NormalKiwi

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.
To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.
Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.
They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.
The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.
I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.

[Elisabeth Fischer @_Elisa_Fi]

Zwei Nachbarn, ein Kapitalist und ein linker Sozialist haben jeweils eine Karttoffel. Der Sozialist macht sich daraus eine Ofenkartoffel und freut sich über ein gutes Abendessen.

Der Kapitalist isst Brot und pflanzt seine Kartoffel ein. So hat im nächsten Jahr ein paar Kilo Kartoffeln, von denen er einige essen und ein paar wieder einpflanzen kann.

Der linke Sozialist sieht bei der Ernte die vielen Kartoffeln seines kapitalistischen Nachbarn und beschwert sich darüber wie unfair die Welt ist und dass er ein Anrecht auf die Hälfte der Kartoffeln seines Nachbarn hätte!

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.

We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.

He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.

As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.

Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman:

“Tell me, is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed?”

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

“The only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade.”

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Deaths in the US so far in 2026, by cause:

Drowning: approximately 1000 (22 kids in Texas alone)
Mushroom poisoning: 4
Rattlesnake: 3
Lightning: 2
Marathon: 1
Measles: 0

And, oh yeah, overdose: approximately 30000

Let's try to scare people some MORE about measles, huh?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok is maximally truthful

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Laurent @scion_x_]

Ça fait un moment que je me pose des questions sur le bilan (provisoire) de Milei en Argentine. On lit tout et son contraire. Alors j'ai arrêté de lire les commentaires et j'ai regardé les chiffres bruts.

L'Argentine, c'est l'expérience grandeur nature que les économistes attendaient depuis 50 ans. Même pays. Même peuple. Même culture. On change UNE variable : la méthode économique.

Avant : des décennies de gestion étatiste et péroniste, "redistributive". Le résultat concret ? 211% d'inflation, 42% de pauvreté, un État en déficit permanent qui finance son train de vie en faisant tourner la planche à billets.

Puis arrive Milei. Méthode inverse, brutale, assumée : on coupe, on déréglemente, on arrête d'imprimer.

Deux ans plus tard (photo à son arrivée (fin 2023) vs aujourd'hui) :

Inflation annuelle : 211% → 31%
Inflation mensuelle : 25% → ~2%
Déficit public : −5% du PIB → +1,8% (excédent)
Croissance : −1,6% → +4,4%
Pauvreté : 42% → 28%

Sans débat. Jugez par vous-mêmes.

Et le point essentiel : ces gains ne vont pas "aux riches" ou "aux marchés". Ils vont d'abord aux plus pauvres.

L'inflation est l'impôt le plus injuste qui existe — elle frappe ceux qui n'ont aucun actif pour se protéger. La diviser par 7, c'est rendre du pouvoir d'achat à ceux d'en bas. Et 14 points de pauvreté en moins, ce sont des millions de gens, pas une ligne Excel.

Pendant un siècle, on a expliqué aux Argentins que l'État les protégerait en dépensant toujours plus. Résultat : un des pays les plus riches du monde en 1910, ruiné. On vient d'inverser la méthode. Regardez le résultat.

À un moment, il faut accepter ce que les faits racontent : sur le terrain économique, la méthode libérale a livré en deux ans ce que des décennies de socialisme avaient promis sans jamais tenir. Et ça profite d'abord aux plus modestes.

On peut détester le style de Milei — la tronçonneuse, l'outrance, les sorties improbables, il n'a rien d'un homme d'État classique. Mais on ne juge pas une politique économique au style de celui qui la mène. On la juge à ce qu'elle fait à la vie des gens.

Et les chiffres ont parlé.

[Tania M @Kiwi_006]

Government Depts Population
New Zealand 44 5,285,766
Australia 16 27,207,264
United Kingdon 24 69,914,621
Finland 12 5,628,649

[𝓑𝓸𝓫 𝓜𝓬𝓒𝓸𝓼𝓴𝓻𝓲𝓮 🇳🇿 @bobmccoskrienz]

Mike Hosking pulls no punches in his roasting of the news media, stating what we’ve been witnessing for too long - that the media does have an agenda, and they are not neutral. He also goes on to rightly point out that “we are here because an industry let itself down, and doesn’t like the fallout”. @hoskingonzb is 100% on-point. @TVONENZ @TVNZ and the rest of the media need to read the room, and stop blaming others for their own failings.

#familyfirstnz #mainstreammedia #NewstalkZB

[Matthew Horncastle @matt_horncastle]

Why you feel poor.
Why it feels impossible to get ahead.

You earn $50 an hour. $100k a year. Solid.

Then the state takes its cut. Income tax. GST. Rates. Levies. Fuel tax. Payroll tax. ACC. On and on.

Roughly half. Gone.

You are left with $50k.

Now you go to spend it. But every company you buy from is carrying the same load. Tax piled on tax. Compliance. Bureaucracy. The cost of all that is baked into every price tag.

Goods and services cost twice what they should.

So your $50k buys $25k of real life.

You worked for $100k. You received $25k of purchasing power.

Read that again.

Yes, the numbers are simplified. They have to be. The shape of the thing is what matters and the shape is right.

Now ask the obvious question. How do you fix it?

Of course we need a state. Military. Police. Courts. The shared services that hold a country together. A basic safety net for the people who genuinely cannot stand on their own.

That is not what we have.

We have a state that has grown to twice the size it needs to be. Layered with departments that produce nothing. Programmes that exist to justify the programme before them. Compliance built on compliance.

Halve it and you keep everything that matters. The military. The police. The courts. The safety net. All of it.

What you lose is the weight.

Halve the state and you double the purchasing power of the same person doing the same job.

Same hours. Same effort. Twice the life.

When people can see a direct line between their work and their life getting better, they work. They build. They take risks. They have kids. They start things.

When that line is severed, they check out.

That is where we are.

That is why productivity is on the floor.

It is not laziness. It is not a mystery. It is math.

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@trapsticles @ForPittsSake Now it's this, pressure is also increasing, 989hPa is nothing extraordinary...

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@trapsticles @ForPittsSake When it was near Fiji

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@dan_danmcc1 @ForPittsSake Not Cat 2, not even a cyclone any more. Currently a low with max 85km winds but still decreasing...

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@trapsticles @ForPittsSake Not the same. Off Fiji it was Cat 3 and 185km winds.
Now it's just a low with max 85km winds and decreasing...

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@Dating_Dynamics @threadreaderapp unroll please

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

‘ The mathematician Robert Rockenfeller from the University of Koblenz estimates that for every severe COVID course that Comirnaty allegedly prevented, 25 severe side effects occur’

EVERYBODY will have an interest in this clip. Deeply disturbing is an understatement

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Incredible timeline…

Mike Dickson: Novak Djokovic could ruin his chances of becoming the GOAT by refusing to take the vaccine...it is a strange hill to die on for a player

Daily Mail: Tennis correspondent Mike Dickson collapses and dies at the Australian Open

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@cliverg383678 @kiwiweetbixkid1 @MurfittTauranga You are probably quoting the very debatable & highly inaccurate "covid" deaths... if you look at excess deaths from all causes, which is what matters the most, Sweden did much better than us in the end.
So yes, it was all for nothing.

[NormalKiwi @NormalKiwi]

@ash_twtz @Bellorris The GPS chip on your phone gets that by measuring the time difference from 3 GPS satellite pings. Its called "triangulation" and doesn't need internet or a cell signal. Your phone receives the GPS pings & calculates your position.