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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 23:00:57 GMT
Humor , from another board.
This pretty much sums it up. " Face Book".
Q: How many people does it take to change a lightbulb in a Face Book group?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
17 purists who use candles and are offended by light bulb discussions.
6 to argue over whether it's 'lightbulb' or 'light bulb'.
Another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.
22 to tell THOSE 6 to stop being jackasses.
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is 'lamp'.
15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that 'light bulb' is perfectly correct.
249 to post meme's and gif's (several are of someone eating popcorn with the words added, “I’m just here for the comments.”)
19 to post that this page is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a light bulb page.
11 to defend the posting to this page saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant here.
12 to post F.
8 to ask what F means.
16 to post 'Following' but there's 3 dots at the top right that means you don't have to.
3 to say "can't share"
2 to reply "can't share from a closed group"
36 People to post pics of their own light bulbs.
15 People to post "I can't see S$%^!" and use their own light bulbs.
6 to report the post or PM an admin because someone said "f÷×$"
4 to say "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago?".
13 to say "Do a search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs".
1 to bring politics into the discussion by adding that (insert politician of choice) isn't the brightest bulb. This usually takes place within the first three comments.
50 more to get into personal attacks over their political views.
5 admins to ban the light bulb posters who took it all too seriously.
1 late arrival to comment on the original post 6 months later and start it all over again.
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Post by swamprat on Sept 17, 2019 1:54:49 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 17, 2019 11:48:27 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Popular Mechanics
The Navy Says Those UFO Videos Are Real
And they were never meant to be released to the public.
By Kyle Mizokami Sep 16, 2019
The U.S. Navy has confirmed that three online videos purportedly showing UFOs are genuine. The service says the videos, taken by Navy pilots, show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but also states that the clips should have never been released to the public in the first place.
The three videos in question are titled "FLIR1," "Gimbal," and "GoFast." They show two separate encounters between Navy aircraft and UFOs.
One video was taken in 2015 off the East Coast by a F/A-185F fighter jet using the aircraft's onboard Raytheon AN/ASQ-228 Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR) Pod. The other clip, also recorded with a Super Hornet ATFLIR pod, was taken off the coast of California in 2004 by pilots flying from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. In the videos, air crews loudly debate what the objects are and where they came from.
The videos were released for public viewing by The New York Times and To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a UFO research group from former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge.
In each case, the objects in the videos undertook aerial maneuvers that aren't possible with current aviation technology. In the 2004 incident, according to The New York Times, the objects "appeared suddenly at 80,000 feet, and then hurtled toward the sea, eventually stopping at 20,000 feet and hovering. Then they either dropped out of radar range or shot straight back up."
Joseph Gradisher, official spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, told The Black Vault, an online repository of secret and otherwise classified documents, that the Navy "designates the objects contained in these videos as unidentified aerial phenomena."
more after the jump:
www.popularmechanics.com/military/a29073804/navy-ufo-videos-real/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 17, 2019 11:59:19 GMT
Alien Planet
posted 17 September 2109 US Military Helicopter Escort UFO!
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Post by swamprat on Sept 17, 2019 15:17:00 GMT
Today's Truth
Don't you know? You are nothing but a farm animal.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 17, 2019 19:02:03 GMT
Today's Truth
Don't you know? You are nothing but a farm animal.
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 17, 2019 19:05:29 GMT
Live Science
Just 2 Labs in the World House Smallpox. The One in Russia Had an Explosion.
By Jeanna Bryner 17 September 2019
A fire reportedly broke out yesterday (Sept. 16) after an explosion at a secret lab in Russia, one of only two places in the world where the variola virus that causes smallpox is kept. One person was reported injured and transferred to a nearby burn center.
Researchers at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (also called the Vector Institute), located near Novosibirsk in Siberia, study some scary viruses, including Ebola, anthrax and Marburg. Even so, according to the institute, the fire didn't affect the building where such viruses are kept.
In a translated Russian-language statement from Vector, the lab said a gas cylinder exploded on the fifth floor of a six-story reinforced concrete lab during a repair in the so-called sanitary inspection room. "No work with biological material on the body was carried out," the statement said.
A Cold War-era bioweapons lab, Vector once housed some 100 buildings and even its own cemetery where a scientist who injected himself with the highly lethal Marburg virus was reportedly buried, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2006.
According to the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), in 2000, a visit to the lab indicated the scientists were no longer "engaged in offensive activities." Today, the scientists there carry out research on the spread of various infectious diseases, vaccine development, virus genome sequencing, among other biomedical studies to "counter global infectious threats," according to the institute's website.
Though outside scientists can't be certain exactly where the explosion and fire occurred, one expert in the field, David Evans, said, "That doesn't sound like it was near where the variola virus is stored or where the research is conducted."
Evans, a professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Alberta, is one of the world's experts on poxviruses like smallpox.
Even if the fire had engulfed virus storage facilities, the risk to human health would be very low. "In general, a fire would not be likely to create an infection hazard," Evans told Live Science.
Another virologist agreed. "Incineration would in all likelihood destroy all of those viruses, including variola virus," Grant McFadden, director of the Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines, and Virotherapy at Arizona State University, told Live Science in an email.
He added, "Fire is a risk for any biolab, but it is not a high threat of spreading live virus because most viruses are quite heat-labile when they are stored in repositories. That is why they need to be kept in deep freeze incubators for long-term storage."
Indeed, such virus samples are kept frozen and stored inside metal freezers at mind-numbing temperatures of minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 80 degrees Celsius), Evans said.
"Viruses are fragile things, and a fire in the immediate vicinity would first melt the contents and then consume them," Evans said. "The main concern with any biological collection is that if the power goes out for any length of time, samples warm and melt inside their storage vials and with viruses this can lead to a loss of infectivity."
Those freezers, he emphasized, would surely have mechanical and electrical backups for power.
The other lab authorized by the World Health Organization to hold smallpox — declared eradicated in 1980 — is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.
www.livescience.com/russia-lab-stores-smallpox-explosion-fire.html
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2019 5:55:41 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 18, 2019 11:34:03 GMT
Good morning mrgort and all of our lovely UFOCasebookers,
I agree, the more in the news the better. Someone mentioned "soft disclosure".
Looks that way to me, but nobody tells me anything
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 18, 2019 11:39:37 GMT
Scientific American
Scientists setting sail to the North Pole will become stranded in slowly migrating sea ice to investigate climate change
By Shannon Hall September 17, 2019
Every autumn the Arctic undergoes a radical metamorphosis. As the sun dips below the horizon one last time—not to rise again until spring—the icy seascape darkens, the temperatures plummet, and the sea ice swells into a brutal fortress, so thick that no icebreaker can penetrate it. Research vessels flee south, desperate to avoid getting trapped during the fearsome season. But this year scientists—and a few lucky journalists, including me—will dare to do just the opposite.
In late September we will set sail from Tromsø, Norway, heading east along Siberia, then north toward the North Pole. Our captain will steer us into a massive ice floe and kill the ship’s engines—dooming it to freeze in place as the ice quickly thickens. The ship will remain entombed for a full year as we float in the clutches of the Arctic Ocean.
The goal of the mission, called MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate), is to better understand why the top of the world is warming at such an alarming rate—twice as fast as lower latitudes. “The Arctic is the epicenter of global warming,” says Markus Rex, a climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and MOSAiC coordinator. Yet researchers do not completely understand why. This $150-million mission—the first to study the central Arctic over an entire year—intends to change that situation.
A few intrepid adventurers have attempted such a fate, only to falter. In 1893 Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen fastened his ship, the Fram, into the ice in the hope that it would carry him toward the North Pole. But when it became clear he would never reach the pole, he abandoned the mission and skied hundreds of miles to land. Still, the Fram made it across the Arctic ice cap intact, eventually reaching the open North Atlantic Ocean. “We’re following in the footsteps of giants, if you will,” says Matthew Shupe, an atmospheric and oceanic scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who conceived the MOSAiC mission more than 10 years ago.
This excursion will be, by far, the largest in history. At any one time, around 60 scientific personnel will be working onboard the research icebreaker Polarstern; they will be shuttled back and forth by sea, when possible, or air. In all, some 300 people from across the world will have conducted studies on the ice. They will observe every aspect of the Arctic system: the wandering ice, the drifting snow, the swirling ocean, the breezy atmosphere, the life that calls it home and the ways these attributes interact.
But first, scientists will have to find the perfect ice floe. Although it is easy to imagine the Arctic ice cap as a fixed mass of thick ice, it is actually a mosaic of smaller ice floes that jostle about—bulldozing into one another, slipping under one another and breaking apart. Navigators will scout for an ice floe that is both young and sturdy. It is crucial to choose the right slab that can carry the Polarstern across the central Arctic Ocean.
To pinpoint the best starting point, Thomas Krumpen, a climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, pored over 13 years of ice-floe data and discovered researchers would need to entrap the ship within an ice floe at roughly 85 degrees north latitude and 130 degrees east longitude, with a target date in October [see illustration]. Over a year, the floe should carry the ship north over the pole and then south to open water between Greenland and the archipelago of Svalbard, roughly 1,000 miles away from where it began. At least, that is the hope. The path could vary with the icy ocean’s whim, carrying scientists toward Russian waters (where they would need a special permit to collect data), toward the Canadian coast (where the ice is thick, old and less scientifically interesting) or dead north (where medical evacuations become more difficult). “We have to be able to adapt our plans at any given time during the expedition,” Rex says.
Ground Truth
Mission leaders find the potential rewards well worth the risk. “It’s really a rare opportunity to have a big interdisciplinary experiment that will be there for the full year,” says Donald Perovich, an engineering professor at Dartmouth College, who has done plenty of fieldwork in the central Arctic but only for short stints. “What’s nice about that is that it’s a chance to watch the whole movie.” Before, scientists mostly observed the region for short snippets—typically during summer. Seeing an entire annual cycle of the sea ice might finally allow researchers better understand the dynamics that have forced the Arctic to warm at such a fantastic rate, a process known as Arctic amplification.
One example of these dynamics is the amount of ice. As reflective ice melts and gives way to open ocean, the dark water absorbs more sunlight, which melts the ice around it even faster in a vicious cycle that accelerates warming. Now that the ice has thinned, it melts earlier in the spring and perpetuates the issue. Yet any measurements of ice thickness have high uncertainties. Satellites can easily chart the amount of sea-ice cover in the Arctic Ocean, which in July 2019 was a whopping 726,000 square miles below average. That picture is only two-dimensional, however. To gather three-dimensional data, a few new satellites have special radars that can measure ice thickness. But they often get confused by snow on top of the ice, leading to a thickness error of as much as 1.6 feet. MOSAiC scientists will be able to measure ice thickness at the same time satellites sweep overhead. By comparing the data, they can calibrate the satellite measurements, improving estimates for years to come.
Other cycles that work together to accelerate warming, and some that actually decelerate it, are certainly at play. Heat is likely transported up from lower latitudes. Clouds act as an umbrella to shade the ice from the sun in the winter and a blanket to warm it in the summer, but scientists are studying whether these effects balance each other in all seasons. Microbes similarly cling to the sea ice, where they inhale and exhale greenhouse gasses, yet scientists are not sure how their extent or activity may change. Researchers do not even know how the smallest organisms survive in the middle of winter. They will study all these factors and more.
Once the Polarstern has frozen in place, researchers will race to set up a constellation of instruments on the deck, the ice next to the ship and different ice floes located more than 30 miles from the vessel—all before polar night settles in. But even as the sky grows dark, they will continue to monitor the instruments near the ship nonstop and conduct further experiments. Scientists will release helium balloons to study the weather, drill into the ice to collect samples, fly a fleet of drones to better understand the atmosphere, drop nets through the ice and into the ocean to shed light on the ecosystem, scan the clouds with radar, and more.
It will be a challenge just to pack so many instruments and people onboard a single vessel. “It’s pretty mind-boggling how we’re all going to fit,” says Brice Loose, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, who will visit the Polarstern later this winter. “There is still a game of musical chairs being played.”
The findings, which will be publicly available, should create a wealth of data for years to come. Already teams of scientists are eagerly awaiting the results so they can update their climate models and better forecast our changing world. One target will be Arctic amplification. Another will be the polar vortex, which flows from west to east around the Arctic. A relatively warm Arctic Ocean can weaken the vortex, allowing it to bulge southward and bringing frigid air down into North America and northern Europe—or so many scientists think. MOSAiC will finally provide the necessary observations to fill in climate-model gaps and better assess this connection.
Uncharted Territory
The voyage will be challenging in many ways. Everyone onboard will have limited Internet (and no Netflix!). Their only physical link to the rest of the world will be ships and aircraft scheduled to arrive every few months to restock food and fuel while swapping passengers. In the winter, scientists will have to perform laborious experiments in the dark, under temperatures that can cause frostbite in mere minutes and with a watchful eye over their shoulder for polar bears—not to mention the possibility of cracks opening within the ice. There will be no hardware store should an instrument break. In the summer, researchers will have to contend with the blazing sun, which can burn their eyes, the insides of their nostrils and even the roof of their mouth.
It is no wonder the mission requires that its participants are medically fit. I will be onboard for the first six weeks—enough time to experience the Polarstern freezing into the ice and report on the instrument setup but a short time as compared with many of the scientists. Yet I still had to undergo a number of invasive medical tests, during which my primary care doctor looked over my blood work, urine sample, lungs, and heart and asked extensive questions about my medical history. Scientists who will spend the entire winter drifting by the North Pole have to complete a safety-training course that includes learning how to climb into a floating raft, jump into the frigid water with a survival suit and fight a fire onboard the ship. Many opted to take a firearms course to learn how to protect themselves against polar bears, even though a perimeter of armed guards will patrol the observatory for those bears every day. (I will return to Norway onboard a second icebreaker just after polar night has begun.)
The hazards are numerous, but the largest risk just might be weather. In an earlier project in 1997 called the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean, which took place in the lower Arctic, scientists on a research icebreaker endured horrific wind storms. One shattered the ice floe into pieces. “People were taking rowboats to get from one site to the next,” Perovich says. The region soon froze over, but when a second wind storm hit, the slabs of ice that were previously separated crunched together to form ridges, one of which boosted a garage full of snowmobiles 12 feet into the air. About 100 scientists raced onto the ice to save it, with only a single snowmobile casualty. Should a similar storm hit MOSAiC, researchers will have to protect the instruments as best they can and potentially find a new ice floe.
Still, researchers are pushed onward—both by a haste to understand the Arctic and by an adventurous glee. BeforeI started reporting for our trip, I pictured the Arctic as a desolate wasteland—one that would take a grave toll on my psyche. But when I ask Perovich what it was like to live onboard the icebreaker in 1997, he responds with a childlike euphoria that eases my worries. “It is its own wonderland,” he says. “There were no trees, but there were pressure ridges. There were no flowers, but there were melt ponds of every shade of blue you can possibly imagine. There were no dogs or cats, but there were polar bears and seals. It was just a very rich environment.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/marooned-researchers-will-freeze-their-ship-into-arctic-ocean-ice-for-a-year1/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 18, 2019 11:43:00 GMT
"Marooned: Researchers Will Freeze Their Ship into Arctic Ocean Ice for a Year"
Here is the Twitter feed of the expedition for those of you that use Twitter:
@mosaicarctic
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 18, 2019 11:53:59 GMT
Villain Media
5 Reasons We Love ‘MOMO: The Missouri Monster!’
By Jorge Solis September 18, 2019
Small Town Monsters presents an atmospheric and engaging docudrama with MOMO: The Missouri Monster, starring Lyle Blackburn and Elizabeth Saint. Co-writer/Director Seth Breedlove manages to cleverly blend two different mediums, a documentary and a creature feature, into one surreal movie where the viewer can’t tell which is which.
The year was 1972 and the place was a tiny, quaint, riverfront town called Louisiana, Missouri. On a warm summer evening, two local kids saw a creature in their own backyard holding a dead dog. Before you could say the word “Bigfoot”, local media and police officials had pounced on the story. Overnight Louisiana became “monster central” with creature seekers and monster hunters combing the woods to look for “the thing” that the newspapers had dubbed “MOMO.” One particular family was at the center of this whirlwind of activity and as the Missouri Monster sightings began to increase, so did the negative impact on the Harrisons. In 1975, a film crew set out to tell an over-the-top, filmic version of the MOMO sightings. Due to one reason or another, this should-have-been-cult-classic was never released. Until now.
Here are 5 reasons why you should watch MOMO: The Missouri Monster:
5) Lyle Blackburn!
As a charismatic screen presence, Lyle Blackburn will keep audiences riveted during the documentary aspect as the host of Blackburn’s Cryptid Casefiles. Blackburn’s engaging narration adds to the shock and awe of the rural sightings of MOMO. I honestly don’t believe in aliens and ghosts, but after watching Blackburn, I really want to believe a Missouri Monster exists.
4) Adam Duggan!
Adam Duggan does a great job portraying Edgar’s average and blue-collar lifestyle. Edgar (Duggan) represents the patriarch of an economically struggling family. What should be an everyday matter for Edgar suddenly thrusts into the extraordinary.
3) Elizabeth Saint!
As part of the 1975 nostalgic flick, Elizabeth Saint gives an amazing performance that perfectly sets up the over-the-top tone of the MOMO sightings. Saint has everything down pat, including the wardrobe and hairstyle of the time period. The opening sequence will definitely hook viewers right in.
2) The Direction!
Writers Seth Breedlove, Mark Matzke, and Jason Utes focus their narrative on a small town consumed by its own legend. Breedlove captures the eeriness of the woods as the monster hunters storm in with guns in hand.
1) An Interesting Concept!
With a creative premise at hand, MOMO: The Missouri Monster lives up to its potential. Audiences will definitely be intrigued by this one.
MOMO: The Missouri Monster arrives September 20th on DVD, as well as Vimeo OnDemand, Amazon Instant Video, and VIDI Space.
villainmedia.com/5-reasons-we-love-momo-missouri-monster/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 19, 2019 11:24:52 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
Phys.org
Speed bumps on German road to fight climate change
by Frank Zeller 19 September 2019
Germany was an early pioneer in renewable energy and has massively boosted wind and solar power, so why is it bound to miss its self-imposed climate goals for next year?
The "Energiewende", or clean energy transition, sometimes described as the biggest national project since reunification three decades ago, has hit a number of speed bumps.
Problems have been linked to Germany's ongoing nuclear phase-out, its reliance on dirty coal, local opposition to new infrastructure, and the powerful, state-coddled auto sector.
These factors have derailed Germany efforts to bring down emissions by 40 percent from 1990 by next year, though it has pledged to meet the next goal of a 55 percent reduction by 2030.
It's a sweeping project that ranges from encouraging bicycle travel to making home heating more efficient, to the trade in so-called "polluter-pays" emission certificates.
A day before Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is set to present new climate measures, here are key elements in the energy shift—and key problems on the path to a carbon neutral economy by 2050.
Not in my backyard
Export power Germany—Europe's biggest economy, responsible for two percent of the world's greenhouse emissions—plans to replace nuclear as well as coal, oil and gas power with wind and solar but also biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.
The goal is to reduce the risk of a nuclear disaster while shifting from finite, dirty and mostly imported fossil fuels and uranium to infinite, clean and locally generated energy.
State incentives have massively boosted wind power, especially on the North and Baltic Sea coasts, where more than 20 off-shore wind farms now have an output equivalent to half a dozen nuclear plants.
Large-scale photovoltaic production is concentrated in the sunnier south, and Germany-wide well over one third of electricity demand is now met with renewables, with plans to raise the share to about two thirds by 2030.
However, Germany has lagged badly behind in building a new type of high-voltage transmission line—dubbed the energy "Autobahn"—several of which are to deliver electricity from the wind-swept north to the more industrialised south.
Most delays have been due to not-in-my-backyard opposition against the hulking new power lines, meaning construction has slowed to a crawl and that they are now often laid below ground at far greater cost.
Given the fickle nature of weather-based energy, experts warn that smart grids and power networks, and more storage capacity, are essential to flexibly deliver clean energy to where it is needed.
Coal's long farewell
A milestone in Germany's energy revolution came in 2011 when Merkel decided, days after Japan's Fukushima disaster, to phase out nuclear power by 2022.
While many of the reactors have already gone off-line, Germany has increasingly relied on renewables—but also on cheap and abundant lignite and hard coal.
As world coal prices have fallen, along with the cost of emission certificates, Germany has seen its CO2 emissions rise in some years, making coal the new target of green protests and blockade of open-pit mines.
The Merkel government this year announced a coal phase-out by 2038, but faces local opposition from mining regions, especially in the ex-communist east, where the far-right AfD party has capitalised on fears over job losses.
Powerful auto sector
A major laggard in the climate mega project has been Germany's auto sector dominated by VW, Daimler and BMW, a politically powerful industry that brings huge export profits and employs 800,000 people.
Merkel—who has been dubbed both the "climate chancellor" and the "car chancellor"—has lobbied in Brussels against tougher emissions limits bitterly opposed by the German corporate giants.
While the auto makers have made SUVs and ever-bigger models that have eroded efficiency gains, Germany had to shelve its target of bringing one million electric cars onto the roads by 2020.
VW has since 2015 been caught up in the "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal and car-makers now face diesel bans in some inner cities, pushing them to announce a major shift toward clean and green mobility.
Despite the changes, Germany has refused to follow the example of Britain and France, which have set cut-off dates to phase out the production of combustion engine vehicles.
phys.org/news/2019-09-german-road-climate.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Sept 19, 2019 11:38:48 GMT
Eloy Jaime
posted 18 September 2019
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Post by swamprat on Sept 19, 2019 22:09:08 GMT
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire"
― George Monbiot
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