Is Switzerland About To Become First Country To Outlaw A Cashless Society?

 We reported on this a couple of weeks ago when a friend of ours (and occasional contributor,) in Switzerland whose business involves liaising with government officials, knowing that we run an omnibus page on one of our other sited dedicated to reporting plans for cashless economies. If you want the news before it happens, follow any of the Boggart Blogs or The Daily Stirrer.

Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com,

As in neighboring Germany and Austria, cash is still king in Switzerland albeit a much diminished one. But the Swiss will soon have the chance to vote on whether to preserve notes and coins indefinitely.  

This is a rare positive news story that, perhaps unsurprisingly, has received next to no attention beyond Swiss borders. As far as I can tell, none of the legacy media in the US, UK, France, Germany or Spain have even bothered to cover the story. Indeed, it only registered on my radar a couple of days ago, over a week after the story initially broke, because an acquaintance of mine with family in Switzerland told me about it.

So, here’s the basic thrust of the story: At the beginning of last week, a Swiss pressure group with libertarian leanings called the Swiss Freedom Movement (FBS) announced it had collected enough signatures (111,000) to trigger a national vote on preserving cash for posterity. If passed, the initiative would require the federal government to ensure that coins and banknotes are always available in sufficient quantities. What’s more, any attempt to replace the Swiss Franc with another currency — quite possibly a reference to a central bank digital currency — would also have to be put to popular vote.

From Reuters:

Swiss citizens will get the chance to try to ensure their economy never becomes cashless, a pressure group said, after collecting enough signatures on Monday to trigger a popular vote on the issue.

The Free Switzerland Movement (FBS) says cash is playing a shrinking role in many economies, as electronic payments become the default for transactions in increasingly digitised societies, making it easier for the state to monitor its citizens’ actions.

It wants a clause added to Switzerland’s currency law, which governs how the central bank and government manage the money supply, stipulating that a “sufficient quantity” of banknotes or coins must always remain in circulation…

Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, the proposal would become law if approved by voters, though government and parliament would decide how that law was implemented.

FBS says cash is playing a diminishing role in many economies, including Switzerland, as digital payment methods come to the fore, making it easier for the State and central bank to track citizens’ behavior.

“It is clear that… getting rid of cash not only touches on issues of transparency, simplicity or security… but also carries a huge danger of totalitarian surveillance,” FBS president Richard Koller said on the group’s website. ... Continue reading >>>

 

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At last, after a year of war in Ukraine which has been portrayed by political leaders and the mainstream press as an unprovoked assault by mighty Russia on poor little Ukraine but in reality was always a proxy war between NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation,) led by the USA and the Russian Federation, somebody in a position of power in the anti - Russian alliance, NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg this week issued made some rather recealing comments on the origins of the war. What Stoltenberg said was at last an admittion of the essential truth about this war, but was only something many thousands of us in the alt_news community have been saying since it first became apparent that war between Russia and NATO, with Ukraine serving as a proxy for the NATO powers, was inevitable.

Telling the truth, is of course extremely rare among top Western officials these days, and telling it in simple, unequivocal terms rather than dressing it in ambiguous, weasel words that leave room for 'plausible denial,' is almost unheard of, so we Boggart Bloggers, who have been accused by the Zelensky fan club of blindly supporting Russia, but who have in fact never uttered or typed a word in support of Russia's Special Military Operation, but have only pointed out that prior to the invasion Ukraine, backed by NATO, had been consistently trying to provoke a Response from Russia by persecuting ethnic Russian minorities in Ukraine, dared to hope even before we scrutinised Stoltenberg's statement, that it might signal a step back from NATO's policy of doing all it can to escalate the conflict.

Before these remarks made by Stoltenberg while talking to Lorne Cook of associated Press (full transcript,), US and NATO officials including and mainstream media journalists and commentators, have constructed a narrative presenting the invasion as the exclusive promotion of Russian president Vladimir Putin, and an act of 'unprovoked' aggression aimed at incorporating Ukraine in an 'expansionist Russia' as a first step towatds recreating The Soviet Union.

However  Stoltenberg now admits what alt_news reporters and opinion writers have been saying all along, "the war didn't start in February last year. The war started in 2014."

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺"NATO has been training the Ukrainian military since 2014, NATO partners have been supplying the Ukrainian armed forces with the necessary weapons and training since 2014" — Jens Stoltenbergs admits again

"Unprovoked invasion"... pic.twitter.com/Qa8shKSWXx

— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) February 14, 2023

Here's what the NATO chief said in reponse to a question while briefing reporters on camera.

"The other thing I will say is that the war didn't start in February last year. The war started in 2014. And since 2014, NATO Allies have provided support to Ukraine, with training, with equipment, so the Ukrainian Armed Forces were much stronger in 2022, than they were in 2020, and 2014. And of course, that made a huge difference when President Putin decided to attack Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. It is hard to think of any way of putting the point more clearly.

The main provocation for the war, spelled out by by President Putin both in the lead-up to the invasion and after has consistently been that the West was waging an anti-Russia proxy war right at Russia's doorstep, by supporting  Kiev's ethnic cleansing campaign Donbass. 

We should also recall, before responding to anti Russian propaganda from Kiev, Washington, London and Brussels that throughout last year, and especially in the opening months of the major Russian invasion, any author, reporter or blogcaster daring to point out that the conflict in fact originated in 2014 - and that the current fighting is an extension and escalation of the 'long war' - was denounced as somehow 'pro-Kremlin' or else a 'Putin puppet' in mainstream discourse. 

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In the Russian view, the United States has the ability and willingness to unilaterally destroy or overthrow any government that does not do its bidding. The experience of Serbia (1999), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and most recently Ukraine (2014) and the attempt in Belarus (2021) seem to support their perspective.

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Pentagon bullshitter John Kirby confronted with persistent journalist..... pic.twitter.com/Q69lglv43y

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Foreign and Ukrainian soldiers cross an improvised path under a destroyed bridge in Kiev.  [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]

 

In the wake of attacks on the on the Stream pipelines, that effectively halted the flow of natural gas which German industry, commerce, agriculture and society relies on, and the terrorist attack on the Kerch Bridge, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gloated that the attacks were a “tremendous opportunity” to weaken Moscow.. It quickly emerged that the United States CIA and UK's MI5 state security agencies, if not actually involved in the planning and execution of the attacks, at least knew of the plans in advance (and they were planned in advance, how else could Ukraine's government have issued a postage stamp showing the brige burning only a day after the attck took place?)

 And shortly after news of the Nord Stream sabotage broke on mainstream media, gas supply companies in the USA were offering to supply Europe with shipments of Liquid Natural Gas carried by supertanker to be sold to European nations at vastly inflated prices.

The Nord Stream pipelines are operated by company that is majority owned by Russia’s state gas giant Gazprom. Authorities in Norway and Denmark have refused to allow that company access to the pipelines for the purpose of inspecting the damage done to its own pipelines. That is to say, NATO member states have prevented the Switzerland-based company Nord Stream AG from conducting an investigation into the attacks on its property.

But just as sanctions failed to bring the Russian economy to its knees as US and NATO officials predicted they would, Secretary of State Blinken's “tremendous opportunity” has not had any noticable effect on Russian economic activity as the USA's proxy war on Russia shifts from shooting and bombing to the weaponisation of energy, currency, food, fertilizser and the bitterly cold winter weather.

When santions were imposed poreventing EU vand NATO member states from buying Russia's gas and oil, the Russiansjust shugged and set about finding other customers in Asia, Africa and south America to by their gas and oil. The CPC pipeline out of the Caspian has been monitored from orbit a very long time. The Volga river complex out of the northern Caspian region ditto. In total this flow is 4% of global supply, and much of it is past Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) northward towards Moscow for consumption and export.

Volgograd is less than 100 miles from the eastern border of Donbas and is the chokepoint for nearly 3% of global supply. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) from Russia's Caspian gas fields to the Black Sea travels through Russia to a Russian Black Sea port.

Kashagan is the notorious oil field in that region and its failures have been monitored from orbit and led to its nickname from the participating companies -- CashIsGone. A very difficult production locale for oil, but those obstacles have been overcome and it is now finally flowing. The lesser known field is Karachaganak, it is mostly gas condensate and GAZPROM is the major player. This dictates realities of the recent economic meetings that warranted Putin's presence.

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The wrechage of a Ukrainian electrical grid switching station after an attack by Russian Missiles (Source: www.snl.com )

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16 February 2023

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Addressing the self - styled World Government Summit in Dubai,World Economic Forum Chairman and Scooby Doo Villain lookalike contest winner Klaus Schwab said that those who control the past control the future and those who control the information control the past emerging  technologies such as Artificial Intelligence which will usher in a 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' can become “masters of the world,” in a speech that had many uncomfortable parallels with the ravings of a certain Austrian who moved to Germany after World War 1 and on the back of outrageous claims such as 'The thiurd Reich will rule the world for a thousand years, rose to power in the 1930s. And that episode did not end well, you may recall from school history lessons.

Appearing at the pretentiously titled World Government Summit in Dubai this week, arch-globalist Klaus Schwab said that the world is heading towards a period of exponential growth of technologies, in which Artificial Intelligence, the so-called Metaverse, near-space technologies, and synthetic biology among others will become key levers of control for the world. Most of these technologies are in reality the stuff of wet dreams for tech nerds, but if the globalists can persuade enough people such dreams are real, they way they succeeded in convincing a majority of people in the liberal democracies to accept a bogus vaccine that would not immunise them against a disease that was highly unlikely to make them ill, in orderr to deliver a gene editing technology known as mRNA into their bodies where, evidence suggests, it is undermining their natural imminuty.

As an associate of that 1930s German leader often said, "Tell a lie big enough and repeat it often enough and it will become the truth."

Back to the Scooby Doo villain, who also reminded the The World Government Summit, “Our life in 10 years from now will be completely different, very much affected, and who masters these technologies, in some way, will be the masters of the world.” It is a big lie and he has often told it before.

After popularising phrases like ‘The Great Reset’ and 'The New Normal', the WEF chairman is now promoting the idea of a  “Fourth Industrial Revolution”,  with his 2016 book of the same name, although the phrase and the concept were around long before Schwab plagiarised them. In fact it is arguable that a fourth industrial revolution has already happened. Although many experts would not agree, if we took the first industrial revolution as the period between 1750 and 1830 when mining coal and smelting iron on an industrial scale became commercially viable, and employment switched from the land and farming to towns and factory work, then the second, led by thespread of railways and steam ships, the rise of trade unions and cooperativism, increased mechanisation and the increasing use of electricity.

A third stage of this ongoing industrial revolution spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Oil replaced coal as the main fuel for industry, modern industrial processes began to exploit many natural and synthetic resources not hitherto utilized: lighter metals, rare earths, new alloys, and synthetic materials such as plastics, as well as new energy sources. Many new industries emerged, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and plastics manufacturing, electrical appliances, and leading the way, automobiles.

This would make the fourth stage or the fourth industrial revolution the rise of computers and automated control systems, digital industries, greater prosperity for the working classes than ever before and an explosion in the numbers of people employed in travel, entertainment and media,, the arts, and what some cynics have described as "The Candy Floss industries. 

Schwab has previously revealed that he is teetering in the edge of insanity if he has not already plunged into its darkest depths when he said that this new phase of human economy will be characterised by transhumanism, with “a fusion of human being with digital technologies, blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.”

In Dubai, Schwab further revealed how dangerous to freedom and civilised values his ideas are, when saying that his “deep concern” is that if governments do not act in a globalist fashion, then such technologies “will escape our power to master [them]." (they already have Klaus, they already have.)

Continuing this train of thought, he said that governments must focus on the speed at which they adopt new tech, warning: “You cannot catch up with the new technologies, you have to be a frontrunner because otherwise you will be on the losing outside.” 

He was, of course, speaking in cliches, but such is the level of support for his crazy vision of an authoritarian world government of unelected bureaucrats, academics and scientists, among political and business leaders and the super rich that we must take seriously his prophecy of a dystopian future for the working and middle classes: "In the future you will own nothing and you will be happy." He reiterated his commitment to this authoritarian way of thinking in Dubai with this statement:

'Our life in 10 years from now will be completely different, very much affected, & who masters [#4IR] technologies, in some way, will be the masters of the world': Klaus Schwab, World Government Summit 2023 #WorldGovSummit #WGS @WorldGovSummit pic.twitter.com/NhLahuT56D

— Tim Hinchliffe (@TimHinchliffe) February 13, 2023

Spelling out his vision of so-called stakeholder capitalism (a phrase beloved of ormer WEF Young Global Leader, war criminal and general arsehole Tony Blair,) that he visualises replacing the current economy following his Great Reset, the WEF chairman continued: “What is absolutely essential is this cooperation of the different stakeholders of global society: government brings direct power, business bring the innovative power civil society brings the concernhis ed power, academia brings the power of truth, and maybe I should add media, which brings the critical dimensional in this dialogue.

“We need all those stakeholders to shape together the future.”

What exactly that future will look like is uncertain, however, in November, Schwab said that Communist China will serve as a “role model” for many countries during his predicted “systemic transformation of the world”. The authoritarian one-party state under the strict control of Chairman Xi Jinping has been at the forefront in introducing WEF pet projects such as vaccine passport apps on the back of the manufactured crisis that was the COVID pandemic.

Illustrating how this level of societal control would work in societies with long traitions of freedom and equality, the president of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, J. Michael Evans detailed at the 2022 WEF jolly in Davos that the wannabe World Domination Society are seeking to implement an “individual carbon footprint tracker” to record and track the behaviour of citizens and its supposed impact on the environment.

Put simply, your electric car will have a remotely triggered kill switch should you exceed the milage your social credit score, your smart meter will turn down your heating and cooker when you exceed your permitted allowance of Kilowatt hours, living in 'fifteen minute cities' you will need permission from your local commissar if you want to travel more that a quarter of an hours journey from home, and only the rich and privileged will eat meat, dairy produce and luxury foods, the rest of us will subsist on a plant based diet enriched with mashed insects and worms.

In the 1970s Alice Cooper sang Welcome To My Nightmare. Now I bid you welcome to the future, not alice's night mare or mine, but everybody's, except the few rich enough to buy a ticket to Klaus Schwab's New Normal.

 

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The Democrat / Republican political puppets in the USA would be supported by European leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron in the UK, France's Francois Hollande and Germany's Angela Merkel who, even as I type, are preparing massive interventions in Libya and Iraq, both turned into chaotic and lawless failed states by previous US / European interventions
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Big Pharma Cartel's Vaccine Czar Tony 'The Needle' Fauci admits: We knew the Covid vaccine was never going to work

 Dr Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have got you and me blocked and banned and possibly facing jail time for spreading 'misinformation at any time since February 2020 .

In an article for scientific and medical journal Cell, under the title ‘Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses‘, Fauci, who it is now known, was responsible for sponsoring and commissioning the gain of function research that turned an otherwise harmless virus into the tool for a cull of 'useless eaters'. states quite unequivocally: the Covid-19 vaccine didn’t work because it couldn’t work.

The article is long and very technical but our medical adviser (whose posts appear under the nom de plume 'Dr Dickie Hart') has summarised it for us with additional comments:

Vaccines aren’t suitable for coronaviruses. Such respiratory viruses spread and mutate too quickly. This is why there has never been a vaccine for the common cold and why the flu shot is predictably suboptimal. Vaccines can be sterilising and contribute to public health only when the virus is a stable pathogen, such as smallpox and measles. For coronaviruses, there’s really only one way forward: better antivirals, therapeutics and acquired immunity.

The above paragraph has been repeated countless times by doctors and vaccine researchers all around the world, especially after Covid-19 hit. Every true expert was in agreement, anything that would be called a vaccine would lack the features that define a true vaccine. It wouldn’t stop infection or transmission, much less end a bad season for respiratory viruses. And it certainly would not  act as a cure for the disease or alleviate symptoms in the already infected, that is not what vaccines do.This is why the Food and Drug Administration has never approved one. It wouldn’t and couldn’t make it through trials, especially given the safety risks associated with every vaccine.

And yet three COVID19 vaccines were approved 'for emergency use' (and thus eased past normal testing and approvals procedures.) Or were they?

The possibility that a COVID vaccine might have been released for use on the public as a result of fraudulent activity would be a bombshell that could and should bring down every government in the developed world. Many of us in the alt_news community and a few people in mainstream media were called conspiracy theorists, anti - vaxxers and even mass murderers because we either challenged the vaccine infallibility narrative or openly admited that we had exercised human rights granted under the geneva Conventions and declined vaccination.

We declined the jab because we knew it could not work as a vaccine ought to, the maker themselves admitted as much before vaccines were available. It might have provide temporary and limited protection against severe outcomes from certain variants were the infection caught early enough, but it would always be useless against further mutations. 

Additionally, vaccine-induced protection isn’t as broad as natural immunity, so it’s likely that the person would get infected later. Booster jabs were always likely to suffer from the law of diminishing returns and only remain effective for a reduced period after every jab while raising the risk of imprinting the immune system in ways that make it less effective.

Sadly, posting any of the points raised in the preceding three paragraphs on social media or any open platform for news and comment in the past three years would have likely caused you to be censored, suspended or even have your account deleted. Normal science was suppressed. Discussing what was common knowledge among experts was forbidden. Everything we’ve learned in two millennia of  was the first to go.medical practice was thrown out and the founding principle of first do no harm.The job of censorship was tasked to a gaggle of ill-educated tech nerds and their Artificial Intelligence algorithms, under the auspices of the FBI overlords.

Thus two years after the vaccine rollout the truth is finally emerging. The vaccines were an enormous flop. At best. At worst, they caused far more injury and death compared to any vaccine ever approved for the market. That they were forced on people in many professions – and backed by a Stalinesque media frenzy – is simply incredible. That members of the public were coerced into submitting to being experimented on by a campaign of scaremongering and the imposition of fascistic measures such as lockdowns, social distancing and the forced closure of businesses reveals the contempt the political establishments have for democratic principles and for the people governments theoretically serve. The disgusting practice of segregation was revived, with margnialisiation being imposed by vaccination status rather than race or religion, restaurants, theatres, public spaces and in some cases enitre towns were suddenly 'for the vaccinated only.' Even now, unvaccinated non-Americans can’t travel to the United States the land of the free they like to tell us, unless they cross the southern border illegally.

Yet only now does Fauci choose to lay out the science that we knew long ago. There’s nothing particularly interesting in his article. Only the timing is interesting, following trillions of $£€ in pharma profits and millions made unemployed, unemployable and destitute by mandates and suffering from injury all over the world. Now, after maintaining that the vaccines are "100% safe and effective" though no medicine could ever be either, he says that there was really no chance that the vaccine would be either effective or necessarily safe.

So the conspiracy theorists were right again, the pandemic was a hoax, and the vaccines were useless. Unfortunately on the real reasons and motives behind this expensive and deadly exercise, we will have to wait for hisorty to reveal what game the scientists, corporate bosses, politicians and wannabe global dictators were really playing.

 

This is a level of trolling that’s truly unthinkable and indescribable.

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More Hydrogen Nonsense From The Ministry of Alternative Realities

 
One man existential crisis generator Grant Shapps, the Minister for Alternative Realities in the UK's theoretically Conservative government revealed yesterday that Hydrogen is to be pumped into Britain's main gas pipeline by 2025 as part of a scramble to ditch fossil fuels and move to net zero. 

Between 2pc and 5pc of the fuel flowing through the country's transmission network will then be hydrogen in two years under plans drawn up by National Gas, which owns the pipelines. The switch from Carbon Dioxide emitting natural gas, though completely unfeasible for well established technical, scientific and safety reasons, to highly volatile, expensive to produce and store253 (in liquid form at a temperature of -253 degrees C,) and difficult to transport, Hydrogen will become a flagship policy for The Ministry of Alternative Realities The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The blending would be the first step in plans to convert the network so that it can be filled entirely with hydrogen by 2050, as part of a national overhaul to cut carbon emissions. 

Jon Butterworth, chief executive of National Gas, said: “What we’re trying to achieve is to make sure there’s a balanced response to energy. 

“On a winter’s day, you’ve got seven times more energy going through the gas network than the electricity network. 

“We’ve got to look at ways to decarbonise that, while making sure that industry is still provided for – that businesses have the gas they need. 

“So we are transferring slowly into hydrogen – we’re going to repurpose our system slowly over time into hydrogen, for the areas that can’t be electrified.”

If only doing it were as easy as saying it.

National Gas’s 4,700-mile transmission network currently moves gas, piped in from drilling fields or shipped in from abroad, under high pressure to different areas around the UK, where it is then picked up by smaller distribution networks and taken on to homes and businesses.

Technically, hydrogen, apart from the energy intensive method of production which requires far more energy that the Hydrogen it yields could produce, is very hard to keep contained. It is the smallest monatomic element and can seep between the faces of the tightest connections and smallest intergranular cracks in pipes and containers. A few decades ago I knew several people who worked at the British Oxygen Co. (BOC) factory in Worsley, Manchester, where industrial gases were produced, and they would talk in the pub about the frequent hydrogen leaks in various process areas. It was normal practice to set them alight until the next shut down.  

Hydrogen possesses the NFPA 704's highest rating of 4 on the flammability scale because it is flammable when mixed even in small amounts with ordinary air; ignition can occur at a volumetric ratio of hydrogen to air as low as 4% due to the oxygen in the air and the simplicity and chemical properties of the reaction.

What are the challenges with hydrogen storage?

Due to the low density of hydrogen, its storage requires large volumes and is associated with high pressures and low temperatures. This poses a challenge for both storage and transport infrastructures, as generally expensive and high-capacity methods are required.

Only approved materials and tools should be used with Hydrogen.

And where’s all the extra energy to come from to produce this Hydrogen, liquify and store it, and upgrade (i.e. completely replace,) the current gas network for its suitability,

About 2 years ago the Government in conjunction with industry partners initiated at 5 year 'test' market of hydrogen power in Redcar and Whitby, small towns with a combined population of 50,000.

They now plan to use these findings to rollout hydrogen across the nation of plus 70 million people, a nation with massive urban settlements, complex industrial and business sectors with high demand for reliable affordable energy and an expensive welfare system totally dependent on taxation of the profits of thriving business.

It seems they haven't waited for the results of these pitifully small, truly unrepresentative test markets before going ahead with hydrogen.

There was never any credible real world test market for wind and solar either and look what that produced versus the marketing claims.

In addition informed residents in Redcar and Whitby with evidence objected to being used in this experiment. 

Hydrogen will not save us. Rather than me explaining it, let me introduce Sabine Hossenfelder (with a PhD in physics). And she is quite funny, too, which might be surprising for some as she is German...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklo4Z1SqkE

Reading what could have only been government agreed rebuttals made by industry I was shocked at the disrespect, personal slurs and avoidance of answering the questions, reminiscent in tone and content of political bullies everywhere in history.

The government and the Labour/Lib Dem green energy strategy is a critical danger to the provision of every major basic need in this country -- energy, food supply, transport and healthcare. There are no benefits from their policies, and they disguise this with computer modelled threats of global warming that haven't ever been measured in the real world. Like COVID.

Simply they all are behaving like tyrants, ignorant, irresponsible, uncaring and abusing the law to enforce bad policy.It seems they place the ambitions of the World Economic Forum and other globalist organisations far ahead of the welfare of people who elected them.

 

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Another costly new product hailed as a breakthough in technology, this time a clutching-at-straws exercise from the failing electric car company Tesla, completely fails to live up to the hype under scrutiny. Hailed as a super battery, a mjor advance in battery technology that will change the world to store power for a household, it turns out to be nothing more than a streamined car battery. It will run the average home for about 2 hours.

Researchers Discover How to Use Living Plants to Generate Electricity.
Most of the hyped green energy solutions to generate electricity from wind or sunshine are so obviously flawed the only thing that makes them economically viable is that governments offer huge subsidies to generators. This in turn makes the sustainables so expensive that consumers cannot afford the intermittent energy they produce.