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Bushfires Are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia. They're Only Going to Get Worse:
Australia has deployed military planes and ships to provide aid as hundreds of wildfires rage across Australia, forcing residents to flee and destroying homes.
The Australian Defense Force is sending ships to the Victoria town of Mallacoota on a two-week supply mission and using helicopters to bring in more firefighters since roads were inaccessible, according to the Associated Press (AP).
On Tuesday, thousands of people from the town on Australia's southeastern coast fled towards the water as a fire ripped through the area.
Photos of residents taking shelter on boats circulated on social media.
[...] In New South Wales, where Sydney is located, firefighters are battling more than 100 fires, according to the state's Rural Fire Service.
Sydney's famed New Years Eve fireworks went ahead despite the fires. A petition calling on the government to cancel the display and give the funds to firefighters and farmers instead got more than 280,000 signatures.
[...] New South Wales' Rural Fire Services Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said this wildfire season is the worst on record.
"We've seen extraordinary fire behavior," he said Tuesday, according to the AP. "What we really need is meaningful rain, and we haven't got anything in the forecast at the moment that says we're going to get drought-breaking or fire-quenching rainfall."
More than 900 homes have been destroyed in the state, according to New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
A fire tracker map maintained by researchers in Western Australia shows that they are also threatening areas around every major city in the country.
Additional coverage:
- Australia fires live: two dead in Cobargo as NSW and Victoria face bushfires threat – latest updates - interactive map too
- 9news live feed
- Large parts of the NSW South Coast are expected to lose all telecommunications in coming hours
- Tens of thousands of lightning strikes spark dozens of fires across South Australia
- More than 30,000 tourists in Australia who defied orders to leave area east of Melbourne amid raging bushfires are 'TRAPPED' as roads are cut off, after locals warned staying would be 'suicide' - have the pinch of salt ready
- 4000+ blocked on Mallacoota beach as forest fire approaches
- The Navy joins fleet of military helicopters called in to help evacuate south-eastern Victoria
- A total of 33 fires are still burning across Victoria as of 7pm Tuesday, with the majority of those blazes in East Gippsland.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 02 2020, @02:19PM (11 children)
That said, I suspect that the US will be far more likely to be willing to take in refugees from Australia than they are from Guatamala, Haiti, Syria, or anywhere in Africa.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Touché) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @04:55PM (9 children)
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:13PM (3 children)
If they're brown, and/or they talk funny instead of speaking English, the bigots who control the US government will try to not let them in.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Touché) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:43PM (2 children)
That would eliminate most Australians, the majority of the UK, and a huge chunk of Americans.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:04PM (1 child)
I mean "talk funny" as in primarily speaking and understanding Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Mandarin, or one of the other hundreds of languages that exist in the world. Because bigoted Americans believe that there's some sort of inherent superiority to English (a.k.a. bastardized Old Norse mixed with Old French and Latin and Welsh and a few other languages), maybe because Jesus spoke it in their version of the Bible.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:14PM
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by XivLacuna on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:22PM (2 children)
Give this some more thought. Imagine if the United States of America took in all of those straight white people from Australia. The population will go down about 90% but what is left can be the wonderful society you want. You could then move to Australia and socially signal about how great it is to live in Neo-Australia as a non-CIS whatever. The Republicans will get what they want and you'll get what you want. A win/win.
Australia is a valuable source of uranium and coal mining so you can shut that down and truly make the world a better place according to your vision.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @05:54PM
Looks like one of the oldest answers to the Fermi Paradox was the right one - advanced civilizations tend to destroy themselves.
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 03 2020, @04:10AM
Wow. They're gonna have to build a new wing of Hell specifically for people like you who say shit like this.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 02 2020, @06:56PM (1 child)
Republicans? Democrats only want them so they can add them to the plantation roles and have them vote for their seditious candidates. Whites that want an ethno-state need to get honest about that and quit trying to manipulate what we have now. The assumed, implied ethnostate of the past has already been forfeit. Time to break this unholy behemoth up into separate, preferably cooperative countries. Like some sort of "Confederate States of America" or something.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Thursday January 02 2020, @08:02PM
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03 2020, @12:50AM
With every Australian who takes refuge in US, the IQ of both country increases.