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Furiously Curious

September 25, 2024 at 12:40 am · Reply

If you are Australian this is about as devastating a look at the lucky country as I have heard. Matt Barrie
giving the key note speech at the Aus Institute of Progress, in Brisbane, recently. Banks, housing, immigration, employment, the nannie state. How to hollow out a country in 80mins, with slides showing where we are at. Stomach turning. “Put another Aussi on the barbi.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGzBwfSFdyY

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  Kalm Keith
  
  September 25, 2024 at 1:09 am · Reply
  
  I’ll watch that later in the afternoon when I can justify sipping a strong drink before tea.
  Over my life I’ve seen the Good in Australia, then from the early seventies the Bad and the Ugly that followed and is now firmly entrenched.
  How do we fix this when politicians have spent the last sixty years looking to feather their own nests and disempower “we the people ” from being able to correct and realign the nation’s direction.
  
  The only good news is a significant voter upheaval of the entrenched local government grabbers in the recent elections.
  
  Maybe there’s a turnaround.
  
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MeAgain

September 25, 2024 at 12:53 am · Reply

https://www.lusakatimes.com/2024/09/16/chief-mailo-hands-over-204-hectares-to-century-solar-africa-for-renewable-energy-project-in-serenje/ “The solar project in Serenje joins a growing list of solar energy initiatives in Zambia, which is moving towards renewable energy to reduce reliance on hydroelectric power.” – Zambia has coal and already regular load shedding. If you think this is frustrating in Australia, read the comments on this (one guy thinks they are probably just looking for Emeralds)

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MeAgain

September 25, 2024 at 1:20 am · Reply

Erdogan called out the Olympic opening as a perverse attack on families: https://gadebate.un.org/en

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  TdeF
  
  September 25, 2024 at 1:23 am · Reply
  
  It’s ironic a muslim leader calling out Christian France as pagan and anti family and especially anti Christian. Even fifty years ago France was 90% Catholic and 60% communist.
  
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David Maddison

September 25, 2024 at 3:47 am · Reply

More woke insanity backfires.

https://247sports.com/article/could-the-washington-commanders-bring-back-their-old-redskins-logo-236438406/amp/

The family of the Blackfeet chief who served as the face of the Washington Redskins – now the Washington Commanders – want his image back on the fields of the NFL.

The descendants of John Two Guns White Calf also want his life story retold, too, his family announced recently.

“The fans want him back and we want him back,” Thomas White Calf, a great nephew of the chief, told Fox News this week by phone. The family reportedly met with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana.

Two Guns White Calf’s portrait was a fixture on Washington’s helmets, T-shirts, uniforms, stadium fields, and fan gear from 1972 until 2020.

“Our ancestor was the most famous and most photographed native in history,” said White Calf, who was joined on the call by his mother, Delphine White Calf, a niece of the late Blackfeet chief. “Two Guns was also the face on the Indian head nickel. I’m proud of him. The Blackfeet are proud of him.”

Thomas White Calf, who lives on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana, says his family was never consulted and never supported the removal of his great uncle’s image from the NFL in 2020.

The removal came after public pressure mounted to change the name that many viewed as a racial slur toward Native Americans.

The National Congress of American Indians said in a statement at the time: “We commend the Washington NFL team for eliminating a brand that disrespected, demeaned, and stereotyped all native people,” and called on other teams like MLB’s Cleveland Indians to do something similar.

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And is “redskin” really an offensive word?

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/09/220654611/are-you-ready-for-some-controversy-the-history-of-redskin

But where did the word “redskin” come from? Many dictionaries and history books say the term came about in reference to the Beothuk tribe of what is now Newfoundland, Canada. The Beothuk were said to paint their bodies with red ochre, leading white settlers to refer to them as “red men.”

According to Smithsonian historian Ives Goddard, early historical records indicate that “Redskin” was used as a self-identifier by Native Americans to differentiate between the two races. Goddard found that the first use of the word “redskin” came in 1769, in negotiations between the Piankashaws and Col. John Wilkins. Throughout the 1800s, the word was frequently used by Native Americans as they negotiated with the French and later the Americans. The phrase gained widespread usage among whites when James Fenimore Cooper used it in his 1823 novel The Pioneers. In the book, Cooper has a dying Indian character lament, “There will soon be no red-skin in the country.”

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David+Wojick

September 25, 2024 at 4:19 am · Reply

Maine’s massive “floating wind” folly — my report
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/23/maines-massive-floating-wind-folly-my-report/

Here are two excerpts:

1. “My research report — Maine’s Massive “Floating Wind” Folly — is up on the Net Zero Reality Coalition’s webpage hosted by CFACT which sponsored the research. See https://www.cfact.org/netzerorealitycoalition/, which has a lot of other research reports as well. Below is my Executive Summary, followed by the latest bad news on this ongoing silly saga.

This report examines several fundamental aspects of the State of Maine’s offshore wind development plan. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 examines certain economic issues, such as feasibility, cost, and progress to date. Part 2 explores the proposed development as it relates to the entire Gulf of Maine, namely because the project has not advanced to the point where the State of Maine’s responsibilities have been defined.

The offshore wind plan calls for development of 3,000 MW of generating capacity, an amount that is roughly double Maine’s average electricity usage. The viability of Maine’s offshore wind plan depends entirely on the massive transformation of the state’s grid from fossil fuel use to electrification. It is clear that the citizens of Maine have not been informed of this vast transformation requirement. They have certainly not approved it. The offshore wind facilities will consist of great numbers of “floating turbines” operating at a scale and degree of reliability that hasn’t been verified to work in the real world. Such an assumption makes the entire plan not only technologically speculative but also enormously risky.”

2. “BOEM has scheduled the Gulf of Maine lease sale for October 29, 2024, just before the elections. They are trying to beat the clock since President Trump has promised to kill offshore wind if elected. Of course, they may also try to award leases before the inauguration because the development of awarded leases is much harder to stop.

Note that at the end of the Executive Summary above, I discuss BOEM, including the leasehold sonar surveys in the Environmental Assessment (EA). That was promised in the draft EA, but in the final EA, just published to make way for the quick sale, that assessment was completely dropped. No doubt, this was to avoid the new findings that sonar surveys can cause whale deaths in large numbers.

If Trump wins, I would like to see a separate Transition Team for BOEM handing out resignation letters. BOEM’s blatant disregard for whale deaths is despicable.”

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