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The greens recipe as to how you should live your lives is very disturbing. Less Meat. Less travel and 50sq mtr of space for everyone
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/31/leading-green-intellectual-demands-deindustrialisation-rationing-and-the-end-of-the-banking-system-to-save-the-climate/
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Has Kamala gone too far?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/10/30/trans-issue-losing-kamala-election-republicans-say/
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I go to Austria a lot and have commented on this topic before.
In effect the Viennese population under 16 is predominantly Muslim. That will work its way through the system with a huge influx of migrants. The right wing parties are being denied power even though they won recent elections.
https://rmx.news/article/we-have-to-take-a-stand-school-leader-in-vienna-warns-of-rising-islamization/
Vienna and the other major cities are very liberal and have by far the highest proportion of mus*ims compared to rural areas
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Looks like we need another battle of Vienna –
The defeat of the Ottoman army outside the gates of Vienna in 1683 is usually regarded as the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
In the summer of 1683, the main army of the Ottoman Empire, a large and well-equipped force, besieged Vienna. The town was nearing the end of its ability to resist: but just as the capture of Vienna was becoming only a matter of time – not more than a week away, at most – an army came to its rescue. On September 12th, in an open battle before Vienna, the Ottoman army was defeated, and the city escaped pillage and destruction. There is probably no book on the general history of Europe that does not record these events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna
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Yes, it was a very famous and decisive battle. However I doubt it is much taught these days. We forget our history at our peril.
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The most important question now is why the production of ozone in the upper stratosphere in the tropics is declining, as evidenced by the temperature drop on about 5 hPa at an altitude of 35 km. At this level, the temperature can only rise as a result of photolysis of O2 into oxygen atoms by UV radiation shorter than 242 nm. We don’t realize what kind of disruption this can cause to the circulation of the stratospheric polar vortex.
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_ANOM_ALL_EQ_2024.png
https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_ANOM_ALL_NH_2024.png
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