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Massive U.S. offshore wind farm given permit to harm hundreds of whales and thousands of dolphins

Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic
Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00 UTC
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© Daily Sceptic/KJNWind farm • Bottlenose Dolphin • Beluga Whale
Can you imagine the outcry if an oil and gas company was given legal permission to injure hundreds of whales and thousands of other marine mammals such as dolphins in pursuit of offshore drilling? For maximum Greta-inspired wailing, the oil field could be located in the middle of territory where the last 300 North Atlantic right whales congregate, and a permit is in place to potentially harm 20 members. In May, Vineyard Wind will begin building a massive offshore wind farm numbering 62 giant turbines, 15 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Permits to harass sea creatures have been secured - not a squeak of concern from green activists and mainstream media.

The Vineyard Wind project is only a small part of the planned industrialisation of America's eastern coastal waters, as the Biden Administration ramps up a commitment to so-called green energy. Of course it is not green, and many now argue that it is becoming increasingly clear that the most valuable economic transfers gained from wind are the subsidies it attracts from electricity consumers.

The Vineyard Wind project will take about a year to complete and will include sonar surveying, massive pile-driving and considerable disturbance of the sea bed. All these activities are likely to harm or injure marine life. Dr. Patrick Moore helped found Greenpeace around 50 years ago and was heavily involved in the campaign to ban commercial whaling. Since 2016, he notes, when sonar surveying started for a planned 1,500 wind turbines on the U.S. Atlantic coast, 174 humpback whales have washed up dead on the shore, an increase of 400% from previous years.
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Book

An intermediate retrospective on 'Ages of Discord'

Peter Turkin
Cliodynamica
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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he publisher of the Japanese translation of Ages of Discord (about to be published) requested a foreword, which presented me with a welcome opportunity to review how this book has fared, and to place it within my overall — long-term — research program attempting to understand the causes of recurrent waves of social and political instability that afflict all complex human societies organized as states. What follows is a lightly edited version of this foreword.

The story begins more than 20 years ago. At that time, my colleagues and I had made substantial strides in understanding past crises — the Age of Revolutions during the long nineteenth century, the General Crisis of the seventeenth century, the late Medieval crisis. Our research also reached back in history to the crises of Antiquity. This work was eventually summarized in Secular Cycles, co-authored with Sergey Nefedov and published by Princeton University Press in 2009.

But even before the publication of Secular Cycles, as I gave research talks in various academic departments on this topic, I was almost invariably asked: so, where are we in the cycle? For awhile I resisted such inquiries, answering that I wished to keep my focus on past societies in order to avoid entering the minefield of contemporary contentious politics. But at some point repeated questions reached a critical mass. I decided to investigate how well the theory developed for pre-industrial states and empires would fare when applied to contemporary societies, which have clearly evolved a lot during the past two centuries. A natural focus of my investigation was the United States, a society which I knew from the inside.
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Light Saber

Scottish faith leaders claim 'disingenuous' conversion therapy ban intended to 'punish' church leaders and 'terrorise' parents

Conor Matchett
The Scotsman
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:22 UTC
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The Scottish Government's ban on conversion therapy is "disingenuous" and designed to "punish" church leaders and "terrorise" parents, a group of faith representatives have claimed.

Conversion therapy, often described as conversion practices, is any practice of attempting to change or suppress an individual's sexuality or gender identity. This can include practices based around religion such as prayer or threats that being gay would result in being sent to hell.

The Scottish Government has committed to a full ban on these practices covering both transgender identity and sexual orientation.

However, church leaders today wrote to the new minister for equality, Emma Roddick, demanding the plans be dropped, warning it would criminalise Christians for "teaching what Christians have always taught", noting in the letter that this meant teaching that the Bible is clear "the only place for sexual activity is within a lifelong marriage of one man and one woman, and that God has created each of us male or female, according to His perfect will"

Comment: The war on concerned, involved parents continues.

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Black Magic

After Nashville, face it: "Transgenders" are nuts. "Transphobia" is rational. And Joe Biden is an idiot

Lance Welton
The Unz Review
Sat, 01 Apr 2023 16:45 UTC
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Weirdly, President Biden chose to celebrate the March 27 school massacre in Nashville TN by a "transman" (female who "identifies" as a male) by proclaiming Friday March 31 to be "Transgender Day of Visibility"1 .

Weren't they visible enough? Even weirder, his National Weather Service tweeted

It's raining transpeople now? And the Arizona Democrat Governor's spokeswoman posted an image indicating she wanted to shoot "transphobes".2
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Bizarro Earth

Canadian Cops Watch As Radical Trans Activists Assault Lone Man Defending Kids

Virginia Kruta
DailyWire
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 08:13 UTC
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Canadian police officers appeared to simply watch — and one appeared to smile — as radical trans activists approached and then eventually assaulted a lone counter-protester wearing a sandwich board sign that read, "Children can't consent to puberty blockers."

Video of the incident was shared by Chris Elston (@BillboardChris), who said that he was assaulted twice at the protest, and that police did nothing. When pressed to respond, police officers suggested that he might have cut his own nose — or that he had incited the trans activists to violence by showing up with a sign that they did not like.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 2

Ukraine's Orthodox crackdown continues as senior bishop tagged with ankle monitor, plans to evict 220 monks


RT
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 01:00 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: The authorities have ordered the abbot of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra to stay away from the historic monastery
A senior cleric in Ukraine's most prominent Orthodox monastery, Metropolitan Pavel, has been placed under house arrest and barred from attending services for two months, amid an ongoing religious crackdown and attempts to evict hundreds of monks from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

At a pretrial detention hearing on Saturday, Metropolitan Pavel (secular name Pyotr Lebed), who is accused of harboring pro-Russian sentiment, was ordered to stay in a village 50km from the capital. The hearing was initially postponed after the 61-year-old cleric, who has served as abbot of the monastery since 1994, reported feeling unwell. However, he was brought to court again in the evening, and officially placed under house arrest for 60 days.

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Cut

UBS-Credit Suisse merger to result in loss of 36,000 jobs


Al Mayadeen
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:22 UTC
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Swiss news agency SonntagsZeitung weekly reported on Sunday that the UBS takeover of Credit Suisse could result in layoffs of up to 30 percent of the total workforce across the world, amounting to approximately 36,000 positions.

This comes after UBS announced the rushed acquisition of Credit Suisse, which was arranged under the auspices of Swiss authorities on March 19.

Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-largest bank, collapsed in March 2023 following years of facilitating tax evasion for America's wealthiest.
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Briefcase

Judge rules Dominion's defamation case against Fox News will go to trial

Randall Chase
Washington Times
Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:19 UTC
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© AP Photo/Ben GrayA worker passes a Dominion Voting ballot scanner while setting up a polling location at an elementary school on Jan. 4, 2021, in Gwinnett County, Ga., outside of Atlanta.
A voting machine company's defamation case against Fox News over its airing of false allegations about the 2020 presidential election will go to trial after a Delaware judge on Friday allowed a jury to decide whether the conservative network aired the claims with actual malice, the standard for proving libel.

Superior Court Judge Eric Davis ruled that neither Fox nor Dominion Voting Systems had presented a convincing argument to prevail on whether Fox acted with malice without the case going to a jury. But he also ruled that the statements Dominion had challenged constitute defamation "per se" under New York law. That means Dominion did not have to prove damages to establish liability by Fox.

Comment: Some of the Fox News stories that have Dominion in a snit: At the time of filing the lawsuit, March 2021, Scott Adams offered an interesting take on potential outcomes:

We shall see.

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Bizarro Earth

More climate lunacy: EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks


Castanet
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:36 UTC
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The Biden administration cleared the way Friday for California's plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state's efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas like ports along the coast.

The decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows California to require truck manufacturers to sell an increasing number of zero-emission trucks over the next couple of decades. The rule applies to a wide range of trucks including box trucks, semitrailers and even large passenger pickups.

"We're leading the charge to get dirty trucks and buses - the most polluting vehicles - off our streets, and other states and countries are lining up to follow our lead," Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement.

Comment: California officials seem oblivious to the fact that their state's economy depends heavily on the trucking industry, and shipping costs are a large part of the price of goods. Burdening that sector with more regulations and requirements may cause them to pack up and go to more welcoming states. The supply chain woes of 2020-2022 showed the essential nature of the trucking industry to America's citizens. Brazil is a cautionary tale: Truck drivers join mass protests in Brazil as country grinds to a halt

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Pumpkin

Propaganda outfit The New York Times STRIPPED of Twitter verification


The Post Millennial
Sun, 02 Apr 2023 19:30 UTC
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The New York Times has lost its official Twitter verification. In the early morning hours of April 2, the Times' verification badge dropped from their Twitter profile.

New rules have come into play under Elon Musk's stewardship of the media-heavy social media platform. Now media companies, along with individuals, must pay for their verified labels - a move that Musk believes will lead to more accurate information being disseminated on social media. It's meant to be a corrective to the collusion between government, big tech and corporate media.

Musk made the change to hold media outlets accountable and to also generate revenue. His stated goal is to make Twitter the most trustworthy social media platform - home to the most accurate information.

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