Camille Paglia on Transgenderism as a symptom of the death of a civilization
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
(Richard: Solar energy is causing trouble in the deserts now, evaporating the ground water and not generating enough power. Now the want to block sunlight and lower the amount of power generated.)
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Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back.
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Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way
Utility-scale solar farms spreading rapidly across the desert Southwest are stressing the region’s already overtaxed groundwater and communities are beginning to push back.
Wyatt Myskow
By Wyatt Myskow
June 26, 2023
Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould
Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould
DESERT CENTER, Calif.—Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar development in North America in the heart of California’s Colorado Desert. But the area’s success in meeting the state and the nation’s renewable energy goals is running up against the Southwest’s biggest climate challenge: Having enough water.
Local wells in the area have gone dry since the construction of multiple utility-scale solar projects near Desert Center—threatening the only water source for hundreds of people and a handful of local businesses. Solar farms typically don’t use much water when operating, but during construction, the law requires developers to mitigate dust—which can spread health problems like Valley Fever. That requires water.
The projects are being built on public land overseen by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. The federal agency knew the construction of the solar projects could impact local wells and may even be over-drafting the aquifer beneath them, according to former BLM staff,
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More gloomy news from Biden! White House says it’s open to plan that would BLOCK sunlight from hitting surface of the Earth in bid to limit global warming
The White House has opened the door to an audacious plan to block sunlight from hitting the surface of the Earth in a bid to halt global warming.
Despite some scientists warning the effort could have untold side effects from altering the chemical makeup of the atmosphere, President Joe Biden’s administration have admitted they’re open to the idea, which has never been attempted before.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12254167/More-gloomy-news-Biden-backs-plan-BLOCK-sunlight-Earth-bid-limit-global-warming.html
(Richard: Note how the idiot wants to pass a Bill to establish term limits. The Constitution says Federal Judges serve for the rest of their lives or voluntary retirement. It will take a Constitutional Amendment to change that not a Bill.)
Attack on modern life’: US Congress member Ro Khanna on the supreme court rulings
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The progressive House representative from California is at the helm of a campaign to set term limits for supreme court justices
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On Friday, the supreme court’s conservative majority both invalidated Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program and sided with a Colorado-based web design company that wanted to refuse service to same-sex couples. A day earlier, the court ended race-conscious college admissions decisions, overturning decades of precedent upholding affirmative action.
The hard-right decisions from the conservative majority have reinvigorated calls to reform the court and progressive congressman Ro Khanna of California is at the forefront of that campaign. He expressed outrage over the ruling on Biden’s student debt program, arguing the decision proved the “regressive” court must be overhauled.
‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling
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In an interview with the Guardian, Khanna said the Biden administration could still offer relief to student borrowers, who are currently expected to resume payments in October. Khanna called for that deadline to be extended while the White House examines other options to assist student borrowers and he celebrated Biden’s announcement that the administration will take initial steps to invoke the Higher Education ActFriday, the supreme court’s conservative majority both invalidated Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program and sided with a Colorado-based web design company that wanted to refuse service to same-sex couples. A day earlier, the court ended race-conscious college admissions decisions, overturning decades of precedent upholding affirmative action.
The hard-right decisions from the conservative majority have reinvigorated calls to reform the court and progressive congressman Ro Khanna of California is at the forefront of that campaign. He expressed outrage over the ruling on Biden’s student debt program, arguing the decision proved the “regressive” court must be overhauled.
‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling
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In an interview with the Guardian, Khanna said the Biden administration could still offer relief to student borrowers, who are currently expected to resume payments in October. Khanna called for that deadline to be extended while the White House examines other options to assist student borrowers and he celebrated Biden’s announcement that the administration will take initial steps to invoke the Higher Education Act
Watch Ro Khanna.
Anything he promotes is more likely than not really bad.
Let’s be clear about something: The turmoil in the West, especially, is all about usurping God’s power, His moral laws, and in our despising His Gospel.
You name it: Abortion, gender issues, aka lgbtq etc etc, welfare, and on and on —— it’s all about denying God his authority, denying to God his power, his goodness, his holiness — and in its place we puny, deceitful, corrupt human beings think — THINK — that we can go toe-to-toe with God and come out the victor.
News Flash: “Why do the nation’s rage?
Why do the peoples grumble in vain?
The kings of the earth take a stand,
and the rulers join together
against the LORD
and against his Anointed One.
Let us tear off their chains
And throw off their robes from us.”
The one who is seated in heaven laughs.
The LORD scoffs at them.
Then he speaks to them in his anger,
and in his wrath he terrifies them.” PS 2:1-5.
Are we yet terrified enough to recognize that in these human conflicts, violence, hatred, and raging upheaval that this itself comes from God’s anger, his wrath — his terrifying judgment on man’s rebellion?
When ancient Israel got too big for its britches, intermarrying with pagans, basking in their prosperity, and ignoring God’s rule over them — God sent a superior and more vicious army to punish them.
Think about that.