Woke Wonderland: Billionaires Determined to Destroy Reliable & Affordable Power Supplies
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Al Gore springs to mind when it comes to woke billionaires determined to wreck your living standards, while improving their very own.
But there are plenty of other well-connected rent-seekers around the globe with similar insidious ambitions.
As Australia blunders its way towards another Federal Election in May, a gaggle of particularly slimy crony capitalists have emerged, ready willing and able to steal your money and use it to destroy your way of life.
Whether it’s subsidies for overpriced all-electric vehicles – that will struggle to carry you between Australia’s capital cities without being forced to stop for an overnight recharge – or ensuring even more endless subsidies for wind turbines, solar panels and mega-batteries, these man-bunned corporate hipsters know a good scam, when they see one.
Characters like Mike Cannon-Brookes (pictured above), who wouldn’t know the difference between a megawatt and Megadeth, have weighed into Australia’s renewables-driven pricing and…
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Guest Post: “Did Tudors Smell Whiffy?” by Carol McGrath
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Today, I am pleased to welcome Carol McGrath to the blog to discuss Tudor hygiene as part of the Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England blog tour. I would like to thank Carol McGrath and Pen and Sword Books for allowing me to be part of this tour.
Did Tudors smell whiffy? Did they care about personal hygiene? It may surprise you that the Tudors cared about cleanliness despite the fact many did not bathe regularly. Henry VIII frequently took baths and had a new bathhouse constructed at Hampton Court for his personal use and a steam bath at Richmond Palace. This new bath was made of wood but lined with a linen sheet to protect his posterior from catching splinters. It was a marvellous feat of Tudor engineering and allowed water to flow into it from a tap fed by a lead pipe bringing water from a spring over…
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13 days ago!! #COVID19 contact tracing
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February 25, 1885: Birth of Princess Alice of Battenberg
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Princess Alice of Battenberg (February 25, 1885 – December 5, 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II.
Alice was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.
Her mother was the eldest daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria’s second daughter. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia Hauke, who was created Princess of Battenberg in 1858 by Ludwig III, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
Alice’s three younger siblings, Louise, George, and Louis, later became Queen of Sweden, Marquess of Milford Haven…
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