[ShafaqNews] On May 14, Turks will be going to the polls in one of the more consequential elections of this year. The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... is a critical country, and the competing alliances and leaders promise distinct solutions and approaches to awaiting challenges.
This is the first in a series of articles analyzing the consequences of the different electoral outcomes. I start with a possible defeat of the incumbent president, His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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Canada has gotten very scary over the last decade.
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The second point he makes is the most important. The baby is not the woman's body. It is someone else's (the baby's) body.
I have been a baby inside my mother's womb, but I was never her, and she was never me.
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Abortion fanatics are not worried about the mother's life (regardless of what they say.) They are in paroxysms of evil ecstasy over the child's death, however.
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From the headline I expected a Kardashian in there somewhere.
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[Hot Air] Yesterday’s presser by James Comer and House Oversight raised a lot of questions about the Biden family’s business affairs — and especially what exactly they were peddling for $10 million or more. No one yet can explain what legitimate products or services got exchanged for that cash, nor has anyone offered any explanation for why legitimate compensation would have to get run through the labyrinth of LLCs and the Biden Inc pattern of structured payments.
Of course, some people just don’t want to know — especially our Protection Racket Media:
The questions aren’t just about what the Bidens were selling, but who was doing the buying. Nat-sec analyst John Schindler took a close look at the client list for the Biden family enterprise and saw some very familiar names. In fact, as John points out, those names were also familiar to the FBI before the Bidens started raking in cash from their enterprises. And that leads to a very important question:
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The Memory Hole is moving toward us. Replacement people are arriving daily. They won't remember a previous American era, or care. Why is this happening? Here, the Ukraine, Africa? A pattern ?
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"What a terrible thing it is, to live so long as to see your nation in ruin.".
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My company sells internationally, so all salaried personnel have to complete additional HR online ethics modules on bribery and money laundering. The courses are as irrelevant to my job role as they are mandatory. Everything that the Bidens were/are doing is covered in the modules.
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#! you are correct, N.America and really S. America have the best land, no human destruction from 1/2 million years of habitation like EuAsia, Africa seems to have lessened that impact...
[IsraelTimes] Analysts suggest Damascus’s former allies have recognized that 12 years of shutting Assad out had little practical effect on conflict.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... ’s decision to re-admit Syria after shunning it for 12 years was a significant symbolic victory for Damascus, part of a larger regional realignment and an indication of the United States’ waning role, analysts say.
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[Jpost] Sapir Livnat Green disguised herself as a terrorist in order to end her own life one year after losing her best friend, Tikva Saban to suicide.
[The Week] Norway is more than a decade ahead of the U.S. in its adoption of electric vehicles. If the Biden administration's goal of having 50 percent of new vehicles be electric by 2030 sounds ambitious, Norway passed that mark in 2019, The New York Times reports. In 2022, 80 percent of Norway's new car sales were electric, and it plans to phase out gas-powered cars entirely in 2025. So far, "Norway's experience suggests that electric vehicles bring benefits without the dire consequences predicted by some critics," the Times reports.
Oslo's air is noticeably cleaner — and much quieter — and its greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 30 percent since 2009 with no big uptick in unemployment at gas stations or auto mechanics, or significant strain on the electrical grid. Norway has put a lot of work into making the transition, starting with enacting policies to promote electric vehicles in the 1990s and, more recently, subsidizing the rollout of fast-charge stations throughout the country.
The combination of tax breaks for EV owners and readily available charging stations "took away all the friction factors," Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan told the Times. But the U.S. and other countries can learn from Norway's challenges with electric cars, not just its successes. That includes figuring out the optimal number and locations for charging stations, and dealing with the frustrations of new EV drivers learning to plug in their cars. "Sometimes we have to give them a coffee to calm down," Marit Bergsland, who works at a Circle K north of Oslo with more charging stations than gas pumps, tells the Times.
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Norway is about 3% of the size of the US. Cars and trucks do not have to travel anyway near what they do in the US.
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Norway has put a lot of work into making the transition, starting with enacting policies to promote electric vehicles in the 1990s and, more recently, subsidizing the rollout of fast-charge stations throughout the country.
So a 30 years project, in a city in Norway, and people are still so upset you give them...coffee?...to settle down while their car charges.
This is a bullshit article, an advertisement, 'cus Brandon is gonna get it done trans-USA is less than 10 years.
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It does not matter. The total carbon of those electric cars are destroying this planet. They are a rolling hazmat site, the materials used for this car are transported at least twice across the ocean by the single most polluting vehicles in the world. Look at the carbon emitted by the freight ships. The actual pollution caused by the manufacturing of these cars outpaces the total lifecycle of a standard automobile. All this act does is generate a false sense of worth and doing more harm than good, sort of like being a party member in the late 30's.
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Does that include snowmobiles?
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Norway's electricity is 99 % hydroelectric. About 1% fossil fuel
The USA is Oil based 60 +/-% 31.5% Hydro-electric
While here in the USA we have ECO Freaks tearing down our clean running Hydro-Electric Dams, to a save a fish or something that has not swam that river in 100 years.
We are losing GWatts ofr hydroelectric power every year in the USA .
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with Norway out doing us in Hydroelectric power, it has far few cars per citizen that the
Norway @ 635 per 1,000 people or 3,416,216 vehicles vs. USA @ 831 per 1,000 people or 275,913,237 vehicles
IN SHORT
The DC powered Eco-Freaks need to decide where the Electricity is coming from and start building NOW:
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^^^ Excellent cartoon! Hits the problem right on the nose!
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I note from checking stats that the snowplows and buses are still diesel. They gotta work.
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NN
in 2022, hydroelectric generation was up by about 4% from 2021.
it is true that no new big plants are coming on line and also true that small plants are being decommissioned
but the total amount is fairly stable and determined largely by the amount of precipitation in the basins served by the largest dams, e.g., Grand Coolie, John Day. Most of the biggest electric producers are in the NW of the US.
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I have no links but here in the Northeast there was a proposal to bring in electricity here from Hydro Quebec (or some such - sue me 'cuz I'm a few beers in on an empty stomach right now) and it got shot down by the usual suspects.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[The Week] Norway is more than a decade ahead of the U.S. in its adoption of electric vehicles. If the Biden administration's goal of having 50 percent of new vehicles be electric by 2030 sounds ambitious, Norway passed that mark in 2019, The New York Times reports. In 2022, 80 percent of Norway's new car sales were electric, and it plans to phase out gas-powered cars entirely in 2025. So far, "Norway's experience suggests that electric vehicles bring benefits without the dire consequences predicted by some critics," the Times reports. 
