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[bambu.]

Scummo scuttled grid investment and renewable rollout to your great delight. Sweat in the dark a bit as penance.

Greta and Al warned you your shit would not hold up. Now it is failing and everyone knows why.

China is building two new coal-fired power stations every week....importing coal from Australia to burn in them.
Yes, stoopid Australia...electricity prices to the People soaring, paying for expensive renewables *no one* wants...while the Chinese People have cheap electricity using Australian coal.

Australia has 400 years of coal and 200 years of gas...or something...there should be sensible transition to renewables, which without nuclear will be a dismal failure anyway.

Hopefully Barbie is screaming with outrage today because her hairdryer didn't work, her dinner was cold, she was sitting in the dark, her tv didn't work, and she couldn't charge her phone.

[bambu.]

US Congress has approved the AUKUS pact nuclear submarine deal that will see Australia start gettting the submarines in 2030.

[bambu.]

In the Daily Telegraph today there are photos of Hamas terrorists in Gaza surrendering, hands in the air holding guns.
It was Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel 10/7 and committed unpeakable horrors on Jewish women and girls, including with knives.

Should put photos of all that on the 6 o'clock news in US / world.
People seeing that might not be so willing to support Hamas.

[FlyingVProd]

British tourist landed at a dingo lair. When retrieving his body rescuers discovered a baby's jacket, exactly the same as the one Lindy said Azaria was wearing when taken from the tent by a dingo.

Divine providence strikes again.
Linda was released from prison.

And British tourists are pretty replaceable, so there's really no downside here.

Britain is America's closest ally today.
You might think it's Mexico.

Harry and Meghan live here in California.

Princess Diana was going to live next door to Olivia Newton John in Malibu, I was looking forward to drinking margaritas with Princess Diana, the people in Malibu were excited to have her as a neighbor, it was sad when she died, may she rest in peace.

But meanwhile, Mexico is our neighbor, like Canada, and we have to be good allies and friends, Mexico is only 100 miles away from here in Anaheim. And if the British were wise then they would expand trade with Mexico and with Latin America.

Also of note, Kiwanis International has a Village in Victoria, Canada, for the refugees from Ukraine, etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

It would be nice if Meghan and Harry could make an official visit to Mexico to visit the orphans and to improve relations and trade between England and Mexico. Meghan and Harry can tour Mexico with Salma Hayek and with her Husband. And they can visit Acapulco where the hurricane just devastated the region and they can give money to Acapulco to help in the disaster relief. Etc.

Salute,

Tony V.

[bambu.]

It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Maybe they could move in with Salma.

[FlyingVProd]

It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.
Maybe they could move in with Salma.

If Princess Diana was alive then she would would traveling around the world helping the orphans and stuff, and she would probably have been doing charity work with us in Malibu. Back then one big organization was Project Angel Food and they were feeding the victims of the AIDS epidemic. Meghan and Harry can revitalize themselves by doing charity work and by helping orphans, etc.

The Mexican children love Princes and Princesses, and there is Disney with all of their Princes and Princesses, and there was "Roman Holiday" where Audrey Hepburn played a Princess, and Grace Kelly became a Princess and the world loved her ( I attended the same acting school as Princess Grace Kelly Grimaldi ), the world loves Royalty. And in the West our Stars are our Royalty, guys like Elvis were our Royalty, and Marlon Brando, etc, and Salma Hayek is Royalty in Mexico.

Meghan and Harry can revitalize themselves by doing charity work in Mexico, they can go help in Acapulco and they can visit the orphans, etc, and they can travel with Salma Hayek and her Husband. They can all revitalize themselves and help to make the world a better place.

Nothing can be gained by rubbing salt in the wounds, it is best to come clean and hit the re-start button and start doing charity work, etc. They can revitalize themselves by doing charity work. And in Hollywood it is all about "What are you doing now?" and "You are only as good as your last job." If they are helping the orphans today then people will forget about yesterday.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Hairy Lime]

It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.

Yes. And they are usually called racists who object to Harry mixing his inbred royal genes with someone... exotic.

[bambu.]

It'd likely please more than one person if the lovely couple moved to Mexico, permanently.

Yes. And they are usually called racists who object to Harry mixing his inbred royal genes with someone... exotic.

Nah.
What they object to is not race, but behaviour, especially "what Meghan wants, Meghan gets" routine Harry tried to pull on the Queen.
Sparkle's best friend said her aim was to "bag a Prince and rule the world."
Well she bagged a Prince, but she ain't gonna be ruling any world.
She just didn't understand the "pecking order", the manners required, household staff are not slaves and are not there to be treated as such,  and the protocols, and the idea that her new life would be one of service.

[bambu.]

How would a 2 State solution be/work in Palestine/Israel now?
It's been offered before.
It wouldn't be 'from the River to the Sea'?

[Oilcandide]

I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread.  As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart.  One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade.  Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in.  Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built.  Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them).  This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors?  A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.

[LarryB!]

Here ya go, luee!

The U.S. economy needs to put up the Help Wanted sign. With job openings at near-record highs and unemployment at near-record lows, labor shortages threaten to slow growth and raise prices.
Fortunately, the Labor Department has a little-known tool that could prioritize immigration in occupations for which there are insufficient numbers of U.S. workers to fill jobs. This could be a game changer - so long as the Biden administration is willing to let data, and not interest groups, lead the way


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/14/labor-shortages-immigration-schedule-a/

[Espnthree]

I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread.  As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart.  One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade.  Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in.  Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built.  Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them).  This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors?  A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.

It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt,  imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.

[bambu.]

A permanent ceasefire and then two states is now being hailed as the solution...by politicians worldwide.

Ideally Palestine would be one section of the area, not two or three with Israel in the middle

Palestine can't really expect to have all the coastline...so how does it all get divided up?
Half the coastline each?

Then what about Jerusalem? 
What about the Golan Heights, where terrorists had a perfect place from which to fire on Israel and Israel grabbed control of in one of the wars?
Palestinians want 'from the River to the Sea', all of it?

Looking at the map,
The whole area is small. Only 44 miles from Tel Aviv to Gaza.

A high speed train runs between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv...takes 34 minutes.

2 million Arab Palestinians.
7 million Jews.
Some Christians.

Those dividing it all up in the Two State Solution...will need the wisdom of Solomon and then some.

What happens if the Palestinians want all of Palestine for themselves, no Jews, no Israel?

There are many questions to be answered and many decisions to be made.
Looks like 1948 revisited.

[bambu.]

I'm getting hayfever from all the strawmen in this thread.  As if anyone here thinks Hamas thugocracy had the best interests of Palestine at heart.  One result of Israels economic hobbling of Gaza, and chopping Palestine into three pieces that can't travel to each other, is the sort of black market driven and nothing to lose attitudes that Hamas type factions thrive in.

Gaza is under a multidecade land, air, and sea blockade.  Not conducive to beautiful resorts or letting oil companies or other developers in.  Gaza airport was demolished by Israel three years after it was built.  Border restrictions mean very limited access to Palestinians main urban center, East Jerusalem, or its agricultural resources in West Bank (what's left of them).  This is not how any rational group can build a viable Palestinian state.

All this in spite of the terms of the Oslo Accord being that Israel must treat Palestine as one political entity.

On what planet would such gross violations of international law result in a prosperous economy and functional government for a small enclave effectively torn away from its other pieces and primary urban center of banking, education, foreign consulates and other services? Even if Gaza were run by people better than the Hamas thugs, would they really be able to negotiate with a military power (backed by billions from US and UK) that is so asymmetrical with respect to its neighbors?  A two state solution means Israel reforming to the liberal Zionist governance it once had, and acknowledging its own role in land theft and dispossession.

It bears repeating even if you can never grasp its everlasting truth

Gaza was lost to Israel 75 years ago in the Arab/Israeli War because the Arabs would not accept a partitioned Palestine.
Most of Gaza residents then were Arab refugees , predominantly Jordanians.

Israel relinquished military and political control of Gaza in 2005.
In 2007 Hamas took power over Fatah, a rival Palestinian faction.

Israel does control Gaza airspace and border crossings and , along with Egypt,  imposed a blockade on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007 . The blockade is to prevent Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, from amassing weapons of war.

The international community sends billions of dollars of aid to Gaza due to its isolation, but there is no accounting of how much of that aid has been redirected by Hamas to its constant goal of destroying Israel.
Hamas, as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, is at war with every Arab Nation and wants to replace every and all Arab national leaders.

It is why no Arab Nation will accept Palestinian refugees for fear of importing Hamas terrorists.

Thank you for this clear and valuable information.