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catriona gunn retweeted
Support for the most radical censorship bill in the West is 100% fake, paid for by the corrupt @AlboMP and his billionaire backer, Twiggy Forrest, who takes hundreds of millions a year of taxpayer money. They’re desperate to censor critics who correctly point out that their policies put the financial interests of China ahead of the security and prosperity of the Australian people.
catriona gunn retweeted
Waving a flag at British culture is not the same as having any, so here is what the flag is supposed to be standing in front of.
It is five in the morning on a fell above Buttermere, sleet going sideways, and a Herdwick standing in it looking mildly inconvenienced. Her breed has been on that hill since the Norse landed. The weather has never once won.
It is a shepherd behind her with a crook and a collie, counting yan, tan, tethera in a language the Romans heard, and not stopping to explain it to you.
It is a drove road through the Welsh borders, worn a foot below the fields on either side by four hundred years of cattle walking to London, and mud in October that still has an opinion about your boots.
It is a dry stone wall with nothing holding it up but a dead man's judgement, keeping sheep in on a slope you would struggle to stand on.
It is a hedge laid by hand, a hay meadow cut late for the flowers, and a village with a livestock mart in the middle and a pub called the Shoulder of Mutton beside it.
It is leaning on a gate waving at a field of Herefords who do not wave back, and the silence afterwards, which is the real national anthem.
It is a farmer who answers "how are you" with "not bad", a vet who has been up since three and will not mention it, and a woman doing the books, the calving and the WI cake in the same afternoon.
It is complaining about the weather while standing in it on purpose.
It is a Cornish pasty out of the paper on a harbour wall, pastry thick enough for a miner's hands, gravy down your wrist, a herring gull watching with intent. The crust was for throwing away. The gull knows that too.
It is a Yorkshire pudding that rose because the dripping was spitting when the batter hit it, and the Sunday beef behind it with a crust of fat, the potatoes roasted in what fell off.
It is mutton, slow, dark and tasting of heather, the meat that fed this island for five hundred years, and a butcher who has to go out the back to find you some.
It is a pork pie eaten cold on a train with a flask of tea, and the man opposite pretending not to be jealous.
It is a pint of full-fat milk on a doorstep before six, cream in the neck, and a blue tit who got there first.
It is a wool church in a Suffolk village of ninety people, big enough to seat a thousand, because the fleeces paid for it.
Every bit of it was made by a farmer and an animal, outdoors, in the rain, slowly, over a thousand years.
And every bit of it is being taxed, rewilded, rebranded and Deliveroo'd into a museum while the flag goes up another lamppost.
You cannot wave a culture. You eat it, wear it, walk it, and keep the people who make it on the land. The rest is bunting.
Buy the mutton. Then wave whatever you like.
catriona gunn retweeted
Meloni has gone far ahead of Yogi ji in Italy-
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has done in just 24 hours what the men of the European Union haven't managed in the last 30 years!
A new policy introduced by Meloni to stop riots in Italy has stunned all of Europe.
To rein in violent protests carried out in the name of students, she brought a firm blueprint called "The Anti-Riot Doctrine."
Meloni said one thing plainly:
"If you take to the streets and spread chaos, we will empty your parents' bank accounts!"
Anyone involved in violent protests will face 5 years in prison and a fine of 20,000 euros (roughly ₹18 lakh).
She understood that masked rioters with foreign funding cannot be stopped by tear gas alone. She decided to eliminate the logistics and financial support behind them.
When she began imposing heavy fines on the rioters' parents and deployed 500 military personnel in the city of Milan, suddenly no one could figure out where all those young activists seen on the streets had vanished, or which caves they had gone to hide in!
This is a stinging reply to the "New World Order" conspiracies of billionaires who fund NGOs to destabilize independent countries and use young people as shields.
When the financial and legal loopholes available in the name of protest were shut down, the truth about those putting on a drama in the name of revolution came out.
In my opinion... this exact model should be implemented in Bharat too!
catriona gunn retweeted
Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring with breast cancer eating through her, hid it from everyone but her closest friends so the chemical industry could not use it against the book, and testified to the Senate in a wig because the radiation had taken her hair.
She was a government biologist who wrote pamphlets about fish for the Fish and Wildlife Service and sat up at night writing about the sea. Her first book came out a few weeks before Pearl Harbor and sold almost nothing. Her second, in 1951, sat on the bestseller list for 86 weeks and bought her out of the civil service. She never married. She buried her father, her sister and then her mother, and at 50 she adopted her orphaned great-nephew, Roger, aged five, and raised him alone.
In 1958 a friend wrote to her about the birds dropping dead in her garden after the mosquito spraying. Carson had been collecting the evidence on DDT since 1945, when the magazines turned her down. She started the book that winter.
In the spring of 1960, with the manuscript half written, the surgeon took her left breast off and told her it was benign. It was not. The tumour had spread, and she found out months later, from another doctor, that the first one had decided not to tell her. She wrote the rest of Silent Spring between radiation sessions, through nausea and a crumbling spine, with her hair falling out and an arthritic grip on the pen, and she told almost nobody. If the industry learned the author had cancer, the book would be read as a dying woman's grievance rather than a case.
The book came out in September 1962. The industry spent an estimated quarter of a million dollars answering it. Velsicol, which made two of the pesticides she named, wrote to her publisher threatening to sue and suggesting sinister influences wanted American farming reduced to Soviet levels. Monsanto printed a parody called The Desolate Year, in which the insects inherit the earth, and sent out 5,000 copies. A former Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, was reported to have asked why a spinster with no children was so worried about genetics, and to have concluded she was probably a communist.
In April 1963 she went on CBS to face the industry's man, Robert White-Stevens of American Cyanamid, who told 10 million viewers that if mankind followed Miss Carson it would return to the Dark Ages. Two of the programme's sponsors had pulled out. Carson, upright in a wig, quietly took him apart. A month later President Kennedy's own science advisers reported that she had been right.
In June she sat before a Senate committee, barely able to walk to the chair, and the chairman greeted her with the line Lincoln is supposed to have given Harriet Beecher Stowe. "Miss Carson, you are the lady who started all this."
She died on 14 April 1964, aged 56, of the cancer she had hidden for four years so that it could not be used to discredit her work. America banned DDT in 1972.
In 2015 the daughters of the women sprayed in her lifetime turned out to carry 3.7 times the breast cancer risk when their mothers had carried the most DDT. Rachel Carson spent her last four years proving the chemical killed birds, and died of the disease it would later be found to have passed down through the daughters of the women who stood in the fog.
The industry called her hysterical. She never once mentioned her own body in the argument. She did not need to.
catriona gunn retweeted
Anthony Albanese has done something no Australian prime minister has ever done before.
He's taken a free trade agreement — a document that is supposed to be about buying and selling — and he's stuffed it full of climate ideology until it's barely recognisable as trade at all.
This isn't a free trade deal. It's a climate agreement wearing a trade deal as a disguise.
Here's what his own government's documents admit. DFAT published a paper titled "Benefits for Trade, Environment and Climate," and buried in it is this line: for the first time in a free trade agreement, Australia has made a binding commitment to implement the obligations under the Paris Agreement.
Not a reference. Not a nod. A binding commitment. And the same document says the agreement can be suspended over serious violations of climate obligations.
So if a future Australian government — any government, Labor or Liberal — decides the Paris targets are too expensive, too punishing, too destructive to our economy, Europe can drag us before a dispute panel and suspend the deal. That's not sovereignty. That's a leash.
And Albanese knows exactly what he's doing. Ursula von der Leyen stood in our own Parliament and said she was proud to have made decarbonisation a defining pillar of this agreement. A defining pillar. In a trade deal. The woman running Europe didn't hide it. She celebrated it. And our Prime Minister sat there and smiled.
Now let's talk about what these targets actually mean for ordinary Australians. The 2030 target is a forty-three percent cut below two thousand and five levels. The Climate Change Authority itself admits emissions need to more than double their current rate of reduction to get there in four years.
The Institute of Public Affairs ran the numbers and found that meeting the twenty thirty-five target of sixty-two to seventy percent would require the equivalent of a two hundred and ninety billion dollar tax burden over a decade. That's not a rounding error. That's a generation of wealth confiscated in the name of a theory that Europe itself is quietly walking back as its own industries collapse.
And here's the kicker that should make every Australian furious. The European Union has told us point blank — once negotiations are done, they're done.
Don Farrell repeated it. There is no reopening. There is no amendment. Whatever is written in that text is written in stone, and it binds not just Albanese but every prime minister who comes after him.
This is a man who can't win a debate on climate policy at the ballot box, so he's outsourcing it to Brussels.
He's taking the most contentious, most divisive policy in Australian politics and locking it into an international treaty so that even if the people vote him out, the ideology survives him. That's not governance. That's entrenchment.
Why is any of this in a trade deal in the first place? Because the far left has learned that you can't sell climate destruction directly to voters, so you smuggle it in through the back door of agreements nobody reads.
You attach it to something people want — cheaper wine, more beef exports — and hope they don't notice the poison pill. And when the Coalition objects, Albanese calls them nativist and protectionist. He turns legitimate sovereignty concerns into a culture war so he doesn't have to answer the actual question: why should a future elected Australian government be unable to change its own energy policy without asking permission from Europe?
But before we get to the treaty, let's look at what the green agenda has already done to this country on its own. Because the damage isn't theoretical. It's on every power bill in Australia right now.
Household electricity bills are up thirty-five percent since the start of twenty twenty-two. Gas is up forty-nine percent.
catriona gunn retweeted
Everyone who is been in the fight against transgender ideology for a long time has had so many moments of “this will be the thing that makes people realize how bad it is…”
The absurdity of men just claiming to be women wasn’t enough.
Young people revealing they had thought they were “trans” and then realizing they weren’t after unnecessary medicalization & irreversible surgery didn’t do it.
Gay men & lesbians getting hounded as “genital fetishists” for not being attracted to the opposite sex should have made enough people realize that the “LGBTQIA+ community” isn’t as harmonious as it claims to be.
Women who recall the abuse in their marriages as their husband announced he is actually a woman should be enough to dismantle the whole lie.
People fired from their jobs for simply not believing it, families ripped apart for knowing their child isn’t the opposite sex, and women dragged through courts for years for opposing it, is a massive red flag for all of society, but not enough apparently.
There are endless examples of the horror of transgender ideology. Every part of it is horrific.
And then, now, you think, “men who claim to be women breastfeeding babies, making them literally ingest the ideology” has to be the moment everything stops. Surely. Now that everyone knows it, this is going to be it…
It has long been at the point where anyone still going along with transgender ideology either likes what it is doing or doesn’t care about anything but how something so bad actually benefits them.
catriona gunn retweeted
Visitor: Who shears all these?
Farmer: Lads from New Zealand. Every summer, since before I was born.
Visitor: Why not British lads?
Farmer: Two hundred sheep a day, bent double, for six weeks. We stopped raising boys who'd do it.
Visitor: So they fly in.
Farmer: They did. The Home Office turned them down this year.
Visitor: Why?
Farmer: Visas.
Visitor: So who shears them?
Farmer: Whoever's left.
Visitor: And if nobody's left?
Farmer: The flies.
Visitor: The flies shear them?
Farmer: Blowflies lay in the fleece. The maggots hatch and eat her alive from the skin in. That's what an unshorn ewe is by July.
Visitor: And if that happens?
Farmer: I'm prosecuted. Neglect. Same government.
Visitor: They stop the shearer and charge you for the sheep.
Farmer: And the lamb from his farm lands at Dover tariff-free under the trade deal. The New Zealand sheep's welcome. The New Zealand man who'd save mine from the maggots isn't.
Visitor: Who signed that?
Farmer: The same hand that'll sign my summons.
catriona gunn retweeted
My jaw actually dropped
NEW UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION: I spent several months investigating a nationwide network of advocacy organizations and medical providers helping families continue medically transitioning their children in defiance of state laws.
My investigation centers on Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE), an LGBT advocacy nonprofit that connects families with cooperating medical providers across the country. CSE has distributed over $1 million in travel grants to more than 1,200 families, plus another $1 million to partner organizations, including funding for medical appointments.
With CSE's knowledge, providers in its referral network told me the ways that they circumvent state restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors.
Some discussed using alternative diagnosis codes, such as “endocrine disorder,” to facilitate prescriptions or insurance coverage. Others described mailing medications directly to families' homes or sending prescriptions to pharmacies in states where these interventions are banned.
Providers also discussed conducting virtual appointments with patients in those states. Others required patients to cross state lines for telehealth but did not appear to have a reliable method for verifying their physical location.
My primary undercover scenario involved an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee who had only recently begun identifying as nonbinary, with no long history of gender-related distress. The providers I shared this scenario with seemed eager to treat her. Many indicated that puberty blockers could be prescribed after an initial evaluation lasting just one to several hours.
My investigation uncovered practices that may violate state and federal laws and pose medical risks to children living hundreds or thousands of miles from their treating physicians.
Read my full @CityJournal investigation: city-journal.org/article/ped…
