With more kids – especially more girls – playing sport, so many of our sports grounds around the country are in need of an upgrade.
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) March 16, 2025
Jodie Belyea has been working for better facilities at Bruce Park here in Frankston, and I'm so proud to announce it's finally happening. pic.twitter.com/LsNUipqmwC
Let it be recorded as an indelible blot on his character that ‘Prince’ Harry, once a cherished son of the House of Windsor, resorted to the deplorable expedient of concealing a microphone during the funeral of his grandmother, Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
— 🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 (@LairdOfTheManor) March 13, 2025
This was no… pic.twitter.com/PpKMJBWBaq
❌ Three years ago, Labor promised cheaper power bills.
— Senator the Hon. Michaelia Cash (@SenatorCash) March 13, 2025
❌ Labor’s failed energy policies mean more power price rises over the next year. pic.twitter.com/pJHG8aqIGt
Climate activist and tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes said he felt "deep internal conflict" over his recent decision to purchase a private jet.https://t.co/WdFiQOvdnu
— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) March 14, 2025
The Deep Internal Conflict King.
— Mark Symons (@SymonsYahoo) March 14, 2025
Acronyms are cool.
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— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) March 13, 2025
Sack Bowen.
— Matthew Camenzuli (@Matt_Camenzuli) March 13, 2025
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Thanks to Doubtful John who writes:
Our climate saviours at work!
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people - including world leaders - at the conference in November.
The state government touts the highway's "sustainable" credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
The Amazon plays a vital role in absorbing carbon for the world and providing biodiversity, and many say this deforestation contradicts the very purpose of a climate summit.
Along the partially built road, lush rainforest towers on either side - a reminder of what was once there. Logs are piled high in the cleared land which stretches more than 13km (8 miles) through the rainforest into Belém.
Diggers and machines carve through the forest floor, paving over wetland to surface the road which will cut through a protected area.
Claudio Verequete lives about 200m from where the road will be. He used to make an income from harvesting açaí berries from trees that once occupied the space.
"Everything was destroyed," he says, gesturing at the clearing.
"Our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family."
He says he has received no compensation from the state government and is currently relying on savings.
He worries the construction of this road will lead to more deforestation in the future, now that the area is more accessible for businesses.
"Our fear is that one day someone will come here and say: 'Here's some money. We need this area to build a gas station, or to build a warehouse.' And then we'll have to leave.
"We were born and raised here in the community. Where are we going to go?"
His community won't be connected to the road, given its walls on either side.
"For us who live on the side of the highway, there will be no benefits. There will be benefits for the trucks that will pass through. If someone gets sick, and needs to go to the centre of Belém, we won't be able to use it."
The road leaves two disconnected areas of protected forest. Scientists are concerned it will fragment the ecosystem and disrupt the movement of wildlife.
Prof Silvia Sardinha is a wildlife vet and researcher at a university animal hospital that overlooks the site of the new highway.
She and her team rehabilitate wild animals with injuries, predominantly caused by humans or vehicles.
Once healed, they release them back into the wild – something she says will be harder if there is a highway on their doorstep.
"From the moment of deforestation, there is a loss.
"We are going to lose an area to release these animals back into the wild, the natural environment of these species," she said.
"Land animals will no longer be able to cross to the other side too, reducing the areas where they can live and breed."
The Brazilian president and environment minister say this will be a historic summit because it is "a COP in the Amazon, not a COP about the Amazon".
The president says the meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on the needs of the Amazon, show the forest to the world, and present what the federal government has done to protect it.
But Prof Sardinha says that while these conversations will happen "at a very high level, among business people and government officials", those living in the Amazon are "not being heard".
The state government of Pará had touted the idea of this highway, known as Avenida Liberdade, as early as 2012, but it had repeatedly been shelved because of environmental concerns.
Now a host of infrastructure projects have been resurrected or approved to prepare the city for the COP summit.
Adler Silveira, the state government's infrastructure secretary, listed this highway as one of 30 projects happening in the city to "prepare" and "modernise" it, so "we can have a legacy for the population and, more importantly, serve people for COP30 in the best possible way".
Speaking to the BBC, he said it was a "sustainable highway" and an "important mobility intervention".
He added it would have wildlife crossings for animals to pass over, bike lanes and solar lighting. New hotels are also being built and the port is being redeveloped so cruise ships can dock there to accommodate excess visitors.
Brazil's federal government is investing more than $81m (£62m) to expand the airport capacity from "seven to 14 million passengers". A new 500,000 sq-m city park, Parque da Cidade, is under construction. It will include green spaces, restaurants, a sports complex and other facilities for the public to use afterwards.
Some business owners in the city's vast open-air Ver-o-peso market agree that this development will bring opportunities for the city.
"The city as a whole is being improved, it is being repaired and a lot of people are visiting from other places. It means I can sell more and earn more," says Dalci Cardoso da Silva, who runs a leather shoe stall.
He says this is necessary because when he was young, Belém was "beautiful, well-kept, well cared for", but it has since been "abandoned" and "neglected" with "little interest from the ruling class".
João Alexandre Trindade da Silva, who sells Amazonian herbal medicines in the market, acknowledges that all construction work can cause problems, but he felt the future impact would be worth it.
"We hope the discussions aren't just on paper and become real actions. And the measures, the decisions taken, really are put into practice so that the planet can breathe a little better, so that the population in the future will have a little cleaner air."
That will be the hope of world leaders too who choose to attend the COP30 summit.
Scrutiny is growing over whether flying thousands of them across the world, and the infrastructure required to host them, is undermining the cause.
Way back in 1858 Nongqause, a prophetess of the Xosa Tribe in South Africa, had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by contaminated hands. She said that she had met the spirits of three of her ancestors who had told her that the Xhosa people should destroy their crops and kill their cattle. In return, the spirits would sweep the British settlers into the sea. Then their granaries would fill again and their kraals would have more and better cattle.
In the cattle-killing frenzy that followed they killed between 300,000 and 400,000 head of cattle. In the resulting famine, the population of the province dropped from 105,000 to fewer than 27,000. This is a photo of Nongqause’s gravestone:
Neither the cattle nor the Xosa tribe recovered from this deadly cure.
Every species has its lurking danger waiting to pounce – Hendra virus for horses, Johne’s disease in sheep, veroa mites attacking bees, bird flu, swine fever, mad cow disease, monkey pox, wooden tongue, myxomatosis – even the plant kingdom has its rusts and blights.
The spirit of Nongquase lives on in today’s bureaucracy – the bureaucratic instinct is to kill every member in any threatened herd to ensure all sick ones die.
There is one fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control so loved by the bureaucracy – it fails to encourage the survival and multiplication of resistant individuals. Those individuals who survive, showing that they are resistant to the disease, are also slaughtered – there is no survival of the fittest, no evolution of a resistant strain under the Nongquase remedy.
For example, a disease was detected in Australian beehives – it is being managed by a scorched earth policy of isolating and exterminating all nearby bees. Naturally honey supplies are dwindling and there are fears for the pollination of fruit trees and crops.
In our local Woolworths, the long shelves usually devoted to eggs were empty last week. Why? Followers of Nongquase found some sick hens on some farms and then murdered every hen in every flock where “bird flu” was detected. Entire flocks are culled when even one bird tests positive.
They are forever seeking more efficient ways to select the flocks to slaughter.
In the sad but moving Australian film “Rams”, modern flock exterminators go after sheep, killing every sheep in the district to eliminate a few with Ovine Johne’s disease. But one cunning old sheepman, distraught that they planned to destroy his life’s work in breeding better sheep, refused to accept their Nongquase solution. He hid a few ewes and his top class ram in his cellar, sprouting grass for them in his bathroom. He let them out onto the grass at night. But a diligent visiting inspector noticed fresh sheep poo on his lawn. When discovery threatened, he fled to the hills with his remnant sheep. They all survived (in real life the bureaucrats would probably have pursued the refugees with drones and marksmen in helicopters).
“Foot and Mouth” is used by politicians everywhere with hidden agendas to crush live exports or local meat consumption.
And in America now, an outbreak of measles is being used to bludgeon Amish people into vaccinations they normally refuse. One recalcitrant Amish parent was fined US$118,000.
We need to learn from wild populations – they get disease too, and the weakest die but the herd survives and becomes stronger.
Look at wildlife crowded around the shrinking polluted water holes at the end of a dry season in the Serengeti grasslands in Southern Africa. There can be hundreds of animals and many species all drinking from contaminated puddles of water and all adding their germs to the muddy soup via their solid and liquid wastes. All “germs” get well spread around - the weak may die but the fittest survive and pass their genes to the next generation. Herd immunity is strengthened without the pain of a single vaccine needle or the scorched earth policy of the bureaucrats (they would surround the waterhole, shoot every animal and then have a huge bonfire).
Our grandparents understood the value of natural vaccination – long before we had artificial vaccines, chickenpox parties were valued as a way to get a child protected from chickenpox at an age when the infection is ordinarily less severe.
There are some who believe that the human population needs a Nongquase solution. Prince Phillip of England said:
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation”.
To facilitate their population control they need to herd us into “smart cities”, keep electronic track of us via smart phones, reduce our food supplies and limit our access to land, energy and water. Their latest abomination? – using mosquitos to vaccinate humans.
The spirit of Nongqause was rediscovered by China’s Deng Xiaoping who introduced their one-child policy. It was strictly enforced with fines for violators and often forced abortions. People risked losing their jobs if they were found to have had more than one child. But, as always, there were unintended consequences – Chinese parents made sure that their one child was a boy to look after them in their old age. Suddenly China had a generation of angry lonely young men unable to find a wife. So that policy was scrapped.
Britain’s King Charles probably supports Deng and Nongquase. He said once:
“Population growth must be halted if the world is to live within "nature's benevolence and bounty".
The bureaucracy is forever seeking ways to identify, keep track of and vaccinate every one of us and our animals.
They love electronic tracking – electronic ear tags are already compulsory for Australian cattle and from now on all new sheep and goat offspring must also get their electronic tag.
Covid tracking and vaccination was a test run to see how far they could go. Soon they will use 4G to tag and track every human and electronic car controls will limit travel. Only the privileged with be allowed to travel outside their zone. Smart meters will ration energy, and controls on food and water will soon follow.
Nongqause dreamed a dream and most of her tribe died.
“Net Zero” is today’s apocalyptic dream articulated by Al Gore (today’s disciple of Nongquase) and his loyal Australian disciple, Chris Bowen. Their impossible dream is to power the modern world with green energy. How many people need to die before they are content?
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Viv Forbes,
Washpool Qld Australia
[email protected]
Further Reading
How History will recall our Climate Catastrophists:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/04/how-will-history-recall-our-climate-catastrophists/
Vaccines via Mosquitos:
https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/mosquito-bite-vaccine-malaria
Measles Media Meltdown:
https://drsircus.com/vaccines/panic-bodies-are-piling-up-manufactured-outrage-with-the-measles-media-meltdown/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Disclosure: Viv Forbes is a scientist and pastoralist He and his wife have spent a lifetime learning how to raise healthy cattle, sheep, goats, poultry and pastures.