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The title link is self explanatory but I am sure we would all be happy to forego our medicines if it prevented even a gram of CO2 from escaping and wreaking havoc on the planet
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/02/no-laughing-matter-as-net-zero-nutters-target-your-anaesthetics-and-painkillers/
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Annual fossil fuel CO2 output is now 1% of atmospheric CO2, up from 0.03% in 1900. And that is 1/50th of what is dissolved in the vast oceans. It is also up to 25% of what is freely absorbed and emitted by the oceans each year. Fish breathe. All living things breathe out CO2. And must be eliminated. Lignin eating Termites and cellulose eating herbivores also output methane, so they have to go too.
The world’s fossil fuel CO2 is adding 1/5000th total free CO2 annually. Very scary. And fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere in rapid transit is 2% of total atmospheric CO2, as it was in 1958.
But really isn’t it time to worry about fossil fuel H2O producing rising ocean levels? H2O after all kills thousands of people a year. It is the real killer, not CO2. Time to implement nett zero H2O and reduce water consumption.
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> isn’t it time to worry about fossil fuel H2O producing rising ocean levels?
Chuckle. Also, why aren’t the alarmists panicking about the atmospheric effect of fossil fuel produced H2O? After all, isn’t H2O also a potent greenhouse gas?
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A very long and thoughtful article
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/02/towards-post-totalitarianism-in-the-west-some-warnings-from-the-east/
We are certainly far less free than we were even 10 years ago. The Young often seem to endorse the notion of dictatorships, are happy to cancel those they don’t like the views of and even prevent meetings taking place at Uni’s where they don’t agree with the speakers.
Difficult to see how we get out of this unless Trump-knowing the ropes now-is more successful in clearing out the swamp than he was first time round.
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He just closed the 40 year old USAID department and its $US40Bn budget. Only 10% helps countries. The 90% is used openly to push Globalist agendas and disrupts foreign countries. The employees have been told not to come into work and have no access to their computers. The US is printing money for useless departments like this.
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Lets hope that Starmer keeps his head down if Trump imposes tariffs on the EU
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250202-eu-vows-firm-response-if-trump-unleashes-tariffs
He is an EU fanatic though but surely even he has got the political sense to keep clear of this. The UK has a substantial deficit on goods with the US so shouldn’t be in the first line of any tariffs.
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The tariffs are already there. At 2% for EU Cars for example. But the EU has a 10% tariff on US cars. Why? It’s a 5:1 imbalance and that needs recognition and explanation. The war was 80 years ago. Europe does not need preferential treatment.
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Depends if there is anything domestically that he needs to distract from
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Similar to Australia. We have a trade deficit with the USA and a Free Trade Agreement that has been going foe 20 years now.
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A lack of accountability doesn’t dampen the desire for accountability. An Australian documentary calling for arrests:
https://rumble.com/v6ej13d-live-stream-of-new-australian-film-witness-statement.html
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The bloke in this video says the broken tree is a clear effect of climate change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c07k52rrz9vo
Even though it has clearly broken at a major pre-existing structural defect/rot obvious in the broken pieces and clearly visible in the picture before it fell here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3n2qkkd9eo.amp
Brain-dead BBC.
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Every once in a while, a tree falls. Who knew?
Did anyone hear it? {Me: I’m good with the ones that fall, so I don’t have to cut them (always a bit dangerous) when making firewood.}
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Big Pharma Lobbying –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Lobbying.Votes_.jpg
Medical insurance and pharmaceutical companies are predatory. The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is health care. This is a growing concern as our population ages. Unfortunately, we have all lost someone to cancer. A troubling but important statistic from the American Journal of Medicine explains that 42% of cancer patients will lose their entire life savings within the first two years of treatment.
The total cost of cancer care in America reached an estimated $183 billion in 2015. Ten years later, that figure is set to rise by 21% to $222 billion. Different cancers require different treatments. The US currently allows Big Pharma and insurance companies to charge and cover what they see fit. CAR T-cell therapy, for example, treats lymphoblastic leukemia but can cost up to $475,000 per patient. Kimmtrak treatment for melanoma could cost $975,520. T-cell lymphoma patients could pay $842,585 for Folotyn treatments. The costs are simply astronomical, as are the profits for Big Pharma.
Mote at –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/big-pharma-lobbying/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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