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BBC misrepresented covid risk and encouraged by govt
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/25/bbc-misrepresented-covid-risk-to-boost-lockdown-support-says-top-government-scientific-adviser/
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Third electric bus in a row to burst into flames
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/25/third-electric-london-bus-catches-fire-in-month/
Presumably the rest of the electric fleet will be taken out of service whilst they examine the causes
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500 buses is a lot to take out of service
Hopefully the Hydrogen buses will fare better
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Hey, what about a Hydrogen EV hybrid bus ? What could go wrong …
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With an inflatable overhead bag to fly it over traffic.
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I have a picture of the evidence being destroyed. The only indication that the bus and its passenger ever existed was a dark patch on the pavement after the explosion.
It does not seem to be a good idea to be using city busses as the proving ground for new technology.
It is not a stretch to image an entire battery bus charging facility to go up. I wonder what it costs to insure that building after these fires?
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Or maybe
“Hopefully the Hydrogen buses will
fareflare better”70
A video of the fire here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgipzSObrYo&ab_channel=MGUYAustralia
An electric bus fire in China here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71cVhxG_v4&ab_channel=SouthChinaMorningPost
One in Paris here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA7SoM2DWuM&ab_channel=Ironsinthefire
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This was from an earlier bus fire
Two London buses burst into flames last week whilst carrying passengers
“as fears continue to grow over the safety of electric buses”!
And from 2022
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10842785/Bus-explodes-Potters-Bar-bus-garage-engulfed-flames-six-vehicles-damaged-fire.html
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St Greta was out of her depth years ago but her latest forays into Middle East politics leaves her further exposed
https://www.voiceofeurope.com/swedish-far-left-climate-alarmist-greta-thunberg-speaks-at-anti-israel-protest/
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NEW! 2023 Data: Pacific Typhoon Activity Has Calmed Considerably Over Past 7 Decades!
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Wait for it…
“Political Scientists Say Typhoons Bigger And Badder Because Man-Made Carbon”
As for Japan’s winter storms, Hokkaido now has over 3 metres of snow on its ski resorts: another ‘Dr Viner moment’?
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A warmer world should reduce the number and intensity of TC, typhoons and hurricanes.
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Exactly, as Kirye’s and the BoM’s and Ryan Maue’s and any other non-homogenised records show, even with the minimal & slight ‘warming’ we’ve enjoyed since the depths of the L.I.A.
And yet, political scientists & zombie worriers preach the complete opposite.
George Orwell was onto it.
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The Palastinians coulld have turned Gaza into a Singapore of the Middle East.
Instead they voted Hamas into power and devoted all their efforts and aid money (including that provided by Australia) into waging war against the Israelis who had given them autonomy.
The Israelis will not make that mistake again.
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Interesting new book by Matthew Goodwin ‘Values Voice and Virtue’ telling us things we probably already knew but setting it out succinctly and clearly.
We have a new University educated intellectual elite whose values are entirely different to the old elite, not believing in their country’s culture, beliefs, history or traditions. A huge proportion want more immigration, more climate and social justice and financial reparations for those we have supposedly wronged in the distant past. They are contemptuous of the values and attitudes of those they consider intellectually and socially inferior (i.e not as well educated or connected) and are determined to sweep away the old ways.
Bodes badly for those wanting a return to pre covid normality, as more lockdowns, direction and surveillance are also on their agenda and they are not that keen on democracy.
This is what Brexit and the wave of right wind populism in Europe were out to give a bloody nose to. However, time is on their side and as they are at the top of the tree, and control the commanding heights, what they want they will likely get, short of a french style revolution. This overwhelmingly left wing elite have completed the 20 year long march through the institutions and no one stopped them
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As an add on to my comment above about the intellectual elite-and their hangers on who are young but not actually in power-as they are so dismissive of their country and its value and its history, thinking it all ought to be swept away, only a tiny percentage would fight for their country.
Putin and others just need to wait a few years and they could just walk into many western countries.
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A short explanation of the agenda (well, part of it anyway):
https://twitter.com/FFT1776/status/1750467963973411148
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A Texas border fence solution –
https://www.snipershide.com/shooting/attachments/img_5571-jpeg.8332403/
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Ukraine => Israel => Texas.
700,000 trucks going to the border!
All eyes on Texas…
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The meme is that Texas has renamed itself Israel, so is allowed to put up razor wire fences.
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More and covid “didn’t bother to warn”
“EMAILS REVEAL WHY CDC ISSUED NO ALERT ON MYOCARDITIS: The Epoch Times’ Zachary Stieber obtained emails and other documents that show CDC leaders chose not to warn Americans about a frequently fatal side effect of the Coronavirus vaccines.
This is a HUGE story and one that reveals more about why the “Public Health” establishment has about as much credibility with Americans as used car salesmen and Bitcoin scam artists. That said, the story will be all but totally ignored by the Mainstream Media, the Biden administration and congressional Democrats (more than a few Republicans on the Hill as well).
The good news is there are still senators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who told Stieber that the “CDC’s apparent decision to not immediately issue a formal alert to clinicians warning them about the increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis in vaccinated individuals is not only inexcusable, it’s malpractice,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
Johnson is currently the Ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. If the GOP regains the Senate majority in November, Johnson will be in a position to do something serious about CDC malpractice.”
https://instapundit.com/628884/#disqus_thread
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Letter from parliament to the US government for an end to the unjust perusal of Julian-Assange
Trailer for the documentary on Julian Assange.
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Like the Republic/ monarchist arguments the Assange affair has been accepted by the political left. The US should be a little more oppressive in its dealings with the rest of the world. Stuff ’em.
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Biden Set To Announce New LNG Export Ban After White House Met With Gen-Z Climate Warrior
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That will be “welcomed” by those European countries who want more LNG to cover the failures of wind to deliver.
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Biden shutting down another US success story.
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The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were fully aware back in 2021 that the Covid vaccines were linked to myocarditis. They prepared an alert to state and local officials of an emerging connection between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines but ultimately didn’t send the message because it might cause “panic”.
“This censorship of a proposed alert in May of 2021 is just one more example of our regulatory agencies’ repeated pattern of behavior to censor any information that serves to counter the narrative that the COVID-19 vaccinations are ’safe and effective,’” Dr. Joel Wallskog, co-chair of the vaccine-injured advocacy group React19, told The Epoch Times via email.
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Oxford in the UK is going all electric bus.
In a TV interview I saw, the talking head bus co. rep. admitted each electric bus cost twice as much as a diesel, but they would save on running/servicing costs (provided the cost of diesel rocketed as expected he said). We know from EV cars that the heavier weight and related wear and tear, and high insurance costs (owing to their habit of self-combustion), make that a lie. Not only that, national and council tax payers are paying towards the cost in massive subsidies. Including the cost of the charging infrastructure!
https://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/launch-of-all-electric-bus-fleet-to-service-oxford-passengers/#
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Just make sure your life insurance payments are up to date before boarding an electric bus -they have a habit of bursting into flames!
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FWIW
“Big Picture – Ed Dowd is Correct in This Review: Every Opaque Action in Western Government is Aligned Toward a Dollar-Based CBDC
January 26, 2024 | Sundance | 45 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/26/big-picture-ed-dowd-is-correct-in-this-review-every-opaque-action-in-western-government-is-aligned-toward-a-dollar-based-cbdc/
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Despite the South Pole being -37C and snowing (gotta love the Antarctic ‘summer’) and Greenland’s Summit on -52C, a southerly jet stream is directing warm(ish) air up and over the North Pole, where the DMI is reporting a spike of -20C, instead of the average -30C.
Can’t wait for the ABC, Grauniad, NYT, etc. to announce ‘Arctic Boils Ten Degrees Warmer! Could Sea Levels Rise?’
Meanwhile, most of SE Australia is colder than NZ today, with only Perth, Darwin and Brisbane being warmer. Ah well, mustn’t grumble 😃
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https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2023/cool-change-for-west-antarctica
The Antarctic Ice Sheet measures nearly 4.9 kilometers (3 miles) at its thickest point and contains about 30 million cubic kilometers (7.2 million cubic miles) of ice. If the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet melted, sea level would rise about 60 meters (200 feet).
Artic Ice is floating ice and if it mellted there would be little change in sea levels.
The reason why the wealthy woke are still buying beach front homes.
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Tucker Carlson: Who’s Really Behind Canada’s Authoritarian Spiral? (Edmonton, Canada Full Speech)
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Australian taxpayers’ UN funding hard at work.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unrwa-probes-employees-over-suspected-involvement-in-october-7-attack/ar-BB1hjGnc
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Eric Worrall writes a fairly tight essay on why this El Nino is so wet.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/26/do-we-now-have-proof-global-warming-will-deliver-more-regular-rainfall-to-australia/
The water off the Australian east coast is overheated, but no mention of SAM or Hunga Tonga.
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Looks like another house fire caused by an e-scooter:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-27/lithium-ion-battery-escooter-house-fire-investigation-coorparoo/103396316
You know Lithium batteries are in big trouble when even their ABC is reporting on these fires.
Meanwhile the ACCC and Product Safety Australia are all over the dangers of the romper bell shaker toy.
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/romper-co-%E2%80%94-bell-shaker-toy
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I thought it worth taking a look at 42 years of global warming. The linked image depicts how land surface temperature changed in January 2022 relative to January 1982:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/LST_ChangeJan22-82-1706315846.7322.png
It tells its own story. This is the warmest month for Australia and yet it has mostly cooled relative to 42 years ago. This year is probably cooler than last year.
But look at the northern hemisphere. All that land in red is not much warmer than freezing now but has warmed considerably in January. No wonder the Europeans, Russians and Canadians hate Global Warming™.
It is worth noting that a lot of the warmer land has no sunlight in January. So the reason it is warmer is because heat advection from the oceans has increased. That can only happen if snowfall has increased, which of course it has and, we are now told, was always forecast by climate models.
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Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian
climate research center
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka “planeta” (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.
Planeta is a state research center using space satellite data and ground sources like radars and stations to provide information and accurate predictions about weather, climate, natural disasters, extreme phenomena, and volcanic monitoring.
The agency is affiliated with Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, and it supports sectors such as the military, civil aviation, agriculture, and maritime.
In another case of state-affiliated hacking, Ukraine says cyber volunteers known as the “BO Team” successfully breached Planeta’s Far Eastern branch (the largest of the three).
While the Ukrainian government does not state if they were involved in the attack, they claim the hackers destroyed 280 servers used by the research center, which held 2 petabytes of data (2000 terabytes).
This massive volume of information would be difficult and costly to store in backups, so if Ukraine’s claims are true, this is a catastrophic attack on Planeta.
The Ukrainian intelligence service says the damage from the data loss is estimated to be $10,000,000, impacting the operation of supercomputer clusters and also years of research.
“Among the destroyed data are meteorological and satellite data, which were actively used in constant mode by the Ministry of Defense and MNS RF, “Roscosmos,” and several other state agencies-aggressors, as well as years of unique research”
In addition to the above, the cyberattack allegedly paralyzed all HVAC and power supply systems in Planeta’s main building and cut off the station based on the island of Bolshevik from the network.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraine-hack-wiped-2-petabytes-of-data-from-russian-research-center/
That’s a seriously effective takedown, not the usual DDOS rubbish.
2024, as warned…
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I am sure the Hactivists willl have a field day in Australia when we all have Digital IDs and use digital currency to get food.
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Which is what I, and others, have said over and over.
It’s simultaneously the biggest hacker honeypot in history, and a global OFF switch, NOT the government touted convenience and money laundering solution.
God, they’re stupid.
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No surprise… Russia’s data would no doubt show that global warming isn’t happening, CO2 doesn’t alter temperature and we are heading into an ice age!
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It’s more important that this is a serious destructive breach of a government body and took down their power too.
It also highlights their lack of data protection mechanisms.
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My first thought. If Russian data show it’s really cooling that we are expecting, certain people in the west have a vested interest in the loss of that data.
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I came across this from the USGS (United States Geological Service) website- which is a US government official website.
Geology of the Glacier National Park
Glaciers Today
So much for Michael Mann’s fraudulent hockey stick graph which has eliminated the well documented Holocene Climatic Optimum (or warm period as they call it here).
It is a wonder that the current Biden administration hasn’t altered these facts.
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What glaciers? Surely they have all gone as predicted
1923 Montana Glacier could disappear by 1948 Professor Waterman. North-western University Medford Mail Tribune (Oregon) Dec.29
1924 Montana Glacier could disappear in a few years Dr. Elrod (University of Montana)
1924 Montana Glacier could disappear in 25 years Dr, Matthes US Geological Survey
1952 Montana’s Glacier Park may need new name The giant glaciers are melting away and could be gone in 50 years say naturalists – The Post-Standard (Syracuse New York) Mar 05, 1952
2009 No more Glaciers in Montana by 2020? National Geographic News March 2 2009
2010 Signs installed about glaciers being gone by 2020
2014 No more Glaciers in Montana by 2034? What will they call Glacier National Park (Montana) in 30 years when all the glaciers are gone? New York Times Nov. 22, 2014
2019/20 Signs removed (all 29 of them)
2021 All of the glaciers in Glacier National Park are expected to be gone by 2030,” said Noah Greenwald, director of endangered species for the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)
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The Holocene Optimum was well-documented but is rarely referred to these days so as to maintain the AGW narrative.
BTW, Mann also got rid of the LIA and the MWP. And when the tree rings showed a decline in temps from 1960, Mann substituted the tree ring data with the temperature data to show the ‘hockey stick’. It was called ‘Mike’s nature trick’ and ‘hide the decline’. I wonder how his court case is going.
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At this point in time electricty prices are https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem
SA -$360
Vic -$388
Fuel mix is
SA 39% Hydrocarbons
Vic 92% Brown Coal
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Saturday tip: medical costs finder
https://medicalcostsfinder.health.gov.au/
Useful if you want to know how much a procedure will cost, state based filtering.
eg Cataract surgery – patients typically pay $250, specialist fee $1900, Medicare pays $770, hospital fees $2200.
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Tip #2: creating a transcript from a Youtube video
https://kome.ai/tools/youtube-transcript-generator
Not perfect but good enough for most uses.
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FWIW
“New tires every 7,000 miles? Electric cars save gas but tire wear shocks some Florida drivers”
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article284533695.html
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Hello from Townsville.
I’m sitting here at my son’s house, my own being unliveable, no power, no fans in the heat and humidity and maybe none for a couple more days.
This schemozzle is NOT destruction from high winds and rain bringing down power lines around town, there were a few but with days notice Ergon would have had the crews on standby to clean them up by lunch time. This a grid collapse, coming soon to you. People on Magnetic Is. were admiring the light show of transformers arcing.
There is no excuse for having a network that cannot withstand an inch of rain and wind GUSTS to 100 kph. Sheet happens and there will always be something go wrong but this is something else like cascading failures. But the state gov is the ultimate authority and they have a stake in Ergon [I think] so they will never find themselves negligent. It would be a case all money being spent on the new fangled stuff, neglecting spares and maintenance. A class action is pending methinks.
Actual wind/rain records here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94294.shtml
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They have reduced the corridors for the power lines, they will trim branches, but the trees remain.
They just did my property, bare minimum, I hired a young lad with the gear to do it properly.
It’s all part of the destruction of our country from within.
Did you lose any windows in your house, comrade?
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AFAIK there was zero structural damage. It was barely a Cat. 1 cyclone and we should have shrugged and got on with business. The grid blew up.
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I was on the wet side comrade Hanrahan, 68mm, this is a passing shower for this area, no wind. I sat up and watched, radar, live cams.
It’s disgusting, the whole east coast of QLD was shut down, cost the state a fortune, based on a weeks’ worth of bad guesses, and not a peep from anyone. (that we are shown)
I was asking for Rick, he was concerned about the glass.
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Yes that was odd, the rain is ALWAYS to the south, but not this time. And if you were looking at radar or windy.com it never formed a true eye and wall.
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Good news, Ergon has promised an update on repair at 10pm TOMORROW night. There are nearly 2,000 customers affected in my suburb. There were 60,000 residents effected at one time.
Customers affected
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Start time
7:16
pm
25 Jan 2024
NEXT UPDATE
10:00
pm
28 Jan 2024
Reason
The loss of supply is due to damage caused by cyclone activity.
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Nearly 90 Percent of Ivy League Grads Support ‘Strict’ Rationing of Gas, Meat, Electricity to ‘Fight Climate Change’
Nearly 90 percent of Ivy League graduates support the “strict” rationing of gas, meat and electricity to fight climate change, according to a new poll.
The conservative Committee to Unleash Prosperity, in a survey that sought to measure the beliefs of “elites,” stated the findings reveal climate change “is clearly an obsession of the very rich and highly educated.”
The “shocking” findings reveal “a wealthy, partisan elite class that’s not only immune from and numb to the problems of their countrymen, but enormously confident in and willing to impose unpopular policies on them,” argued Isaac Schorr in an op-ed Friday for the New York Post.
“It’s near impossible to behold the results and not acknowledge they’re indicative of a fundamental disconnect between two Americas,” he wrote. “That disconnect should be of as much concern to proud aristocrats as it is to the peasantry.”
The new poll results are reminiscent of another survey The College Fix reported on last summer which found two thirds of college students believe climate change is an “existential threat” to their generation; however, fewer than one in five were willing to give up their smartphones to help.
https://tennesseestar.com/culture/shock-poll-nearly-90-percent-of-ivy-league-grads-support-strict-rationing-of-gas-meat-electricity-to-fight-climate-change/admin/2024/01/23/
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Any guesses about their attitude to Trump?
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FWIW
“The Left-Wing Media Collapse Continues”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/01/26/the-left-wing-media-collapse-continues-n607762
Leads to
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/01/26/nolte-left-wing-media-collapse-marches-on-vice-buzzfeed-sell-off-parts/
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Helping
“‘I Dare You To Put It On TV’: Crowd Erupts As Tucker Challenges Liberal Corporate Outlet To Interview Him”
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/25/tucker-carlson-canada-event-cbc/
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For the covid file – FWIW
“Reverse engineering the origins of SARS-CoV-2- SARS2 was patented by Ralph Baric in 2018”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/01/26/oh-16/
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Being rather anal about our finances, I keep pretty comprehensive records of our spending and have done so since I retired in 2016.
So I’m pretty confident in saying that our grocery bill has gone up by 19% over the past year, plus of course inflation was running hot even before then. So our living costs are probably close to 30% higher now than in 2022. So much for the official inflation figures.
This is terrible news for self-funded retirees. Working couples will receive pay increases to compensate for inflation but we are entirely reliant on our nest egg plus some interest. Most governments are desperately trying to talk interest rates down, which again will help families (with mortgages) but hurt us.
My worry is that this will force people like us to move all or more of their investments into riskier vehicles, even if it’s just higher risk super. That could go horribly wrong if a major stock market correction happens because, at our age, there simply isn’t time to wait while your super recovers – those losses will be ‘baked in’.
Of course those poor souls who arrived at retirement living in rented accommodation are in even worse trouble.
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Not only food –
Around November a Hakuna Small Pet Door from Bunnings was $46. Now $69.
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This Is The End
In his latest video, Dr. Vernon Coleman describes the dirty tricks used to make life miserable and difficult for both him and his wife.
https://expose-news.com/2024/01/26/this-is-the-end/
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Oreo biscuits lower LDL cholesterol more than statins
Pfizer’s cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor is one of the most profitable medications of all time. Globally, the lucrative statin market is projected to reach $32 billion by 2032. Yet, for years, there have been published studies reporting that statin drugs lead to profound memory loss and diabetes, and, overall, are entirely worthless. As such, the studies have supplied the basis for reevaluating the guidelines for prescribing statins and theories on cholesterol in general. After all, cholesterol is essential to the human body—if you had none, you would be dead. The studies have likewise questioned why more focus isn’t put on maintaining good heart health through beneficial lifestyle habits instead of harmful statin medications. However, given the massive profits enjoyed by Big Pharma and physicians alike, questions are quelled, and statin prescriptions continue to increase. But alas—firmly revealing the absurdity of the scheme to keep Americans unhealthy on statins—a recent study published on January 22, 2024, has demonstrated that Nabisco’s toxic Oreo Cookies are two times more effective at lowering LDL cholesterol (the one they say is “bad”) than high-intensity statin drugs. Holy smokes… what?!
The eye-opening study on one of the most prescribed drugs in history and one of the nation’s most addictive junk foods was conducted by Harvard Medical School scholar Nicholas G. Norwitz, Ph.D., who is ketogenic and has high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol.
https://thehighwire.com/editorial/the-jig-is-up-toxic-oreos-lower-ldl-cholesterol-more-than-statins/
Blep! 😎
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Pfizzer will have to pay hard to sink that!
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Why Oreo cookies are toxic ?
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FWIW
“Viruses, Variants and Vaccines”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/viruses-variants-and-vaccines/
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Megyn Kelly & Andrew Klavan: What’s Behind Massive Layoffs at Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated
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This video is going viral on Twitter lol
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The Media is the Virus.
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