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Post by Ratty on Oct 9, 2018 12:30:26 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 9, 2018 13:52:55 GMT
Powered by Sunbeams and Summer Breezes I can see an advert with bees and butterflies. Nice and concise. I will save it. Well done comrade Ratty. the Legions of Righteousness (a deviant Southern Baptist offshoot I would guess - we recognize our own)
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 9, 2018 14:07:29 GMT
Referring GBR above,what I have never understood is why: In the Persian Gulf and PNG, the sea is significantly warmer than the area included with the GBR, BUT THE CORALS ARE FINE
If the sea warms, the warm-enough-for - tropical coral zone will simply extend further South. AND THE CORALS WILL CONTINUE
Anyhow, people seem to forget the GBR is only about 10,000 years old. It formed when the sea rose at the end of the last Ice Age. flooding part of the Queensland coastal plain.
You are using natural logic. This is something that is disallowed in all schools and universities. The poor little snowflakes are convinced that everything is going to die if the mean of the highest and lowest temperatures is higher by 1.5 degrees C even if the reason the mean has gone up is the low temperatures have not been as low. They haven't even got the mental mechanism to see the lack of logic in that argument. But they have been given instead a huge amount of unstable emotional response by extremely clever neurolinguistics that for example make them think of polar bears as cuddly and that the oceans are turning acid and will dissolve the pretty corals and shell fish. You see how easy it is for these inane games like eating tidepods to spread, there are several where teenagers commit murder or suicide for the game. It may be just a feature in the 90th percentile of the group but it is still concerning to see how easily led the snowflakes have become and how easy it is to turn them mentally or physically into an unreasoning mob persuaded by emotion not logic. Similar to 72 Virgins I would guess.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 10, 2018 16:57:59 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Oct 10, 2018 23:39:52 GMT
The Guardian Seems to be Trashing Australia for Refusing to Commit Suicide. Nice music though. [ Snip ] That does it! I'm cancelling my Guardian subscription.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 11, 2018 1:24:43 GMT
The Guardian Seems to be Trashing Australia for Refusing to Commit Suicide. Nice music though. [ Snip ] That does it! I'm cancelling my Guardian subscription. What would Godwin say?
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 13, 2018 3:02:05 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2018 14:46:33 GMT
In Europe, Free Speech Bows to Shariawww.nationalreview.com/2018/10/free-speech-sharia-european-court-of-human-rights-ruling/Having traveled a bit, I stand by my observations that most people are OK and span a likely statistical range from very nice to a__hole. Culture however, particularly religious persuasion or lack thereof, does tend to skew response. Cross a Baptist on a touchy theological issue and most will likely pray for you or remove themselves from you ... as they have a harder (but not impossible) time getting around the question, "what would Jesus do?" Substitute Islamist and Mohammed in this sequence and you may well experience a statistically different result ceteris paribus. Reactionaries of the far left and right just eliminate the need to consult a "higher" moral authority. The lamb should carefully consider who they cohabitate with. As with all things ... results may vary.
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 29, 2018 15:23:40 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 4, 2018 18:21:51 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Nov 12, 2018 0:29:01 GMT
Businesses brace for crippling energy bill increasesBUSINESSES will be forced to cut staff or shut down altogether as crippling energy price hikes begin sweeping across the nation this month.
The small business lobby group says urgent action is needed to resolve the decade-long national deadlock on energy policy in the face of what’s being described as a bigger crisis than the GFC.
“This is the biggest business crisis I’ve seen in my lifetime,” said Peter Strong, chief executive of the Council of Small Business Australia. “The GFC was managed and it affected everybody, but this is only Australia and we cannot see a solution.
“What we’re hearing is terrible. We’re seeing closures have already started, I fully expect there will be more closures and staff put off. When you’re running a small supermarket, where do you find an extra $70,000?”
The price hikes hitting businesses of up 120 per cent — dwarfing the 20 per cent increases faced by households — have been partly blamed on the closure of cheap coal-fired power stations, including Hazelwood in Victoria and Playford in South Australia.
Another key driver has been the high price of gas, partially due to a shortage of east coast domestic supply.
Last week, family-owned South Australian recycling business Plastic Granulating Services was forced to make the “heartbreaking” decision to close its doors after nearly four decades, leaving 35 employees out of work.
Managing director Stephen Scherer said his monthly electricity bill had increased from about $80,000 to $180,000 over the past year-and-a-half. “It was totally unsustainable for a business our size,” he told The Advertiser. “It was heartbreaking.”
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 12, 2018 2:40:42 GMT
Businesses brace for crippling energy bill increasesBUSINESSES will be forced to cut staff or shut down altogether as crippling energy price hikes begin sweeping across the nation this month.
The small business lobby group says urgent action is needed to resolve the decade-long national deadlock on energy policy in the face of what’s being described as a bigger crisis than the GFC.
“This is the biggest business crisis I’ve seen in my lifetime,” said Peter Strong, chief executive of the Council of Small Business Australia. “The GFC was managed and it affected everybody, but this is only Australia and we cannot see a solution.
“What we’re hearing is terrible. We’re seeing closures have already started, I fully expect there will be more closures and staff put off. When you’re running a small supermarket, where do you find an extra $70,000?”
The price hikes hitting businesses of up 120 per cent — dwarfing the 20 per cent increases faced by households — have been partly blamed on the closure of cheap coal-fired power stations, including Hazelwood in Victoria and Playford in South Australia.
Another key driver has been the high price of gas, partially due to a shortage of east coast domestic supply.
Last week, family-owned South Australian recycling business Plastic Granulating Services was forced to make the “heartbreaking” decision to close its doors after nearly four decades, leaving 35 employees out of work.
Managing director Stephen Scherer said his monthly electricity bill had increased from about $80,000 to $180,000 over the past year-and-a-half. “It was totally unsustainable for a business our size,” he told The Advertiser. “It was heartbreaking.” Comment number 1 had it about right ... with a slight modification. Its quite remarkable how politicians of all stripes are quite prepared to standby and watch the energy generating capacity of this country dwindle to the point where prices are going through the roof and the blackouts some have already endured will come again and spread to other states. SA and Vic governments are not green, they simply take coal and gas generated power from other states via large extension leads Lets stop the bloody charades and pull the extension lead, we'll see how green they are then.The Green/Labor coalition prosecute their ideological war on energy with scant regard for the consequences and zero regard for the people and have shown they are quite prepared to plunge us into darkness in order for their ideology to prevail, ideological brinkmanship with a big up yours. Skin them at the polls, its the one and only thing they respond to. … Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred Tan me hide when I'm dead So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde And that's it hangin' on the shed!… And suddenly the power was restored. Amen.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 16, 2018 16:30:05 GMT
British Government Climate Plan: Drastically Reduce Cattle and Sheep Farming, Return Farmland to Forest wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/15/british-government-climate-plan-drastically-reduce-cattle-and-sheep-farming-return-farmland-to-forest/If you believe the archaeologists, our (western European) ancestors were herders and expanded westward out of the Pontic Steppes as the climate warmed circa 8000-12000 years ago. Many adopted farming during the warm periods and reverted to herding (or moved south with their animals) during the intervening cold periods. Were there groups that gave up the "old ways" during the cushy days on advice of their seers? The record suggests that a society of metal workers and farmers developed in the Hungarian-Danube Basin toward the end of this warm period ... and absolutely crashed when the climate cooled from about 8000 to 6000 ybp. Do you suppose they were surprised? Of course we are "smarter" than they were. All you have to do is look at Face Book.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 18, 2018 2:52:56 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Nov 18, 2018 3:51:19 GMT
Keep the population in a state of fear? My guess: Most of the people interviewed are trained climate scientists. Seriously though, property prices here have been very high. There have been downturns in the past; another one is likely. Whether it will be a bad as predicted ............. A perfect storm may be brewing: Falling real estate values, very high power prices, lack of political vision, open borders about to become UN law, cargo cult mentality abroad in the population.
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