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Severe internet censorship seems to be coming to Germany
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/10/state-funded-anti-hate-organisation-run-by-islamic-scholar-becomes-germanys-first-official-internet-censor/
The circumstances seem similar to the draconian Irish and Aussie bills that have been wending their way through the legislature
We are all nowhere near as free as we were even 10 years ago and judging by the polls young people do not have much time for democracy and very many of the gerneral public would like to be controlled more than they are and would welcome back covid like restrictions
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I am getting confused by this story
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13943289/Victoria-treaty-negotiations-ready-start-month-despite-Australia-voting-no-Voice-Parliament-Heres-Aboriginal-leaders-want.html
Surely Aussies voted overwhelmingly not to allow this sort of activity when you voted in a referendum a little while ago.
Since then there seems to be a constant stream of stories as to how the authorities seem to believe the referendum went their way
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This headline seems so extreme that it must be suspect but the researchers seem highly credible
https://slaynews.com/news/japan-drops-bombshell-exposes-4900-heart-failure-among-covid-vaxxed/
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I followed the link.
The paper is here;
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39103148/
The information keeps stacking up and yet still our health authorities insist ‘safe and effective’.
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Over the week there has been a virtual avalanche of posts here that detail the inherent ugliness of the world.
On top of the middle east calamity and the decimation of Florida, posts have examined many aspects of the collapse of society.
UberWoke has infiltrated government, law and order, education, science and our expectations for the future.
But, there is good news. In many corners of society people are searching for ways of changing this disaster, and that’s especially true on this blog.
Live in hope and act for a de-woked future.
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The Saltbush Club
Blind Freddy on Green Hydrogen
By Geoff Derrick
Everyone knows “Blind Freddy”. He’s the man who sees problematic issues with extreme clarity, who identifies projects based on humbug, who calls out scams and wrong-doings, who is our quiet protector on many controversial social and business issues, and who keeps many of our radical politicians, businessmen and policy makers in check.
It is Blind Freddy who could see that “Green Hydrogen” was set to fail (“Writing on wall for green hydrogen”, Weekend Australian, 5-6 Oct), simply because making green hydrogen by passing an electric current through water is extremely expensive and energy consuming. It is Blind Freddy who sees that this process uses more energy than hydrogen can produce, and that it costs more to make this green hydrogen than its world sale price.
Operating at a loss may well be standard socialist philosophy, but it is not the way capitalism works.
And it is Blind Freddy who can see that renewables will never replace fossil fuels because they cannot do the job of powering a nation 24/7.
https://saltbushclub.com/2024/10/07/blind-freddy-on-green-hydrogen/
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And everyone knows Slick Willy. He’s the person promoting the climate/green energy scam.
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Readers might remember that devastating car park fire at Luton airport last year which destroyed 1300 vehicles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13949627/Range-Rover-sparked-devastating-Luton-Airport-multi-storey-fire-destroyed-vehicles.html
Seems the cause was a diesel Range Rover
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And it only took them a year to figure that out… Really?
Can we imagine they’ve known this for a year and kept it secret?
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Bedfordshire fire and rescue service are a perfectly respectable service. There must have been at least a dozen organisations that would have been involved in this from the local council, Luton airport, the makers of the car park, the car owners and insurance companies and sundry other bodies.
It was unprecedented so I think it very likely to have taken a year to sort out all the strands.so they haven’t known it for a year but only very recently. Range rovers have been somewhat notorious for their fuel, electrical and other problems.
I think we are into conspiracy theories if we still believe it to be an EV that caused the problem. There is no evidence for that
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The report is a year old.
The fire dept said from the beginning the the car which started the inferno was a diesel car,
The problem that I still don’t believe them.
And they blanked out the car number plate for some reason.
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And now, to start your weekend with a dose of indigestion, it looks like Floydism will be the next new religion. Being healed by the presence and protection of Saint George.
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Whatever happened was unfortunate and unpleasant but surely he was no saint and baptisms in his memory are a farce.
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I was just contemplating how embarrassing it will be for US Democrats if they lose the the POTUS election.*
The MSM, Hollywood, the intelligence apparatus, the courts, the Googly global corporatists, all spending billions in in-kind illegal campaign contributions, including violations of the Hatch Act, and overtly lying … mail-in customized voting … and then still fail?
*(Unfortunately my own opinion is that this will not happen. All the the above make the ‘election’ a fixed charade.)
But, it will be just as embarrassing, producing limited comfort, watching them celebrate their laughable fake and corrupt victory.
Of course, it will be less funny as food becomes unaffordable. As it very nearly already is is my Democrat controlled city.
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BBC does its own attribution …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cden551l7kko
“How unusual has this hurricane season been?”
Usual tatt.
But, in fairness, – “Yet in early September, when hurricane activity is normally at its peak, there were peculiarly few storms.”
Not sure if the BBC – or, at least the authors,
“Mark Poynting, Becky Dale, Erwan Rivault and Libby Rogers”
“BBC Climate & BBC Verify Data Journalism teams” do actually understand natural variation.
Perhaps …
Mark Poynting – 21 months work experience [with the BBC], has B Geography, and MPhil, Polar studies;
Becky Dale – BA International Studies [Missouri], Master of Arts (M.A.), Geopolitics, Territory and Security, and has a Multicultural Certificate; and is a Fellow, Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism;
Erwan Rivault – a Senior Dataviz designer – Bachelor’s in Remote Sensing, Masters in Remote sensing – 3 years at the BBC – and at the ESA before that.
Libby Rogers – a Senior [promoted a month ago] Data Scientist @ the BBC; before that, 4 years at the Greater London Authority [When Mr Khan was Mayor of London]; and esearch Associate at UCL, and an Actuarial trainee. Masters in Maths.
I’ve looked, so you don;’t need to!
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PS – ‘Dataviz Designer’ – a new one on me, but perhaps
– ‘I make pretty diagrams, and have read “How to Lie with Statistics” … maybe’
Chap I know is a Pre-loved Consumer-goods Recycling and Repurposing Manager; when I was a lad, I would have said he drives the bin-lorry.
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In the understandable concerns about Milton, I was struck by the passing of the storm at maximum strength near the Yucatan peninsula and then the West coast of Cuba. And not the slightest concern for the people in these areas. Say Cancun.
All the US television, drama, preparation, concern was the area around Tampa, the people, houses, yachts, cars, potential for disaster in these very densely populated holiday and retirement areas. And it highlighted the fact that Hurricanes are irrelevant, a simple fact of random luck and life in the tropics. What matters is only who and what they hit. And that Climate Change is a matter of 20km, not carbon dioxide.
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Forbes Proposes Doubling Gas Prices to Combat Climate Change
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/10/08/forbes-proposes-doubling-gas-prices-to-combat-climate-change/
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