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The headline says it all
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/10/the-public-still-isnt-being-told-the-full-horrifying-truth-about-the-net-zero-revolution/
New oil boilers to be banned from 2026 and gas boilers from 2030 in new homes. I suspect that when the public realise the enormous costs they will be faced with and the huge inconvenience then there will be a big backlash.
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Not only does the British public not know the hardships and reduced living standards that are being imposed upon them, most believe that these sacrifices are being made to help save the planet. All but the staunchest believers would change their minds if they knew that sacrifices are in vain. Global emissions are still rising despite what a few countries are doing. All the prophesies of doom and the mega conferences have failed to convince most countries to join the crusade against CO2. All what is left is useless and harmful policies, whatever you happen to believe about the climate diagnosis.
https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2018
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Another case where the headline says it all
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/10/covid-was-a-period-of-sheer-insanity-dr-clare-craig-lays-out-just-how-crazy-it-was/
I do hope that someday somewhere our politicians and those in cahoots with them will get their comeuppance for the incompetence and willingness to shut society down although it seems to have been worse in OZ than here in the UK
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More from the Dailysceptic:
The Remarkable Report Commissioned by the Scottish Covid Inquiry that Savages Lockdowns and Vaccines
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/09/the-remarkable-report-commissioned-by-the-scottish-covid-inquiry-that-savages-lockdowns-and-vaccines/
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Well, there’s shutting down society.
There’s the Miracle of Renewable Energy.
Got another one for ya’ … UK came along for the ride …
20 years in Afghanistan?
Was there a double secret obscure purpose for the above?
Was it accomplished?
Shall we demand the Incompetents appoint a commission of esteemed highly regarded Incompetents to investigate the decades long Pandemic of incompetence?
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What I noticed about Afghanistan-
The Taliban wanted to much for gas pipeline transit fees, and banned opium cultivation on religious grounds.
Now with US in a oxycontin/fentanyl synthetic opioid crisis, and wanting to decarbonise the
US Govt suddenly agree to leave Afghanistan leaving Billions in weapons as a parting gift.
Remember it was all about capturing a rich Saudi engineer “Osama Bin Laden” who died of
kidney failure in Dec 2001. Thinking back, there was the “Vietnam war” fought
in the “Golden triangle Opium production hot spot too- curious!
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Accidentally down ticked. Very sorry 😞
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Has anyone ever known our financial experts to get things right?
A year ago The Financial pundits in the UK and other international bodies were forecasting a very long and deep recession but it simply hasn’t happened
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12396225/UK-economy-grows-0-2-second-quarter-year.html
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Don’t take your eye off the ball. It could be still coming.
I posted this a couple of days ago.
Consider the state of farming in Oz:
Land prices double in 3 years.
Cow beef price down 30% year on year.
Steer price down 40% year on year.
Lamb and mutton prices down about 30%
The fundamentals are a long way out of whack.
The new player on the block is carbon credits.
You can’t eat carbon credits. They have to stay in the ground.
Until the next bushfire.
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That’s scary stuff.
Additionally, I have a vague recollection of a strange arrangement regarding pre purchases of local cattle in the Hunter region. Did China arrange to take huge amounts of beef production over the next few years?
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The cycle of life.
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Eastern Young Cattle Indicator. Go half way down page
https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/data/weekly-commodity-price-update/australian-agricultural-prices
Indonesia and now Maylasia have banned live imports of our beef, these cattle flood the boxed beef market. Gillards Live beef ban, the last time Labor was in office
Labor policy and election promise https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-05/labor-federal-election-win-would-end-live-sheep-exports/101041416
It won’t be easy under Albanese
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Thanks MP. I had tired of paying attention. I bought “The Land”” this week after hearing talk of crashing prices.
Meanwhile a block of land I sold three years ago has sold again since for more than double the price. I had to sell it at the time because I couldn’t look after it and family too. It needed work and I couldn’t do it. But the price rise was startling. Where will it lead? No work was done by the interim owner.
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Forecast a recession for long enough, & eventually one will happen, & you will be considered an expert for ever more.
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Anyone can pick a recession, the problem is the timing.
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Its more than likely an external impact (like the China property market bursting) might be required to push the world into recession.
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If you laid all the financial experts in the world end to end, they still couldn’t come to a common decision.
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“If you laid all the financial experts in the world end to end”..and [SNIP]..
ED
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From Fox News, the idea that was lurking.
“Environmental experts are pushing back on claims that the devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, were caused by global warming, instead pointing to poor state land management practices.”
This is very interesting.
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KK, It is interesting.
These are your Hawai‘i “environmenatal experts”. They have access to the Hawai‘ian county fire databases.
They have a full understanding of the causes.
OK,
The Hawai‘i Wildfire Management Organization states:
“Each year, about 0.5% of Hawaii’s total land area burns each year, equal to or greater than the proportion burned of any other US state.
Over 98% of wildfires in Hawaii are human caused. Human ignitions coupled with an increasing amount of nonnative, fire-prone grasses and shrubs and a warming, drying climate have greatly increased the wildfire problem.”
The Pacific Fire Exchange
(Co-led by the Hawai‘i Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) and the University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa.)
States:
“Nearly all fires in Hawai‘i are human-caused and they often pose threats to communities and natural and cultural resources.
Having evolved in the absence of frequent fires, Hawai‘i’s native ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to fire disturbance, which is often associated with the spread and establishment of nonnative grass and shrub species.”
“Over the past decade, Hawai‘i has experienced an average of >1,000 ignitions burning >20,000 acres (8,000 ha) each year across the main inhabited islands.
…. large fires (>1000 acres) have occurred on all islands, and happen multiple times each year across the state.”
As it was in Greece a few weeks ago, the real experts tell the truth.
William X, Fire Rescue NSW.
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Hawaii is a volcano … all vegetation is non-native because there is no plant that natively grows on lava.
Seriously … all the plant and animal life was brought in.
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I thought this was interesting. An article at Zerohedge.
“Doctors are free to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID-19, a lawyer representing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this week.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-drops-ivermectin-bombshell
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Everyone ought to have a little Ivermectin now and then. It does a number on head lice, chiggers, and intestinal worms. It may also help with that virus of recent vintage. How that works I’m not sure, but I don’t know how lots of things work.
Take magnetism, for instance …
Never mind — that makes heads spin. 🙂
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Can’t decide what Uni course to take?
Geology rocks but Geography’s where it’s at. 😁
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Geometry rules but maths doesn’t add up. History is for the ages but philosophy isn’t worth thinking about.
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And most archeologists are women because they’re so good at digging up the past. 😁
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When was your faculty founded?
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Heard a bloke on the radio last night phoning in from Scott Base in Antarctica, where it was -51C outside with a -74 windchill. Nope, no ‘boiling’ down there at sea level on the edge of the GFC – Great Frozen Continent. The record low was -57 back in the mid-1980s.
Today up on the plateau, at the South Pole, it’s -70C with a -94 windchill. Am guessing the scientists there are still on the lookout for that elusive ‘boiling’… mind you, the sun will be returning next Saturday when it briefly slides above the horizon for the first time in four months, brrrrrr…
I’m surprised some show-pony pseudo-scientist hasn’t released photos of Antarctica’s Dry Valleys with the headline: See? We’ve Melted It All: Repent!
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Aah! But the caption would be Climate Change means stronger winds which have blown the snow away!
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Even heavy rain can’t be able,
To break through the water table,
Which is just metres deep,
Then through kilometres seep,
To make tectonic plates unstable.
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The rain was deep,
The monsoon was long,
The geologists’s claims,
They sure did pong!
The rain formed a lake,
The science was fake,
All the data they did take,
Could not prove a quake!
I’m a poet and I know it.
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I had to read that three times to understand how bad it was.
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😁
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More on EVs wearing out tires.
“According to The Drive, owners have been complaining on Rivian forums that their tires, specifically their front tires, haven’t lasted as long as they expected. At least one owner claims to have had to replace theirs after only 6,000 miles.”
https://jalopnik.com/why-rivian-ev-tires-do-not-last-long-6000-miles-1850729545
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It weighs 3200+ kg. An Isuzu Dmax weighs 3050 base model. Id say it’s the horsepower more than weight. And also the front wheel drive. And the ride height they mentioned effecting the toe.
If you don’t go get a wheel alignment when you buy a new car, especially the utes, the tyres wont last long. Speaking from experience. I wonder if that’s the problem?
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FULL STORY: Families that inject mRNA together, develop Turbo Cancer together? – 12 unbelievable stories of two or three family members developing aggressive cancer at the same time!
According to this new story written by Dr. William Makis MD republished over at Dr. Paul Alexander’s Substack, multiple family members are now developing bizarre ‘turbo cancers’ at almost the exact same time as we’ve documented within this story, another aspect of the globalists war upon humanity that’ll never see the light of day following all of the ‘died suddenly’ stories of young, healthy people suddenly dropping dead here in America and all across the planet following the rollout of ‘the vax’.
With a seemingly endless list of young and healthy people ‘dying suddenly’ and completely unexpectedly since the rollout of ‘the vax,’ that story I received in my email inbox Wednesday morning from Dr. William Makis, MD takes the mystery of these mysterious deaths to a completely new level.
As Dr. Makis reported in that absolutely bizarre story, he has documented the almost unbelievable stories of 12 different families, consisting of 2 or 3 family members, who most likely had gotten ‘vaxxed’ at the same time, only to then develop ‘Turbo cancers’ at the same time, an occurrence that seems like it would be impossible, but instead gives us overwhelming evidence of a deadly link between the vaxxes (THAT, REMEMBER, WERE FORCED UPON AMERICANS BY TERRORISTS WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT!) and these incredible aggressive and quickly-spreading cancers, evidence that should be enough to lead to new Nuremberg trials for all of the COVID vax pushers.
https://allnewspipeline.com/Families_Developing_Turbo_Cancers_In_Clusters.php
Too important to be paywalled.
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Saturday hilarity: California Backup Power Plan: Drain EV Batteries
As the Democrats running California continue to wage the progressive War on Energy, the rolling blackouts associated with Gavin Newsom’s rule will become more frequent, because no amount of other people’s money will make wind and solar reliable. At least they have a backup plan. Too bad it is insane:
California’s largest electric utility PG&E wants to suck the batteries of electric-vehicle owners plugged into charging stations to stabilize the grid during unstable periods. The Ford F-150 already allows for bidirectional charging, but that was sold as a benefit to the owner as a kind of independent generator for households during blackouts. PG&E wants to use it to commandeer all EV batteries and use their power to prevent grid collapse.
Bidirectional charging functionality will add an estimated $3,700 to the already excessive cost of EVs, as well as shorten their lifespan. No worries; the government can just provide more subsidies.
This will not be voluntarily:
Lawmakers in Sacramento are helping to move things along. For example, Senate Bill 233 would make bi-directional charging mandatory for all new electric vehicles.
As with Biden’s attack on gas generators, the objective is to prevent independence. We need to be completely reliant on the grid; then they can not only deny us energy but confiscate the energy we have already acquired.
Our rulers want us driving unreliable, dangerous, and combustion-prone electric vehicles because they do not want us driving any vehicles. When it all hits the fan — and it will, if Democrats get any more entrenched — they will need to deprive us of transportation to prevent organized resistance.
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/08/10/guess-where-california-plans-to-get-energy-to-stabilize-its-power-grid-n570321
You can’t charge your ev as the grid can’t handle it, but your semi-flat ev will keep the grid up!?
Like I say, “let them have what they want” and watch the whole fiasco totally implode.
Well, we warned you, but did you listen to us.
Oh no, you knew it all.
It’s just a harmless little
bunnyfundamentally flawed, unworkable, guaranteed-to-fail hairbrain scheme conceived by scientifically illiterate imbeciles. 😄110
John,
“It’s just a harmless little fundamentally flawed, unworkable, guaranteed-to-fail hairbrain scheme conceived by scientifically illiterate imbeciles.”
Are you a member of Gavin Noisome’s Fan Club?
Auto – just checking!
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If anyone’s interest was piqued by the link on Friday which touched on the secretive deal-making that led to the creation of The Federal Reserve (article by “simplicius76” on SubStack, thanks RobB! ), then you might like to read this book:
Murray Rothbard: “A History of Money and Banking in the United States” (free PDF download from mises.org).
See Part 2 for “The Origins of the Federal Reserve”,
and Part 3 concerning “The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites”.
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Saturday ejukayshun: Oh Mr. Zappa, you can’t be serious!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rt77af7Rfw1w4l6a8.mp4
Spot on, Zapp.!
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Fremantle Highway Decks Collapse
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Hurrah! Its windy on King Island today and power is of 46% wind, 54 diesel. They have 5 windmills. Imagine if they had 10! How many people live on King Island? 1500.
The best you can do is save a bit of diesel. And how much does that cost you? A lot. The government spends 7 million a year.
As people have said, if you cant make it work on an Island in the wind zone, you can’t make it work anywhere. And apparently the Falkland Islands have experienced the same someone else pointed out.
How far will we go into this before people realise they’ve been sold the Betamax video player by lying deceitful salesmen?
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Heard a story today of solar purchase by an elderly couple, the male of early frail mind, who was sold a solar system by a phone call. Once installed they reported the bills are “smaller”. No further information provided. They are always at home and careful to run all appliances and do all tasks during the day.
It cost them $5000. I’d estimate their bill would be about $1500 per year, low cost living. If they saved a third – which I doubt – they’d save $500 per year. That’s ten years to break even. By which time Id say the cells would be worn, they’d have paid maintenance costs, and, oh yes, they’d be almost 90, probably not even still with us.
What a despicable industry.
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“What a despicable industry.”
Certainly.
But, sadly, it’s not the only one ..
There are many scamsters out there – happy to take my [or your] hard-earned money for very little. Nothing – if possible!
A recurring problem in the UK [and likely elsewhere] is ‘builders’ who prey on the elderly. “Your roof needs repairing, and I happen to have a ladder …” Half an hour later, after a bit of banging – a bill for several thousand pounds!!
Escort the experientially-gifted-client to the bank, get cash – and vanish.
Be alert, for yourselves, and for your friends and neighbours where you can.
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When my Mum died, it was discovered that 83 “charities” were doing regular deductions from her account.
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good read, from Pierre Kory’s substack:
‘How the FDA Buried the Dangers of Antidepressants’ April 4 2023
The previous struggles with the FDA have so much to teach us about how the FDA has handled the COVID-19 vaccines.
PIERRE KORY, MD, MPA
‘Psychiatric medications are one of the most profitable drug franchises, making approximately 40 billion dollars a year (which also includes the psychiatric medications that “treat” the complications of SSRIs). It is thus, not surprising that very powerful interests will use every tool available to them to protect this franchise, which is particularly problematic, because they provide a significant amount of the funding that the federal regulators and politicians depend upon. This issue sadly extends far beyond the FDA, as how corruption has also been institutionalized within the NIH and within the CDC.
With all this in mind, let’s now examine the sad tale of how SSRIs became one of the most profitable drugs in existence.’
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Nature, 2017
‘Ivermectin: enigmatic multifaceted ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations
‘Over the past decade, the global scientific community have begun to recognize the unmatched value of an extraordinary drug, ivermectin, that originates from a single microbe unearthed from soil in Japan.
Today, (in 2017) ivermectin is continuing to surprise and excite scientists, offering more and more promise to help improve global public health by treating a diverse range of diseases, with its unexpected potential as an antibacterial, antiviral and anti-cancer agent being particularly extraordinary.
The future: new potential/new target diseases
Ivermectin is already deployed to treat a variety of infections and diseases, most of which primarily afflict the world’s poor. But it is the new opportunities with respect to ivermectin usage, or re-purposing it to control a completely new range of diseases, that is generating interest and excitement in the scientific and global health research communities.
Malaria, Asthma, Epilepsy, Neurological disease, Antiviral, Antibacterial, Anti-cancer’
I hope there is still some excitement in the global health research community and Ivermectin is not degraded to ‘horse paste’ in eternity…
Maybe Ivermectin could be a life saving medicine for many people in the future. Ivermectin could have been a life saving medicine(in many ways) during the Covid period.
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No matter what the hype, data shows cold kills more than heat.
https://notrickszone.com/2023/08/11/winter-cold-darkness-kill-while-summer-heat-and-sun-save-lives-data-clearly-show/
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New SystemBC Malware Variant Targets Southern African Power Company
An unknown threat actor has been linked to a cyber attack on a power generation company in southern Africa with a new variant of the SystemBC malware called DroxiDat as a precursor to a suspected ransomware attack.
“The proxy-capable backdoor was deployed alongside Cobalt Strike Beacons in a south African nation’s critical infrastructure,” Kurt Baumgartner, principal security researcher at Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), said.
The Russian cybersecurity company said the attack, which took place in late March 2023, was in its early stages and involved the use of DroxiDat to profile the system and proxy network traffic using the SOCKS5 protocol to and from command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.
“Ransomware will continue to disrupt industrial operations, whether through the integration of operational technology (OT) kill processes into ransomware strains, flattened networks allowing ransomware to spread into OT environments, or precautionary shutdowns of production by operators to prevent ransomware from spreading to industrial control systems,” the company assessed with high confidence.
https://thehackernews.com/2023/08/new-systembc-malware-variant-targets.html
Power and infrastructure are prime targets, as warned.
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Review of West Australian pandemic response cements extreme Covidian measures as permanent public health policy
The independent review of the West Australian Government’s pandemic response is complete, with the resultant report being released yesterday.
(By independent review, I mean a review conducted by people hand selected by the McGowan Government to assess the performance of the McGowan Government.)
The WA Government’s announcement of the report is characteristically self-aggrandising and tells us a lot about how our political class measures success, and its plans for our future.
The significance of the review is to cement the unprecedented pandemic response as the new normal. This review legitimates human rights abuses, unsafe medical programs, and drastic government overreach as acceptable under prescribed circumstances.
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/review-of-west-australian-pandemic
They know what they do…
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Hawaii fires, there were warnings years ago that such a disaster was imminent because of the proliferation of grasses.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/11/hawaiian-fires-fueled-by-invasive-grasses-a-wet-spring-and-human-ignition-sources/
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Scientists Identify The Maximum Heat Limit The Human Body Can Take
Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.
At this point sweat – the body’s main tool for bringing down its core temperature – no longer evaporates off the skin, eventually leading to heatstroke, organ failure and death.
This critical limit, which occurs at 35 degrees of what is known as “wet bulb temperature”, has only been breached around a dozen times, mostly in South Asia and the Persian Gulf, Colin Raymond of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told AFP.
None of those instances lasted more than two hours, meaning there have never been any “mass mortality events” linked to this limit of human survival, said Raymond, who led a major study on the subject.
The theorised human survival limit of 35°C wet bulb temperature represents 35°C of dry heat as well as 100 percent humidity – or 46°C at 50 percent humidity.
To test this limit, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the United States measured the core temperatures of young, healthy people inside a heat chamber.
They found that participants reached their “critical environmental limit” – when their body could not stop their core temperature from continuing to rise – at 30.6°C wet bulb temperature, well below the previously theorised 35°C
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-the-maximum-heat-limit-the-human-body-can-take
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Niger? Where on Earth is Niger? Don’t you mean Nigeria? Niger, run by the French due to its gold mines and uranium, has just had its American patsy president overthrown by the majority tribes from the North. The local African countries have gone on one side or the other, and Wagner have been hired.
“..the pro-Western coalition with Nigeria, ECOWAS, USA, France and the pro-Russian coalition with Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Algeria and of course, Wagner. According to the Russians, the loss of Niger and its resources is a strategic defeat for France and the EU. Not only because Niger’s new authorities stopped the delivery of uranium and gold, but mainly because a war could destroy natural gas pipelines and oil to the EU.”
So Nigeria is being used as the main thug to invade their neighbour and change their Govt. However, Nigeria has the usual African problems of religions and wealth-
“The country is divided along religious lines: Muslims dominate the north, Christians and followers of local traditional beliefs dominate the south. Sharia law is in force in the northern states while there are many Islamic armed groups. … Nigeria’s main problem is the strong socio-economic stratification of its society. Only 3% of the population uses all the benefits available from the sale of hydrocarbons. Over 90% of Nigerians live on $2 a day.”
..and it all makes sense when you consider-
“Nigeria is a direct competitor of Russia in the European energy market. After the collective West imposed anti-Russian sanctions and banned itself from buying our oil and gas, its eyes turned to Nigeria, which has large hydrocarbon reserves.”
Which they want to get to Europe via pipelines, but sadly they must run through Niger and Algeria, both on the ‘wrong’ side of the righteous freedom and democracy rule of law camp.
So, get out the popcorn, its America versus Russia all over again, another war in some 3-world hellhole as a practice before China!
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/rosiki-meleti-deichnei-genikevmeni-syrraxi-stin-afriki-o-polemos-tha-dialysei-tous-energeiakous-agogous-trofodosias-tis-ee-tha-teleiosoun-ola-me-itta-tis-nigirias/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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Niger is due north of Nigeria, it has 25 million people. Nigeria has 185 million.
https://infogalactic.com/info/Niger
https://infogalactic.com/info/Nigeria
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Jo,
Per https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ Nigeria is approaching 225 million, growing at almost 2.5%/year [over 5 million/year] – better than an extra 14,000 people every day.
Other estimates are available.
And – per the same site – Tanzania is very quickly approaching the UK in population.
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O/T but The Matildas have won the (Women’s World Soccer Cup) quarter final for the first time in a penalty shoutout.
My fear is that they will be handicapped in the Semi-Final by having various Federal politicians to carry.
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Well, as they will play England, the Lionesses will be carrying the entire NHS – and our ‘Rolls-Royce’ of a Civil Service …
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Good to see Gina Rinehart supporting our Olympic Sports.
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Car auctioneer – fire; Essex, England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-66484853
Cause not yet ascertained. “200” cars burnt, but extinguished within 12 hours, it seems.
But, perhaps, watch this space, and see if there was an EV involved.
May not have caused the fire, but would have made it harder to extinguish.
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