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Russia announces cancer vaccine.
Russia’s Breakthrough mRNA Cancer Vaccine: Here’s What You Need to Know
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The tariff war rumbles on. Whilst Mexico and Canada are in temporary abeyance the EU and Britain wait to hear their fate.
China has retaliated with 10% on a limited range of goods but more crucially have banned the export of a number of rare earths to the US . They have spent a decade acquiring much of the worlds rare earth supplies so this may stop the green revolution in its tracks. Oh dear!
More seriously these commodities have grown increasingly in importance and their restriction will have many side effects. I don’t know how Trump will counter this one.
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Australia should already be digging up and refining these critical minerals. Trouble is, the energy required isn’t cheap here anymore and never will be under this Marxist Feral Guv’ment.
Time to give them the boot.
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Drill, baby, drill!
Don’t panic until you really have to.
In my youth (1960s) I used to read The Reader’s Digest. There I read of new lighting technology which was much more efficient in power requirement.
So I waited and watched, but in 40 years it didn’t come through. I thought the problem was availability of these “rare earths”. But I now suspect greed must have been the inhibiting factor. When the new tech did come through there were two markets. A very expensive one for industrial use, and a cheap one for novelty use. All made in China.
So, China has plenty of Rare Earths. But, on further enquiry, they are not really rare. There are substantial quantities in central NSW. So, if China bumps the price up, somebody will start digging at Dubbo and the price will come down again..
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Many of the EV’s being bought are acquired by those of a liberal disposition who believe they are saving the world. Elon Musk has taken a very high profile in the Trump administration and must be alienating many liberals, many of whom will previously have been buying Musk’s cars. I wonder how Tesla sales will fare in light of this?
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The Tesla charging network is the only one that actually works and other companies have signed on. Somewhat like a chess player, he thinks into the future, so other’s EVs will be using his chargers even as sales of Teslas might slow. He bought into Tesla because he understood the value of the subsidies and credits. Those are now gone. My guess is he no longer thinks of the Company as an imperative. It will be interesting to watch how he distances himself from Tesla and what that will do to his wealth.
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OZ food firms fight back.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/03/food-firms-revolt-against-net-zero-over-australias-energy-crisis/
Several large UK supermarkets have also expressed their concerns of net zero on food, citing not just the costs but the vast amount of farmland required for so called renewable projects.
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You just have to be amazed at Hollywood wisdom. Mia Farrow who turns 80 on Sunday gets a microphone to complain about Donald Trump.
Of all the great thinkers on the planet, the woman who has married Frank Sinatra, Andre Previn, Woody Allen and more shares her endless advice on making the right choices and predicting the future..
“Actress Mia Farrow Floats Conspiracy Trump Will ‘Start a War’ to Secure a Third Term.”
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It’s astonishing to see the Left melt down over USAID.
It was the Left that previously talked about and criticized its’ spookiness.
World turned upside down.
Is this a symbiotic precursor to a magnetic Pole shift?
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