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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/bombshell-michael-shellenberger-exposes-shocking-usaid-cia-connections/
Money quote:
“As such, it appears that CIA, USAID, and OCCRP were all involved in the impeachment of President Trump in ways similar to the regime change operations that all three organizations engage in abroad. The difference is that it is highly illegal and even treasonous for CIA, USAID, and its contractors and intermediaries, known as “cut-outs,” to interfere in US politics this way.”
Read it all. Plus there’s a vid to watch as well. It’s the *real* vid of the CBS interview of Kamala Harris with commentary. Election interference to smear DJT.
They were completely involved with the efforts to impeach Donald J. Trump!
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If the Nov election was still undecided at midnight, the steal would have happened, they didn’t have time though.
Being much wiser now Trump is doing the same with change: Don’t give them TIME to organise.
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I believe there is more to it than this. Some States had numbers jumping about early on in the count.
There was also much greater surveillance and checking this time. This discusses the integrity of the voter database in Ohio:
https://www.prlog.org/13038762-who-placed-cryptographic-algorithm-into-the-ohio-election-voter-registration-database-and-why.pdf
History will record Biden has having the highest popular vote count for a long time to come.
Trump’s hand is right across the administration. There is no safe haven for the Democrat stooges in government. And Musk is working so fast that their heads are spinning.
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OCCRP → Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is a global network of investigative journalists with staff on six continents
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Great news! Looks like serial liar Fauci may finally be held accountable for his crimes against humanity:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/seventeen-state-attorneys-general-unite-challenge-bidens-preemptive/
The report suggests that Fauci was involved in misleading public statements about the origins of COVID-19, mismanagement of funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and suppression of scientific debate regarding vaccine risks.
Key findings from the Congressional report include:
* Origins of COVID-19: There is suggestive evidence that Dr. Fauci worked to discredit the “lab leak” theory despite growing evidence in favor of it.
* Misleading Congress on NIH Funding: Allegations that Dr. Fauci provided false testimony regarding NIH-funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
* NIH Oversight Failures: Reports of mismanagement involving taxpayer funds intended for EcoHealth Alliance, which indirectly supported the controversial Wuhan lab.
* Suppression of Scientific Dissent: Accusations that prominent scientists who voiced concerns about vaccine risks were systematically silenced, curbing public discourse on potential adverse effects.
The coalition of attorneys general includes:
1. Alan Wilson, South Carolina
2. Jonathan Skrmetti, Tennessee
3. John Guard, Acting Attorney General of Florida
4. Liz Murrill, Louisiana
5. Ken Paxton, Texas
6. Steve Marshall, Alabama
7. Raúl Labrador, Idaho
8. Drew Wrigley, North Dakota
9. Derek E. Brown, Utah
10. Todd Rokita, Indiana
11. Marty Jackley, South Dakota
12. Tim Griffin, Arkansas
13. Austin Knudson, Montana
14. Andrew Bailey, Missouri
15. Kris Kobach, Kansas
16. John B. McCuskey, West Virginia
17. Mike Hilgers, Nebraska
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https://brownstone.org/articles/the-balance-sheet-of-pandemic-mortality/
The supposedly extreme threat of the Covid-19 pandemic that panicked governments into emergency measures was created in large part by modelling, which assumed that extremely high levels of deaths would occur without novel countermeasures. Pandemania ensued and should never be repeated. Retrospectively, the orthodox now attempt to show that because these fictional levels of mortality did not eventuate, this was because of the countermeasures.
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I mentioned Fauci’s lies to a person with TDS and he countered (and dismissed me) with how the great doctor had contributed to advances in HIV/AIDS research. Years ago, I learned this is called a non sequitur of the type: Any abrupt and inexplicable transition. Color me stunned.
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Did you ask them if they remembered the early UQ Covid Vaccine which was canned because it made people throw a positive HIV test?
Or the Perth group’s work leaving questions still unanswered: https://www.theperthgroup.com/
Probably wouldn’t matter anyway…
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> contributed to advances in HIV/AIDS research.
https://www.brasscheck.com/video/aids-faucis-first-fraud/
https://peoplesworldwar.com/fauci-his-hiv-aids-fraud/
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Absolutely correct! Thanks for reminding everybody about that, and informing the people that didn’t know.
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Fauci advancing HIV/Aids research is mind blowing! He quashed any attempts to find alternate cures, and pushed full strength AZT. It was like he wanted to get rid of gays? And if the two scientists who made the HIV connection, quickly disavowed it, why is it still being pushed in Africa? Are people dying from AIDS anywhere else? According to Bobby K jnr HIV genes are all over the planet.
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More on USAID and the connection between the Tides Foundation with George Soros
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/usaid_helped_fund_the_soros_prosecutors.html
“Nearly $170 million in government grants has passed through a liberal dark money behemoth that houses numerous left-wing groups, including the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, tax forms show.
The taxpayer-funded grants were disbursed to groups through the Tides Center, a San Francisco-based nonprofit incubator that wealthy liberal donors use to bankroll progressive causes. A number of radical left-wing groups have fallen under the auspices of the Tides Center, which acts as a “fiscal sponsor” to nonprofits by providing its 501(c)(3) tax and legal status. This arrangement lets the groups under its umbrella avoid registering with the IRS.
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[Scott] Walter [president of the Capitol Research Center] noted that the Tides Center’s recipient profile on USASpending.gov, which posts government grants, shows $34 million in federal funding since 2008. The grants were primarily from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.”
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Just posted a new thread on WEF funding by USAID. Thanks!
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Looks like an Arctic SSW event is occurring.
Ice extent and volume are already low.
Antarctic ice extent has dropped below average again.
Unlike UAH, EU scientists have declared it was a new record warm January +1.75C.
The ‘climate scientists’ still can’t explain such sudden and persistent recent warming, until they can, they can’t credibly blame CO2 for anything.
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Whoah hey, where did this “+1.75C” number come from (yes I know, the same dark stinky recess they pull ALL their numbers from) as last night NZ-time practically every radio station released en masse the comical (read: desperate) announcement from Europe’s Crappolanicus that January 2025’s temperature beat the previous year’s January temp by – are you sitting down? – a massive, planet-destroying, oh so scary 0.1 degree Celsius.
One-tenth (1/10) of a degree 🤣
Admittedly some news readers were chuckling in disbelief, while others read the shocking press release with the sobriety of a priest at a sinner’s funeral, as if the planet was already halfway down into the hole with no chance of salvation.
Mickey Mouse just morphed into Donald Duck, as in ‘quack’! Hopefully the RealDonald pulls any funding the USA may be contributing to this away with the fairies Euro space agency for, what’s the saying, cooking the books.
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“… they can’t credibly blame CO2 for anything”.
Agreed.
But how will it stop them screaming their ignorance on any bought-n-paid for mejia?
In the hope the big bucks will keep rolling in from others as ignorant as themselves, but much more scared.
Or in on the scam?
NOT Mr. Miliband, of course.
Mr. Miliband is on a(n un) holy mission.
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Nice post on Aussie heatwave data, Geoff
I did see a nice graphic a few months ago that shows maximum temps are not increasing but Tmin is. Thus lifting the average of Tmin and Tmax to give an impression of a warming world.
This Tmin increase if it is occurring in the data you have, would be interesting to see if the effect is UHI by comparing city to rural sites.
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Using UAH data, the summer to winter range has narrowed across Australia. Most has narrowed by 2C but southern Queensland, NT and southwest WA has only narrowed 1C.
When you deal with anomalies, you have two choices – hotter or colder. Using actual data, you would describe the conditions as not getting as cold as it used to.
Melbourne is a balmy 23C this morning but it is closer to a hot tube than pleasant conditions.
Over my 33 years in Melbourne, I have noticed the increasing ineffectiveness of the evaporative cooler. If it was being run today, it would be leaving ther floor moist.
The place on Earth that has warmed the most is the Greenland plateau in January. Up around 10C in 70 years. It now reaches MINUS 25C whereas it used to only get to MINUS 35C.
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Rick, I’ve just done my random round the world temperature check for the past 24 hours (via govt & met sites) and as usual the announcement of the planet’s incineration is somewhat premature. From warmest to coldest in Celsius:
46.7 Telfer, Western Australia
-12 Arctic / North Pole
-31 Amundsen / South Pole
-37 Summit Camp, Greenland
-45 Concordia, Antarctica
-50 Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia
All figures give-or-take a degree or three due to time zones etc. However the planet still appears to be colder than it is hotter, and as for any signs of sea water reaching that mythical 100C boiling point (or even higher due to the salt content) the search continues…
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You are using that pesky notion of measured data. To know if it is getting hotter, you need to subtract the average for this time of the year.
For example, if the average for Greenland summit for this day of the year is -40C than it is 3C hotter this year than the average.
The global temperature is dominated by the northern hemisphere land masses. If they are warmer in winter when there is little ute now sun then there has to be be more precipitation as a result of ocean air cooling over the land. The precipitation will be snow if the land is below 0C.
The increasing winter temperature is consistent with more snowfall – at least before the snow hangs around on the ground.
https://www.aol.com/see-record-snowfall-buries-parts-034553284.html
I am taken by the way they refer to “see-enhanced” precipitation. All snow starts its life as evaporated water from the ocean or lake. It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that the closer you are to water, the more snow you will get when the land temperature is below freezing. All snow is “see-enhanced”. If the northern oceans were not warming, the snowfall would not be increasing.
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May I suggest rejection of “average air temperature” term as unscientific.
Averaging over short time is senseless due natural day-night and seasonal variation.
Averaging over longer periods helps neither pro- and anti-AGW arguments, both sides agree there always were and continue to be temperature changes.
So various tricks, honest math and data manipulation are employed to give “a customer” the appearance of serious conversation.
Most importantly – averaging air temperature over geography, is as clever as that of patients’ temperature over one ward or a hospital .
As one of contributors here suggested (even with technical details) temperature measurement for weather purpose must change.
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“The average “ is a very poor statistical parameter, mostly unrevealing about the parameters in question. On a lighter note: a man was laying on his back with his feet in an oven and his head in an icebox. Amazingly his average temperature was excellent: 38.6 degrees.
And I see that An Average Man is 112 years old.
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Do we have any information on the ground temperature under the ice?
And the depth of the ice?
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Please, Ted, tell us more.
I was barracking here for using soil temperature at agreed standard depth for many practical, eg – agricultural, building, general engineering purposes.
Outdoor air temperature is parameter #1 in any conversation about weather and climate but is misleading unless you take into account humidity and wind speed, to say nothing about dozen or so other influencing parameters of the actual instrument.
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FWIW
“BOOM! – Just Like That, A.I. Power Demand Blows Away Green CO2 Goals”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/boom-just-like-that-a-i-power-demand-blows-away-green-co2-goals/
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These are the headlines of article in today’s SMH. The Left is in desperation as they pour the propaganda out.
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We do not need Dutton following Trump’s way-
Trump wants to turn Gaza into the Gold Coast. His motive is blindingly transparent-
Donald Trump says it could be the “Riviera of the Middle East”. But the UN estimates Gaza is littered with 50 million tonnes of rubble.-
‘Do something’: Americans take to streets as Elon Musk’s team advances-
White House says US would not fund Trump’s ‘out-of-the-box’ Gaza plan-
No, Elon, ‘working the weekend’ is not a superpower-
Is it the Musk effect? Tesla sales slump in Australia and Europe-
Trump doubles down on Gaza takeover plan as Rubio calls it ‘generous offer’-
Dutton borrows from Trump, but he won’t follow him into these trenches-
Trump’s remarkable ability to spin a tall tale-
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As is typical of the MSM, the full press conference recording with Trump and Netanyahu a few days ago is just not easily available.
What we are given (take it or lump it style) is carefully chosen snippets filtered to suit whatever story the media outlet wishes to propagandise. I have no use for for that misinformation.
I did see a brief snatch on Trump flatly stating that Iran will not aquire nuclear weapons. It will not be permitted to. That reassured me immensely as the aquisition of nuclear capability by the Iranian mullahs was (still is) a real nightmare. I still cannot understand for sure why Pakistan has not sold the critical input to the Iranians (maybe they already have).
Yet no MSM outlet since has even hinted that this aspect of Trump’s press conference actually occurred. It is being directly hidden. Why this is so may have a number of motives, but all of them are absolutely despicable.
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A friend who worked in Iran under UNESCO explained that despite all the efforts “they” still have not got enough fissible material.
While the specific technology can be shared, I guess no nuclear country wants to share that material even with closest friends.
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FWIW
“Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1,300,000,000 Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball To Foreign Aid”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/02/04/biden-admin-terrorist-1-3-billion-trump-foreign-aid/
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-vows-sanction-international-criminal-court-executive-order/
The ICC alleges that Netanyahu and Gallant employed “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeting civilians—charges that Israeli officials have vehemently denied, labeling them as false and antisemitic.
Other accusations are:
* Wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health contrary to article 8(2)(a)(iii), or cruel treatment as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
* Wilful killing contrary to article 8(2)(a)(i), or Murder as a war crime contrary to article 8(2)(c)(i);
* Intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as a war crime contrary to articles 8(2)(b)(i), or 8(2)(e)(i);
* Extermination and/or murder contrary to articles 7(1)(b) and 7(1)(a), including in the context of deaths caused by starvation, as a crime against humanity;
* Persecution as a crime against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(h);
* Other inhumane acts as crimes against humanity contrary to article 7(1)(k).”
President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) follows the recent blockage by Senate Democrats of a Republican-led bill aimed at sanctioning the ICC for issuing arrest warrants.
*******
No matter what, the U.S. doesn’t, and will not abide anything the ICC does. We don’t even regard it as an actual court anyway.
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Rickwill
I thought Southern Greenland has had a very small but definite cooling trend for many decades? How does this work with the warming of the Plateau?
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This link has from 60N to 68N. There was a dip in the early 1980s but no significant trend:
https://climexp.knmi.nl/data/ighcn_cams_10_-54–31E_60-68N_firstyear-lastyear_n.png
The minimums in January have a slight warming trend; much less than observed on the plateau..
The ocean along Greenland’s Southeast coast has a cooling trend. That is likely due to faster calving that is presently keeping up with more snowfall on the summit.
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FWIW
“Paper Exposes Pseudoscience Behind Methane War on Farmers”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/05/paper-exposes-pseudoscience-behind-methane-war-on-farmers/
Also funded by USAID?
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Peter Sutton’s book ‘The Politics of Suffering’, on the state of Aboriginal society, and solutions to the problems, reviewed in 10 minutes. It’s a goodie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pigqipl-Mok
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All those men dressed as women getting sent to women’s prisons under Biden now going to men’s prisons.
I wonder if they’ll be allowed to still pretend to be women there?
They’re going to be very popular if they do.
Can’t wait for the Babylon Bee meme!
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Something about how the Donald finds the cure for transsexual men?
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Is it true that both the black boxes on the Washington crash planes are inoperable, and an ex spook is on and off the passenger lists?
Still waiting for any washup from the first assassination attempt. They must be still trying to crack his mobiles?
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DOGE has moved on NOAA.
https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/02/fears-for-future-of-vital-climate-and-weather-functions-as-elon-musk-team-sweeps-through-federal-agencies-enters-noaa/
Australia needs to move on BoM. It is a parasitic globalist enclave. Privatise its useful parts.
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Privatisation is the WRONG solution to this problem.
Private bodies have rights that will allow them to hide processes and information from the public.
The correct solution is to sack the perpetrators or bring criminal charges against them and to ensure that all government bodies CANNOT under any circumstances withhold information from the citizens. Transparency is the disinfectant of corruption. All actions a government takes should be transparent and should not be secret from either its citizens or the international community.
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All governments are corrupt. The smaller the government impost on citizens, the lower the level of corruption.
Their ABC takes $3.1M/day. That means each working Australian pays about $125/year for something that offers them no value.
The BoM has had a huge negative impact on Australia with its climate fear porn. It is worse than a huge waste of tax payers money. Its climate porn is killing Australia economically.
Governments were largely out of electricity supply through the 1990s and that is the only decade over the past 70 years that electricity prices decreased. The RET opened the door for rampant price inflation that nows threatens the entire Australian economy.
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Waste is not corruption, although it can be a symptom of corruption.
Merely terminating expenditure does not solve the corruption of the BOM or other government functions.
Outsourcing is obfuscation. Better to clearly delimit the prerogatives of government and ensure that their operations are transparent so that malfeasance can be punished.
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How not to remember AI at this juncture !
I guess everyone agree that we (at least in the West…) have good Laws, main problem is implementation.
Full Transparency with machines is quite doable, with humans… I doubt…
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Supermarket egg wars!
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1887632260083687748
How many eggs!!!
If you guys want to fight, move away from the eggs first!
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$10M spent by the US blob on creating trans mice
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1887625171575710120
Of course the mouse problem goes way back to 1969…
https://youtu.be/uK92NYwBMts?si=JQkVAsnJzX3FeUj2
😆😆
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Massive Outage Hits Major Canadian Banks, Disrupting Online Banking for Many
Today, Canada’s banking system took a severe hit as all major banks—TD Bank, Scotiabank, CIBC, and RBC—crashed. This unexpected event left millions of customers unable to access their online banking services, disrupting daily financial transactions across the nation.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/major-canadian-banks-crash-leaving-millions-without-online-access/
Did they have you know what?
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The DOGE song!
https://x.com/RickyDoggin/status/1887295131142980093
“Who can tax the sunrise?
Who can tax the trees?
The government can…”
Sing along all…
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Sweet!
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‘Great operation’ behind Trump’s golden pager gift from Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu gave Donald Trump a golden pager in a symbolic reference to the Israeli covert operation that turned Hezbollah devices into lethal explosives in an attack last year.
Text on the pager, placed in the middle of a dissected tree trunk, reads: “Press with both hands.”
A small placard on the bottom of the trophy-like gift, says: “To President Donald J. Trump, our greatest friend and greatest ally. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.”
A source familiar with the gift told the London Telegraph that Trump replied on receiving it: “That was a great operation.”
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Australia enacts mandatory prison terms for N*zi salutes
Australia enacted legislation on Thursday imposing mandatory sentences of at least one year in prison for individuals who display N*zi salutes or “hate symbols.” While officials say the updated law is meant to address rising hate speech and extremist behavior in the country, it has also raised concerns over its impact on freedom of expression.
https://www.rt.com/news/612308-australia-nazi-salute-prison/
Back to the old middle finger then when addressing totalitarian pollies who don’t like the masses seeing them for what they are.
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Couple of days ago there where conversations going on in different Finnish forums about a topic ‘nazi salute or not’. Writers had great difficulties to recognize a genuine nazi salute and of course some were worried whether you dare wave your hand at all.
Finally someone had a solution; only those carrying a sickle and a hammer at all times should have a permission to salute using hands.
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What if you are doing it to signal to a friend – these cops here are behaving like nazis?
What if deaf people are talking about WWII?
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Yes, they will become the N*zis they are trying to ban us from talking about!
Totalitarian Uniparty Govt where your vote is meaningless, focus on exercise and health for the good of the country, ban smoking, replace parenthood with the State looking after your kids from kindergarten to University, and of course, total censorship of all media while pretending its all for your own good!
I’m just going to give John Cleese waves…
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FWIW –
Today’s Coffee and Covid Newsletter
Read it all
“THE BIG THAW ☙ Thursday, February 6, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS
How USAID and the rest of the Deep State machine ruined the Millennium; the stratospheric stakes for all humanity; and what we must do NOW to fight back.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-big-thaw-thursday-february-6?
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FWIW
“The great carbon credit con: A shonky system exposed”
“In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church convinced the commoners to buy indulgences to alleviate their sins. And they made a fortune in the process. Similarly, today, our overlords — the mainstream media, and political elites — are working overtime to convince the commoners to pay for their alleged climate sins.”
More at
https://www.robertonfray.com/2025/02/07/the-great-carbon-credit-con-a-shonky-system-exposed/
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FWIW
Choreography for Snowy 2?
“I Spy With My Trump Eye…Greasy Gavin’s Hi-Speed Rail UPDATE”
Read it all and you get to this!
“.cc in the comments just blew my damn mind.
Beege, that track laid last month isn’t in any way|shape|form the HSR, indeed greaseball gavin himself touted how this was the first part of a railway to deliver equipment and materials for the construction of the HSR track, and that it will be ready to go in about 3 years from now…
So the 1600 feet of track they’re all thrilled about isn’t even FOR the high-speed rail – it’s for the auxiliary line to get supplies to where, someday, there’s supposed to be a high-speed rail track.
OMG. I am beside myself here.
Trump’s guys can’t perform an in-depth colonoscopy on this disaster a minute too soon.”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/06/i-spy-with-my-trump-eyegreasy-gavins-hi-speed-rail-n3799557
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FWIW
I just tripped over quite a menu at
“Keeping up?”
https://wlehman.substack.com/p/keeping-up?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2389239&post_id=156480736&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=kihcf&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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More in that vein
“Thoughts And A Warning”
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2025/02/06/thoughts-and-a-warning/
Via https://instapundit.com/701153/#disqus_thread
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I think it is Sarah Hoyt that often starts with “You’re going to need a bigger blog”
Eh! Gawd!
“The Full Story of the FAA’s Hiring Scandal”
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring
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Meanwhile in the UK: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/home-office-commission-paid-incels-113545012.html
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https://jdee.substack.com/p/an-enigma-transmission-of-epidemic-c30
The preponderance of tuberculosis entries (19 in total) for a disease we were supposed to have clobbered with those magical vaccines.
In the current era influenza is differentiated more than ever before, with 6 entries within ICD10. Is this a genuine attempt at medical care and refined understanding or just gaming by those with vested interests?
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https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/mhra-papers-part-21-30c
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a blockage of venous drainage of the brain; it is a disastrous event as pressure builds inside the rigid skull, and it cannot expand. If not treated urgently, it can be life-threatening, and even then, it can cause long-term disability. There are risk factors for thrombosis (known as thrombophilia).
Something was causing CVST and other clotting nasties even without known thrombophilia factors as more and more people were being vaccinated, some multiple times.
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If this were Sydney, beaches would be closed: https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/cornwall-beaches-warning-poisonous-plant-9926248
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