JoNova
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How long is a rubber band?
I have been thinking about our difference where I declared that science justifies itself and somebody else thought it better remaining hidden.
My assumption is that if it is science it will eventually be discovered anyway, and when that happens it will be better to be on the leading end of the job than the receiving end.
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https://www.bouncerubberbands.com/news/the-ultimate-guide-to-rubber-band-sizes (sorry, couldn’t help myself)
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Very good article from a UK visitor perspective of the similarities of the OZ YES23 campaign and Brexit.
It seems that respective governments and powerful groups were reluctant to accept the NO vote in either case. Due to time, Brexit has largely moved on but YES 23 seems to be gaining momentum and groups look like getting their way despite the peoples vote
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/resetting-the-great-reset-down-under/
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The nonsense of holding COP29 in Baku are shown every day. Most western countries should surely not be there if Human rights and climate change and Russian oil and gas sanctions are actually meaningful stances. However all is not what it appears, there is quite a background.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/cop29-reveals-itself-as-the-great-fraud-it-always-was/
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Looks like Northvolt the Giant Swedish electric vehicle battery maker has gone bust.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/green-darling-northvolt-with-e5-62-billion-in-debt-seeks-bankruptcy-protection-as-ceo-quits/
Nothing to do with trying to make non sustainable electric batteries using sustainable green energy-hydropwer-of course.
In the meantime EV’s and their Chinese made batteries using coerced labour and coal power, threaten to undermine Traditional European car makers
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While PNG were staying home from COP, they were opening their first MG electric car dealership: https://www.postcourier.com.pg/niugini-automobiles-first-electric-car-dealer-in-png/
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DFAT used the cover of the pandemic to draft a new ‘Kokoda Track Management Authority Act‘ which disenfranchises customary landowners from membership of a new Board; extends the gazetted boundaries of the Kokoda Trail to include Sirinumu Dam on the south coast, a large chunk of the Owen Stanley Ranges in the centre and the beach-head areas on the north coast. It will ensure that PNGs most popular tourism destination, i.e., the Kokoda Trail, is managed as an environmental resource for the benefit of aid-funded officials and consultants in the areas of anthropology, archeology and other forms of social-engineering rather than as a tourism resource on a commercial basis for the benefit of landowner communities across the Trail. https://blog.kokodatreks.com/2024/05/13/the-kokoda-trail-chronology-of-mismanagement-2009-2019/
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