The Great Green Myth of Recycling By James Reed

Along with the Green ideals of renewable energy, electric vehicles and perhaps, insect eating to replace meat eating, recycling stands as another leading Green myth. The recycling mania is seen at the local level, with most councils across Australia having distinct rubbish bins, with a special big one for recycling. But it seems, not everything one would expect, as I have had plastic rejected. With all the Green mania about plastic killing the planet, one would have thought that if anything was to be recycled, it would be plastic, at least from the ordinary people’s rubbish.

However, as documented by small farmer, John Klar, the entire recycling business is just a greenwash. Take glass for example. There is no problem getting the sand to make glass, so recycling in terms of preventing shortages is not an issue. But glass is heavy, increasing collection and transport costs. Glass can break, contaminating other material to be recycled such as paper, and requiring labour to clean up. And as far as landfill goes, glass does not pose any environmental problem at all, so it is usually better to just dump glass products rather than recycle.

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Are Electric Vehicles (EV), Electric Lemons, Market-Wise? By James Reed

The vision of the climate change hysteria lobby is that everyone who drives a car will be driving an electric one, with the mains electricity powered by renewable energy. It is a utopian scenario which assumes so much falling into place, the first obstacle being getting the carbon-neutral renewable energy sufficient to power the existing society, and reliable.

But, ignoring the first base issues, there is the present problem that EV manufactures are now facing a market problem of fall in consumer demand, as consumers are not flocking to buy EVs as the industry gurus had anticipated. Manufacturers are cutting back on their once enthusiastic targets, and some are dropping prices just to unload existing stock. Thus, Mercedes-Benz CEO Harald Wilhelm has said about the now uncertain market:

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The Greed of the Developers By James Reed

Marcobusiness.com, who have been giving excellent covering of the immigration- fuelled rental/housing crisis, notes that the Albo government’s 1.2 million housing target for the next five years, based upon its support of continuous mass migration, is not likely to be met because of, what I call the greed of the developers. To keep the housing/rental market high, there needs to be pressure upon supply. As I see it, the Albo government is doing its bit with the largest migration intake Australia has ever seen, to make Australia majority Asian within years. However, developers have an interest to make the situation even worse by not releasing needed properties, but rather “drip-feeding,” to keep prices high. Marcobusiness.com gives a number of examples of this practice, but it would seem to dominate the industry. As such the housing/rental crisis will get worse unless immigration is slashed. Hell will freeze over before the developers of Australia act in the best interests of wider humanity, over their corporate profits. Oh, but if it was the Voice or trans issues, well, that is different, as moral displays of woke virtue can be made with little loss of profit.

 

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The Slums of Australia By James Reed

All Australian states have types of “better housing” Acts that generally came into force after World War II and are upgraded from time to time. The idea was to eliminate rental properties which would be no more than mere sheds, with no running hot and cold water. It was to endure the bare minimum for the in-coming migrant populations, building conditions that were not often observed earlier in the century, and certainly not in the 19th century. There are complexities with rural and outback dwellings, with no mains water, or even electricity, but, people in remote areas, including Aboriginal communities, are often forgotten.

A report from Crikey.com, tells us that many rental properties, while meeting the minimum with running water and electricity, still are little better than the slums of America, when one considers temperature, being freezing cold in winter, and literal ovens in summer. This requires poor people to spend a large amount of money on electricity for temperature control, just to survive.

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Climate Change Litigation Madness By Charles Taylor (Florida)

One aspect of lawfare that is being played out in relation to the climate change agenda, is climate change litigation, using law suits against so-called carbon producers to achieve, presumably their cancellation. In principle almost any business could be sued, but the logical target is to take on the alleged big carbon producers, such as the oil companies, who have a deep pocket.

As any sane person would know, one not brainwashed by climate change propaganda, oil is need for modern civilisation as we need it to survive. Oil is certainly needed in the construction and back-up of so-called renewable technologies, as both wind and solar are unreliable, while oil never lets one down, it is compact available energy.

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Behind the Debanking of Nigel Farage By Richard Miller (London)

Earlier in the year, Brexit and globalist critic, Nigel Farage was suspended, debanked it is now called, by his bank Coutts, a private bank owned by NatWest. At the time it as said that his political views had nothing to do with the cancellation, but Farage has fought this, and NatWest boss Dame Alison Rose has now resigned. But as well, Farage submitted a subject access request to NatWest and got some interesting material about staff at the bank who were rejoicing over his cancelation. For example, one of the comments was, “Have you all seen Nigel Farage’s Twitter? No one will bank him now. Have we single handedly drive NF out of the country?!”

Hopefully Farage will undertake a massive law suit now; the bankers deserve it!

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The Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill By Mrs Vera West

Malcolm Roberts joins with Senator Antic in co-sponsoring the Childhood Gender Transition Prohibition Bill 2023 into the Australian Senate. The aim of the Bill is to protect minors from the harms of puberty blocking treatments, and gender-alignment surgery, since minors need protection, being vulnerable and open to influence. There is not only the political aspects to contend with but the medical industrial complex benefits from this business too. Control is needed. But let’s see how the Labor and Green parties vote on this one!

Malcolm Roberts 

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The Damaged Hearts of Young Men By Chris Knight (Florida)

An article has recently appeared in the leading cardio-vascular international journal Circulation 2023; 148:436–439, which examined myocarditis, hearty inflammation in youth in Hong Kong, who had this condition because of the Covid-19 vax. The analysis found that 50 percent of males in the sample, who had Covid-19 vax caused myocarditis, now had permanently damaged hearts.

 This is shocking news and the mainstream media did not comment upon this result. It is no surprise since the idea that the sacred vaxxes could cause such an extent of myocarditis was slammed as a conspiracy theory by the same mainstream media. It is no help of course to the youth who have damaged hearts, and the likely health costs in the future, including heart attacks. WE are seeing the effects of the Covid vaxxes unfold now, and it is likely that this is only the beginning, given the toxicity of the mRNA spike protein, whether from the disease itself, or the vax.  

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The Threat of the Cashless Economy By James Reed

Patrick Barron, has done an excellent job outlining the dangers of a cashless society. He is writing at the libertarian site Mises.org, which is very pro-individual freedom, and despite differences on many economic and financial issues, still is a friend, compared to the globalists we all confront, and as embodied in the drive for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

There are many arguments against CBDCs, but the main one is one already seen with the Canadian truckers’ blockade, where the government ordered the banks to debank and cancel the protesters’ accounts, and even US supporters’ accounts. This shows the present power of the banks, and giving them even more power is to open the floodgates to potentially more of this activity, where individuals and organisations who step out of line get debanked and cancelled. This would have a crippling effect upon dissent, and along with digital identities, which are part of the deal, must all be opposed.

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The True Costs of Electric Vehicles By James Reed

I have been covering material on the costs of electric vehicles, since this is one of the key planks of the climate change agenda. As I see it, the inadequacies of electric vehicles will become quite clear once the fossil fuelled cars are put off the road, if not much sooner, and by then, the agenda will be to lock people into 15-minute cities, since they will not have relatively cheap and effective transport. So, it is important to fight this business now.

Coming from America is more critical material, this time from the think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). A report that it has recently released has shown that electric vehicles have been subsidised by governments, and would cost tens of thousands of dollars more without tax payer paid incentives and support. In the US, the government supplies $ 22 billion in support to the electric car industry and owners. Without these handouts, the average new electric vehicle would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period. According to the Report: "It is not an overstatement to say that the federal government is subsidizing EVs to a greater degree than even wind and solar electricity generation and embarking on an unprecedented endeavor to remake the entire American auto industry." "Despite these massive incentives, EVs are receiving a tepid response from the majority of Americans who cannot shoulder their higher cost." For consumers then, EV already “stink.”

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The Dark Side of Diversity By Chris Knight (Florida)

Diversity is the latest buzz ideology of the Western New Class; previously it was equity, but now diversity is king, or is it queen? The diversity issue applies to all the categories beloved of the New Class intelligentsia, including race, ethnicity, gender and sex. The idea on race is that societies in the West that have traditionally been majority white need to demographically replace whites with non-whites, as has occurred in places like London. Thus, most Western countries are set to have non-white majorities within decades. Australia under its present immigration policy, which is largely Asian-based, may even beat the US to non-white status. Of course, conservatives speaking about this critically, are condemned as intolerant, even while the Left celebrates the passing of whites, and academic attack “whiteness” for a good living at white tax payer’s expense, paying while their graves collectively are dug.

The same argument applies to gender/sex, with the debates about what is a woman in the context of transgenderism. The very same arguments used to deconstruct race are also applied here in the gender domain.

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Chinese Money Laundering in Oz By James Reed

This news item needs to be recorded for the record, as it shows what Australia faces as Chinese communist money washes over us. Police have busted a vast money-laundering syndicate based around Changjiang Currency Exchange. Money was laundered through 12 retail outlets. As a measure of the extent of this, the police seized $ 50 million worth of luxury cars and property. This was an Australia wide operation with Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth involved.

 

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The Birth Dearth By Mrs Vera West

Alex Berenson has offered some material on the rapid decline of births seen right across the developed world. The article is of interest for covering the decline of births in the advanced Asian countries, while most of our attention has been on the West. Thus, South Korea and Taiwan are on the road to demographic death, with far below replacement level birth rates, having less than one child on average. This is interesting, as most thought by Western theorists, especially conservatives, have pinned the blame upon the rise of Leftist values such as feminism. That is a quite reasonable hypothesis, but it cannot be the full truth for the entire world, as the example of Asia shows.

My own hypothesis is that there is no one cause of the birth dearth, but it is a multi-variable caused phenomenon, where Leftist values feature, but it is clear that the culture of materialism over spiritual and religious values also has much to do with it. People may choose material things over children. But, even people wanting more children face economic problems. Indeed, the present cost of living crisis, and rent housing crisis will make matters even worse as young people will not even be able to get living space, let alone have children.  As Berenson rightly notes, “nothing less than the future of humanity is at stake.” 

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Fighting Albanese Labor Government’s Digital ID Bill By James Reed

The following is an important message from George Christensen about the dangers to freedom posed by Albanese’s Digital ID Bill. To meet the demands of their globalist masters of the UN, World Economic Forum, World Health organization, and others, the Labor government is introducing this  Bill which will bring in a vast digital identity system to be unleashed upon Australians. This will be far beyond what was intended with the past, failed, Australia Card in 1985, as technology has moved so far ahead now and allows the elites control beyond anything contemplated in the last century.

There are many reasons to oppose the digital ID system, including security issues, privacy violations, but above all, this is going to create a Big Brother dystopia: “The powers that be want to turn us into Communist China, with a social credit system that controls our every move and thought! A digital ID system is always the basis for a social credit system. And if they ever bring in a social credit system, your social credit score will likely determine what services you can access. Under such a system, the government holds you hostage.”

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From the Path of Reason to the Path of Violence By Charles Taylor (Florida)

Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Chair of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, has described the growing state of anarcho-tyranny seen most clearly in America, but present to varying degree right across the West now. In America, from both the Democrat Left and Republican right, there is a movement to reject the constitution and accept violence as the answer. As Professor Turley says:  “The polls by the University of Virginia Center for Politics shows a nation at war with itself. Fifty-two percent of Biden supporters say Republicans are now a threat to American life while 47 percent of Trump supporters say the same about Democrats. Among Biden supporters, 41 percent now believe violence is justified “to stop [Republicans] from achieving their goals.” An almost identical percentage, 38 percent, of Trump supporters now embrace violence to stop Democrats. Not surprisingly, many of these people have lost faith in democracy. Some 31 percent of Trump supporters believe that the nation should explore alternative forms of government.  Roughly a quarter (24 percent) of Biden supporters also question the viability of democracy.”

None of this should be surprising since it shows that beginning in the 1960s, a great philosophical gulf has developed between the Left and the Right. In general, conservatives have been content to allow the Leftist agenda on all things to dominate society, mainly as the Left instituted a long march through the institutions, such as the universities, to gain control of the nerve centres of society. Now their influence is everywhere from the schools to the law courts, as judges are university brainwashed as well. It is now wave after wave of woke, as Australia’s Voice referendum showed. But here there was a long-awaited fight back.

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Musk: Sleepwalking to World War III? By James Reed

Following on from Musk’s X-ing about gun rights being great, he has warned that the West is sleepwalking into World War III. On this I think he is fundamentally wrong, since all indications are that the power elites in the West, such as the US neo-cons, and Democrats want to have war with Russia, and are not therefore “sleepwalking.”

To defend the most corrupt country in Europe, the Ukraine, where the secrets of the Western elites lie, the West is giving no option to Russia but to fight on. Trump could easily get a peace deal stitched up, but it seems the next step in the Great Reset must involve global war. My guess here is that the elites are presumably human, or if reptilian as some on the internet think, at least of finite intellect, and lacking in magical powers, although demonic/Satanic, they can make mistakes, major ones. And going through the route of world war to achieve their New World Order is the biggest mistake they have made.

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The Greed of Big Pharma By Brian Simpson

If one wants proof of the greed of Big pHARMa, one need only consider the latest development in the Covid scam, as Pfizer has said it will charge US $ 1,400 for a five-day course of its Covid-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid. During the Covid freak-out, the cost to the US government was $ 529. In general, it is about time that governments wake-up to what is going down, but that would involve examining their sources of campaign funding.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/greedy-pfizer-joins-other-greedy-pharma-to-gouge-high-risk-vulnerable-hiv-patients-d7245834

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Woke Magic: Now the No in the Voice Referendum Made Indigenous People Disappear! By James Reed

Here is my winner for this week of the James Reed Post-Voice Referendum Freak-Out Award, which has no prize money beyond the mere distinction of winning. A Left-wing Aboriginal activist has said that No voters have denied the existence of indigenous people. “We cannot have reconciliation with people who do not say that we exist in this country, who are not talking about the truth of what has happened.” Naturally the “truth” that she is talking about, which will be pushed down Aussie throats in the state South African-style Truth Commissions, is the blackarm band view of history that is in the Uluru Statement, fully endorsed by our Leftist woke prime minister. You know, Australia was invaded and hence is illegitimate, which would not follow at international law, even if it was true.

So, in this sense, yes, this is all rejected, as it is based upon historical myths, created by Leftist academics. Second, the claim that No voters, which included a majority of indigenous voters, as the Northern Territory results showed, indicates that her claim is just logically incoherent, as indigenous voters would then not accept their own existence, which is completely contrary to fact.

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Climate Anxiety and the Fall in Births By Mrs Abigail Knight (Florida)

The latest thing being pushed on the youth is the trendy cult of eco-anxiety, anxiety about the so-called environmental crisis. The main version of this is climate anxiety, where youth come to experience anxiety symptoms, often physical such as deep depression, and insomnia. This is largely a phenomena seen in the West, where the alleged effects of the radical climate change scenario is not being played out. The globalist narrative has always been that the West is at fault for this by creating the modern world with is comforts, that keeps the Third World populations  expanding, so the West must pay out to the Third World until the lifestyle of all is equal at the bottom of the globalist wheelie bin.

 

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The EU in the Grip of the Madness of Neo-Marxism By Richard Miller (London)

In George Orwell’s 1984 the “Ministry of Truth” had three sayings carved on its walls: “War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength.” The EU is now very much duplicating this with its “Peace Facility” transferring billions of dollars worth of artillery and ammunition to Ukraine, and the “Media Freedom Act” giving European bureaucrats the unrestrained power to censor any speech or ideas they dislike.  This situation has been noted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who has said: “Brussels is creating an Orwellian world in front of our eyes.  They buy and supply weapons through the European Peace Facility.  They want to control the media through the Media Freedom Act.  We didn’t fight the communists to end up in 1984!”  However, it is here now.

 

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