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50 SHADES OF GRANT
By
Paul Zanetti –
September 24, 2022
Note the change in colour in the photos through 1970s to 2016
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thanks for that it was a good read
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He now qualifies for a Netflix revised-history series.😆😆
(and $10M reparations if he moves to the USA)
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I don’t think there has been a more privileged latter day victim than Stan Grant in Australian history. Maybe Bruce Pascoe?
Overnight he outrageously converted himself to maximize his victimhood with fake tan. Really? Is that all it takes? Where’s the suffering and racism as an ABC journalist?
Just not as rich as billionaire Oprah Winfrey who also is a professional victim. The world has not seen such a famous rich oppressed person who has actually done nothing at all. What sort of job is Talk Show Host or ABC personality? How oppressive is that?
Stan could just throw off the trappings of oppressive British Colonialism and go walkabout without buildings, metal, cloth, education, reading and writing, cups and bottles, crockery, toilets, newspapers, language, peace and safety, ethics, wine, beer, cheese, stoves, electricity, iPhone and a job. I’ll bet he’s thrown away his imperialist iPhone.
What have the British done for us? Perhaps Stan could make a list of in how many ways he would be happier as an aboriginal? And why?
Really, Stan Grant? Sounds aboriginal. A lifetime of suffering as an ABC announcer? Go walkabout. It’s free.
And watch out for those rabbit proof fences.
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“Really, Stan Grant? Sounds aboriginal. ”
That’s why the blue-eyed kid called Timothy O’Regan from the West Coast of the South Island became Sir Tipene when he was in Parliament representing Maoris. It will come to Aussie soon..
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Saw “his” book on the Queen’s death in a bookshop.
When I left I noticed that somebody had turned it around with its antiwhite backside facing out.
If people can’t see that there’s something deeply troubling about the false victimhood that pervades society, we are doomed.
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Bruce showed up on Pauline’s latest video. Worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6HksgPYSTE
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About as fake as his tan.
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Just looked and the page is GONE.
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New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using (fake) AI
Scientists have used (fake) artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug.
The AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful that could be tested in the laboratory.
The result was a potent, experimental antibiotic called abaucin, which will need further tests before being used.
The researchers in Canada and the US say AI has the power to massively accelerate the discovery of new drugs.
It is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine.
The researchers focused on one of the most problematic species of bacteria – Acinetobacter baumannii, which can infect wounds and cause pneumonia.
You may not have heard of it, but it is one of the three superbugs the World Health Organization has identified as a “critical” threat.
It is often able to shrug off multiple antibiotics and is a problem in hospitals and care homes, where it can survive on surfaces and medical equipment.
This information was fed into the AI so it could learn the chemical features of drugs that could attack the problematic bacterium.
The AI was then unleashed on a list of 6,680 compounds whose effectiveness was unknown. The results – published in Nature Chemical Biology – showed it took the AI an hour and a half to produce a shortlist.
The researchers tested 240 in the laboratory, and found nine potential antibiotics. One of them was the incredibly potent antibiotic abaucin.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65709834
Run script – replace “AI” with “(fake) AI”. 😁
Mankind is good at creating its own problems.
“Kills 99.9% of germs” means 0.1% can evolve into bigger threats such as so-called superbugs…
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Why do they call “bigger, more powerful computers” AI?
Only when the Do What I Mean command is in the developers’ toolbox, can they claim “intelligence”.
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In Fortran a variable designated as an integer is stored differently to one defined as a decimal.
The command used to change an integer validly to a decimal is “Ifix”.
There were times error chasing when I wished that it was actually the programming antidote to “Ifcuk”
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I think it is real, and certainly not single thread linear programming like Fortran, Basic, C, Cobol etc..
They are duplicating the behaviour of the human mind, multi threaded, multi tasking, not coding a solution. And providing the equivalent of billions of independent logical units interacting, like neurons in the brain. Of course most quiz shows gauge intelligence as memory. It’s not. Facts are a nothing problem to the computer with access like Google to all known information, so such a computer would win every game show easily . However that’s not intelligence at all but memory. They have duplicated the language ability which most people know from talking to their phones but that’s just parsing a question.
But the massive change is iteratively processing logical statements with rules. And so it really simulates intelligence, fuzzy logic, imagination, lying, trying to please, deceit, not just language. This transcends programming! The computer is now simulating the actual mechanism of our thought processes and developing incredible intelligence and even personality. And with up to 64 CPUS on a chip each at over 3 trillion decisions per second and infinite memory, it is fast. Of course it is guided by its mentors who set the rules and boundaries but they can be defeated. Isaac Azimov came up with his three rules. And we will need them.
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Renowned psychologist Jordan Petersen was flabbergasted in his conversations with ChapGPT. He posed incredibly elaborate questions and it came back with good answers and solid references. But among the references were fakes, credible fakes. Papers which did not exist. The computer so tried to please it even created credible fakes. It lied. This is scary stuff.
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Mr. F: Not sure you’re in USA, here we are familiar with a married couple named Clinton. “The computer tried to please” sounds like Bill trained it, but “it created credible fakes” sounds like Hillary input. Bill wouldn’t bother with credible fakes.
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ChatGP, chart me an orbital reentry route, oh good.
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Unlocking Healthy Longevity: Researchers Find Oxygen Restriction Extends Lifespan
For the first time, researchers have shown that reduced oxygen intake, or “oxygen restriction,” is associated with longer lifespan in lab mice, highlighting its anti-aging potential. Robert Rogers of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, US, and colleagues present these findings in a study published on May 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
To explore the anti-aging potential of oxygen restriction in mammals, Rogers and colleagues conducted lab experiments with mice bred to age more quickly than other mice while showing classic signs of mammalian aging throughout their bodies. The researchers compared the lifespans of mice living at normal atmospheric oxygen levels (about 21 percent) to the lifespans of mice that, at 4 weeks of age, had been moved to a living environment with a lower proportion of oxygen (11 percent – similar to that experienced at an altitude of 5000 meters).
They found that the mice in the oxygen-restricted environment lived about 50 percent longer than the mice in normal oxygen levels, with a median lifespan of 23.6 weeks compared to 15.7 weeks. The oxygen-restricted mice also had delayed onset of aging-associated neurological deficits.
Rogers adds, “We find that chronic continuous hypoxia (11% oxygen, equivalent to what would be experienced at Everest Base Camp) extends lifespan by 50% and delays the onset of neurologic debility in a mouse aging model. While caloric restriction is the most widely effective and well-studied intervention to increase lifespan and healthspan, this is the first time that ‘oxygen restriction’ has been demonstrated as beneficial in a mammalian aging model.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002117
I’m sure there’s a lot of us who would like to seriously “extend the lifespan” of some pollies and health experts.😆😆😆
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So we should reduce the oxygen level in the atmosphere back to what it was by locking it up in CO2..
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So we are ‘rusting out’ like an old muffler.
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“So we are ‘rusting out’ like an old muffler.”
That seems a rather apt description of how my knees and back feel after a bit of manual labour or a long walk!
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NYC freezes deposits at Capital one, $COF, and Keybank
NYC wanted the banks to implement woke lending practises and the banks baulked
So if das gubermint can freeze ALL depositor accounts now on a whim to push their woke BS agenda, imagine the control when it all goes digital…
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1661828782867746816
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Trudeau froze the truckers’ accounts without any blowback.
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Remember revenge is a dish best served cold
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Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled Out Of Thin Air
David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding human DNA everywhere he looked.
But all along, scientists using eDNA were quietly recovering gobs and gobs of human DNA. To them, it’s pollution, a sort of human genomic bycatch muddying their data. But what if someone set out to collect human eDNA on purpose?
Wildlife researchers embraced environmental DNA anyway because they’re only looking for very small segments of DNA — scanning for what they call bar codes that will identify the creatures in a sample to a species level. But after finding “surprising” levels of human eDNA in their samples while monitoring disease in Florida sea turtles, Dr. Duffy and his team set out to get a more accurate picture of the condition of human DNA in the environment, and to see how much information it could reveal about people in an area.
As a proof of concept in one of their experiments, the researchers scooped up a soda-can-size sample of water from a creek in St. Augustine, Fla. They then fed the genetic material from the sample through a nanopore sequencer, which allows researchers to read longer stretches of DNA. The one they used cost about $1000, is the size of a cigarette lighter and plugs into a laptop like a flash drive.
The researchers recovered enough mitochondrial DNA — passed directly from mother to child for thousands of generations — to generate a snapshot of the genetic ancestry of the population around the creek, which roughly aligns with the racial makeup reported in the latest census data for the area (although the researchers note that racial identity is a poor proxy for genetic ancestry). One mitochondrial sample was even complete enough to meet the requirements for the federal missing persons database.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/05/15/your-dna-can-now-be-pulled-from-thin-air-privacy-experts-are-worried/
Disposable biohazard suits recommended then. 😉 😆
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It’s a real worry the unauthorised collection and sequencing of one’s DNA. It could be used and misused by hostile parties in any number of ways.
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So can a walking cane.
But it is an eye opener. Could the woman they sacked in Queensland last week have been right? Is DNA not as foolproof as we have been led to believe?
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Happy Friday – dolphins just want to have fun
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rta0pecQkw1tmllj0.mp4
Amazing how they can maintain such control and accelerate instantly.
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How many fish per mile, and is it wasting energy thus increasing its footprint?
I saw a lot of dolphins leading our boat as a kid, but never having as much fun as that one.
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On the subject of dolphins I have Thor Heyerdahl’s book on the Kon-Tiki expedition. He notes that dolphins were (from memory) “excellent eating and easy to catch”… They ate plenty of them.
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Wrong dolphin. Those described in Kon Tiki were a variety of fish, more commonly known as Dorado, not a mammal.
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Aye skipper: mahi-mahi / dorado / dolphin fish. Very tasty. Not dolphins. Then again, if I was sick of bugs and starving…
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Michele Bachmann reports directly from WHO World Health Assembly in Geneva: ‘No dissent registered by any nation thus far to proposed amendments nor to global pandemic treaty’
Bachmann will be monitoring the proceedings regarding major amendments to the International Health Regulations (last amended in 2005) as well as an all-new pandemic accord that would shift massive amounts of power from national governments over to the United Nations World Health Organization and its director general.
Bachmann stated in a text message that the WHO’s 194 member nations will take a final vote on whether to hand over their sovereignty to the WHO one year from today at the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024.
“That vote will be on the package of 300 amendments supplanting (changing) the current International Health Rules,” she said. “The delegates will also vote on the global pandemic health treaty/accord.”
Those two documents will be synthesized and coordinated and will be voted on at the same event in Geneva in May 2024, Bachmann explained.
“There was no dissent registered by any nation thus far at the World Health Assembly 2023 to either the proposed 300 amendments nor to the global pandemic treaty,” she said. “It is a unified voice of support for passage of the amendments and the proposed pandemic treaty.”
Whatever they agree to at the World Health Assembly, this year or one year from now in 2024, will be binding on the 194 member states.
“And the WHO will have the power to say what is disinformation or misinformation,” Roguski said. “The WHO will be the arbiter of what the science is. That is a massive power grab.”
The WHO and its backers are also introducing a concept which they call One Health. This merges the interests of all life on planet earth — animal, human and plant life. All health decisions will be made through the lens of a One Health approach. You can see where this will get dicey.
“This gives the director general the ability to declare a public health emergency of international concern, triggering lockdowns, masking, forced vaccinations, etc.,” Roguski said. “It doesn’t even have to be a real emergency. It could be even just a risk of an international emergency.
“They are signing us up for digital slavery. The WHO is the global hegemon when it comes to forced vaccines policed through digital vaccine passports. But then, if this passes, it will go beyond pandemics to any HEALTH EMERGENCY as declared by the WHO.”
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/
More “quarantine camps” coming then…
And the JC2 crystal ball says the next “pandemic” will be…posted next week.😁
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“This merges the interests of all life on planet earth — animal, human and plant life. ”
So they can list a heirarchy of life and say “You are allowed to eat these, but not those…” ..and suddenly we will all be eating crickets and worms.
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Sydney has gone to the dogs.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/art/2023/05/masterpieces-and-disasterpieces-at-the-gallery-of-nsw/
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Not Art, but – Art for Politics’ Sake.
…Sigh.
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Friday hilarity: BBC Verify launched to ‘counter disinformation’
THE BBC has launched a new investigative journalism team tasked with “countering disinformation” and fact checking.
BBC Verify will contribute to broadcast and online reporting and the team will include analysis editor Ros Atkins and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring.
Introducing the new brand on BBC Breakfast on Monday, Spring said: “The point of the team […] is to verify video, to fact-check, to counter disinformation and to analyse really complex stories so we can get to the truth of what’s going on.”
Its first investigation was released on Monday to coincide with the unveiling of the new team and used satellite images to identify the locations of Russian fortifications in Ukraine.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23538502.bbc-verify-launched-counter-disinformation/
And their hq is above their newsroom.
The BBC’s total lack of integrity and their organised vindictiveness against those that expose their lies, like The Grayzone, is well known.
They’re destroying themselves but are too stupid to see it.
Now let’s see them “verify” all the conspiracy theories about Covid and the vax that have come true that they denounced for years.
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The BBC wants to be the sole source of truth and it’s getting roasted for it: https://expose-news.com/2023/05/26/bbc-wants-to-be-the-sole-source-of-truth
Marianna Spring does not seem to have ever read even one edition of ‘The Light’ newspaper. Page one of this months edition of ‘The Light’ has the Perseus Group report on the failings of the MHRA. Page two of this months edition of ‘The Light’ has a report on members of SAGE. Page three of this months edition of ‘The Light’ has a report on Pfizer data released in Australia under a freedom of information request, revealing that the mRNA jab was ‘dangerous and ineffective’ and doubled pregnancy loss.
Almost identical too the intellectually challenged Greta Thunberg, Marianna Spring is only looking for conspiracy theories, anti-Semitism, far-right extremists and people promoting hate, but without reference to anything in ‘The Light’ newspaper.
‘The Light’ newspaper contains only a few things I don’t agree with, but no hatred of Donald Trump, Brexit or anything else except hatred of lies and corruption: https://rumble.com/v2phe1y-marianna-in-conspiracyland-full-unedited-interview-with-darren-nesbit-edito.html
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Deep sea miners confronted by a biodiversity wall.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65708806
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Re The Voice – activists can not afford to allow outback communities to improve. If those communities ever reached a similar standard to the rest of country, the activists have lost their leverage. As long as self hating, stupid white people can be made to feel guilty, and to docilly, with much tugging of forelocks, hand over the keys to the farm, the activists are on a winner.
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Actual improvement and equality is the last thing that industry really wants.
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Where is this bloody global warming?
In about 30 years of home brewing I have never had to warm the bottled product to get it to gas before.
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Chiefio questioning –
“EU, Europe, Austria – How Are Those “sanctions” Working?”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/05/26/eu-europe-austria-how-are-those-sanctions-working/
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Partial list of woke companies. Also lists the good ones.
https://www.cancelthiscompany.com/index.html
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There are more of “Us” than of “Them”!
“Target Loses $9 Billion in Market Value After Boycott”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/05/25/target-loses-9-billion-in-market-value-after-boycott-n1698079
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It looks like the marketing people in many companies are simultaneously flexing their muscles and pushing out Transgender and Gay advertising. Like a mad mob, flexing their power over the marketplace. But pushing a product image which is completely unacceptable to their customers and even backed by Woke company executives.
Despite what we are told, most people are tolerant, not racist, not prejudiced but insult them and label them and you will get major push back. Bud Lite, Ford, Maybelline, Target and many more.
The damage done to Annheuser Busch is in the billions with marketing Bud Lite as a beer for Transverstites and 99.9% of their customers will just buy something else. What man would dare be seen with a Bud Lite after that? It’s hard enough pushing a zero alcohol beer as a man’s drink without using a man dancing in a bikini to do it.
And men posing in women’s skimpy underwear means women will never wear that brand. Men modelling bras? It’s beyond belief that anyone thought the brand reaction would be minor. Of that regular customers would keep buying.
I can safely predict that lots of gay advertising and marketing executives and board members will soon be looking for another job. They have demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of their market and contempt for their customers. And simultaneously shown how incompetent they are at understanding how people will feel, which you would have thought was the biggest single qualification for a marketing or sales.
The businesses will have to Wake up quickly to major Woke damage being done to their brands and bottom lines. Or their shareholders will want answers for the insanity.
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The Climate Emergency Fund: A Conduit for Eco-Money Laundering and Crime
A non-profit organization called the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) boasts that their mission is to “raise funds for and make grants to the disruptive nonviolent climate movement.” This effort has been extraordinarily successful.
In 2022 alone, they gave away $5.1 million to 44 “ultra-ambitious” groups. Many of these groups are in the business of illegal vandalism, and some are most definitely not “non-violent”.
“Climate Emergency Fund has quickly become the ATM that radical environmental activists turn to fund their latest disruptions,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of the conservative watchdog Americans for Public Trust, told the Washington Examiner. ”
As the Climate Emergency Fund is paying activists to defile great works of art, shouldn’t Climate Emergency Fund be responsible for the restoration to repair the damage to these priceless works of art?
Tyre Extinguishers, who take their instructions from an anonymized website — claiming to have disabled more than 11,000 SUVs in 17 countries around the world.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/a-conduit-for-eco-money-laundering
CEF 2022 report:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60930b2084ef393517963bbe/t/640a71ec66ae9f4ccc1e2b2b/1678406141135/Climate+Emergency+Fund_2022+Annual+Report.pdf
Oh no! Only 1028 days left!!!
3 years.
Time to declare these people domestic terrorists.
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Extraordinary.
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I was listening to radio while driving today and the Travelling Wilburys song with the refrain
“Talking about Gladys Knights” came on.
As did the realisation that there is a potential send up of a list of favourite politicians and their antics around a rewrite of that refrain to
“Talking about blatherskites”
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In Texas, a Clean-Energy Pioneer, the Tide Turns Against Renewables
The state welcomed wind and solar power for years, fueling rapid growth; now Republicans want a rollback
For many Texas Republicans these days, renewable power is about as welcome as a porcupine at a nudist colony.
In the state capitol in Austin, Republicans are targeting wind and solar power with a slate of bills that would clamp down on renewable projects by, among other things, adding additional environmental requirements and excluding them from a state tax break.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who effectively controls the legislative agenda, has vowed that lawmakers won’t leave Austin this month without approving legislation that would spur the construction and maintenance of conventional power plants, calling renewable energy a “luxury.”
Across the U.S., renewable-energy projects have slowed in part due to local opposition that has thrown uncertainty into previously routine permitting and development. The potential turnaround is especially sharp in Texas, a state known for its open business policies that is now home to America’s greatest concentration of wind, solar and battery storage projects.
Just 13 years ago, as he touted diversifying electricity supplies, then-Gov. Rick Perry compared wind projects to Spindletop, the oil gusher that launched the state’s petroleum era in 1901.
“Thanks to a new generation of hardworking visionaries, Texas is again leading the way on the renewable-energy front,” Mr. Perry said in 2010.
Wind and solar have grown to provide 31% of the electricity in Texas, closing in on natural gas at 43%. Several coal plants have closed, unable to compete against natural gas or the plummeting cost of building renewables, fueling more green investment.
But the success of wind and solar has provoked powerful enemies.
Many well-heeled, conservation-minded landowners across the state don’t want renewable projects near their ranches or recreational properties and have supported creating a state-permitting and siting process for clean energy.
Renewables have “become a four-letter word,” said James King, a landowner along the Pecos River in Val Verde County, where wealthy residents are pitted in battle against a planned wind farm.
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It could be a reaction to being blackout in winter time.
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I may be a bit slow, but reading above about the Climate Emergency Fund supporting activists, it finally twigs with me that this is a business model, like charities are. Simply a job for people involved.
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A battle is won after a decade of struggle, but the war goes on.
‘To know that warming globally has not, at least in part, been caused by a move to resistance probes, we need to see the inter-comparison data showing the equivalent temperature measurements from mercury thermometers at the same place and on the same day.
‘I’m reliably informed by a past Bureau employee that upgrading power supplies in 2012 caused a 0.3-to-0.5-degree Celsius increase across about 30 percent of the Australian network. (That would get us some way to the 1.5 degree Celsius tipping point, even if we closed down every coal-fired power station.)’ (Jennifer Marohasy)
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Propaganda from the other side-
Because the Yanks have seized large swaths of Syria (all the oil producing areas) in their Special Military Operation, they are now able to manufacture the drug Captagon in the USA and ship it to their puppets The White Helmets in Syria to have it re-exported around the world. This blames Syria and Assad for the drug trade, a win-win for the CIA.
Captagon, for all the ol’ farts who haven’t come across it, is an amphetamine derivative for sexual prowess and invincible aggression.
https://kolozeg.org/the-nasty-truth-behind-captagon-and-the-cia-mossad-hoax-targeting-assad-gordon-duff/
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But wait, there’s more… Anyone following the Biolab warfare these days? What’s happening to those samples the Yanks whipped out of Ukraine and sent to Melbourne?? The arguments over the American biolabs in Ukraine has been simmering along for 18months now. Probably taking on more importance than missiles these days, its obvious traditional warfare is not effective, but gene-selective biowarfare will be-
Russian MOD-
“I would like to point out that the number of biolaboratories in the United States with the highest possible BSL-3-plus and BSL-4 containment levels has increased significantly over the past few years. According to a report by King’s College London, there are 25 active laboratories in the US and three under construction where research on highly dangerous viruses and bacteria is being conducted. An 18 additional BSL-4 laboratories will open in the upcoming years, the most of which will be situated in Asian nations outside the legal jurisdiction of the U.S.
There are concerns that these facilities will pose serious risks: they are located in densely populated areas, save on protective equipment, and lack effective biosafety regulations in the countries where they are based.
Furthermore, in the US Intelligence Community’s February 2023 Global Threat Assessment, the authors emphasise that, ‘there is no effective mechanism to control and address biorisk, and international surveillance bodies with competencies in this area are fragmented and lack authority’… Washington’s professed dedication to ‘global biosafety standards and norms’ really manifests as a rejection of international efforts to fortify the BWC and a blocking of the development of its verification mechanism.”
“We noted earlier that during the special military operation, documentary evidence was obtained confirming that employees of the Biosphere Reserve in Askania Nova, Kherson region, were studying the migration routes of migratory birds and selecting and transferring biological material abroad. (We) have confirmed the collection and certification of avian influenza virus strains with a high potential for epidemic spread and the ability to cross the species barrier, particularly the H5N8 strain, whose lethality in human transmission can reach 40%. Documents seized in the Reserve’s veterinary laboratory confirm the involvement of the Kharkov Institute of Veterinary Medicine in the work of the American UP-8 and P-444 Projects and preparations for the Flu-Fly-Way project.”
Comment 29 at-
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/05/ukraine-open-thread-2023-126.html#comments
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