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Argentina’s First Budget Surplus in 123 Years –
“Argentina has posted its first budget surplus in 123 after President Javir Milei took office and demanded an abrupt halt to government spending. Governments worldwide should carefully take note.
Milei proudly announced:
“The deficit was the root of all our evils — without it, there’s no debt, no emission, no inflation. Today, we have a sustained fiscal surplus, free of default, for the first time in 123 years. This historic achievement came from the greatest adjustment in history and reducing monetary emission to zero. A year ago, a degenerate printed 13% of GDP to win an election, fueling inflation. Today, monetary emission is a thing of the past.”
Economic emissions should become a coined phrase as it is far more harmful than anything government is currently trying.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/monetary-reform/argentinas-first-budget-surplus-in-123-years/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
And they are going to go Nuclear. Australia, please note.
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In the USA, the dying Biden administration is doing what it can to set the all-time record for “economic emissions”. Shock and awe come to mind.
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‘Upgrade Albo’ is doing it here as well promising everything in pre Election mode. And all we will get is blackouts.
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Other countries such as USA under TRUMP and Argentina under Milei are starting to “get it” and are or will soon advance but Australia is fanatically committed to regression in almost every way. The country is being deliberately destroyed. We have no TRUMP or anyone remotely like him, or even Milei. There is little hope for Australia’s future.
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I’ve just seen the latest Johannes Leak cartoon in The Australian. It’s totally brilliant and utterly hilarious. I’m sorry, can’t link on here. Maybe some cleverer person can.
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Try this then.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/d17d5b2c63410e00a4bbc282e5e00b63?width=1024
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Thankyou JR. It is good, isn’t it?
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Every few days there’s an announcement of some new virus or some new risk from an existing virus.
It’s all part of the plan to keep Joe and Joanne Sixpack in a constant state of terror. And, of course, provide an excuse to require the next round of compulsory, expensive and useless mRNA “vaccinations” and further removal of human rights, at least in the more fanatically woke UN/WEF obedient countries like Australia.
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Once Great Britain is becoming everything Orwell warned about in Nineteen Eighty Four.
In the following video, Simon Webb discusses how only those with approved political views can be employed by the UK Government.
Of course, in the example discussed “extreme right wing” (according to the Left) simply means anyone slightly to the right of Pol Pot.
https://youtu.be/nr3rBa64unc
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Moira Deeming won her defamation case against Victorian Liberal (fake conservative) Opposition “leader” for calling her a Nazi. What he said was bizarre, inappropriate and obviously untrue. He is unfit for leadership even of the fake conservative Liberal Party and he is a complete waste of space but refuses to resign.
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I hope the $300,000 comes out of his own pocket and taxpayers don’t pay for it.
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This is not a bad effort by this African guy who built his own car from scrap.
https://youtu.be/_LV-xwHCrg8
And on the subject of African cars, Africa is trying to build its own EV.
https://youtu.be/RigENdB0uH0
Don’t laugh. Africa is trying to build a car industry but Australia shut theirs down, mostly due to expensive “green” energy and feral unions. Do you feel left behind yet?
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Now taken bets on whether Australia’s BoM (official Government meterological propaganda organisation whose weather prediction can no longer be trusted) will declare 2024 the “hottest eeevveerrr”, as we freeze here in Melbournistan.
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Oz lurches forward with more renewables:
https://renews.biz/97610/australia-selects-first-tender-projects/
The whole article is crap. An example: “The Capacity Investment Scheme aims to ensure enough new affordable and reliable electricity will be brought into the grid to meet demand between now and 2030.”
Affordable and reliable! That should rule out renewables.
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Australia, like most Western countries, has strict laws against false and misleading advertising and false and misleading statements relating to corporate activities and decisions. That statement is dangerously close, if not a direct violation of one or more of those. It is an obvious lie because the more wind and solar we get, the more exoensive and less reliable electricity becomes.
And as Jo mentioned a few days ago, if it were not for vast amounts of taxpayer money being paid to large industrial consumers such as the Tomago aluminium smelter which draws 850MW, to shut down on a regular basis, then Australia would have regular huge blackouts
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Front page of the Australian..
“The climate war is no longer a dispute between the left and the right. It is now an economic war. An ideological contest over how to get to where most people now accept is desirable.”
What happened to science?
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Sadly I found this in conversation with Physics Professors Peter Ridd and Will Happer. The C14 levels are precisely what they have been for the last hundred thousands years, so there is no fossil fuel CO2 in the air (2.0%). End of story. That’s physics.
But both then said, ‘but how do you explain’? What about ice cores? Spectral absorption and reflection? And so it went.
The point as a scientist is that the proposition that the CO2 in the air is man made has been busted since 1958, but even leading proponents of the lie of man made CO2 driven rapid tipping point Global warming quickly skip over the simple undeniable fact that it’s not true.
CO2 has one molecule in a trillion of C14 due to cosmic rays. Fossil fuel CO2 has none. The C14 level today is the same as 1800. (Not down 33%.)
Man made CO2 is categorically not true by direct observation. Absolute proof, not inference or coincidence.
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Why should this be a ‘dispute between left and right’ etc? An ‘economic war’. A war of opinion? To employ journalists?
We should quickly rebuild what we have blown up. End of story. Everything else is irrelevant.
And the CSIRO, the office of the Chief Scientist, ANSTO. No one says anything. I spoke directly to Alan Finkel. He was excited about the ‘biggest change in society since the industrial revolution’. Alan said for every paper which denied it, he could find another. ANSTO said ‘you don’t understand radiation’.
Has the world gone completely mad? It’s not true. When you weigh something, you are measuring mass. When you measure age, CO2 is modern, not fossil fuel.
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Around the Western world, subsidised and mandated wind and solar power have been displacing conventional power in the electricity supply. Consequently, most of the grids in the west are moving towards a tipping point where the lights will flicker at night when the wind is low.
This is a “frog in the saucepan” effect and it only starts to worry people when it is almost too late.
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/
In Australia the transition has just hit the wall. Britain and Germany have passed the tipping point and they keep the lights on precariously with imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.
The meteorologists never issued wind drought warnings and they even missed the Dunkelflautes that must have been known to mariners and millers for centuries!
https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
IN case they missed it before, there is a massive wind drought in Europe at present and power prices are through the roof.
Can we find out why the meteorologists failed to warn us about wind droughts? Imagine embarking on a major irrigation project without investigating the water supply including historical rainfall figures.
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/no-gusts-no-glory/
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