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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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Vaccine against which of the hundreds of types of cancer? Surely not all of them?
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After the last mRNA vaccine disaster, I’ll wait a while…” proven and safe ” remains to be seen.
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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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Australia is currently the third largest producer largest of rare earth’s but no doubt impacted by huge “green” energy costs and over-regulation.
In addition, until China started weaponising rare earths, the West was quite happy for China to be the main producer because environmental damage was confined to China which they don’t care about.
Also, most large scale use of rare earth’s is for magnets in windmills. If we didn’t use these monstrosities, the demand for rare earth’s could be satisfied elsewhere, easily.
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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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It’s funny how the Left complain about relatively modest tariffs (which TRUMP uses more of a threat to bring rogue nations into line than anything else) but don’t say a word about the hugely greater cost imposts caused by Leftist policies like “green” energy, hyper over regulation, anti-energy policies in general, unpunished crime, defective mRNA “vaccines” etc.
Plus, other countries need the US far more than the US needs them. If they want to sell cheap TVs (for example) to the US they will either comply with US demands or not sell their products. It’s their choice. And there are plenty of others who will comply.
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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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Other cars can access the Tesla Supercharger Network such as:
Ford, General Motors, Lucid, Nissan, Polestar, Rivian and Volvo.
As rich Leftists become disillusioned with Elon because of his pro-freedom thinking and belief in “only” two genders, and stop buying his cars, I can see Tesla remaking itself as North America’s main provider of EV charging outlets which Leftists will be forced to use because it’s the most comprehensive network.
Cheap electricity can come from coal, gas and nuclear power (as it does now), LoL. To really p%ss off the Left, Elon could add a sign to the chargers: “electricity proudly sourced from coal, gas and nuclear power plants”. He would enjoy that, and so would we (members of the Thinking Community).
I wrote an article on EV charging.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/2023/July/Charging+Electric+Vehicles
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Incidentally, there are huge numbers of Tesla cars in Australia.
I think the uptake of Tesla’s is, or has been, proportional to the number of rich woke Leftists a country has, of which Australia has plenty.
I suspect that’s due to subsidy harvesting from “green” energy is a huge and widespread scam here with plenty of players plus we have large numbers of hugely overpaid senior public serpents plus trade union thugs who buy such cars.
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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 shares her advice on making the right choices and predicting the future. Mistakes, I’ve made a few?
“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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Interesting Tweet from President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
It would be illegal under US law but other countries may wish to take up the offer.
Probably illegal under Australian law too but Australia just lets its criminals run free on the street anyway.
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Benny Johnson discusses how the helo pilot of Washington DC plane crash had her entire online presence erased, apparently by a professional, before her name was released after three days.
Crash investigators always look into human factors when investigating crashes so this constitutes interference with possible evidence and should be regarded as a crime.
https://youtu.be/jh2u8LQ6y7k
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There’s nothing unusual about what TRUMP’s doing.
Here is merely peeling away decades of Leftist insanity that has accumulated over the last five or six decades but which has now reached breaking point and is rapidly destroying US and Western Civilisation in general.
Fifty or sixty years ago his policies wouldn’t be necessary because such things were just the accepted norm of how things were, e.g. one would not need a policy to declare “only two genders”, everyone knew that, even the Left!
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https://x.com/MidwesternDoc/status/1884824761940721677
You’ll have to go the link to see the table.
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Robert Kennedy is the worst nightmare of big Pharma, an angry, very knoweldgeable and respected Democrat who has written books on the subject. And the swamp is green for a reason. It runs on a river of cash.
They include
The Real Anthony Fauci
Vax-Unvax. Let the Science speak
Wuhan Cover-up
Thimerosal, Let the Science Speak
American Values,
The Riverkeepers
Crimes against Nature
and has a lifetime of high level environmental litigation experience behind him with major class actions.
Now he is working with Donald Trump? A nightmare for the Democrats, the Greens, the fake environmentalists, the offshore wind pushers.
And the Press is digging hard to destroy his character. None of his lifetime achievements and environmental activism is mentioned. He didn’t leave the Democrats. They left him. For cash.
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