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Trump says he is determined to stamp out climate hoax
https://slaynews.com/news/trump-defeat-climate-hoaxers-once-all/
Which beggars the question that when climate becomes a non subject what will be the main purpose of this blpg?
Discussions on kittens? How to dispose of electric vehicles? Hobbies and past times?
Still, as gates renews his plans to block the sun I suspect the end of the hoax is still some years away
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I reckon there are still some energy security, food security and improving housing and transport gnarly problems out there that it would be good to see some of the great minds on here set to.
What a republic might look like (Andrew and Harry are sitting a little too close to the throne these days for my liking)….
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It’s the don of a New Age.
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The weather has been the top subject in human history. What is a hoax is man made weather. Controlled by governments and requiring massive taxation and destruction of the quality of life in Western democracies. Communist governments have never believed a word of it.
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Seasonal influenza and those perpetually mutating strains used to make sense to me as a greenhorn postgrad neurobiologist attempting to gain a PhD; but then I started asking very simple questions and answers were not forthcoming. Questions such as: how does a virus that is reliant on human-to-human transmission survive when humans are not transmitting? Or: where do all those strains live when they are not partying? Or: how come only one strain expresses itself at a time when this animal loves to mutate like there’s no tomorrow?
These are not questions you ask in polite company; such as the common room of your department when greenhorns and laureates alike are fighting for control of the kettle and grumbling over what biscuits have been left by biscuit-munching undergrads that came out of the first lecture early. Ask those sorts of questions at the wrong time in the wrong place and you’ll get snorted at… or someone will peer over their glasses down at the end of their long nose.
https://jdee.substack.com/p/an-enigma-transmission-of-epidemic
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Home owners in the UK are being heavily bribed to switch from gas boilers to heat pumps
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/16/miliband-admits-heat-pumps-are-to-expensive-to-buy/
There may be a case for them in very well insulated modern houses but most property in the UK is of older stock and would require huge sums to upgrade in order to use a heat pump.
Are they becoming more polar in oz as I understand they also have an air conditioning function,more useful there than here.
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Called air conditioners in Australia and used more to pump heat outdoors.
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I seem to remember that in Obama’s inaugural speech he was very concerned about climate change and said he would stop the oceans rising.
This article shows his four properties, two of which appear to be at around sea level so Obama must have succeeded in holding back the rising waters
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14296295/So-Michelle-sit-Trumps-inauguration-Inside-Barack-Obamas-property-empire-including-12million-Marthas-Vineyard-mansion-beach-Hawaii-estate-plush-DC-bolthole.html
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Trumps inauguration to be moved inside due to intense cold
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14296751/Grim-weather-forecast-Trumps-inauguration-cold-crowds.html
Just imagine how cold it would have been for the event if we had not had decades of global warming
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On the left/right in politics, the most abused word in politics is Liberal. It has been stolen by the communists. DEI, BLM, ESG are all Liberal disasters inflicted on us by people who mean us ill. Even the major party in Australia is called the Liberal party, which is an utterly useless name today as Liberals are often as interested in taxing and restricting people as much as the Greens and Labor.
Labor is another word which no longer means Labor, apart from the unions in the vanishing trades. The waterside workers for example have nearly vanished. Transport strikes too. There are just fewer and fewer people and electricians are making great money working for themselves. Shopkeepers unions when so many retail goods are sold over the internet and service is nearly impossible to find in shops. Labor parties are shrinking. In the US and Australia, the Democrats and Labor have abandoned the workers. Unions are vanishing.
And no party represents the bulk of the people, the ignored Conservatives who do not want The Voice or more billions and land concessions to aborigines who get nothing. Nor do they want socialist posturing on the politics of Israel and the Middle East which has nothing to do with most Australians. Or the division of Australians on race, gender, origin. We are Australians. That’s the deal.
So as true Conservatives rise again in the Nederlands, Hungary, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, the UK and US, our very own Liberal party needs to recast itself as the party of the people. Nigel Farage’s Reform party appeals to the bulk of the UK.
We may need the same, to rename the Liberals for the 21st century to represent the middle class who want problems fixed. And not the weather. And ask who gets the $42Billion which does not go to aborigines. And the $100Billion of hidden off budget scams like Clean Energy and NBN and the other funds. We now have the vision of Albanese ‘tipping’ billions into the NBN to fight off Spacelink. Why? It’s a solution for this vast country. The NBN isn’t.
We need a new platform for the 21st century to reflect the Conservatives at the heart of Australia. And destroy the wedge issue of politician controlled weather. It’s nonsense, the most costly scam in world history. And stop our governments spending our money on fake science and fake aborigines and fake technology and a bit more on actual defence.
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Cybertruck in the UK? Forget it.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/8228/tesla-cybertruck-seized-by-greater-manchester-police
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