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Recommended read: Peta Credlin’s commentary on Sweden’s U-turn of W & S and how Bowen’s renewable plans are just BS.
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A link here for the Sweden bit:
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/peta-credlin/wind-and-solar-are-too-unstable-sweden-scraps-its-green-energy-targets/video/6aa102b5f49f0a7f7ce3af032e8a635b
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She wrote an excellent article for The Australian today.
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A bit of a wobble in their solar power expectations here –
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzqj5D_akAEVNSn?format=jpg&name=900×900
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A few things I do not understand about this solar panel array.
They look to be horizontal. That is grossly inefficient except at the equator.
You could double the output of this solar farm by angling the panels. That might also dramatically reduce impact damage from hailstones.
There are big gaps between the rows, perhaps twice the land needed.
And this looks like green useful cleared agricultural land with a few trees and just thrown away as a solar farm. Why not useless land?
The nearby paddocks look mown, how? Electric sheep?
And I would love to know the total output of this block before and after. Both figures would be surprisingly low.
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Look at the panel edges. Think they are angled.
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Look at the GenPro website that shows a panel up close. All 14,000 panels are on motorised trackers.
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Thursday golden years horror show
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/141/445/564/original/66493e03192665a6.mp4
You spend 40 years of your life working hard for this?
I’m never, ever going to end up like that.
Nope, nope and nope.
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And I thought Moth balls were big.
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My son has worked as a physician in dementia wards and there are some harrowing tales that are quite funny in the Monty Python style of humour.
Make certain you have assigned your power of attorney for enduring medical treatment with someone you can trust to do what you want when the time comes.
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I’m with the dog, Second Coming. Just lie there and pretend your dead.
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Did the dog die from boredom or just deaf?
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The dog has the right idea.
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You realize they are prisoners.
After the Great P, I’m feeling like we all are being confined.
Like that creepy TV show from the 60’s, with Patrick McGoohan.
If you step out of line, giant balloons (now with Google logos) come out and absorb you.
So pick up your sticks and play along, or you’ll be given a sedative.
And probed by Nurse Klaus.
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Mrs H is much worse than that. What do you recommend, that I drown her?
It was not a conscious choice by her.
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15 minute cities update: Residents in London 15-Minute Neighbourhood to be Monitored by VivaCity Cameras
The London Borough of Newham has announced that they are collaborating with Tech company VivaCity to realise their 15-Minute Neighbourhood agenda. Vivacity have cornered the market in dystopian tech with the company blanketing the area with a network of Artificial Intelligence equipped cameras that track resident’s every movement.
Newham Council have declared their intention to implement 15 Minute Neighbourhoods, but details of which have been redacted, continuing the trend of Councils to obfuscate their 15 minute city agenda behind vague claims and hollow slogans.
If you believe the hype, a 15 minute city is all about convenience, sold under the pretence that everything should be near to where you live. But the lie is becoming more obvious every day. The only aspect of a 15 minute neighbourhood ‘Smart City’ they’ve deployed is the camera network.
They’re not building any new shops, cafes, restaurants, leisure centres, theatres or gyms in any 15 minute neighbourhood, but they are erecting AI Cameras on every street corner.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/residents-in-london-15-minute-neighbourhood-to-be-monitored-by-vivacity-cameras
Redacted says it all.
Imagine if your local council redacted key parts of development plans…
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And with Soylent green these will be renamed to Pens. And people to cattle or ingredients. As the WEF says, they will own nothing and be happy.
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A new saying to be introduced into the vocabulary soon – urban camera sniper.
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Narrator explains Rowan Atkinson’s views on electric vehicles and alternatives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiga3atlTRs
(interesting, but long, at 14m 50s)
And Rowan Atkinson’s views on free speech:
https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU
(9m 5s video – Brilliant!)
Although IMO he dwells a little too much on offence and insult rather than emphasising that there are some haters in society who simply want to punish those who have a different view to theirs.
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I’m surprised Atkinson needed narration. Het set his case out quite well and is more articulate than many.
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“Offence”?
A handy guideline:
“Offence cannot be given, only “taken”.
Discuss if you must.
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Thursday entertainment: wind turbine chilling
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rwxbl46N5E1w5pr9j.mp4
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Very small guard rail.
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another use for wind turbines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojoES7l1iUA
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Hilarious if the wind blew them back into the blades.
Would have been so much more daring if they timed their jump between the blades, don’t worry someone will attempt it one day.
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I think they may have thought about wind direction 🙂
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By definition, the wind is blowing THROUGH the blades.
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You have to love former US Republican Congress speaker Paul Ryan’s hatred of Trump and Republican Speaker of the House tried to stop Trump as President, which wasted control of the Congress for the first two years. Now Ryan has publicly moved from Never Trumper to Never Again Trumper even as a Director of Fox News, which really needs explanation. No wonder Tucker Carlson is gone!
And Ryan’s pitch is that Republicans like himself do not want Trump because he might win! With Paul Ryan and failed Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, Trump has many enemies on his side. The swamp is strong in these two.
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That’s it then. GOP needs to cancel their primaries and let Paul Ryan appoint the next presidential candidate.
Can’t possible let the people decide who they want.
I wonder if these Never Trumpers realise how pathetic they are.
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More on that.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/29/koch-network-plans-to-spend-70-million-exclusively-to-block-president-trump-from-gop-nomination/
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Australia’s official inflation rate was announced to be 6.8%.
I don’t believe that is a realistic rate whatsoever.
Anybody who goes shopping or purchases services knows that doesn’t reflect the rate at which prices are escalating.
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That’s universal as the basket of commodities used by the Reserve bank is not the shopper’s basket. It is an average of many things. As around the world you can double or triple that figure for domestic shopping because food is literally at the end of the food chain of costs, so all the individual increases compound.
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I heard the reduction in fuel prices and airline tickets reduced the inflation figure.
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It was announced as 5.6% this morning, what happened.
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The media are obeying their masters wishes. The media are the Governments whores!
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Wait till the Fed Govs new [Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023] currently in Senate; wings its way into “L-A-W- law” –
Ample scope for a police state there. You aint seen nuthin yet.
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The 6.8% figure would be the underlying inflation, before fuel and travel were counted.
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IIRC the rule of thumb is multiply by 3 for about the real rate
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A Bunnings Kaboodle kitchen I haven’t got around to buying for a rental has gone up 20% in 12months… That’s far more the real inflation rate!
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With the new and never ending increases in electricity prices, this is simply a pause in the rising of the inflation rate.
Costs to production ares till increasing (including labour costs), so inflation is here for the long term.
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Those in Australia, don’t forget to watch the next exciting episode of the post-modernist science fantasy series, “The First Inventors” on SBS tonight.
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Is this episode the one where they find a white man’s wooden coathanger and turn it into a boomerang? 😁
Here ya go DM.
I found this huge cache of classic scifi films on uselesstube while searching for something else.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeSK8oZavDZksbefTHmqNde2-mTfudNFQ
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Think this is the episode when past cousin Nev was thought responsible for the moon landings, hundreds of years prior to NASA in the 1960’s.
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On Please Explain, a movie about the Moon landing.
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Outstanding.
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It’s the same logical problem I have with the ‘imperialist’ ‘invasion’ and ‘colonization’ of Australia by the British. None of these words apply.
There was nothing to invade, no population to enslave. You could not rob, as they had absolutely nothing. You could not take over the administration because there was none. There were no houses to occupy and the idea of slavery was laughable. They were not people who were used to any form of work or had any particular skill. There was no literacy and they had nothing like a comprehensive language as they had no nouns for anything as they had nothing. None of these things are criticisms of a paleolithic people but they do make colonization impossible.
But now we have to admire the science, the inventions, the culture, the music, the artistry, the mathematical skills and the BOM even has a weather service advised by paleolithic skills? They were innumerate and some could apparently count to ten although the number 7 appears to be missing.
And Lidia Thorpe believes that sovereignty was not ceded? What? There was no government let alone a sovereign or a nation or the very concept. No one knew where they lived or how big Australia was even as a concept. And now we have to pay rent? For what? The invention of bread?
Colonize India or China or South America. Sure. But not Australia. It was not colonized and certainly not by Imperial military conquest and oppressive occupation. Like everything else, these are fantasy words of reverse cultural appropriation. Even rent and money were new concepts.
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They didn’t know they were living on an island and as such had no name for it.
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And likely no word for island. Or boat. Or oar.
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If they want to charge us rent, they’ll have to pay property tax and income tax.
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Counting on fingers, 3 year old stuff.
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Counting with your fingers yes, but having names and symbols for the digits is something else. Who names their fingers?
The advanced engineering Romans and sophisticated Chinese had real problems with one symbol for one number. Both had III for three. And just try multiplication with Roman numerals.
Numeracy is not a simple idea when all you have is one, two, three, a mob, lots. And you trade with fingers.
Even the Arabs were lost after 1,000 so infinity was 1,001. Thus you get a thousand and one Arabian nights.
We take numeracy and literacy for granted. It took a long time and both are a difficult concepts. An alphabet was a revolutionary idea which half the world missed.
The incredible advances of Rational Science after Rene Descartes changed our world but even at the Roman level, the buildings were monumental. And those at Gobeli Tepi from 12,000 years ago are astounding. That was the start of the end for the hunter gatherer.
While Jean-Jacques Rousseau lauded the noble savage, it’s not much of a life having nothing. Not even poetry.
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Will you please stop it. Even if its “tongue in cheek”, someone here will probably try watching it!!
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Refer to comment #8.3.1!!
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An ivory boomerang with gold tips was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, together with a picture showing it was used to kill birds, but the record goes to a 23,000-year-old boomerang made from a mammoth tusk, and that one was found in Poland
Copyright and IP infringement. Sue our indigenous! 😄😄
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The boomerang was invented by Australians through trial and error.
‘The oldest Australian boomerangs yet discovered were found in Wyrie Swamp, South Australia, in 1973 and have been dated to about 10,000 years ago. However, the oldest images of boomerangs in Australia are found among the Bradshaw/Gwion Gwion rock art paintings in the Kimberley, and are about 20,000 years old.’ (National Museum Australia)
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The Amish Died of COVID at a Rate 90 Times LOWER Than the Rest of America
“I did the calculation,” testified Steve Kirsch in front of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
Given five Amish people died in Lancaster Country, PA, “the Amish died at a rate 90 times lower than the infection fatality rate of the United States of America.”
“Now, how is that possible?” Steve Kirsch asked. “It’s possible because the Amish aren’t vaccinated. And because the Amish didn’t follow a single guideline of the CDC,” he answered.
“They did not lock down. They did not mask. They did not social distance, They did not vaccinate, and there were no mandates in the Amish community to get vaccinated. They basically ignored every single guideline that the CDC gave us. Ignoring those guidelines meant a death rate 90 times lower than the rest of America.”
https://vigilantfox.substack.com/p/the-amish-died-of-covid-at-a-rate
Not 90x lower, 1/90th of…gggrrr…
Plus the Amish don’t have tv’s for fear distribution, plus their jobs aren’t dependent on Fakevax ™.
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Based on an official figure of approx. 50 jibber jabs per 100 people for the whole African continent means there’s probably 650 million people ( at least ) never saw a COVID vaccine. Others say that figure is probably more like 2/3 as most of vaxxes were concentrated in the more advanced countries eg South Africa, Egypt. So well north of 800 million people as a control group. Their IFR is also comparatively low. I expect a great majority of those people also never locked down, social distanced or masked up either. It was only us mugs who did all that useless stuff.
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Thursday ejukayshun: The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw&pp=ygULRW5naW5lZXJndXk%3D
Well there you go. Quite surprising that aluminium would tolerate that sort of forming…
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I thought aluminium work hardened.
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That internal coating is critical. The aluminium walls are so thin that they are porous. I once saw a truck load of cans in a warehouse which were faulty and were leaking. The floor was awash.
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The walls are not porous !
Infact every single can is individually checked (UV light system) for holes as small as 0.010mm before it is internally coated. Inspection speeds of up to 3000 cans per min are common.
That coating is to protect the contents from flavour contamination, and to protect the aluminium from corrosion from agressive products like Coke !
Leakage is invariably from mechanical damage, but once one can leaks in a pallet stack of possibly 20,000+ …then external corrosion may cause a “snowball” effect and cause more and more to leak in time.
…(ask me how i know ?)
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There is an oxy/acetylene gas welder whose demonstration finale was the welding together of 2 aluminium beer cans
https://dillonwelding.com/en/
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We bought a new fridge last year and it is performing exceptionally well. Went to get cheese from it yesterday for sandwich and surprised to see the slices had mold. Even more surprised when I checked the use by date which claimed good till 1/12/2023.
Went back hunting in the fridge for alternative, bag of shredded cheese, and this was absolutely riddled with mold. While this was disappointing I knew we had had it for some time and it had only about 25% left in the bag however upon checking the use by date it stated good till 9/8/2023 – still 6 weeks away.
Certainly the shredded could have been badly resealed by us and some cross contamination got in however the coincidencental event with a different brand/format with 6 weeks to 5 months still to go opens (repeat opens) the door though I wont go through it yet. The cheese packs were on different shelves of the fridge and the spot on 2 of the slice edges was black while the gratted had larger blue spots all through it.
I mention this because apparently a new conspiracy has been launched in the last week or so about Australia announcing plans for mass injections of mRNA into livestock. In the course of checking this out I discovered an AP fact check denouncing the claim. Unfortunately if you pay attention to the phrasing in this fact check it is rather obtuse.
Anyway, feel free to check your cheese not just now but over the next few months.
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Geez. I hope Peter Fitzroy doesn’t see this one.
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From the article. Frankenstein world.
https://www.mla.com.au/news-and-events/industry-news/mla-funds-mrna-technology-project-to-rapidly-produce-emergency-animal-disease-vaccines/
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Fact Checkers (sic) are just playing games.
mRNA vaccinations for livestock may not be happening now but are most certainly on the agenda, as per MP’s link.
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Brett and Heather Weinstein discuss mRNA in meat in this podcast.
https://youtu.be/oj-9nDI99uc
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If not a handling issue or mould in the fridge itself then I’d say your fridge needs repair as it’s not controlling the moisture levels as it should.
I eat a lot of cheese but even so some may sit in the fridge for 3-4 months once opened and be perfect upon taking out.
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Suggest you check the temperature you have your fridge set at. I think you have it set too low. Cover any food you have in the fridge beside the cheese .there is obviously a lot of moisture in the fridge. Good hygiene is important when accessing the cheese. Cheese in bulk store is continually wiped to control the mold. so it is really no drama.
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Good points particularly the moisture as this is our first fridge with glass shelves which, like the doors on the supermarket upright freezers, do smog up – will follow up on that. Cheers
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Earl
What brand fridge?
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Given the range of possible non-fridge contributing factors wont name the brand but certainly paying more attention to the handling of the silent servant. Cheers.
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I’ve had three new fridges in the last few years. The first two by a standard western manufacturer. After they both failed I changed to a Chinese brand some say is good value but it took 24 hrs to come down to temp.
My thoughts are that traditional fridges have fairly powerful motor/compressors which operate on a low duty cycle. OTOH I suspect my new one has a “barely adequate” powered compressor designed to work with a much higher duty cycle, hence the long time to cool down. I assume this is to get an efficiency star but if you are opening the fridge often and/or the seals are leaky it may spend too much time above correct temp. Is your butter ALWAYS hard when you get it out?
This is conjecture on my part so treat with some scepticism.
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All these incorrect suggestions when clearly messenger RNA is to blame.
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Meant to be response to #12 but got renumbered.
Thanks guys for the open minded comments/contributions. I’m keeping an open mind leaning toward just coincidence/probable inadvertant contamination however as per the excellent stuff Jo has provided in the past regarding (leaky) chicken vaccines just running it up the flagpole to see if anyone (Peter F included – wink to Gee…and Peter) salutes. Fore warned used to be fare armed. Cheers/Cheese.
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Perhaps you should change your cheese supplier.
This looks OK… very clean and certainly uncontaminated by cheese! 😄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
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14,000 solar panels destroyed in minutes by hail storm. Nebraska USA.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/06/27/baseball-sized-hail-smashing-into-panels-at-150-mph-destroys-scottsbluff-solar-farm/
5.2 MW installed capacity, 4 Yr actual life vs 25 yr projected life. Heap of scrap, now.
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Nothing that a few of those windscreen “crack repair “ kits cannot fix !👍👍
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66057216
Aspartame – is it a possible cause of cancer?”
More balanced than usual from the BBC. In my opinion, anyway.
They go on …
“The sweetener aspartame – found in a variety of foods – is set to be officially labelled as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”, reports claim. The classification frequently causes confusion and does not tell us how risky consuming aspartame actually is.
“Other “possibly carcinogenic” substances include aloe vera, diesel and pickled Asian vegetables. The BBC understands the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will make an announcement on 14 July.”
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is a subagency of the World Health Organisation, it appears.
Are they – possibly – trying to scare us useless eaters into going full on for sugar again, and thus all die of terrible heart etc. problems? Oh, surely not!
Yet – that this thought entered my poor noodle head speaks volumes for the perceived disinformation swilling round the world [even on medical matters – remember the WuFlu?] these days.
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“Aspartame – is it a possible cause of cancer?””
Well one of the biggest possible causes of cancer is because we live longer lives, therefore greater exposure to everything for longer. What to do? Panic, seek government advise, change lifestyles or simply carry on.
Yes, every aspect of life carries dangers, don’t swim, you may drown, dont drive cars you may have an accident dont go parachuting etc etc etc.
My parents used to say “all things in moderation”. what wise words. A little aspartame probably not a problem, however if you drink 6 litres of fizzy drinks a day ( I know someone who does ) then all sorts of things may contribute to disease of one sort or another.
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Matt Hancock wants stricter lockdowns next time
https://www.rebelnews.com/matt_hancock_wants_stricter_lockdowns_next_time
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Antarctic winds to pummel NZ.
http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDY65100.pdf
Note that the centre of the high pressure is in the Bight, out of place for this time of year.
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They Couldn’t Even Defend Their Own Agenda
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