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Mercedes-Benz swallowed by sinkhole in Perth, Australia

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© AAP Image/Richard WainwrightWork crew repair a burst water main pipe that created a sink hole in Centro Avenue in the suburb of Subiaco in Perth, Australia on Sep. 19, 2022. West Australian authorities have apologised over a burst water pipe which left a luxury car submerged in a sinkhole in the Perth suburb of Subiaco.
A Mercedes-Benz was swallowed by a sinkhole and submerged in water in Perth, Australia, around the evening on Sept. 18.

The luxury car was parked in the affluent suburb of Subiaco near a water main, which burst around 10 p.m. and began eroding the earth underneath the road.

Once the ground collapsed, the car and a park bench fell into the gaping hole and were fully submerged.


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Dallas driver rescued from large sinkhole as traffic gridlocked

Crews blocked off the road to repair the several-feet deep hole.
Crews blocked off the road to repair the several-feet deep hole.
Drivers in Dallas, Texas faced detours after a large sinkhole opened up in the Pleasant Grove area on Thursday.

According to reports, a female driver fell into the hole but escaped without serious injury.

The sinkhole was reportedly caused by a damaged wastewater manhole and appeared in the centre lane of the Lake June road. It is reported to be several feet long.


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Woman falls into massive sinkhole at car dealership in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

According to a fire official, the hole was roughly 15 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
According to a fire official, the hole was roughly 15 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
A woman in North Carolina escaped with just minor injuries after falling into a sinkhole at a Winston-Salem car dealership on Monday.

Kia Long-Gyant said the ground collapsed beneath her in the parking lot as she came out of the dealership.

The fire department safely got her out of the sinkhole.

She was hospitalized with scrapes and bruises, but no broken bones.


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The War on Life

What the climate emergency narrative tells us about the death cult's psychology.
Ancient Yi Wasteland,
© Luye ZhangAncient Yi Wasteland.
The imminent destruction of the Earth's climate at human hands has been a constant theme throughout my life. The exact form of it has evolved somewhat over time. When I was a kid in the 80s it was the disappearing ozone layer. In the 90s it was global warming. In the naughts it morphed into climate change. Most recently the branding got racheted up to the more emphatic Climate Emergency.

It doesn't matter that none of the dire predictions of the past have manifested. Back around the turn of the millenium Al Gore rode a crane up the side of the infamous and long-discredited hockeystick graph, and confidently proclaimed that snow would soon be a thing of the past. Meanwhile, here in 2022, the Greenland ice sheet just added more mass in one day that at any other summer day in recorded history. That's just one example; there are others, more meaningful, such as the continuous failure of climate models to match actual global temperature changes, with the models consistently predicting far higher temperatures than have actually been experienced; the infamous emails between climatologists, arguing about how best to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures; the numerous instances of data having been manipulated to try and turn flat temperatures into slight increases, to smooth out previous warm or cool eras in order to emphasize recent supposed trends; and so on.

The failures of the models don't matter. Just as with the COVID mask formation, the goldfish memories of the educated portion of the tax cattle extend just as far as the most recent iteration of the ongoing psyops campaign. All the failed predictions are forgotten just as soon as they look at the latest blood-red weather map, in which temperatures that a mere decade past would have been depicted with happy smiling cartoon suns are painted in the colour scheme of a murder scene.

I'm not going to ajudicate whether anthropogenic global warming driven by carbon dioxide emissions has any basis in fact. It doesn't, and if you're in the group that thinks it does, well, you're probably fully boosted and looking forward to consooming next booster, so I don't really know what to tell you. I'm also not going to speculate on why so many people keep falling for it - it's for the same reason, ultimately, that they fell for the coronavirus psyop, the same reason they put pronouns in their email signatures, the same reason they loudly agree that white supremacist patriarchy is the real power structure in society, and the same reason they think the Rangz of Powah is a masterpiece of mythopoetic cinematography. Weak humans have low pain tolerance, and when you're a loyal citizen of the Empire of Lies the Truth Hurts like carbolic acid applied directly to the nerve endings.

What I'm interested in here is, why global warming, precisely? Why is the parasite class so obsessed with pushing this specific narrative?

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UK government's green energy policy is a 'national disaster'

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Net Zero Watch has condemned the Government's green energy policies as "a national disaster."

This follows the announcement that a major offshore windfarm will not activate an agreement to sell power at a much lower cost to the grid.

The Times has reported that the Hornsea 2 windfarm, which had a contract to sell power at £73 per megawatt hour, will instead sell in the open market, where prices have averaged £200 per megawatt hour this year, and reached £508 last week.

Britain's struggling energy consumers are likely to end up paying a billion pounds extra for Hornsea's electricity over the next 12 months.

The new Prime Minister should urgently look into the legal options for cancelling or revoking these poorly written contracts, the spirit of which are being grotesquely abused to the huge disadvantage to British consumers.

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Woman saved as her vehicle submerges into sinkhole in Central El Paso, Texas

Watch dramatic rescue as car gets sucked into sinkhole
Dramatic rescue as car gets sucked into sinkhole
A sinkhole was reported on Gateway South and Yandell resulting in one injury Tuesday night.

The report came out at 6:42 p.m. Images show large amounts of water on the streets spewing from the sinkhole.

Traffic is being redirected at Boone.

According to police, one person was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Three firefighters have been checked for minor injuries.


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Giant 82ft-wide, 650ft-deep sinkhole appears near small town in Chile

Chilean media released aerial images of the strange phenomenon which took place on land operated by a Canadian Lundin Mining copper mine, about 413 miles north of the capital Santiago
Chilean media released aerial images of the strange phenomenon which took place on land operated by a Canadian Lundin Mining copper mine, about 413 miles north of the capital Santiago
An enormous sinkhole linked to a copper mine in northern Chile which materialised this weekend has been captured in stunning new images.

The 82-foot-wide hole mysteriously appeared on Saturday in the commune of Tierra Amarilla in the Atacama Region, close to the giant Alcaparrosa mine, and is thought to be more than 650ft deep.

Chilean media released aerial images of the strange phenomenon which took place on land operated by a Canadian Lundin Mining copper mine, about 413 miles north of the capital Santiago.

Local mayor Cristobal Zuniga on Sunday confirmed the presence of the sinkhole, which is located right on the outskirts of the town, and spoke of the fear held by nearby residents that excessive mining in the area could have catastrophic consequences.


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Australian tourist in serious condition after falling into thermal sinkhole in New Zealand

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© Aukaha NewsThe fumarole sinkhole into which the woman fell in Whakarewarewa village, Rotorua, New Zealand, July 28 2022. They emit steam and volcanic gases, often at extreme temperatures.
The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central North Island

An Australian woman has been seriously injured after she fell into a geothermal sinkhole that opened up in a popular tourist village in New Zealand.

The woman fell into the two-metre-wide fumarole when it opened suddenly on a footpath near the entrance of Whakarewarewa thermal village in Rotorua, in central North Island.

Mike Gibbons, the village's general manager, said the woman's husband was also injured while trying to help her out of the hole.

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Video shows peat landslide in Shetland, two documented in just one month

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The 24 July 2022 landslide at Vidlin Junction in Shetland. Image from the Shetland News.
The Shetland islands, off the far north coast of Scotland, are covered with large amounts of blanket bog. In such settings, exceptional rainfall and/or disturbance of the peat by human activity can trigger peat landslides - there was for example a large failure at Scalloway in Shetland in 2012 and there were multiple peat landslides in a heavy rainfall event in Shetland in September 2003 (Dykes and Warburton 2008).

On 4 July 2022 a landslide was triggered on the Mid Kames Ridge in Shetland. There is a Youtube video of the setting of the Mid Kames Ridge taken from a drone, including views of the access roads and pads for a large windfarm, which includes 103 turbines across several sites, and which is under construction by Viking Energy. There seems to be little dispute that the peat landslide was associated with the windfarm construction.

Comment: Check out the awesome and rather terrifying video of a peat landslide from 2020, which, notably, was also blamed on a nearby windfarm: Huge landslide at peat bog in Donegal, Ireland

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'Massive sinkhole' closes street in north Winnipeg, Manitoba

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A large sinkhole has closed a section of roadway in north Winnipeg.

Winnipeg police closed the intersection at Salter Street and Inkster Boulevard Wednesday night when the sinkhole — described as "massive" in a police tweet — was discovered.

The sinkhole was closed off with traffic barriers by Thursday morning, and the hole was surrounded by green spray paint.