers in kontrol until Jan 6 2025… two months to go… good luck.
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Will Trump’s second exit from the Paris Accords encourage others to do so?
Sadly, I think it will have no effect on the more fanatically woke WEF and UN following countries like Australia. We remain committed to complete economic destruction from “green” energy.
China is by far the world’s largest CO2 emitter, at least twice as large the next biggest emitter, the United States and rapidly increasing. No complaints from the Left about that.
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David:
Many European countries (excluding some politicians and Climate “Scientists”) want to change. Even Germany the population want change and will vote out the current lot along with the EU bureaucrats as soon as they are able.
Germany is in depression and desperately needs cheap natural gas to revive. They might get it from the resergent frakking industry in the USA or possibly from Russia (if the war is finished). There is still one unused Nordstream pipeline available.
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Thank God we are to be unburdened by what could have been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Urr_JTDrU
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It appears Trump will get Arizona to take his college votes to 312.
I posted this link last Sunday that predicted 312:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ8youKylbk
Just lucky or unbiased assessment of the polling?
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I thought over 300 was most likely and there were almost no surprises and also that there are a few combinations which would lead to 312. The big questions on the night were Georgia and Pennsylvania. When they fell it was over. And it was a delight to see Wisconsin, Tampon Tim’s state, go to the Republicans. I am sure Walz was a bad choice, but then it was Xi doing the choosing. And if ever there was a Manchurian Candidate, it was Tim Walz.
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One of Trump’s highest priorities should be to encourage or if possible legislate nation-wide electoral reform plus standards to ensure one person, one vote, no illegals or non-citizens vote, electoral rolls are valid with no dead people, non-citizens or illegals, ban electronic voting machines, ban mail-in or mail-out votes unless for the disabled or other legitimate reasons for not being able to attend a polling place plus such votes have to be applied for and are not automatic. Etc.. These rules theoretically apply in Australia where voting is mostly considered honest although we still have appalling quality candidates (with one handful of exceptions).
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Phew!
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I wonder if the Demon-rats think they should have kept Joe? I bet those who told Joe what to think and say, wife Jill and Barack Hussein are upset.
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Will US subsidy harvesters now be pulling out of wind and solar plantation projects?
Will real investors now start building or upgrading real power stations such as coal, gas and nuclear plants (most hydro sites are already exploited)?
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In the last two months of the Biden-Harris-Obama Maladministration, I hope they don’t do anything to sabotage Trump or encourage riots and other Leftist violence.
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