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#DayForFreedom - A Day to be Heard
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvW-lx4IETQ
Pcar
Pcar
Getting the jump on Elon Musk?
I noticed today 4 x 49.99MW batteries applied for in Wiltshire
bugger it's a dynamic search so you have to enter 49.99 into the keyword search
Nearly 200 across the land if all councils have the same level of applications…. looks a bit crook from here - what's so special in detail about the 49.99 number ? - it's got to be a subsidy wangle.
Anybody spot any in their locality? - started a "Battery Farming" thread
tomo
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned from Government
Last year a report revealed her department had lost track of at least 56,000 illegal migrants who were supposed to be scheduled for deportation, including 700 convicted criminals — although this did not cause much of a stir in the mainstream press at the time.
Good riddance. She should now cross the floor and be in Labour where she would be more at home.
Pcar
BBC4 Now : The Easter Island statues have a special shape
so then if you stand them up and rope the heads with a guide rope team on the left and a guide rope team on the right
they can rock the statue with not much effort
and cause it to walk, without it falling over.
The islands bigger than I thought ..he just said when the Ranui arrived there were 16 million trees
(loss was from 1250AD to 1650 AD when there weren't any trees left.
They don't know how felling got out of control
stewgreen
re: Korowai + docudrama crews
There was a high latitude example of misrepresentation in Svalbard some years ago. The guy in question was portrayed as a hermit whose house was buried all winter with only the chimney poking out of the snow, chewing through last summer's seal catch with only his trusty dogs for company until the sun came back.
Let's just say that it seems the BBC film folk met him in a Longyearbyen bar.... in winter
Radio 4 Gardener's Question Time had a 10 minute or so section on climate change this afternoon - it was predictably packed with misrepresentation and activist hyperbole - there was some really grim AGW jargon thrown in just to make it even more leaden.
tomo
Apr 29, 2018 at 7:53 AM | Harry Passfield
Another thumbs up from here.
The ASA are a farce - so they are fair game to be tormented.
tomo
The Korowai do not live in treehouses
Apr 29, 2018 at 8:17 PM | Pcar
The BBC has never quite got Reality TV. Could they send some of their Senior Directors off to do a job swap with the Korowai, in the interests of cost efficiency and honesty?
golf charlie
Apr 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM | Pcar
Good to know that corruption can be recycled so far from mainland Europe, with nothing more than demands for other people's money.
golf charlie
@Pcar sounds good
OK Treehouse people
There is confusion cos the first show was 2011 that's the one they built the big treehouse for
and now there is a new differen show is airing now ..
I didn't have time to read your article fully
The quote I read before was from a villager about the 2011 prog
"Oh the treehouse we built for the prog was a fake one, when we build them we don't build them so high, cos you don't want to lugging water so far everyday"
OK there might be some tense stuff ..and he doesn't say they were living in them at that time, just that then or before they had a system of building them.
Even in that article there seems to be a photo of them with a normal height treehouse in the background.
Might be that they have built it for a laugh, near the out of jungle place they live now
Sometimes tribal people do stuff like live in a bungalow, but go to another place for hunting or crop season
..so to me it is still possible these out of jungle people do go to treehouses sometimes)
In Borneo I avoided visiting longhouses cos it is a bit of a tourist circus
..and you should never visit remote tribes /leave them be.
I've walked past a modern longhouse, which was a bit like a motel with a wide communal balcony at the front door.
(And I've been in empty longhouses they use for festivals)