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What makes this unlike previous technologies that harness geothermal energy is that it doesn't depend on hot springs or any particular locale. Drill down deep enough and the rocks will naturally be hot. There's a certain irony in that fracking technology will be used to bore laterally through those rocks and harness the heat therein.
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Actually, someone already beat them to it https://time.com/6302342/fervo-fracking-technology-geothermal-energy/
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Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
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The reason why the NDAs aren't binding should be obvious. These people weren't employees of Trump. They are employees of the US government. According to your way of thinking, transparency in government should take 2nd place to a private interest. It's true that Trump thinks that these government workers are his personal employees - just reference his statements re the justice dept - but they're not.
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Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Georgia election case
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Clearly, you are laughably uninformed about the conditions created by the Israelis. What's more, such atrocities are regular features of asymmetric warfare. For example, the ANC slaughtered farm families and set opponents alight by "necklacing" them with flaming tires. According to your way of thinking, that lets apartheid in South Africa off the hook. Apparently, it was black South africans who created the conditions that led to this brutality. Toxic conditions create opportunities for sociopaths and psychopaths to flourish. As long as the conditions persist, so will the behavior.
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Yes. Jordan annexed the West Bank. And how did life change for the residents? Simply an exchange of one unelected government for another. What made a Palestinian independent state an urgent matter was the disgraceful treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis. As I pointed out before, unlike the Israelis the Jordanians didn't destroy Palestinian villages and confiscate their land. They didn't govern Palestinians under one set of laws and Jordanians under another. They didn't make it exceedingly difficult for Palestinians to set up businesses while supporting . They didn't apply one set of rules for access to water for the Palestinians and another set for Jordanians. And so on land so forth. In fact, under the Jordanian rule, Palestinians were citizens of Jordan. So applying different laws and rules was out of the question. Under Israeli rule, citizenship isn't even on offer.
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EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
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Yes. I fully agree that RayC's statement that the EU is incapable of acting ignobly. . The one thing is I'm having trouble finding that or a similar quote from him. Can you share a link to it with the rest of us? At any rate, it's a good thing that such behavior is only confined to the EU. -
Nor did the Palestinians revolt when Jordan demolished their villages, expropriated their land, governed Palestinians under highly restrictive laws and Jordanians under Jordanian law, discriminate against them in use of water, etc. Because that never happened. Essentially Jordan and Egypt were inheritors of the status quo. Israel took that status quo and trashed it.
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It's not like they necessarily want to leave, given their justified fear that Israel might not let them back in. "Still, Palestinians have reason to be fearful: Displacements into Arab states in previous Israel-Palestine conflicts have been permanent. Many of the descendants of those who fled their homes during the 1948 war that led to Israel’s creation still live in refugee camps in neighboring countries as well as in Gaza, which was ruled by Egypt for most of the period between 1949 and 1967." https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/18/egypt-hamas-israel-border-gaza/
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Oops. You might first want to read again your statement that I quoted: "that is why Trump seems to be increasing in the polls with each ensuing new indictment," As for recent polls. Yeah, on Oct 15 2 pollsters showed Trump ahead. On Oct 14 a pollster showed biden ahead On oct 10 a pollster showed Biden ahead. On Oct 9 a pollster showed Biden ahead and Biden and Trump tied. I don't see much of a trend there.
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EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
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Nor is any of this mentioned in the article you cited about Germany. So, once again: Exactly what connection does the article you linked to have to do with the EU backing off on tightening regulations? I couldn't find any reference at all to that in the article. You've got nothing. -
EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
placeholder replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Exactly what connection does the article you linked to have to do with the EU backing off on tightening regulations. I couldn't find any reference at all to that in the article. You've got nothing.