Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[lenny]

Smart meter surge pricing risks punishing the poorest households
A time-of-day tariff penalises those who don’t have the luxury of delaying their energy use

"Plans go against repeated assurances
2018

The Government publishes guidance saying it is a “myth” that suppliers would charge higher prices through smart meters."

Smart meter surge pricing risks punishing the poorest households

A time-of-day tariff penalises those who don’t have the luxury of delaying their energy use

www.telegraph.co.uk

How Canada’s energy experiment backfired – and why smart meter Britain is next
Years after Ontario’s flawed reforms, the province has little to show for its efforts
"But just years after the move, energy prices in Ontario were far higher and consumers had hardly changed the way they consumed energy at all."

How Canada’s energy experiment backfired – and why smart meter Britain is next

Years after Ontario’s flawed reforms, the province has little to show for its efforts

www.telegraph.co.uk

Closed call for evidence

Review of Ofgem: call for evidence

We're seeking evidence and views on the kind of regulator Ofgem needs to be to meet future challenges and protect consumers.

www.gov.uk

Contact your MP

https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

 

[Woosh]

Can he & Joe & Co still be deprived of the Proceeds of their Crimes by the Criminal Assets Bureau? And civilly sued for the tax not paid?
Americans are even liable for tax in US on money received abroad, even if its hidden offshore.
There's more than one way of skinning a cat, and that's how Al Capone got his.

I suppose Hunter and Joe can still have the proceeds of their crimes be seized.
The same should also apply to Trump and family too.
The difference is the scale, really.

 

[Woosh]

Yeah, what did they do to the meeces? And the beagles.. monkeys.. etc?
Is that why Fauci was pardoned while not even charged?
These "sceance-tists" have a 'thing' about "experi-mental-ing" on animals..?
When they're not doing it on All the rest of us of course!

typical misinformation.
Fauci has nothing to do with those medical research projects.

QUOTE:

In a release titled, "Yes, Biden Spent Millions on Transgender Animal Experiments," the White House listed six NIH-funded studies as proof of Trump's claim. Altogether, the cost total was $8.29 million:

• $455K | "A Mouse Model to Test the Effects of Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy on HIV Vaccine-induced Immune Responses"
• $2.5M | "Reproductive Consequences of Steroid Hormone Administration"
• $299.9K | "Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes"
• $735.1K | "Microbiome mediated effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy in mice"
• $1.2M | "Androgen effects on the reproductive neuroendocrine axis"
• $3.1M | "Gonadal hormones as mediators of sex and gender influences in asthma"

 

[lenny]

I think its one of those things where until people hit rock bottom they won't come to their senses.

It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
Large tax cuts for the rich, import tariffs, and the competing interests of Republican nationalists and the techno-right is a dangerous combination

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/maganomics-trump-economic-strategy-crash-crisis

Americans aren’t happy with Trump’s handling of the economy or his tariffs, new polls show
More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s economic policies

Americans aren’t happy with Trump’s economic policies and tariffs, new polls show

More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s economic policies

www.independent.co.uk

Liz Truss leaves stage over ‘I crashed the economy’ lettuce banner

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/14/liz-truss-leaves-stage-over-i-crashed-the-economy-lettuce-banner

 

[MikelBikel]

Enjoy your solar flaps while ye can?

 

[MikelBikel]

Brazil clears 8 miles of Amazon Rainforest for Flop30 (COP30). So, so Green, haha, right thru an Environmental Protection Area.
Haven't they heard of Zoom?