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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 atmospheric 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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Elon Musk on USAID .
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/here-we-go-usaid-headquarters-shut-down-trump/
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If you go to http://usaid.gov you get a message that “this site can’t be reached”.
TRUMP doesn’t mess around.
It’s already gone.
Next!
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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. All of the economic and social problems of modern Europe, including immigration, manufacturing and energy are their own doing through an endless series of leftist governments. And lack of responsibility while preaching socialism, lack of borders and Green Woke policies. And for 200 years as always, you can blame the French.
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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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This is only going to get worse because average life expectancy is increasing. By the standards of 1900, 2/3 of the planet has outlived average life expectancy. And natural selection is not working once you get life expectancy passing child bearing age. So we are depending more and more on modern medicine and pharmaceuticals and surgery to extend life.
Few people are alive today past 40 without medical intervention and antibiotics and now anti cancer drugs. Successful major transplants are amazing but costly. Dental alone has changed quality of life completely. Henry VIII may have changed history but his broken leg never healed properly. The evolution of health care as affordable is a huge issue which will only worsen as populations age. People are going into incredible old age today who would not have survived a century before. Who pays? And how much?
Even when you look at the 8 billion people on the planet, 2/3 would not have survived in 1900. So we are in uncharted waters, especially if the older 1/3 cannot work, and cannot fund their own quality of life and medical and dental care.
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Hopefully RFK Jr will reduce medical costs in the US by allowing the testing and possible repurposing of out-of-patent drugs which may be effective against certain cancers such IVM and fenbendazole, for example. Or even simple measures known to improve general health such as correction of common Vitamin D deficiency.
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Video:
TRUMP orders DEI mural painted over at FBI. Commentary by Liberal Hivemind.
https://youtu.be/Xr0CHJQL2BI
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Video:
Liberal Hivemind talks about TRUMP and restrictions by the Demonrats of people rebuilding in Commiefornia.
https://youtu.be/6icFjvQBUEE
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Benny Johnson talks about the tragic Washington DC plane crash and DEI involvement with the pilot, who as a military officer was also a White House aide for Biden, thus not a full time pilot.
Also, apparently the unusual delay in releasing her name was so that all her social media accounts could be deleted by her family. Her social media showed an extreme Leftist bias and TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
https://youtu.be/jh2u8LQ6y7k
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Also see video and comment I posted at https://joannenova.com.au/2025/02/monday-91/#comment-2828403
Note that disasters don’t normally happen for just one reason. Critical systems are designed to cope with one or even a few errors.
Disasters occur when there are a multitude of errors, simultaneously.
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The helicopter was supposed to be at 200ft it was at 380ft.
That’s about all you need to know, when you fly fear of hitting the ground is real and she drifted up to 380ft.
The goal is to trust your instruments.
DEI was part of this for sure.
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