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You're under illusion that the American public is even aware of the Biden crimes. They're not, at all, and the MSM is working mightily to keep it that way. Remember, the CCP wants Biden to win, obviously. There are so many butchers with their thumbs on the scales that 2 pounds of ground beef now weighs 40 pounds, so far! Between the MSM not reporting, Google hiding search results, Facebook and Twitter deleting posts immediately, and YouTube (part of Google) deleting videos, how exactly are the public going to get their information? The US meritocracy is over, let the kleptocracy begin. To the idiots who voted against Trump, I say you will reap what you sow. All part of the globalist cabal plan unfortunately. Don't worry, they'll be after China soon enough. The problem with pyramidal societies is, replace the peak and everything below stays the same. Xi and Putin are on top of their pyramids, but once they're gone who steps in?

what sources are these? Not that I don't think he's a guilty as hell It is shocking that such as self serving pr*ck is likely to be the next POTUS, unbelievable, he should be in jail!

My insider sources tell me the allegations of Biden's 'efforts' respecting Ukraine and China are true and his efforts did occur. This means Biden used his position as VPofUSA to enrich his family. Prior to this, I believed such power play was corruption play and would be grounds for prosecution per USA laws. But seems today such corruption is considered acceptable by the dumbed-down drugged-up 'murcan sheeple. Seems Biden is leading in the polls. Shocking. When the population knows a politician is corrupt and yet continues to support and vote for him/her/it, the end of the country is nigh.

Meaning that they repudiate the contracts. "only a drunkard could have signed this contract" not pay anything. Cease control of the completed projects and throw out Chinese nationals and the diplomatic corps out of the country if China resists. But resolutions would be negotiated in most cases with Chinese control being the one thing that goes. The West and the World Bank had been there for 50 years before China started in development banking. They are clueless. It is all just a colossal waste and graft. Xi still needs people following his orders and support of the power structure. Xi is not a "peoples representative" he was the leader straddling the old guard and reformers that the old guard set up in power as soon as Deng died and they came out of the woodwork to reclaim their power. He is an "engineer" by training and was not an actual farmer. What China teaches us is what not to do. Together with leaders across the world that he bought, Xi is busy killing off high ranking billionaire party elite and splitting the proceeds between the foreign leaders, himself and the Western bankers who facilitate it. The Biden documents were out for 3 years with copies circulating and FBI leaking content from its investigation.Qanon was being fed info and the Chinese leaders eventually confirmed that Xi is killing them methodically for their money and to get them out of the way. They are spilling the beans about foreign leader's deals documented as part of their blackmail files collected for each "asset" Xi is in deep trouble with his own core CCP aparat. He might not survive much longer. Biden is a crook with no skills other than glad handing. Definitely no statesman and has really nothing to show for his time in office but for circumventing the state dept. and using his position to do foreign deals for himself and sell out foreign policy in return (that was Clinton's role and she quit because he was taking "her" money. He was chosen as the guy to stop the Dem leadership from being prosecuted because he had skin in the game as he was in it to his neck. He promised the enviro-Marxist wing of the party to take on the Bernie Sanders platform and they all dropped out of the race to install him in place.

You are a contrary person, you keep disparaging others and then get offended when others disagree with you. VW says the ID3 their first ground up electric car is 40% cheaper to build than the E-Golf, do you think they won't make further progress. Tesla is reducing prices but increasing gross margin on its cars. Battery cost are falling 18% per year and as charging stations proliferate, range becomes less and less a consideration.so after a peak typical battery sizes will start to fall. For most people the equation will be why spend $8-10,000 and cart around 150kg of batteries to save 10 minutes on a long trip four or five times a year. Just because you can't see the future, it doesn't mean others can't either. I suppose you were one of the people that said Apple could never challenge Nokia or that Netflix was not a threat to Blockbuster. Even since Sun cable was announced, available panel power has jumped from 420 W to 800 W reducing BOS costs. Don't you think the people building the various North Sea interconnector cables have learnt anything about making cables cheaper and with the falling price of batteries it is possible by putting a battery at either end of the cable to reduce the cable size and still meet demand at the other end so how do you, me or anyone know enough to call the proposal ridiculous I also doubt the feasibility of Sun Cable and the Pilbarra hydrogen hub. However people who are far more successful at building new businesses and knowledgeable than you or I think it is worth sinking many millions into preliminary studies. So just maybe they see a possibility that you don't. If they are wrong they have dropped 1-2% of their net worth. If they are right they may double their wealth and reduce energy costs and emissions for many parts of Asia. If you want more respect start out by showing a bit yourself .

Don't give up on Trump yet. There are still polls that predicts that Trump will win the election. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1329181/us-election-2020-donald-trump-joe-biden/amp Moreover, there is something called the Yiwu Index, which measures the demand for a presidential candidate’s merchandise i.e. hats, banners, mugs and anything else that can carry a logo. Demand for a presidential candidate’s merchandise, goes the theory, translates into voting patterns in the election. Trump’s campaign paraphernalia has been selling briskly at shops in the vast wholesale market in the Chinese city of Yiwu. By contrast, shop owners said during recent visits, bulk orders for materials supporting Biden have been almost nonexistent. Right now, according to the Yiwu index, Trump leads Biden substantially. Followers of the Yiwu Index believe it is reliable and they have history on their side. In 2016, the index consistently predicted a Trump victory. In the final weeks of the campaign, demand for Hillary Clinton hats and other souvenirs weakened considerably. They started off even, but then they stopped selling, and later, Trump sold more than Clinton. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/business/trump-china-election.html

There is no need for the silly abuse. Please observe Parliamentary rules in this debate. I regret that despite your jibes you didn't read the post. The proposal doesn't say anything about using Port Hedland - I merely mentioned it was between Port Hedland and Broome. Instead the developers seem to want to use Eighty Mile Creek where there is nothing but a caravan park. Port Hedland would make more sense, but we're talking about major distances. So they'd have to build the green projects, with some means of converting the hydrogen/ammonia then ship it to Broome, somehow, and you seriously expect it to compete economically with Natural Gas? The 3 per cent figure has already been discussed by others - in fact its the figure often quoted - but I take your point about the conversion. However, you still have the problem of shipping H2 in quantities - the developers themselves say it can't be done in volume commercially (note commercially) as of yet. Take your objections up with them. I might point out that your reaction to this absurd proposal highlights the extreme difficultly of having sensible debates, when even the most ridiculous project is defended bitterly and abusively by people who are willfully blind to economic realities. Leave it with you.

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So the recent rise in cases in the Dakotas is just a mirage. In the last seven days South Dakota has had 7,000 cases a far higher rate of infection per million people than even New York at its worst. In the same time Australia with 28 times the population has had less than 100 cases "Mass testing" you do jest 365,000 people attended and mass testing of 650 people yielded 26 positive results. i.e. an expected total of infections in the order of 14,000 cases across the attendees, not to mention the people they infected after returning home. With an R number of 2 and a propagation time of a week that could well be 220,000 in 5-6 weeks. Unfortunately it is amateur analysis like yours has resulted in the US being the basket case it is

In short, it is not big secret that most projects BRI is China monopoly, kind of exporting corruption. Where else can a gov borrows money from a country who can bribe you back the money without worrying that some independent observer will expose you later? Japan ODA company can bribe as well, but later on that company may be exposed and it is a slap in the borrowing country gov. In most cases, cost will increases later and the new gov will be bribed again to continue the project. If new gov cannot be bribed, their only other choice is the deal is off, pay for what you borrow up so far with your country's resources or tax for non completed projects (and off course no revenue from it that), given that most of the money paying for the labors & equipment of Chinese companies already. So China loses very little to cancel the debt to trade for that country vote in international organizations. In many cases the projected revenue were bloated in the first place to persuade the public, with very promising future for the people, everyone will benefit from the project. Your arguments so far are based on the assumption that borrowing governments truly think for their countries benefits, not corruptible, they are not stupid to have bad deals with China while everything is up front, the cost and the timeline won't be extendable and the consequences are just bad luck and that government will have to pay fair and square. In reality the borrowing governments don't care as they are long gone by then, with the "commission" and the future governments will pay with their people's tax or country' s resources, not the ex government members that approved the deal and who would pay for that with their pocket money. The ones who made decision hold no responsibility in paying back the debt. I don't argue with you in the perfect world, both yours and mines are common senses.

Aaahh, it's been too long! @Tom Kirkman would be pleased to see that meme. And I like it too. As he said, sometimes a meme can just get an example across so much better than mere words. Cheers!

Be careful my friend, words like those can get you in trouble back home. 😎 Some of your posts are so insightful, while others are so banal that I've long suspected two different people are using the same frankfurter account. I've mentioned that before I believe, but I digress. The US President has historically been under a cabal of elites. That was supposed to continue in 2016 with the coronation of HILLARY as first female president blah blah blah. Two things got in the way of that script. Her odious personality and Trump's basic charm. While that charm is lost on the mouth breathing partisan class, it actually plays quite well with the people in this country not named Elite. Americans are getting sick and tired of elites who went to Harvard and Yale (racist schools both BTW), lecturing us about how to live, all while lining their own pockets. All their social engineering backfires and the people get left picking up the pieces. Normal Cabal practice is to get dirt on their candidates and use that as blackmail to force them to toe the line they're given. That blackmail works against both parties, even better against republicans since they actually stand for things unlike democrats where anything goes. This is why Democrat congressman Studds got a standing ovation from the Demoncrats in Congress when he was caught having an affair with his page who was 18 by a matter of weeks. The Republican congressman whose name escapes me right now was not so fortunate while his affair was that much more salubrious given that his page was weeks short of his 18th birthday. Even if the page had been 18, there's no chance in hell the republicans would give him a standing ovation. Clearly this proves republicans are more vulnerable to blackmail. They've thrown everything and the kitchen sink at Trump and he just shakes it off. He's clearly not under their thumb and they clearly don't like it. About half of America is slowly waking up to the rampant corruption now that they're seeing it playing out live in front of them. It's obvious to the intelligent what is happening. The low IQ people like Enthalpic will never understand, they're waiting to receive their next intelligent thought from the elites and parrot it as if it were self generated. The very definition of NPC.

Its these situations where I do think PHEV's have their place.

I like the idea of much smaller nuclear plants. Are there not a handful being built around the world? We’ll get bundles of stats in a few years along with the needed scrutiny. As a greenie with faith in the modern brain and the human history of incremental improvements it seems like modular nuke plants are poised for a resurgence. Unlike fracking nat gas, oil and coal let’s hope greener minded billionaires like Gates will do it openly, honestly with transparency. It’s just a shame Republicans are so tied to the many examples of human misery due to political blocking of common sense regulation. The pages of history will be forever stained by their greed.

I suppose that is why Japan already has nearly 60 GW of solar and Mitsubishi has just started a Japanese joint venture with Vestas and Macquarie bank has also set up a venture to build offshore wind. You can't be as ignorant as you pretend to be so I suppose you just say the stuff you do to stir up rational people for laughs.

The computer repair shop owner brought Hunters laptop to the FBI in October 2019. THE FBI REFUSED TO ACCEPT IT. THEY TOLD THE SHOP OWNER TO GO AWAY. The shop owner persisted. So the FBI subpoenaed the shop owner for the laptop. He previously offered the FBI the laptop. They did this to make it look like they always wanted it or to deep 6 it . THE FBI HAD THE LAPTOP THE WHOLE TIME DURING THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT AND SAID NOTHING. Attorney General Barr and Special U.S. Prosecutor must have know about its existence. Why the silence ? ? ? ? ? Barr and Durham failed the people. Luckily the shop owner had made a copy of the drive or we would have never seen the BIDEN FAMILY GRIFTERS exposed.

Hunter Update : The computer repair shop owner brought Hunters laptop to the FBI in October 2019. THE FBI REFUSED TO ACCEPT IT. THEY TOLD THE SHOP OWNER TO GO AWAY. The shop owner persisted. So the FBI subpoenaedshop the shop owner for the laptop to make it look like they always wanted it. THE FBI HAD THE LAPTOP THE WHOLE TIME DURING THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT AND SAID NOTHING. Looks like the FBI just wanted to Deep 6 the evidence. Attorney General Barr and U.S. prosecutor Dirham must have know about Hunters laptop. The FBI couldn't hide the info from them . Barr and Durham failed miserably. This is exactly like Comey's excuse for not prosecuting Hillary. "Mistakes were made but does not rise to the standard of prosecution". Luckily the shop owner had made a copy of the hard drive or we would have never seen the BIDEN FAMILY GRIFTERS exposed.

The average wind speeds on the west side are around 7 m/s average at 150 metres. Its by no means exceptional but thats good enough for offshore especially as cost per MW falls. https://globalwindatlas.info/

There is plenty of wind on the west side and it is clearly visible in the wind map. Floating wind costs are going to be less than fixed.

The Japanese trench is only on the eastern side and floating turbines don't care about earthquakes.

Wrong again. Japan has terrific off shore wind and that is what is relevant..

New record, over 100,000 new cases in a single day.

The visitors to Sturgis picked up a few hundred or thousand infections which take from a few days to some weeks to become infectious. Those people in turn infected 1-20 others each over the next 3-4 weeks. Those people in their turn have caused the current spike in infections

Xi has the strong support of China citizens. Xi has done more to eliminate corruption than any other leader except Mao, and continues this. Xi may become an era. So far during this era, China has had stability, peace, prosperity, strength. Were it not for the US, China's prosperity could benefit the entire world. I rather doubt the China people would accept the forced ouster of Xi, barring clear and proven wrong doing to the future of the nation.

thanks for the history lesson! an excellent summary.

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You think he's tough, try dealing with the hard-core Leftists in Vermont!

Wombat - do you believe everything you're told or do you occasionally screen stuff out? Sure the project developers have managed to doctor up a case for the line but look at the distances involved. An $11 billion cable to pump renewables? And that figure does not cover the setting up the solar farms. What they should do is set up these panels and try selling power to Darwin first and maybe later build a line. But they would need a Price Purchasing Agreement from someone in Singapore first. As it is reports say the buyers have "expressed interest" which could mean almost anything. Sure they might buy cheap power if some lunatic Australians want to build the line. There is no indication any investor other than Mike Cannon-Brookes will go near this ridiculous proposal, apart from developer assurances, and developers will say anything. Here are a few words from an article in the Australian Financial Review. I regret I cannot link the article as its behind a pay wall. By "some" analysts the journalist means all (I used that phrase myself) .. Note "potential customer" .. that means no commitment, so no line.. Singapore's largest independent electricity retailer iSwitch has emerged as the first potential customer for a $20 billion-plus solar power export venture backed by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes. But some analysts were sceptical the plan was viable despite the deep pockets of the Atlassian co-founder, because of the vast distances power must be pumped to make it work. I might point out, as I have with pfarley that your reaction to this absurd proposal highlights the extreme difficultly of having sensible debates in this area. You insist on defending what is obviously nonsense, simply because it involves green power. Leave it with you.

Then, unsurprisingly, Biden would win. Recent IPSOS poll: Here is how this compares to the 2016 figures. Eyeballing, it looks like foreign perceptions of Trump have actually improved over the past four years, if from a low base. This goes against media rhetoric. *** Although the RussiaGaters will doubtless focus on Russia’s figures, the reality is that Trump has been much better for Israel, and to a lesser extent Turkey and “New Europe”, than he has been for Russia. This is also something that is clearly reflected in the polls. While Russians do not appear any more enthusiastic about Trump now than in 2016 – 27% Trump vs. 13% for Biden now, as opposed to 28% Trump vs. 12% HRC in 2016 – and why should they be otherwise? this is not the case for those countries. Turkish support for Trump has soared from just 13% in 2016 (vs. 57% for HRC) to 27% now, with Biden only narrowly beating Trump out. This is despite S-400 related spats and Trump’s comments on Islam. Poland’s support has increased from 17% in 2016 (vs. 46% for HRC) to 27% now, with Trump level pegging with Biden. Ironically, the US election, if held in Poland, might well be as close as it would be in the US itself. Unfortunately, Israel is not in this particular poll. However, there is data from other polls on the Internet. In October 2016, for instance, 42% of Israelis preferred HRC to just 24% who prefered Trump. But in the wake of everything that Trump has done for Israel, some 63% of Israelis now support Trump vs. just 19% who would opt for Biden. That latter figure happens to be about equal to the population of Israeli Muslims. By nefariously electing Trump into power, who has done more for Israel than any other US President and enjoys correspondingly sky-high support from Israelis – a sea change from the state of affairs four years ago

Well, we once had a vice president named Aaron Burr. He became jealous of the architect of American life: Alexander Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton, amongst many other things, established a banking system and the Federal Reserve. He suggested that the Federalist Papers be written to pave the way for the Constitution. He even started what is today the oldest newspaper in the U.S., the New York Post. He was the first Secretary of the Treasury. He created the ideas behind the United States. Vice President Aaron Burr became so obsessed with Alexander Hamilton that he challenged him to a duel. Mr. Hamilton thought it all for show and "pulled" his shot. Our vice president shot Mr. Hamilton through the chest, resulting in a slow and painful death. This paved the way for the creation of one of the greatest and longest-running plays on Broadway, with characters using that old stage trick called blackface. After that ignominious start, we quickly learned not to expect much from our vice presidents. One could certainly have asked your (very germane) question shortly after Vice President Burr killed Alexander Hamilton and international opinion would probably have been that we were doomed as a nation. It was a fairly bad time: Mr. Burr executed his duties as the Head of the Senate at the same time that he was wanted in the state of New York for murder. Vice President Burr wouldn't be our worst VP. That would be Andrew Johnson (under Abe Lincoln) who was a closet racist and stymied the process called Reconstruction. And then there was Spiro Agnew, who was corrupt as hell and would have gone to jail had it not been for his role as VP. Under President Woodrow Wilson, we had a guy named Marshall (I can't recall his first name) who was so awful that when President Wilson had his stroke the doctors and staff kept it from Mr. Marshall because they feared for the country. But on the flip side, we had Vice President Harry Truman, who was a failed haberdasher and was thought to be such a buffoon that FDR didn't even let him in on existence of the Manhattan Project. When FDR had his stroke, General Groves had no recourse but to brief President Truman about this new bomb they'd been working on up in the mountains of New Mexico. That VP did pretty well for himself, and also for the country--but even he had a flaw: Oppenheimer built the bomb but was a registered Communist, so Truman castigated him after he was finished with him. Does this answer your question?

Sorry, cannot reveal. I mention only to say I have asked around myself and, from what I am told, I have enough to believe the stories about Biden Sr and Jr are true. Whether you accept my position or not, is not the important point. So, this is one time when the MSM is not entirely lying; which is rather amazing in itself. Hopefully, the American sheeple will be informed of the truth by their own people, not needing the words of foreigners; and hopefully the sheeple will act. The MAIN POINT is the info at hand proves Biden is corrupt as hell to use his position of trust for his personal gain, and the sheeple accept this standard for their next POTUS. Shocking, truly shocking. How long can any such nation last?

Have a look at the results of the following search: https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+reverse+engineered+jet+engine&pws=0&gl=us&gws_rd=cr Jet engines are very complex machines, and I am aware of the Chinese working on western engines, acquired legally, to reverse engineer them. Engines just disappear from tracking for years. That started happening like 30 years ago and continues. I can't say more, but it is my experience. As far as the spies that seem to keep getting caught in the U.S., the FBI and other departments seem to be fully awake as to the attempts that are ongoing. I hate to say it, but if I were a Chinese in the U.S. for all the right reasons (not under cover for the CCP or others) I would keep scrupulous records of my time and my computer access at work and even at home. I would keep a diary. Because Big Brother (U.S. Idiom) is watching and you could get swept up in the net. Better to have everything possible recorded and detailed in writing if they come knocking on your door.

Discount it as you wish. Without it last year we were at 30% renewables.

The ban on diesel trucks is set for 2045. It will be phased in: But just 10 years from now, half of all new trucks and vans sold in California in classes 4 through 8—which includes everything from the package delivery van to the biggest garbage trucks—will have to be ZEVs. And by 2035, CARB says that 55 percent of all class 2b-3 trucks, 75 percent of all class 4 through 6 trucks and vans, and 40 percent of all class 7 and 8 trucks and tractors sold in the state have to be ZEVs.

The one thing I will object to here is your characterization of CA smog. 1,2,4,6 and 8 are not in the LA Basin: Most-polluted metro areas by average year-round concentration of PM2.5 Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA Bakersfield, CA Fairbanks, AK Visalia, CA Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV El Centro, CA Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Medford-Grants Pass, OR And by ozone 2,3,4,5,6,8 are not in the LA Basin Most-polluted cities by ozone pollution Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA Visalia, CA Bakersfield, CA Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA Sacramento-Roseville, CA San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Phoenix-Mesa, AZ San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Houston-The Woodlands, TX New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA

Apple (through Foxconn) is happy to pay the tariff rather than pay income tax for phone made in USA. You need a very ridiculous tariff (which will affect other imports) to all of countries have their factories to make them move back to USA unless you lower Apple USA income tax which will apply for other corporates as well. Foxconn is Taiwanese company not China. So if they open factories in other countries, it will only affect China employment and tax on these employment while Apple can save more on tariff while still can legally dodge US income tax. People love to buy things made in their countries is why they open in India, not only because of the tariff. If Trump loses the election, the Foxconn in Wisconsin "made in USA" will make Apple lose big for income tax because of Biden raises more tax on corporations. They predicted Trump will win the reelection but now because of Covid19 and mail in Voting they took excuse to delay because situation is harder to predict and they don't want to pay tax especially for the coming recession time. That why raises corporates taxes promise is a scam which won't affect corporations much. Too many way for them to avoid it or to pass them to consumers (which may reduce consumption in US market or people will just absorb it if it is a necessity for them).

There is a lot of "climate change", "green new deal" posts, permeating oil price.com You really can't escape the propaganda. It's a full court press especially in the MSM. They are trying to shove it down our throats. Meanwhile all the fires don't have any impact whatsoever. Its just those darn internal combustion engines that are doing all the damage. CA is a perfect example of the result of trying to implement elimination of fossil fuels and LOOKIE HERE, the UK is expecting brownouts because the wind has taken a vacation. Rest my case. If the weak minds of america fall prey to the propaganda, we're all going to have to find ways to become SELF -SUFFICIENT in energy because it won't be there when you really need it. What's happening in CA is going to spread to other demonrat controlled states, except perhaps Washington state because of their abundance of hydroelectric.

Actually, these business closures are not due to Federal mandates. However, Dr. Fauci (Bill Gates and he communicate weekly), the FDA and the CDC have played a major role in issuing guidelines. And that is only what they are: Guidelines. Nothing more than suggestions. These Federal Agencies, however, deliberately prevented important information from reaching the public. The have also placed sudden arbitrary rules against available treatments for respiratory infections. These rules have never been in place before Covid, but suddenly were implemented likely causing many people to die. Each state has had the autonomy of issuing their own mandates for masks, social distancing, business closures and school reopenings. This is the primary source of business and employment hardship. The state mandates.are the reasons that companies are going out of business. They are the reason that unemployment exists. South Dakota was one of the states with the least amount of restrictions. Their economy is back on track for the most part. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are only just beginning to see some major devastation across America because Authoritarians think that they "know best" and like to dictate how people should live and interact. Most of the Blue states are having the worst economic fall-out as opposed to the Red states. Not that I am for either party.