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Really against 'evil' fossil fuels? You'd better read this before you answer

Vijay Jayaraj
RealClearEnergy
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:34 UTC
oil pipeline lithium mine environment fossil fuels

Which is more damaging to the environment?
It is easy for anyone to say that they are against fossil fuels. Opposition to coal, oil and natural gas is fashionable and will prompt heads to nod and even hands to applaud in most places.

But are people aware of the extent to which their lives are dependent on fossil fuels? Do they know that more than 90 percent of things used in their everyday lives are derived from fossil fuels?

From your toothbrush to your car tire, a majority of the things you use today has been made possible because of fossil fuels. Shoes, refrigerators, washing machines, coffee makers, furniture, pens, eating utensils, eyeglasses, commodes, medical gear, camping equipment, and the list goes on and on.

Comment: This is what the spoiled brats of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil refuse to understand. Their entire privileged lifestyle that allows them to throw public temper tantrums depends on fossil fuels. Beyond infuriating.

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Hammer

Twitter nailed Chuck Schumer for lying, then Elon joined in

Nick Arama
RedState
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:00 UTC
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Chuck Schumer • Elon Musk
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was on Twitter already spreading lies about a "Fair Tax" that has been floating around. It's not even clear that Republicans are on board with the proposal, but that didn't stop Schumer from lying about it.
So many things wrong there, where to begin?

Comment: Tell Schumer to do (the real) math and stop the expanding the IRS. Given Congress' unread, 5000-page grift package known as the Appropriations Bill, Americans should decide whether the current government is worth their pennies.

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Fire

At least 32 killed in Pakistan mosque blast


RT
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:31 UTC
Peshawar mosque blast
© Maaz ALI / AFP
Security officials inspect the site of a mosque blast in Peshawar on January 30, 2023.
A terrorist attack on a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan has claimed at least 32 lives, with over 147 more injured, local officials told the media. The blast took place on Monday in a heavily protected area with a massive police presence.

Witnesses and officials say the explosion was so powerful that the roof of the mosque collapsed.

The authorities have declared a "medical emergency" in the city and called on locals to donate blood for the injured.

Security officials told Geo News that the suicide bomber was in the front row of worshippers during prayers when he set off the explosive.

Speaking to reporters, Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Ijaz Khan acknowledged that a "security lapse occurred."
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Dollars

Russian troops offered rewards for destroying NATO tanks


RT
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:50 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: A Leopard 2 tank during an exercise in Ostenholz, Germany, October 2022.
Fores, a Russian chemical manufacturer, is offering bounties to soldiers for destroying Western-made battle tanks that have recently been pledged to Ukraine by the country's Western backers. The news comes after Washington and Berlin approved deliveries of heavy armor to Kiev last week.

"Russian servicemen that destroy or capture a German Leopard 2 battle tank or an American Abrams will receive a monetary reward," the company announced in a statement on its website on Friday.

"Fores will pay 5 million rubles [$70,700] for the first trophy. The payment for every next one ... will be 500,000 rubles [$7,070]."

The company added that if Ukraine ever acquires F-15 and F-16 jet fighters, Fores would hand out a 15-million-ruble ($212,100) prize for the first downed aircraft.
The decision to transfer Western tanks to Kiev shows that NATO is not only delivering defensive weapons to Ukraine, which highlights the need for consolidation and support for our army. We have been doing this since the first days of [Russia's] special military operation and will continue to support our servicemen.
Founded in 2000, Fores makes and sells proppant, used by oil and gas companies for fracking, according to its website. The company's office is in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

On Sunday, Russian actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who is known for having hawkish views, announced a similar bounty on his blog. "Certain members of the big business community have authorized me to inform you that they are setting a 10-million-ruble ($143,900) prize for every destroyed Abrams," he wrote.

Comment: Don't expect those tanks, should they ever actually reach the battlefield, to last very long with such high bounties. The West seems to be solidifying not only Russian sentiment but also Ukrainian's inevitable defeat with every move it makes to support Ukraine.

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Gold Bar

Why is Venezuela's gold still frozen in the Bank of England?

John McEvoy
Declassified UK
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:25 UTC
President Maduro
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President Maduro wants Venezuela’s gold back from Britain.
In late December, Venezuela's leading opposition parties voted to oust Juan Guaidó as "interim president" and dissolve his parallel government.

This was clearly not the ending the UK government had in mind.

Four years ago, the British government made the bold decision to recognise Guaidó as Venezuelan president, and proceeded to facilitate his legal battle to seize roughly $2bn of gold held in the Bank of England.

Indeed, the UK government insisted at every turn that it recognised Guaidó - and not Nicolás Maduro - as Venezuelan president. In turn, Guaidó's lawyers argued that he was authorised to represent and control the assets of the Central Bank of Venezuela held in London.

Throughout this time, Guaidó paid his UK legal costs by drawing on millions of dollars of his country's assets originally seized by the US government. In other words, Guaidó tried to seize Venezuelan state assets with looted Venezuelan state assets.
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Lt. Col. Daniel Davis: US has 'no plan' in Ukraine, this is not a 'video game'

Joshua Klein
Breitbart
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 15:14 UTC
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© AP Photo/Michael Sohn
Providing new tanks to Ukraine won't change the reality on the ground of the current conflict with Russia, according to retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis, who claimed the United States has "no plan" or strategy and warned of the real-world danger of invoking NATO's "mutual defense" clause, which would trigger a nuclear war.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, Davis discussed the situation on the ground in Ukraine.

Davis, a Defense Priorities senior fellow and military expert, spent over two decades in active service, which included combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and was awarded two Bronze Star medals.
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Light Saber

Dr. Jordan Peterson tells Joe Rogan of plan for alternative to WEF

Greg Wilson
The Daily Wire
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 05:48 UTC
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Dr Jordan B Peterson laid out his plan to take on the globalists on "The Joe Rogan Experience," telling the podcast king in an extended interview posted Saturday that he is considering starting a populist alternative to the World Economic Forum.

Peterson told Rogan that he will be gathering a consortium this October/November in London as a kind of rival to the WEF. This group will discuss six questions pertaining to global philosophy and policy. While this first conference will be invite-only, it will be public, and Peterson noted that if successful, he would like to expand yearly.

Some of the ideas — which are aimed at providing an "alternative vision of the future ... an alternative to that kind of apocalyptic narrative that's being put forward, at least implicitly, by organizations like the WEF" — are as follows:
  • How to get "energy and resources at the lowest possible cost, as rapidly as possible, to the largest number of people around the world."
  • Engaging in a "pro-human view" of earth stewardship.
  • Putting forward a "vision on the family policy front to facilitate the encouragement of and the maintenance of longterm, monogamous couples who are child-centered."
  • And discovering our "story," specifically as it relates to "voluntary play" rather than "the spirit of power" ruling.
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Bad Guys

Top US egg farm destroyed in massive fire, supermarkets were already suffering shortages

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:00 UTC
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Dozens of food processing plants were destroyed and/or damaged last year by "accidental fires." After several months of a lull in mysterious fires rippling through the food industry, the first major one of the new year was reported by NBC Connecticut on Saturday.

More than 100 firefighters battled a massive fire at a commercial egg farm in Bozrah, Connecticut, on Saturday afternoon.

According to Epoch Times, firefighters spent hours extinguishing a 150-foot-by-400-foot chicken coop at Hillandale Farms, which contained about 100,000 chickens.

Comment: Taken together with the brazen attacks on farmers; the admitted plan to deindustrialise Western economies to achieve 'green goals'; the propaganda push to get people to replace eating meat with parasite-riddled insects - as just a few examples - it's glaringly obvious by now that there is a concerted effort by the establishment to destroy the food supply chain as we know it. And this is occurring alongside what world officials have called looming catastrophic global food shortages, that, according to the UN, will create 'hell on Earth':

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Cult

Twitter users mock new list of 'dehumanizing' labels to avoid: 'The AP is run by children'

Lindsay Kornick
Fox News
Fri, 27 Jan 2023 18:47 UTC
Associated Press
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The Associated Press
The Associated Press Stylebook said terms such as 'the French' are potentially dehumanizing

The Associated Press Stylebook was once again mocked on social media after its latest suggestion to do away with terms involving the word "the" to avoid "dehumanizing" people.

The AP Stylebook's Twitter account, which usually posts guidelines on reporting, officially recommended on Thursday to avoid "'the' labels" when referring to groups including, for some reason, "the French."

"We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant," the tweet read.

Several Twitter users quickly swarmed and attacked the tweet for what many considered a ridiculous suggestion as well as an oddly-worded statement.

Comment: Joanthan Turley is more blunt:
It is not a gender thing so "thx" will not suffice. It is now an article of faith to stop using the article "the" in referencing groups.

It is reminiscent of Winston Churchill who was chastised for ending a sentence with a preposition. He responded by showing the artificiality of avoiding an ending preposition: "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

[...]

Even the French Embassy responded with "Le" scorn.



By the way, if you are thinking of objecting to "the grammar police," think again. It will just establish that you are a dehumanizing monster.

What concerns me most is that this dehumanizing article has lingered in the English language for so long without being noticed until now. Even The editors of The Associated Press are shadowed with this vile, dehumanizing word. It is literally lurking on every computer and in everydictionary.

The only option is decisive action. AP must take its ox cart through the streets and call on people to bring out their "thes" for proper disposal.

As for any French people encountered along the way, simply refer to them as "people associated with the nation of France."
RT reports more lunacy:
The AP's aversion to the word 'the' is not the only piece of language advice to make the news in recent weeks. The University of Southern California's School of Social Work announced earlier this month that it would remove the word 'field' (in the context of 'conducting field work') from its curriculum due to the fact that slaves and low-paid immigrants mainly worked in fields.


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Sheriff

The hard numbers: How many people are killed by police in the US?

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sun, 29 Jan 2023 18:32 UTC
The Washington Post counted 1,096 people in the U.S. who were shot and killed by police in 2022.

In previous years, about as many people - around 1,000 annually - have died this way.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the infographic below, most of those killed by police were male and armed...

people killed by U.S. police
You will find more infographics at Statista

Comment: These numbers do not justify the reactions.

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