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What Happens When The Lights Go Out?
If you have access to Sky News, then don’t forget to watch Chris Uhlmann’s Net Zero Investigation at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 19/11/2024 –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joeer8aiG70
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Will Mr. Trump get convicted for the NY Court Case? A Prediction.
https://youtu.be/yyDsA7sL-lM
A 5 minute video
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Mr. Trump’s Whirlwind of Appointments –
“The mainstream media is either stupid or relentlessly beating a dead horse – their Marxist agenda. Reading the Economist and the comments of the Editor-in-chief, it is hard to fathom how ignorant this article really comes off, as do many others criticizing Trump for this flurry of appointments. I have said that The DEEP STATE is trembling because Trump now knows their game. Last time, they stuffed his cabinet with people like John Bolton and all other Deep State’s Neocons. Bolton wanted to start World War III because an unmanned drone was shot down. He has no regard for human life, regardless of which side we are talking about. War, to him, appears to be more like a football game rooting for one team to vanquish the other.
The entire reason Trump is giving his list of nominees NOW before taking office is to PREVENT the Deep State from stuffing his cabinet again to ensure he cannot drain the swamp. This has NEVER been done before, and this is an excellent strategy.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/trumps-whirlwind-of-appointments/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
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Johnny,
It is a puzzle of the present times, that some people in positions of power continue with policies or preferences that have been debunked. Of course, in Australia, the big present example is the defeat of the “Voice” preference to amend our Constitution to grant powers to a minority group, being those claiming to have some aboriginal ancestry.
For reasons that I cannot fathom, many big businesses like Qantas gave public backing to the Yes case drawn up by a few known activists and promoted by most governments. Some prominent lawyers, plus some mega wealthy folk, also went strongly Yes. The people, me included, voted No with a 60% majority, without much No case publicity beforehand. The No voters included many aborigines living in remote communities.
This was a clear case of government/bureaucratic/academic/swamp types being upset by voters mostly without special interest or motivation. The governments, having failed the pub test, then doubled down. There is example after example of this swamp arrogance, such as dictating electric car preferences, backing net zero carbon, backing huge immigration numbers, mandating by coercion a fake “vaccine” and legislating cases of immunity from prosecution and requirements under freedom of information to make special people out of swamp dwellers.
I simply cannot deduce motivation for this anti-social conduct other than greed.
May those offending quickly regain their senses. It is extraordinary. Geoff S
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I do believe that the time has now come to rid the World of all of those people. And I can’t wait until May 2025 to boot out the Australian Marxists. Mind you, the current Opposition needs to ‘Man Up’ first IMHO.
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>motivation for this anti-social conduct
Taking their orders from from the oppressive supranational overlords backstage, instead of serving the best interests of the nation and her people.
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Nomination before inauguration is not unusual but this is delightfully early. I just read that his first term DOE Sec Perry was nominated Dec 17 so Wright is a month ahead of that. It gives nominees time to study and plan.
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Some of the nominations are unclear. A bit like Harris’ ‘Border Tsar’, which was Biden’s attempt to hang the albatross around her neck.
It didn’t work because there was no specific job attached, just blame. It was meant to make sure she could not possibly run for the President’s job and that didn’t work either.
So she just refused to do it, or any other job. I think her logic was that she has never had to work before, didn’t know what to do anyway, so why should she start doing any work now? And there was no way she was going to solve problems or go to the Mexican border. It was so beneath her.
And while we have this new idea of DGE, Department of Government Efficieny for Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, it does not exist. And there is no legal basis for it. It’s just an idea, like Border Tsar. And so it is far from clear what authority exists apart from Presidential edicts. I expect these two will hire and fire with cabinet authority, Trump’s authority, with full support from the House and Senate for such legislation as they need.
The work for RFKennedy though has the FDA in mind but it’s not clear if Robert will be head of the department either. I doubt it. He doesn’t want a desk job. There are other villains in the swamp who are responsible for the lack of proper testing for Wuhan Flu vaccines and other medications. Or the loss of control over endless food additives. Remember the law which made Trans Fat obligatory, until hydrolysed vegetable fats turned out to be strong carcinogens, now banned. McDonalds are heroes for refusing to obey the law. As for illegal Gain of Function research, will heads roll for this? Possibly. So far Fauci has lied to everyone, especially Trump. And survived. He deserves to be exposed, like so many opportunist medical officers around the world. And in Australia. In the thrall of pharmaceutical companies and shady CIA operations.
There is a lot which is unclear and beyond normal cabinet appointments. And questions abound with the operation of the CIA and FBI where they have abused the limits on their activity against American citizens. We have all seen the Borne films. And Comey tapped the Trump Campaign, even wearing a wire into his meeting with Trump at the White House. The fake FISA application, lying to judges. The lethal force authority for the raid on Trump’s home. As for the massive operation to pull billions out of Ukraine and China and the impeachments and the Steele dossier and the Hunter Biden exoneration by 51 spy chiefs which so affected the last election, you have to wonder if Washington will turn on itself. I doubt it. No one wants to talk history. But they will all be stripped of authority and respect.
So far the nominations have been visionary, but not traditional. Trump really intends to clean house and is naming his samurai warriors, not just department heads. And you can be sure that the Washington swamp is planning to frustrate his every move. Not least allowing known plots against his life to succeed, with plausible deniability. All evidence is being destroyed right now.
Possibly the biggest promises and priorities are to halve electricity/oil costs. There will be cheering in the streets! End the war in Ukraine. That is already racing to an end, the German President calling for an end to the war and telephoning Zelensky. After all Ukraine blew up their essential pipe line, not the Russians. Trump warned them. And to end the war in the Middle East. Iran is already starting attempts at conciliation. Turkey will back off too. The weakness in the US and NATO are over. No more feet in both camps, as in Australia with Penny Wong chasing muslim votes in NSW at any cost. Pro Palestinian protests have simply become anti semitic riots and Just Stop Oil shows contempt for civil right. Society wants these people locked up.
Meanwhile the G7 are posturing that Ukraine will be an endless war, ‘as long as it takes’. That is more Bravado if Zelensky is suing for peace. Woke policies are bankrupting Europe. And the farmers have had enough as governments in Germany,France,Nederlands are falling and even Sweden is exporting muslims. There is a tractor protest in England at the Labor Party convention. People have had enough of the attack on farming/Stop Oil/blatant Anti Semitism/soaring power prices.
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Sorry about the length of the last comment. There is just so much which need to be done. And finally the world has hope.
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Wright looks great as DOE Sec:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/trumps-new-energy-secretary/
Unfortunately DOE has little to do with FF production. But they do a lot of alarmist climate research and renewables promotion. Hope that takes a hit.
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