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@tomo, Nov 22, 2018 at 8:05 AM
Our civil servants sent in the Maybot.
How Theresa the Terminator zapped Conservative courage
Write this down: Theresa May is the Terminator. Sci-fi nerds will recall that underneath a hyperalloy combat chassis the Terminator is a microprocessor-controlled, fully armoured part-man (woman in this case), part-machine. It’s very tough but outside it is real living tissue. This is the T-800 model of course; nothing I have observed so far indicates to me that Theresa is a T-1000, which is made of liquid metal.Like the Terminator, Prime Minister May is relentless, she is unstoppable and, crucially, she cannot be bargained with or reasoned with. This is why we are where we are. There is no point moaning about it – you have to understand her before you can begin to contemplate defeating her.
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After this came Chequers, when it became clear to anyone who had eyes to see and ears to hear that the Brexit Theresa May was after was not the Brexit any voter had in mind when they voted to take back control. That was the time for the Mogg and the rest to make their move. They did not, and looking back, it was a fatal error.
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The Mogg and Baker have done what they could and acted in the nation’s best interest. What they underestimated was the industrial-strength cowardliness of their fellow Brexiteers, in particular Priti Patel, Iain Duncan Smith and Sir Bernard Jenkin, who are all talk and no action. They have left Mogg and Baker high and dry...
Not forgetting Brexiter Liam Fox who in speech last Friday said:
. "...A deal is better than no deal..."

@Tomo Are there any pseudo-liberal bigwigs who are not somehow associated with Soros ?

There's bonkers and there's Extinction Rebellion
Kamikazi protesters ....
"12 years before we all starve to death"
A trivial scan around seems to show that organiser Roger Hallam was associated with openDemocracy - one wonders if that relationship persists?

"More evidence of low climate sensitivity at these concentrations.
Nov 22, 2018 at 7:11 PM | M Courtney"
But not according to Climate Science Models, programmed by Climate Scientists with the output of other failed models.

Nov 22, 2018 at 8:04 PM | Mark Hodgson
I do wonder what Mr & Mrs Blair and Mr & Mrs Clinton talked about and planned for their personal power, greed, wealth and retirement. Forced Multiculturalism has been a bit of a disaster for the EU aswell.

"Humans 'off the hook' for African mammal extinction"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46306622
"New research has disputed a longstanding view that early humans helped wipe out many of the large mammals that once roamed Africa.
Today, Africa broadly has five species of massive, plant-eating mammal; but millions of years ago there were many more types of giant herbivore.
Why so many types vanished is not known, but many experts have blamed our tool-using, meat-eating ancestors.
Now, researchers say the mammal decline began long before humans appeared.
Writing in the journal Science, Tyler Faith, from the Natural History Museum of Utah, and colleagues argue that long-term environmental change drove the extinctions.
This mainly took the form of an expansion of grasslands, in response to falling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels."
and:
"The researchers also examined records of climatic and environmental trends. They conclude that the climate is a much more likely culprit than humans. Climate change seems to have been behind the replacement of large shrubs and trees by grasslands.
"The key factor in the Plio-Pleistocene megaherbivore decline seems to be the expansion of grasslands, which is likely related to a global drop in atmospheric CO₂ over the last five million years," said co-author John Rowan, from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
"Low CO₂ levels favour tropical grasses over trees, and as a consequence savannas became less woody and more open through time. We know that many of the extinct megaherbivores fed on woody vegetation, so they seem to disappear alongside their food source."
The loss of big mammals in Africa could also explain other extinctions that have been blamed on our ancient ancestors."

@ Nov 22, 2018 at 4:59 PM | Unregistered CommenterTinyCO2
You say 'The EU however is a return to remote govenment who can't hear or don't want to hear protests. The Uk public couldn't make the EU hear them, no matter how many Nigel Farages they voted for.'
+ 10 How right you are!

Hillary finally catches up with the times:
"Hillary Clinton urges Europe to curb migration to stop populists
Former US presidential candidate said leaders must show they can no longer ‘provide refuge and support.’"
https://www.politico.eu/article/hillary-clinton-urges-europe-to-curb-migration-to-stop-populists/
"Europe needs a tougher approach on immigration in order to curb the growing threat of rightwing populists, Hillary Clinton said, calling on EU leaders to show their electorates that they can no longer “provide refuge and support.”
“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said in an interview with the Guardian published Thursday.
The former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate suggested that immigration concerns in part contributed to Britain’s vote to leave the EU — which Clinton has previously described as the “greatest self-inflicted wound in modern history” — as well as her election loss to Donald Trump."

I remember reading a IEA report after the Indian currency withdrawal.
They got all emission wet thinking of the extra energy activity created by destroying the village economy.
These guys are crazy beyond most people's understanding.
Anything pointless that is not servicing real human need is applauded as it helps their monopoly position.

The old BBC Tomorrow’s World could do an episode without the picture breaking up.
But no not in the new one, where picture and sound have packed up a few times and they have had to apologise for it.
Maggie P did an item about autonomous cars
at 21:16pm "It's all part of the vision for cleaner greener cities of the future"
...em no not really that is merely PR buzzword BS
..Note in the Milton Keynes item she fessed up that the human driver had to intervene when the car went wrong on a roundabout.
..same in their outside the studio demo.
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21:09 The new Sinclair C5 ; his nephew Grant Sinclair's IRIS eTrike
A tweet says
"just an electric recumbent bike in a foam shell" screenshot
and only has a 30mile range
Well being a bike it is road legal, unlike segways or standup electric scooters
and #2 doesn't have any range anxiety
But why would any one pay big money, when they could just buy a conventional mobility scooter, much cheaper, and dead cheap second hand ??;
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21:48 There was more plugging of green dogma wit the plugging of
"Dyson Award-winning urban wind turbine invention "
They never said it performed well, just that it is suited to more urban locations
why ? cos the turbine is a tube so unlike rotor blades , it doesn't have change where conventional turbines have to move the blades to face the wind.
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At the end the AI robot demo doesn’t seem to be working.
It can’t do the same things that my “OK Google” has been able to do instantly for 6 years
(apparently the BBC studio’s internet bandwidth is not up to scratch