1989. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. R. Reagan.
2016. I will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it. D. Trump.

Birds will imprint on a human if you raise it as its mother.
This normal.

Just moronic.

#1, Simple. Complete the puzzle in the usual way.
Then dismantle it piece by piece, sequentially from the centre, and store the pieces in order.
Reverse the process to create the video.
Now, it is much faster than the normal way.

Because politicians have ignored the environment for decade after decade, the world needs Extinction rebellion.
COP26 in Glasgow is last chance for the planet.
Appealing to politions or corporations is futile.
Boris will sabotage COP26.
That is normally the job of USA, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Japan. (Sinde Kyoto)
The UK could lead the world with Extinction Rebellion.
But Boris' Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill shuts down protest in the UK.
Since Brexit, Boris wants to open a brand new coal mine in Cumbria, recinded the ban on neonicotinoids
and granted new oil drilling licences without constraints .
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/26/green-groups-fury-at-loophole-in-new-north-sea-oil-test

So you admit you were lying.
When are you going to put up lying videos about what "might be the reality" of the OxyContin addicted shit-life towns of the rustbelt, or Detroit or Camden Noo Joisey?

Enough of your propaganda.
Why did you upload this without explaining it was a clip from a movie.
What is your agenda?

This is from a 2006 film about a dystopian future.
The film title translated into english is "Piranha hunting".
It won an MTV movie award.
Here is an old trailer for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VshEH6b-c

Why did you upload this?

Admin, Please kick out serial spammer dipsha35a.

Culture is alive and thriving in Germany.

#1 spammer.

Can't see that happening in New Jersey.

# 7. This 19th century infrastructure built with the technology of the day has done well to give service well into the 21st Century.
It is iconic for this city.
Should we get rid of the Statue of Liberty because of the space it takes up?

Nice to see a city with good public transport and no litter or graffiti.
Wuppertal is similar in size to New Orleans or Anaheim CA.

That's my idea of hell.

All those years and all that money setting up those cameras at every angle on the yard and the chicken coop and the exterior.
Why don't we see the fox approaching the property at the beginning even though that camera was on.
So the question is, how did he lure the fox into the yard, and how many months of planning did this take.
With all the money spent, he/she could have bought a lifetime supply of eggs.

#18 Who are you suggesting are my peeps?

If 2 birds touch wings in flight, their combined wingspans might be wide enough to span the gap between 2 high tension wires.
Poof!

Every couple o months someone presents a battery that will save the planet.
You never hear from them again.

Let the 0.1% have their say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3KE_H27bs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8

#8 #13
No one in Europe talks about socialism or communism.
They just expect the governments to look after their people.
And that means a national health service, good schools, good working conditions and looking after the environment.
In Europe the governments look after the people.
In the USA the government looks after the corporations.
The results are evident.

In the US 16.5 million children go to bed hungry and 20% of community college students are experiencing “food insecurity.”
Corporate profits have never been higher, yet staggering amounts of poverty and near poverty remain along with stagnant wages.
Highly addictive pain killers are being foisted on the population destroying lives and whole communities.
Shit life syndrome has spread to whole states where hopelessness leads to widespread addiction and suicide.
Large urban food deserts where only fast or processed food is available exacerbating the obesity problem.
Corporate profits not used to invest in the companies or it's people.
7 trillion dollars in unproductive stock buybacks in the past decade.
An abysmal public education system that is down to 3rd world standards.
Vast criminal corporate activity yet enforcement budgets have been decreased.
Health care billing fraud at $350 billion a year.
A prison industrial complex which has corrupted the judicial system.
A for profit college system that has turned students into indebted slaves.
One third of 18-34 year olds living at home with parents and student debt rages out of control to $1.6 trillion.
Total US credit market debt now at $74.5 trillion.
The growing gap in retirement savings.
Half of American families have zero in retirement savings and most are worse off than they were in 2007.
A Record 95.5 Million Americans Not in the Labor Force.
One-third of Working Americans Supports the other two-thirds. (2018 figure).
35% of Americans have no money set aside for retirement at all.
Trump has turned the washington swamp into a Pacific size cesspit.
Trillions being spent on endless wars that most Americans know nothing about.
Why is the USA intent on destroying Yemen?
2 things have kept the US afloat.
The use of all means possible to enable US corporations to plunder the planet
The petrodollar. The US took control of the oil market and forced everyone on the planet to pay for oil in dollars.
That is why Saddam had to go - he was about to open an online bourse to sell Iraqi oil for Euros.
Absolute nightmare for Washington. With the dollar being reserve currency because of the petrodollar the US can just print money and run up vast deficits with no intention of ever paying them off.
That is why the US spends billions on climate change denial.
It is easy when a dilapidated education system produces a population illiterate in science.
When the petrodollar is gone things will get very ugly very fast in the USA.

So go ahead nomaddaf and Abdullah54,keep watching Sean Hannity and Dennis Prager warning you about all this terrible socialist stuff whilst 2 billionaires battle it out to see which one can buy the presidency.
Your version of socialism is very widespread in the US - socialism for corporations.

#8 If your intellect is so low that you fall for the mindless propaganda of Dennis Prager, then you should expect little respect from contributors to this site

The seeds were sown with Reaganomics and reinforced with Democrats Neo liberalism.
Give tax breaks to the rich and the wealth will trickle down.
It began when the Powell memo arrived in Reagan's desk in the Oval office.
The right wing think tank The Heritage Foundation got to work.
In time, it would spawn another 400 right wing think tanks all with the same goal - increasing corporate power.
(The US has 4% of the worlds population and 32% of the world's think tanks).
No single piece of legislation passed in the last 40 years has harmed US corporations.
Reagan diverting money from public education to the Pentagon (echoed by Trump) had terrible consequences for the next generations.
They figured they could patch it up by inventing the H1B visa whereby US corporations could scan the world stealing the best talent educated by other nations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM

US Corporations plunder the ideas of the world's brightest students in “competitions”.
Intel's “Science and Engineering Fair” and Google's “Science Fair” are examples.
The Republicans are in hoc to the big corporations Oil, Ag, Pharma etc.
The Democrats are in hoc to Wall St and big Tech.
Traditionally, Land (or assets) returned rent, Labor returned wages and Capital returned profits.
This social contract was broken with Reaganomics.
The massive productivity gains over the last 40 years were not shared equally.
All of it went to the top (Capital) and real wages have been falling.
That, coupled with massive increases in education and health costs means that many Americans who otherwise would have considered themselves middle class find themselves impoverished.
This is what first drew Elizabeth Warren into politics.
She could not figure out why Americans were getting poorer every year.
One huge blow to US democracy was Clinton's 1995 telecommunications act.
The selling of US media to private corporations finished what was left of real journalism in the US.
There are real journalists and commentators who have pointed out the rot in the system.
People like Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Thom Hartmann. Lee Camp, Harry Belafonte etc.
But you won't find them on mainstream media.
You have to seek them out yourself.

That was 8 years ago. It has gotten much worse since then.
Trump printed $1.5 trillion out of thin air for his tax cuts.
Most of that went on tax cuts for corporations.
What did they do with this new-found pile of cash?
They bought back their own stock swelling the NASDAQ.
And who benefited? The wealthy who own the stock - all of Trump's billionaire friends.
The savings rate in the U.S. was 8.8% in 2012.
It fell to 6.5% by March 2019.
55 million Americans have no savings (2019 figure),

#6 This setup does not generate any energy whatsoever.
It consumes energy - you have to raise the pendulum to get motion going.

The disks on the floor are magnets all with the same polarity facing up.
The magnet on the pendulum has the opposite polarity facing up so they repel each other.
This trick works better if you conceal the base magnets with a stiff sheet of material.
The hard part is get the height of the pendulum magnet and the positioning of the base magnets exactly right to maximize the time of the "random" movement. The anchor point at the top must also be loose to allow slight upward movements of the pendulum.
In time, it will always stop in one spot - unless:

1. There is air flowing past the pendulum.
2. There are hidden electromagnets in the base or the tower which are pulsed intermittently to kick the pendulum.
(In which the base magnets also act as a distraction to the observer).
3. A permanent magnet is being moved in the base, or the tower or out of shot of the camera.
4. There are tiny movements induced in the hook supporting the pendulum.

Can anyone here figure another way to make it move indefinitely?

Clear sugar syrup smeared on the keys?

Air show in the UK.
Britain Joined the EU (EEC) in the 1970s.
Brexit can take Britain back to those great halcyon days.

Martin Luther King was a hero.
A man of intellect, a critical thinker who could see the dysfunction, articulate it and espouse solutions.
Successfully throwing a ball into a hoop does not advance civilization one iota.
If fact it regresses it, giving the impression that being articulate with a ball is something to aspire to and an end in itself.
To keep their empire on track, the Romans knew they needed 2 things - Bread and Circuses.
Keep the masses fed and keep them distracted.
The current paucity of decent statesmen is a reflection of this age.
Keep the masses distracted with talent shows, sport and fantasy entertainment.
We elevate spectacle and we assassinate our heroes.
And all the while, the empire is crumbling........

As someone who grew up on a farm and whose family still farms I found that pretty accurate.
It is pretty much the position that David Attenborough takes too.

#4 the guy being interviewed in "experts 2" is a reviled politician who decimated the British education system in 5 years 2010-2014 by publically and willfully ignoring experts. He was eventually kicked out the job by his boss.
The damage was so bad that in 2015, 50,000 British teachers quit teaching.
In this 2016 interview, he is telling the public once again to ignore experts and instead take the advice of the billionaires and vote for Brexit.

So sad that science is being diminished by corporate greed and ignorant politicians.

Experts 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Experts 2.
Streamed live on Jun 3, 2016. Skip to 06:47.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8D8AoC-5i8

Some wolf breeds are very big.

Australia's liberal party had a fine record in Government.
Sir Robert Menzies signed the Antarctic Treaty and established the CSIRO.
Malcolm Fraser rescued Fraser Island from sand miners.
Premier Sir Rupert Hamer’s (39th Premier of Victoria) impressive environment legacy included the Environment Protection Authority and creation of Melbourne’s famed green wedges.
Hamer not only founded the EPA, but gave Aboriginal communities ownership of their lands, abolished death penalty, decriminalized abortion and homosexuality, introduced anti-discrimination laws and rescued Melbourne's tram system.
Then along came John Howard (PM 1996-2007) who trashed a lot of the good work and turned against environmentalism.
The COP3 climate change conference was held in Kyoto in 1997.
90% of Australians were “concerned” or “very concerned” about global warming
But the big polluters (Mining) and US republicans got to Howard.
He used his “land use” credits con trick to get Australia out of reducing emissions.
For the US, Al Gore did fine work but the (GOP controlled) congress refused to ratify Kyoto.
Kyoto was to be the big one to finally get the world addressing the planet pollution issue.
But it was sabotaged by the 2 biggest per capita polluters - the US and Australia.
Australia behaves in the same manner at every climate conference.
The same countries block progress in tackling climate damage - the US, Australia, Japan and Saudi Arabia.
At COP25 in Madrid last month they were joined by Brazil's Bolsonaro who wants to clear the Amazon rain forest.
In Queensland, there are plans to open another huge (government subsidized) new coal mine to produce 60 million tonnes of coal a year, much of it "low quality, high ash". (Carmichael coal mine). Deutsche Bank and HSBC refused to fund the project because of the environmental carnage that would follow. Not just on land and in the air but also because of plans to dump dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Australia ships vast amounts of coal to China's power plants.
This year the current PM Scott Morrison blasted school kids for organizing protests for climate action.
In the midst of the country's climate chaos, Morrison seeks normalise environmental catastrophe and jets off to Hawaii on vacation.
So while Australians watch the world's largest coral reef dying off their shore, endured a decade of droughts, massive fish kills, the country burning, record high temperatures, intense cyclones, vast flooding, and loss on mangroves, their government is relentlessly sabotaging the world's attempt to save itself.
Here is a ranking of how countries are doing.
https://www.climate-change-performance-index.org/

The long business of winding the coil is to distract you (as per magician school 1.0).
The batteries are inside the wooden base.
There is a break in the filming at 7:33 where the dead bulb is switched for a working one.
Also, she does not have a clue how to solder

A species that thinks drivel has any merit does not deserve to survive.

#9 Amazing foxy you actually looked up some science, there is hope for you yet. The surface temperature of Venus will vary depending on whether you are poles or the equator, daytime or nighttime, but we are agreed that it is hotter than your oven.
You would not like it there.
Most of the Earths CO2 did indeed come from its volcanoes (along with a lot of other gases). Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet in our solar system - hence the extra CO2 there.

Wallace Smith Broecker did indeed do scientific work on the climate, but he was one of many scientists.
Physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide trapped heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
In the 1960's, Exxon researchers were concerned internally about the problem of greenhouse gases.
In the 1970s everyone internally in Exxon knew it.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
Since then, Exxon has spent more than $30 million on think tanks that promote climate denial.
“There’s even a quote in it that says something like ‘Victory will be achieved when the average person is uncertain about climate science.’
The granddaddy of think tanks paid to push out lies was heartland institute.
The heartland institute is an ultra right wing think tank that pimps itself out to the worst US Industries.
The nickname for this institute is "The Merchants of Doubt"
They specialize in FUD (sowing Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)
It was the leading propagandist for the tobacco claiming there was no link between smoking and lung cancer.
Working for Phillip Morris, Brown and Williamson etc
It has waged war on the FDA and the EPA for decades.
In 2008, the Institute made up and published a list purporting to identify "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares". When those scientists asked to have their names removes from the list the institute's then president, Joseph Bast, argued that the scientists "have no right—legally or ethically—to demand that their names be removed" from Heartland's list.
It is a despicable "Gun for hire" for the worst corporations operating in the US.
They sure fooled you foxy.
Have a look at some of their previous clients perjuring themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZDQKq2F08

#5 Don't be childish fox.
The CO2 in Venus' atmosphere came from its volcanoes.
The laws of physics apply to all planets.
The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the hotter it gets.
Average temp on the surface of Venus is 450 °C, that is hotter than your oven fox.
Mars was too small so its gravity could not hold onto its atmosphere forever.
Being small, its iron center has already solidified so it has no magnetic first to deflect the Solar wind which speeds up its loss of atmosphere.
Average surface temperature on Mars today is −63 °C ( −81 °F).
By the way David Koch died, so he is no longer funding the climate change denier industry.

#7 The UK has stopped including emissions from its aircraft arguing they are mostly somewhere else.
Not cool since the Brits are the most frequent flyers.

#1 Would you say it was riveting?

#2 You are right, the west exported many of it's dirty industries to China and that has made things better in the west and worsened things in China.
America has traditionally been the worlds biggest polluter.
However, lately Americans have started referring to China as the "Worlds biggest polluter"
Americans use almost twice the resources as Europeans or Japanese or Chinese.
#3 Point of no return means thermal runaway.
That's what happened to our sister planet Venus with excess of CO2.
Surface temperature there now permanently 600 degrees C.
You won't like it.

#1 I agree with foxy.
This is trite use of privilege.

China's population is 4.36 times that of the United States.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

The USA's per capita carbon footprint is still double that of China.

China 8.0
Europe 8.6
Japan 9.4
USA 16.1

2018 figures for CO2 emissions by country name in metric tons per capita.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

The Galapagos should have been left to nature.
It was a mistake to allow human settlement of these unique and pristine islands.

Why do some folks ruin good videos by overlaying them with an awful racket of music.

#4
Americans are still the biggest polluters - the same as in the 20th century.
China's per capita's carbon footprint at 6.57t is less than half that of the US (14.95t).
(That is despite much of the west's heavy and dirty industries having been exported to China).
Do you think you should have a special allowance to pollute more than twice as much as a Chinese person?

Ref the request to build those coal plants.
The government has not granted that request.

Then you have a throwaway statement "(who wouldn't love a country that kills 40,000+ Americans a year)"
And your very next statement is "Stats without context are useless"
Have you any idea how ironic that is?
I guess you probably don't.

"Thanks to Trump" and his bright idea of a trade war....
I don't think you will like the long term outcome when the consequences are fully played out.
History shows that most empires are not defeated militarily - they just rot from the inside.

Judge, do you not see what a great asset these people are to humanity?

I have to ask why they are not working on Thorium instead of filthy Uranium.
Thorium in very plentiful on Earth and is easy to extract.
One tonne of Thorium delivers the same amount of energy as 250 tonnes of Uranium.
There is estimated to be enough Thorium on the planet to last 10,000 years.
China has 2 Thorium plants coming online next year.
One solid fuel and one liquid salt.
These are small modular units.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/china-has-multi-billion-projects-developing-liquid-and-solid-fuel-molten-salt-reactors.html
Remember Obama's 2010 state of the union address where he got a standing ovation from both sides of the house when he said he was going to resume nuclear power production.
How is that doing 9 years later?
The US has 2 nuclear power stations under construction - both so mired in corruption and incompetence that they will likely never be completed.
(Mentioned in the video the Vogtle power plant in Georgia and the South Carolina Gas and Electric and Santee Cooper plant).
But China is investing in every aspect of Nuclear power.
20 Uranium plants under construction in 2019 and according to MIT they have construction time down to 60 months.
Aside from its own mainline nuclear design (Hualong type) and SMR (Nimble Dragon type) nuclear plants,
China is hedging its bets by building foreign designs.
They built Taishan 1 which is an EPR (European Pressure Reactor) style reactor.
It came online June 29 last year.
Taishan 2 (also EPR) is scheduled to come online this year.
It is also building a demonstration fast breeder reactor.
This is the CFR-600, a sodium-cooled pool-type fast-neutron nuclear reactor on Changbiao Island in Fujian province.
At Yangjiang an AP1000 (Westinghouse design) type is under construction but has had problems.
(This is the same type being built in South Carolina and the one that broke Westinghouse).
But all the plants under construction now were begun more than 3 years ago.
No new one has broken ground in the meantime.
Attention has now switched to experimental designs to keep reasonable costs and maintain safety.
The sodium-cooled reactor completed near Beijing in 2011 still has problems with its coolant systems.
20 high-­temperature gas-cooled reactors were planned for Shidao Bay in Shandong Province.
But the first 2 have way overrun in costs so the other 18 were cancelled.
So nuclear fission power is still struggling to succeed in China.

Nuclear fusion power.
The most advanced fusion reactor on the planet today is China's EAST project.
(Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak).
Not content with that, it's next fusion project (CFETR) has already been approved.
http://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-plans-fusion-power-research

#9 and 1970 the British finally gave Irish people in Northern Ireland the right to vote (after a very long campaign).

Yup she can be pretty bad with figures just like Boris.
But at least she is not a blatant liar.
And Jeremy doesn't inspire confidence either.
Looks like there is just the Lib Dems.

Ask Douglas Murray if he condemns the behavior of Harvey Weinstein and see what happens.

#11 Douglas Murray doesn't think that deep.
Yes several countries were bombed back into the stones age which was always part of the plan of the Cheney Rumsfelt and Wolfowitz gang of neocons. (Project for the new American century). Pompeo and Bolton have the same mentality.
Having to deal with trump will probably drive them insane in time.
Yemen and Iran were also on that list of countries to be destroyed.
Looks like they are using the Saudis to level Yemen.
Pompeo is straining at his leash to destroy Iran and take the oil.
Watch out for a false flag attack. They will blow up a tanker or an oil well and put the blame on Iran and then it will kick off.
Douglas Murray doesn't care about any of that - very few of those refugees ever make it to Britain.

#9 You are right ughlah.
Business is a main driver of immigration.
And that is for several reasons but mainly because it provides a large pool of cheap labor to compete for jobs.
While Germany and the Nordic countries aim for prosperity through better products and services and elevating standards of living
Britain has an entrenched idea of cost-cutting for economic advantage.
Once out of the EU the UK can water down all workers protections in a race to the bottom.
Once again the biggest losers will be the poorest in society.
The sad thing is a lot of these poorest people voted for Brexit.
Johnson will say the UK has the highest level of employment ever.
That is true, But they are crap jobs with zero hours contracts, no security of employment, no paid vacation, no pensions
and no way out of the poverty trap even holding multiple zero hour contracts. Current population of the UK, 67 million. Official number of people in poverty is over 14 million, 4 million of them children and the highest rate of child obesity in Europe. The obesity is caused by lack of access to good quality food. From a report on childhood obesity in Europe: "However, recent data from the UK are of particular concern since they demonstrate an excess of overweight (19%) and obesity (7%) in 5-year-olds and highlight the need to initiate effective preventive measures even before children reach school age".
As regards the UK National Health Service. Britain spends less than Germany France or Sweden on health (as a % of GDP).
The government cut bursaries and introduced fees for nurse training so that only 32,000 applied to become nurses in the UK
There are currently 40,000 vacancies for nurses.
A large part the staff in the NHS came from Europe. Brexit will end free movement of people from Europe.
But Boris has a plan. He will scan the 3rd world countries and steal their doctors and nurses.
Colonial plunder continues it seems.

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-11-08/johnson-promises-fast-track-nhs-visa-for-doctors-and-nurses/

#6 Yes there has been a rise in foreign born living in the UK in the last 20 years.
Tony Blair opened the door totally to East European workers. (unlike Germany France Italy etc).
Since then nearly 4 million have made the move from eastern European countries.
These are mostly young well-educated people.
They are almost all white Caucasian and if they have a religion it is a Christian one.
Douglas Murray and his so called "Centre for Social Cohesion" uses immigration figures to demonize Muslims.
He is an enabler for right wing activists and extremists piggybacking on the Brexit fracture in Britain.
In the 3 1/2 years since the referendum, Britain has become a hateful place with steep rises in all forms of hate crime.
The likes of Murray continuously stir up trouble and provide a platform for hate speech.
The British police have stated categorically, there is a risk of terrorism in the UK and the biggest risk is from right wing extremists.

https://time.com/5681199/uk-far-right-terrorism/
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/far-right-terror-referrals-rise-17215097

And just for you mrfox, from your own newspaper the Torygraph.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/18/extreme-right-infiltrating-politics-says-former-met-terror-chief/

By the way, Ireland has a higher foreign born population 17% (2016 census) than the UK 14% (2018 figure) and Ireland is a very pleasant country to live in.

The world stopped building nuclear stations 3 decades ago (switched to cheap gas).
We lack the skills now to build them now.
The accidents at Fukushima, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl and Windscale now means that with new projects, the level of safety has to be raised significantly.
Also there is a tendency now to make much bigger plants to leverage economies of scale.
These 3 factors:
The lack of skills and experience.
The increased safety standards
The temptation to build giant plants
means that the real time costs of building a Uranium plant today is 3 times what it was 30 years ago.
What is the state of nuclear power plant construction around the world now?
Let's take the USA.
Remember Obama's 2010 state of the union where he got a standing ovation from both sides of the house when he said he was going to resume nuclear power production.
9 years later how are we doing?
After 3 decades without building nuclear plants, civilian nuclear skills are somewhat lacking.
The military hoovered up much of the nuclear talent over that period.

The US has 2 new Nuclear power plant builds underway, one in Georgia and one South Carolina.
Both however, are riddled with scandal, vast cost overruns and incompetence.

The Vogtle power plant in Georgia is way behind schedule, over budget and wracked by lawsuits.
Along with cost issues, there seems a serious problem with long delays acquiring skilled workers from abroad.
It may never be completed.
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2019/10/30/lawsuit-challenging-decision-to-finish-plant.html


The South Carolina Gas and Electric and Santee Cooper plant is a total fiasco and will likely be abandoned after $9 billion has been squandered on it.
https://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-south-carolina-nuclear-reactors.html

Misguided politics are shutting existing nuclear plants.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/01/16/u-s-co2-emissions-rise-as-nuclear-power-plants-close/#140b23097034

And the legacy of poor quality waste management still hangs over the country.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/the-60-year-downfall-of-nuclear-power-in-the-us-has-left-a-huge-mess/560945/

The main US nuclear player (Westinghouse Nuclear) has gone bust.

The installation of a former oil and mining industry lobbyist as secretary of the interior will not help nuclear in the US.

#1 you are right ughlah.
Douglas Murray is s British right wing extremist, a token spokesman for right wing hate politics in the UK and a virulent Brexiteer.
Trust mrfox to pull this hate monger up from the swamp.
In 2006, he published a defense of neoconservatism.
William Davis called him a righting provocateur, blind to oppression.
The right wing British conservative party considered him so toxic they severed formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion.
Once again mrfox promotes extreme right wing agenda on snotr.
All the videos he submits have a thread of the same venom.

Arguably, Richard Mulhouse Nixon's biggest crime wasn't Watergate.
It was the shutting down of the molten salt Thorium power plant in Oak Ridge Tennessee in 1971 thus sending the planet down the path of filthy, dangerous and scarce Uranium as the fuel for Nuclear power.
Thorium plants have cheap clean fuel and are safe, but were no good for making Plutonium fuel for nuclear bombs).
So why not go with Thorium?
Thorium in very plentiful on Earth and is easy to extract.
One tonne of Thorium delivers the same amount of energy as 250 tonnes of Uranium.
There is estimated to be enough Thorium on the planet to last 10,000 years.
Thorium LFTRs (Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor) run at normal atmospheric pressure instead of 150 to 160 times atmospheric pressure currently needed for Uranium water cooled reactors.
Thorium is much less radioactive than Uranium.
Downside to Thorium:

1. It produces no fissile material for old style nuclear bombs.

2. The current nuclear incumbents have built the market on Uranium and will fight Thorium tooth and nail to preserve their market and profits

3. There is not yet a Thorium power station in full production to demonstrate its viability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSmf_qmkbg

#10 I agree with you fox. 17.4 million British citizens who voted to Leave the EU, are mainly ordinary folk who wanted their voice heard and their concerns dealt with.
They had had nearly 10 years of austerity perpetuated by their own government.
It was fairly brutal for a lot of people.
Why was it necessary?
Well after the financial fraud and crash, the banks had to be bailed out.
The bankers were rewarded for their fraud and the bill was sent to the poorest in the land in the form of austerity.
Of course they were pissed with their situation.
Then you have sh1t stirrers like Farrage and Johnston saying it is all the fault of Europe.
And Mercer bombarding 3 million Facebook users with targeted messages disguised as "news" courtesy of Cambridge Analytica.
Did you watch the uncivil war documentary I linked in my previous post.
Your paper the Telegraph gave it 5 stars.
Speaking of the Telegraph, it's owners the British billionaire Barclay brothers who live in a tax haven and keep their assets in tax havens have decided to get rid of it, Who would buy it.
Mercer maybe? He already owns the fascist Breitbart group. That would please you I guess.
Or maybe Murdoch will get it.
I see you did your last update Saturday - the day South Africa beat England 32-12 in the rugby world cup final.
Wasn't it such a treat to watch that South African team perform.
The camaraderie between the black and white players was evident especially after the final whistle.
And to watch captain Siya Kolisi lift the Webb Ellis Cup - man that was inspiring.

#6 Fox do you know who these people are?
Chrispin Odie.
AAron Banks.
Robert Mercer.
Richard Tice.
Alexander Nix
Dominic Cummings
These are the billionaires and multi millionaire that delivered Brexit.
(Except for Cummings is not a billionaire just the sociopath now controlling Boris Johnson and the brains behind "Vote Leave".
Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are stooges.
Their job was to do the dirty work.
Then you have Kate Andrews (Republicans abroad) who is an immigrant to the UK peddling the fraud on TV.
She was also with the Adam Smith Institute (Right wing plunder merchants) till 3 weeks ago, where she edited and published the Neoliberal Manifesto.
Now mixed up with "Institute for Economic Affairs" she continues the campaign open the UK for corporate plunder.
As a lobbyist for the US pharmaceutical industry, of course she is backing Brexit.
Say goodbye to your NHS mrfox.
When billionaires tell the workers to burn their own house down, you know it will not end well.
Watch out for Mercer and Bannon meeting Cummings at about 00:30 in this video.
Cummings does not deny this happened.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/brexit-the-uncivil-war/on-demand/65804-001
A subsidiary of Mercer's Cambridge Analytica based in Canada called AggregateIQ did the dirty Facebook work for the UK referendum.
Thanks to Christopher Wylie for exposing the Brexit fraud.

#4 You can trust user "thefox" to bring a hate angle wherever he can.
Germany.
The criminal war on Iraq that sent it back to the stone age and stole its oil had huge unintended consequences.
One was flooding Syria with half a million Iraqi refugees and militia.
Combined with bankrupted Syrian farmers after 5 years of drought turning up in the capital Damascus it totally destabilized Syria.
The ensuing civil war and interference from world powers destroyed the country resulting in 1 million Syrian turning up at the door step if Europe, Germany (which did not take part in the destruction of Iraq) took them in.
What did Germany get?
Syria had one of the best educated populations in the middle east.
(Syrian president Assad was an eye doctor in London before becoming president).
Most of those that mead it to Germany were young and educated.
Germany has a demographic problem - an aging population and low reproductive rate.
1 million young educated and willing workers were a huge boost to the economy.
There is a lot of state support for raising children in Germany but it still costs parents about 160,000 to raise a child to age 18.
It is true that remnants of old style NAZI's used this new population to revive their ideas and continually try to stir up trouble.
Today the call themselves Die Alternative für Deutschland.

Britain. Well Britain is in deep trouble.

4 years ago the Prime Minister of Britain David Cameron decided to have a referendum of the people to decide whether Britain should remain in the EU.
The ONLY reason he needed to do this was in his Tory party there was a rump of politicians who whew agitating for it and causing Cameron loss of support for him in his own party.
These tensions plagued the Tory party for decades and threatened to destroy the party.
Some nefarious forces saw their chance to exploit this situation.
A racist white stockbroker and failed politician called Nigel Farage self selected himself and played the race card.
He set up the Brexit Party. 22 of Britain's 55 prime ministers came through 1 Charter school - Eton.
Cameron is one of them.
Imagine a man born in New York with bad hair, whose privileged upbringing has given him a sense of entitlement and an accompanying carapace of invulnerability, who is a narcissistic womanizer, an inveterate liar and who leaves a trail of chaos behind him for others to clean up.
That is Boris Johnson.
The membership of the Tory party (fewer than 150,000 elderly privileged rich white men) elected him as leader of the Tory party and by default Prime minister of the country.
He also played the race card.
Corporate billionaires also backed the leave vote.
Leaving would mean rolling back all the European workers rights and environmental protections.
Robert Mercer with Cambridge Analytica and Steve Bannon (Breitbart) turned up in London.
Mercer using Cambridge Analytica bombarding Britain's Facebook users with fake Brexit articles posing as real news.
This was a dry run for interfering with the US presidential election later that same year.
This brought a narrow Brexit victory which no one really expected.
Britain voted to burn down it's own house.
It has been catastrophic for the country.
3 and a half years of virtual civil war with family members arguing over it.
No other government business in that time
Those politicians trying to save the country are being driven out.
All because of unscrupulous people whipping up anti emigrant hysteria
For the record, Britain's immigrants for the last 10 years are mainly fairly well-educated young white Caucasians from Eastern Europe.

#2 There are no free lunches in physics.
When braking, motors can become generators.
That is very efficient (regerative) braking and can recover very small amounts of power.

#8 More walls?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NjNL4Nsa4Q

#4 "We Build the Wall" got help from the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP, the armed vigilantes who made the news in April after videos revealed that they were capturing and terrorizing migrants near El Paso. Subsequently, the FBI announced that the group was implicated in a plot to assassinate George Soros, Barack Obama, and Hilary Clinton.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the UCP as a hate group.
The UCP name became so toxic it had been rebranded as the Guardian Patriots.
Geroge Cudahy who stars in the video supports Steve Pearce - chair of New Mexico’s Republican Party.
Pearce pushed the birther conspiracy and has called the theory of global warming “crap.”
Another quote from genius Pearce:
“the wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead … as a matter of obedience to the Lord.”
We Build the Wall is supported by the likes of Steve Bannon, Kris Kobach, and Tom Tancredo.

The people of El Paso a fed up with these self styled vigilantes coming to the area and stirring up trouble.
As a propaganda video it is well made - cute animals being hurt, scared little girl, defenseless old folk, evil foreigners etc
Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

https://cbs4local.com/news/local/sunland-park-private-border-wall-was-built-illegally

You can always trust sux2bu to periodically sneak right wing hate material onto this site.
If you find Kris Kobach in a story, you know it is going to be nasty.
(The slimeball from the swamp who demanded personal access to government jets)
Koback is a toxic mix of racism and voter fraud conspiracy theory is a bit of a clown character in Kansas.
Here is his list of demands to become US immigration czar:
1. Office in the West Wing.
2. Walk-in privileges with the president.
3. Assistant to the President rank - at highest pay level for WH senior staff.
4. Staff of 7 people (2 attorneys, 2 research analysts, 1 scheduler, 1 media person, 1 assistant).
5. POTUS sits down individually with Czar and the secretaries of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, Ag, Interior, and Commerce,
and tells each of the Secretaries to follow the directives of the Czar without delay, subject to appeal to the President in cases of
disagreement.
6. 24/7 access to either a DHS or DOD jet. Czar must be on the border every week.
7. Ability to spend weekends in KS with family on way from border back to DC, unless POTUS needs Czar elsewhere.
8. Security detail if deemed necessary after security review.
9. Serve as the face of Trump immigration policy - the principal spokesman on television and in the media.
10. Promise that by November 1, 2019, the president will nominate Kris Kobach to be DHS Secretary, unless Kobach wishes to
continue in Czar position.

This video is riddled with multiple false arguments and false statements.
!t starts with the first sentence
"Some people say that human existance is a result of a cosmic dice".
That is a meaningless statement which he uses as basis for his arguments.
By the way dice is plural. Singular di plural dice. One di two dice.
He can't even get the grammar right in the first sentence.
I suspect the sumbitter sent it is because it is so ridiculous.

What city is this?

I hope none of the folks in the video gets cancer.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/24/753446099/iran-under-sanctions-a-scramble-for-cancer-care-and-blame-to-go-around?t=1569108893325

Hmm seems my ad blocker is not working! Car ads are getting through.

I didn't sign up for car ads.

US journalism was already in poor shape after Reagan.
Clinton's 1996 telecommunications act finished it off.
US media was sold to corporations.
6 corporations now own most of the media so the agenda is not journalism but profit - by any means necessary.
That is why the US general population is pretty clueless about what s going on.

The women taught him how to do it.

Most of the Russian forests are in Siberia where trees grow extremely slowly due to the cold climate.
There is heavy logging going on there to supply China with lumber.
The previous government of Brazil led by Lula da Silva made fantastic progress stopping industrial logging, protecting indigenous peoples of the forest improving the lot of the people and making huge strides in education and literacy.
A great example of the pink tide of progress.
The CIA soon put a stop to that and installed the monster Bolsonaro. (A repeat of what they did in 1965).
Just as they have been doing in central and south America for decades.
As recently in Ecuador, Nicaragua and coming soon in Venezuela.

#1 Still got your Ford Edsel Judge?

I see sux2bu is still submitting twisted right wing propaganda.
He laid off it for a while but is now back to his true form.
Ex CIA man John Perkins detailed how it is democracy is undermined in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
This particular cartoon was produced by American Right-Libertarian animator Seamus Coughlin.
There are still today some Americans who fall for this nonsense.
The other 96% of the worlds' population don't.

The same bullsh1t video was submitted here by thefox 44 days ago.
The heartland institute is still a lying bullsh1t factory.
Not sure what Judge-jake's agenda is in submitting this nonsense.

and F for music

Ruined by awful music.

They have some balls....
(up on the shelf)

He should call a spade a spade.
(not a shovel).

Bill Bailey is a much loved British autodidact - music, comedy, stand-up, twitcher (bird watching expert) and political commentator.
Because there were a couple of other famous Bill Baileys, it can be confusing for folks trying to find more of him online.
On YouTube, you can see him in a series called Black books with the brilliant Dylan Moran and Tasmin Greig written by the equally brilliant Graham Lenihan who also gave us Father Ted and The IT crowd.

This will cause a lot of arguments.......
I don't know where to begin.
A modern human skull found in Greece has been dated to be at least 210,000 years ago.
There were Aboriginals in Australia 60,000 years ago.
I had better stop there.

I never saw an explanation as to why the gods in most religions are needy, petty and vindictive.

China is quite advanced with Electric aviation.
Europe too is pushing ahead.
Germany gave us the worlds first electric VTOL plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqzatnVAfA
and the volocopter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtiEjKmL6Jo
and the worlds first fuel cell plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ2zQiDIJ4
and the E-Genius efficient battery plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ncBL-Mvto
and the beautiful Siemens extra 330le.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RY1KaIWMI
and the world's first autonomous solar plane the Elektra two solar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBHn3gpdAo

France gave us the delightful Cri Cri personal electric plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4lpWv90L8

The Swiss solar plane "Solar Impulse" circumnavigated the Globe on Solar power alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhL8fiTYoY

Slovenia gave us the electric training aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiADDbeFanU

Hungary gave us eFusion 2 electric plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_DG_uwdBRQ

Airbus is backing many of these ventures.
Meanwhile, Boeing..... well Boeing is in self-destruct mode surviving on Pentagon money.
And POTUS is pushing clean coal.
Looking forward to the first coal powered aircraft..........

The heartland institute is an ultra right wing think tank that pimps itself out to the worst US Industries.
The nickname for this institute is "The Merchants of Doubt"
They specialize in FUD (sowing Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)
It was the leading propagandist for the tobacco claiming there was no link between smoking and lung cancer.
Working for Phillip Morris, Brown and Williamson etc
It has waged war on the FDA and the EDA for decades.
It also backed the tea party movement.
Today they are a leading climate change denial promoter.
In 2008, the Institute made up and published a list purporting to identify "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares". When those scientists asked to have their names removes from the list the institute's then president, Joseph Bast, argued that the scientists "have no right—legally or ethically—to demand that their names be removed" from Heartland's list.
It is a despicable "Gun for hire" for the worst corporations operating in the US.
Normally professional - they have big money bankrolling them, this video is appalling badly scripted produced and acted.
No scientists would behave like this.
I cannot believe that the submitter was fooled by this, so I can only conclude he or she has an agenda.
Have a look at some of their previous clients perjuring themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZDQKq2F08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_-Vu8LrUDk

Could the cat have gotten out if it could not launch itself off the guys foot?

Let me see, Climate change. Whose insights should I trust, David Attenborough or Donald J Trump?

Habitat destruction in their India and Sri Lanka ranges means these cats have to try and adapt to living in cultivated landscapes.
In 2016 the global wild population was listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.

These bears seem to be captive.
Their pen appears barren and dismal.
A visit from "Jim" is probably the only thing that relieves their endless tedium.
I could be wrong - this might be a bear hospital.
It is still legal to hunt these animals in Alaska.
I wonder what Sarah Palin is doing right now.

#4 yup, left to itself the next glacial period would begin to return in 50,000 years time.

The Ice will soon be gone anyway so this tacky ship will no longer be required.

Normally we have the choice of a Koch brothers stooge or a Walls st stooge, but in 2016 Robert Mercer (who used to work along with the Koch bros) slipped his own stooge into the White House using Cambridge Analytica.
As the old saying goes, you get the government you deserve.

She could be president one day.

It's only fair.
After all, people kill more Mosquitos than all other animals combined.
And they were here 80 million years before us.

#2 It is like squirrel shit.........a hazel nut in every bite.

Worldwide, bees are endangered by the use of Neonicotinoids which are are a class of neuro-active insecticides used by big agriculture.
One of big agriculture's biggest customers is McDonalds.
Full circle.
Do you the bees appreciate this magnificent homage to them?

Mars Inc. paid to have this video made.
It's a vast $35 billion global business empire built on convincing people to buy confectionery that is bad for them.
Mars ....winning work rest and play.............yeah right.
Mars has to put 'once a week' label warnings on its products that are not healthy enough to be eaten every day.
And your pets too.
Mars Inc. said its Eukanuba dog food could extend dogs' lifespans by 30% or more.
Nope........it doesn't.
Mars' demand for Palm Oil has contributed to rain forest destruction.
Mars contributed $376,650 to a $46 million political campaign to oppose "Proposition 37", demanding mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients.
An investigation conducted by NGO Mighty Earth found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Mars and other major chocolate companies was grown illegally in national parks and other protected areas in Ivory Coast and Ghana.
The countries are the world's two largest cocoa producers.
In several national parks and other protected areas, 90% or more of the land mass has been converted to cocoa.
Less than four percent of Ivory Coast remains densely forested, extensive deforestation in Ghana as well.
In Ivory Coast, deforestation has pushed chimpanzees into just a few small pockets, and reduced the country's elephant population from several hundred thousand to about 200–400.

So go ahead - buy their stuff.

This a French endeavor,
The Swiss solar plane "Solar Impulse" circumnavigated the Globe on Solar power alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnhL8fiTYoY
Slovenia gave us the electric training aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiADDbeFanU
Hungary gave us eFusion 2 electric plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_DG_uwdBRQ
France gave us the delightful Cri Cri personal electric plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4lpWv90L8
Germany gave us the worlds first electric VTOL plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLqzatnVAfA
and the E-Genius efficient battery plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_ncBL-Mvto
and the beautiful Siemens extra 330le.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RY1KaIWMI
and the world's first autonomous solar plane the Elektra two solar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBHn3gpdAo
Germany also gave us the worlds first fuel cell plane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ2zQiDIJ4
and the volocopter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtiEjKmL6Jo
Meanwhile, across the pond, the great leader is extolling the virtues of..........King Coal

Chris Hedges was the New York Time foreign correspondent spending nearly two decades in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans - reporting from more than fifty countries.
Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.
He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
He is also a Presbyterian minister and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor.
Here he talks about Gaza. The video was made some years ago.

https://www.facebook.com/ifamericansknew/videos/10155297704779632/

#12 fjwjr, folks here are probably wondering what your obsession with communism is.
I am old enough to remember the shameful period of McCarthyism and I suspect you are a throwback to that.
All US administrations are pro Israel regardless of it's brutality and crimes.
That is because Israel is America's thug in the middle east.
Opinion is not more important than facts. Inform yourself.
Take some timeout this Sunday afternoon and read up on Gaza.
Then spend some time reading upon the West Bank.
Have you had your Whatsapp account hacked last week?
That hack came to you courtesy of the state of Israel.

#10 There is no organized deep state.
It is just the regular plunder that all empires do as a matter of course.
Most folks are too busy trying to make a living and pandering to their petty squabbles to notice.
It's business as usual. The Neocons have been let in the back door and are bashing Iran to provoke a war.
Now that with fracking, the US is self-sufficient in oil, it is quite happy to set the middle east on fire.
Iran will be plundered and sent back to the stone age.
Venezuela will also be plundered.
Plus ça change.

#7 When an uninformed American encounters something he does not understand or cannot contemplate,
he labels it communist and moves on.

America was the first country to free itself from the tyranny of the British empire.
Sadly however, within 2 centuries, they meekly handed the country over to Israel.

Being stoned helps if you are sent to a country you never heard of to slaughter the population.

#1
This video was already uploaded to snotr 19 days ago by user manro.

#7snotraddict.
Please check your facts before committing them to print.
The Paris accord was an attempt to LIMIT the global temperature rise to 2.0 degrees C not 0.02C.
Ideally we would keep it the same as today but it is too late to achieve that so it is damage limitation mode not problem resolution. It was deemed too late to keep it to 1.5C, so you can kiss the coral reefs goodbye.
Against the odds, the world did come to an agreement.
Some time later Mercer puts trump into the white house, and the petulant trump throws a series of hissy fits.

What exactly do you recall about US emissions?
You say USA produces 22% of the worlds CO2 pollution.
Well, the USA is only 4.4% of the world's population.
So what does that tell you?
(Curiously the US also has 25% of the world's prison population).
Some perspective as regards US pollution.
Like in the 20th century, Americans are still the biggest polluters.
(of bigger countries - little oil states like Bahrain and Kuwait are worse than America).
The per capita carbon footprint of China is 6.57 tons.
The per capita carbon footprint of USA is 14.95 tons.
That is despite much of the west's heavy industry moving to China.
Are you suggesting that we in the west be allowed to pollute the planet more than a person in the east?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-have-the-largest-carbon-footprints/
There seems to be a size limit to comments here so this is the first part of a much longer comment which I am unable to post due to this limit.

#8 snotraddict, There is a difference between being religious and being rational.
Being religious is accepting views or beliefs without question however irrational.
Being rational is rigorously questioning all the facts before coming to a conclusion.
27 years ago, the world made an attempt to stop the rampant polluting of our planet and came together in Kyoto Japan.
The result was Kyoto Protocol treaty on Climate Change.
The United States refused to ratify it. (Still hasn't today).
Furthermore, the G.H.Bush (oilman) administration put extreme pressure on other countries around the world not to ratify it.
Noam Chomsky - widely regarded as the world's greatest living intellectual named the Republican Party the
'most dangerous organization on Earth in human history'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-39879374/chomsky-republican-party-most-dangerous-organisation-on-earth

Rex Tillerson while CEO of Exxon in 2017 said
"the risk of climate change does exist and that the consequences of it could be serious enough that action should be taken".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38589786/tillerson-stops-short-on-saying-climate-change-is-man-made

Exon already knew this in the 1960s
In the 2016 presidential campaign, 16 republican candidates were all climate change deniers.
The 17th admitted it existed but said we don't need to do anything about it.
The Koch brothers would only allow climate change deniers as candidates.
Democrats are also dangerous in their own way.
It was Clinton's telecommunications act in 1995 that destroyed journalism in the US.
Nearly all US media is now owned by 6 ratings and influence chasing corporations who have no interest in journalism and the truth.
Why is that Noam Chomsky or Pulitzer prize winner Chris Hedges cannot get on TV in the US?
Are you going to ignore the greatest advocate in consumer protection in American History - Ralph Nadar?
Joseph Goebbles said he learned his trade from the great American propagandist Edward Bernays.
(Bernays gave us the "American Dream" concept).
The rest of the world does not care if America sinks into a cesspit of its own making.
But Americans are the world's greatest polluters and that pollution goes around the world.
Some perspective as regards China to dispel US propaganda.
The per capita carbon footprint of China is 6.57 tonnes.
The per capita carbon footprint of USA is 14.95 tonnes.
That is despite much of the west's heavy industry moving to China.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-have-the-largest-carbon-footprints/

Though the individual carbon footprint of Chinese citizens is less than half that of Americans, China is investing vast sums in every possible alternative energy option.
That includes alternative variations of nuclear - Thorium, Fusion, LENR and He3.
China knows if the current course is not corrected, organized human society will collapse within decades.
Meanwhile, the US is fracking with chemicals, sucking sludge out of tar sands and bombing countries back to the stone age to steal their oil.
Here are some US CEOs in action in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ZDQKq2F08

And a public servant lying under oath to congress.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=james+clapper+congress&&view=detail&mid=FF14AEA6FD3FC1EF122BFF14AEA6FD3FC1EF122B&&FORM=VRDGAR

He did not go to jail.
In fact, he kept his job - and his fat pension.

A message to younger readers.
When politicians behave like children, the children have to stand up.
Greta Thunberg is standing up now.
Join her.

#9 snotraddict , I urge for the third time to watch Tony Seba's video before replying - if only as a courtesy to the readers here.

https://vimeo.com/283745451

#6
hmmm judge-Jake,
I presume you mean you said the comment in #4 many times.
However, I do think your comments on folks who believe in god are less intelligent is a bit harsh.
Usually they were indoctrinated into religion when they were children.
And that religion would be the one of their parents or guardians.
It is pot luck as to which one you get.
In most open western societies as the kids grow up they figure out for themselves what is true and what is nonsense.
But in some societies, religion pervades societal and political thinking so it can be hard to get outside it's influence.
It does not mean these folks are less intelligent - just less informed.

#4
snortfab89,
Of the approx 212 nations on the planet, there is one which appears to be the source of most of the climate change denial material.
That nation has just installed a former oil and mining industry lobbyist as secretary of the interior.
That one nation alone is capable of sabotaging the efforts of the other 95% of the human population to save the Earth from the monumental damage that human-made emissions are causing to the atmosphere and the planet.

Thanks for this thundersnow,
The Paris Climate accord was a last ditch attempt to stop the madness.
It won't fix it but can buy us some time.
Denying something does not make it go away.

#2
Jake, it never ceases to amaze me that in this day and age there are still grown-ups that think there is such a thing as god.

There were 6 major extinction events with different initial causes but the P-T and the K-T extinctions were real the biggies.
The "Great Dying" extinction event 250 million years at the end of the Permian period was caused by a huge increase in geologic activity mainly volcanoes and earthquakes leading to massive climate change.
That was the Permian–Triassic (P–T) extinction event
Methane released from the sea floor got into the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect did the rest.
That saw 70% of terrestrial species and 96% of all marine species on Earth wiped out.
That did it for the Gorgonopsids.
But over millions of years the survivors recovered and there was room for the dinosaurs who ran the show for the next 185 million years.

Then 66 million years ago a big rock went splat into Yucatan Mexico.
That was a bad day for everyone.
Debris in the atmosphere led to catastrophic climate change.
And that caused the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) mass extinction where 75% of species were lost.
That did for the dinosaurs.
But it made way for the mammals who have had is their way since.
And that was fine for 65 million years,

Then about 1 million years ago several species of humans emerged.
Some left Africa and adapted to other tough environments.
But by about 40,000 years ago only one remained - the homo sapien.
The homo sapien was particularly bad for large herbivore mega fauna such as mammoths.
10,000 years ago that species developed agriculture,
That let to large organized societies and freedom from the tyranny of struggling to find food every day.
This allowed the species to thrive and infect every habitable space on the planet.
Widespread habitat destruction ensued.
Then it came up with the idea of burning fossil fuels putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere
The combination of massive habitat destruction and degraded atmosphere kicked off the next mass extinction - the Holocene extinction.
Or as it is more commonly known the Anthropocene extinction.
The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background rates.
Will this one do for us?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

#4
China has many many very large cities and space in them is at a premium.
In the #2 youtube video, all the cars are also being charged while they are parked,

Looks complicated.
Here is a more practical solution filmed 6 years ago in Hangzhou.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiEJPbxL2hI

#8
Thefox, it seems you didn't watch the Tony Seba video in comment 7.
Anyway we are talking China here,
If you can always have a car within 2 minutes for 1/20th the cost of owning one, it is a no brainer,
China now has 125 cities bigger than San Francisco.
Most folks live in apartment blocks with no car parking space.
You can't consider buying a car if you have no place to park it.
Late 2017 the government granted licenses for several companies to run autonomous cars on the roads of the capital Beijing.
The biggest, Baidu clocked up 87,000 autonomous miles on Beijing's roads in 2018.
The biggest ride hail company Didi (far bigger than Uber) is also running autonomous cars and the plan is ride hailing without drivers.
European cities are also pushing ride hailing.
If you want to drive your own diesel car into London it will cost you £24 per day. (that's $31.50).
A gas car is about $15 per day.

The island of Hainan (China's Hawaii) will be the first to go all electric and autonomous in earnest will start there.
As for the US.
Half of American families have less than $1,000 in savings.
Being unable to afford to repair a broken car can mean losing a job.
Access to personal transport without fuel, insurance, maintenance, plates depreciation and auto finance debt costs is very attractive.
Heck you don't even need a driving license.
The market will drive this change.
It will be slower in the US because of the lack of 5G coverage but it can still be done on 4G.
I urge you to watch Tony's video to see how this will pan out in the US.

https://vimeo.com/283745451

#5.
Yup snotraddict,
China is going to have screw ups along the way some of them big ones.
Bringing 1,420 million people from a mainly agrarian society to a first world one in lifetime is unprecedented in human history.
China can learn from mistakes made in other countries but will also have to learn from it's own mistakes.
That was the subject of the link I put in comment #2

As regards fawning over car sharing.
On average cars are parked 95% of the time.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/13/cars-parked-95-percent-of-time/

For private cars the % is even higher.
On average, in the west, folks spend up to one third of their income on a depreciating asset they use 5% of the time.
That does not make sense.
Take your own town for example - LA.
One third of LA space is occupied by car traffic resources be it highways, parking facilities etc.
Imagine if much of that could be turned over to housing.
China cannot ever offer its people 2 cars per household nor does it need to.
It now has the most advanced and extensive public transport system in the world.
But that is not enough.
It wants to be the first country to develop and deploy TAAS on a vast scale. (Transport As A Service).
When you need a car, an autonomous electric vehicle turns up.
At your destination you step out and walk away and the car goes to service another request.
Electric cars with 18 moving parts (as opposed 2,200 is a combustion engine) are good for 500,000 miles.
In constant use they should last 5 years just by replacing the tires.
You will still be allowed to drive a private internal combustion engine (ICE) car but it will be very very expensive.
At March 2018 monthly sale in Shanghai, around 217,000 bidders battled for ICE 9,855 license plates.
The average winning bid was 88,176 yuan ($14,022).
Plates for Electric cars are free.

https://www.economist.com/china/2018/04/19/why-a-licence-plate-costs-more-than-a-car-in-shanghai

Beijing plates are also expensive but in addition, odd and even ICE license plates are only allowed on the roads on alternate days.
TAAS is the biggest revolution heading our way.
The best person to explain why TAAS will completely change the world as we know and how it will happen is Tony Seba of Stanford University.
Here he is speaking in Boulder last year.

https://vimeo.com/283745451

#3
It's true Kenuty that China is by far the biggest manufacturing economy, with the EU 2nd followed by the US and then Japan.
Walmart billionaires flood the US with Chinese made goods.
Manufacturing has created many, many Chinese millionaires, and they live in China.
China has 338 billionaires most of whom live and operate in China.
The US has 680 billionaires most of whom live and operate in the US.
(Figures from May 2018).

China sure is on a steep learning curve.
Trying to achieve in 50 years what the US achieved in 150 years is very ambitious.
Such growth is bound to have hiccups along the way especially if you are trying to create a capital market system that does
not slide into predatory or crony capitalism.
They had plenty of experience of cronyism in the old communist regime.
But the quest to build a sharing economy rather than a wanton consumer society is laudable.
It wants it's citizens to be solvent so they can buy Chinese products and services.
The model where consumers aspire to individual car ownership financed by perpetual auto finance is bad for the citizenry and terrible for the environment.
The evolution of bike sharing in China has taught China a lot of lessons.
These are now being applied to the big project - car sharing and ride hailing - and it's electric.
This is from last month.
http://autonews.gasgoo.com/china_news/70014255.html

#6
Well sewage is organic and comes from stuff grown on the Earth so is part of the normal carbon cycle.
Rubbish - well that depends on where it ultimately came from.
A cotton tee shirt is made from plants so again is part of the Earth's carbon cycle - ditto food scraps, leather etc.
However, all plastics come from oil so burning them adds to the carbon in the system. (Also adds other unpleasant stuff).

Some perspective as regards China.
The per capita carbon footprint of China is 6.57 tons.
The per capita carbon footprint of USA is 14.95 tons.
That is despite much of the west's heavy industry moving to China.
Are you suggesting that we in the west be allowed to pollute more than a person in the east?

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/chart-of-the-day-these-countries-have-the-largest-carbon-footprints/

Nuclear should be good however most folks are not aware current nuclear position.
I am keen to know what you mean by Gen IV nuclear.
Which reactor do you think we should go for?

#4 snotraddict, your fact check.
Burning stuff does release carbon into the environment.
If you grow stuff and burn it, that is a cycle and the overall CO2 in the atmosphere stays the same.
However, over billions of years vast quantities of carbon on the planet have been stored underground in gas, coal and oil and as long as it stays there it is fine. Digging that up and burning it pushes all that extra carbon into our atmosphere.
Similarly, with peat bogs.
Vast quantities of methane are stored in peat bogs, in permafrost and at the bottom of the oceans.
Melting of permafrost and ocean warming releases that methane into the atmosphere.

At some time in the past that elephant was probably trained to do that or at the least it is a learned behavior.

Amazing that even in this day and age there are still people that believe in the devil
and god.

Not remotely funny.

There are a lot of teams working on personal electric flying vehicles - particularly in Europe.

Easy peasy.
Assistant in the next room puts the shoe in the dogs mouth and sends him back.

This user has posted nearly 800 clips here nearly all bashing anything leftish.
Don't know why snotr allows it.

Truly awful noise and awful overreacting by the judges.
Who falls for this stuff nowadays?

This user sux2bu has submitted 774 videos to snotr.
They are all nasty right wing material.
I don't know why snotr allows this kind of incendiary stuff to be posted.

The main purpose of NATO is to compel member countries to hand over 2% of their GDP to US arms manufacturers.

The accent of the speaker is from north of England probably Yorkshire.
The table menu is in english and the beer glasses are pint size.
So this incident probably took place in Britain.

More cut and paste right wing propaganda from poster sux2bu.
He has swamped snotr with 741 pieces of ready made propaganda.
This guy is straight from Breitbart central casting.
Breitbart knows how to tell colossal lies and stick to them even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
They learned that from Joseph Goebbles.

Luckily in the 20th century the CIA saved all those central American countries from that socialist nonsense by organizing multiple Coups and installing enlightened leaders making them the thriving successful economies they are today. Thanks goodness for the SOA (School of the Americas in Georgia). Meanwhile those European countries with their mainly socialist governments and their free health care for all, paid parental leave and 30-40 vacation days a year are clearly failed states.
It must be awful living somewhere like the Scandinavian countries.
Isn't it great to have the aroma of McCarthyism in our nostrils again.
Ah, the nostalgia of it all.
Remember as Christians to thank God that Reagan took Powell Memorandum as his policy and saved another generation of American workers from the ravages of socialism.
No doubt the current POTUS is using all his talents to ensure a bright future for hard working Americans.

She is a nasty piece of work stirring up trouble.

This isn't the Atlantic meeting the Pacific.
It is in the gulf of Alaska where the Copper river water meets sea water.
The river source is Copper glacier.
The glacier crunches the clay underneath it, which in this case is particularly rich in iron.
The waters do eventually mix.
https://www.adn.com/science/article/mythbusting-place-where-two-oceans-meet-gulf-alaska/2013/02/05/