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Wind and Solar are bludgers, leaners not lifters
Lars Schernikau wrote, “The grid-scale build-out of wind and solar to replace oil, coal and gas is probably one of the greatest mistakes that humanity has ever made.”
https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/german-energy-expert-says-energy-transition-a-mistake-2024-10-18
Wind and solar power are unreliable energy providers. They lean on more productive providers, like children who never leave home, they stay on rent-free, they use your car, they don’t do cleaning and they don’t put their things away. And they say they are doing it to save the planet!
Lars Schernikau with his colleague William Smith have demonstrated that in many cases and at system levels the “unreliables” consume more energy than they produce and a state like South Australia or a country where the energy supply is moving towards domination by wind and solar will eventually suffer from energy starvation.
They have produced a brilliantly illustrated video to promote their book,
https://youtu.be/j3d4348UxvY
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It takes a special type of incompetence to reduce a country to not being able to use their airconditioners and dishwashers during the day when that country is awash in coal and natural gas and sunshine.
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Sorry, the time when incompetence was a valid excuse is long past.
When a little old duck like me, living in regional central Queensland with nothing more than an internet connection and an enquiring mind, can know the risks and shortfalls of such a policy, there’s no excuse left for those governing us to not know.
Does there come a time when outright ill intent appears to be the one remaining reason for this disaster in the making?
Are we even looking at deliberate damage to our electricity supply, horrific though that prospect may be?
Benefit of the doubt only goes so far.
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This old duck has felt much the same for quite a while now Bushkid.
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If it was accident then now or then it might come out in our favour … simply by random chance.
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Rafe Champion, #1
____More like a (inter)national takedown.
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Bad Models and Worse Science in WA
Within government, academia and the media in Western Australia it is now virtually an undeniable “truth” that rainfall in the southwest of the state is in permanent decline, and that this is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The premise is that only Net Zero by 2050 will correct the situation.
However, this is a deception, based on flawed models and failure to consider long-term rainfall records. Rainfall data collected over a period of 160 years support an alternative hypothesis: rainfall patterns follow multi-decadal cycles, and there have been many periods in our history when the climate has been wetter or dryer than average. As I will outline below, my attempts to discuss this alternative scenario with model-makers and government have been fruitless. Simply put, ‘climate modellers’ and proponents of “climate change” are in the ascendancy, and they choose to ignore the empirical data because their models cannot explain it.
In this discussion, I start with four things about which the model-makers and I agree. I do not dispute that carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the greenhouse gases, although by far not the most dominant. I agree that rainfall has been generally below long-term averages over recent decades. I also agree that without greenhouse gases our Earth would be inhospitably cold, and humans would not have evolved. Finally, CO2 is not a dangerous pollutant, it is a key ingredient in the process of photosynthesis, without which all humans would die.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/doomed-planet/bad-models-and-worse-science-in-wa/
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Frank Batinii might agree with model makers about 4 things but many here do not.
I was meaning to address the misconception that the world would be a frozen ice ball in the sbsence of radiative (greenhouse) gases.
I will do so down thread when I am properly awake.
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I was wondering about that.
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A youtube that MIGHT explain this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqeZTruWMY
What causes an ice age
It’s quite truthful for the first 10 seconds, after that it becomes a typical case of CO2 causes everything beloved by Academics.
It doesn’t make mention of the Sun getting warmer nor of the frequent cases where colder climate occurred at higher CO2 levels.
In any case if CO2 was warming the planet by radiating heat back to the surface, this would increase the rate of heat being radiated to space.
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The fallacy is that some so-called “greenhouse effect” controls Earth’s energy balance. The obvious truth is that ocean surface is temperature limited to a sustainable 30C. There is no ocean surface that sustains more than 30C over an annual cycle. That has been the case since the dinosaurs disappeared and Earth settled to the current atmospheric mass.
It is possible to now observe the development of convective potential around the globe on a daily basis and the temperature regulation doing its job.
The notion that climate change has only occurred since humans started burning carbon fuels is obvious nonsense. Climate always changes and always will because no place on Earth ever gets the same daily peak sunlight.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/12/argo-and-the-ocean-temperature-maximum/
Willis Eschenbach noticed years ago that a natural saturation curve exists and puts the limit around 30C.
It’s been posted here multiple times … and shows up both in the ocean surface temp and the satellite data. It’s a fundamental property of water molecules. BTW Ed Krug in his book, “Environment Betrayed: The Abuse of a Just Cause” also described this mechanism and gave references to even older material suggesting it was once well known.
Makes you wonder, huh?
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As the saying goes:
Expect the climate, prepare for weather.
Perusing a number of met sites while sipping on my first coffee, this alert intrigued me –
Warning to Sheep Graziers, NSW and Tasmania,
“cold temperatures, rain [and] easterly winds”.
Victoria has only got “brown rot” to worry about – Chairman Dan’s legacy is still hanging around?
Hot cold wet dry – it’s hard making predictions, especially about the future. Meanwhile we dodged a bullet with a YUGE deep 940mb low bigger than Australia sliding underneath the country and heading for Chile, while a similarly sized storm over Finland is hammering northern Europe (or do we now call it NATO?).
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Hey, hey, hey, you forgot our 2 day heat wave where the temperatures were as high as the LOW 30’s in some districts. Not quite sure how I survived working as a fettler on the Adelaide to Alice Springs rail line back in the early sixties. Those lovely desert days when the temperature on the rail trolley was often measured in the high 50’s. A cool drink was from the hessian water bag, shade didn’t exist in the rail line corridor, to touch anything metal was an instant burn and even the wooden handled shovels required gloves to touch.
The daily target for our gang was replace 10 sleepers per day per man. Thirty fettlers and one ganger, 310 sleepers, take a walk along a railway and see how far that really is. Still we had all the latest equipment to help us. The best Cyclone brand picks, shovels, sledge hammers, Australian made rail spikes and crow bars. The old sleepers were worn down to a couple of inches thick while the new sleepers were 6 inches thick. The compacted desert bed was harder than concrete. We could all go back to camp as soon as the job was finished, regardless of how quickly or otherwise the job progressed. As soon as the jobs done boys, we’ll be back in camp. Camp, a spur line put in when we arrived with a few old rail carriages as sleeping quarters and a cooks galley in one. Air conditioning was simply don’t worry, once the sun goes down the temp often dropped to zero, she’ll be right.
Compared to the original track layers we had it easy.
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‘In my view, any climate model that cannot explain the past can have no credibility when used to predict the future.’
Yep, intuitively its the blocking high pressure behind the droughty conditions, the subtropical ridge is perpetually stuck in the Bight.
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As Oz is headed down the same road worth reading this report which admits that drastic lifestyle changes are needed to achieve Net zero. Within the link is a larger report called Minus 45 which contains more information. David is given a mention
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/28/time-for-starmer-to-be-honest-about-what-net-zero-means-rationing-blackouts-and-travel-restrictions-in-the-next-five-years/
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The US seems to be sticking its fingers in its ears and hands over its eyes in its apparent unwilingness to admit that its soaring National Debt could derail the economy. Do they really want Musk to draw attention to it?
https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-raises-alarm-americas-massive-national-debt/
The Dollars status as a reserve currency is the only thing preventing more widespread concern but those days are likely at an end as Brics asserts itself
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The level of debt is not a concern in itself. Foreigners hold 25% of the debt. That is needed to lubricate the wheels of the global economy albeit demand is falling as the BRICS establish their own currency base.
USA does have a current account problem because that is running at around $1tr a year now. The balance collapsed after Trump left office.
The current account can be fixed by halting the purchase of stuff made in China – primarily electronics. Also from Canada by building energy independence.
USA has been cast in the role of global policeman. That has come at a cost to the productivity of the country. And it has not garnered respect.
Most currencies are losing value wrt to the USD. USA has inflation issues due to government spending and declining productivity but that can be changed quickly by not demonising carbon.
One aspect of note is that the US population is still quite young at median age of 38.3. China is now 39.6. Germany is getting old at 45.3 median age and casting its wealth to the wind (literally).
The majority of people are yet to wake up that globalists have taking over the education institutes while UN propaganda is pervasive. The climate scam has done enormous harm but there are still many who remain scammed. Denial of being scammed is a maladaptive coping mechanism. A lot of people will die with the belief that CO2 can change Earth’s energy balance. But fewer in the USA than UK. That does not bode well for the UK.
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Its more complicated than this, and simpler..
“The current account can be fixed by halting the purchase of stuff made in China – primarily electronics. Also from Canada by building energy independence.”
If you stop buying cheap stuff from the countries who make it cheapest, that stuff will cost more for people living in your country. They either suffer a drop in standard of living, or you get more inflation.
“USA has been cast in the role of global policeman. That has come at a cost to the productivity of the country. And it has not garnered respect.”
The USA took the role of Empire head from the UK and used its power to subjugate every part of the world it could. That gave the American petro-dollar a totally undeserved power and gave America a free ride on every other country. Of course there is no respect for that behaviour.
“Most currencies are losing value wrt to the USD. USA has inflation issues due to government spending and declining productivity but that can be changed quickly by not demonising carbon.”
All the world had inflation issues as a West-dominated economic system based on Keynesian stupidity rolls to its eventual collapse. A return to a gold standard will solve that problem, and those that don’t do it will all become Zimbabwes and 1930s Germany. Politicians can never be trusted with a printing press.
With the practice of double-think becoming necessary to live in today’s world, people will adapt to making all the right noises about what they think and do, while privately agreeing climate change is rubbish and trying to work their lives around it. Hopefully Trump is the trigger to start moving back the other way.
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But the politicians don’t want to ever have to give up their beloved printing press. The only way any country can move to sound money is if somehow the leaders volunteer to tie their own hands … and worse, they will also draw the ire of all their trading partners because those leaders don’t want to be shown up in front of their own people.
Keynes was a genius … not about economics but about telling powerful people what they wanted to hear.
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At the recent BRICS meeting China set up a bank to rival the IMF, Sri Lanka is being squeezed to death and needs a lifeline.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3288747/dissanayakes-sri-lankan-government-scratches-imf-revamp-sparking-doubts-economic-recovery
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Absolutely nothing surprising there EG… Political hopeful promises free unicorns and rainbows for the poor, once elected dumps it all and continues the kneel before the WEF.
There is no quick solution, British civilisation was built on 300 years of blood and sweat, and trying to shortcut that with the third world only leads to disruption and pain. I saw it through Africa, SE Asia is not much different and South America is still trying to avoid it.
Those in power get rich very quickly as modern tech, education and systems arrive, but the majority of the population get left behind. Populist politicians promise lies in their newly-created independent democracies and gullible voters put them in power, but in the tradition of any democracy they immediately renege on their promises.
Give it another 100years and these countries will be more stable, although the voters never get any wiser…
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Sri Lanka needs to embrace the free enterprise model and privatise most State Owned Enterprises, then they might be permitted to join the BRICS club.
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Following on from
MeAgain # 20 Friday and “informed consent”
One son has had some recent medical problems. For each change of treatment his doctor has pointed his mobile at U-tubes of the relevant subject and said
“Read that”
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Had the same thing for CRPS from a doc and I was actually grateful for it .
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FWIW – past time to leave
“Scared Yet? U.N. Court to Decide Penalties for Countries that Defy Climate Diktats”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/11/29/scared-yet-u-n-court-to-decide-penalties-for-countries-that-defy-climate-diktats/
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pfftt.. Its just another ‘soft-warfare’ tool for countries to use against one another, like sanctions and tariffs. Some bloc will get together and sue a member of another bloc, and a decision will get passed that gets ignored..
You can see how well it works, the West crucified South Africa until the they gave the Blacks power, and instantly the country turned into the corrupt hell-hole it is today. How much responsibility have the people behind those sanctions taken?
There will be trade wars going on based on global warming myths while the Earth cools, but it won’t stop them. Disbanding the UN and associated parasitic international organisations will help!
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Don’t forget that was a “double” as Zim was first
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“What Part of Mandate Don’t You Understand?”
“This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them.” — Jeff Childers”
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/what-part-of-mandate-dont-you-understand
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The other way for Biden to have a positive legacy is to do what Trump is planning to do – end the war.
The fact that Rutte has already met with Trump would suggest Trump is in control. But Biden is still POTUS.
Putin clearly has great respect for Trump and some genuine concern over his longevity in the new job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCWKshYoCE
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“- end the war” and create a matching book end. Obama got his Nobel Peace prize coming in and Biden gets his going out.
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A lot of opposition from the Democrats and RINOs, as part of the Military Industrial Complex, I would say.
George Orwell, 1984
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I refer to the 29/8/24 post on the Gas Industry and the recent outcome in the SANTOS Tiwi Island Federal Court case and other cases ongoing.
Reported well by The Australian Geoff Chambers & WA reporters Paul Garvey among others.
26/11/24 Inside lawfare plot to block Santos’s $5.8bn Barossa gas project
30/11/2024 Santos opponents referred to NACC over failed legal bid to block gas project
Senator McDonald is reported as stating
“I would go so far as to say it’s a form of economic terrorism to be trying to stop or at the very best delay and obfuscate those projects, that make it harder for that investment and future projects to go ahead.”
To all Jo Nova bloggers who recall Matt & Janet Thompson Narrogin Beef Producers and the EDO Dr Johannes Schoombee, DEC and the complaints made against their feedlot. And the result for the Thompson family and
Lindley Boseley
BOSELEY Lindley Andrew Death notice 17APR2010 Memorial Service 41 at Narrogin WA, formerly of Cowangie VIC Adelaide Advertiser 10APR2010
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/11/death-of-a-feedlot-operator/
https://joannenova.com.au/2010/07/tyranny-how-to-destroy-a-business-with-environmental-red-tape/
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It was a very dark day that. A terrible price. 🙁
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I wasn’t aware of this until reading it just now and watching the two videos.
It’s heartbreaking.
I have clients involved in agriculture, both broadacre cropping and livestock. We discuss the ever encroaching red- and green-tape that is making their lives harder all the time. All too often, they only know of the changes to legislation or regulations when they butt up against them in their daily operations.
These are the people who feed us and who generate export income for Australia. They grow the grains, vegetables and legumes we consume, the meats we eat, the natural fibres that we like to wear.
Our governments at all levels, prodded and cajoled by NGOs supposedly defending the environment, continually restrict their ability to grow our food and fibre in any meaningfully profitable way.
Eventually, those good farms, often tended and nurtured by successive generations of the same family, will be made unprofitable for family operations, and be sucked up by multi-national giants who will not care about the land or the environment, just the profits.
I grew up on a small farm of about 1,200 acres. It was a dairy and mixed cropping family operation, still run in my childhood on less-enlightened lines than is now the norm. My brother took over that farm in 1969 and turned it around into an environmentally thriving and profitable farm. As we learn, we do better.
Farming now is a very modern, multi-million dollar enterprise, even for family operations. From satellite navigation for precision tilling, planting, harvesting and even precise spot weed control in cropping, to precise monitoring of individual animals for health, growth and weight gain for meat production, modern agriculture is as lean and clean as it can be, yet is always seeking to be even better. These investments in technology and management are huge. At the same time, care of the land itself is critical to sustained operations in this, a geologically old continent with long-weathered and often marginal soils – nobody in agriculture deliberately damages their land.
At some point, governments and bureaucrats must understand the damage they are doing – and change.
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Added
In remembrance of Lindley
https://joannenova.com.au/2010/07/tyranny-how-to-destroy-a-business-with-environmental-red-tape/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/11/death-of-a-feedlot-operator/
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Possibly the most important role in the new Trump administration is UN ambassador. At this stage Elise Stefanik has been chosen for her open support of Isreal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZK5pB0ayko
But she needs to have a much greater role in influencing the direction of the organisation. The fundamental question should be: Does the UN deserve to be saved?
This is the infamous clip of Stefanik trying to get an answer from Harvard President:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwu3rBAWvOQ
Think how much money that could be saved if the UN declares the climate scam is over. All those hopefuls from the third world would get on doing productive stuff rather than learning how to be beggars.
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I have a lot of trouble seeing the UN as a positive force in the world. They act like self serving megalomaniacs and even areas with superficially caring facades have disturbing stories if you peel just one layer of the onion back.
If the UN disappeared in total tomorrow, would much change? Beyond a fall in airline and hotel revenues I mean.
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If the Ukraine war ends in a matter of months as Trump takes office then It is further proof that the UN has no role.
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The UN has outlived its usefulness in my opinion. I would not say it wasn’t useful. We all doom and gloom but overall, the world has been a much more peaceful place since 1945 – pax Americana? Not sure that is the result of the UN though. It has become a left-wing lobby group and the lobbied arbitrator, the whiskey nosed judge who likes young boys, kind of thing. I see it as the enemy of the world.
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“but overall, the world has been a much more peaceful place since 1945 ”
Not if you were unlucky enough to be in any of the following countries-
1950–1953: Korean War: The United States responded to the North Korean invasion of South Korea by going to its assistance.
1950–1955: Formosa (Taiwan):President Truman ordered the U.S. Seventh Fleet to prevent People’s Liberation Army attacks upon Formosa.
1950: Puerto Rico-The United States National Guard used (weapons) to counterattack Puerto Rican freedom fighters.
1955–1964: Vietnam:
1956: Egypt:
1958: Lebanon: 1958 Lebanon crisis.
1959–1960: The Caribbean: ..the Cuban Revolution.
1962: Thailand: The Third Marine Expeditionary Unit
1962: Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis.
1962–1975: Laos:the United States was fighting a covert military operation using CIA paramilitary forces, known as The Secret War.
1964: Congo (Zaire):
1965: Invasion of Dominican Republic:
1968: Laos & Cambodia: U.S. starts secret bombing campaign against targets along the Ho Chi Minh trail
1974: Evacuation from Cyprus:
1978: Zaire (Congo):
and I can’t be bothered copying all the rest… No, America has just used its military to make sure no-one challengers the top place in the world that they took from England. Admittedly, being a lapdog of America has meant the West has enjoyed 70years of more-or-less peace, but the rest of the world has suffered. Certainly the UN has done nothing positive, any independent journo writing about UN troops stationed in a country will show that.
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The UN is still popular among ethnic minorities experiencing ethnic conflict.
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Cloudine Gay – an obvious DEI placement.
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In “I wondered what that light on the dashboard was” news
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“It’s much , much worse than we thought”
In the comments you will find links to the known side effects and lethality of the “vax”.
Not very pleasant reading , when you have four adult “vaxed” children, all with young families.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/let-it-rip-canard-reflections-jay-bhattacharya
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It’s pretty hard to believe this , but read the released documents for yourselves :-
y documents ordered released by the court:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-greatest-crime-against-humanity-in-history-naomi-wolfs-11-revelations-from-pfizer-vaccine-documents/
11 revelations from Pfizer vaccine documents
#1:
Pfizer knew their gene-based injections had negative efficacy as early as November 2020.
#2:
Shortly after release of the COVID injections on the market, Pfizer moved to hire 2,400 full-time employees to process the paperwork of the injured.
#3:
Pfizer and the FDA withheld information that the shots cause heart damage in youth for four months while an aggressive propaganda campaign drove many thousands to get injected.
“Pfizer knew in May of 2021 that the vaccines had caused heart damage in 35 minors within a week after the injection”.
#4:
Rather than staying in the injection site, Pfizer knew the shot’s dangerous lipid nanoparticles quickly distribute throughout the body. And there is no evidence they ever leave.
#5:
Side effects in Pfizer documents far more severe than CDC and doctors told patients.
The Pfizer documents acknowledge more than 42,000 adverse events, including 1,200 deaths, in just the first three months.
#6:
Prior to it being legal, more than 1,000 children were injected, and Pfizer’s documents indicate a high rate of serious injury.
Pfizer injected 62 kids, some of them as young as two months old, 28 of whom there were no records of the results available. We don’t know if they survived.
Among the 34 whose records are still in the Pfizer documents, there’s a seven-year-old British girl who sustained a stroke, and there’s a two-month-old baby with liver damage.
#7:
Pfizer documents reveal a ‘Mengele-type experiment… on how to disrupt and impair human reproduction.’ Available records of study participants who conceived children show 80% lost their babies.
270 women conceived children of whom Pfizer reportedly “lost the records” of 234. Of the 36 remaining women whose pregnancies came to term, over 80 percent of them lost their babies by spontaneous abortion or miscarriage.
#8:
Pfizer knew there was a danger to fertility. Lipid Nanoparticles damage the placenta during pregnancy, causing early deliveries. Lots of chromosomal abnormalities as well.
#9:
Pfizer docs show that lipid nanoparticles also enter breast milk, stunting, injuring and sometimes killing babies.
#10:
Pfizer docs show 3 to 1 of AEs sustained by women, 16% ‘reproductive disorders. Results: 13% to 20% drop in live births.
#11:
LNPs degraded the basic factories of masculinity in boys’ testes in utero when their mother had been injected.
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Has Dutton made a huge error judging the Aus public on this u16 bill?
The libertarian X scene is ropable, threatening to vote Labor essentially. Note that these people are noisy but how numerous are they? At the polls, not very, but will Liberal voters join them?
Imo, social media distorts the actual situation, it is a huge echo chamber. Characteristically, most Australians do support banning what they deem dangerous things. Aus is a very ban happy country. They tend to fall for arguing 100 – “we have to protect children!” leading to “who wouldn’t want to protect children?”
Just for the record I think it is a beyond ridiculous decision, but I’m not sure Australians do. Whether we like it or not, Parlaiment is a representative of the public and the Libs overwhelmingly voted for it. But I’m not sure that is the elitists not listening to the public. My local member refrained which was refreshing to see.
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Short of the social media platforms withdrawing from Australia, I expect it will be impossible to police. If a substantial fine is incurred then the platforms will certainly withdraw.
How many kids use the services of their social media platform to communicate with relatives – like my son and grandsons in the UK communicate with my wife over Messenger.
Will we see something like:
Are you older than 16 years? Yes/No
Somehow I doubt that would be effective. In Victoria, there has been a teenager released on bail for his 50th time. I doubt he would think twice about clicking “yes” that was a lie. It is not a criminal offence in Victoria to break bail conditions but it is criminal to allow a person under 16yo to use a social media platform. How screwed is Australia!
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No kid would think twice about saying they are old enough! One of the comics I read has a splash page that says-
“..there are some things depicted that are best kept away from children..Please click on the button below to certify you’re over 18. Of course, if you’re under 18 you can’t legally certify anything, so please get a parent or guardian to click the button which says you are. Thankyou.”
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(Copied from elsewhere.)
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David – were you referring to ABC chair Kim Williams?
A Comment on The Australian Article – ABC chair Kim Williams says the broadcaster needs more ‘fuel’
“ABC chair Kim Williams has called US podcast Joe Rogan “deeply repulsive” and said he is detrimental to society at large.
“I think people like Mr Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities. They prey on fear, they prey on anxiety, they prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society,” said Mr Williams. “I personally find it deeply repulsive and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief.
“I’m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it’s really treating the public as plunder, for purposes that are really quite malevolent.””
Mr Williams, your ignorance in making these statements is astounding, especially when you state that you have never listened to or watched a Joe Rogan Interview
At 80, I watched the 3hr 17 Mins 20 Secs Joe Rogan Experience #2221 – JD Vance, to obtain an understanding of J D Vance as President Trump’s Vice President pick – I was very impressed with J D Vance and the style of Interview conducted by Joe Rogan
Your abysmal views & totally closed mindset epitomise the closet ABC Ultimo thinking & further correlate with the view of many Australians like myself, that the ABC had become a total waste of Australian Taxpayers Money and should be sold off (if anyone was stupid enough to buy) and totally defunded
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I happened to come across that press club address by the chairman of the bored, Kim Williams, and thought I would watch to amuse myself for a while.
His ramblings about the concept of ‘misinformation’, a subject on which he ought to be a world leading authority, ended with him stating that something is not true just because someone (presumably on the right) declares it to be. It would have made great viewing if the questioning reporter had thought to ask mr. Williams if that included ‘identifying’ as aboriginal, a woman, or even a bloody cat, any of which would not be denied by your typical ABC devotee.
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FWIW
Alex M.
“Putin: Oreshnik Strike Coming, Hints Kiev Decapitation Strike, Zelensky Usurper Trump Picks Kellog”
Looks at a Putin speech in detail (Kazakhstan) that I haven’t seen before – and likely targets for a dose of Hazel
And other things
https://rumble.com/v5u2vfw-2nd-oreshnik-strike-coming-hints-kiev-decapitation-strike-zelensky-usurper-.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
A follow-up from Alex M with more from Putin re Oreshnik
“Russia’s Revenge: 5 ATACMS Launchers Destroyed, West Troops Hunted; Warns: No EU Troops Ukraine”
Also looks at the Russian economy and those North Koreans in Kursk
https://rumble.com/v5ucdpz-russias-revenge-5-atacms-launchers-destroyed-west-troops-hunted-warns-no-eu.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
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FWIW
“Zelenskyy Thinks He Has Options, While Putin Has an Undiscussed Weapon that Trump Will Navigate
November 29, 2024 | Sundance | 13 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/29/zelenskyy-thinks-he-has-options-while-putin-has-an-undiscussed-weapon-that-trump-will-navigate/#more-266816
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‘Vladimir Putin’s strongest weapon is the truth.’
Truth is a variable and both sides have their own point of view.
Vlad has imperial ambitions, he walked into Crimea and annexed it, immediately after he started a civil war (sic) to seize the rare minerals in the Donbas. Realpolitik.
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Well, you have that around the wrong way EG. Putin saw that NATO was going to seize his gigantic naval base in Crimea, which Khrushchev gave to Ukraine to administer when all was USSR, so he took it back. Then ever since Newland pushed the colour revolution through, the new Pro-European Ukie Govt hunted down any Russian-speakers and drove them back to the border with Russia. The civil war started with those Far-Right hangovers from WW2, AZOV, incinerating the people sheltering from them in the Trades Hall in Odessa.
Skim down page one of the comments on AnotherIan’s link and you will see a map of who voted for the Pro-Euro and the Pro-Russian candidates in 2004, when Ukraine was united and at peace with itself. I expect Putin will freeze the borders and end the war when Ukraine looks like that.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/11/29/zelenskyy-thinks-he-has-options-while-putin-has-an-undiscussed-weapon-that-trump-will-navigate/#more-266816
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One of Donald Trump’s greatest strengths is his knowledge and appreciation of leverage.
He knows how to use it against others, and he knows what it feels like when it’s wielded against him.
For over 50 years, he’s used negotiating leverage to gain concessions and improve his hand in real estate, business, government contracts, politics, and financial loans.
It’s fundamental to how Trump sees the world: Life is a deal.
But Joe Biden and the Democratic Party don’t view the world the same way. Life isn’t about brokering deals; it’s about liberal values and utopian ideals.
Instead of dealing with countries — like Iran — as they actually are, the Obama-Biden-Harris triumvirate dealt with Iran as they hoped it would one day be:
A peaceful, trustworthy nation that surely wouldn’t nuke anyone (or fund terrorism).
And so, he rewarded the mullahs with money. He stymied the Israeli response. He ordered Netanyahu not to attack Hezbollah. He did nothing as the Iranians funded their terrorist proxies, giving them the green light to attack allies and disrupt global commerce.
The Iranians did exactly what you’d expect them to do: They acted in their own self-interest. We gave them an inch; they took a mile.
But no more.
Israel has decimated Hezbollah and Hamas. They opted to ignore Obama-Biden-Harris and handle things on their own. And in the process, they shattered Iran’s hand.
MAGA Scares-a the Crapola Outa the Mullahs: Iran Caves, Calls Off Israeli Attacks, Promises to Be Good
Perhaps Mel Brooks said it best: – It’s Good to be the King
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My first question is what Harris ever had to do with anything.
My second question is what Biden ever had to do with anything.
My third question is whether Obama ever really had anything to do with anything.
Somehow the people who really wield power prefer to remain hidden.
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Here is my solution to the Ukraine conflict.
We have to deal with reality.
Reality 1: Putin has taken some eastern lands which it doesn’t look like losing (without full on war).
Reality 2: Putin has shown his hand, that he is a dangerous wild card.
Reality 3: the Russian forces look incompetent and would stand little chance against a united NATO.
Reality 4: the Russian economy looks to be taking a big hit from all this nonsense but can likely continue the war based on its abundant resources.
Therefore, give Russia those gained areas. and inflate, arm and ready NATO. As much as I don’t like red lines, draw a red line. Tell Putin to put your territorial ambitions on the table now so we can discuss them or forever hold your peace. Step over that line and we will destroy you. Probably look at some DMZ to appease Putin’s paranoia of an attacking west (which is absurd, there is no nazi like attack on Stalingrad pending, despite the war-hawks in the USA). If not, we will continue to destroy your economy.
May risk another cold war, but we’ve had one of those before and it wasn’t too bad. I don’t buy this, “poor Russians are the victims” line many in the west promote. Putin is a monster. Nor do I support, let’s keep sending in the kids to the meat grinder like most Aus Liberal politicians do. They kicked him back from Kiev, good move. Now let’s settle this for peace and prosperity.
P.S. Like Margaret Thatcher said, “I looked at pictures of Mr Putin, looking for a trace of humanity ..” the crowd laughs as she pauses – the skill of a comic, having the audience on a string. I’m a rabid anti-feminist but never fall into the binary thought trap. Margaret was the strongest of the British, as British women are, the flower to the bee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QKiSvwzr94
Rant over.
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The red line was drawn many, many years ago, as far as eastward expansion of NATO is concerned , and every one knew that, and agreed on it . . . ostensibly.
You can look it up.
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Putin as a “wild card” seriously?
Show me a world leader who has shown more restraint and more logic and consistency in his actions and messages. I dont agree with everything he has done but none of it was ill considered.
I guess he lacks the foreign policy finesse of a Biden or a Macron, or maybe even Boris Johnson, but he gets by
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Going swimmingly until this, so I took the liberty of fixing the sentence. Foreign policy finesse? Qui?
I could say Punch and Judy were good at managing personal relationships. And you could say they were just puppets. I would then agree.
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Poor fella my country. You got 6 greens for a Stalinist post.
Show me any region he has not destabilised. His forces just got their butt kicked in Syria. Why are they there?
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The KGB never had a reputation for finesse.
They do tend to the job done.
Trouble is that the CIA and the various other US “intelligence” agencies have one playback and it’s no longer clever nor even sneaky when it’s been used over and over: colour revolutions, false flag terrorism, rent-a-mob sponsored astroturf uprisings. You can easily understand why many nations are sick and tired of this rubbish.
Georgia has made it clear they have no interest being used as a battering ram against Russia … no one wants to be the next Ukraine.
By the time Ukraine opens up and real reports start to come out documenting their casualties and the shear physical damage done … they can’t hide the graveyards forever … the Europeans will be shocked and fall into a glum silence for a very long time.
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“Reality 3: the Russian forces look incompetent and would stand little chance against a united NATO.”
That one is the biggest laugh… Everyone in NATO is whining about the lack of men and machinery they have, and every bit of their machinery has been shown to be very ho-hum on the battlefield. None of their armies are battle-hardened, none of of any size, and none of their officers are experienced in a real war. NATO would be just like Russia in the first few weeks, running out of fuel, weapons in the wrong area, incompetent officers making stupid decisions… They would lose. Look how long it took America to assemble their army to invade Iraq, and that was an enemy that was under-equipped, under-motivated, and the CIA spent billions of dollars bribing commanders to make the sure Iraqi soldiers ran away. America would lose against Russia, plain as day.
You’re reading the wrong propaganda Phillip, you should include-
https://simplicius76.substack.com/
https://robcampbell.substack.com/
A couple of the more reasoned writings without being straight Russian propaganda.
Putin put all of his red lines on paper before he invaded. The problem is, the Yanks pushed NATO over every one of them! There will be no negotiations, he won’t trust the West, until he has got everything he wants. More Russians are willing to die for their country and culture than any tranny god-knows-what in the West.
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Our energy minister Chris Bowen is a deceiver of the worst sort, claiming that coal fire power is unreliable. What he doesn’t tell us is that the energy companies have been encouraged to not maintain them.
If I buy a Toyota Corolla and never maintain it or change oil, then it will start breaking down and become costly to fix. Can I then go around claiming “Toyota Corollas are unreliable!”? NO! They are the most reliable car when they are properly maintained.
The government is playing such a dirty trick with coal it’s unbelievable this flies.
I would bet blackout Bowen does not even know the basics of electricity and circuits that one learns in year 10 science – like the relationship between current, voltage and power. And this guy is the energy minister?? That’s how government works in a nutshell – employ the most incompetent people and give them pay rises when they screw things up.
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That’s unfair. He is at least as smart as Kamala.
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As Chris Uhlmann (almost) wrote in today’s Australian “there are lies. damn lies and Chris Bowen’s statistics”.
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I told you !
He came out and there are more normal people in their ABC.
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That doesn’t really describe the situation … more like you bought a Toyota Corolla 20 years ago, you have maintained it and it’s done a quarter million kms and your mechanic is saying, “It’s getting difficult to buy parts for this, have you considered moving on to something newer?”
You tell the mechanic, “Naaa … I live in a bad neighbourhood and new cars usually get either stolen or vandalized so I might as well keep the old girl going as long as I can.”
Then your friend, who owns a Tesla, keeps asking you for a lift to work and most days you are OK to pick him up, but this week it’s in at the workshop and you tell him “No can do, buddy.”
Then he starts cursing out the name of Toyota because you inconvenienced him for a day.
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My Toyota truck just passed a roadworthy at 560,000klm
Like coal fired plants , things last if looked after
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My old red Hilux has done 1.4 million kilometres still on the original engine. Taught my kids and grandkids to drive in it. Still use it for bush work. Like you say things last if looked after
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Well done!
Your modern common rail turbo diesel Ute / SUV may have a few more painful milestones to pass.
Due to emission controls your intake manifold may be clogged by 5000o Kms and be vary careful about your injection system at around 150000 Kms as you may be the proud owner of a hole in a piston.
For the whole graphic details from the Emergency room
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I like it, can I have it?
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You would have to fight a grand daughter for it I’m afraid. The 16 year old dropped it on its side last year when her err, responsible old granddad took her for a run up the sticks in fairly foul weather. She just missed the high side of a wash away and before I could react we were “having a lay down”. Still being prepared, a bit of winch work and some help from 3 passing motor bike riders and we were back on our feet within 20 minutes, albeit at a slightly difficult angle. Jumped in through the drivers window hit the starter and drove it back to level ground. Comment from a bike rider, sh*t they really are unbreakable.
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Said Corolla would last many years of light family use with an oil change every two yrs.
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Video:
How North Korea makes perfect counterfeit US currency.
One wonders how much they’ve produced and how much economic damage they’ve done to the US.
https://youtu.be/uwXYI-ABsUw
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None. The US Treasury is printing cash far faster than North Korea. And it’s all electronic. Plus the exchange rate with US dollars is fixed.
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DM it would be so small you couldn’t measure it compared to the destruction wrought by the US Govt. You could print $100 bills 24/7 and find the limit in distributing them, but it would have no effect on a $17trillion debt.
I wonder how many Rubles and Iranian Rials the CIA has printed and spread.. its been a common weapon in cold wars.
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Most would never be returned to the US. It would just join the pool of black money used around the world.
Q. Clearly NK could print other currencies, why not?
A. They print the best money there is.
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FWIW
“China Discovers World’s Largest Gold Deposit Worth $83 Billion”
https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/worlds-largest-gold-deposit-discovered-china-worth-more-80-billion
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Outback travel, a cautionary tale and how bureaucracies are not your friend.
I’ve been travelling lazily through the outback, taking the scenic routes through far flung places between Adelaide and Cairns but just hid the band of rain which has skewered things somewhat. Even spent last night in the oldest, quaintest colonial-built pub you can imagine just o get out of the rain. Earlier in the week while preparing for yet another night in a truckstop on the tarmac, fellow travellers wandered over and asked if I was mechanically-minded at all. I’m not but agreed to offer a lay opinion. Ute tray seemed to be coming away from ute cabin and had adopted a less-than-straight chassis stance, likely from some fairly arduous 4WDing, towing a 4WD caravan. Travelling/towing hadn’t been affected at all and apart from it looking wrong, it seemed travel-worthy. So, being time-rich I agreed to help the next day when we drove/towed into a famous but dying Aussie outback town and consulted a local mechanic who thought their ute would limp home providing it wasn’t towing anything, the likely problem being a bent chassis.
We devised various options, the best being me to tow their van 1500km to the Gold Coast, they following in their odd-looking ute. Why? “I have absolutely no confidence in any bureaucratic organisation helping you out in a timely manner”. Sensible husband concurs. If it did die no one would know where.
Then, she who must be obeyed had a brainwave – “we’re fully covered with RACQ and comprehensive insurance” and she began to make calls, thinking she’d be home in 24 hours.
RACQ man takes one look, “structural, not mechanical. Can’t help”.
Undeterred she rings insurance – “you can only drive it to the nearest designated caravan park (3km out of town). Any further and your insurance will be void. Can’t comment further until vehicle has been assessed”.
Quick check of the weather sees the rains coming in. “Sorry, I can’t hang around for an unknown number of days”. And we went our separate ways but agreed to keep in touch by text. 4 days later, still no vehicle assessment and unlikely to get one til next week, can’t hire a rental car under insurance, stranded by bureaucracy and won’t be able to get back to work on due date. Stress levels +++.
The internet is a wonderful thing and there are whole blogs devoted to twisted chasses on Nissan Navaras where said manufacturer has overestimated the actual towing capacity.
By the by, on day 1 the Indian Pacific was in town where passengers were treated to a guided tour of the dying town by a drag queen with a beard, enormous platform shoes, rainbow clothes and the tackiest of wigs, all 20+ stone of they/them. I wondered around the main part of town for an hour where only remnants of our forebears remain. Empty shops can be leased for a song and are, by rainbow groups. The town is synonymous with what made Oz the great nation it once was. Was.
That’s why I drive a Mahindra. Tried and failed to break it on numerous hard trips across this wide brown land. Every servo, cafe and the like in the towns Slim Dusty and John Williamson have sung about have Indian staff. Every single one. Wouldn’t you just love to know how that all works?
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Mahindras (made in India) are a popular choice here in Nepal. They seem to tolerate the endless potholes here which are connected together by rare sections of road.
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Got stuck there looking for accommodation a couple of years ago. Had no idea that they hosted the “Broken Heel Festival”. Harrowing couple of days and nights.
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Correct. Very Broken Hill.
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No wonder they tried to silence real scientists and public discussion with the censorship bill.
The implications are huge but nothing will happen because the Uniparty are in lock step and both believe that “the science is settled” (sic) and that the covid “vaccines” are “fully safe and effective”.
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The letter to the PM is here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149173620
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
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https://substack.com/@phillipaltman
“We can’t make cars anymore. We can’t make intravenous fluids for hospitals. We cannot even make printing paper……but we can make experimental mRNA injections for the whole population.”
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I wasn’t aware the injectable fluids were made in Australia.
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In the ’60s I did a tour through the Philips factory in Adelaide. I was unaware at the time that no one would ever see such manufacturing in Australia again.
This was NOT just an assembly plant. They made vacuum valves and TV tubes, drew their own copper wire, enamelled it and wound coils and transformers, wound paper capacitors and much more.
So why CAN’T we package saline water today?
Trump is the Herald of change, free trade will no longer be a religion but a starting point from where self interest starts. Thinking back the headlong rush to remove tariffs was another labor initiative that would never be corrected a few years later. Thanks for nothing Keating.
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“Farmers have been out on the streets with their tractors in Germany, France, Poland and the UK. German and French farmers together blocked the Cologne Bridge in Strasbourg, and in Beauvais they distributed New Zealand lamb and Ukrainian chicken, which they took from freight carriers. These cheap products are making it hard for them to make a living. Farmers are blocking French cities and on Monday they will march on Brussels. They are concerned, not only with cheap lamb and chicken but also with the opening of European markets to cheap produce from Latin American countries. ”
“In the UK, 10,000 farmers protested in London against the 20% tax on inherited agricultural land, introduced by Starmer. The Deep State does not want individuals to be in charge of the food supply so is making life difficult for farmers in the hope that they will give up and sell to the likes of Bill Gates. ”
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-f5c
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If there is an inheritance tax then why do people not simply gift the property to those they want to inherit?
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They do. Then the income tax rules must be changed, ad infinitum.
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/work-out-inheritance-tax-due-on-gifts
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Where is the line between purple prose and a literary masterpiece?
Personally I can’t see one between It was a dark and stormy night and It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
But I’m just a mechanic.
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Mechanics can still read, can’t they?
Here’s an update for you . . . the Ukies are about to take Moscow . . .
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-weekly-update-f5c
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Already problems with the Uniparty-passed social media ID/age laws for Australians.
https://www.afr.com/technology/how-the-world-reacted-to-our-social-media-ban-20241129-p5kui5
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Paywall
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