We rely on hydroelectric (Niagara Falls) which has been operating since Nikolai Tesla convinced Westinghouse to build it. Natural hydro is cheap, nuclear is cheap. We pay 2c/kWh where I live (4c in the winter), from hydro + nuclear in the north-east which is cheaper than the natural gas which is 6c/kWh (not account for inefficiencies converting BTU into kWh).
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Eliminate the Oil Industry?
by Anony Mous ina lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.
germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?
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Biden Voter Fraud Admission
by Simon inhe's either admitting that they are relying on voter fraud, or he's a decrepit senile old fart who's unfit to be president.. which is it?.
did he also just claim that they committed fraud to get obama elected?
what a joke.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8a2g6ttp0.
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Anony Mous
The phrase "Can I change my vote" has been trending in the top 100 Google searches for the last few days, which surprisingly, some states allow you to. Many, many people are just finding out about the extensive corruption within the Democrat party.
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If a JW becomes inactive is he then labeled as an apostate?
by Pallbearer ini have heard a rumor that if a jw becomes inactive he or she is considered to be an apostate.
is this true?
has anyone here on this forum had such an experience?
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Anony Mous
Official JW.org doctrine: Apostasy is abandoning, deserting or rejecting Jehovah’s organization [the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society]; so by definition, anyone that 'abandoned' (or has let themselves become "inactive") is an apostate.
Contrast this with the regularly accepted definition of Apostasy: Apostasy in Christianity is the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian.
So you can be an apostate in the JW simply by abandoning the WTBTS organization (becoming inactive), whereas in most churches you must reject the entire Christian faith (so you can change churches, denominations etc) to be considered an apostate.
My experience:
I have been officially inactive for a decade, I am officially also still an MS, I am also labeled an apostate by many. Mostly because they tried to but failed to disfellowship me, but I was able to hold any change in status with legal action and they've since forgotten about me. I'm sure someone at some point will simply throw out my publisher card.
The apostate label does not follow any status in the JW organization, it is something you can be labeled whenever you disagree with the ever-changing WTBTS official doctrine. By definition, anyone inactive is disagreeing with the WTBTS doctrine that you have to attend meetings to be "saved", so yes, inactive ones are apostates.
If you post here, as many a faithful JW do, you are considered an apostate.
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Eliminate the Oil Industry?
by Anony Mous ina lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.. in the us, biden has promised to eliminate all federal lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the united states) as well as native american tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the us).. in europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the nordic countries and the uk (which the eu recently lost access to), germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is china from russia and russian-controlled portions of ukraine, even after trump cut off all builders from russian oil pipelines, the russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.. venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.. in the mean time, control for most non-us energy sources is now wholly dependent on russian and middle eastern governments.. california and germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives.
germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kwh and california is not far behind with 16c/kwh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.. the world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
co2 emissions in the us have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.. do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing?
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Anony Mous
A lot of countries are on the side of eliminating the oil industry altogether as well as zero-emission alternatives like nuclear power.
In the US, Biden has promised to eliminate all Federal Lands oil production when he takes power in 2021 (30% of the United States) as well as Native American tribal lands which account for 8 percent of all oil, 9 percent of all natural gas, and 6 percent of all natural gas liquids from 96,000 wells (10% of the total wells in the US).
In Europe, oil and gas production has been largely eliminated except for the Nordic countries and the UK (which the EU recently lost access to), Germany is funding a major oil pipeline as is China from Russia and Russian-controlled portions of Ukraine, even after Trump cut off all builders from Russian oil pipelines, the Russian government is now trying to build the pipeline themselves with potential disastrous results.
Venezuela's economy collapsed largely due to the government taking over and eliminating the oil industry companies.
In the mean time, control for most non-US energy sources is now wholly dependent on Russian and Middle Eastern governments.
California and Germany eliminated oil-based energy sources and now mandate 30% of their power from 'green' wind and solar alternatives. Germany energy costs now hover around 25c/kWh and California is not far behind with 16c/kWh both experiencing rolling blackouts in major cities and importing 60% of mostly coal and gas energy from their neighbors.
The world currently has 300 years worth of oil at the current rates of usage which have stagnated due to improved efficiencies.
CO2 emissions in the US have dropped in the last 3 years for the first time in decades despite (or because) reduced oil and gas regulations.
Do you think given the above facts, eliminating the oil industry is a good thing? I understand migrating to a more dense fuel source (eg. nuclear) would be a great thing, but there is a lot of resistance to that for various political reasons. What are you doing to reduce your CO2 footprint? Do you think it's safe to have your country or even the entire world's energy dependence until we make such conversion to full solar/wind/nuclear in the hands of two of the most ruthless dictators, Putin and Mohammed bin Salman or is this a worthy sacrifice?
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Hunter Biden—Will He Affect The Election?
by minimus ini think he’s done incredible damage to biden.
he must be in hiding in his dad’s basement too.
i think this is the october surprise people have been wondering about.
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Anony Mous
Both candidates have admitted their internal numbers look closer than the public polls. That's because they use different measures, small groups of "likely voters" is not really representative.
The Biden campaign made a tremendous mistake calling a lid every day and staying in the basement for the last 2 months. They were thinking the media was going to cover for them and they did. But now the Hunter Biden story, Trump exposing the deep corruption within the Biden family on public television, the first time ANY major network covered these facts, the failed censorship and exposing deep corruption ties with social media (both Twitter and Facebook spokespersons on the issue were proven to be Biden plants) and failing to stack the debates in their favor put them into a frenzy and now Biden is hurriedly tracking all over the country.
They've been going so fast, even Kamala Harris doesn't know where she is at any moment, asking on a hot mike the other day whether she was in Cleveland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFe5pqJ_MtA).
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Trump/Biden Debate
by minimus ini liked the format and i think donald trump destroyed joe biden.. your opinion?
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It's interesting that the left wing is mostly disappointed in Joe Biden for being too old and dotering, it was on full display last night. All the left-wingers also ignored all the substance though, he pretended to be a politician and in a single sentence was able to contradict himself not once but at least 3 times:
- When Trump said "NY did worse than anyone with COVID (fact check: true), Biden said "I don't believe in red states or blue states ... but red states did worse with COVID"
- When Trump said "you'll stop fracking", Biden said "I never said that, I never said I'll ban fracking in the US, I did say I'll ban fracking on federal land"
- When Trump said "you'll end the oil industry", Biden said "I never said I want to end the oil industry, however I am going to do this, I am going to end the oil industry by 2030"
- When Trump said "Hunter biden went and picked up bags of cash from China and Russia", Biden said "Me and my family never profited from my position, we never got 1 cent from foreign sources. What Hunter did in, what are we talking about, China, nothing was unethical".
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Hunter Biden—Will He Affect The Election?
by minimus ini think he’s done incredible damage to biden.
he must be in hiding in his dad’s basement too.
i think this is the october surprise people have been wondering about.
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Anony Mous
Right now the polls are tightening considerably. Trump is now within error bars of Joe Biden in most battlegrounds states, this morning polls came out that showed him 49/47 (Biden/Trump) across the country while there were others that showed him 6 points down (which is just out of the 5 point bounds from Clinton/Trump in 2016).
This morning a Hunter Biden associate, life-long Democrat came out and said he was being smeared as a Russian disinformation while he confirmed the e-mails existed (this is now the third and fourth independent source that produced evidence) and even the fact that Joe Biden has been on the take from Russia and China.
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My Prediction: Trump Wins Big
by minimus ina month ago it might have been questionable.
not now.
after bader’s death and biden’s inability, this shouldn’t be close.
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@Phizzy: I agree with your analysis that Trump will win, then suddenly thousands of exclusively Biden votes will be found.
It's not the first time Democrats won through mail-in fraud. Look at Ilhan Omar, who recently was caught harvesting thousands of ballots, Al Franken, also caught finding thousands of ballots from felons in the trunk of a car.
There is even a database of thousands of cases: https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud
1982
An estimated 100,000 fraudulent ballots were cast in a 1982 Chicago election. After a Justice Department investigation, 63 individuals were convicted of voter fraud, including vote buying, impersonation fraud, fictitious voter registrations, phony absentee ballots, and voting by non-citizens.
1994
After an extensive investigation of absentee ballot fraud in a 1994 Greene County, Alabama, election, nine defendants pleaded guilty to voter fraud, and two others were found guilty by a jury. The defendants included Greene County commissioners, officials, and employees; a racing commissioner; a member of the board of education; a Eutaw city councilman; and other community leaders. Among other things, the conspirators used an assembly line to mass produce forged absentee ballots meant to swing elections in favor of preferred candidates.
2003
Allan “Twig” Simmons, an operative for the East Chicago, Indiana, mayor’s campaign, persuaded voters to let him fill out their absentee ballots in exchange for jobs. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service. Fraud in the 2003 East Chicago mayoral primary was so widespread that the Indiana Supreme Court ultimately overturned the election results and ordered a special mayoral election that resulted in a different winner.
2004
Chad Staton, a worker associated with the NAACP National Voter Fund in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, pleaded guilty to 10 felony counts for filing false voter registrations during the 2004 presidential election in exchange for crack cocaine. Staton filled out more than 100 forms in names such as Mary Poppins, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Dick Tracy, and George Lopez.
2004
Six Democrats from Lincoln County, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to charges of participating in a conspiracy to buy votes dating back to 1990. The indictment charged that the cabal conspired to buy votes in every election held between 1990 and 2004, handing out slates listing preferred candidates and using liquor and cash—typically $20 per vote—to seal the deal. They also laid gravel on roads for supporters and fixed traffic tickets.
2004
East St. Louis, Illinois, precinct committeemen Charles Powell, Sheila Thomas, Jesse Lewis, and Kelvin Ellis, as well as precinct worker Yvette Johnson, were convicted of conspiracy to commit election fraud after participating in vote buying activities in the 2004 election, including submitting budgets that would allow city funds to be used to pay voters to vote for Democrat candidates.
2008
ACORN workers in Seattle, Washington, committed what the secretary of state called, “the worst case of voter registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington.” The group submitted 1,762 fraudulent voter registration forms. The group’s leader, Clifton Mitchell, was convicted of false registrations and served nearly three months in jail. Four other ACORN workers on his team also received jail time, and ACORN was fined $25,000 to cover the cost of the investigation.
2010
Paul Schurick, former campaign manager to Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich, a Republican, was convicted of election fraud after approving a robocall to black voters telling them not to vote because the Democrats had already won the 2010 gubernatorial election. A circuit court judge spared Schurick jail time, opting to sentence him to 30 days’ home detention, four years of probation, and 500 hours of community service.
2012
Robert Monroe, identified by prosecutors as the worst multiple voter in Wisconsin history, pleaded no contest to charges that he voted more than once in 2011 and 2012. Monroe’s record was extensive: he voted twice in the April 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, twice in the 2011 recall election of state Sen. Alberta Darling, and five times in Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election. He also cast an illegal ballot in the August 2012 primary, and voted twice in the 2012 general election.
2012
While running for re-election, Martin, Kentucky, Mayor Ruth Robinson and a cabal of co-conspirators targeted residents living in public housing and in properties Robinson owned, threatening to evict them if they did not sign absentee ballots that Robinson and her family had already filled out. Robinson also targeted disabled residents, and offered to buy the votes of others. She was convicted and sentenced to serve 90 months’ imprisonment.
2014
Rosa Maria Ortega, a non-citizen, was found guilty on two counts of voter fraud for voting in the November 2012 general election and the 2014 Republican primary runoff. Ortega claimed she thought she was a citizen, and blamed her lack of education for the mix-up, but prosecutors pointed out that Ortega had previously indicated on a driver’s license application that she was a non-citizen. A judge sentenced her to eight years’ imprisonment, after which she faces the possibility of deportation.
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Watchtower View on Resurrection - All Panda Bears?
by Sea Breeze ina recent wt study was titled: “the resurrection reveals god’s love, wisdom and patience.
apparently there was a lot of speculation on how those resurrected will be needing to be taught god’s ways in last weeks wt study.
does anyone know how the watchtower tries to weasel out of the "resurrection of damnation"?.
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The way JW's explain that in their eschatology is by saying the first death (and thus resurrection) is the natural death people have experienced. They will be resurrected in paradise, the second death is the death of God's judgement after 1000 years in paradise. If you go through 1000 years of paradise and still choose to go against God's Organization (the FDS who will then be in heaven), you will have condemned yourself to the second death and they don't believe there is a resurrection from that (although Revelation speaks about, and the JW Revelation book depicts, eternal torture).
It is also possible to go straight to the second death, that is if you actively oppose the JW organization (WTBTS) after learning "the truth" then it is possible God will judge you permanently right away. They often cite Hitler as deserving the second death, although officially the WTBTS does clarify although likely, humans do not judge, only God, Jesus and the 144,000 (aka themselves) end up being judges.
A bit of explanation on the second death:
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1101973019&srctype=wol&srcid=share
The WTBTS leadership will be judges:
https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1101973017&srctype=wol&srcid=share
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It’s Trump’s Fault!
by minimus ina plot to kidnap a governor is foiled and guess who gets blamed??
trump.. people have died because of covid.
it’s trump’s fault.. cities, businesses and property are being destroyed by antifa and black lives matter and guess who gets blamed for the destruction?
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@Thomas: Taiwan is an island and completely shut down all international traffic, Trump did less impactful but similar things from China and was said to be racist and xenophobic by Joe Biden. The Dems hung the entire issue of banning Canadian traffic up in court while Chinese people were pouring in through Canada into NY and Washington to get treatment.
When shutting down Europe traffic, Pelosi said it was "un-American" and Joe Biden said it was "unhinged, unprecedented and wrong" - Joe Biden's Twitter: Mar 12, 2020 — A wall will not stop the coronavirus. Banning all travel from Europe — or any other part of the world — will not stop it.
In the mean time, even Europe shut down its internal borders and still has full travel restrictions to date, meanwhile, following the Trump-style lockdowns, the death rate in the EU is similar with 200k dead and 5M infected.
Joe Biden and Obama, 65M people infected by H1N1, if similar things happened with COVID, we'd have 2M people dead and you and the media would be on their knees for Obama/Clinton/Biden for doing such a great job.