Here in Australia about the only conservative news we get via television is Sky News. Today on Sky ‘US President Donald Trump has warned the “radical left” is addicted to power and a Joe Biden victory would change the United States forever. “If (Biden) wins the radical left will be running the country and they are addicted to power and God help us if they ever got it because we would never have the same country again,” he said. Speaking in front of a large crowd in the key swing state of Florida, President Trump said radical left wing politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will dictate policy should the Democrats win the White House. “You don’t make a comeback from where (the left) will take us,” President Trump said. “He (Joe Biden) has no strength left.” “If I don’t sound like a typical Washington politician it’s because I’m not. “If I don’t play by the rules of the Washington established because I was elected to fight for you and I fight harder than anyone has ever fought for you.” “Joe Biden and the Democrat socialists will kill your jobs, dismantle your police officers, confiscate your guns…destroy your suburbs and drive God from the public square.”’https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6200013423001?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter&utm_content=Daily%20Sky%20News%20Australia%20%20Newsletter+CID_7e82ec1c5566c484ca350ea6ff5f786d&utm_source=Daily%20newsletter&utm_term=God%20help%20us%20if%20the%20radical%20left%20get%20power%20Donald%20Trump%20at%20Florida%20rally
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The climate scammers are NOT out to save the planet upon which we live but they are out for you! Their whole desire is to to own you completely.
Here is a young man willing to tell the truth on the climate.
In Victoria, Australia they have a demented leftist leaning Premier that has gotten away with murder during this China virus. However, ‘Forget that a bungled hotel quarantine program led to the deaths of 800 largely helpless Victorians. The real scandal is that Peta Credlin asked questions about who was responsible.
Twitter went into meltdown after the newspaper columnist and television host grilled Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in a tense exchange at his daily coronavirus press conference on Friday.
Her crime was to have made the Victorian Premier uncomfortable. Never mind the dead.
“Peta Credlin is NOT an accredited journalist and should have been thrown out of Dan Andrews’ presser,” tweeted Louise Gill, whose comment quickly received thousands of likes.
Apparently, our elected officials can only be questioned by state-sanctioned ‘accredited journalists’, by which the twitter mob presumably mean socialist, Andrews supporting, ALP card-carrying puppets – or the ABC, for short.
But so-called accredited journalists have sat meekly through 98 press briefings over months of disease and lockdown, ogling the Premier as he has trampled civil rights and obfuscated over who was responsible for citizen deaths.
They have seemed more interested in who Daniel Andrews is backing in the footy than why, after $5.4m spent on an inquiry, we are still clueless as to who caused the death of 800 people and sent Australia’s second most populous city into a draconian lockdown.
Peta Credlin showed up to one press briefing and took just a few minutes to expose the utter inadequacy of much of the Melbourne media.
Wouldn’t phone records reveal who it was that phoned police chief Graham Ashton to advise private security guards would be used at quarantine hotels? And wouldn’t it clarify things if the Premier and other key figures provided their phone records?
Good questions. But wait …
More important than who made the fateful decision over hotel security is to decide whether Peta Credlin is a real journalist.
Veteran Courier-Mail columnist Terry Sweetman tweeted: “Sky can employ anyone it likes but after 50 plus years’ experience I am offended #PetaCredlin is called a journalist. Real journalists have shovelled shit, reported courts, covered councils or parliaments and made educated decisions about the legality of what they write or say.”
A real journalist wouldn’t argue about who is or is not ‘a real journalist’ when questions about who was responsible for the death of 800 Australians remain unanswered. They’d put the public’s right to know — accountability — ahead of who has what piece of paper.
Perhaps the give-away that Credlin was not ‘a real journalist’ was that she sounded well informed, well researched and determined to get to answers.
Real journalist Mike Carlton tried to assure the #IStandWithDan crowd that Credlin’s questions would not upset the status quo in Daniel Andrews’ Victoria.
“Look, Credlin doesn’t matter. She has an audience smaller than the crowd at a weekday country race meeting. She is utterly irrelevant,” he tweeted.
If a conservative commentator dismissed say, ABC host Leigh Sales as “utterly irrelevant” he would be immediately called a misogynist.
Peta Credlin may be a woman, but she is the wrong kind of woman.
So the tolerant mob did not hesitate to dismiss her as the “Sky after dark vampire”, “a flapping yapping mouthpiece”, “abbott’s bitch”, a “menace to the public”, “a hack who loves the sound of her own voice” and “Peta Cretin”.
Not an accredited journalist? “Peta Credlin is not an accredited human being,” wrote one compassionate Lefty.
Many of these same people had only hours earlier been frothing at the mouth because they perceived US Vice President Mike Pence had not been sufficiently respectful of his female opponent.
All this because Peta Credlin dared to forensically question the man responsible for one of the greatest government failures in Australian history.
The Terry Sweetmans and Mike Carltons of this world may well care about the qualifications of the questioner, but the rest of us just want answers – regardless of who asks – as to why 800 of our fellow Aussies are dead.
Keep going Peta … real accredited journalist, or not.’https://spectator.com.au/2020/10/peta-credlin-accountability/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FLAT%20%2020201012%20%20AL&utm_content=FLAT%20%2020201012%20%20AL%20CID_b7bb57d4709637bab75cf2de4c492dbe&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Peta%20Credlin%20stood%20up%20for%20accountability%20We%20dont%20know%20about%20Twitter%20has-beens%20but%20thats%20what%20all%20good%20journos%20do&fbclid=IwAR20VLqaplmEayzvU8bCwcyR8yooOwJh60_3cP18CBmUbQ5Lvw7qlWEIm0I
Numbers 32:23 ..behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
‘Growing up in church, you hear the phrase “your sin will find you out” a lot. As a kid, it’s a little scary, because when you slip up, you know the person saying it means “Confess now, the hammer is going to come down on you sooner or later.” 
In my short life, I’ve seen the sin of a lot of pastors, leaders, teachers, youth pastors, volunteers come into the light, only to be quickly hidden away.
Rape. Molestation. Beatings. Racism. Financial impropriety. But, the scary thing is – the proverbial hammer rarely comes down on them. While there is swift punishment and rejection for congregants who dare go to the movies, say a bad word, get tattoos, or have a glass of wine – the leaders of those same congregations seem like they can get away with murder.
Let’s stop that now. Let’s aim that commonly used phrase right back at the men who spew it as a threat from their pulpit often. Let’s remind the abusers that THEIR sin will find them out. Their evil WILL not be swept under the rug any longer. Let’s reclaim the churches. The schools. The programs. Let’s hold people accountable for hurting the vulnerable in places where they should be safest. Your sin will find you out.’https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/
Speaking the truth in love hurts but ‘Since we have not learned from history, we are now about to repeat it.
In past plagues, officials, thinking they were doing good, passed laws that often did short-term good and long-term damage. They passed laws that fixed prices and wages (and always failed); forbade a man to change jobs; forced a son to follow in his father’s job; required people to do unpleasant and dangerous jobs; forced people to stay indoors; prohibited people from moving to a different town; and on and on.
With the Chinese coronavirus racing around the globe, people are panicking as they fight for food (and toilet paper); purposely trying to infect others; committing suicide, and insisting on close contact with friends and strangers.
Dummies are ever with us.
Almost daily, we see hazardous events to personal freedom as desperate politicians try to fight the Chinese coronavirus pestilence. Rhode Island used military personnel for hunting down New Yorkers and sent them back home; former British Prime Minister recommended temporary world government; Trump forced Ford and General Motors to build ventilators; NYC mayor told Jews to close down their synagogues, or he would close them permanently; DC mayor threatened 90 days in jail for leaving home; New York Governor sent thousands of coronavirus victims into nursing homes to infect others; a Tampa megachurch pastor was arrested after leading a packed service; and California pastors face jail time for having services as they have for 50 years.
It seems politicians act as they always have in times of major disasters–badly.
Governors closed all schools in their state forcing students into homeschooling—maybe that is where they should have been from the beginning. Since many students were fed by their schools, the government fed them during the shutdown. I am reminded that Rome, as it was in decline and soon fell, also fed the people and provided games and circuses to keep their minds off the strange barbarians beating on their city gates.
As I watch the “peaceful” protests each night, it seems the barbarians are already within our gates. Some are in the mayor’s office.
However, there is not an endless supply of food. Soon, it may be gone and who will feed the students who have become dependent on the system to feed them? Without food, there is anarchy—always. But not to worry since that is a few weeks away following weeks of rioting, looting, arson, and murders.
Americans have been warned not to assemble for any reason, well except for a few protests and a couple of spontaneously scheduled riots. Many people have attended church once or twice a week for a lifetime and are now told it is illegal. However, it seems to be legal for hundreds of protesters to gather and do their thing. Does the government have the power or the authority to forbid a church to meet? Or, if they meet, they cannot sing? Power yes, since they own the biggest guns, but in my opinion, they do not have that authority.
However, church leaders have a responsibility to act in the best interest of everyone. While they have a right to attend church and others may voluntarily join them, what about exposing innocent children? Do they have that right?
Will more oppressive laws be demanded as we see even more depravity, drunkenness, child abuse, robbery, and murder? Will honesty, loyalty, kindness, honor, and compassion become obsolete and even suspect? Will those of us who profess normalcy exhibit significant character flaws and not be true to our highest ideals? Will church members permit hatred, fear, and bigotry to take control instead of faith, hope, and love?
Will real Christians get weary in the battle and surrender their long-held Bible principles to accommodate the soft, sinister purring of unbelieving liberals who tell us the Bible is antiquated and unreliable in times of disaster? Probably so! In times of distress, disease, and death, even good people often capitulate to evil to gain safety, succor, and sustenance.
Will law and order break down with looting and vandalism common? How can the release of felons from prison help the innocent and helpless? We’ve already had felons kill and rape shortly after their release from prison. Will stores close for the safety of the owners? If so, where would you get the supplies you need? If most stores closed, what will that do to our economy? Will officials refuse to permit a store to close or go out of business?
The stock market is going up and down like a yoyo. Many older people have lost most of their retirement funds and won’t live long enough to recoup them. What if the market hits bottom and stays there for months? What would that do to your retirement?
We have seen the military take over some police duties contrary to the posse comitatus law. How will that impact your daily life? If you are a police officer or military, will you arrest or harm a citizen who refuses to be vaccinated or insists on attending church or visit grandchildren? Remember, “I was just following orders” has never been legitimate even in totalitarian times.
There is no doubt that new, intrusive laws will be passed (or implemented) that will restrict our freedom of movement. There will be mandatory vaccinations whenever one is developed, although billions of dollars have been spent seeking an AIDS vaccine without success. What if you think the shots would be far worse than the risk of getting the disease? What if you refused the shots?
Much of the world was under lockdown and forced to stay at home. Have you lost a constitutional right to travel? Does a dangerous disease override your rights? What about your traveling job? What about seeing your children in another city? Will you obey a law that restricts public meetings such as church services? If so, for how long?
Two of our major problems would be obtaining health care and eating. Where will we get the necessary nurses and physicians if the pestilence worsens? What about hospital beds? How could we exist if only 30% of the farmers were no longer producing food? If politicians react as they have in the past to major disasters, they will freeze prices and wages and even prohibit a person from changing jobs. Would you support a law that requires a man to stay in his present job? Well, what if he is a farmer, and if he doesn’t farm, you won’t eat? Would you support that law under that condition?
How firm are your convictions when it affects feeding your family? These questions must be faced now; however, our leaders do not indicate that they are being considered, and some will question my loyalty for asking the questions!
Patriotic Americans will ask some questions and demand answers from the people whose salaries they pay. Keep in mind that we are the masters, and the politicians and bureaucrats are the hired servants! Very well paid servants, I might add!
As the Chinese coronavirus gallops around the world, there will be further limitations on personal liberty, but hopefully, lawmakers will think these issues through, debate them, and implement only those most necessary. Reasonable people will argue that, in times of emergency, unusual measures must be taken for everyone’s good; however, there is always a problem. When oppressive laws are passed “for the present time,” some of them will persist after the danger is past. There are many examples of that in our history. So ask questions and expect answers from the authorities.
This pandemic will change our constitution, community, commerce, churches, and culture; and could affect our character as well.’http://donboys.cstnews.com/unlawful-unwanted-and-unnecessary-laws-are-coming-and-may-stay-with-us
The China virus is the back door for more authoritarian control over you and your liberty. ‘Since February, the U.S. media has been pounding Americans with non-stop reporting about COVID-19 coronavirus.
Eight months later, the data shows everything the media said about the virus was false. Yet, those posing as “journalists” continue to repeat the lies from February and March as if they are facts rooted in their quest to “follow the science.”
Every one of the BIG THREE lies seems designed to promote panic and an irrational response to the actual threat.
Anyone who even suggests that maybe the governments of the world have been overreacting to a virus that kills at about the same rate as the flu has been immediately shot down as stupid and not worth listening to.
Slowly but surely, however, everything we “conspiracy theorists” said back in March about COVID has since been borne out as not a conspiracy theory at all. It was 100 percent true.
So let’s look at the three biggest lies that are still being used to spread fear of COVID-19, keeping in mind that the media used these same lies to castigate President Trump when he was released from the hospital Oct. 5 and implored Americans in a tweet “Don’t let COVID-19 dominate your life.”
This virus is “not like the flu,” we are scolded. It’s much scarier than the flu because:
1. COVID carries a very high, 3.4 percent, death rate [compared to a flu death rate of 0.10 percent].
This has now been debunked by none other than the United Nations World Health Organization, which the leftist globalists believe is the gold standard for information about COVID. The WHO came out with updated mortality rates this week showing that only 0.13 percent of those infected will die. That’s 26 times lower than WHO’s previously purported death rate of 3.4 percent. We already know that in the U.S. the average age of those who succumb to the virus is 78 and they have an average of 2.6 comorbidities. This 0.13 percent death rate is almost exactly the death rate for the common flu.
2. COVID is spread by asymptomatic ‘super spreaders‘
This scares people to death every time they hear it, because it suggests that every human being you come in contact with can potentially infect you. This is absolute hogwash. Asymptomatic carriers have a very low viral load in their system, making it virtually impossible to pass the virus on to another person. Even in the rare cases that they might be able to pass it on, it is highly unlikely if they don’t have symptoms, meaning they are not coughing, sneezing or wheezing.
3. COVID is untreatable.
Now that truly is scary! This lie provided the pretext for Bill Gates and Big Pharma to rush to market an unsafe and unproven vaccine, which could end up being mandated by various state governments and corporations. But this “no treatment” lie has been exposed over and over by the facts, most recently seen in the way President Trump was so effectively treated with a cocktail of supplements and drugs. Trump was treated with Rendesivir in combination with zinc, Vitamin D and melatonin. Another option available in some states is hydroxychloroquine.
These three lies were cleverly crafted to refute anyone who brings facts to the table to argue that the government has no business closing down churches, businesses or generally violating the civil liberties of any American.
The authorities say this coronavirus has killed 204,000 Americans but those numbers don’t reflect the fact that hospitals were directed by the CDC to be liberal in filling out death certificates. Some doctors were so liberal that they actually notched deaths from accidents, heart attacks and strokes as COVID related and therefore COVID caused. CDC estimates that only 6 percent of these 204,000 deaths have been caused by COVID alone.
While these are the three biggest lies, they are not the only lies the media has told and continues to tell. What about the risk to young people? A look at the data shows incontrovertible evidence that college-age students have virtually no risk of dying from COVID. The media knows this. That’s why they focus their hysteria on the number of “cases” on campuses, not the number of deaths.
According to a survey by the New York Times, published Sept. 25, at least 130,000 people on more than 1,600 campuses contracted COVID and 70 died, but “most” of those 70 deaths, the Times admits, were not students but rather college employees, who were likely much older. But even if we factor in those older employees, the rate of death on college campuses according to the Times’ own study is a paltry 0.054 percent. Stunning!
One would think that once these scurrilous lies were exposed, the media would be shouting from the housetops that the CDC, WHO, Drs. Fauci and Birks, Gates and the rest of the “experts” who they relied on for their information, and whose misinformation formed the basis for politicians to implement the economy-killing lockdowns, were completely wrong! Isn’t that what good, honest journalists do when they find out they’ve been played? Yes, they go back and correct the record.
But instead we see no corrections of their previous false reporting. No, they double down on the lies.
This is not news. This is the hallmark of a propaganda operation. Another name for it is information warfare.
If they corrected their false reports and began to prominently report the truth about COVID, this would put pressure on political leaders to end the destructive restrictions on human activity. Those leaders could then turn their focus to protecting the vulnerable, which are people over 65 with multiple serious pre-existing health issues.
But that would require an honest press – something that no longer exists in America. They will continue to repeat the same old lies, that COVID is a killer disease unlike any other faced by mankind; we must “not let our foot off the pedal” of containing it, people of all ages and conditions must stay masked up at all times, indoors or out, and we must stay separated and isolated from our loved ones.
The ‘Great Reset‘
Meanwhile, the real reason for locking people down, telling them they must stop traveling for non-essential trips, shuttering small businesses or bogging them down with irrational and arbitrary rules, goes unreported by the mainstream media. But it’s hiding in plain view for anyone with an ounce of curiosity.
The global power brokers at the United Nations, World Economic Forum, the British royal family, the International Monetary Fund and the Vatican have told us why COVID must be kept front and center in the human psyche for the foreseeable future: They’ve all identified it as the key to launching a “Great Reset“ of the global economic and social order.
They want to do away with the post-World War II free-market capitalist system and replace it with a global technocratic surveillance state likely to include a new digital currency and digital ID system. This new system will be much more authoritarian than what Americans would choose to live under if we remained in normal times, so the technocrats had to create a “new normal” that grips people in fear. People are known to defer to their leaders in times of crisis and panic. They can be convinced to go along with almost anything in such times, when fear brings its twin cousins of chaos and confusion.
The new age pope
Pope Francis and the Vatican are also fully on board with the new socio-economic world order being prepared for us – just read his latest encyclical issued on Oct. 3 entitled Fratelli Tutti [translated as Brothers All]. In it, he blames capitalism for the world’s most pressing problems, derides the concept of private property, holds up collectivism as superior to the rights of the individual, and seems to call for open borders and a termination of national sovereignty.
The pope cites COVID-19 as the triggering event that will usher in a new age of man-based utopian groupthink.
“The Covid-19 pandemic momentarily revived the sense that we are a global community, all in the same boat, where one person’s problems are the problems of all. Once more we realize that no one is saved alone; we can only be saved together.”
COVID was simply a prop, a triggering mechanism, for what global elites refer to as the Great Reset, the New Economy, the Green Economy and Sustainable Development. Whatever they call it, those with discernment will recognize this as the end-times beast system, global in nature, which will seek to dominate every human life on the planet.
The re-election of Donald Trump can forestall the world’s march into this new Dark Age, where freedom of movement, assembly, speech and religion are all tightly monitored and controlled. Joe Biden will welcome it, as this was the path his former boss Barack Obama had set us on. Obama signed the UN 2030 Agenda in September 2015 and the UN’s New Urban Agenda for global cities, as well as the Strong Cities Network, which is the UN’s effort to globalize city and county police forces. He also signed on to the UN’s Paris Climate accords.
Global government will materialize. It’s only a matter of when. The Bible says the end times will be marked by the rise of an anti-Christ system that bullies and bludgeons its way to power over all humanity. The United Nations arrogantly affirms the biblical prophecies with its admonition that “no person will be left behind” by its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
As Christians, we must prepare both physically and spiritually for persecution that will only grow more intense in the weeks, months and years ahead. We must resist ungodly government edicts that seek to silence our voice, shut down our religious practice and deprive us of our humanity.’https://leohohmann.com/2020/10/06/3-biggest-lies-about-covid-19-have-all-been-exposed-but-heres-why-globalist-powerbrokers-cant-let-it-die/
The Climate scammers thought they had a good idea when it came to solar panels; or at least one that would make them billions. Well, the real story is ‘Around the globe, millions upon millions of solar panels have reached their use by dates; they can’t be recycled, which means they’re destined for the local dump.
Each panel is a veritable toxic cocktail of gallium arsenide, tellurium, silver, crystalline silicon, lead, cadmium and other heavy metals. As the stuff leeches into the water table, it’s not difficult to imagine the effect on water supplies, the environment and human health.
And it’s not just filling up landfill with toxic sludge – in the mother of all ironies – while they’re above ground, solar panels are sending the mercury northward, adding 3-4°C to the average temperature of the environment in which they are situated.
Well, it all seemed like such a good idea, at the time.
Duggan Flanakin deals with that and a number of other matters which tend to take the shine off solar power.
Solar panels generate mountains of waste – They also heat the planet, blanket wildlife habitats and cause other ecological damage
Watts Up With That?
Duggan Flanakin
19 September 2020
The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, “when talking about renewable energy, the topic of waste does not often appear.” She attributes this to the supposed “pressures of climate change” and alleged “urgency to find alternative energy sources,” saying people may thus be hesitant to discuss “possible negative impacts of renewable energy.”
Ms. Folk admits that sustainability requires proper e-waste management. Yet she laments, “Solar presents a particular problem. There is growing evidence that broken panels release toxic pollutants … [and] increasing concern regarding what happens with these materials when they are no longer viable, especially since they are difficult to recycle.”
This is the likely reason that (except in Washington state), there are no U.S. mandates for solar recycling. A recent article in Grist reports that most used solar panels are shipped to developing countries that have little electricity and weak environmental protections, to be reused or landfilled.
The near-total absence of end-of-life procedures for solar panels is likely a byproduct of the belief (and repeated, unsupported assertion) that renewable energy is “clean” and “green.” Indeed, Mississippi Sierra Club state director Louie Miller recently claimed that unlike fossil fuels and nuclear energy, “Sunshine is a free fuel.” Well, sunshine is certainly free and clean. However, there is a monumental caveat.
Harnessing sunshine (and wind) to serve humanity is not free – or clean, green, renewable or sustainable.
The 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act mandates that new surface coal mines include plans and set aside funds for full reclamationof mine properties. The law also sets standards for restoring abandoned mine lands. There is nothing akin to this for solar facilities and wastes.
Similarly, the 1980 Superfund law (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act) created a tax and trust fund to pay for preventing and fixing actual or threatened releases of hazardous substancesthat could endanger public health or the environment. Again, still nothing for solar.
The 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act prioritizes deep geologic repositories for safe storage and/or disposal of radioactive waste. Unfortunately, 25 years after being designated as the disposal site, Nevada’s Yucca Mountain has never opened, because of conflicts among politicians, locals, anti-nuclear activists, government officials and the nuclear industry. The U.S. still stores its nuclear waste at 75 scattered sites, including some near New York City, New Orleans and Chicago. For solar no steps have been taken.
While coal, nuclear, and petrochemical companies must come up with detailed, costly plans for dealing with real or potential negative consequences of their operations, solar (and wind) companies have been rewarded with massive subsidies and absolutely no disposal standards or requirements.
No government grants require that solar companies set aside money to dispose of, store or recycle wastes generated during manufacturing or after massive solar “farms” have ceased functioning and been torn down. Solar (and wind) customers are likewise not charged for waste cleanup, disposal, or reuse and recycling. This and the massive subsidies distort and hide the true costs of solar power.
But reality is starting to catch up. Disposal (or recycling) costs will have to be paid, ultimately by consumers. The more solar panels we have (likely billions within a few years), the higher those costs will be. Consumers in states like California that have committed to heavy reliance on solar (and wind) energy (and already have the nation’s highest energy bills) will have to pay even more.
California is also facing a secondary problem from the proliferation of subsidized industrial solar installations. A 2015 study by Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science found that nearly a third of the state’s solar development is occurring on former cropland, where many farmers are shifting from growing crops to using their land to generate electricity – rather than letting it become wildlife habitat. As Big Solar also moves into natural areas, California is losing even more habitat and scenic land, while the integrity of state and national parks suffers from the nearby glare of countless solar panels and towering transmission lines to distant cities.
The Stanford study highlights another problem: localized higher temperatures. It found it will take an area the size of South Carolina filled with solar arrays to meet California’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. [It would take at least eight South Carolinas if the California mandate were extended nationwide.]
Other research has found that these large-scale solar power plants raise local temperatures, creating a significant solar heat island effect. Temperatures around one solar power plant were 5.4o-7.2 °F (3o-4°C) warmer than nearby wildlands. Imagine such manmade “global warming” across 20 million acres (South Carolina) or 160 million acres (Texas), to meet California or U.S. greenhouse gas reduction goals!
Australia is already coping with this unwelcome reality. Not until 2018 did Aussie environment ministers mandate fast-track development of new product stewardship schemes for photovoltaic (PV) solar panels, like those television and computer manufacturers and retailers have had to comply with since 2011.
Total Environment Centre director Jeff Angel admitted that setting standards for life-of-product management for solar panels was “long overdue,” and that the 30-year delay in imposing standards revealed a “fundamental weakness” in Australia’s waste policies. He further noted that while solar panels contain hazardous substances, Aussies are “sending hundreds of thousands of e-waste items to landfills” and creating significant pollution problems. And Australia has less than a tenth of the U.S. population!
Since 2002, the European Union’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive has required that original producers of e-wastes guarantee and pay for taking back and recycling their wastes, so that end-user consumers aren’t surprised by additional disposal costs.
However, PV solar panel waste was not included in this mandate until July 2012 – and “some uncertainty remains” about the cutoff date for such wastes, because the directive has yet to be implemented in national laws. Producer financing of PV waste treatment thus cannot be applied to older solar panels. So who will pay? And how much?
Ms. Folk and others look to waste-to-energy plants, and indeed the EU does send much of its solar panel waste to incinerators – which many environmentalists oppose. Landfilling is not a viable option in the U.S., because toxins could leach out. Unscrupulous companies ship solar panel waste to developing nations, but that is a stopgap solution that is environmentally irresponsible.
Tao Meng, lead author of a new study, says “the big blind spot in the U.S. for recycling is that the cost far exceeds the revenue” – by nearly 10-to-1, especially when including transportation costs. Chemicals must be used to remove silver and lead from silicon modules before they can be safely placed in landfills, Meng notes.
The problem of solar panel waste will continue to grow as more panels reach their end of life. Four years ago the International Renewable Energy Agency estimated there were already about 250,000 metric tons of solar panel waste worldwide – and that total will explode to 78 million metric tons by 2050!
So when you read that solar energy is already cheaper than natural gas, don’t be fooled. They are omitting the pollution and disposal costs, as well as habitat losses, solar heat islands, and the need for backup power generation or batteries – to lowball the true costs of intermittent, season, latitude and weather-dependent solar. We need some honest math now, before it’s too late to turn back.’https://stopthesethings.com/2020/10/10/lingering-legacy-millions-of-toxic-solar-panels-that-cant-be-recycled-destined-for-landfills/
Even if President Trump wins in November the problems with Antifa and other Communist leaning groups will definitely NOT be over. Right now as ‘…Portland, Oregon, was being gradually burned down and destroyed by Antifa riots, a pro-Antifa mayoral candidate is now leading the race.
A new poll shows incumbent Democratic Mayor of Portland Ted Wheeler with 30% support, while Sarah Iannarone – the pro-Antifa candidate – has 41% support. The poll was commissioned by the Portland Business Alliance and shows a lead that is well above the +/- 4% margin of error of the poll.
If the election were held today, Sarah Iannarone would win, suggesting that a significant portion of Portland not only supports the Antifa riots, but wants someone who aligns with the radical Marxist organization in charge of the city.
Some 16% of voters said that they intend to write in a candidate on election day, and some 13% of voters are undecided.
I think we can safely say there will be no Republican mayor of Portland any time soon.’https://republicaninformer.com/pro-antifa-mayoral-candidate-leading-in-portland/
What can President Trump do? Where will the USA be politically, economically, and socially in another 4 years? Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I remember when Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union and the then threat of the USSR to the freedoms of those in the ‘free’ world. Therefore, it is ‘interesting’ to see some of that same threat in China toward the West today. Sadly, communism is NOT dead and in my personal opinion many of those who claim to be conservatives are leaning further and further to the left which is socialism/communism. The following is from Communist Party of Australia web site. ‘October will bring the ACT election, pitting a 19-year-old Labor Government, led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr against the Canberra Liberal Party, led by Allistair Coe. The ACT is generally regarded as safe Labor Territory, and after 19 years in power, most criticisms of the Labor Party are limited to a sentiment that they have been in for too long. The opposition has little ground with Canberra voters, and the social views of the Canberra Liberals, among the most conservative in the country, are at odds with one of Australia’s most progressive populations. Coe himself is frequently perceived as lacking the charisma needed for politics, with even active voters struggling to recall his name.
Led by former Liberal politician Bill Stefaniak, the Belco Party, from the Belconnen region of Canberra, is seeking election in the electorate of Ginninderra. Running on a promise to “keep the bastards honest,” a slogan initially used by the Australian Democrats in the 1970s, the party seems to present very little actual policy. Upon further inspection, their links to the Liberal Party become apparent. Many Belco party candidates have ties to the Liberal Party, the most bizarre of which seems to be Belco candidate Vijay Dubey. A former schoolteacher, Dubey ran as an independent in the 2016 election, coming in at less than one per cent of the vote. Earlier this year, Dubey attempted to run as a Liberal, before his expulsion from the party. The Liberal Party stated that they had removed Dubey from the party for his failure to stick to party messaging. Dubey’s election signs are Liberal blue with a Belco Party sticker over the Liberal logo. In the ACT’s register of political donations, open to the public, it can be seen that a property development company made a donation of $2000 to the Belco Party. Most Belco Party candidates are of a business or Liberal background, showing them to be little more than a front for the Liberals.
The Belco Party is part of a growing trend of so-called “third-party” options that exist to provide charisma to the establishment Right. Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, which blanketed Australia in yellow over the 2019 federal election, did not win a single seat, despite spending over $80 million on advertising. Despite this massive waste of money, Clive Palmer did not fail in his objective. He never meant to win government, his intention was to smear the Labor Party with accusations of Chinese interference (despite doing big deals with Chinese companies himself) and secure Liberal re-election. A similar event occurred in the American Presidential election, billionaire Mike Bloomberg entering the race late (and soon dropping out) in response to the success of centre-left candidate Bernie Sanders. Frustration with the two-party political system is being co-opted by the capitalist establishment, with parties that promise vague ideas of change but will support all the neoliberal policies of the major parties.’https://www.cpa.org.au/guardian/2020/1935/05-belco.html
That’s how the communists see it.
The world since Genesis 4 has been against God and His Word and so it is with so-called mental health. ‘Ahead of World Mental Health Day, specialists at an Australian clinic are encouraging people to engage in a collective art therapy project creating a Bodhi Tree for mental wellbeing treatment.
COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions have left many people worrying about their mental health, noted Allied Health Manager and Clinical Psychologist, Deborah Shand. Shand from the Northside Group, with four clinics in Sydney, is promoting easy access to Art Therapy strategies for mental health wellbeing for World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10.
Top therapists at Campbelltown’s, Macarthur clinic, are inviting patients to contribute expressive messages written on leaves for the Bodhi Tree mural (also known as Sacred Fig Tree or People Tree), chosen for its symbology of growth and grounding.
The Art Therapy projected led by a health worker and professional artist Amanat Grewal is part of a broader initiative to offer self-help exercises for people displaying mental health disorders, which have been heightened by restrictions and COVID-19 outbreaks.
Grewal explained that the Bodhi tree Art Therapy project at the Campbelltown clinic is designed to allow space for individuals to express themselves at the clinic.
“The people (Peepal) tree is also called the Bodhi tree, and the natural shape of the leaves are heart-shaped so we thought it would be symbolic for people to talk about mental health in a very loving, very nurturing caring way,” Grewal told the Epoch Times. “We invited all the people associated with Northside or would like to participate in this display of understanding or talking about their life story, essentially putting that on a leaf.”’https://www.theepochtimes.com/bodhi-tree-art-leads-to-better-mental-health_3527432.html
For the Christian believer don’t go to the Bodhi Tree but go to Philippians 4:4-8 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
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