Ex Corp. Management/Leadership consultant. Interests: #climatechange #Politics resisting #WEF #WHO #UN. The positive role of #socialmedia in society.

Joined December 2008
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The #EU must surely crumble if freedom is to be maintained (re-established?)
BREAKING: Poland just told the EU to go to hell. President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act. "The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it." One man. One veto. The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship machine in the Western world. Destroyed. Governments deciding what you can post. Governments deciding what you can share. Governments deciding what is true. Poland said no. While Germany complied. While France complied. While the entire EU rolled over. The same Poland that surpassed the ECB in gold reserves. The same Poland that has been right about everything. Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech. The EU doesn't want free citizens. It wants manageable ones. Poland just reminded them what freedom actually looks like. Every European should be paying attention.
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Some individuals are #valueadders and, some are just #energysuckers! Associate with group one and if you want to be successful and happy avoid group two. RicT
Congratulations @ElonMusk. Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire. He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth. He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world. Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:
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The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀
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Batteries for backup.... useless. Time to walk away from the great #co2scam!
Germany currently has about 26 gigawatt hours of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries with only 4.3 gigawatt hours actually serving the grid. Building that storage already cost more than 10 billion euros and at national demand levels it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage. The winter months bring what's known as "Dunkeflaute" - cold dark windless periods and higher energy usage. To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 gigawatt hours of batteries, 470 times today's storage. Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tons and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum and steel, all requiring intensive mining. At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement. The conclusion is unavoidable... Wind and solar require reliable backup power, renewables need oil, coal, gas and nuclear.
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The #co2scam, polluting the future!!!
Billions of solar panels are nearing their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of useless and toxic solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go? The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $40 to disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only around $4 to dump it in landfill. Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. There are between 7 and 8 billion solar panels in the world today. This milestone was reached as global solar capacity officially surpassed 2 Terawatts (TW). Because the physical wattage of individual panels varies from small 300W residential rooftop modules to massive 600W utility-scale panels, 2 TW of total energy capacity translates to roughly 7 billion individual panels currently installed worldwide. Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking. When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium (in thin-film technologies) can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem. The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade. This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.
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Stuff I learnt! No:1
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#Solving the #co2hoax and destroying the #co2scam!
I spoke today in the Lords on the fallacy of believing that just building 'more of everything' - nuclear, gas, renewables - will make electricity cheaper. Renewables are the problem. Until we stop adding more to the system, our electricity costs will continue to increase.
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Yep he isn't a "pr*ck" he's an "a'hole", you can tell by the amount of sh*t coming out of his mouth. Get your terminology right #Angus #Albo
Can't come soon enough!!
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Saw it. Loved it. Stole it.
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Support the #IDF and #Israel!
One of the few declassified IDF drone videos from high altitude over Gaza. First 5-7 seconds: Watch Hamas rockets launching from right in the middle of civilian areas. The IDF then tracks the exact launch sites in real time and destroys them with precision strikes. This is the reality behind the “indiscriminate bombing” lie. Hamas hides among civilians, IDF targets the terrorists. Share this. The truth needs to be seen. 🇮🇱
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#JohnClauser calls out the reality and exposes the great #co2hoax... #co2scam!
JOHN CLAUSER, 2022 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: "I can very confidently assert, there is no climate emergency. As much as it may upset many people, my message is the planet is NOT in peril. Atmospheric CO2 and methane have negligible effect on the climate. The policies government have been implementing are totally unnecessary and should be eliminated. So far, [we] have totally misidentified what is the dominant process in controlling the climate, and all of the various models are based on incomplete and incorrect physics. The dominant process, is “the cloud-sunlight-reflexivity thermostat mechanism. Clouds are all bright white, and they reflected 90% of the sunlight back into space making them the most crucial yet most overlooked aspect of the climate system. Two-thirds of the Earth are ocean. The Pacific Ocean alone is half the Earth. The average cloud cover for the Earth is 67%; about 50% over land and 75% over oceans. I claim that the above conspicuous properties of clouds are the missing part of the puzzle."
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#JuliaGillard’s betrayal #grubby!!!
💔 Roxanne Tickle won in court against a women-only app, all thanks to Julia Gillard’s betrayal. In 2013 she erased the legal definition of ‘woman’ and sold out every Australian female. Now biological women have fewer rights than men who identify as women. Our first female PM betrayed her own sex. What is a woman, Julia?
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"The law is an ass": origin 1654 play Revenge for Honour by G. Chapman. 'The law is an ass again', today's Federal Court ruling. "Giggle v Tickle: Federal Court dismisses appeal in landmark 'What is a woman' case." High Court next and oh yes while I'm at it... a pox on Gillard.
Honestly what are we even doing man
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Slimy #Albo
This brutal clip torches Albanese’s broken promises. 🔥🔥
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The death of the great #co2hoax
New cartoon! IPCC Junks 15 Years of Climate Catastrophe
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Say no to the bullsh*t welcome to country ceremonies!!!
🚨 We must end the 'Welcome to Country' nonsense. Here's why 👇 @john_macgowan
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Yep... the nastiness and manipulative crap foisted on us all by the wealthy (and powerful) privileged minority needs to be resisted, with force, if necessary. A pox on all those pushing the great #co2hoax
Climate fun facts: It would take 1.3 million earths to fill the Sun's volume. The Sun makes up 99.85% of the mass of our solar system and supplies 99.98% of the energy that drives our climate. Yet we are told that it is not behind the climate change we are experiencing today. The culprit is a trace gas that makes up 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere (the human-induced share is .0016%).
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Europe calls biomass clean energy, but the reality is brutal. To power its green transition, the EU is burning millions of tons of wood pellets every year, shipped in from the US and Canada. Europe is cutting down forests halfway around the world, grinding them into pellets and shipping them across the Atlantic to burn in its power stations. Unsurprisingly, the total emissions here are higher than simply burning coal, according to peer-reviewed studies by the EU's own scientific advisors. But countries like the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands do it anyway, because it technically counts as zero carbon emissions.
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Major wind turbine manufacturers have been hit by an asbestos scandal. At Australia's $4 billion Golden Plains wind farm, testing on turbines has come back positive. Units are now quarantined and the manufacturer, based in Denmark, is launching global checks across its supply chain. Serious environmental concerns are mounting. Wind blades can't be recycled, not economically or at scale. So tens of thousands of tons of blades are dumped every year, buried in pits with endless more coming as first-generation turbines hit their end of life (which is typically just 15 years). An industry sold as clean is leaving mountains of toxic waste that can't be recycled.
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