But here we are.
Television has only been a part of our lives for 70 years.
And the Internet has been with us for 40 years.
But both have been taken over by manipulators who have changed our societies, our family values, and turned the masses into woke new-speak parrots.
This is a battle we have to fight to protect our children & their future.
UK Sends Billions of Liters of Petrol to US, Where It's Cheaper
Julian Lee, Bloomberg News
A tanker arrives at the Esso Fawley Oil Refinery, operated by Exxon Mobil Corp., in Fawley, near Southampton, U.K., on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. The U.K. government took emergency measures late Sunday to try to ease acute fuel shortages across the country, as gasoline retailers shut pumps after days of panic buying.
A tanker arrives at the Esso Fawley Oil Refinery, operated by Exxon Mobil Corp., in Fawley, near Southampton, U.K., on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. The U.K. government took emergency measures late Sunday to try to ease acute fuel shortages across the country, as gasoline retailers shut pumps after days of panic buying. , Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Drivers in the UK are facing record petrol prices, yet the country is exporting millions of liters of the fuel each month to the US, where motorists pay little more than half as much to fill their tanks.
The UK has the second-highest petrol prices among the Group of 20 members — only French drivers pay more. And UK petrol prices aren’t just high, they’re rising at the fastest rate in 17 years. Across the Atlantic, drivers in the US also face their highest gas prices on record, but they still pay only about 60% of what the British do.
So why will something like 3 billion liters of petrol, and the components to make it, be shipped from the UK to the US this year? Almost entirely because of taxes.
On June 6, the most recent day for which Globalpetrolprices.com publishes figures, a liter of petrol in the UK cost £1.76, equivalent to $8.35 a gallon. That compares with $5.04 a gallon in the US, or £1.06.
The flow in May from the UK to the US reached 1.85 million barrels, or 300 million liters, a 15% increase from the previous month and the highest since December, according to shipping analytics company Vortexa Ltd.
The UK is part of an international trade network in both crude and refined products, with cargoes coming into and shipping out of the country to meet different fuel specifications in different parts of the world.
But the more obvious reason this is happening is that the value of gasoline to its producers isn’t the same as the prices paid by motorists. And the difference is taxes.
There are two taxes on petrol in the UK: fuel duty and value-added tax. Fuel duty is levied at a fixed rate, which is currently 52.95 pence per liter on unleaded petrol after the government cut it by 5 pence per liter in March. That level of duty doesn’t change with the underlying price of the fuel.
But the second tax, VAT, does. It is levied at a rate of 20% on both the underlying fuel price and the fuel duty. That means UK motorists pay tax on the tax.
Of the £1.76 paid on June 6 for a liter of petrol in the UK, 82 pence, equivalent to $3.89 or 47%, went to the government treasury through a combination of fuel duty and VAT. The rest covered the cost of the crude oil, its delivery and processing, and the transport of the finished product to the pumps. Plus, there are profit margins for the companies involved in each step of the supply chain.
Once you take off the taxes and the costs associated with delivery to gas stations, the relative economics of selling petrol the UK and the US start to look very different — different enough to make it attractive to ship the fuel across the Atlantic to a market that appears to offer far lower prices.
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THE WEST'S FATAL MISCALCULATION.
Ukraine, Russia, and the West’s fatal miscalculation
Fyodor Lukyanov
It’s always easy to feel prescient in hindsight. I recall conversations from 15 or 20 years ago with Western interlocutors – who are now from unfriendly nations – on NATO expansion. The discussions always began in a relatively solemn manner. From our side, we politely asked, why are you doing this? The bloc was creeping ever closer to Russia’s borders, despite assurances that it was not an anti-Russian project. Their response was equally polite: What are you talking about? This is not directed against Russia. You should welcome having stable, democratic neighbors under NATO’s watchful eye.
After an hour, especially in informal settings, the real opinions began to surface. We warned, if you keep pushing, you’ll eventually reach Ukraine – and that is impossible. That is the red line.
The response? Come on! You objected to Poland and Hungary, and then you accepted it. You were angry about the Baltics, and nothing ...
US MOVES NUCLEAR BOMBS TO THE UK.
Lakenheath RAF Base which has four US B52 bombers is accepting US nuclear bombs which are three times more powerful than Hiroshima. During the cold war it had over 100 bombs in storage. Unidentified drones have been monitoring the situation
LUCY LETBY - THE NHS SCAPEGOAT
A common mistake in statistical analysis occurs when researchers have access to a large amount of data but focus on a small part of it that fits their original hypothesis.
Lucy Letby appears to have been arrested & interviewed by police several times without legitimate legal representation.
She should have remained silent as she had no idea what was going on & was in the process of a mental breakdown due to overwork & stress.
The police appeared to be out of their depth with the multiple medical analyses & used advice, statements & information from people who had their own hidden agendas.
Instead of making sure that its statistical figures were accurate, the prosecution seems to have ignored the statistics & looked for a scapegoat.
What is not in the police’s remit is finding a systemic problem in an organization like the National Health Service
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After decades of underfunding, where you have overworked people cutting corners with very vulnerable babies, you are already in a ...
